"Probably," Shang Yechu said, unsure. "Lu Huaizhang and Teacher Qi have similar experience, so he'll definitely be able to tell. Zheng Bohan is a screenwriter; if he can't, he should be damned. Diting and Shishan are still young..."
Ji Juntao suddenly raised his eyebrows: "These bastards!"
"Hey, why are you swearing?"
Although Ji Juntao often cursed, it was rare for him to speak so frankly. Shang Yechu was both amused and exasperated: "Why bother? They're not anyone to me, it's normal for them to watch the show with indifference."
Shang Yechu wasn't unangry, but she was so tired, sleepy, and excited that she couldn't muster any strong emotions.
Ji Juntao stood up, walked to the door, and then turned back.
"A lizard growing on your fontanelle!" Ji Juntao gritted her teeth and said, "How dare you steal from me!"
"..." Shang Yechu made a gesture of flattening, "Top student, top student, when did you learn all these swear words?"
“I learned it from Aunt Cai.” Ji Juntao waved his hand. “Never mind, swearing helps relieve stress and is a health supplement for a healthy mindset. You can learn from Aunt Cai when you have time.”
Fearing that she might become foul-mouthed after learning it and blurt it out in front of the media, Shang Yechu politely declined, saying, "I'll definitely do it when I have time. What did Zheng Bohan and the others steal from you?"
Ji Juntao plopped down on the bedside table and sighed, "Do you know what high summer heat is like?"
Shang Yechu was puzzled: "Who doesn't know that? Isn't Gao Sanfu the second-best art film director in China after Zhan Kexiang? He's with Tianding Entertainment, right? What's wrong?"
Ji Juntao snorted coldly: "Where is Huo Minmin?"
"The female lead in the movie 'White Hair'," Shang Yechu said, increasingly puzzled, "didn't she retire a long time ago?"
"Tsk." Ji Juntao showed an annoyed expression. "The movie 'White Hair' was filmed by Gao Sanfu."
Shang Yechu realized the underlying meaning: "Is Huo Minmin's retirement from the entertainment industry related to Gao Sanfu?"
“Not too stupid.” Ji Juntao said coldly, “In ‘The White-Haired Girl’, Huo Minmin played a character with delusions who always suspected others of wanting to harm her and was very fearful and distant from outsiders.”
"White Hair" is a classic of art films. Shang Yechu watched it during a large-scale screening and was deeply impressed: "Huo Minmin's acting in it was good. She deserved to win the Hanjiang Award. If I were to play the role, I could only capture two-thirds of her effect."
“If you knew where her acting skills came from, you wouldn’t say that.” Ji Juntao lowered his head and stared intently into Shang Yechu’s eyes.
Shang Yechu sensed something ominous: "Her?"
Ji Juntao said coldly and wearily, "Gao Sanfu wanted to instill Huo Minmin's fear of strangers to make her acting more realistic—"
Ji Juntao took a deep breath, then suddenly reached out and patted Shang Yechu's face reassuringly.
After doing all this, Ji Juntao said:
"There aren't many characters in the movie who actually interact with Huo Minmin. But Gao Sanfu spent a lot of money to hire hundreds of extras, divided into ten groups, to take turns acting opposite Huo Minmin—a scene that Huo Minmin imagines, where everyone bullies her."
"You and I both know that although it's bullying in our imagination, it will definitely be filmed in real life."
"When filming this bullying scene, Gao Sanfu kept having to do NG takes, make adjustments, and reshoot, which almost drove him crazy."
"If that were all, I wouldn't look down on him so much. The problem is that after repeated adjustments and reshoots, when a scene is so well-acted that there's nothing wrong with it, Gao Sanfu will replace this group of experienced extras with a new group!"
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