A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 422 The Pressure of a Comedian

"Teacher Shen, I've long heard of your name." Chen Jinnian said.

"I don't have a big name, it's all just empty fame." Shen Teng answered cheerfully and invited a few people to take a seat. "Come on, sit wherever you want. Oh, these two girls are so beautiful, they can be stars."

"She's a celebrity. You need to work on your eyes," Huang Bo said from behind.

"Oh, that was my fault. Please forgive my poor eyesight." After Shen Teng finished speaking, he attentively helped Zhao Jinmai pull out the chair, which frightened Zhao Jinmai so much that she dared not move. She quickly turned around and looked for help.

Chen Jinnian held Zhao Jinmai's shoulders and said, "It's okay, sit down. You are from Liaoning, and Brother Teng is from Heilongjiang. We are from the same hometown. Just sit down."

"Oh, you're from my hometown. Then we have to have a good chat." Shen Teng said enthusiastically.

Everyone took their seats.

It was the first time that Chen Jinnian met Shen Teng and Xu Zheng offline. As the greetings deepened, he found that although they seemed to be friendly on the surface, they were actually different.

Xu Zheng is a very shrewd person, or he can say that he separates his work and personal life very clearly. When it comes to business, he treats it as a profitable business. As for artistic pursuits and emotional matters, they have nothing to do with the present.

Even Chen Jinnian felt that Xu Zheng and his wife got along in this way. They seemed to be a family, but in fact they lived their own lives.

Shen Teng, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. He seems rather lazy and his reactions are always slow. Even when his face is expressionless, his eyebrows are still filled with sorrow, and the wrinkles on his eyebrows are as deep as ravines.

Chen Jinnian couldn't believe that a person with extremely high creative talent on the stage of drama would perform so dullly.

There is only one possibility, that is, Shen Teng, who is very popular in the Spring Festival Gala and the film market, is facing many pressures imposed on him, some of which are in terms of capital and some in terms of comedy performances.

He is obviously a talented actor, but he has to play a funny clown on the screen. The huge psychological gap and pressure are not something that any specific person can face alone.

Jim Carrey was, Stephen Chow was, and now it’s Shen Teng’s turn.

He wants to transform himself, he doesn't want to be a clown anymore, he wants to die on screen, he wants to act in serious dramas to break free from the constraints of being a comedian.

Maybe this is the tragedy of comedians.

Chen Jinnian looked at Huang Bo and Xu Zheng. Although the two were also comedians, they were not as deeply tied to comedy as Shen Teng. One won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor in middle age, and the other won the Magnolia Award for Drama at a young age.

Both of them have proven themselves and do not have too much psychological pressure. Acting in comedy is just one of many possibilities.

More importantly, Xu Zheng and Huang Bo became famous earlier. Before Internet companies flooded into the entertainment industry, both of them had already achieved success and were able to take advantage of this favorable situation to rise to the top. In just a few years, they upgraded from actors to chess players who could play at the table.

Shen Teng wasted too long on the stage of drama, and by the time he came to the fore, he was already swept up in it and had no control over himself.

The Richest Man in Xihong City, which is already in preparation, is the best example. Shen Tengui is the mainstay of Mahua, but he can't even keep the role of the old partner. One can imagine how frustrated and angry he feels.

But even so, Shen Teng had to finish the comedy with a smile.

Chen Jinnian could see that there was something wrong with Shen Teng, so it was impossible for Huang Bo and Xu Zheng, who were very perceptive, not to see it.

"Don't just eat, have a drink. How can you not drink when you come to my place? This is fresh beer bought from the second factory. It tastes completely different from what you usually drink."

Huang Bo said this and directly poured a liter of beer for Shen Teng from the beer barrel.

"Stop it, I can't drink." Shen Teng can drink quite well, but he still doesn't want to drink, especially when he's out filming. After he finished speaking, he signaled his agent at the table with his eyes to help him block the drink.

"Brother Bo, let's forget it. I see Brother Teng is very tired. Let me help him drink it." Chen Jinnian stood up and said.

"Then half for each of us."

Huang Bo meant to let the other party drink something so that he could use it as an excuse to go back to the hotel to rest. Shen Teng's agent had arranged a lot of commercial performances for him, so he could just turn them down at the same time.

"Okay, then we'll each have half, and give some extra to my brother." Shen Teng walked down the stairs.

But when he took the first sip, bad things happened. Huang Bo's toasts were set. After one glass, there was another. After two glasses, it was four. He said four glasses were good and it would bring wealth all year round.

Then comes six cups, which means everything goes smoothly.

Then came eight cups and ten cups.

Under Huang Bo's constant chatter, Chen Jinnian forgot how many times he had gone to the toilet. He only knew that Huang Bo could drink, but he didn't know he was so slow to drink.

In the end, everyone except the four of them left the table.

Wang Yidi and Zhao Jinmai, who didn't drink, got together to play games.

But even those who were still at the table were all staggering. Xu Zheng drank so much that his entire bald head turned red, like a boiled egg just out of the pot.

Shen Teng was no longer worried. He held the beer cup and looked inside with his big, blurry eyes. Huang Bo kept saying that he was raising fish in the cup, but why couldn't he find any fish?

Huang Bo and Chen Jinnian, who were in good condition, leaned back in their chairs with their heads tilted back. What held them back was not their alcohol tolerance, but the fact that they simply could not drink any more.

"Burp~" Huang Bo let out a long burp. "I can't hold on any longer. Let's leave it at that for today. We can save it for another day. We still have to stay in Qingdao for a month or two anyway."

"Still drinking?" Xu Zheng looked up and asked. Even though he called himself the little prince of the nightclub, he couldn't stand Huang Bo's torment.

"I'm going to do a motion capture performance, so please don't mess with me."

The alien in the movie is him, otherwise Xu Zheng would not appear on the set.

"Hey, you're just playing a drunk monkey anyway, which is good. It's considered as a true portrayal of yourself." Huang Bo said jokingly.

Chen Jinnian heard the conversation between the two and asked in confusion, "Have you been to the set?"

"Yeah, we rehearsed a day in advance yesterday."

"What about Director Ning Hao? Why didn't he come?"

Xu Zheng laughed out loud upon hearing this. "He's really pissed off right now, so he doesn't have time for food or drinks. The crew isn't short of money, so Old Ning just waved his hand and invited four special effects companies from abroad. But after they joined the crew, he found out he couldn't communicate with them. They didn't understand the Monkey King, monkey tricks, or even the Chinese dragon. It almost pissed him off."

"Now, we have to use gestures and guess every day. Our language system is so poor that we can't communicate with foreigners at all."

Huang Bo also echoed this, saying, "The biggest mistake was hiring a foreigner as the visual effects supervisor. It's very frustrating. He doesn't come from the same culture as you, and his perspectives are different from yours. He can't empathize with the things that move you, and what he thinks is awesome, you might think is garbage."

Chen Jinnian nodded. These were the same things that Xiao Poqiu was worried about at the time, so after much deliberation, he decided to put all the important positions in the hands of his own people.

It seems that Ning Hao's movie still has a lot of work to do.