She dominates the entertainment industry with her disaster system

After the brief interview, the group walked into the venue. Su Lingxi and Liang Zhiqian followed behind Tang Wanhua, greeting and socializing with familiar faces from time to time, and taking the opportunity to make connections: this was also a signal sent by Tang Wanhua to other directors that being personally led by her to socialize meant that the two sides had a pleasant cooperation and that the two actors had good abilities.

"Aying, long time no see." Zhou Jiaming, an actor from Hong Kong who is also a member of the jury, came over with a smile and greeted He Ying warmly. "The finished film is amazing. I can see that you put a lot of effort into it."

"No, I just hope to make a movie that is true to the original story. When it comes to hard work, Director Tang has put in much more effort than I have." Following this topic, He Ying introduced Tang Wanhua to him: "Wanhua has a thorough understanding of the story, and she also has a good control over the camera..."

In fact, this was also a different kind of gesture of goodwill - Tang Wanhua was willing to help Liang Zhiqian build connections, so He Ying was naturally willing to introduce her own Hong Kong connections to her.

Of course, all this must be based on pleasant cooperation between both parties.

Zhou Jiaming exchanged a few polite words with Tang Wanhua before turning his gaze to Su Lingxi behind her.

There is often an information gap between the Hong Kong and mainland entertainment circles. Even though Su Lingxi is one of the most famous new generation actresses in the mainland entertainment industry, in Hong Kong she is still only as popular as a second-tier artist.

This is because she has won the Best Newcomer Award at the Asian Film Awards, which is why she has gained such popularity.

Before being invited to serve as a jury in Berlin, Zhou Jiaming's impression of her was still stuck on the news that "The Rose Thorn" had just started filming a year ago.

Originally, he was not optimistic about her playing the role of Ge Cailing - young actors mostly have little experience, and it is actually difficult for them to perform the kind of exhaustion that Ge Cailing had experienced in her later years.

However, after watching the entire movie, his mind was completely changed by her outstanding performance.

Incidentally, he broke the stereotype of young actors.

"Ms. Su, your performance in the movie is really wonderful. It's a pleasure to meet you." Zhou Jiaming took the initiative to step forward and shook hands with her.

Su Lingxi smiled back: "Mr. Zhou, you are too polite. Your achievements in film are far beyond the reach of the younger generation. It should be my honor to meet you."

Zhou Jiaming's eyes flickered with a smile. "I'm not complimenting you. I'm just telling you the truth. Charlie's charm has charmed nearly half of our judges, especially Director Fujita. He has praised the excellence of this film in front of us more than once."

The selection of the Euro III Awards is not based on a voting system by the academy, but on a discussion system by the jury. As the name suggests, the judges have a lot of say in the selection of the awards.

As the winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or, although Ryo Fujita is only a member of the jury, his status is very high, almost second only to the jury president Maren Brockempe.

Since the selection of the Silver Bear Award for Best Director, Ryo Fujita has been a strong supporter of the film "The Thorn of the Rose", but Chairman Maren prefers the independent feature film "Feel the Love" written and directed by an American female director, and she ensured that this film received the highest number of votes in the second round.

What surprised Zhou Jiaming the most was that when it came to choosing the Best Actor award, Fujita Ryo once again strongly recommended Su Lingxi, who played the leading female role in "The Rose Thorn".

Although most Asian filmmakers would gather together to rip off awards when attending film festivals, Zhou Jiaming was still surprised that Fujita Ryo was even more enthusiastic in ripping off awards than he was - even if no Japanese films were shortlisted for the main competition this year, there was still a Korean romance film. Why did Fujita Ryo pay so much attention to the Chinese film "The Rose Thorn"?

Is it because you prefer this type of performance or shooting style?

Zhou Jiaming believed that there must be another reason behind this.

This was also one of the reasons why he took the initiative to make friends with Su Lingxi - if Fujita Ling was indeed one of her unknown connections, then showing kindness to her would only benefit her and not cause any harm.

Fujita Ryo's directing style is very much to the taste of Europeans. He has won both the Palme d'Or and the Golden Lion. Zhou Jiaming has won the Berlin Best Actor Award, and now his primary goal is to win the Cannes Best Actor Award.

He has made films that were nominated for awards at Cannes before, but both of his films failed before they could even get off to a successful start, and in the end he only managed to make it into the main competition.

Based on this, Zhou Jiaming was eager to make friends with Fujita Ryo, but unfortunately the great director was always distant when doing work, forcing him to find other ways to get close to him.

"I think this is not just my credit. Without the careful guidance of Sister Eden and Director Tang, the character of Charlie would not have been so well-made." Su Lingxi replied with a polite smile.

She heard the suggestive yet ambiguous subtext in Zhou Jiaming's words: Maybe half of the judges chose her when discussing the Best Actor Award, but - it was by no means a landslide victory.

His words sounded as if he was implying that she had a good chance of winning the award, but in reality he was saying nothing.

At this moment, which member of the crew who remains at the closing ceremony venue waiting for the awards ceremony to begin is not a favorite to win an award?

Su Lingxi was already familiar with how to deal with this kind of rhetoric from veteran insiders.

Let the polite words go in one ear and out the other. Just stay calm and smile steadily.

"You look like a local who comes here for a walk." After they entered and sat down, Liang Zhiqian spoke to her in a low voice, "I don't believe you are not nervous at all."

Su Lingxi curled her lips and said, "It would be hard for a normal person to not be nervous in this situation, right?"

Even though she had done a lot of psychological preparation before coming here: nationality issues, subject matter issues, personal preferences of the judges... these are all factors that may affect the award. Not winning the award does not mean that she did not perform well or that this is not an excellent work.

Moreover, she is still young. This is only her first time to be shortlisted for the three major competitions. She will have more opportunities and possibilities in the future.

But when she sat in this position and felt the tense atmosphere in the conference hall, her feeling of anxiety became more severe.

She was so close to the trophy that she couldn't help but imagine what would happen if she won the award, and what would happen if she didn't... The feeling of loss and joy appeared alternately, making her feel uneasy.

Liang Zhiqian looked at her carefully and said, "Theoretically, your chances of winning the award are now over 50% - Maren Blokemper and Fujita Ryo are obviously more optimistic about our film. Would it be easier to think this way?"

Su Lingxi was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly and shook his head, "All I can think of now are all kinds of terrible accidents that may happen with a one in ten thousand chance."

Just like there are always people who worry that they have filled in the wrong answer sheet after handing in their college entrance examination papers, she is now even more worried than these students.

It is easy to say "relax", but it is difficult for the person concerned to do it.