Chapter 193 – Who Do You Think You Are?
Lu Chen has never really played parkour.
However, the long-term efforts to adhere to the martial arts exercise resulted in his physique getting more and more excellent.
His running speed, body flexibility and nerve reflexes have been greatly increased. He could now easily perform movements that he could never do before. There was no pressure dealing with the uncomplicated parkour movement.
And from Mo ran’s memory, Lu Chen felt as if he had practiced thousands of times in the process of shooting, and naturally realized the effect that the commercial needed to achieve.
What the director had just said, and what Wang Hai had demonstrated, constituted a complete picture in Lu Chen’s mind. He just needs to do it according to the requirements.
This feeling was really wonderful.
He was able to do what was in his mind!
In the eye’s of others, it was amazing.
There were bursts of applause around. Among the crowd, several foreigners who were watching the scene gave Lu Chen a thumbs up and said loudly, “good!”
Parkour was originally a sport that has spread to China from abroad. Comparatively speaking, foreigners have seen a lot of this, but they were still impressed by Lu Chen’s wonderful performance. Many people have raised their cameras to take video.
Today was the second day of the National Day holiday. There were many tourists in Jinling Film and Television City. Many people thought that Lu Chen was making a movie. There were at least a hundred of people or so, which put a lot of pressure on the field workers in charge of clearing the scene.
Watching movies and TV series shooting was a tourism feature of the film and television City. if one was lucky, one could see the live performance of top-class actors, and tourists have the opportunity to be background characters or extras.
Someone recognized Lu Chen and shouted his name.
Yeah, it was a girl.
Lu Chen smiled and waved at the other party and continued his shooting work.
For Lu Chen’s extraordinary performance, Director Zhong was really overjoyed. he took advantage while the iron was hot to shoot Lu Chen’s individual scene.
What made the director speechless was that, in addition to the parkour scenes, Lu Chen’s acting skills in ordinary scenes were also remarkable. Such as at the scene where he was chasing down the stairs to search for the figure of his girlfriend. The anxious expression on his face was very vivid and natural, without the slightest stiffness and uneasiness of a newcomer.
Director Zhong knew that Lu Chen was a singer from a talent show, but he couldn’t help but think he was a graduate of a Film Academy.
This also greatly sped up the shooting, with most of the shots passing in one take.
Commercials were different from movies or TV series. The requirements were not as demanding, but Director Zhong felt that Lu Chen was fully qualified to shoot real films. With his appearance and amazing acting skills, he was more than enough to be an idol.
But Director Zhong wasn’t completely happy.
Because they have already finished shooting Lu Chen’s scenes, but the female lead of this commercial hasn’t arrived yet!
It was almost noon and Sun Shan’s shadow was nowhere to be seen, and other scenes involving the lead actor and actress couldn’t be filmed. Director Zhong’s original joy soon became anger.
His original plan was to finish shooting in one day and, he was well prepared. For example, the members of the shooting team were all present, and the shooting venue and the group performance were in place.
Unexpectedly, the female lead dropped the chain[1]. She should have arrived before 9 o’clock, but now it was over 11 o’clock!
Director Zhong wanted to shout profanities so much. He scolded his assistant.
The assistant was so wronged that he called several times to urge the other party. They kept saying they were almost there.
Could he blame her for not coming?
When Sun Shan arrived on the set, it was already 12 o’clock. She was three hours late.
The third-tier actress’s show of extravagance was not small. It at least threw Lu Chen three blocks.[2]
She arrived in an elongated white Lincoln, accompanied by a black Mercedes-Benz in front and back.
The person inside the car didn’t got out yet. There, an assistant run over to serve her attentively. It felt that her style was no worse than that of a real Heavenly Queen. It was very eye-catching.
Some tourists thought that a big star came and wanted to get close to take pictures, but they were blocked by Sun Shan’s entourage.
The young actress was fashionably dressed. The skirts, shoes, bags and accessories were all famous brands.
It was just that Lu Chen found that her figure was not as good as the online photos showed.
Director Zhong was relieved. He asked Lu Chen to come over together and introduce him: “This is Mr. Lu Chen…”
Lu Chen smiled faintly and said, “Miss Sun Shan. Hello.”
He didn’t take the initiative to shake hands, because according to etiquette, the woman should reach out first in such an occasion.
However, Sun Shan had no intention of shaking hands with Lu Chen at all. She reached out her hand to took off her sunglasses, frowned and said angrily, “What’s going on? Why did you find me such a tall partner? How are we going to shoot this film?”
Sun Shan’s height was estimated to be less than 1.6 m. Even if she wore high heels, she was still shorter than Lu Chen.
She looked up at Lu Chen. Her expression was very unpleasant!
Too tall?
The corner of Lu Chen’s mouth twitched. He didn’t know what to say – What a bullsh*t reason was that!
Director Zhong was also stunned, explaining: “It doesn’t matter. We are shooting a commercial. You two do not need to stand together for comparison, so it won’t affect you.”
He knew that some stars pay great attention to their own image, such as short people wouldn’t easily take pictures with tall people, plump ones wouldn’t look for slim ones, but slim ones would be happy to look for plump ones.
But now it was just a commercial. There were very few shots involving the two people together. If she was worried about her height image, there were actually many ways to solve it.
Sun Shan’s unreasonable demand was beyond Director Zhong’s expectation.
“No, no, I need a new partner, or I will not participate in this shoot!”
As she said this, she looked at Lu Chen with arrogant eyes, as if she wanted to make Lu Chen back down in the face of difficulties!
“My partner can’t have a long face. His temperament must match with me!”
She was obviously deliberately finding fault!
Lu Chen keenly felt that the actress’s attitude wasn’t right.
They have never met before. It stands to reason that there should be no resentment between them, but nothing in this world is predictable. Maybe Sun Shan has a reason to look down on him.
Lu Chen didn’t quarrel with the other party, that would be too low.
He turned away quietly – anyway, it wasn’t him who was really in a hurry.
Of course, Lu Chen didn’t quit and was disinclined to pay attention to Sun Shan.
Why bother!
Director Zhong was anxious, so anxious.
He wanted to talk to Sun Shan, but was blocked by the latter’s agent.
Both sides refused to compromise.
Lu Chen asked a field worker to bring him a chair to sit down, unhurriedly took out his mobile phone and began to browse the blog.
Lu Chen sat very steadily because the endorsement contract had already been signed and the advance payment has also been transferred to the studio’s account. He neither breached the contract nor slack off on his work. What was there to worry about?
After browsing it for more than ten minutes, Li Feiyu came running over and said something to him secretly.
It turned out that Sun Shan, who was said to have a connection with a vice president of Senqi, signed an endorsement contract with Senqi early on.
She once requested for the leading actor in the commercial to be appointed by her.
It didn’t work out.[3]
Senqi signed Lu Chen through Silver Horse Advertisement Company.
Li Feiyu’s rumor was just disclosed to him by Director Zhong’s assistant. Everyone was talking about it in private.
Lu Chen understood.
As it turned out, this person has powerful backer. Thinking about it, she reckoned that he must’ve been in the way so she used this opportunity to stir up trouble.
It was undoubtedly very wise that he didn’t argue with the other party just now. Otherwise, if they had quarreled, the other party would have something to use against him and rely on the power of her backer to stir trouble for him. By then, even if he wanted to clear his name, he wouldn’t be able to do so!
It was just a commercial. Was it so complicated?
Looking at the director who was still in negotiation, Lu Chen shook his head a little helplessly.
The entertainment industry was really too complicated!
At this time, he suddenly saw a silver-gray BMW just stopped at the side of the road.
The door opened and a woman in a long white dress and big sunglasses came down, and looked around.
Lu Chen was immediately stunned.
Although the other party’s face was covered by sunglasses, he easily recognized the woman.
Lu Chen immediately got up and walked over.
The woman in white dress also found Lu Chen, showed a sweet smile, and stepped forward to meet him.
Sun Shan noticed this. She pouted her lips with disdain and said to Director Zhong, “You don’t have to say more. Anyway, I won’t do it if Lu Chen is the leading actor. If you think you’re wasting your time, please ask for another talent!”
“Isn’t there another one here? I think she’s quite suitable.”
There was a sarcastic smile on her face. She was very certain what the other party would do[4].
Director Zhong was almost mad at Sun Shan. He couldn’t help looking at the woman in white dress.
He was well aware of Sun Shan’s backer and the reason why the other party had nothing to fear, so he had to endure the anger in his heart.
Otherwise, if he lose Senqi, this big client, he will lose his job.
Director Zhong even knew that when Senqi chose Lu Chen instead of the person recommended by Sun Shan to be the male endorser, it might have involved the internal struggle of the senior management of Senqi company.
And now he was the one who was suffering from their struggle!
If possible, Director Zhong really wanted to slap and get rid of this arrogant Sun Shan. He wasn’t afraid of not finding a replacement. Even the woman in white dress who has just come to see Lu Chen…
Was more suitable than Sun Shan!
At least the other party’s height and physique was a perfect match with Lu Chen!
Sun Shan didn’t lower her voice when she spoke, so Lu Chen and the woman in white dress heard her clearly.
The woman in white dress stopped, looked at Sun Shan and smiled and said, “Let me do it? Sure.”
Sun Shan chuckled and mocked loudly, “Let you do it? Who do you think you are?”
The woman in white dress has an excellent figure, a pair of long slender legs, and skin such as jade and graceful like lotus. Although her face was covered by sunglasses, she could see a beautiful woman.
Sun Shan would never admit that she was jealous – she was the star!
The woman in white dress reached for her sunglasses and took it off. She smiled and said to Lu Chen, “Can’t I really do it?”
Lu Chen smiled bitterly.
Seeing the true appearance of the woman in white dress, Sun Shan’s expression instantly froze, frozen like a wooden chicken.
It wasn’t only her, but also director Zhong, his assistant and others next to her were all dumbfounded!
It was as if everyone has been casted with a petrifying magic!
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[1] Dropped the chain – To mess up during an important period. Have the same meaning with the phrase “Drop the ball”
[2] This means that the actress was so showy/a show off that Lu Chen wasn’t match.
[3] Her request wasn’t approved.
[4] She thought she was more in control of the situation.
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