Superstars start as villains

Chapter 209 Yuan Baye.

"What? The King of Sunglasses asked you to make a movie? The Xiangjiang one?" Tong Lia opened her mouth wide.

Zhou Xing looked amused: "That's right, otherwise which one could it be?" After finishing speaking, he added: "However, I don't plan to take it."

"No, why? That's the King of Sunglasses?" Tong Lia was in a hurry. In the circle of Chinese-language movies, investors love and hate the King of Sunglasses, because he might make investors a lot of money from a movie. , It may also cause the investor's company to go bankrupt overnight, but for an actor, even if he only plays a supporting role in the movie King of Sunglasses, that is great luck.

Zhou Xing hugged his son who was babbling and saying weird things in his arms and smiled: "The Chinese New Year will be soon, not to mention that my son is still so young, so I don't worry."

Tong Liya became angry when she heard it: "No, I have to pick it up! My own mother takes care of this brat, and you want to worry about it?"

Speaking of this, Tong Lia was so angry that his liver hurts. It's really different. He is the king of sunglasses. How many actors in the circle are crying and wanting to act in his movie?At least she didn't dare to dream about it herself, but Zhou Xing actually said that he didn't plan to take it?How could this embarrass her?
"But."

Before Zhou Xingyan finished speaking, Tong Lia interrupted roughly: "Don't be so, hurry up, call and finalize the matter with the other side now, so as not to have long nights and dreams."

Zhou Xing was amused for a while, this woman is becoming more and more like a good wife.

Under Tong Lia's "monitoring", Zhou Xing asked Anli to contact them there. However, the remuneration of Sunglass King's films is generally not high, because the investment he can get is not much. After all, this film is for ordinary audiences. , not friendly.

It was finally finalized that Zhou Xing joined the group on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and the shooting location was in Yangcheng.

During the Chinese New Year, the father-in-law and his wife also came to the capital to celebrate the New Year. After all, the little guy is still young and definitely can't go back and forth, so he can only make the old couple troublesome.

Zhou's father and eldest brother's family were also picked up by Zhou Xing, and the family became lively all of a sudden. The eldest brother's son is in primary school, and the little guy looks like a tiger, but he is a bit mischievous. The sister-in-law is tired enough to deal with him all day .

Zhou Lan soon found out that the situation was not good. Zhou's mother always said that she was not too young and started to think about a series of issues such as love and marriage. Zhou's father also hoped that his daughter could have a happy family. All hands up.

When the mother-in-law saw Zhou Lan's beauty and temperament, she couldn't hold back the urge to introduce someone to a certain single male teacher in the school.

Although Zhou Lan was depressed, she could only deal with it perfunctorily in front of her elders, and turned around to find trouble for Zhou Xing.

"Brother, I'm only 23 years old. I just graduated two years ago, and they act as if I can't get married! You're still watching your sister's jokes. Is there anyone like you who is an older brother?"

Zhou Xing hugged his son and gave her a white look: "Stop doing this, but tell me what's going on between you and Wang Xiao?"

If Zhou Lan was struck by lightning, she was shy and annoyed: "Who are you listening to nonsense? We"

Seeing her shy appearance, Zhou Xing's nose twisted in anger: "Give it back to us? Tell me, where have you all come?"

Wang Xiao was the producer who brought Zhou Lan back then, and she was her master in the industry. Although he was a little stubborn, he was indeed a good seed. Gao Qunshu valued him very much. The publicity program is also very brilliant.

At first, Zhou Xing didn't pay much attention to the rumors about Zhou Lan and him. After all, entertainment companies, gossip is a traditional art, but looking at it now, Wang Xiao is far less honest than he looks on the surface.

"Oh, it's not what you think." Zhou Lan couldn't hide it when she saw it, but she didn't twitch.

It turned out that Wang Xiao was very disgusted with Zhou Lan, the "apprentice" who went through the back door at the beginning, and she never gave her a good face. She often scolded Zhou Lan bloody, and Zhou Lan smashed several pillows in anger. In the process, Zhou Lan gradually discovered Wang Xiao's strengths. As the saying goes, women chase men with interlayer yarn
Zhou Xing was very depressed, and Zhou Lan took the initiative to co-author it. Suddenly, he felt sad that the Chinese cabbage that had been raised for many years was beaten by pigs. Seeing Zhou Lan like this, the cabbage was no longer acceptable.

"Then, what is his plan?"

Zhou Lan said shyly: "Wang Xiao said that when he does a few more projects and saves enough money, he will buy a house and get married."

"He's still a man." Zhou Xing's anger was half gone, and he wondered whether he would add more burdens to this boy in the coming year. The cabbage at home looked neat, but in fact there were only a few cabbage gangs left. I ran away to someone else's house.

Get married early, so as not to be an eyesore in front of you.

In the evening, Tong Liya seemed to have noticed something was wrong with Zhou Xing, and asked curiously. After hearing about Zhou Lan, she smiled and grabbed him: "You are allowed to harm other people's daughters, and you are not allowed to harm your daughters? Who are you?" Well."

Zhou Xing was so distracted that he patted the thickest part of Tong Lia's body, but then couldn't help but hugged Tong Lia tightly and kissed her on the forehead.

It is said that the husband and wife get along for a long time, and it is easy to become one person. I used to think that this kind of statement was pure fart, but now it seems that it is true. Tong Liya just took a look at him and found that his mood was wrong. Now when I go home every day, I don't even need to look at Tong Lia's face to analyze whether the woman is in a good mood today. Maybe this is the tacit understanding between husband and wife?

On the night of New Year's Eve, Zhou's mother and mother-in-law prepared a sumptuous dinner. The whole family sat around the table and watched the CCTV Spring Festival Gala while eating the New Year's Eve dinner.

This year's Spring Festival Gala continued the tradition of previous years' Spring Festival Gala. A lively but boring opening song and dance opened the prelude to the Spring Festival Gala.

The first language program was Zhou Wei's "Chorus", but to be fair, the quality of this program was very average. After watching it, I didn't even remember a single interesting word.

Sa Dingding contributed his first solo program [All Things Live]. Although this song was well-known before, but the audience is not so wide. Many times it was even regarded as a Buddhist song. It is estimated that after the Spring Festival Gala, this song will become a One of the hit songs of the year.

Eason Chan and Faye Wong's "Because of Love" was originally highly anticipated, but Faye Wong was obviously not in the mood, and the sound went off at the beginning.

The Spring Festival Gala has just entered the first half, and the father-in-law, mother-in-law, Zhou's father, and Zhou's mother have already started the "economic half-hour" activity, which is commonly known as playing mahjong.

Cantonese mahjong, you can touch it but you can’t eat it. You can get money for both open and hidden bars. The rules are simple and easy to learn. The father-in-law and mother-in-law quickly got started. At first, Zhou’s father and mother could win some money by relying on familiar rules, but the father-in-law Ren and his mother-in-law are obviously also masters of the poker game, and soon began to pay back their capital.

"Oh, by the way, Ah Xing, why hasn't Zhao Benshan come out yet?" the old man asked suddenly.

Ever since Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi were banned by CCTV, Zhao Benshan has become the "sketch king" who dominates the Spring Festival Gala stage. Although since Song Dandan announced his withdrawal from the Spring Festival Gala stage, and was focused on bringing apprentices, the quality of Zhao Benshan's sketches has declined in the past two years. But now, he is still the well-deserved sketch king.

For the older generation, other programs of the Spring Festival Gala can be ignored, but Zhao Benshan's sketches must be watched.

To be honest, Zhou Xing didn't really pay attention to this point before, but until eleven o'clock, Uncle Benshan still didn't show up. Obviously this is very abnormal. In the past, Uncle Benshan's programs were always scheduled for prime time.

After searching the Internet, I found out that, this year's Spring Festival Gala, Uncle Benshan did not attend at all, and there are different opinions on the reasons.

When the countdown to the Spring Festival Gala sounded, the four old people also stopped drawing cards to commemorate the passing of another year. In the bones of Chinese people, the New Year is not counted until after New Year's Eve.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Xing left home and went to Yangcheng. In "The Great Master", the scenes of Foshan and Xiangjiang were filmed here.

It is said that "The Grandmaster" has been in preparation for 10 years. Sunglasses King originally wanted to make a movie about Grandmaster Ip Man, but after gradually learning about some martial arts schools, he first set his sights on It reproduces a period of martial arts history during the Republic of China.

At first, Sunglass King visited many Xiangjiang boxing schools, such as Hongquan, Wing Chun, and Baihequan, and then began to visit many Southern boxing schools along the coast, such as: Liujiaquan, Caijiaquan, Mojiaquan, Cai Lifoquan, and later I went to the Hebei area again and visited such things as: Taiji, Xingyi, Bagua, Pigua, and Baji. The whole process took three years.

I have to admit that Sunglass King's attitude towards movies is beyond the reach of most other directors.

However, when Zhou Xing came to Chikan Film and Television City and saw the King of Sunglasses, he felt an urge to scold others. Zhou Xing did not get the script when he got the invitation. Grandmaster] There is no script at all.

What Zhou Xing got was not so much a script, but a piece of information, with no clue, and even the chronology of the narrative was not coherent.

In this regard, Sunglasses King explained: "Actually, the script is useless, I have never filmed according to the script."

Well, Zhou Xing instantly wanted to take back his previous respect, please, is this the movie that was said to have been prepared for ten years?In other words, the script is not sure, who can tell him what the sunglasses king has done in the past ten years?

Of course, the complaints are the complaints. Now that he has accepted the job, he must act in the role. Fortunately, Zhou Xing has already acted in two Ip Man films, and he is familiar with some of his deeds. Martial arts will not trouble him. That's why the King of Sunglasses asked him to play Ip Man.

When Zhou Xingzheng was on set, "The Grandmaster" had already started filming, Sunglasses Wang deliberately posted the information of other crews on the crew's car in order to keep it secret. Not to mention this, there really were not many reporters paying attention to this "small crew".

"Xingzi, I don't think there will be a day of cooperation between us." A voice full of confidence, the voice approached before the person arrived.

With Zhou Xing's current coffee position, there are not many people who are qualified to call him Xingzi. Zhou Xing looked back, stood up quickly and bowed his hands: "Baye."

Yuan Baye was born in 45 years, and he is 67 years old this year, and he is also the martial arts instructor of "The Great Master".

In the circle of martial arts instructors, there are only a few who are really famous, but when it comes to the number one martial arts instructor, it is definitely Yuan Baye.

Yuan Baye patted Zhou Xing's shoulder and asked with a smile, "Your uncle, old man, how is your health?"

Zhou Xing was taken aback for a moment before realizing that he was talking about Liu Jialiang, and he couldn't help sighing: "Uncle Master has grown older in the past two years."

Today, Liu Jialiang is 77 years old, and his physical function has declined drastically even after practicing martial arts all the year round. Zhou Xing visits him twice a year, and Liu Jialiang never returns and says: It’s okay to spend so much effort on what to do now. Can’t you make a video now? To see if my poor old man is still alive, you can see it online, how much time is wasted going back and forth.

Behind the scenes of Zhou Xing's transformation in the past two years, Mr. Liu Jialiang also advised him to make more kung fu movies while he was still young. Zhou Xing knew that he was afraid that once Zhou Xing couldn't play anymore, kung fu movies would never be able to carry the flag again. people.

Yuan Baye was a little sad: "Yeah, I'm 67 this year, and I often feel that I can't do what I want. I can't accept it!"

The topic was a bit heavy, but Zhou Xing didn't answer it. After a few minutes, Yuan Baye smiled at Zhou Xing again: "I was worried that Xiao Wang would find me another stupid young man who didn't know kung fu. Ye Wen, you will come to act. , I'm relieved."

Zhou Xing was not so optimistic: "I don't know what director Wang's play is."

"Haha." Yuan Baye laughed, full of air: "Don't say you have no idea, I also have no idea, I have no idea what kind of action he wants."

Saying that, Yuan Baye took Zhou Xing to a practice room, opened the door and saw that there was really someone he knew. Zhang Ziyi was practicing with a martial arts instructor, and his posture should be Baguazhang.

There are also two male actors, one is Zhang Jin, although he has never met before, but he has met a few times, and nodding to each other is regarded as a greeting.

The other one looks familiar but I don't have much impression. Through Yuan Baye's introduction, I found out that his name is Zhang Zhen, and he once starred in "Happy Together" by King of Sunglasses.

"Don't underestimate this kid. He is very persistent. He has practiced Bajiquan hard for two years, and he is as good as some professional martial arts athletes." Yuan Baye laughed.

Zhou Xing smiled and nodded at him. As an actor, he spent two years learning a martial art for a movie, which is definitely a professional word. Compared with many popular actors, he is indeed worthy of Yuan Baye's praise .

Yuan Baye patted Zhou Xing's shoulder: "You also know that I am better at northern martial arts, and some movements of southern martial arts will have to be supplemented by you."

Zhang Jin and Zhang Zhen looked at Yuan Baye in surprise. They only knew that Zhou Xing was a Kung Fu star, but they didn't know that [Ip Man 2] many martial arts movements were formulated by Zhou Xing and Kwan Zhaolong.

Zhou Xing smiled wryly: "Is this the real purpose of Director Wang inviting me?"

Yuan Baye squeezed the corners of his eyes at Zhou Xing, but just smiled without saying a word.

In fact, this is true. Although Wing Chun is famous nowadays, in fact, there are not many real masters. Those like Zhou Xing who can fight, act, and design movements are the only ones who have no distinction. Number, asking him for one is like asking for three, it's not too cost-effective.

(End of this chapter)