Attack and suffer properly

Sure enough, when the door opened, he saw a handsome and familiar face.

"Sorry, the company has something to deal with temporarily. I'm late and keep you waiting. I'm really sorry."

Tang Junlin walked in, apologized for being late, then sat down next to Xiao Xiaodong, glanced at Ling Ri, and Zhuo Yan who was sitting next to him, his heart skipped a beat.

It's strange, why does this man have a feeling of deja vu, but he can't remember where he met him.

Noticing Tang Junlin's gaze, Ling Ri introduced them for them.

"Let me introduce him. He is my good friend Zhuo Yan. He is Boss Tang who I mentioned to you before and plans to invest in my drama."

"You are very discerning." Zhuo Yan stretched out his hand and shook Tang Junlin's hand.

"Thank you, I think so too." Tang Junlin shook hands with Zhuo Yan with a smile, and had a good impression of Zhuo Yan in his heart.

"I know Mr. Tang is very good at doing business. I don't know when you will be free. Let's sit down and talk to see if there is any opportunity for cooperation?" Zhuo Yan didn't seem to be polite.

For Zhuo Yan's invitation, Tang Junlin was a little surprised. He looked at the former and felt that he was not speaking politely, so he readily agreed.

After Tang Junlin arrived, Ling Ri asked the waiter to start serving the dishes.

While eating delicious dishes, several people chatted about the preparations for "Happy Street". Tang Junlin asked questions about the director and other actors, and Ling Ri answered them one by one.

Hearing that Ling Ri actually invited Director Zheng to film "Happy Street", Xiao Xiaodong has more confidence in this cooperation.

Director Zheng is a great director from Sanshi. He has shot many classic works, but as he got older, he also suffered from some physical problems. He retired five years ago.

"How did you invite Director Zheng to film this show?" Xiao Xiaodong was really curious.

Ling Ri didn't show off, and directly explained the whole story.

"Actually, he is my master. He knew that "Happy Street" was my first work, so he came out to help me check it out."

At this moment, he spoke calmly, as if it would be an easy task to convince Zheng Daoshan. In fact, in order to persuade the other party to agree to help him film this drama, he spent a lot of effort and even bought Mrs. Zheng helped, and Director Zheng was willing to let go.

"Then the other roles have already been decided?" Xiao Xiaodong asked again.

"Master introduced a few actors to me. I think it's okay. It's just that the role of the heroine has not been decided yet. I plan to hold an audition meeting. First, we can place advertisements to increase the popularity of our drama. Second, Come, I can find a suitable candidate." Ling Ri said his plan.

Xiao Xiaodong also felt that this method was feasible. After all, the fame of "Happy Street" is there, and there should be many female stars who will come to audition and advertise this drama by the way.

Although Xiao Xiaodong had expected that many people would come to audition, he did not expect that the female stars who came to participate would be so high-ranked. There were several first-tier and second-tier stars. But he stuffed people into the crew.

"I thought the company would look down on this drama." Xiao Xiaodong scratched his hair, a little confused about what the company thought.

Before, when Tan Yidong knew that "Happy Street" was just an online drama, he didn't say much about Xiao Xiaodong, but the contract had already been signed at that time, so it was hard to go back on his word.Now that he actually wants to plug people into the crew, his attitude has changed a bit.

Tan Yidong wasn't embarrassed at all, "Before, I didn't know that Director Zheng was the director of this movie. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have objected. Besides, the company has done a market survey and felt that this "Happy Street" must be You will be popular, and you won’t leave other people’s fields, and you are so familiar with Ling Ri, it shouldn’t be difficult to ask him to play a few roles for the company.”

Xiao Xiaodong shook his index finger, "Brother Tan, forgive me for being powerless. There is one thing I didn't tell you. In fact, I basically didn't get paid for filming this movie. The salary Ling Ri gave me was only enough to pay the company. That's all."

His salary as the male lead is only so small, in other words, the salary of other characters is naturally less, unless the company doesn't care about the salary, otherwise, it must be a waste of effort to take the opportunity to make a lot of money.

Tan Yidong stared blankly, for a moment he didn't know what to say to Xiao Xiaodong's behavior of doing nothing.

Call him self-assessment, but if this movie becomes popular, then he will get several times the current salary.

After a while, Tan Yidong spoke again.

"It's okay even if you don't receive a salary, as long as you can assign a few roles to the company's people."

Xiao Xiaodong pursed his lips, Tan Yidong talked about this, what else could he do, he had to say: "I will tell Ling Ri, but I can't guarantee whether he will agree to it or not."

Tan Yidong nodded understandingly, and asked Xiao Xiaodong to try his best to convince Ling Ri that he could negotiate any conditions he had.

Originally, Xiao Xiaodong thought that Tan Yidong was the only one who would not hesitate to take the film in order to fill the crew. After seeing Ling Ri, he found out that other companies had also approached him, and they also proposed not to charge the film, as long as the artists of their company had a part to play. .

"What's going on with them?" Xiao Xiaodong really can't figure it out, it's just an online drama, why these big-name entertainment companies are desperately stuffing people into the crew, is this "Happy Street" so attractive?

Of course, he is also optimistic about "Happy Street". In order to take over the filming of this film, he not only got zero pay, but also turned down other films, at least tens of millions of yuan less.

"Let's put it this way, with the big IP of "Happy Street" and the brand name of Director Zheng, this drama can be considered a stable profit. The question is how popular it is. This is an excellent publicity opportunity. How much resources are spent, now as long as you get a role in it, you have a chance to become popular. Such a good opportunity, not to mention no salary, is what everyone is willing to pay. Frankly speaking, if Ling Ri hadn’t insisted on using you, the role of male number one would still be worth it. It's not your turn."

Tan Yidong stretched out his hand and patted Xiao Xiaodong's shoulder. Sure enough, good intentions will be rewarded.

Afterwards, seeing how Ling Ri dealt with the stuffing of people into the crew by major agencies, Xiao Xiaodong felt that even if the show "Happy Street" hit the street, Ling Ri would definitely win a place in the entertainment circle.

Before, Ling Ri paid for the movie because he didn't want to be manipulated by the capital. Now that those big companies want to fill the crew, Xiao Xiaodong thought he would refuse, but he didn't expect that he would always come.

When Xiao Xiaodong discussed this matter with Tang Junlin, he felt that Ling Ri was unnecessary. Since he still accepted those people in the end, why should he reject those capitals in the first place, but Tang Junlin had a different opinion.

"This is different. If he had accepted the capital back then, Ling Ri would have been very passive and unable to make any decisions. Even if he made a compromise now, it was a compromise within the scope of his control. The overall situation is still under his control. .”

The development of the matter also confirmed Tang Junlin's opinion.