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May NO.11, just the day before the opening ceremony of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Lu Heng finally reluctantly let go of the crew's affairs, and rushed to Cannes with the hero and heroine Zhao Miao and Chen Mengyi.However, in order to ensure the filming progress of the crew, Lu Heng did not shut down the crew completely as the outside world imagined, but only suspended the A group he was in charge of filming. work.

In this way, even if the three of Lu Heng want to take a week off, the progress of the crew will not be delayed to such an extent that investors can't bear it.

In Cannes in May, the sun is just right and the climate is pleasant.

Because the time was tight and they didn’t want to make too much fuss, Lu Heng and the others finally decided to charter a flight to Cannes. After a ten-hour flight, they got off the plane refreshed—thanks to the captain for his superb and smooth driving skills and The sunny and windless weather allowed everyone to sleep peacefully on the plane all night and eat a very hearty breakfast.

Of course, I also want to thank Wei Linxuan for the private jet he borrowed from his father, President Wei Da.

When getting off the plane, Lu Heng still did not forget to tease classmate Zhao Ermiao: "...Breakfast is free for the two of us. When you get back to the hotel, remember to report the gas money you paid before you came."

Zhao Ermiao sneered when she heard this, put her arms around her girlfriend Chen Mengyi's shoulders,

The "clamor" of "brazen and nonsense" said: "If you want money, you want life. If you have the ability, let me promise you with your body!"

As soon as the words came out, Zhao Ermiao triumphantly raised her eyebrows at Lu Heng. Even Chen Mengyi, who was beside her, couldn't get used to the rippling look of winking.

The slender fingers gently touched the soft flesh on Zhao Ermiao's waist, pinched hard with the thumb and index finger, rotated 360 degrees clockwise, and then rotated 180 degrees counterclockwise——

At any time in the warm summer weather in early May, student Zhao Ermiao suddenly felt the sourness and hotness of chili peppers, and physiological tears overflowed from his eyes, and he jumped three feet high like a rabbit whose tail was stepped on. She tried her best to break free from Her Majesty's "claws", and while rubbing her waist, she complained tearfully, "My wife, what are you doing, it hurts me to death."

Chen Mengyi snorted coldly, cast a cold and noble glance at Zhao Miao, and said with a blunt smile, "Don't you want to promise yourself to others? Then don't you care what kind of wife I am!"

This vinegar jar was a bit caught off guard!

Zhao Ermiao dejectedly rubbed her waist and eyes, which were still painful, and could only admit that she was unlucky.He had to coax people with a flattering smile: "Hey, my wife, you are too honest. How can you take this kind of words seriously! I am not doing this to repay the debt. Could it be that the two of us really reimbursed them for the jet fuel! This is not a small amount, I can buy you another bag for tens of thousands of dollars!"

"Besides, the two of them are big dogs now, so let's not take advantage of this advantage!"

Yo, look at what you said, it's been going back and forth!

However, it was useless. Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan, who knew Chen Mengyi's temperament well, raised their eyebrows tacitly.

Sure enough, Miss Chen shook her head angrily and amusedly after hearing her boyfriend's words.He also stopped writing with Zhao Miao, but walked up to Zhao Miao, pinched Zhao Miao's arm involuntarily - Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan also followed Zhao Miao's miserable howl subconsciously when they heard the "click" shuddered.And Zhao Miao was covering her arms, like an angry daughter-in-law, looked at Chen Mengyi aggrieved, and protested softly, "You're domesticating me again!"

"Who told you to always say such inappropriate words?" Chen Mengyi gave Zhao Miao an angry look, and just when Zhao Miao thought Chen Mengyi would say something "sounding", Chen Mengyi changed the subject, and the thief Xixi smiled and said: "Even if we think so in our hearts, we can't say it carelessly. How embarrassing it is for others to hear it!"

You still know I'm sorry!

Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan were speechless as they looked at the flamboyant celebrity couple in front of them.

A few people walked out of the airport noisyly, and the crew of "The Forbidden Man" who had arrived in Cannes half a month earlier was already waiting outside in a car—it turned out that the director Wu Zhongyuan brought a few assistants to pick him up in person.

After seeing Lu Heng's group, Wu Zhongyuan came forward with a smile, and wanted to take Lu Heng's suitcase, but Lu Heng let him go: "Director Wu, you are too polite, just ask the assistant to pick us up. "

Wu Zhongyuan smiled innocently, and said: "The preparations are almost done, and it happens that I have nothing to do."

After speaking, Wu Zhongyuan paused slightly, and said gratefully: "Director Fang really helped us a lot when we came to Cannes this time. If it weren't for his old man, our crew's public relations task would not have gone so smoothly. Xiao Heng, I really have to thank you, if you hadn't been the matchmaker, how would Director Fang know about our crew?"

Where am I matchmaking?

Lu Heng was taken aback by Wu Zhongyuan's words. He was suspicious for a while, but he smiled and said, "You're flattering me. Director Fang is highly respected. He must have taken a fancy to Director Wu's character and business. "Forbidden" is a movie worthy of support, so I will help."

Wu Zhongyuan laughed, patted Lu Heng on the shoulder, and said, "You two are welcome. Get in the car first, everyone is waiting at the hotel!"

Because the crew of "Heroes Forbidden" arrived relatively early, Wu Zhongyuan directly asked the public relations department of the crew to book a room in the hotel contracted by the organizer of Cannes in line with the idea of ​​getting closer to the water first.Thanks to Director Wu's actions, and Fang Kaizhi's intentional support, in the past half a month, Director Wu has contacted many members of the Cannes jury, as well as distributors who came to Cannes to buy films.

For the crew of "Forbidden City", the former can help them get acquainted (of course, with the status of "Forbidden City", it can only reach this point at present), but the latter is even more important——

Because all the film crews who came to Cannes hope to sell their films overseas with the help of this platform, in addition to expecting to win awards.

And because of this close proximity, the crew of "Heroes Forbidden" has already met many overseas distributors from all over the world.And these distributors all expressed their interest in the film after they learned that Lu Heng was actually participating in the film crew of "Heroes Forbidden".Although it has not yet reached the level of final quotation, Wu Zhongyuan believes that they should get a satisfactory answer after "Heroes Forbidden" is released in the main competition unit.

At the same time, the crew members who witnessed all this had to once again lament Lu Heng's influence and box office appeal on the international big screen.

After arriving at the hotel, before Lu Heng and the others had time to arrange their luggage, the crew members who heard the news had already arrived.Director Wu Zhongyuan rushed to Cannes with director Wu Zhongyuan. In addition to female number two and male number three, there were also screenwriters and producers, as well as people sent by the two producers who were in charge of publicizing Cannes for the crew of "Forbidden Man".

During the period of coming to Cannes, everyone has deeply felt the weight of Lu Heng, the male number two, in the hearts of international colleagues. In addition, the public relations jury has indeed received a lot of suggestions from director Fang Kaizhi.Everyone's attitude after seeing Lu Heng was actually more attentive and enthusiastic than during filming.

Even Lin Chaoyang, who often slandered Lu Heng behind his back, showed a wrinkled smile, and was very enthusiastic to cleanse Lu Heng and others.

After Lu Heng dealt with the crew members with a gentle smile and politeness, he also knocked on the door of Director Fang Kaizhi's room immediately.

As a member of the jury personally invited by the organizer of Cannes, Fang Kaizhi's recent schedule has been wandering between various internal film festivals and seminars.And, of course, countless dinner parties.However, after confirming the date of Lu Heng's arrival in Cannes, Director Fang still reserved a day's itinerary, sitting in the hotel room in leisure time, watching DVDs while waiting for his favorite student.

When Lu Heng came to visit, Director Fang was watching the movie "The Forbidden Man".

After warm hugs and greetings (if Lu Heng unilaterally picked up Mr. Fang and held him high), the teacher and the student sat down on the sofa in the living room.

Lu Heng casually glanced at the TV screen—it just happened to pause at the scene where he, as the male number two, exploded in blackening.

Fang Kaizhi smiled and said, "You haven't seen this movie yet, have you? Would you like to sit down and watch it together?"

Lu Heng asked with a smile: "Have you seen the film, what do you think of my acting?"

Fang Kaizhi heard the words and said seriously: "The emotions are full, and the characters have a strong sense of layering. However, some scenes are too thinly portrayed, only focusing on the performance of the characters, without digging deeper into the conflicts and conflicts between the characters and the overall background of the film." contradiction……"

When dealing with movies, the old man is always serious and tireless. After analyzing the role played by Lu Heng from various professional perspectives, Fang Kaizhi said slowly: "I don't know your acting skills and professionalism." You will be worried. What's more, the role of Qi Lianheng (the role played by Lu Heng in "The Forbidden Man") is what you are best at. But you also need to know that acting is just like learning. If you sail against the current, if you don’t advance, you will retreat.”

At this point, Director Fang paused for a moment, looked at the disciple he had brought out, and said earnestly: "...at your age, the achievement you have today is due to both your strength and luck."

"Admittedly, judging by your current acting skills, there are only a handful of actors in China who can suppress your drama. But this does not mean that you have no pressure and can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai. You must know that sometimes, there is no A breakthrough is a step back."

When Fang Kaizhi said this, he also had a headache.There is a student brought out by himself, who is talented and intelligent, and who is lucky enough to receive a suitable role to prove his acting skills.But sometimes, the apprentice is too good to worry about.

For example, Lu Heng, who is too young and has achieved so much, that Fang Kaizhi is always worried that this precious apprentice will become frivolous one day and go astray, or be lured by this complicated inner circle environment and forget The original intention of acting, so that I slowly wasted my talent and resigned myself to mediocrity.I even worry that this precious apprentice is not doing well enough to cause dissatisfaction among the insiders...

Hearing Lu Heng's side-by-side inquiry about the public relations of "The Forbidden Man" in Cannes, Fang Kaizhi couldn't help laughing and said: "Everyone is a Chinese filmmaker, so when we are capable, we should help each other and support each other. Besides, you I'm busy making movies, and I still have to hold other people's leading actors and actresses, so it's reasonable for me, as a teacher, to help you do publicity."

In case some people complain that Lu Heng's coffee is a big bully, and don't pay attention to the small crew.Even the Cannes public relations refused to show up.

The entertainment circle says it's big or small, some people complain about it, but some people are happy to watch it.If there are a few more media reports that are not willing to be lonely, even if it has no real impact on Lu Heng, it will damage his reputation.

As a teacher, he can't watch his apprentice get into an embarrassing situation because of such a trivial matter, and when he can help, he is naturally not stingy with "giving a little effort".

Besides, with his status as an old senior in the circle, it's not bad to have the reputation of supporting the younger generation.

Lu Heng has been filming with Director Fang for many years, so he naturally heard Fang Kaizhi's implication.He raised his eyebrows disapprovingly, and said unabashedly in front of Fang Kaizhi: "...I'm just the second male lead of "Heroes Forbidden", and I'm also the second male lead who was temporarily pulled over to save the scene. Filming makes money Publicity on the platform is also in accordance with the contract."

That being said, if someone who cares about mentions the big money that Hengxuan Studio made in Hollywood for "Rejuvenation" for the Oscars, and compares his attitude in the public relations of "Forbidden Man" in Cannes, it will inevitably make people criticize Lu Heng. Treat one more favorably than another.

Fang Kaizhi's lover is eager, but he doesn't want Lu Heng to be too serious - that's why he didn't inform Lu Heng even after he finished his work.If it wasn't for Wu Zhongyuan's slip of the tongue when picking up the plane today, Lu Heng, who was only focused on filming in the crew, wouldn't know it at all.

Now that I know, Lu Heng is naturally grateful and ashamed - grateful for Director Fang's care and love, and ashamed that he has caused trouble for the old man.But Fang Kaizhi didn't want to get entangled in such a trivial matter, so he changed the subject and asked how Lu Heng's film was going.