Chapter 215: The Mystery Finally Revealed

Chen Nuo was truly about to cry at his own stupidity.

How could he, someone who spent his past life immersed in American entertainment every single day, have forgotten?

Who is the most famous bisexual in all of Hollywood?

Isn't it Miss Angelina Jolie, who started as a troubled girl and divorced her first husband after falling in love with a woman while filming?

Many, many clues all connected.

Why was Angelina Jolie so easily invited into a hotel room by Luo Rui Eisner? You have to know, this is someone whose photo of a newborn child could sell for twenty million dollars; what kind of status is that?

Gwyneth Paltrow, who is far less famous than her, would only receive them at her own private residence!

And, why was Luo Rui Eisner so tight-lipped about her girlfriend, never even mentioning her name?

Especially, why was Angelina Jolie so overflowing with goodwill toward him?

He had always assumed it was because of Harvey Weinstein.

But thinking about it carefully, was that kind of ancient, stale history really worth her owing him such a huge favor?

Looking back now, when he went to see Jolie with Luo Rui Eisner at that time, he had shamelessly asked Luo Rui to invite her girlfriend to dinner.

The other party's expression had been a bit strange.

He had thought it was because Luo Rui had broken up with her girlfriend.

He never expected that it was actually because they had just met, and he had even gone and bluffed her to her face!

Fortunately, it was out of good intentions, otherwise...

It's also possible that Luo Rui Eisner actually knew about this long ago, perhaps even persuaded Angelina Jolie, and was using his hand to fan the flames.

Hearing Qi Yun mention it, Angelina had deliberately let his name slip in an interview before, creating a wave of momentum for him.

How could he not understand now? She paid so much, and it wasn't for those trivial matters of Harvey's at all.

She was grateful that he had brought Luo Rui Eisner back to the United States from Asia and helped Luo Rui gain a firm foothold at Warner.

To put it plainly, Chen Nuo had stepped in to do some things for her that she found inconvenient to do herself.

Qi Yun said Angelina Jolie had sacrificed too much for love.

That was indeed true.

Didn't she sacrifice her reputation, her body, and everything else for her girlfriend?

No wonder so many people in his past life called this woman "love-brained."

That woman, Luo Rui Eisner, had dropped plenty of hints before this that as long as he really won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, she would definitely celebrate with him properly. The kind with quotation marks.

He never expected it would be this kind of celebration.

Although he didn't feel like he had lost out, Chen Nuo still felt a sense of displeasure at being kept in the dark.

Luo Rui Eisner,

You just wait, sooner or later, I will make you kneel and beg for mercy!

Next was the time for interviews with reporters as the newly crowned Oscar Best Supporting Actor.

Without a doubt, the first Asian recipient of an Oscar acting trophy carried significant weight.

Therefore, he also received much higher heat than previous Oscar Best Supporting Actors. Those who didn't know might have thought he had won Best Actor.

Within a short ten minutes, questions came one after another, denser than the shells over Normandy.

Headlines with different wording and different focuses flew across the airwaves to all parts of the world following each of his answers.

"Oscar Best Supporting Actor Chen claims he does not rule out appearing as Joker again in Batman 3!"

"As the first Asian actor to win an Oscar, Chen Nuo xi says he looks forward to collaborating with Korean filmmakers!"

"Chen Nuo Jun said in the interview that Japan is a beautiful country, and he will visit Japan for the third time soon to promote his film, looking forward to meeting everyone in Japan again!"

Afterward, Chen Nuo saw a reporter holding a CCTV microphone raise her hand anxiously several times, but she was never picked by the host.

So, after answering a French reporter's stupid question about comparing Cannes and the Oscars, Chen Nuo spoke directly to the delicate-looking girl in Chinese: "What is your question? Ask."

The girl stood up with a look of surprise, "Hello Chen Nuo, thank you. I am CCTV reporter Qu Jing. Currently, our CCTV website is providing full text and image coverage of this year's Oscars, and millions of people are watching online. At this very moment, is there anything you would like to say to them?"

At this time, in the CCTV live broadcast room, the number of online viewers had already exceeded 5 million.

The staff responsible for the live broadcast's network technical services had been calm before, but now they were in a panic, constantly making phone calls to demand that the server provider increase bandwidth and add servers.

Upon learning that Chen Nuo had personally invited the CCTV reporter to ask a question, the number of viewers in the live broadcast room hit one new high after another.

5.1 million, 5.2 million, 5.25 million, 5.3 million.

This was already the most-watched online live broadcast program in China to date. It even pulled a gap several times larger than the second-place program.

Hearing the CCTV reporter's words, Chen Nuo raised his head and looked at the ceiling, thinking for a moment.

This unusual action immediately caught the attention of all the media reporters, and countless flashes went off in unison at this moment.

Because in all previous answers, this youngest Oscar winner, who was only a few days away from turning 22, had shown superb skills in dealing with media reporters and had never hesitated or wavered.

At this moment, hearing the question from a compatriot reporter, what did this behavior mean?

Reporters off-stage raised their voice recorders one after another, their arms looking like a rising forest.

Fortunately, there were voice recorders to take back for translation, otherwise, the vast majority of them would not understand Chen Nuo's following answer.

The clear, resonant Chinese language rang out in the Oscar interview area once again, following Li An.

And this time, the accent was more standard, more authentic, and more modulated, showing that Chen Nuo's Level 1-B Mandarin certificate wasn't earned in vain.

"For a long time, I have actually rarely communicated directly with the fans and friends who like me."

Chen Nuo looked at Qu Jing and said earnestly.

His appearance was also captured by the CCTV cameraman behind Qu Jing and immediately transmitted back to China, allowing the audience on the CCTV website to see it as if Chen Nuo were looking at them while speaking.

His speaking pace was neither fast nor slow, and every word seemed to come from the bottom of his heart, "Because for me, being an actor is just a job. And it is a job with no other choice."

"I am actually quite useless. I don't have any other talents. My memory is bad, I'm not good at studying, and I can only work in this industry. Actually, I won't hide it from everyone, my wish when I was a child, like everyone else, was to be a scientist."

"So for me, being able to receive so much attention and be liked by so many people is something that makes me feel particularly fearful and uneasy."

"I can't help but think, if the young friends who like me could take the time they spend liking me to study, read books, or cultivate some other hobbies, would it be more helpful to their lives?"

"And by doing so, engaging in professions I cannot do, or doing work that I find awe-inspiring, would that make their family and friends feel more proud than just liking to watch my movies and TV shows?"

Having said this, Chen Nuo paused for a while, seemingly thinking about his wording.

After perhaps a few seconds, he continued: "I want to say to everyone in China who likes me, don't take me too much to heart."

"Just treat me like an old friend with whom you have a gentleman's friendship, and every year or whenever, we will have a date in the movie theater."

"If I do well, you can appreciate and praise me; if I don't do well, you can scold and criticize me."

"Besides that, I hope you study when you should study, go to work when you should go to work, and fall in love when you should fall in love, and live your lives more brilliantly and richly."

"Because there is more than just you in my life, and I hope there is more than just me in your lives."

"I hope each of you can achieve academic success and be a scientist for me. I also hope each of you can get promoted and receive a raise, achieving even greater success than I have."

"I hope you can be a better lover in love than I am, and I hope you can be a more filial child at home than I am."

"Because a movie is a movie, and reality is reality. Chen Nuo is Chen Nuo, and you are you."

"They are unrelated and not similar."

"So, I love you, but I must tell you this. Thank you."

Actually, when Chen Nuo reached the second half, all the reporters at the scene who could understand Chinese were stunned.

No one expected him to say such things at this time.

What was this? Encouraging people to stop being fans? Right at the moment when he was holding an Oscar and about to welcome a wave of super popularity,

he actually said, why don't you go read a book.

In this year of 2008, when celebrities across the mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong made it a trend to hide their marriages and relationships for fear of losing a single fan,

and in the year when the recently concluded Super Girl made all of China understand how easy it was to make money from the fan economy,

wasn't a celebrity saying these things crazy?

So much so that after he finished speaking, Qu Jing endured and endured, but still asked that question which was slightly over the line for her identity as a CCTV reporter.

"Chen Nuo, do you want to win this year's China's Top Ten Outstanding Youth award?"

After asking, Qu Jing actually regretted it.

But Chen Nuo still replied earnestly: "No, I don't. I think there are many, many people in all walks of life who are more excellent and outstanding than I am."

Seeing Chen Nuo's serious and sincere expression, at that moment, Qu Jing truly felt so ashamed she wanted to find a hole to crawl into.

After Chen Nuo finished answering the reporter's questions and returned to the audience,

although Liu Qi Yifei didn't know what kind of jaw-dropping and bizarre things Chen Nuo had done in the half-hour since he went out to receive his award,

the excitement on her little face had not dissipated at all.

When she saw the gold-plated little golden man in Chen Nuo's hand, she was even more excited than seeing 999 pure gold.

She curiously touched the head of the little golden man with her finger and asked, "I heard that the winner's name is engraved on the base?"

Seeing her look like she wanted to touch it but was a bit afraid to, Chen Nuo couldn't be bothered to explain, so he just handed the trophy over and told her to take her time and look at it.

Indeed, there was a name on the base of the trophy.

Actually, not only is the name engraved on the base, but the benefits the Oscars provide to the stars who come to attend the awards ceremony are quite numerous.

As long as they are nominated, the official Oscar organization provides a gift box worth 8,000 USD, containing high-end cosmetics, watches, and the like.

At the same time, if you win an award at the Oscars, you can also get a golden statue necklace specifically provided for you to give to others.

On the back of the 3.5-centimeter-long Oscar golden statue hanging from the necklace, the name of the gift recipient can also be engraved.

These items are all produced by the Oscars, one of a kind, and unique.

Giving them away as gifts can be said to be extremely prestigious.

To be honest, regardless of what Chen Nuo thought about Luo Rui Eisner and Angelina Jolie, it was nothing more than a bit of chauvinistic psychology at work.

In reality, for this Oscar ceremony, he truly felt satisfied in every way—face, substance, body, and soul!

Not only did he win an Oscar, but he also had a fleeting romantic encounter with the world's highest-valued actress of the day.

Just look at how many consecutive years she has been in the top three of Time magazine's list of the world's sexiest actresses to see how alluring the 33-year-old Angelina Jolie is.

Chen Nuo's night was destined to be blissful, but in the subsequent awards ceremony, for the crew of The Dark Knight, and for the extremely prideful Christopher Nolan,

it was an out-and-out nightmare.

The Dark Knight originally only had 8 garbage nominations, and before this, everyone in the crew thought,

no matter what, the Oscar committee would at least toss out two or three scraps to acknowledge them.

After all, this was a super commercial blockbuster that set countless box office records in 2007, and it didn't lack depth or artistry; it was not the same thing as Transformers or Harry Potter at all.

But unexpectedly, in the end, this Dark Knight, destined to go down in history,

apart from Chen Nuo's Best Supporting Actor award,

the Oscar committee only gave it a humiliating Best Sound Editing award.

What kind of piece of junk is this!

Even this award had nothing to do with Warner, because it was outsourced to another company.

At this moment, Nolan's face, which was already a bit resentful, had lost even the slightest trace of expression.

Even when the fatty who won Best Sound Editing held up the trophy on stage to thank him, he didn't even offer a single smile.

Not until the camera turned away did he tilt his head and say to Chen Nuo, "Chen, why do you think this is?"

Chen Nuo didn't believe he didn't know, yet he could only give an expected answer: "Jealousy?"

Nolan revealed a faint sneer, a bit like the arrogant smile historically worn by the British when facing the French, and said, "In the future, I will make it so they have no way to be jealous."

If any other director had said this, Chen Nuo would definitely have thought they were talking nonsense.

Who do you think you are?

However, thinking of those films of his in the future...

Well, alright, perhaps it really was the result of being stimulated this time and going back to work hard.

In the end, the Best Actress of the 80th Oscars wasn't won by Angelina Jolie, but was snatched away by Rose from Titanic, who floated up from the seabed and gripped it tightly. The Best Actor was Sean Penn for Milk, and Best Picture went to Slumdog Millionaire.

It is worth mentioning that Ryoko Hirosue and the others did not return empty-handed; Departures successfully won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

While this allowed the Japanese media to report on it with great joy and excitement,

they could never avoid mentioning that the actor who played Joker, a good friend of the Japanese people who had caused quite a stir every time he visited Japan, Chen Jun,

also got his wish at this year's Oscars, accomplishing what he swore to do at the Tokyo press conference by winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

As expected, this is the demeanor of the strong,

he said he would be coming to Japan to promote his film soon, everyone, please look forward to it.

After the awards ceremony ended, Chen Nuo did not go to the press area to accept interviews or take photos, even though the host from ABC invited him repeatedly.

Because ABC's real-time ratings showed that when he was giving his acceptance speech, the ratings were actually not much lower than the moments when Best Actor and Best Actress were announced.

Only until this moment did the Academy and ABC television station probably remember what kind of phenomenal film The Dark Knight was.

But Chen Nuo still refused.

Enough photos had been taken, and what needed to be said in interviews had been said.

As a supporting actor, it's better to keep a low profile.

Now should be the time for the Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director to show off.

Besides, didn't you see Nolan leave with a dark face without a moment's delay after the ceremony ended, saying he had to rush back to the UK overnight to write a script?

In this situation, if it were reported by the media that he was laughing and talking loudly with his little golden man after the ceremony... it would be more or less inappropriate.

Therefore, after the ceremony, Chen Nuo just went with Liu Qi Yifei to find the Oscar staff, wanting to engrave something on the gift necklace.

When they asked him what to engrave, he handed over the note he had written beforehand.

Liu Qi Yifei looked at the pinyin on it; it was clearly not Wen Wen Yongshan, nor was it any celebrity she knew, and she couldn't help but be surprised, "Chen Nuo, who is this?"

"Pan Chengrong, it's my mom."

CCTV6 did what was promised in the program preview.

Sure enough, as long as there is motivation, the spur of ratings, and instructions from superiors, employees of any unit can turn into beasts of burden.

Therefore, the usually lazy Sixth Princess, with unprecedented speed, took only a day and a half to add subtitles to the entire recording of the 80th Oscars, from the red carpet ceremony to the awards show,

and aired it to the national audience at 8 PM on the 26th during prime time.

And before this, the speech Chen Nuo gave in front of the CCTV reporters had already caused a huge sensation in mainland China.

The first to bear the brunt were the millions of Chen Nuo's die-hard fans who were watching the live broadcast in the chat room at the time.

(End of chapter)