Chapter 286: Taylor Swift: Gao Yuanyuan, Your Chinese Is Really Good

Back in Los Santos, Anne Hathaway seemed even more clingy.

Last time, to push her past her acting limits, Xu Can had used a vicious little scheme, and the effect was pretty good.

His convincing performance made Anne Hathaway truly believe Xu Can despised her — despised her age, despised her terrible acting.

That despair over time let her empathize with the character better, producing the effect the role required.

Indeed, ever since then, it was as if her Ren and Du meridians had been unblocked; her acting really rose to a new level, a huge improvement clearly perceptible.

From then on, if Anne Hathaway ran into a good script, she'd be fully capable of competing for the Oscar for Best Actress.

She had already been dead at heart, planning to finish "Interstellar" and cut all ties with Xu Can.

From then on, pour all her passion and life into acting, seal her heart and lock away love completely.

But in the end, Xu Can's warm embrace let her cry out all the sorrow and grievance from moments ago,

She couldn't lie to her own feelings — she was held firmly in Xu Can's grasp.

After that embrace, after the roller-coaster of psychological ups and downs, Anne Hathaway became a little fanatical.

She cast off her former reserve, cast off the good-girl image from "The Princess Diaries," cast off her old ladylike style,

Completely transforming into a berserk Catwoman, she pulled Xu Can into the trailer beside them and began the hunt.

"Mm? What's this supposed to be?"

Xu Can needed no action at all, letting Anne Hathaway arrange him however she pleased.

"Did I accidentally unlock her second stage?"

Things were getting interesting.

Including after returning to Los Santos, Anne Hathaway and Xu Can's relationship advanced another step.

She no longer agonized over who Xu Can belonged to, no longer agonized over whether his feelings for her were real.

She only wanted to immerse herself in the present and enjoy this stretch of time.

So much so that when Gao Yuanyuan occasionally passed by the on-set trailer, she could still hear the same sounds from the hotel before.

"Those two, honestly…"

Gao Yuanyuan's face flushed red again, and she even had some unrealistic fantasies in her head.

Could she herself, one day, become the female lead?

But for all these many days, Xu Can hadn't given her that chance.

Since entering the crew, Xu Can had treated her and the other actors equally — scolding when scolding was due, encouraging when encouragement was due — no special treatment.

Although her own acting was only so-so, under Xu Can's Candediao Sect guidance, she could basically meet the shooting's demands.

For scenes rich in emotional layers, Xu Can practically taught her Shoubashou Sect, breaking down every movement, every expression for her.

This could indeed help her deliver a brilliant enough performance in the short term,

But it was hard to integrate and master it into something her own, and didn't do much for her long-term acting.

For actors he'd basically never work with again, Xu Can taught them all this way.

Lei Jiayin was still fine, but Zhang Xincheng especially — almost every scene needed Xu Can to demonstrate it himself first, then have him imitate it.

Fortunately, the male lead's son was a simple, honest character, without too rich an emotional range.

Otherwise Xu Can wouldn't even know how to teach him.

The rather sad part was, among the new generation of actors, Zhang Xincheng already counted as outstanding in acting.

At the very least, he wouldn't look too jarring on the big screen; he could get by.

As for the others — Yangyang, Sizi, Sanzi, Erzi, Xiaozhan, Wang Erbo, Wang Hedi and their ilk — they were simply unbearable to watch.

Guys who couldn't even deliver their lines properly, through some shoddily made costume xianxia dramas, could still harvest brainless female audiences in the domestic entertainment scene,

Xu Can simply couldn't understand it.

Fortunately, in the future there were quality dramas like "The Knockout," "Reset," "The Long Season," "The Long Night," "Day and Night," "Gu Xiangsi Qu," and so on,

As well as domestic films like "The Wandering Earth," "Octagon," and "Li Huanying."

Compared with Chinese-language works gradually still being watchable, Hollywood had rather fallen apart.

By 2023, those professional Hollywood teams had all swarmed off to shoot short dramas,

In the bleak economic environment, in Hollywood's sluggish market,

The brainless short dramas going out from China actually managed to thrive in the Western market,

Xu Can simply didn't know how to describe it.

At least in this period of 2009, Hollywood still possessed the world's top film industry.

For instance, the space capsule right before Xu Can's eyes.

"Wow"

He walked in, looked around, touched here, bumped into things there — just like a kid who'd found a new toy.

Boys remain boys till death,

Xu Can was scheming: once "Interstellar" wrapped, he'd use his pull to get this "space capsule" moved to his own backyard no matter what.

"Thank you for your hard work, Academician Yang. And Professor Thorne, thank you for your hard work."

"Not at all, not at all — it's an honor for us to take part in this film's production."

"Yeah, my pleasure…"

For the construction of this space capsule, Xu Can had invited Academician Yang, the chief designer of CNSA's "Tiangong" space station,

And on theoretical physics, he had invited the future Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, Kip Thorne.

To keep his film from losing face, the experts Xu Can invited were all leading figures in astrophysics and the aerospace industry,

And with CNSA's strong support, every hard-core element in the film, every set, every detail could withstand scrutiny, could be checked frame by frame.

There would absolutely be no hard errors in physical theory, nor any continuity mistakes.

With a theoretical support team of over a hundred people behind him, Xu Can's new version of *Interstellar* was equally qualified to become a masterpiece.

"Alright, we're all set — in five minutes we start shooting the next scene!"

Inspired by Xu Can, the entire crew's enthusiasm was running high!

"Yes-sir!"

……

That day, the long-promoted DC blockbuster from Warner, *Batman v Superman*, was hitting theaters.