"In fact, my acquaintance with Cesare is also related to "Divine Redemption." In the eyes of many people in China, her acquaintance with a world-famous director like Cesare is a very interesting legendary event.
To many people, a talented and famous person like Cesare is like a figure above the clouds. In the eyes of his fans, he has long been deified.
Tao Cen had dealt with Cesare before, so she had more say on this matter than the average person.
Cesare's arrogance is in his bones, and his gentleness and politeness on the surface are just to cover up the recklessness in his blood.
However, such a difficult character has repeatedly expressed his appreciation for Jiang Se. At the French Film Festival a few years ago, he even watched "The Devil" starring Jiang Se. He also reserved a place for Jiang Se in his new work "God's Redemption", and finally let Jiang Se squeeze out Laura and become the leading actor of "God's Redemption".
All this shows that the friendship between Cesare and Jiang Se is far stronger than what the public sees. Tao Cen has never figured out the reason behind this.
When she heard Jiang Se bring it up in the interview, she also went to read it seriously.
"The collection of books in the Imperial Capital's No. 1 University is very rich, with a wide variety of books available for teachers and students to borrow. When I was a freshman, I hadn't signed a contract with an agency yet, and my workload was not heavy, so I had relatively free time, and I spent most of my time in the library."
When Jiang Se said this, Sheng Jingzhi also showed a look of nostalgia.
At this time, many people in front of the camera who were watching this interview had a deeper understanding of Jiang Se.
After graduating from high school, a young and beautiful girl's life should have entered a new chapter, and it is difficult for her to calm down.
Tao Cen recalled her time when she was 18 years old. She had decided to enter the entertainment industry very early on. At that time, in addition to her studies, she focused on gaining screen time and advertising endorsements.
"It was also a coincidence that I borrowed an English novel from school at that time. It had some religious implications and was very interesting." Several years had passed since the incident. Jiang Se thought for a while:
"That book was filled with a lot of religious knowledge and was placed in a corner. Not many people noticed it, so I borrowed it to review my English."
After reading Prisoners, I realized that this novel is very well written, containing a lot of religious knowledge and human satire. Through the novel, we can see the original author's cultivation, mind and connotation. "That year, Cesare happened to be present at the China Film Festival, and he also liked Prisoners very much, so we became friends."
She said it lightly, but behind the friendship, it represents Jiang Se's knowledge and cultivation. He needs to keep up with Cesare's thinking to be qualified to stand on a level close to him.
It was precisely because of her extensive study and reading in private that she was able to seize the opportunity the moment it came.
This interview is of extraordinary significance.
If Jiang Se's fans previously knew her acting skills from her movies and her beauty from her advertising endorsements, then this interview allowed more people to get a glimpse into Jiang Se's private life.
It was like her fans had drawn a circle for her, and during tonight's interview, she filled in the circle herself, making her image in the public's mind more vivid.
Know what kind of girl she is, know the efforts she has made for the movie, know her friendship with Cesare, which originated from "The Divine Redemption", and finally she was able to participate in the filming of "The Divine Redemption".
For more than an hour, Tao Cen felt very strange.
It would be a lie for her to say that she completely understood Jiang Se in such a short time. However, Jiang Se's performance in more than an hour was beyond her expectations.
She thought that Xia Chaoqun chose Jiang Se because she was young and beautiful, and because she had potential resources that were no less than her own, so Xia Chaoqun gave up his own age and chose Jiang Se, who had more potential.
She originally thought that Jiang Se, whom Xia Chaoqun had taken a fancy to, should be the same as herself in some aspects. She should be busy competing for endorsements, getting film resources, not giving up any opportunities, and facing the world ambitiously.
But in the interview, Jiang Se's life is not rushed. She gives people a feeling of being extremely calm. She is not in a hurry to grab scripts or busy competing for endorsements. Her pace is slow, but she takes each step steadily. There is a feeling that even the wind and rain will not shake her.
Tao Cen has practiced all the piano, dancing, and fitness that Jiang Se mentioned. With the sweat he put in, Tao Cen thinks he is not inferior to Jiang Se at all.
Like Jiang Se, she has worked with Xia Chaoqun for many years, so it is inevitable that there will be overlaps in their living habits.
However, Tao Cen suddenly realized that she and Jiang Se should have something in common in some aspects. If she and Jiang Se were originally a piece of paper, Xia Chaoqun was a writer. Having worked with them for many years, she was influenced by Xia Chaoqun's personal characteristics, ambition, drive and enterprising spirit. After working with Xia Chaoqun for many years, the most striking contrast between Jiang Se and Tao Cen today is that she still has her own characteristics.
She also has her ambitions. She knows exactly what she wants. She wants to get the role of Zhang Yuqin in "The Devil". She knows her shortcomings and works hard to practice.
If you want to cooperate with Liu Ye, you have to act like you want help.
She wanted to film the Lost City directed by Cesare, so she studied archaeology for a role in the play, followed the team to the tomb, and disappeared from the entertainment circle for half a year. But she liked the God's Redemption, so she tried her best to fight for it and finally became the female lead.
In some ways, she is somewhat similar to Tao Cen, but also very different from Tao Cen.
After Xia Chaoqun and Tao Cen terminated their contract, Tao Cen had been thinking about the reason.
Was it because she was old and her development in the entertainment industry was restricted, or was it because Xia Chaoqun thought her development was too slow? Tao Cen even thought about whether it was because Xia Chaoqun thought he could no longer bring her new challenges, but only then did she realize that the reason Xia Chaoqun gave up on her might be because she might have lost her own characteristics during these years.
Tao Cen had almost forgotten what she looked like originally. She had been in this industry for more than ten years. During the years she had worked with Xia Chaoqun, she was like a circle that was polished out of a square. She was polished smooth and liked by the audience, but she had nothing to do with the original her in Xia Chaoqun's eyes.
"So, that's how it is..."
Tao Cen twitched the corners of his mouth, wanting to laugh but unable to.
Some aspects of her behavior were like Xia Chaoqun's shadow, including the way she handled problems and her insights. However, in the end, because she was too similar to Xia Chaoqun, she blurred her own identity and was abandoned.
At this moment, the smile on Tao Cen's lips was a little cold, and when Song Yi looked at her, he shuddered for no reason.
Jiang Se's personal interview, as the number of fans watching increased, eventually reached a record of 300 million views, making China Information the biggest winner of the night. After the one and a half hour interview, many fans were still reluctant to leave.
Even though she didn't say much, and compared to her real life, what she revealed in her words might just be the tip of the iceberg, but this has already satisfied many fans.
When Sheng Jingzhi said that this interview was over, many people were reluctant to leave. Even though the live broadcast room had been closed, there were still people who were reluctant to leave under the official website of China Information. They kept asking China Information if they could do another interview with Jiang Se.
The advertisements started playing in the live broadcast room at this moment. Although they knew that the interview was over, He Cong and her bestie were still staring at the screen, hoping that a miracle would happen.
At this moment, like them, many people were waiting for Jiang Se to appear again, even though everyone knew that the interview was over. Jiang Se might have already left the live broadcast room and was preparing to remove her makeup and change clothes.
The best friend was silent. In her mind, the impression left on her about Jiang Se was that she had talent in acting, her movies were touching, she graduated from the best university in the capital, she was the most popular female star in the entertainment industry, and because of the incident with Zhu Pan, her best friend thought that Jiang Se might use her backstage to suppress others.
But today's interview completely cleared away the image of Jiang Se that was previously left in her mind as "arrogant and complacent".
In private, it is hard for people to associate her with arrogance. Instead, she is elegant and gentle, which makes people like her.
"What should I do? I think I like her a little bit."
The best friend murmured to herself that no matter how many times she had watched Jiang Se's movies or how much time she had paid attention to Jiang Se's news, she had always refused to admit that she was a fan of Jiang Se. But now, because of an interview, she couldn't help herself.
The next day, all major media outlets mentioned this exclusive interview with Jiang Se. After this wave of momentum was created, "Exclusive Interview with Jiang Se" became a phenomenal topic. Naturally, Tao Cen's original plan was strangled in the cradle.
The heat brought by the interview is unlikely to dissipate in a short time, but Century Galaxy has remained silent on this, and Luo Yin did not pursue Xia Chaoqun's decision to act first and report later.
His attitude made many people understand Luo Yin's bottom line. As long as it did not damage the image of the artists or the interests of the company, Luo Yin was willing to tolerate the struggle between Tao Cen and Jiang Se within a certain range.
After the talk show, Jiang Se no longer paid attention to the outside public opinion and the fight with Tao Cen, and prepared wholeheartedly for the January exam.
She has been reviewing for more than a year, and Xia Chaoqun signed her up early on. After taking the exam, her work at Tao Cen will come to an end, and she will join the crew of "Criminal Suspect" to start formal filming.
The beginning of January passed quickly, and Jiang Se, who had just finished his exam, quickly got the information about "Criminal Suspect" prepared by Xia Chaoqun.
Tao Cen's work will be completed around February, which means that the filming of "Criminal Suspect" should start in accordance with her as the heroine, and will also start around February.
This time, the information about "Criminal Suspect" that Huo Zhiming brought was far more detailed than before. When Jiang Se opened the folder, in addition to the script, story outline and character outline of "Criminal Suspect", there was also a newly bound "Criminal Suspect".
"It seems the story is a little different." Jiang Se took the rebound version of "Criminal Suspect" and saw at a glance that the thickness was inconsistent with the manuscript she originally received.
She looked through the information bag with the "Character Outline" logo printed on it. After taking it out, she noticed that in the information file sent by Huo Zhiming, the role of "Zhong Qi" originally scheduled for her to play had been changed to "Su Yi".
Xia Chaoqun nodded, "That's why I didn't give you time to rest."
Jiang Se was very busy during her postgraduate entrance examination. Normally, Xia Chaoqun would give her a few days to rest after her exam. "But because Huo Zhiming made a temporary revision to the script, you need to reread the script, outline, and character's biography that you have read before."
Zhang Chi handed Xia Chaoqun a cup of coffee, and she took a sip:
“You can treat it as a whole new story.”
It is already January now, and the crew plans to start filming in February. However, Huo Zhiming made major changes to the script, which meant that all the previous preparations would be scrapped.
Jiang Se frowned. She had heard about Huo Zhiming's extremely willful style of doing things before.
But hearing about it is one thing, and actually facing it is another.
She took a deep breath, and Xia Chaoqun glanced at her:
"The biggest change is in your scene. Tao Cen's side will not be affected much. You should make good use of this time to familiarize yourself with the entire story before joining the crew, and memorize the general plot of the upcoming filming."
Jiang Se felt something was wrong and couldn't help asking:
"Sister Chaoqun, will Director Huo Zhiming suddenly change the plot during filming?"
Xia Chaoqun couldn't help laughing when he saw her serious expression:
"That's hard to say."
Huo Zhiming was originally famous for his willfulness. The old man insisted on having his own style and would never bow to investors, the market or actors. Even though the two actresses he was working with this time were both well-known, he had no intention of compromising.
This is also the reason why he has been less and less accepted by the market in recent years, but people with personality will always be gradually marginalized.
Jiang Se felt a bit of a headache. After many years in the industry, she seldom encountered such a willful person. Seeing her frowning as she flipped through the script, Xia Chaoqun put down the coffee cup in his hand and comforted her:
"I took this opportunity to take a look at the script. After the revision, it is actually more favorable to you."
The role of 'Zhong Qi' that Jiang Se was going to play before had a too monotonous background and an unstable image, which depended entirely on the actor's performance. Although it was challenging, it also had considerable risks.
After being modified by Huo Zhiming, the role was changed to "Su Yi", and the character image was much fuller, so Huo Zhiming's temporary change of the play has both advantages and disadvantages.
At this point, complaining is useless and time is tight. Although Jiang Se feels helpless, instead of wasting time complaining, it is better to read the script for a while, which will be more conducive to the later filming. (To be continued)