The strongest agent [entertainment]

Repeatedly told Pan Yanyan to play a supporting role with peace of mind, not to overwhelm the host and use resources to add more roles to herself, and not to delete and modify the setting of the hero and heroine at will.

Chu Xu packed Pan Yanyan and sent it to the crew.

After throwing his two artists to the crew one after another, Chu Xu began to look for a new job for himself.

S-level managers are qualified to choose the artists they want to bring, and they can bring multiple artists at a time.

After leaving Tan Sheng, who had placed high hopes and supported each other for more than ten years, Chu Xu, as a professional manager, also has his own career dreams and desired artists.

And that artist just happened to be in Starlight...and he didn't have any team or manager.

This is also one of the reasons why Chu Xu chose to come to Starlight in the first place.

He wants to be that actor's agent.

Therefore, after Chu Xu finished dealing with other matters in his hands, he personally took the time to find this artist who impressed Chu Xu deeply and was eager to get it as a manager.

"Mr. Ding, hello!" Chu Xu's attitude towards Pan Yanyan, Su Que, these popular first-line stars are all honest, neither humble nor overbearing, but when facing the artist he wanted, his attitude was particularly special Respect.

Even if the other party is just a supporting role in the n-line, a secondary role...he hasn't acted as a leading role for decades, but is only affiliated with the company, without an agent, without a team, and without a backstage, and there are not many people in the entire company circle who take him seriously .

Chu Xu also treated the big guy with the attitude of a movie king.

Because he felt that the other party was worthy.

The middle-aged man looked suspiciously at the handsome young man in front of him. He had been in the industry for so many years, and no one took him seriously in the company. He would take the initiative to strike up a conversation with him, and even called him respectfully. There are really not many teachers: "You are?"

"My name is Chu Xu, and I'm an agent... I just signed with Starlight not long ago." Chu Xu smiled and patiently introduced her identity to the other party.

Although he was very popular on the Internet some time ago, he imagined that Ding Chengbin, a low-key actor who never engages in publicity or marketing, only quietly filming, probably does not watch entertainment gossip, and does not know his... …

The actor Chu Xu wants to sign under his name is called Ding Chengbin. He is a perennial green leaf in the circle. Because there is no team, when it comes to his name, I am afraid that few people will know who he is. In the eyes of young people, this actor is basically no one.

And his appearance is also very inconsistent with the current public aesthetics of beauty control. Not only is his appearance not high, but it is also a bit low...

When I first debuted, I had a 20-something face at the age of 40, and now I am over 40 and still have a 40-something face, not to mention the small eyes and single eyelids, the skin on the face is bumpy and uneven, and the nose is long Well, but not noticeable, slightly fat and even a little hunchbacked.

Although he graduated from a serious course, the average agent nowadays would give up signing him if they only took one look at his appearance, thinking that he would not be able to earn a living in this industry.

It is also because of this that Ding Chengbin has been playing supporting roles for 20 years in the industry.

In Chu Xu's previous life, until the time before his death, Ding Chengbin continued to play a role in only a few episodes on TV.

And the reason why Chu Xu has always wanted to sign this artist so much is because of Ding Chengbin's acting skills... really very good.

Because of work, Chu Xu has watched a lot of dramas, and in those dramas Chu Xu has seen Ding Chengbin countless times.

From the very beginning, I didn't have any impression, but later I gradually recognized that these supporting roles were all played by the same person. Chu Xu had to admit in amazement that although Ding Chengbin was not good-looking, his acting skills were really lifelike. All the roles he played, no matter how small or full of cannon fodder, if you look closely, you can see that this actor has put a lot of thought into it, and every detail and action is handled very meticulously and seriously... like this In terms of acting skills, Chu Xu can say that even many of today's movie kings, movie queens, and popular superstars are far behind Ding Chengbin.

However, because of the current aesthetics that puts beauty first... Such an excellent actor is dusty, and no one cares about him, except for a few directors who value his acting skills and are willing to find him more for filming and small roles. Let him play small roles here. Other than having something to eat, few people knew him at all, and the audience's attention was all on the protagonist, so they would not have noticed that this unknown actor who played a small role had such outstanding acting skills.

Chu Xu felt very sorry for Ding Chengbin's unrecognized talent.

In the previous life, because of Ding Chengbin, Chu Xu pondered for a while. Could it be that without an outstanding appearance, he really can't be an actor, and really can only play a supporting role for a lifetime, and he deserves to be buried for a lifetime?

the answer is negative.

Chu Xu is not optimistic about the current deformed entertainment and performing arts market, which only focuses on appearance and behind-the-scenes resources. He has been in the industry for so many years, and he cannot agree with it from the bottom of his heart.

In the previous life, Chu Xu hadn't had any accidents yet. When he was still taking Tan Sheng with him, he watched too many Ding Chengbin's dramas. Chu Xu thought that when he brought Tan Sheng along one day, he could take over the work of other artists when he had time and leisure. At that time, he must find an opportunity to sign an outstanding actor like Ding Chengbin to his name, so that the other party can have a leading role to play, and stop playing tricks.

In this life, although he parted ways with Tan Sheng and started anew by himself, Chu Xu never forgot this ideal...

and so……

After becoming Starlight's S-level manager, he decided to realize his wish that he hadn't had time to realize in his previous life, and let this old drama player who had been playing tricks for many years become his own artist.

"Newly signed to Starlight's agent, what do you want from me?" Even if his job is an actor, Ding Chengbin still looks like the most common ordinary person in his daily life. There is no sense of being in the play, and he is neither humble nor humble about Chu Xu's strike-up.

It is unthinkable that he once vividly interpreted a ninety-five emperor in the play.

Chu Xu admired Ding Chengbin very much. Although he had never met or communicated with him in the past, Chu Xu felt that he had been friends with him for a long time. He said with great respect: "This is Mr. Ding, I have seen him. You have a lot of dramas, and you are your fans... After signing with Starlight, I asked someone, and I heard that you don't have an agent yet, so I want to ask, would you like to sign under my name? ?”

"My fans?" Hearing Chu Xu's first words, Ding Chengbin couldn't help but laugh.

He is such a long-term actor who the audience can't even remember his name, where did he get his fans?

Chu Xu said without thinking, "Yes."

Although Ding Chengbin is just a little-known actor, when Chu Xu faced him, he felt a kind of excitement in his heart that he never felt when he talked with Su Que and Pan Yanyan about the contract, just like a fledgling young man meeting his idol. Yes...Even if Ding Chengbin is plain-looking and really ordinary, his status in Chu Xu's heart is also detached, equal to the movie king.

He has always admired such actors with real acting skills.

"Young people may have just stepped into the workplace. I was very excited when I first became a manager... I was young too." Ding Chengbin had a panoramic view of Chu Xu's anxiety and excitement when he met his idol, and mistakenly regarded Chu Xu as someone who had just stepped into the job. The young man who entered the workplace: "Want to sign a contract with an artist? But, you have found the wrong person... Although I can receive a lot of dramas a year, the salary is very low. It is only enough to support my family. If you sign, I can't get it." I'm just an actor, I won't become a star, if I want to be an agent, I'd better get in touch with the industry and try to sign some fresh graduates with pretty faces."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave.

Chu Xu stopped him in a hurry: "No, Teacher Ding, I'm not just starting to work, I've been an agent for many years, I'm really your fan, I just want to sign a contract with you , just as your agent."

"Sorry, I don't think I need an agent. After a few years, when the contract with the company expires, I won't renew it." Ding Chengbin didn't listen to Chu Xu at all.

As an actor who is passionate about acting and loves acting, he is content with filming, even if the salary is low, even if he plays all supporting roles. At the beginning, when he signed the company, he still hoped that the company would give him a few roles. One after another... But, as time went by, relying on his popularity and the appreciation of several directors, he was able to get the role himself, and the company didn't care about him at all. After letting him go, Ding Cheng Bin has already had the idea of ​​not renewing the contract.

Controlling his own job negotiations, he can handle the selection of scripts by himself... Why bother to allocate part of the film salary to a company that only has a name and has no control over him at all, let alone provide him with resources?

He doesn't want such a flashy agent, something that only stars who need hype and marketing need.

He has already seen through this circle where appearance is paramount and strength is not important.

Ding Chengbin just wants to be an actor quietly, as long as he has a play to act in.

Chu Xu knew that he didn't trust him, and also knew that the other party's distrust of him was normal, so he quickly explained: "Mr. Ding, I'm really not a manager who just debuted. I already have many years of work experience."

Ding Chengbin laughed lowly, but he didn't take Chu Xu's words seriously, and planned to leave.

There are still many things in his family, and he has no time to spend with this young man.

"Teacher Ding, don't you want to be the actor?" Seeing that he didn't believe him at all and was about to leave, Chu Xu hurriedly said these words.

Ding Chengbin really stopped.

No actor who has a strong love for acting doesn't want to be a best actor.

Chu Xu finally calmed down from the excitement of seeing his idol, regained his thoughts, and repeated again: "As an actor with acting skills and strength, do you want to play a supporting role for a lifetime? Have you never done it before?" Is it the dream of becoming an actor?"

"Everyone has dreamed, but it's impossible to come true..." Ding Chengbin recovered from his trance, and quickly recognized the reality again.

Having been around for so many years, he has already tasted all the bitterness and bitterness in this circle.

Chu Xu immediately refuted him: "Who says it's impossible?"

"Young man, you may not have suffered a lot. You still have beautiful fantasies about this world and this circle, but now I have to break your fantasies and tell you for the sake of calling me a teacher." ——Be sober, this circle is a vanity fair. In the past, there may have been real actors who could be the protagonist and actor. But now, even if you have strength and acting skills, you have no resources, no connections, no background, and even a movie If you don’t even have a pretty face like a vase..." Ding Chengbin said word by word: "Don't talk about the actor, you can't even be the protagonist, you can only play a supporting role for a lifetime, a secondary role, and for such a situation, even the past is in our eyes. The director who has absolute control over the actors can't control it, because the current showbiz is a capitalist world, the protagonist can only have these to invest money in, and wait for the people who make the money to decide. If the director refuses to accept it, they can even The director has also been changed, and the so-called film king can only pull out the scum from these dwarfs, this is the reality!"

The world is getting worse, he can't control it... he can only control himself and stop dreaming.

Chu Xu agreed with his point of view, but he didn't think what he said was completely correct: "Although the general environment of the whole circle is right now, there is no need for investors to invest in China. I am a signboard, and some of them are investors. People rush to invest, dare not interfere with his casting and filming, there are great directors who are waiting for the money..."

If not, it would be impossible for Tan Sheng, who was unwilling to accept the unspoken rules and had no background, to get ahead.

Although there are many dark sides in this world, there is still light relatively. Where there is evil, there must be good. Where there is evil, there must be good. Many things have two sides...

Ding Chengbin fell silent for a while.

He knew that the big directors that Chu Xu said can do whatever he wants, only shoot what he wants, and only find the actors he wants to find do exist... But such a big director is not within his reach, and he also I don't know how to get to know him, as if we exist in two worlds with him.

"Mr. Ding, I'm really not just out of society. I don't know anything. I want to use you as the agent of the experimental product. I have many years of work experience. I used to take care of Tan Sheng for more than ten years when he was not famous. , until he became famous...Now I also have two popular artists Pan Yanyan and Su Que under my name. You may not know the manager, but I think you should have heard of their names." Chu Xu tried to let Ding Chengbin builds trust in himself.

Ding Chengbin frowned: "Isn't Pan Yanyan's manager Li Yuhua?"

Li Yuhua was the name of Starlight's chief manager.

Her S-level agent is much more famous in the industry than Chu Xu, an S-level agent, and she is much more awesome...

"It was Yanyan who took the initiative to sign a contract with me and asked me to be his manager because of my achievements in bringing out Tan Sheng, an actor." Chu Xu said without any pretense.

Ding Chengbin sneered but said, "Since you are so powerful, why do you want to sign me?"

At first glance, Chu Xu's achievements sounded brilliant, but others might have signed the contract in a daze after what Chu Xu said, but as an old man in the circle, Ding Chengbin knew that both Pan Yanyan and Su Que were well-known. A resourceful coffee, and even if Tan Sheng is really a bit capable and not a resourceful coffee, he still has a face that God appreciates food.

Just like that, Tan Sheng also spent more than ten years in his early years.

"Mr. Ding, although you may not believe it, I said that you are my idol and I am your fan. It is true." Chu Xu spoke out Ding Chengbin's outstanding performances in the play one by one in a serious tone: "I've seen you play a subjugated fool in "xxxx". Before he hanged himself, that fool's face was full of indifference to the country's ruin, but he treated the subjugation of the country as a joke and said it out with a playful smile. At that time, there was a drop of tears in your acting skills that could not be shed. I was very impressed. Although you appeared in very few episodes, I would find out and watch every scene when I had time. Many times, and your lines, when you play the role of a farmer, you don’t have the slightest airs, you just plow the land for a living, and the farmers who are running around for a living show a simple look, and when they take out the money, they are all saliva , carefully counting how many are left one by one, and the way you walk as a local ruffian, which is completely different from your usual walking posture, and the way you grit your teeth... ...I was really impressed by Mr. Ding."

An actor who is so attentive to every role, no matter good or bad, must be a qualified and dedicated actor.

Ding Chengbin listened to Chu Xu's recounting of the roles he had played, and even noticed the details and highlights, and couldn't help being moved all of a sudden.

He really didn't expect that someone would actually notice the small details that he deliberately designed when playing a small role.

There are really still people who know the meaning hidden in his little actions, and know his dedication...

So, should he really try to trust this young agent, can he really win him the chance to be a best actor?

Never mind, when Ding Chengbin met Chu Xu, it was like Boya met Ziqi. Maxima is common but Bole is rare... Just because of Chu Xu's unique vision like a bosom friend, Ding Chengbin felt that he was signing something under his banner He couldn't get it, and he had to pay a cut of the salary for nothing, and he felt it was worth it.

Chu Xu's signing of Ding Chengbin was announced almost at the same time as Pan Yanyan's acceptance of two supporting roles.

Under Chu Xu’s Weibo, a group of black people came just now and scolded him for being ugly, an n-line artist who has played supporting roles for thousands of years and is unlikely to be popular, and has no normal vision that an S-level agent should have. He cursed more and more vaguely.

Followed by Pan Yanyan's fans, after knowing that Pan Yanyan took on two supporting roles, they hung up Chu Xu's scolding on Chu Xu's Weibo, for example: "Our Yanyan has never played the second female role. , when I was following Sister Li, I still acted as the first female lead, but after following you, I can only play the second female lead, rubbish manager!"

"I don't deserve to be called a manager at all, and rushing to the street! It will only ruin the artist and harm Yanyan!"

"Why is Yanyan so unlucky? Didn't she get along well with Sister Li before? Sister Li is the chief manager of Starlight. Sister Li is an S-level manager, but she has more qualifications than Chu Xu, an S-level manager. "

"Chu Xu can't do it, Yanyan will see the message soon... Sister Li will come back instead."

Wait for a series of scolding and bad-mouthing.

Chu Xu had been in the circle for many years, and he knew at a glance that the scolding voices on his Weibo must be someone's interference and rhythm, leading Pan Yanyan's fans to scold them.

Originally Chu Xu was idle and bored, so he would definitely go back to find a place.

But signing in the good mood of wanting an artist, made Chu Xu not want to bother with these anymore... It doesn't matter, just scold if you want to, scold you how you like, scold you however you like, whatever others want you to scold.

In the end, he believed that he must be able to speak with strength and reality.

******

Chu Xu has always been a person who becomes more courageous as he gets frustrated, and dares to try to move forward bravely.Yes at work, but even more so in your personal love life.

After confirming that he really fell in love with Yuan Jie, although he felt that he was not good at anything and was not worthy of the other party's depressed mood for a while, after sorting out his thoughts, he still decided to move forward bravely.

If it is really possible for the two of them...

Wouldn't it be a pity to miss the other person or a relationship just because of my temporary timidity and low self-esteem?

Before going forward bravely, Chu Xu felt that the first thing he had to do was to determine whether Yuan Jie was gay or heterosexual... If he had not yet determined his sexual orientation, he would confess to Yuan Jie. It's too embarrassing and embarrassing. At that time, I really don't even have to be friends.

Therefore, from that day on, Chu Xu began a long process of probing whether Yuan Jie was heterosexual or homosexual...

They often tease Yuan Jie intentionally or unintentionally, and they seduce Yuan Jie. Either they accidentally touch Yuan Jie's hand while doing housework together, or they suddenly reach out to touch Yuan Jie's forehead, euphemistically saying that his hair is messed up. Help him stroke it, or just scratch the other person's itch unexpectedly, pretending to be playful...

After such a series of things, Chu Xu didn't know whether Yuan Jie was gay or not.

He decided that Yuan Jie's reaction was really cute.

Every time I moved the other party and made contact with the other party's skin, although Yuan Jie didn't show it on the face, Chu Xu keenly noticed that the base of the other party's ears were red.

It's so innocent that it doesn't look like a modern person.

Well, the veteran cadre must be a virgin... Chu Xu thought so as he looked at Yuan Jie's profile.

In order to test whether Yuan Jie is gay, Chu Xu even tried playing an A movie or a G movie in front of him inadvertently, but Yuan Jie’s ears would burn even after a brief skin contact. Afterwards, the reactions were all mediocre, and she didn't say anything, and reminded Chu Xu: "Look at these things less, because watching too much is not good for your health."

Now... Chu Xu no longer suspects that he is an ancient girl with yellow flowers.

Chu Xu suspects that he has a cold personality.

Didn't respond to any movies.