Chapter 235
With her current achievements, 27 is still too young
If filming is a game of passing levels, with different levels depending on the content of the script, then Ling Sui's goal is not only to pass all the levels, but also to pass them with full stars, and not to miss any hidden easter eggs and rewards in each level.
This is the self-cultivation of the Queen of Rolls - when she trained and adjusted repeatedly for several days for the singing and dancing scenes, and stood in front of the camera again, her performance amazed everyone in the crew.
What Ling Sui wanted, Ling Sui got. The perseverance of Chinese women always makes Westerners admire them.
In the camera, she is like a free bird, and the mysterious castle is a vast forest. Even if there is a big tree with tangled roots and dense branches in front of her, she can still nimbly overcome the obstacles and fly high.
This is the feeling given by Ling Sui's dance steps. The director noticed that her movements were slightly different from the teaching version.
"This is the change I wanted to make." Ling Suisui shared her idea with the director. "The original dance steps were too powerful, but Belle's body size doesn't give her an advantage in front of the beast. There's an old Chinese saying that goes 'a little force can move a lot of weight.' I want to show Belle's dexterity and agility, which is the secret to her defeating the beast."
"Strength is not the only criterion for being strong. Even if Belle doesn't have big muscles, she is still strong."
The director liked her speech very much and appreciated her attitude towards the role even more.
In fact, the original dance steps were easier for Ling Suisui. Her martial arts skills are fully worthy of the label of "martial arts actress". Showing strength is her comfort zone, and this is also her advantage over other actresses.
But her consideration in performance is always the role first, rather than using the role to show her own charm and talent in a certain aspect. This problem is not limited to the domestic entertainment industry, it is also rampant in Hollywood, where actors seem to be playing themselves over and over again. Once the audience has formed a fixed image of him/her in their minds, they turn around and complain about the difficulty of transformation.
Ling Sui is different. The director has seen several of her works. The subject matter of the scripts she has chosen in recent years covers a very wide range. The most terrifying thing is that she has completed them all excellently.
For an actress like this, who can restrict her future? "Beauty and the Beast" is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for others, but for Ling Suisui, it is just a new starting point for her career to take off.
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The shooting period of "Beauty and the Beast" was about four months. After all, there are a lot of special effects in the film, so it takes longer than the TV series.
This also means that Ling Sui will celebrate her birthday on the set.
This was not uncommon for her. Not to mention her birthday, she probably wouldn't be able to make it back to China for the New Year. Ling Sui was ready to celebrate the New Year with the overseas Chinese working in the crew and watch the Spring Festival Gala together.
She doesn't take her birthday very seriously, but people in China are very active in celebrating their birthdays. They first contacted the studio and wanted to organize a birthday support for Ling Sui, so that she could feel the warmth from her motherland while filming overseas.
But the proposal was rejected by the team because DeLand would not allow it. The confidentiality requirements for the work "Beauty and the Beast" are very strict. None of the material photos that have been circulated on the Internet so far can clearly capture the face, and the audience cannot even tell whether this is the actor himself.
Even if the person in the photo is wearing a costume, he or she may be a stand-in specially hired by Durand. These stand-ins never appear in front of the camera, and their main job is to confuse the paparazzi.
Therefore, forget about live support. Even if fans are wealthy and willing to buy a plane ticket to the United States, it would be difficult to see Ling Sui.
But it doesn't matter. Suisi didn't have high hopes for this plan in the first place, so if it fails, it fails. They still have Plan B.
There are so many wealthy women in the 18-year-old circle that there is no need for large-scale fundraising. A dozen wealthy female fans arranged birthday celebrations on big screens in squares in major cities across the United States, and also set up drone and fireworks shows a few hundred meters away from the filming location.
This distance will not affect the filming of the crew, and will also allow Ling Suisui to feel the fans' love.
The performance was a success and Ling Sui was very touched, but if there was anyone who was dissatisfied with this birthday support, it would probably be the large number of Sui's fans.
——What they were dissatisfied with was why the rich lady fans got the job done without saying a word and didn’t give everyone a chance to participate!
This is not the first time. The word "fund-raising" is very distant to young people. When other big fans ran away with the money, many young people had never even seen what the fundraising link looked like.
The fan club is also helpless. Ling Sui and the team do not allow the link to be opened. Things like drones are all made by the rich fans themselves. They can even buy Ferraris on a regular basis, so this little money is no problem for them.
Ling Suisui Studio also stated the reason why fundraising is not allowed a long time ago.
Once the link is opened, comparison may arise, and some younger fans will spend money impulsively. The huge amount of money in the account is also a huge test of human nature. In order to avoid all these risks, the team must of course switch from the source.
In addition to the love that rich ladies showed to Ling Suisui, local international student fans also arranged a food truck and gave gifts to all crew members - cookies and desserts made with the Q version of Ling Suisui as the mold.
These desserts are filled with a lot of sugar. Zhuo Siyu took a bite and didn’t dare to give it to Ling Suisui because it was too sweet. But this sweetness is just right for Americans, they even add sugar to white rice.
Oh my God, when Ling Suisui saw this way of eating for the first time, he instantly understood why Italians refused to add pineapple on pizza.
The small gifts prepared by the Liuzi were well received in the crew. Many staff members went to Ling Sui to thank her and wish her a happy birthday.
Although they don’t really understand this cheering culture, and why fans would give gifts to other people on Ling Sui’s birthday...but the desserts are really delicious, thanks to the lovely fans.
After her birthday, Ling Sui became twenty-seven years old. She blew out the candles on the cake, then scooped a little bit of cream from the edge with a fork and put it into her mouth, and that was it.
Even though in the eyes of many people, 27 is already approaching 30, Ling Sui does not have any age anxiety. In fact, twenty-seven is still too young to match her current achievements.
She won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress, the Magnolia Award for Best Actress, and the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress. She has a cumulative box office of 6 billion yuan, and her works have topped the charts in terms of annual viewing volume for four consecutive years... Who can make her anxious? She has always been the one who puts pressure on others.
The crew gave her half a day off today, so Ling Sui took the time to go over the project script in her mailbox.
It is no exaggeration to say that any good script for a domestic entertainment TV series will be given to her first, and only if she does not accept it will they consider other people. After all, considering her performance, star power, audience appeal and other factors, she is in the top tier among actresses.
Of course, there is a prerequisite here that the setting of the heroine can match her status. If she is too young or too old, there is no need to watch Ling Sui.
However... Ling Sui feels that she and the project producer have different psychological ranges for the age gap between actors and characters. She thinks ten years upward and six or seven years downward is enough, but why are there still people handing her scripts for high school students?
Zhuo Siyu said quickly: "You don't look like you are 27 at all. People would believe you if you said you were 17. There are still many people in the crew who think you are a minor."
...This, Ling Suisui thinks is an exaggeration. Even if Asian faces appear small, they won’t suddenly appear ten years younger.
She does not think that "looking childish" is a compliment, nor does she agree with the idea that one should no longer mention a specific age after the age of xx. Women have unique charms at every age, so just let nature take its course.
"Someone asked me to play the role of a mother." Ling Suisui was happy when he saw the synopsis of the script, "And it's a fashionable hot mom in an urban drama. If the plot is not very cliché, or if it's about the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the husband cheating, and the heroine beating the mistress, and the character setting is just a shell, I really want to try it."
To be honest, Ling Suisui is not worried at all that playing the role of a mother will affect her "girlishness". Let's leave those girl roles to younger actors. She doesn't lack these resources, so why bother competing with newcomers? After all, she doesn't intend to be the queen of idol dramas.
This is the confidence of a top actor - if you ask Ling Suisui when he feels most like a superstar, it must be when he is choosing a script. She can play whatever role she wants, and even if she doesn't like something, she can have it tailor-made for her.
The quality of this batch of scripts is pretty good. There are one or two that make her slightly moved. She marked them out and Feng Yang will follow up.
She was not in a hurry to add them to her to-do list, because after she expressed her intention to cooperate, the two sides still had to conduct a series of negotiations on issues such as the content of the script, the main creative team, the shooting time, etc. As long as one link was not negotiated, the cooperation might be ruined.
Ling Sui's current reputation in the circle has added a label of being very picky and difficult to deal with for her team, because Feng Yang helped her negotiate more than a dozen projects this year, but the number of projects that were finally cooperated with was zero.
However, precisely because she does not accept roles easily, advertisers are more enthusiastic about her than before. The reason is simple. Brands believe that an actor who values his reputation will never let their investment go to waste. Investing effectively in one film is better than wasting money on ten films.
Advertisers who are not short of money like to follow Ling Suisui, which makes the film and television industry love and hate Ling Suisui. So, even if her vision is ridiculously high and her team has a strong attitude, there are still a lot of good projects flowing to her, and they still have to pray to God that she will be interested.
——Of course, Ling Suisui felt that they were using the wrong method. Instead of spending the time and energy burning incense everywhere, wouldn't it be better to use it to polish the content of the script?
Sorry, she is qualified to make decisions as long as she wants to.
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