Chapter 100: The First in the Country

Gao Yuanyuan was obviously nervous. Not just her, but all the actresses at the scene who had a chance to win Best Actress had somewhat stiff smiles.

Cannes Best Actress, this is the Cannes Best Actress.

It can be said to be the most valuable Best Actress award among all film festivals in the world, universally recognized.

For an actress, it represents not only honor and artistic achievement but also fame, reputation, and money...

"Her emotional investment, which is like reality, her highly infectious performance, combines the complexity of motherhood and human nature. Her performance is delicate, real, and profoundly reveals the inner world of the character..."

At this moment, not only the domestic media were paying attention to this award ceremony, but many industry insiders were no exception.

Especially many relevant actresses, many were staying up late waiting for the news.

Because of scheduling reasons, Zhang Ziyi didn't get the chance to audition for "Secret Sunshine" and had been holding back a breath in her heart. She didn't know who to blame.

Cao Yang was a big director, and his film started filming in November, but she could only have a schedule in December, so she couldn't blame Cao Yang for not waiting for her.

Zhang Yimou was also a big director and couldn't leave so many big names in the crew to focus on filming for her.

Originally, this role was snatched after a "great battle" with Li Xiaoran for so long. Could she blame Li Xiaoran?

Yes, blame Li Xiaoran. If she hadn't snatched the role from her, she might have considered it carefully and wouldn't necessarily have taken a supporting role with so little screen time.

Zhang Ziyi let out a long breath, suppressing the evil fire in her heart.

A few days ago, she had just signed on for Lou Ye's "Purple Butterfly." The male lead acting opposite her was her classmate, Venice Best Newcomer and Golden Horse Best Actor Liu Ye, hoping to create a chemical reaction and win a major award at the three major European film festivals in one fell swoop.

If she didn't win a major award, she would be left behind by others.

Previously there was Li Xiaoran, later there was Yu Feihong, and now who knows...

No, no, I hope not.

If another Cannes Best Actress appears, those big-brand endorsements will be even harder to get.

Now she can barely hype up the "Three Major Qingyi" or "Three Major International Stars." Could it be that after tomorrow, the press release will be "Four Major Qingyi"?

Zhang Ziyi wanted to curse. Everyone is happy that a big director who can promote people has appeared in the country, but the one being promoted isn't her. Who understands this feeling?

Besides Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei was also paying attention.

She had very good resources and didn't care much about this kind of thing, but she had missed an opportunity before, and this time it was because of Gao Yuanyuan, that woman, who snatched her lead role. She had been holding back a breath in her heart.

That's right, she considered that Gao Yuanyuan snatched her lead role.

For the lead role in Cao Yang's new film, she invested a lot of favors and found two groups of people who were close to Cao Yang.

One was Yu Feihong. When Yu Feihong was briefly teaching at the Beijing Film Academy, she was Xu Jinglei's teacher.

But what Xu Jinglei didn't expect was that Yu Feihong actually refused her and told her that with Cao Yang's current status, it was already difficult for anyone to influence his choice of people.

Xu Jinglei didn't believe it.

She asked Wang Shuo to help, and she didn't know what relationship Wang Shuo found, but in the end, it reached Tian Zhuangzhuang.

But unfortunately, Tian Zhuangzhuang directly told them bluntly that don't think about the lead role; if Cao Yang doesn't nod, no one can do anything.

Xu Jinglei still didn't believe it. She thought that it would be fine to connect with Cao Yang as a supporting actress for the time being. She didn't believe it. Men, heh.

Then, Tian Zhuangzhuang told her that Cao Yang agreed to let her play a supporting role. Before she could be happy, Old Tian said again that the lead role was already taken, and it was Gao Yuanyuan.

Xu Jinglei almost exploded. How could Cao Yang have such poor judgment, choosing a woman without acting skills as the lead? Wasn't he afraid of affecting the quality of the film?

Being a supporting actress for that woman and wanting to suppress her? No way!

She was staying up late waiting for the news just to know early on if Cao Yang was really as god-like as the rumors said. Could such a woman without acting skills be promoted to Best Actress? How is that possible!

Please don't, I snatched your things, but you suddenly didn't want them, and then suddenly became popular, making me look very classy.

Tianya Community was also brushing posts. Someone said that if Cao Yang could promote Gao Yuanyuan to Best Actress, then he could really be deified in the entertainment industry, at least deified among actresses.

"The Number One in the Circle" also didn't sleep. He was simply envious, jealous, and hateful of Cao Yang winning awards continuously, which made him think that the three major European film festivals were nothing more than this.

This time, "holding" Jiang Wen, his original plan was to go to Venice to break through, but hearing that Cao Yang was going to attend the Cannes Film Festival, his competitive heart arose, and the thought of "I can do it too" made him itch.

Why not "confront" and take down Cao Yang?

That grandson Jiang Wen had just won the Cannes Jury Prize for "Devils on the Doorstep" the year before last. Cannes should have good connections. Why not make good use of it?

Yes, let's go to Cannes.

!

So he asked Jiang Wen to find a way to send the film to Cannes, thinking that entering the main competition section would be easy.

Then, there was no then. The film was rejected and failed to enter the main competition list.

"The Number One in the Circle" was so angry. That dog-day Jiang Wen must not have tried his best, otherwise, how could he not even enter the main competition section.

Pfft, trash, what kind of shitty film did he shoot? Next time, he can't let him influence his thoughts again.

"The Number One in the Circle" didn't dare to bullshit on Tianya Community, afraid of being laughed at again, but he didn't believe it. Could Cao Yang really help a woman famous for shooting commercials win the Cannes Best Actress that no one in the country had won yet?

He was holding back his energy now, just waiting for Gao Yuanyuan to fail to win the Cannes Best Actress, and then he would go to Tianya Community to mock those who followed the trend and licked ass.

When Cao Yang heard the award presenter talk about motherhood and human nature, he felt it was about time, and the Best Actress award shouldn't fall elsewhere.

Gao Yuanyuan's performance was absolutely fine, and she had mobilized so many relationships, and Bellman had helped run around, just to win this award.

"The winner of the 55th Cannes International Film Festival Best Actress is, Gao Yuanyuan, 'Secret Sunshine', congratulations."

Then, the big screen behind the award presenter played neither the scene of identifying the body in front of the shallow beach nor the crying scene in the church, but the clip of Wu Qihua holding a mirror and Gao Yuanyuan cutting her own hair.

The scene presented on the big screen was Wu Qihua holding the mirror with both hands, Gao Yuanyuan's face appearing inside, expressionless, pale, motionless, very much like a funeral portrait.

Then the camera turned, and the cut hair rolled with the wind, mixed with the debris on the ground. Under the sunlight, the hair was just blown into the dark gap of the debris and was not illuminated.

Finally, the screen closed, and the name of the winning film appeared, "Secret Sunshine".

Cao Yang couldn't help but think that the Cannes officials were a bit interesting. Choosing this clip and cutting it together with the film's name was really appropriate.

Gao Yuanyuan had been covering her mouth with her hand just now, seemingly a bit unbelievable. At this time, she reacted, hurriedly put down her hand, and at the same time squeezed out a normal-looking smile on her face, and under the attention of everyone, stood up and hugged Cao Yang gently.

"Thank you, thank you..."

Her voice was obviously trembling a little.

Zhang Ziyi slapped the table hard. She originally had a chance to get this role. It was all because of... all because of Li Xiaoran, that bitch!

Xu Jinglei slapped the table hard. She originally had a chance to get this role. It was all because of Gao Yuanyuan, that bitch!

"The Number One in the Circle" slapped the table hard. Dark secrets, this fucking definitely has dark secrets!

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