Chapter 522 A Whale Falls

The next day, the news that Gu Wei's new drama had started filming was reported by the media, and unsurprisingly attracted considerable attention online. However, just as Yang Zi had expected, many media outlets expressed doubts about whether she could play the female lead in Gu Wei's new drama.

After all, no matter in movies or TV series, the actresses who worked with Gu Wei were all popular beauties. Even those who were not very popular at the beginning, like Nazha, were definitely a good match for Gu Wei in terms of appearance.

Yang Zi debuted as a child star. She played "Xiaoxue" in Home With Kids and was very cute. But when she grew up, many people felt that she was not pretty and there was a big gap between her and other female stars of the same age.

Not to mention the older post-85 flowers, the female stars born in the 1990s who are now recognized as beautiful in the domestic entertainment industry include Nazha and Zhang Tianai from Gu Wei's company, Di Lieba from Jiaxing, Jin Chen from Tangren, and Li Qin, a new star from Rong Xinda, etc.

Compared with them, Yang Zi's appearance is indeed a bit ordinary.

[Yang Zi and Gu Wei are acting in an idol drama, but their looks don't match, how can the effect be good? ]

"Xiaoxue" is fine with "Liu Xing", but pairing her with Gu Wei is too forced!

Having read the original novel "Honey Stewed Squid", I have no problem at all with Gu Wei playing the aloof male "Han Shangyan". Although Yang Zi is a bit ordinary, she is also very cute. It is a story of a girl chasing a boy, so it seems very reasonable.

[I have only watched Yang Zi's drama "Home with Kids". I was deeply impressed by "Xiaoxue" and can't imagine how she would perform in an idol drama?

But Gu Wei's dramas have never disappointed me. No matter what, I look forward to their wonderful performances!

I think Yang Zi's performance in "Ode to Joy" is quite good. While she's not a stunning beauty, she's definitely not ugly either. Why do people always call her an ordinary girl? She's adorable and very likeable.

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There was some controversy online, but it was not a big deal. After all, the TV series had just started filming. Even though netizens had some concerns about Yang Zi, most viewers were still looking forward to the show based on their trust in Gu Wei.

And just three days after the filming of "Go Go Squid!" started, a bombshell news was revealed online.

All netizens' attention was drawn to it, and no one paid attention to the trivial matter of Gu Wei and Yang Zi starting filming their new drama.

The famous paparazzi Zhuo Wei posted a set of photos online, showing the whole process of Bai Baihe traveling in Thailand with a young man.

Of course, this trip was a very intimate one, and her finger movements were extremely prominent.

Netizens who saw the photos were stunned.

You have to know that before this, Bai Baihe was the box office queen among domestic actresses and a leader in chick flicks. Her image was that of a good wife and a good mother, and she and her husband Chen Yufan would show their love from time to time.

Once this news came out, her image was completely ruined.

However, the day after the photos were exposed, Bai Baihe's crisis public relations began to take effect. Her husband, no, it should be said that her ex-husband Chen Yufan made a video to publicly respond, saying that he and Bai Baihe had agreed to divorce in 2015.

But even so, this incident dealt a devastating blow to her career, which was on the rise.

Although she did not violate any laws or disciplines and could not be considered a bad artist, her bad image in the minds of the audience still caused her to lose many film and television resources that should have belonged to her.

Investors and producers will not take the risk of finding an actor with poor audience appeal to star in their own movies. The risk is too great.

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On the set of [Dear, Loved], after finishing the morning shoot, Gu Wei and Yang Zi were having lunch at a small table in the lounge area.

Although it is also a boxed lunch, it is specially customized from a nearby big hotel. It contains 4 dishes and a soup, a combination of meat and vegetables. The dishes are brightly colored and exquisitely presented, which makes people's appetites whetted just by looking at them, not to mention the desserts and cut fruits after the meal.

"If she hadn't been photographed this time, I don't know how long this good wife image would have lasted."

Yang Zi was eating while looking at the news on his phone, and was amazed.

After sliding her fingers across her phone a few times, she suddenly looked up and asked Gu Wei, "Didn't you work with her on Monster Hunt before? According to what Chen Yufan said, they were already divorced at that time. Is that true?"

Yang Zi's gossip spirit was burning.

"How would I know? We were just filming together, and she wouldn't tell me about her family affairs. We just have an ordinary working relationship."

Gu Wei raised his head slightly and thought for a moment.

"However, from what I observed at the time, even if they hadn't divorced, they were still living apart and each was doing their own thing."

"What do you think of Bai Baihe? Her movies are all good and her acting is good. Now that this has happened, her career is probably going to be in tatters."

"White lily, quite tasty." Gu Wei savored it.

"What?" Yang Zi didn't hear clearly.

"Uh~ I mean, her acting is very good. The characters she plays always have a special flavor and are very likable!"

Yang Zi nodded in agreement.

"I think so too. I have always regarded her as my goal to catch up with. I will be very satisfied if I can achieve her current results in the future."

Gu Wei looked Yang Zi up and down.

"What are you looking at?"

"Your current acting skills are good enough for TV dramas, but you're still a little short of achieving something like Bai Baihe in the film industry."

Yang Zi was born as a child star, and acting since she was young allowed her to master her own set of acting methods.

This was helpful for her later performance in TV dramas, allowing her to act in idol dramas with ease and the results were very good.

But acting in a movie is different from acting in a TV series, and it requires the actors to have more delicate acting skills.

There is actually a big difference between the big screen and the small screen. If you are used to the acting methods of TV dramas, you will not be able to adapt to the film environment.

This is also the case. Many female stars born after 1985, such as Yang Mi and Zhao Liying, have starred in many popular TV series and are very famous, but once they start filming movies, they perform poorly and disappoint the audience.

Movie stars like Ni Ni and Zhou Dongyu often don't get very good results when they condescend to act in TV series.

"I know. I'm still young, so I have a lot of room for improvement!"

"I remember you and I are the same age, both born in 1992, but you seem to be a few months younger than me."

"Do you think everyone is as perverted as you? You can act in anything at such a young age, and the most outrageous thing is that you can even be a director!

I just hope to learn slowly and be a good actor."

"I'll take it as a compliment." Gu Wei touched his nose.

"You won every possible award for your 2015 drama Nirvana in Fire, right?"

"I didn't win the Feitian Award for Best Actor, losing to Chen Baoguo, who won the Best Actor award at the Magnolia and Golden Eagle Awards last year.

As for other awards, I won’t mention them because their value is far inferior to these three.

It’s a pity to say that I usually shoot mostly idol dramas. I didn’t win the Grand Slam with Nirvana in Fire, so it will be difficult for me to win the Feitian Best Actor Award in the future.”

Gu Wei sighed in a pretentious manner, and Yang Zi was so angry at his Versailles look.

"Okay, stop showing off in front of me. Isn't it enough that I know you're awesome?"

Yang Zi patted Gu Wei's arm lightly.

"You've already been crowned the best actor in the TV drama field. When do you plan to star in a film that's going to win an award, like Best Actor?"

Gu Wei touched his chin.

“I haven’t thought about it yet. The movies I’m acting in now are basically all invested by my own company. They are the number one box office hits and they are all commercial films.

No matter how well a film like this performs, the chances of it winning an award are slim.

As for acting in art films just for the sake of winning awards, I have no such plans.

Like you said, you are still young and there will be plenty of opportunities in the future.

Just like when I first starred in Nirvana in Fire, I never thought that the role of "Mei Changsu" would win me so many awards.

Let’s take it one step at a time.”

Gu Wei's tone was relaxed, and he didn't have any specific plans. It seemed like he was just going with the flow and had no ambition.

However, Yang Zi knew that Gu Wei had everything he needed. He had acting skills that were good enough to win the Best Actor award. As long as he asked, many scripts for art films would come to him and ask him to play the leading role.

Gu Wei has every reason to do whatever he wants. He is not in a hurry. Whenever he wants the title, it will be as easy as taking something out of his pocket to get the award.

"In the entire domestic entertainment industry, you are the only one who has this confidence."

Although Yang Zi is a good friend of Gu Wei, she is still very envious of him. It is because she is close to Gu Wei and knows him very well that she realizes how big the gap between people is.

If an ordinary person has Gu Wei's appearance, even if he has poor acting skills and is not good at anything, it is not difficult for him to become a top star and he will always have his own place in the entertainment industry.

The key is that Gu Wei is not only handsome and has good acting skills, but he is also very talented. He has certain attainments in music and directing, and most importantly, he is very good at making money.

An ordinary person would be considered excellent if he had just one of these advantages, but now they are all concentrated on Gu Wei.

Sometimes Yang Zi would wonder if the purpose of people like Gu Wei was to attack ordinary people like him.

"Don't talk about me. Aren't you nominated for Best Supporting Actress at this year's Magnolia Awards? Maybe you'll win an award."

Speaking of this, Yang Zi became excited. The Magnolia Awards is held every year and will be held in Shanghai in more than a month this year.

Now the shortlist has been announced, and she has been nominated for the Best Supporting Actress for her outstanding performance in "Ode to Joy".

"Do you think I can do it? Besides me, the Best Supporting Actress award also includes Wang Ziwen who played "Qu Xiaoxiao", Guan Xiaotong who was nominated for [Mr. Good], and Dilraba Dilmurat who played the second female lead in your drama [Eternal Love].

The most important thing is that although Zeng Lijie played the female lead in "Ode to Joy", she played the supporting female role "Gao Xiaoqin" in "In the Name of People", and she was also nominated for this award.

You also know how popular In the Name of People is right now, and Sister Li’s acting is also very good. I feel that her chances of winning an award are much higher than mine.”

The more Yang Zi analyzed, the less confident he became.

Gu Wei smiled.

"Don't worry, [In the Name of People] is destined not to win any awards due to its subject matter, and Sister Li's nomination for Best Supporting Actress is just for show.

Reba doesn't have to worry. If she wins the Golden Eagle Award, she might win the Best Supporting Actress. The Magnolia Award probably won't be given to a costume drama.

Your only real competitors are Wang Ziwen and Guan Xiaotong, so this award will most likely go to one of you three."

"Really? According to what you said, my chances of winning the prize are quite high." After hearing Gu Wei's analysis, Yang Zi became happy again.

Unlike Gu Wei, Yang Zi has been filming for so many years, and all he has won before are the Best Popular Group at the Quality Festival (the five beauties of Ode to Joy) and the Popular Artist at Weibo Night (won with Zhang Yishan and Wang Jiaer). These are all just some small awards with little value.

She is very eager to win the Magnolia Award, an authoritative award in the field of domestic TV dramas.

Yang Zi hopes to have long-term development in her acting career, so she also hopes to be recognized by professional awards.

In fact, Gu Wei was also nominated for this year's Magnolia Awards. He was nominated for Best Actor again for his role as "Ye Hua" in "Eternal Love".

We have to mention Da Mimi here. In a movie, the male lead and the second female lead were nominated for awards, but she, the female lead, did not receive any award. It can only be said that professionals still do not recognize her acting skills.

Of course, Gu Wei knew that although he was nominated again this year, he was destined to be a runner-up because of the subject matter.

He has seen the list of nominees for this year's "Best Actor": Chen Jianbin for "Chinese Style Relationship", Huang Lei for "A Little Separation", Sun Honglei for "Mr. Good" and Zhang Yi for "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky".

All of them are talented actors and have the ability to win awards.

Gu Wei’s acting skills are no worse than theirs, but he is acting in a costume idol drama, and his ceiling is there, so no matter how good his acting skills are, it’s useless.

An actor's acting skills are closely related to the film or TV series he is filming. For some dramas, the upper limit of the role is 100 points. If the actor has an acting skill of 80 points, the performance will be 80 points.

However, the upper limit of some roles is 60 points. Even if the acting skills are 80 points, the full performance is only 60 points.

The ceiling for idol dramas is very low, and the acting skills required of actors are also low. This is why many young actors start their careers by acting in idol dramas. The plots are simple, the actors have little room to perform, and the audience mainly looks at their faces.

Even if your acting skills are 100 points, the performance will only be 60 points. If someone else only has 50 points of acting skills, they won't look much worse than you.

Some realistic film and television dramas are different. The characters are more three-dimensional and profound, and there are many areas that can be explored. If your acting skills are 70 points, the effect will be 70 points, and if your acting skills are 90 points, the effect will be 90 points.

In this kind of film, ordinary audiences can also tell whether an actor’s performance is good or bad.

When Bai Baihe got into this situation, apart from her own agency and her ex-husband, there were not many people in the circle who really stood up to help her. Most of them just watched coldly and took advantage of her misfortune.

She has been very popular in the past two years, especially in the film industry, where she has almost monopolized all the resources for chick flicks.

Originally, there was also Wang Luodan as a substitute. The two are very similar in appearance and acting skills, and the audience has always compared the two.

However, after several of Wang's movies failed in succession, he could no longer keep up with Bai Baihe and was abandoned by capital and producers.

On the contrary, Bai Baihe's career has been steadily rising since the hit movie "Love is Not Blind", and it reached its peak after collaborating with Gu Wei on "Monster Hunt", and she has firmly established herself as the box office queen of the domestic entertainment industry.

You know, in the domestic film industry, except for romance films, in other slightly larger-budget films, female characters often only exist as vases.

The film industry and the TV drama industry are completely different.

The audience of TV dramas is mainly female, so many so-called female-led dramas have been born, and anti-drama female stars, mainly those born after 85, have emerged in the circle.

But the audience of movies is wider, and mainstream big-budget movies have always been mainly from a male perspective.

The so-called chick flicks are those few films where female characters are the true protagonists.

Bai Baihe has invisibly stood in opposition to many female stars in the circle who are determined to develop in the film industry.

Even if these female stars don't take any action, the agencies behind them don't mind giving them a push.

When a whale dies, all things come to life.

Now that Bai Baihe has fallen, the resources that were originally sought after her will naturally be divided up. As for whether they will fall on her own sister's head, it depends on each person's means.

If we were to say who was the happiest after Bai Baihe's incident, it would be Wang Luodan.

Just a few days after the incident broke out, Wang Luodan posted a picture of flowers blooming on a branch on his WeChat Moments, with the caption "Spring is here!"

A screenshot was taken by a caring netizen and posted online, and everyone commented on it.

Hello, Comrade Wang Baihe.

[That classmate Bai who looks a lot like you is dead. Keep up your reputation, it's up to you from now on!]

【Now it's finally your turn to turn things around! 】

[It feels like you can hear Wang's laughter all over the East Third Ring Road.]

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(End of this chapter)