Chapter 303

Zhang Mo never thought in his life that one day he would also have a role snatched from him.

But this time, the role his father had personally negotiated for him was suddenly told to be changed to someone else, and he could only change from an important supporting role, Old 6, to an extra, Old 5.

After having a big argument with Zhang Zhang Guoli at home and smashing everything that could be smashed in the living room,

Zhang Mo still swallowed this breath.

He wasn't stupid; he knew the opportunity was rare, just like his old man said: if he didn't act, there were plenty of people who wanted to.

So he still came, joined the crew.

However, this foul breath in his heart had been suppressed and hadn't been vented.

If he hadn't brought some "leaves" to smoke every night to relieve his boredom, could he have endured it until now?

Although he knew clearly that it was impossible to really change the role,

but at this time, seeing Jiang Wen not calling "Cut" for a long time, he took the opportunity to say a few words to vent his anger; what was the problem with that?

Besides, times were different now.

Before, when he had just won Cannes, he was indeed untouchable; even if his stepmother and biological father added together, they could only swallow their anger and stay away.

But now?

He had been scolded so badly online recently, and it looked like his fans were almost gone; what was he afraid of!

Therefore, as soon as the first sentence was finished, Zhang Mo asked relentlessly, "Uncle Jiang, what do you say?"

Jiang Wen stared at him for a few seconds, then suddenly laughed and said: "I say it's fine; it's a good thing for young people to have confidence. Alright, it's about time to wrap up; Mo, go back and get some good rest, you look like you haven't rested well."

After saying that, he picked up the intercom and said, "Passed! That's it for today, wrap up."

Wrap up? Wrap up what?

Chen Nuo was full of energy, wishing he could film three or five more scenes.

Unfortunately, people are cattle and horses, so of course they can go without sleep, rest, or food.

But the machines aren't; they can't work for too long, and at night, they need to rest.

Therefore, even Chen Nuo, who hadn't touched a woman for over a month, was full of energy, and whose acting skills had improved by leaps and bounds,

had to obediently follow the main force to remove makeup, change clothes, get in the car, and return to the hostel in the nearby town to rest.

But even resting was difficult.

Eating a simple meal at a small restaurant with the various stinky men in the crew, those big guys were shouting at him to drink.

Drink my ass.

With his alcohol tolerance, why should he drink with these big northern guys?

Politely declined, ate, went back to his own room, and wanted to go straight to sleep.

As a result, one phone call after another came.

First was Wen Wen Yingshan.

If there was one thing Chen Nuo was secretly worried about regarding this mess between him and Liu Qi Yifei, it was Wen Wen Yingshan.

Originally, he thought if the girl was unhappy or didn't believe him, he would go to Hong Kong to explain in person.

As a result, when he told Wen Wen Yingshan on the phone, the girl not only didn't show any strangeness, but instead was comforting him, telling him not to take it to heart, and not to care about the netizens online, and it was best not to look at it at all.

Even, although she didn't say it explicitly, the meaning was that she thought Feifei was quite good, about ten thousand times better than that vixen Fan Fan Fan Binbing, and was someone who was sincere and kind and could be gotten along with well.

What did this imply?

Chen Nuo knew as soon as he heard it that the girl had misunderstood, and he also knew that having this kind of thought was not only because Hong Kong still had feudal customs, but she was absolutely influenced by Xia Xia Yehe.

He was too lazy to say anything about this; he and Liu Qi Yifei had nothing going on, the innocent are self-innocent, so why keep explaining and make himself look guilty?

If Wen Wen Yingshan didn't believe it, then there was no need to persuade her; they would talk when they met.

"Darling, have you read the script I sent you? Do you think I can act in it?"

The phone call today was about something else. It was a script written by Pang Ho-cheung in his company.

"Read a bit, you want to act in it?"

"Do you think I can?"

"You can, it's a story about Hong Kong people anyway. I think you're quite suitable, and it's not difficult; it can be considered your true-to-life performance."

Wen Wen Yingshan's voice instantly became excited, "Really?"

But immediately it sank again, a bit nervous, "I'm just worried I won't act well."

"How do you know if you don't try? Be bolder. Look at Liu Qi Yifei, can she act? She knows nothing, but she dared to go directly to Zhang Zhang Yimou and then really fought for a lead role. She's not afraid, what are you afraid of?"

"Haha, you talk about Feifei like that, be careful I'll complain to her about you."

This was the aftermath of not making it clear the first time, making Wen Wen Yingshan feel that there was something wrong between him and Liu Qi Yifei no matter how much Chen Nuo said.

Chen Nuo said impatiently, "You'd better record my words and play them to her word for word. You think I'm afraid she'll know? You're joking."

The two laughed for a while, and then Wen Wen Yingshan said, "Then I'll tell Director Pang that I'll take this play?"

"Mm, tell him. Anyway, she signed to the company and hasn't filmed a single play yet; this kind of low-budget one, um, trying it out is not bad. However, I really don't have a schedule this year..."

"Ah? Darling, are you planning to film with me?" Wen Wen Yingshan interrupted in surprise.

This sounded quite strange.

Chen Nuo asked and found out that Pang Ho-cheung wanted to find him, but Wen Wen Yingshan hadn't thought about filming with him.

The reason, in Chen Nuo's ears, was very absurd.

"Better not. Darling, if we film together, the gap is too big, people will laugh at you."

Chen Nuo found it quite funny.

Does filming care about this?

If so, Christian Bale should have gone on strike when he went to act as the Joker.

But it was all for next year, and he was too lazy to talk more to the woman on the phone.

Asked about her father's condition again, and after knowing the recovery was going well, he hung up the phone.

After Wen Wen Yingshan was Fan Fan Fan Binbing.

This woman was just bored, went to Harbin to participate in an event today, and after getting to the hotel, she had nothing to do and came to tease him.

After chatting for a while, both of them were a bit unable to take the mutual flirting.

Fan Fan Fan Binbing said she would rest for two days after this event and come to visit him in Huairou.

But after thinking left and right, Chen Nuo painfully refused.

Mainly because he wasn't staying in a five-star hotel, but a third-rate hostel in a town here.

She wasn't just anyone else.

She was damn Fan Fan Fan Binbing.

If she really came, I'm afraid the residents of the town and the crew would all be staring at her. The most critical thing was that this hostel wasn't soundproof, so it was really too inconvenient.

Just as he was chatting enthusiastically with Fan Fan Fan Binbing, Zhang Zhang Yimou's call came, interrupting Fan Fan Fan Binbing's "mm-ah" on the phone.

Director Zhang was here to tell him good news.

All the investors of *Under the Hawthorn Tree* agreed that this movie should go in the direction of chasing awards.

Speaking of which, it was thanks to the gossip about the lead actors sparking love on set; now everyone felt that this movie didn't lack box office, and they didn't need to accommodate the domestic market.

So, human hearts are greedy; since that's the case, why not fight for it and rush upward?

The pressure Director Zhang was under instantly disappeared.

But the problem was, in order to work slowly and produce fine work, Director Zhang was still re-editing the film, but the screening window for this year's Venice Film Festival had already closed.

If they really wanted to go to the Venice Film Festival, they would have to wait until next September.

This time was too long, and no matter what, the investors couldn't afford to wait, so...

Currently, they decided to participate in the 60th Berlin Film Festival next February.

This was a bit different from what Chen Nuo had discussed before.

Besides that, Director Zhang was also a bit worried: there was still more than half a year until the Berlin Film Festival, and more than half a year until the movie was released; would the lead actors have any problems?

Gossip is welcome. No matter what is said online, what is lost is sesame, what is picked up is watermelon; it's all heat, all box office guarantee.

However, what if the two people who sparked love on set break up before the release?

That wouldn't be too good.

These were the two reasons for Director Zhang's call.

First, to tell him that the European Grand Slam plan had gone down the drain; Venice couldn't be attended, and the current plan was to go to Berlin.

Second, to get a verbal guarantee from him, asking "Old 3" and "Liu Jingqiu" to maintain a romantic state for the next six months or so.

"That's how it is. Did you understand?... Hello, hello... Hello, Liu Qi Yifei! Where are you?"

"What are you shouting for? I'm here." "Then why didn't you speak? I thought you were deaf."

"You're the one who's deaf; I was just thinking, so it really was for promotion."

"Otherwise, what did you think?" Chen Nuo said seriously, and couldn't help but laugh.

He just found a random excuse at the time, but it really killed two birds with one stone.

But Chen the Best Actor has vanity; without vanity, he wouldn't have gone to Korea to film and then to Cannes for revenge, so of course he wouldn't admit that he was just lucky.

Besides, Liu Qi Yifei was sunbathing in Palm Beach and even made a transoceanic call to show off. If he didn't put on an act, how could he get over it?

"Okay." Liu Qi Yifei seemed to have been really "acted" by him, her voice muffled, "Then Director Zhang means, going to Berlin to participate..."

"... Wait, Berlin? Berlin!?" She paused suddenly, and then the woman's voice became high-pitched.

It seemed that only after saying this did she finally react to the fact that there was something shocking in the things Chen Nuo said.

"Wow, wow, Chen Nuo, this, this, if you go to Berlin and win an award again, then, then, then, then, then, you've won the Berlin Best Actor twice?!"

One plus one is indeed two; your math is really good.

Hearing Liu Qi Yifei's stuttering voice, Chen Nuo couldn't help but laugh: "Is it that much? Reminding you, if it's really shortlisted, it won't just be me, but also you! Auntie Liu is really counting on you to win a Best Actress award; she's been thinking about it non-stop."

Liu Qi Yifei acted as if she hadn't heard the second half of the sentence, still immersed in some fantasies.

"This is too amazing. Really, if it's really possible, Chen Nuo, when Sean Penn won the Grand Slam, he won Venice twice... If your Grand Slam can win the Berlin Best Actor twice, then I think you're even more amazing than him!"

Ah? Really?

Chen Nuo hadn't really thought about it from this angle.

As a result, besides Liu Qi Yifei, Jeon Do-yeon also thought so.

On the phone, the voice coming from the peninsula thousands of miles away was still gentle and graceful, but it also contained a hint of imperceptible throbbing.

"Although I am a super fan of Sean Penn, if you, Chen Nuo-xi, can really win Berlin twice, you have indeed stood on a step above him."

"Among the three major European film festivals, at least in our Korea, Berlin's ranking is ahead of Venice. If, after winning Berlin for the second time, you finally go to Venice to complete your coronation ceremony..."

"Chen Nuo-xi, by then, I believe all of Asia will be proud of you."

Jeon Do-yeon's words were still so pleasant, so Chen Nuo had to return the favor.

"Movies are movies; don't pay attention to those rumors. To be honest, some men in your Korea are truly more disgusting than maggots in the gutter. Would you care about the opinion of a maggot?"

"Jeon Do-yeon-ssi, you have your goals, right? We are the same kind of people; where we lose things, we take them back. I did it, and I believe you can too."

"Go, go to Cannes, take back what you lost."

"It's just that, I also have some personal opinions..."

Jeon Do-yeon's phone call was actually the longest, lasting a full hour; after hanging up, Chen Nuo's throat was a bit dry.

Two days later, Chen Nuo saw in the entertainment news that Blue Dragon Best Actress Jeon Do-yeon decided to cooperate with Korean director Im Sang-soo to star in *The Housemaid*.

Although he didn't know clearly that Jeon Do-yeon actually threw everything aside to star in *The Housemaid* to impact the Cannes Best Actress award, and in the end, it was all in vain.

But he believed that after chatting with Jeon Do-yeon on the phone for a long time that day, the suggestion he finally made,

would definitely make people more than ten years later, when talking about this movie, no longer focus on Jeon Do-yeon's large-scale performance in it.

The more clothes you take off, the easier it is to win an award?

Where did this strange theory come from?

Chen Nuo felt that Asian directors who did this were all unable to wash off that layer of skin of worshiping foreign things. They often ended up drawing a tiger but failing, and kneeling to lick didn't make others feel good either.

For example, a certain famous art film director in the country always filmed movies by exposing and revealing. He specialized in filming the dark side, and even had a strange habit of not filming breasts if he didn't know how to film.

Yet he was rumored to be a master more than ten years later.

Master my ass.

Has this person ever won any serious major awards?

He just won a Golden Horse, which he, Little Chen, doesn't think much of now.

If you could win awards by selling out your country and selling flesh, then the winner of the Cannes Best Actor this time shouldn't be him, Chen Nuo, but Qin Hao or Chen Chen Sicheng, who performed fully naked in that disgusting movie.

Therefore, Chen Nuo advising Jeon Do-yeon to put on clothes to act in *The Housemaid* was truly for the other party's sake, and absolutely not because of some man's possessiveness.

He was just doing a good deed for Jeon Do-yeon; it was absolutely not something else.

However, it was a pity that there were all men in the *Let the Bullets Fly* crew, so Brother Nuo had no way to do good deeds.

Therefore, in the following days, the crew, except for a few field producers whose mouths were crooked from smiling,

everyone else, from director Jiang Wen to the lighting extras, was almost driven crazy by this person.

"Brother Zhang, you've followed many crews; have you ever seen such a big name?"

"I've seen my ass!"

"I haven't seen it either; is it possible Brother Nuo has something to be busy with? Brother Zhang, can you tell the director to let Brother Nuo go be busy first, and come back to film when he's busy, otherwise the brothers really can't hold on!"

Similar conversations occurred at every level of the crew.

The reason was that this person was truly too restless.

Those phone calls from women that night not only didn't give Chen Nuo any comfort, but instead made him more and more restless, unable to sleep all night, wishing he could finish filming and wrap up the next day.

The result was that, besides his own acting being like a god, finishing the scenes in two or three strokes, he also did many other things.

Because he wasn't the lead, his scenes were scattered throughout the day.

Then, during these scattered filming periods, what did this person do when he was free?

He thought of ways to keep others from being free.

It is no exaggeration to say that this person was like a whip, fiercely lashing every staff member and actor in the crew.

Jiang Wen's crew, when have they ever encountered such a person and such a thing?

They are all professional people with self-esteem; what can they do when they encounter such an inexplicable person meddling in their business?

Listen obediently, and say thank you afterwards.

Not only because he has two international Best Actor awards, and he is the biggest name on the scene, so he really can't be offended.

Also because from Xingfu Xingfu Lanhai to Hong Kong Emperor, to Ma Ke, they all stand on this person's side.

Also because what he says and does makes people have to be convinced.

If an actor has something wrong, he watches for a while, comes over to point it out, and can make Shao Bing, Du Du Yiheng, Wei Xiao, and others suddenly enlightened, even better than the director.

Similarly, because as the biggest name on the scene, he never arrives late by a minute, nor leaves early by a second.

And wherever there is difficulty in the crew, he is there.

He has carried lights for the lighting crew, moved equipment for the sound engineer, and moved miscellaneous items for the props department,

almost everyone who was busy and couldn't tell four, five, or six had been helped by him.

Once, he even helped serve a cup of tea to that copycat Liu Liu Dehua, Du Du Yiheng.

Du Du Yiheng knelt down to receive it directly.

He had no choice but to kneel; let alone this fourth-tier Liu Liu Dehua, even the authentic Liu Liu Dehua couldn't withstand it.

So in the end, up and down the crew, who didn't admire him?

Sometimes Director Jiang Wen's words weren't as useful as Brother Nuo's.

Moreover, when filming those horse-riding scenes on the mountain.

Including Jiang Wen, everyone else used stand-ins, but this one stubbornly insisted on doing it himself.

Afterwards, everyone in the crew saw him riding like a fly, looking even more awesome than those stunt actors...

Finally, those few who weren't convinced couldn't help but have their knees go soft, just wanting to kneel down.

Even Jiang Wen couldn't help it.

When filming the scene where the bandits rob the train on the mountain road,

he watched Chen Nuo flipping up and down on the horse's back; no matter how the horse bumped, the whole person seemed to be stuck to the horse's back, even more awesome than the Mongols.

Afterwards, Jiang Wen was truly curious and asked directly: "Brother Nuo, where did you... learn this?"

Someone was listening nearby.

If it were before, perhaps they would be surprised by Jiang Wen's address,

but now... call him whatever.

He is worthy of it.

Chen Nuo rubbed his sore butt and explained: "When I was filming *The Return of the Condor Heroes*, I fell off the horse on the first day of the first scene and almost died, afterwards..."

Afterwards, he practiced riding whenever he had time during filming, practicing this horsemanship that could cooperate seamlessly with the camera in the mountain forests.

After listening, Jiang Wen didn't know what to say, so he could only give a thumbs up and say one sentence: "Damn it, you really are my brother."

PS:

I couldn't make it in time for two chapters in a row, so I'll release it first.

I'm back to guarding the gate at 400th place on the monthly ticket list, crying.

(End of chapter)