Chapter 534 You Want to Play Yongzheng, Right?

Liu Wenwu didn't sit here with Zhou Yan for long before he got up to leave and went to find Liu Heping.

"Old Tang, I'll go over first. You can catch up with Director Zhou."

Tang Guoqiang nodded, "Then go ahead and I'll go find you later."

After Liu Wenwu left, Tang Guoqiang smiled and said, "After filming "Three Kingdoms" was completed, have you met the other old brothers?"

"The second brother and the third brother have met. Didn't the third brother just film "Time Traveler" with me?"

"Oh, yes, he played your uncle in the movie. I also watched the movie. He acted very dull and showed his true colors."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Next time you scold him in person."

"How can I scold him? I am obviously praising him."

"Then he has to thank you."

"That's right, haha."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "How are you doing at the Youth Art Theater now?"

Tang Guoqiang went to China Youth Art Theater from Bayi Studio in 1993. Zhou Yan heard him talk about it when he went to the crew at that time.

"It's not bad. It's a little more leisurely than when I was at the Bayi Factory."

Zhou Yan nodded, Tang Guoqiang did not have many works published in recent years.

Speaking of which, this is also the situation faced by most of the main actors in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

After "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", everyone's development in film and television was average.

In the past few years, Sun Yanjun has acted in "Anti-Corruption Director", Lu Shuming has acted in "Westward Journey", Li Jingfei has acted in the TV series "Beijing-Kowloon Love" and Zhou Yan's "Time Traveler".

However, the three of them collaborated with Bao Guoan on a TV series called "Sun Wu", which has not been broadcast yet.

Tang Guoqiang is not much better than them. In the past few years, he has acted in "The Kingdoms of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty". This time "Yongzheng Dynasty" can be regarded as his second film and television work after "Three Kingdoms".

Speaking of which, Tang Guoqiang's acting career really took off from "Yongzheng Dynasty". After "Yongzheng Dynasty", he took more and more roles, and the roles became heavier and heavier, so that later he specialized in Playing the role of an emperor.

Now he doesn't have any filming, so the Youth Art Theater is definitely a little less busy than the one on Bayi.

"Since you have more free time, you can come and sit here when you have nothing to do."

Tang Guoqiang waved his hand, "I am very free, but I know you are very busy, so I won't come to disturb you. But if you have a chance later, you can ask Sun Yanjun and the others to come over and get together. In those few years of filming, we had to live in the open air. It feels very bitter, but now that I think about it, I miss it very much. I still remember that time when you and Sun Yanjun went out to steal corn..."

Zhou Yan quickly interrupted him, "Don't talk nonsense, I didn't steal corn."

Tang Guoqiang smiled and nodded, "Yes, yes, you didn't steal. I used the wrong word. You went out to borrow corn from the fellow villagers, right."

Seeing Tang Guoqiang's half-smiling expression, Zhou Yan felt helpless in his heart.

Forget it, there’s no point in explaining it. I won’t explain it anymore.

Seeing Zhou Yan's dejected look, Tang Guoqiang smiled and said, "Didn't you write a song called "Borrowing Cucumbers"? You can also write a song "Borrowing Corns"."

Zhou Yan couldn't help but roll his eyes and busy borrowing things since he didn't do anything every day.

The key point is that whether it was borrowing corn or cucumbers, he was not directly involved. It was completely an unintentional disaster.

And in some versions, it's not Zhou Yan and Sun Yanjun who went to steal corn, but he took Sun Yanjun and others to steal corn.

After all, this version is more logical. If the three brothers stopped stealing corn sooner or later, they would steal corn on the first day you arrived, Director Zhou.

No matter how you look at it, you, Zhou Yan, are the instigators.

"Ahem, you play an important role in the new drama. How are you preparing?" Zhou Yan began to change the subject.

Tang Guoqiang nodded, "The research is almost done. As long as they don't make major revisions to the script, I'll be fine. This is Yongzheng..."

Then he started to talk about his understanding of the script and the character. At first, Zhou Yan didn't think there was a problem, but after listening for a while, he felt something was wrong.

Tang Guoqiang is not going to play the eighth prince Yinsu, why is he always talking about Yongzheng and not talking about the eighth prince at all.

Zhou Yan paused for a while and interrupted Tang Guoqiang, "Why don't you talk about Yinhu? Aren't you playing Yinhu?"

Tang Guoqiang laughed and said, "Hey, I know the eighth brother well, and I can play it well without talking about it."

He said this very confidently, even a little arrogantly, but it was a bit unlike Tang Guoqiang's style.

Although Zhou Yan only had contact with Tang Guoqiang on the set of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he still knew a little about him. This guy is indeed quite confident, but he usually speaks in a low-key manner.

There is naturally something wrong with his attitude now.

Zhou Yan probably guessed the reason. He smiled and asked, "Tell me the truth, do you want to play Yongzheng?"

Tang Guoqiang squinted his eyes and laughed, with a hint of shyness in his smile, "To be honest with you, of course I want to challenge Yongzheng."

It's so normal for him to have this idea. Let's not talk about Yongzheng as the protagonist, who overwhelms Yinsi in the role. Just talking about the character design, Yongzheng is much more interesting than Yinsi.

For actors, they definitely hope that they can play a role like Yong Zheng.

Zhou Yan looked at Tang Guoqiang and said, "Why didn't you say anything when Mr. Liu was here just now?"

"I mentioned it to him."

"What did he say?"

"He just pretended not to hear."

It seems that Liu Wenwu is not willing to let Tang Guoqiang play Yongzheng, and his attitude is quite obvious and without hesitation.

In this case, Zhou Yan was curious. Liu Wenwu had this attitude, so how did Tang Guoqiang play the leading role in his previous life?

Could it be that Hu Mei was the key figure?

Although Hu Mei might not have much power in casting, if she recommended, Liu Wenwu would not completely ignore it.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yan said, "I told Mr. Liu that I would not interfere with their casting."

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, Tang Guoqiang was a little disappointed, but still nodded and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I didn't think of using you as a backdoor."

Zhou Yan smiled and continued, "But don't worry, the role may not have been decided yet, and there will be changes later."

"Really?"

"Well, just wait."

Zhou Yan thought that Hu Mei might recommend Tang Guoqiang, so there was no need for him to tell Liu Wenwu about it now, just let it go.

But if something really went wrong later, he would still have to take action.

Subjectively, he felt that Tang Guoqiang played Yongzheng very well and it would be a pity to change him. Objectively, since the previous life had proved that Tang Guoqiang's Yongzheng was popular with everyone, there was no need to change him.

Although Tang Guoqiang didn't know what kind of changes would happen later, he still nodded and said that he would wait.

…

At about 8:40 am on March 12, Hu Mei and Zhang Li came to Zhou Yan's studio according to the address given by Liu Wenwu.

"Isn't this an electronics factory?" Zhang Li asked in confusion.

Hu Mei smiled and said, "This used to be an electronics factory, but now it is Zhou Yan's studio. This is my first time here."

"This is Zhou Yan's studio, which is so big?"

"It should be."

No mistake, one song, one post, one content, one book, one bar!

"This is not a small scale." Zhang Li said with emotion.

At this time, the guard saw the two of them standing at the door and looking around, and walked out and asked, "What do you two need?"

Zhang Li smiled and said, "Brother, we are here to see Director Zhou."

"Are you Ms. Hu and Mr. Zhang?" the guard asked.

"Yes, yes, I'm Zhang Li, she's Hu Mei."

The guard nodded and said, "Please come in, both of you."

Then, the guard took them to the TV drama department building and to Liu Heping's office.

The Administration Department had notified the communication room yesterday that a man and a woman would visit this morning, named Zhang Li and Hu Mei. When they arrived, they would be taken directly to Liu Heping's office.

When the two arrived at Liu Heping's office, Zhou Yan and Liu Wenwu were already sitting in the office.

After Liu Wenwu greeted the two, he introduced them to Zhou Yan, "Director Zhou, this is Director Hu Mei, this is Director Zhang Li."

"Director Hu, Director Zhang." Zhou Yan smiled and shook hands with them.

It was the first time that Zhang Li saw Zhou Yan in person. He couldn't help but look at him a few more times. Then he smiled and said, "I heard from Lao Mouzi that you look better in person than on TV. Today, I saw that he was right."

In fact, it is not a smart way to talk to a man when you just meet him, but when Zhang Li saw Zhou Yan, he really thought of what Zhang Yimou had said to him.

The reason why Zhang Yimou asked Zhou Yan to play Chen Feipu was, on the one hand, because Zhou Yan could play the flute, and on the other hand, more importantly, because Zhou Yan looked good and was very suitable for the role of Chen Feipu.

Zhou Yan smiled, "I haven't seen Director Zhang Yimou for a long time."

"I haven't seen him for a long time either." Zhang Li smiled, "In our class, he and Chen Kaige were both very busy people, and we rarely saw each other."

Zhang Li, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and Hu Mei, they were all students of the same class of Yanjing Film Academy, but Zhang Yimou and Zhang Li were photography majors, while Chen Kaige and Hu Mei were directing majors.

If you only look at their age, it's hard to think that they were students of the same class.

Hu Mei is only in her thirties, but Zhang Yimou is almost fifty.

At that time, college admissions had just resumed, and the ages of students might be very different.

In fact, if we don’t talk about age, just looking at resumes, Hu Mei doesn’t look like she is from the same generation as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Zhang Jianya all had their own famous works very early, and they have a lot of works.

As for Hu Mei, all the movies she has filmed are unknown, but the TV series "Last Night's Wind" filmed in the millennium is quite popular.

Zhang Li brought up Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, naturally hoping to get closer to Zhou Yan, so Zhou Yan followed his words and said, "I haven't seen Director Zhang for a long time, but I see Mr. Kai often, Director Hu should know."

Hu Mei smiled, "Our factory is not far from here, whether Director Zhou goes there or Chen Kaige comes here, it's very convenient. To be honest, there was a time when I thought Director Zhou was from our factory."

Zhou Yan laughed, "You were not the only one who thought so during that time."

Since the filming of "Farewell My Concubine" started, Zhou Yan went to Yanjing Factory every day for a long time.

Although Hu Mei didn't have much contact with Zhou Yan in the factory, she often saw him.

After a few pleasantries, Liu Wenwu rubbed his hands and said, "Let's talk later, let's get down to business first."

Hu Mei nodded, "Yes, yes, let's talk about business first. Last time, General Manager Liu gave me a few questions, and I went back to prepare seriously. Now I will directly tell you my answer."

Liu Wenwu waved his hand, "No hurry, let's talk about "The Wind Last Night" first. This TV series is said to be related to finance, but it is more about romance. Most of the time it describes intrigues and family ethics..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, Zhang Li and Hu Mei were stunned. What was this? Instead of talking about "Yongzheng Dynasty", they first reviewed Hu Mei's previous works just like homework?

Zhou Yan was also stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Liu Wenwu didn't move forward at all, and started with a big move.

There is absolutely no problem in discussing the director's previous works. If you want to criticize, of course that's okay, but Liu Wenwu's tone is like an adult criticizing a child, and most people simply cannot accept it.

No matter what you say, Hu Mei is also known as a "fifth generation director". She is a classmate of the same class as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. For a cross-border producer, your attitude is too much. .

Moreover, Liu Wenwu is several years younger than Hu Mei, and most people cannot bear to be criticized like this by someone younger than themselves.

However, Zhou Yan didn't see anything strange in Hu Mei's expression. Although Liu Wenwu's words were harsh, she still listened carefully.

On the contrary, Zhang Li on the side blushed and looked unconvinced.

Sure enough, after Liu Wenwu finished criticizing "The Wind Last Night", Hu Mei didn't say anything, but Zhang Li spoke first, "Mr. Liu, you are less involved in film and television, which I can understand. Regarding the issue of "The Wind Last Night", I will talk to you. You should discuss it carefully. You just said that the theme of this TV series has little to do with finance. This is no problem because it is not a TV series in itself. Since it's not a business war movie, you shouldn't make more financial content. You said that the characters are intriguing and the content is all about family ethics. Then I have to ask, what is Lao Mouzi's "Raise the Red Lantern"? It’s not about intrigues. Is “Ju Dou” about family ethics? The question is that we have to see from these content that is closest to life..."

After Zhang Li's long speech, Liu Wenwu refused to admit defeat and argued: "The theme can indeed be ordinary or even cliché, but when we were filming..."

Afterwards, the two of them started arguing fiercely.

Zhou Yan, Hu Mei and Liu Heping, like melon-eaters, sat nearby and admired it.

Seeing that Hu Mei was so calm, Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh. Hu Mei may not have much talent as a director, but she has a really calm mind, which makes her a perfect match for a producer like Liu Wenwu.

Putting it into perspective, if Zhou Yan were in Hu Mei's position today, even if he didn't walk away, he would definitely not continue discussing with Liu Wenwu in a good manner.

In other words, it is impossible for Zhou Yan to cooperate with Liu Wenwu as a director.

Zhou Yan himself is an authoritarian person on the crew, and Liu Wenwu is also the same. It is difficult for two authoritarian people to work well together. (End of chapter)