The Xiangjiang River is still wet and hot in September. Gan Tao, who came all the way, felt a cool air coming to his face until the entrance of the Peninsula Hotel, which is famous for Xiangjiang.

"Sir, please put it in!"

The waiter in front of the door reminded him to step towards the hotel.

He said "oh" and took out the black tie that was stuffed behind his butt, simply sorted out the folds on it, then hung it around his neck, and then put down the high shirt sleeves he hugged.

If it weren't for the agreed location here and there were so many rules, he wouldn't be interested in coming to a hotel. What kind of formal clothes are not formal clothes? If the richest man in Xiangjiang, Lao Li, wanted to enter the hotel in a slipper, see if he could enter. The rules are all aimed at ordinary people.

“Table 28.”

After reporting the table number to the lead waiter, he looked in the direction and happened to meet a black-faced man with long hair and square face not far away.

In addition to Wang Sun Glasses, Xiangjiang is another master of art films, Chen Kexing.

He took two steps in three steps, stretched out his hand from Zhou Xun who was carrying him on his back, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Director Chen."

Zhou Xun turned around and saw that he was here, he stood up and smiled and said, "Hey, here you come!"

Then he introduced to Chen Kexing: "Director Kexing, he is Gan Tao!"

"Hello, sit down and order snacks."

After the two of them shook hands, he sat down next to Zhou Xun, pulled off the inappropriate tie tie tie tied around his neck, and smiled apologetically at Chen Kexing.

Chen Kexing and Zhou Xun have just collaborated on a song and dance film. Zhou Xun is the female lead, and the male lead is the Beijing Five, who is full of thousands of girls in Southeast Asia.

Later in the filming period, he was already preparing for another new drama, a war drama from the late Qing Dynasty.

In this drama, there are three sworn brothers, actors who play the eldest brother. The producer is interested in international action superstar Li Lianjie, and the second brother is recognized as the veteran star of Xiangjiang, Liu Dehua. Only the third brother, who is one of the leading actors in the film, has relatively few scenes, has never found a suitable person to play.

So he started to cooperate with the capital city of Southeast Asia, which is very famous.

At the beginning, the two sides had a very pleasant conversation, but when he came up with the character script, the agency in Jingcheng No. 5 started to shirk responsibility slowly.

The reason for shirking responsibility is that the role played by his own actors is too ugly, the whole film is so dark, the unshaven beard is not in line with the handsome man given to the company in Beijing, and has a positioning that makes thousands of girls fascinate their faces.

This made Chen Kexing unexpectedly. The appearance of Jingcheng Wu Zai is indeed very handsome.

But how can he be handsome in a war scene? What's more, his character is a bandit who licks blood from the knife in the early stage, and a military gangster who attacks cities and villages in the later stage. Even if he is capable and has no ability to shoot such a character, he is not so romantic!

After several rounds of conversations, the two sides still couldn't reach an agreement. Chen Kexing also came to his mind and decided that he wanted to reborn Beijing Wu, but the other party disagreed. At this stall, Zhou Xun, who was on the same crew, formed the current dinner party.

Of course, if you don’t tell me, Zhou Xun doesn’t mention introducing friends to interfere, just pretend that both parties are her friends and have dinners occasionally.

Gan Tao understood Mr. Zhou's kindness, but he didn't rush to curry favor with him.

Chen Kexing may have a certain say, but in the end it is up to the film producer to decide.

Among the producers, he, a slightly famous TV series star in China, has no advantage compared to the Beijing Five, which has long been famous in Southeast Asia.

"You look good in spirit!" Chen Kexing said with some advice.

He smiled and nodded, "Recently, the sales volume of Xiangjiang gossip tabloids is definitely the lowest in history. He is actually chasing a little star who no one knows about in Xiangjiang. I am a timid person. Even if I am not in good spirits, I dare not commit suicide, so they followed me for several months in vain and did not make big news!"

After hearing his self-deprecating, Chen Kexing laughed and said in a pure Mandarin: "Actors should do this. They must have a strong heart to go further! I admire Xiaoxun very much!"

He nodded accordingly: "I have always admired her for having a strong heart!"

Seeing Zhou Xun turning his head and looking at him, he said seriously: "Really!"

"How many years have you known each other?"

He teased Mr. Zhou easily and said: "I met for the first time at the end of the 1998th lunar calendar. At that time, I was about to pack up my things and go home for the New Year. Lou Ye took her into my life! It was out of control after a few years!"

"Go, go there!" she stuttered.

The three of them talked and laughed, but they didn't mention the role from beginning to end, let alone audition. The role he knew was related to was just a few words that Zhou Xun mentioned in the message.

After leaving the Peninsula Hotel, he murmured, "It's a good show!" and quietly installed his cell phone.

In the evening, in the waiting hall of Xiangjiang International Airport, he flew directly from Xiangjiang with his backpack. Lido Island, the second largest island in Italy, is also the venue of the Venice Film Festival.

As his newly hired personal assistant, Zhou Qing flew directly from Beijing to Rome and connected to Lido. The two met at Lido Airport. The entire longitudinal direction of Lido Island is only more than ten kilometers, very small, so she is not afraid of finding people.

He was lucky. After more than ten hours of flight, he did not encounter any bad weather. He arrived one step ahead of time and could only stay at the airport honestly and wait for Zhou Qing.

Seeing Zhou Qing coming out with a large password box, he hurriedly waved his hand. After the two met, Zhou Qing took the lead and said, "Brother, I borrowed you a set of clothes."

He glared and said, "I'm not too poor to afford clothes!"

Zhou Qing explained: "I borrowed international brand clothing!"

"It's an international brand, how much can it cost?"

"It's not a matter of whether you talk to you or not, it's a matter of having a good relationship with the brand. Maybe the brand will send you an endorsement invitation when you see that you are wearing it well. This is an international brand. I have asked a lot of relationships to guarantee that you will definitely appear on the closing red carpet, and the other party agreed to borrow it."

"Okay, let it go." After he finished speaking, his mind changed and he couldn't help saying, "If the movie was not shortlisted for the main competition, you wouldn't be able to walk the red carpet!"

Zhou Qing smiled and said, "You have to leave if you can't leave. Just leave with a thick face, let alone you are not a nameless person abroad."

He rolled his eyes. Isn’t this a red carpet? What kind of carpet star is he, a big man? And he is also the first carpet star in China!

"You may be disappointed. Although I have participated in several international film festivals, I have won a Berlin Film Festival Youth Actor Award, so I am really not very famous."

Zhou Qing joked: "This time I grab a Venetian movie hero!"

"Forget it, it's just a family ethics film. Although my performance in it occasionally explodes, it's not as good as Li Tiangou in general. It's good to be shortlisted for the main competition. Instead of looking forward to it, it's better to look forward to it!"

"Don't mention that Xiao Feng and Qi Jian are just two ungrateful ones. We are all friends and will not interact in the future!"

Thinking of the few months he was receiving treatment in Xiangjiang, the director of the producer and the director had never visited Xiangjiang even once, and at most he called two calls. Zhou Qing said angrily.

He shook his head: "It doesn't matter, hurry up and go out, there are more and more people!"

The two of them pushed their luggage out of the airport and looked at the bustling crowd outside the airport.

Only then did he realize that he underestimated the small Lido Island in front of him.

Or I underestimated the influence of the Venetian Film Festival, which has been regressing compared to the Cannes Film Festival.

There are many people and the language is very mixed. Fortunately, his English is not Mo Luo, but because of the accumulation of time, he speaks more calmly.

Perhaps it is because of his experience in the past year that he has become more calm.

In a hotel on an island not far from Lido Island, he met the director Patrice and the fat white producer.

He didn't have enough feelings for the fat man, and he had not paid the money until now, so he simply said "hi" and turned to director Patrice.

The producer may have the same attitude as him, thinking that the chance of winning the award is not great, so the heroine and a group of behind-the-scenes did not come.

The entire crew came with a producer, director, male star, and a hotel room that was just a luxurious standard room with three-person beds.

He simply did not live with the two of them and opened two rooms on another small island not far away.

"The people who live here must live a comfortable life!"

On the beach chair, Zhou Qing, holding a drink, sighed to him after he had just returned after two laps.

He lay down with a smile: "Precautions must be rich. When you have money, you can move your family here!"

"It is impossible to move here, but it's good to have a family of three occasionally come to play for two months."

At the moment when Zhou Qing spoke, he smiled politely at the Asian woman passing by.

The woman who passed by saw him smiling, listened to the steps, and asked in Mandarin: "Are you Chinese people participating in this film festival?"

He was wondering, and Zhou Qing, who was standing beside him, said, "You are director Li Yu, are you?"

"Who are you?"

Zhou Qing stood up anxiously, pointed at him and said, "He is Gan Tao, I am his agent Zhou Qing."

Li Yu replied politely, "Hello you!"

After leaving the TV station and focusing on filming, she rarely pays attention to TV series, but she has an impression of Gan Tao. After all, she has acted in several literary and artistic movies, so she looked familiar just now.

After the three of them shook hands, she wondered: "You are also attending the film festival?"

There are only two movies in China that have been shortlisted for the 62nd Venice Film Festival, one directed by her and the other directed by Xiangjiang director Kwan Jinpeng. She has never heard of the others.

He explained: "Well, a French film I starred in the second half of the year before was shortlisted for this film festival."

After listening to him, Li Yu couldn't help but look at him again: "That's it!"

"Director of French director Patrice!"

Li Yu frowned and thought for a while, but he didn't think of a movie. It was not until Zhou Qing next to her who reminded her that she had changed her name and realized it suddenly!

Meeting an old friend in a foreign land is not a big shot, so there is no need to worry about any image. So the three of them sat barefoot on the beach, facing the sparkling sea, and took out the popular videos of the 62nd Venice Film Festival for a while.

Of course, the most popular movies are about the famous Chinese director, director Li Ying, who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!
Chapter completed!