In a dim street corner, a young man in a suit was holding a dry, hard, and cold steamed bun and stuffing it into his mouth, his cheeks bulging with the bun. Fortunately, he has a delicate appearance, and even in such a miserable state, he does not look ugly, which only makes people sympathize with his bitterness and desolation.
Maybe God thought he wasn't in a bad enough state, and it suddenly started to rain at this moment. The young man quickly shrank under an eaves where he could shelter from the rain and hurriedly stuffed the remaining half of the steamed bun into his mouth. Drops of water slid down his cheeks, and it was unclear whether they were rain, sweat, or tears that he couldn't hold back out of grievance.
"Okay, just two more shots and we'll call it a day!"
As soon as the director called for cut and the sprinkler was turned off, the crew assistant quickly walked towards the actors who were soaking wet.
"Teacher Li, spit the steamed buns into the trash bag..." Before the crew assistant finished speaking, he saw Li Zhao moving his mouth and actually swallowed the dry steamed buns prepared by the crew.
His steps froze. Although their crew was poor, they still provided full lunch boxes.
"Thank you, I'm fine." Li Zhao stood still, took the warm water handed to him by the crew assistant and drank two sips, waiting for the stylist to come and fix his hairstyle to avoid any mistakes in the details when the additional shots were taken later.
"You're welcome." The crew assistant laughed dryly, took the cup from Li Zhao, and retreated to the director's side.
The director sat on a shaky stool, fanning himself with a palm-sized plastic fan. The words "infertility" appeared faintly on the fan as he fanned it.
A crew that exudes an air of poverty from head to toe, even the fans they use on a daily basis are free fans distributed through street advertisements.
"Li Zhao performed well just now. Director Liu, you should at least give him a chicken drumstick at noon tomorrow." The assistant director walked over to Director Liu and sat down, looking at the footage that had just been shot.
Director Liu touched his chubby belly and laughed: "What's so delicious about chicken legs? Young people should have a hard-working and simple style, so that they can make more contributions to the future of the motherland."
"Just keep trying." The assistant director looked around and whispered in Director Liu's ear, "It's almost Song Yu's turn, and his look isn't ready yet?"
Director Liu fanned the plastic fan vigorously a few times and said, "I'll ask the stagehands to hurry them up later."
He can't afford to offend the actors arranged by the investors.
Song Yu already had some fame in the circle. Originally, the crew had decided to cast him as the No. 1 male lead and even signed the contract. However, just before filming began, he suddenly said that he did not want to play the leading male role and wanted to challenge the role of the second male lead.
There's nothing challenging about the role of the second male lead. Isn't he just handsome, rich, gentle, and infatuated with the female lead?
This kind of role might be the standard configuration for the male lead in other idol dramas, but their crew is different from those slutty ones out there. Other dramas are a combination of prince and Cinderella, but they are a combination of princess and Cinderella.
The overbearing and wealthy female protagonist and the hardworking and indomitable handsome male protagonist are a perfect match.
Unfortunately, no matter how satisfied Director Liu was with the role setting, it was useless because Song Yu was determined to play the role of the second male lead. Not only did he choose the role of the second male lead, he also specifically asked Li Zhao, who was originally going to play the second male lead, to play the male lead.
Director Liu is such a principled director, so when he heard Song Yu asking the investor to invest several million more, he agreed on the spot.
In the circle, it is common to see actors who ask their investors to spend money to raise their ranking, but it is rare to see actors who spend money to lower their ranking.
It turns out that after being in the circle for a long time, you will see all kinds of weird things.
As a director, the most important thing is to be open-minded. No matter what Song Yu's plan was, he thought Song Yu was doing charity for the crew.
After reshooting the scene, Li Zhao wiped the water off his face and walked outside the venue. He found that many staff members looked unhappy. He glanced around but didn't see Song Yu. The female lead was leaning back in a lounge chair playing games on her phone, and the words "It has nothing to do with me" were almost written on her face.
He shook the water off his clothes and wrapped himself in a dry towel. Fortunately, they were shooting a winter scene in summer instead of a summer scene in winter, otherwise he would have been frozen to death on the spot.
As a newcomer who plays the leading male role but has the lowest status in the cast, Li Zhao remains calm when encountering things like delays in the filming. After all, he just needs to be paid for filming.
"Teacher Li, please sit down and rest for a while. Teacher Song will be here soon."
The crew assistant looked at Li Zhao with sympathy. The next scene was the rivalry between Song Yu and Li Zhao. It was a bit of bullying to let Li Zhao, who was soaked all over, sit here and wait for Song Yu to come and film.
Their crew was poor, and the leading male actor they used was also poor. He was the leading male actor, but he ate all his boxed lunches every day and lived a more frugal life than the extras. He didn't even have an assistant around him, only an agent who came to see him every now and then.
They had already filmed the night scene for nearly six hours tonight, and for the best effect, Li Zhao deliberately skipped dinner. From noon till now, he had only eaten a few bites of the dry steamed buns used during filming. If Song Yu doesn't come over now, the crew won't be able to finish work, and Li Zhao can only wait.
Faced with the crew assistant's expression of "Although I sympathize with you, there's nothing I can do", Li Zhao lay down on the chair, wrapped himself in a blanket, and closed his eyes to rest.
Less than five minutes after I lay down, I heard a cordial greeting.
"Teacher Song is here. Good evening, Teacher Song."
"Teacher Song, we just sprinkled water here, the ground is a bit slippery, please be careful with your steps."
Hearing the noise, Li Zhao opened his eyes and met Song Yu's gaze. Song Yu paused slightly, then raised his chin and walked past Li Zhao proudly.
Li Zhao raised his eyebrows and didn't take Song Yu's attitude to heart. Since the filming of this drama began, Song Yu seldom looked at him straight in the eye. Even if she did, her eyes were filled with a hint of pity and contempt.
The fact that he suspected he was poor was known to the entire crew.
"Li Zhao, go get ready. We'll have the next scene in ten minutes." Director Liu yawned and called Li Zhao to enter.
Li Zhao threw down the blanket and walked in front of the camera. He asked the makeup artist to touch up his makeup while waiting for Song Yu's stand-in to help Song Yu find the perfect camera position.
When the filming officially started, Song Yu interrupted the shooting several times for various reasons. It was already three o'clock in the morning when all the shots were finished.
When Li Zhao returned to the dressing room to remove his makeup, he heard a makeup assistant quietly scolding Song Yu for being too nosy. However, when Song Yu's assistant brought in midnight snacks, everyone in the dressing room was smiling, without any sign of impatience.
"Teacher Li, Brother Song heard that you didn't eat tonight, so he asked me to prepare some more food for you." The assistant handed the big food box to Li Zhao and said with a smile: "After you finish eating, go to bed early."
"Thank you." Li Zhao took the lunch box, opened the lid and saw a cup of milk tea, two pieces of cake, and some delicious barbecue inside. He took a deep breath of the aroma of the midnight snack, picked up the milk tea and took a big sip.
This was the main reason why he never complained about Song Yu causing him to stay up late to film.
Although Song Yu is often late, likes to act like a big shot, and his acting skills are average, he is generous.
As long as Song Yu was in the crew, he never missed the midnight snack every day. Rounding it off, this was half of his bread and butter. Who would complain about their bread and butter being bad?
The makeup artist who was removing Li Zhao's makeup took a look at the contents of the lunch box and seemed to be hesitant to speak. Especially when she saw Li Zhao actually drink the milk tea, she couldn't help but sigh.
Teacher Xiao Li, please be more careful.
Song Yu, that scheming man, wants to fatten up your delicate little face!
In the room, Song Yu saw the assistant coming back and immediately asked, "Did Li Zhao eat those things?"
The assistant nodded: "I ate it."
"That's good." Song Yu showed a satisfied smile on his face. If he continued to eat at this rate, Li Zhao would definitely gain a lot of weight. After this drama goes online and attracts the audience's attention, everyone will see a man who has lost his good looks and gained weight. Who will still be a fan of such an artist?
"Brother Song, Li Zhao's company has no resources and no connections, and he has no one supporting him behind the scenes. There is no way he can threaten your position. Why should we spend so much time and effort to deal with him?" The assistant was a little confused. Since Brother Song was afraid of Li Zhao, why did he give the role of the male lead to him?
"What do you know?!" Song Yu lowered his eyelids to hide his guilty conscience. A few months ago, he dreamed that he had been cast in a low-budget online drama as the male lead. The crew was poor and run-down, and after receiving the script, he did not put much effort into the performance. Who would have thought that after the show was aired, it would become an instant hit on the internet and made many actors famous. Especially the role of the second male lead, which has become popular almost all over the entire Internet. Only the male lead role played by him aroused the disgust of many viewers because of his poor personality. He was not only poor but also stubborn. Some people even went to the official Weibo of the crew to scold the female lead for being blind for liking the male lead but not the second male lead, and scolded the screenwriter for writing the plot blindly, etc.
After waking up from the dream, he didn't take it seriously at first. However, two days later, someone handed him the script, and the content of the script was exactly the same as in his dream.
He suddenly realized that perhaps this was an opportunity given to him by God. So he had to crush Li Zhao to death before he showed up and eliminate this threat.
Li Zhao had just returned to his room with an unfinished midnight snack when he received a video call from his agent Zhang Xiaoyuan.
"Li Zhao, why are you eating again?" When Zhang Xiaoyuan saw Li Zhao sitting cross-legged on the bed, gnawing on roasted pig's trotters, the blood vessels in his forehead began to throb.
"We filmed for more than ten hours today and didn't have time to eat. Luckily Brother Song treated us." Li Zhao wiped the oil from the corners of his mouth and smiled with his eyes crescent-shaped. "You also know that I don't gain weight just by eating, so I don't have to worry about gaining weight."
"I don't have to worry about you gaining weight, but I'm afraid you'll develop a habit of eating late-night snacks and end up going broke when no one treats you." Seeing Li Zhao reaching for another skewer, Zhang Xiaoyuan couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and said in a serious tone with a straight face, "Zhao, I have something bad to tell you."
"What's the matter?" Li Zhao looked up at the camera of his mobile phone.
"Our company closed down, and the boss ran away with his wife. In other words, we are unemployed." After saying this, Zhang Xiaoyuan saw that Li Zhao didn't react when holding the skewers, and couldn't help asking: "You... don't have any feelings?"
"Oh?" Li Zhao blinked, expressing deep regret.
The two of them just looked at the camera of the phone, speechless.
After a long time, Li Zhao saw that Zhang Xiaoyuan's expression was too solemn, and he comforted him: "Brother Xiaoyuan, don't be too sad. How about you come to our crew to eat first? Brother Song will give us extra meals every now and then, and we can save a lot of food expenses."
Although it is a bit shameless to eat and drink for free, what's the point of saving face when you can eat and drink well?
Fortunately, in their poor crew, there is a generous Brother Song. They are so lucky.
The author has something to say: Song Yu: Don’t talk, I want to be quiet.
I observed the sky tonight and found that it was suitable for digging holes and planting, so I started writing this article. The tone of the whole article is warm and relaxed. I wish you all a pleasant reading experience.
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