Chapter 92
From the outside, Fu Yongzhi seems to be a very amiable person. He is a bit fat and his face is not very good-looking. He cannot be a popular flower boy. He has always been positioned as a comedian. Su Ning has seen his audition and some of his previous performances.
His character in the drama is a good friend of the male protagonist. He has his own highlights. He is hardworking, kind-hearted, and hopeful and loyal no matter what the circumstances. However, he is not like that in person.
It wasn't obvious during the opening ceremony, he seemed to be quite cheerful and greeted everyone, but after staying here for a while, he started to become a little impatient.
Fu Yongzhi's previous scenes were all filmed in Hong Kong Island, where there is no snowy weather. Even if it was a bit hard in the studio, it wouldn't be that cold.
I could still bear it a few days ago, but it's becoming increasingly unbearable.
When Chen Zhaolan sent him here, he said it was a good resource and that he would be one of the leading actors. Fu Yongzhi did come, but he felt that the play was not satisfactory in every way.
They chose such a remote place to shoot, it's so rustic, and the other main actors aren't the most popular now. It's just a web drama, so it's unlikely to be a hit. If Fu Jing's movie hadn't been stuck and wasn't going well, he wouldn't have come here even if he was there to be a guest actor for a few minutes.
But Mr. Su seemed to take it very seriously and followed them all the time after the filming started. So when Su Ning was on the crew a few days ago, he was more restrained. But Su Ning left in the middle of the filming because the filming also required dealings with the locals.
Then he stopped hiding.
When Fu Yongzhi was acting, if he complained or said something impolite, Wen Zijing and Ji Xue would not argue with him. As long as the camera was turned on, he would cooperate. There are always people like this in the circle, and many people are used to it.
But when this person saw that no one in the group could do anything to him, he became more and more courageous.
At night, the male actors all lived in the same courtyard, and a separate room had been found for him.
This is just a small village, and with so many people in the crew, there are really limited houses. The lead actor, Wen Zijing, lives with other male actors, with just a simple partition in the middle.
It was already very late when I heard a quarrel nearby. It was Fu Yongzhi scolding his assistant.
It sounded like he thought the conditions were too bad. He even threw away the thermos and hot water bottle prepared in the farmyard, and cursed what the hell they were. After a while, people from the crew came and gave him some advice.
Director Ma of this drama is a good-tempered person. He specially gave him some of the heating equipment he brought with him, which calmed the situation down a bit.
Even without opening the doors and windows, Wen Zijing could hear the sound clearly. The person sharing the room with him was also a veteran actor from Hong Kong Island. He felt a little embarrassed and said to Wen Zijing, "Please bear with me. He is like this in the company. He has a temper like a young master."
"It's okay." Wen Zijing smiled, "Go to bed early, there's still a show tomorrow."
This matter tonight was barely over, but there was a scene the next morning at daybreak, which had to start shooting at 6:30 a.m. at the latest. The actors had to go to makeup and make preparations before 5 a.m., as time waited for no one.
Wen Zijing and Ji Xue got up early, and even the screenwriter Yan Lu arrived on time, but the entire crew waited until seven o'clock. The director had asked people to urge him several times, but it was not until after eight o'clock that Fu Yongzhi arrived on the scene. He had not changed his costume or put on makeup, and he came yawning.
There was no way we could shoot this scene because the weather wasn’t right, so we had to hurry and shoot other scenes.
Fu Yongzhi usually has a bad temper, and other crew members tolerate it, but now it has affected the filming, and it is a bit unbearable.
Fortunately, Su Ning came back that afternoon.
The director spoke to him directly about the issue, and Su Ning did not fool around and talked to Fu Yongzhi immediately.
After all, he was an investor, and Fu Yongzhi knew the relationship between Su Ning and the Shen family, so he listened to Su Ning. He was honest that night and got up early the next day to shoot the scene, which went smoothly.
As a result, Su Ning returned to Haicheng for company matters not long after. When he saw that the person who had spoken was gone, he returned to his old ways.
The entire director team had no choice but to call Su Ning. Su Ning was also stunned after hearing this. He rarely saw such a shameless person. He had clearly agreed before, but he really had something to do in the company and could not get there for a while, so he sent a vice president of the company to go over.
Guangying Entertainment now has many capable people, and this vice president is also a capable person, but everyone in the company knows the situation in Hong Kong Island, and they didn't do anything to Yongzhi, so they just scared him at the beginning.
After two days, this person became more and more outrageous.
First, he didn't show up on time for filming, and later he asked to live in the city, and refused to live in a farmhouse. The vice president, considering the Shen family's face, didn't want to make things difficult for Su Ning, so he tried his best to meet some of his requests.
The room in the courtyard where Fu Yongzhi lived was almost renovated for him, but some of his requests were too excessive and Guangying Entertainment was unable to agree to them.
As an actor, Jixue couldn't interfere with the crew management, but seeing that it was increasingly affecting the filming, even though she didn't want to disturb Su Ning any more, she couldn't stand it anymore.
This incident especially affected Yan Lu.
As a screenwriter, it is not easy for her to follow the crew all the time. She is such a young girl, and the crew respects her very much. As the third protagonist, Fu Yongzhi does not have that many roles.
To be precise, this play is an ensemble play in which the three of them are just the ones who string the story together. What is important is the process of acting with some experienced old actors. It is not the kind of drama with big protagonists as in the past.
But Fu Yongzhi wanted to add more scenes.
Before, he deliberately blocked other people's shots and added his own lines during the filming process. It seemed that he felt that his character was not eye-catching enough, so he called Yan Lu over while waiting for the next scene.
Yan Lu likes to squat in the corner with a small stool here. She is holding the script, still in a daze. When she hears someone calling her, she thinks he has questions about the script, so she walks over.
Fu Yongzhi said to her: "You are the screenwriter, right? So, add a fight scene for me here. I am pretty good at fighting scenes."
Yan Lu leaned over to take a look. The script was about them visiting the Willow Goddess Temple at night. The horror here was based on the atmosphere, relying on the scenes and settings. There was no so-called fighting scene. If he forced the scene in, it would be wrong. Of course, she disagreed.
"No, no." She said seriously, "You can't just add drama."
Her stuttering is less severe now and her speech is much smoother.
But Fu Yongzhi didn't listen to her. He snorted and said, "If you don't add me, I'll find someone else to add me. I know a lot of screenwriters."
It was just a matter of his words.
Yan Lu became a little angry when he said that.
"This is my play," she said, "You can't change it at will. I will definitely not agree to it."
Many screenwriters in the industry don't have much weight in their words. Fu Yongzhi was too lazy to talk to her. He looked down on this little stutterer. But Yan Lu was still a little stubborn and blocked him. Fu Yongzhi wanted to leave, and the country road was relatively narrow, so he reached out and pushed Yan Lu.
The little girl staggered and sat on the snow. She was obviously stunned for a moment and her eyes were a little dazed, but someone quickly came forward and helped her up.
“What are you doing!” Jixue patted the snow off Yan Lu’s body and glared at him, “How dare you push someone here!?”
Fu Yongzhi felt guilty for a while when facing this scene, and then he said confidently: "She blocked my way, blame her, how can you blame me? Go away, I have to go to film."
Yan Lu felt a little aggrieved after she stood up. She held Jixue's hand, leaned on her arms, watched Fu Yongzhi leave, and then whispered, "I don't want him to play my role anymore."
She has seen everything that has happened during this period, and she wrote this role with great care, as a brave and kind person. Even if the actor and the role are not exactly the same, such a person should not appear in this crew.
But Fu Yongzhi has a strong backing. Even if we don't consider the cooperation with the Shen family, people in the entertainment industry generally know his background. People have repeatedly talked to him about it before, and he always restrained himself a little, and then became more and more excessive.
This happened in the village, and there were no reporters or onlookers. There were only some elderly people in the village who didn't like to go out in the winter, so it was useless for the deputy general manager sent by Su Ning to come.
Yan Lu disagreed to add that scene, and the director knew how to add scenes casually under such circumstances. He didn't act well in the scene of visiting the temple at night. This was the highlight, and the director couldn't just fool around like that, so he had to shoot it over and over again. But it was only a little after nine and before ten, and he was yelling that he wanted to go back and rest.
At this point, even the good-tempered director couldn't stand it anymore and said angrily, "Why are you going back? We haven't even filmed half of the scenes tonight. You keep delaying the progress of the crew like this. Everyone is waiting with you, and you..."
"What's wrong with me?!"
Fu Yongzhi also had a temper: "Do you think I want to stay in this crappy crew? I've already given you a lot of face! Go back now!"
He signaled his assistant to pack his things, and was about to leave regardless of anyone trying to stop him. As a result, as soon as he walked out of the small door of the temple, he saw Su Ning standing there.
Fu Yongzhi was stunned for a moment, with a look of embarrassment on his face, and called out, "Boss Su."
He had heard that this person had a very gentle temper, and this was also the evaluation given by Chen Zhaolan when he came back from the capital. He had been very considerate of him before, but when he saw Mr. Su's expression, he could not walk at once and stood there awkwardly.
Su Ning didn't look at him. He had been here for a while and had been watching at the door for a while. Now he walked past him and entered the temple. He said to the director, "I'm sorry, Director Ma, I'm causing you trouble."
Director Ma, who usually has a good temper, was so angry that he couldn't speak. When he saw him coming, he just waved his hand.
"I know everything," Su Ning said. "I also want to apologize to everyone. This is my fault. I didn't provide a good creative environment for everyone. I'm really sorry that such cold weather delayed everyone's filming."
He really has a good temper as the outside world says. As the largest investor and boss, no one would apologize to ordinary staff like him. Besides, it's not his fault.
Fu Yongzhi also knew that he had been bumped into, and was thinking about how to get away with it this time. Then he saw the good-tempered Mr. Su turn around and look at him.
"And you," he said, "get out of my crew now."
"You don't have to play this role anymore."
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