Chapter 347 The Most Handsome Man in the World
On January 15, the crew of the long-awaited "Eternal Love" held a start-up ceremony at Xiangshan Film and Television City.
It was winter at the time. Although Xiangshan was in Zhejiang Province, which was in the south, it was still cold.
Moreover, the coldness in the south in winter is different from that in the north. It is a damp and cold kind of weather that is more difficult to endure.
The main creative staff of the crew, wrapped in cotton coats and down jackets, began the process of the opening ceremony under the command of the director and staff.
Gu Wei, with a traditional man's bun hairstyle and wrapped in a black cotton coat, stood in the crowd.
Although the makeup and clothes are so tacky, but combined with Gu Wei's figure and looks, it still feels like a fashion week new product launch. What a damn fashion sense.
Having the same look as him are Zhang Zhiyao who plays "Shangshen Zhe Yan", and other male actors who have roles today.
The makeup and styling for male actors in costume dramas is no less than that for female actors, especially the hairstyle. The first thing Gu Wei and his colleagues do when they arrive on set in the morning is to put on makeup. This look has to last for a whole day and cannot be easily ruined.
Gu Wei and Zhang Zhiyao are also semi-acquaintances. They met when they were filming "Gu Jian Qi Tan" in 2013.
At that time, Zhang Zhiyao played Gu Wei's master "Ziyin Zhenren", but he was an actor from Hong Kong and Taiwan. When he was on the crew, he got along well with Chen Weiting, Gillian Chung and others, and he and Gu Wei were just ordinary working acquaintances.
Now, more than two years have passed, and the two are working together again. Gu Wei has risen from a fledgling new actor in "Gu Jian" to the most popular male star in the domestic entertainment industry.
The filming of "Eternal Love" has started now, and Gu Wei is the leading actor and producer. Although the director has the most say in the crew, he is actually working for Gu Wei, and he is the real boss.
Zhang Zhiyao knew that most of the crew members and actors were employees of his company.
He was also deeply moved by this.
It has been 19 years since Zhang Zhiyao filmed his first movie in 1997. He has witnessed the rise of some big stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and he himself was once a popular handsome young actor.
But he had never seen any star like Gu Wei, who could star in one hit TV series after another in just over two years.
I have also grown from a new actor to a top star in the entertainment industry and the boss of a film and television company.
The big stars in Hong Kong, such as Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, etc., all of them have accumulated more than ten years or even longer to reach the top of the entertainment industry, set up their own companies, and complete the transformation from actors to capitalists.
Gu Wei's growth rate is really too exaggerated for an old man like him who has been working in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years!
Gu Wei didn't expect that his "old friend" Zhang Zhiyao would have such a psychological activity. He put his hands into his sleeves, like an old farmer from Northeast China, and chatted with Yang Mi and Reba beside him.
"Sister Mi, I think Mr. Zeng should thank me very much!
When I looked up, I saw that except for me, the male lead, all the other members of our crew were actors from your Jiaxing.
Good man, you see, I told you to give priority to your company’s actors, but you’ve squeezed in all the artists in the company.”
Yang Mi rolled his eyes at him and raised his chin in the other direction.
"Ms. Zeng is over there, go talk to her, maybe she'll arrange your favorite show for you if she's in a good mood.
Anyway, there are a lot of young and beautiful girls in Jiaxing.
Right, Reba?"
Reba, who was listening to Gu Wei and Yang Mi chatting without interrupting, felt a little embarrassed when her boss suddenly mentioned her.
"What is it, Miss Mi?"
She was wearing a long yellow down coat, her hair had been styled into the hairstyle of "Bai Fengjiu" in the TV series, and her face was partially made up. She already had the feeling of the little fox in "Eternal Love" that Gu Wei remembered, and was very beautiful.
"Ahem~ Sister Mi, be careful or I'll sue you for defamation!
What is my favorite show?
I just said it casually. After all, I am a major shareholder of our company and one of the bosses of these artists. It is my duty to help them perform.
Don’t you think so, Reba?
Gu Wei said this sanctimoniously, still wondering in his heart whether what Yang Mi said was true or not, and whether Zeng Jia could really arrange it?
"Ah, yes, right~"
Reba felt that it was a mistake for her to stand there. Two bosses were chatting and she was standing next to them, so she must be the one who suffered the most.
The drama "Eternal Love" is jointly produced by Weiming Tianxia and Jiaxing Media, and the producers are Gu Wei and Zeng Jia.
Except for some close associates brought by director Lin Yufen, the rest of the staff on site are employees of Gu Wei's company. The main actors are basically artists from [Jaywalk Media]. Only a few roles are found outside because there are no suitable ones, such as Zhang Zhiyao.
At the opening ceremony, except for Huang Mengying who played "Su Jin" and Zhang Binbin who played "Li Jing" because they were filming "Princess Agents" and had not yet joined the crew, all other artists from "Jaywalk Media" were present regardless of the size of their roles.
Zhu Xudan, who played the role of "Xuannv", and Dai Si, who played the role of "Yanzhi", the princess of the Winged Clan, stood on the edge of the crowd. Although they had no scenes today, they were required by the company to show up at the opening ceremony.
They both graduated from the Central Academy of Drama. Dai Si was in the 11th grade, and Zhu Xudan was one grade younger than her. They were both small artists at the lowest level in Jiaxing Media, so they had a good relationship.
"Looks like I'll have to call Reba Sister when I see her in the company from now on!"
Dai Si looked at Gu Wei, Yang Mi and Reba standing together and chatting in the crowd, and said with jealousy.
“There’s nothing I can do. She’s already valued by Sister Mi, and now Mr. Gu also values her.
I heard that in this drama "Eternal Love", Mr. Gu has assigned her to play the second female lead.
You have also read the script. The character of the second female lead is very outstanding, and she has a separate emotional line with the second male lead.
This drama is a fantasy drama starring Mi Jie and Gu Wei Er. It is 100% sure to be a hit. When the time comes, Reba will take advantage of this opportunity and soar to the sky."
Zhu Xudan saw it more clearly, but precisely because she saw it clearly, her envy and jealousy of Reba was no less than that of others.
Everyone in Jiaxing knew that Gu Wei had chosen Reba to play "Bai Fengjiu". Of course, except for Yang Mi, these actresses were all envious of Reba.
At this time, Reba, who was looking like a poor little thing beside Gu Wei and Yang Mi, probably didn't realize that she had always been jealous of her best friend Nazha's good fortune, and she didn't know that she was also the object of others' envy.
"Naza from Mr. Gu's company is also from the frontier. She has become a huge star with the drama Love O2O, and he is also looking after Dilraba.
You said that Mr. Gu only likes beauties from border areas, but you are also a beauty from border areas, so why don’t you see Mr. Gu looking at you differently? "
Zhu Xudan looked at Dai Si beside him and analyzed with some doubts.
Dai Si was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, and is a traditional Uyghur beauty.
In fact, Dai Si had also thought about what Zhu Xudan said when he was alone, and even planned to take the initiative to find Mr. Gu to promote himself, maybe the other party would like this style of his.
But she couldn't say that in front of her best friend.
"How can I compare with Nazha, she is so beautiful, even Reba is better than me in appearance.
Maybe Mr. Gu thinks Reba has more potential, just like Sister Mi does."
"Ah~ I don't know when people like us can make it in Jiaxing."
Zhu Xudan sighed and looked at the man next to Yang Mi and Reba in a daze.
The crew's opening ceremony in the morning was very simple, with a red banner that read "Good luck to the crew of the TV series "Eternal Love"."
Below was a long table covered with a red cloth, on which was placed a large incense burner and several plates of tribute fruits around it.
Next to the table was a camera covered with a red cloth.
Director Lin took the lead and led all the crew members to worship the incense burner, and then together with Gu Wei and Yang Mi, they uncovered the red cloth covering the camera.
The event ended with everyone taking a group photo together.
The crew really didn't want to make a big fuss. The media was not notified and the scene was very simple. They just planned to start filming as a gesture.
However, at this time, Gu Wei and Yang Mi's movie "The Blade of the Assassin 2" was still in theaters, and "Eternal Love" was the second fantasy drama they collaborated on.
With the hit drama "Gu Jian Qi Tan" in 2014 as a precedent, "Eternal Love" has been very popular since the release of the actors' makeup photos.
Fans of Gu Wei and Yang Mi, as well as fans of the drama "Gu Jian Qi Tan", are closely following the developments of this TV series, and the media in the circle are no exception.
For example, as the crew started filming today, many media outlets spontaneously came to Xiangshan Film and Television City early in the morning without any notification.
When the crew saw that the media had arrived, they didn't want to stop them from entering. After all, the opening ceremony was not a TV series shoot, and the media were usually allowed to enter and take pictures. After all, it could also help promote the TV series.
The opening ceremony ended quickly. The crew did not arrange any interviews. At most, they asked the media to take a few more photos. But even so, everyone was very satisfied. There will be headlines in the entertainment section tomorrow.
The filming officially began and the crew was divided into two groups, A and B.
Group A was directed by Director Lin Yufen himself and was responsible for filming the scenes of the two male and female protagonists, Yang Mi and Gu Wei.
Group B is led by executive director Yu Cuihua, who specializes in filming the scenes involving "Bai Fengjiu" and "Emperor Donghua".
Eternal Love is a truly big-budget TV series, costing hundreds of millions of yuan. The crew spent a lot of money to build 70 scenes of various types in Xiangshan Film and Television City, with a set area of up to 90,000 square meters.
It is expected that more than 1,500 scenes will be filmed, and a studio area of nearly 40,000 square meters will be requisitioned. Thousands of cast and crew members will be involved in the filming.
The crew specially invited the art director of "The Grandmaster", William Chang Suk Ping, and Zhang Shijie's team to be in charge of costume design. They designed 130 character looks for the entire TV series and produced more than 1,400 costumes.
Chen Haozhong, the art director of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", will also serve as the art director so that the TV series can finally present all the magnificent scenery imagined by book fans.
Group A filming location.
The staff are still setting up the venue.
Gu Wei and Yang Mi have already put on their makeup and changed into their costumes.
In the original novel of "Eternal Love", the heroine "Bai Qian" played by Yang Mi was the Princess of Qingqiu at the beginning, and later the Queen of Qingqiu, a nine-tailed white fox, the most beautiful woman in the world.
To be honest, Yang Mi performed well. Not only was her acting impeccable, but director Lin Yufen also made her look extremely beautiful. The audience agreed that she was the most stunning beauty in the world.
The male protagonist "Ye Hua", who has a tragic love story with "Bai Qian" for three lifetimes, is the grandson of the Emperor of Heaven and the prince of the Celestial Clan. He has a noble status and is known as the most handsome man in the world.
The original novel describes "Ye Hua" as having picturesque eyebrows, jet-black hair, and a handsome appearance. When he smiles, it seems as if the three thousand worlds are shining together.
The looks of both the male and female protagonists are top-notch.
However, the acting skills of "Ye Hua" played by Zhao Youting in the original version were acceptable, but his appearance was far from good.
Netizens joked that a poster of him wearing black clothes and with disheveled hair looked like "the most powerful female ghost in the world."
His appearance is somewhat similar to the villain "Wu Tian" in "Journey to the West Sequel".
After the TV series was released, some fans of Zhao Youting even designed a word to praise him, called "plastic surgery-like acting skills."
Although people praised him for his acting skills, even his own fans admitted that he is indeed not handsome at all, and his acting skills make up for his lack of good looks.
Especially in the drama "Eternal Love", many male characters look more handsome after being made up with that kind of elegant temperament, such as Gao Weigang's "Emperor Donghua" and Zhang Zhiyao's "God Zheyan", which further highlights Zhao Youting's shortcomings in appearance.
I have to say that later, when "Eternal Love" became a hit, the male lead was criticized for being ugly, which was a pity for the TV series.
Now, Gu Wei's version has no such concerns at all.
Even without makeup, he looks significantly different from the other male actors in the crew. After makeup, he looks like the most handsome man in the world, as if he walked out of a book.
"Tsk tsk, although this isn't the first time I've seen it, every time I film with you up close I can't help but sigh, your face is one of the best among male actors.
They are both handsome, but Ye Hua's costume is more elegant than Bai Li Tu Su's when we worked together on Swords of Legends.
Before the filming started, Yang Mi looked Gu Wei up and down, patted his chest and touched his shoulders, and praised him.
"Normally, no. 3 in the world. Sister Mi, you are so good at talking. Please talk more in the future~"
Gu Wei accepted Yang Mi's compliment with a carefree attitude.
"You gasp when I say you're fat!"
Yang Mi patted him on the chest unhappily.
Gu Wei looked at Yang Mi, who was wearing a plain ancient costume, with her hair tied up in a traditional ancient lady's style, parted in the middle at the front.
"This makeup look is very beautiful, but the hairline is a little receding. I should ask the makeup artist to fix it."
Gu Wei looked down at Yang Mi and said with a smile.
"I praise you, and you insult me, right?"
Yang Mi pinched her waist and pretended to kick Gu Wei.
Gu Wei dodged with a smile.
The two of them exchanged a few more words, and Yang Mi turned around to find a makeup artist to do her hair.
Despite the fuss, she still listened to Gu Wei's advice.
(End of this chapter)
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