The official media broadcast the award ceremony. Whether Xu Siyi can win the award is of great significance to the studio. Mo Chenghong also held an online meeting, and the studio employees watched the live broadcast together.
The host explained in real time: "The live broadcast of the closing red carpet awards ceremony of this Venice International Film Festival is about to begin. The film that we are most concerned about tonight is "Prodigal Son", which is shortlisted for the main competition unit. I wonder if the crew of "Prodigal Son" can bring surprises. Let us wait and see."
In the online conference room, everyone was exchanging messages very quickly.
After watching the previous interview with the jury, I really appreciate "The Prodigal Son". Si Yi has hope!
Excited to wait
The closing ceremony red carpet is about to begin on the screen, and the audience has arrived one after another waiting for the arrival of the creators of the shortlisted films.
The host had done his homework beforehand, and as each actor walked onto the red carpet one by one, he blurted out each actor's personal profile and their performance at the Venice Film Festival.
Time passed slowly, and the speeches of people in the online conference room gradually stopped. Everyone felt a little drowsy, until Xu Siyi appeared at the end of the red carpet, and everyone suddenly became alert.
"… The creators of "Prodigal Son" that we have been waiting for are finally here!" The host's voice became louder. "We can see Xu Siyi and Yu Ruwei, the pair who worked so well together in "Prodigal Son", stepping onto the red carpet."
In the camera, the two walked on the red carpet together. Xu Siyi is very tall, with broad shoulders and long legs. He is a natural clothes hanger. The well-cut suit makes him look even taller and slenderer.
Yu Ruwei is a mixed-race girl with clear facial features and the graceful temperament of an oriental girl. She is very recognizable among the young actresses.
She graduated from a professional school and has been in this circle for two or three years, but her popularity is not very high. This time, as the female lead of "Prodigal Son", her performance has been recognized by most of the audience.
The host said: "In "The Prodigal Son", the tea maid played by Yu Ruwei waited for the prodigal son for most of his life. The scene in the end where she wiped the tea table in an old and frail manner brought tears to my eyes. Her performance in the movie was very good, but the role was relatively flat, so her chances of winning an award are slim. However, Yu Ruwei is still young, and her acting skills are top-notch among the new generation of young actresses. She has a promising future."
Yu Ruwei, in her flowing long dress, held Xu Siyi's arm and walked onto the red carpet with him.
It was her first time attending such a grand film festival, and she was visibly a little nervous.
Xu Siyi politely matched the pace of the lady next to him, stopping from time to time to give time for the surrounding media to take pictures.
The boss is so handsome today.
I was stunned by his handsomeness.
As people in the online conference room screamed, comments in the live broadcast room also flew.
Halfway through the walk, Yu Ruwei was tripped by her long skirt and Xu Siyi caught her in time.
In the official broadcast, she looked a little embarrassed and smiled gratefully at Xu Siyi.
After the filming of "Prodigal Son" started, she couldn't help but be attracted to Xu Siyi, and followed this person with her eyes like the tea girl in the movie.
The agent said that she was too immersed in the role, and Yu Ruwei also felt that she was too immersed in the role. After the filming of the movie, except for the promotion, the two basically had no more interactions.
But when they met again this time and attended the film festival together, Yu Ruwei couldn't help but feel her heart beating fast.
I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but the comments about the two of them suddenly increased.
[The two of them look a bit good together]
[Si Yi is such a gentleman]
[This girl is down-to-earth and quite likable]
[To be honest, Yu Ruwei is really pretty, and the two of them have an inexplicable sense of CP]
[I am confused as to where this CP feeling comes from. Why are there so many people posting it all of a sudden? Are they water armies? ? ]
As the creators of the nominated films walked onto the red carpet one by one, the award ceremony officially began.
The big screen on site played the highlights of this year's film festival, and the jury members announced a series of awards including the Technical Contribution Award, Best Screenplay Award, and Best Newcomer Award.
As time went on, the host's voice became more excited: "The competition for Best Actress and Best Actor will begin soon. I wonder who will win."
First, the Best Actress winner was announced, and as the media had previously predicted, it was an Italian actress.
The audience burst into warm applause.
Next up was the Best Actor award. The presenter opened the envelope containing the list of names: "The winner is..."
He paused for a moment, and after keeping the camera on edge for a few seconds, he smiled and said, "Xu Siyi from China!"
Ahhhh
Ahhhhh!
In the online conference room, studio employees screamed wildly.
Mo Chenghong loosened his clenched fists, exhaled, and sent a message: I've applied for a bonus for everyone this month.
There was another round of cheers in the conference room.
Xu Qiao watched the camera focus on Xu Siyi. He stood up from his seat and walked towards the stage.
The host of the broadcast was very excited and spoke very quickly.
He took the trophy and gave a prepared acceptance speech. Finally, he raised the trophy in his hand and stared at the camera with deep eyes: "Did you see it?"
[Ah, husband, I saw it!]
[I see, I see, I see!!]
Xu Qiao smiled.
"Prodigal Son" did not win the subsequent Best Picture Award, but taking home an Award for Best Actor was enough to make the crew happy.
The crew, including Mo Chenghong, released the press release that they had prepared in advance.
The entry for actor Xu Siyi instantly became a hot search.
After the entire award ceremony was over, Xu Qiao received a message from him: "The crew is preparing a celebration banquet and will return home in a few days."
The night when Xu Siyi held a celebration party in Venice happened to be the final day of "Water Ghost".
As the finale of "Water Ghost" triggered a wave of hot topics, another topic gradually climbed to the top of the hot searches.
An entertainment account revealed that when Xu Qiao played two roles, several sex scenes between the water ghost and the slug spirit were performed by Xu Siyi as a bed substitute.
Attached are a few blurry photos of the crew on site.
Xu Siyi put on an ankle-length wig and changed into clothes that belonged to a slug spirit. She was half-squatting on the shore, brushing back the wet hair that had stuck to Xu Qiao's face in the water.
This caused a huge uproar. On one hand, the trending searches for Xu Siyi winning the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival were still hanging, while on the other hand, the trending searches for Xu Siyi's bed substitute climbed to the top at an alarming speed.
Xu Qiao was also pushed to the forefront.
Xu Siyi, who won the Best Actor award, actually served as Xu Qiao's bed substitute.
Even though the two have a good relationship in front of the media and are in the same studio, it is still not easy for people to accept.
A large number of fans came to Xu Qiao's Weibo to insult him and questioned him on what grounds he had the right to do so.
[You have only acted in two dramas, and both roles were not very good. What qualifications do you have to let your brother be your stand-in, especially a bed stand-in?]
[The above comment is too much, what is a low-level role? Even if "Liao Jiang" is a small web drama, it is still a good drama directed by Hu Zhenghua, right?]
[Prostitutes in brothels, messy monsters and ghosts, isn't this low-class?]
[So if you say that, your Si Yi has also played a beggar, isn’t that even less worthy?]
[Stop arguing and wait for the two brothers to respond, okay? ? I’m a fan of both sides and I really don’t want to see everyone arguing]
[Don't you have any idea that you want the best actor to be your stand-in?]
[Can everyone calm down a little and stop cursing so harshly and making things difficult for my brother? My brother and Xu Qiao are good friends.]
[Didn’t Xu Qiao also stand in for his friend and double for Zhang Yinghui? He doubled for a female character. Did he express his dissatisfaction or say anything? Don’t be so excited, okay?]
Before the criticism had subsided, a number of marketing accounts came out to take advantage of the popularity and released clips of Xu Siyi and Xu Qiao's interactions when they participated in a variety show together.
Even Gu Yi, the stand-in who had initially made advances towards Xu Qiao and was replaced by Hu Zhenghua, came out to speak.
His words hinted at his innocence, and the subtext was that the relationship between Xu Qiao and Xu Siyi was not simple.
[What's going on? These two people in the same frame are really pleasing to the eye]
[I'm shocked, so they are...?]
[Well, considering Xu Siyi’s popularity, it’s impossible for him to be forced to be a stand-in. Since he volunteered, there’s nothing much to say.]
[Can Sima Marketing Account please stop spreading rumors?]
[After all, Xu Qiao still has no idea]
[I laughed. Why does the person above always scold Xu Qiao? It was your brother who asked for it.]
[Waiting for an official response, don’t want to stop being a fan]
Mo Chenghong also wanted to give an official response. He was overwhelmed by the sudden exposure of the stand-in incident.
How to respond? Can he say that the "rumors" spread by those marketing accounts are true? These two people do have a relationship of some kind. It makes him feel a little guilty and uneasy when doing public relations.
He secretly cursed Xu Siyi for always looking for trouble for himself. How could he be so capable? It would have been fine if he just visited the set, but he also rushed to be Xu Qiao's bed substitute without saying a word.
Mo Chenghong finally understood. It turned out that Xu Siyi had had impure feelings for Xu Qiao from the beginning.
Okay, the bed scene. It was comfortable and enjoyable to shoot, right
You see the consequences.
And Xu Qiao didn't know all this.
There was a bug during the testing of the "Doomsday" game, and a group of people were working overtime to solve it. Xu Qiao was having a video conference with them, fully focusing on solving the problem, and was completely unaware of what was happening in the outside world.
Mo Chenghong wanted to contact Xu Siyi and Xu Qiao to clarify things quickly, and he was doing emergency public relations.
As a result, Xu Siyi was still at the celebration banquet in Venice, being dragged around drinking and chatting, and he couldn't be contacted for a long time.
I wanted to find Xu Qiao, but no one answered the phone after calling for a long time.
Mo Chenghong felt that his hair, which was already losing weight, was even more difficult to maintain.
Li Feifei was called to go to Xu Qiao's home to look for someone. The studio here often helps to operate the two people's Weibo, and has the account password. Mo Chenghong went to Xu Siyi and Xu Qiao's Weibo and released two clarification statements one after another.
As a result, within less than ten minutes, two Weibo posts with the same IP address were found, which were obviously posted by the studio.
Xu Siyi is still abroad, so why does his Weibo IP address show Beijing
Mo Chenghong was furious, thinking that netizens had nothing to do and even resorted to digging up IP addresses.
But he couldn't contact Xu Siyi for the time being, so he had to ask director Hu Zhenghua to help.
Hu Zhenghua was also a little depressed. He didn't expect that the final day of the Submariner event, which should have been a good day for celebration, ended up with such a weird thing.
In fact, most of the responsibility for this matter lies with him. If he had not agreed to let Xu Siyi be Xu Qiao's bed substitute, this would not have happened.
But now that it has happened, there is no point in talking about it. He posted a Weibo post, explaining that there was no suitable stand-in at the time, and Xu Siyi happened to come to visit the set and helped out.
This reason is obviously not very convincing.
[Come to visit the set... Are Xu Siyi and Xu Qiao so close? This makes people more suspicious]
[With such a large crew, they can’t find a suitable stand-in, but they insist on using my brother? Speechless]
[My brother is good-tempered and willing to help, are you really so shameless as to let him get on top of you?]
Hu Zhenghua felt wronged. He couldn't say that it was really Xu Siyi who asked for it.
The situation was getting worse and worse, and everyone was waiting for Xu Siyi, who had just won the Best Actor award, to speak out.
However, before Xu Siyi could speak, an unexpected change occurred.
Xu Qiao was in a meeting with Gao Ming when they heard the doorbell ring like a soul-calling alarm.
When I went to open the door, I saw Li Feifei standing outside with a panicked look on her face.
"Fei Fei? What are you doing here?"
As soon as Li Feifei saw his puzzled look, she knew that her brother must still know nothing, so she wailed, "Brother, please check your phone!"
Hearing this, Xu Qiao turned on his phone, only to find countless missed calls on his silent phone.
"Feel sorry."
Xu Qiao returned to the computer and told Gao Ming that he had something to do, then he opened Weibo to find out what was going on.
Before he could finish reading the whole story, Mo Chenghong called.
I thought he would scold me, but what he said was: "Si Yi was in a car accident."
"What?" Xu Qiao clenched the phone and pursed his lips.
"We had a car accident on our way back from the celebration banquet. The car on the opposite side hit us. Si Yi helped Yu Ruwei block the car. One of his ribs was fractured and his head hit the car window, but it wasn't serious."
Mo Chenghong sighed, "He's still in a coma. The doctor said he's fine. He'll wake up soon and will be fine in two days. He's young and won't have any sequelae."
Hearing that it was nothing serious, Xu Qiao felt relieved and asked again: "So is he still in Venice now?"
Mo Chenghong nodded: "Well, come back when Si Yi is better. Anyway, the injury is not serious, and he should be able to recover before his visa expires."
The car accident involving the newly crowned Best Actor temporarily put the bed-substitute incident behind the scenes, allowing people to focus on Xu Siyi's physical condition.
Yu Ruwei did not return to China either, but stayed in Venice to help take care of the patient in the ward.
This attracted media attention.
In the subsequent online interview, Yu Ruwei faced the camera without makeup and looked a little haggard.
She said with red eyes that Xu Siyi was hit while trying to protect herself. She was very grateful and sorry, and hoped that he could wake up and recover soon.
This makes people think more.
Yu Ruwei didn't think too much about it and just expressed her gratitude. However, her agent was a powerful figure and simply made a fuss about it.
He didn't dare to be too blatant, for fear of upsetting Xu Siyi when he woke up, so he just found a marketing account to spread some specious news.
Rumors about their romance emerged.
[Si Yi took good care of her when they were walking on the red carpet, and he even protected her when she got into a car accident. Although I don’t want to admit it, it’s probably true…]
[Stop it, I don't believe it]
[Girlfriend fans cried]
[If my brother is really in love, I will still bless him]
[Yu Ruwei actually has a good impression of her. She has good acting skills and doesn’t do anything weird.]
[Don't talk nonsense. My brother is just a responsible and kind person. He subconsciously protected the people around him when something happened. I don't believe there is any relationship between the two.]
Mo Chenghong was a little angry when he mentioned this: "She has always been tepid. Si Yi's popularity already accounts for half of the traffic. This time he won the title of Best Actor, and his traffic and strength are both secured. It would be a benefit to be associated with him at this time, haha."
After saying that, he frowned again, "But I'm not in a hurry to dispel the rumors."
He sighed and said to Xu Qiao on the phone: "They are spreading rumors for a while, but it just happens to divert attention away from you. We can dispel the rumors after Si Yi wakes up."