Caught in Affairs with Superstar

Chapter 1345: Chapter 705: Fashion-Themed Stories (Part 2)

Zhou Jianfeng suddenly seemed a little anxious and said very earnestly, ”No, Sister Xiao Yun, this is true.”

His expression gave people a sense that he was very serious and sincere.

Zhou Yun nodded and said, ”All right, all right, I believe you. I’ll tell Song Chi later that he’s got a fan like you.”

Zhou Jianfeng scratched his head a little awkwardly.

Zhou Yun asked, ”Then who are your favorite actors? You can’t answer with my name or Song Chi’s.”

Zhou Jianfeng thought about it seriously and said, ”Meryl Streep and Liang Yuanpu.”

That was a very common kind of answer, too.

Zhou Jianfeng suddenly thought of something and said, ”Sister Xiao Yun, what about you?”

”Me?” Zhou Yun pondered for a moment and said, ”There are too many actors I like. If I have to suddenly name one or two, I honestly don’t know who to say, because I’m not professionally trained. When it comes to how to improve my acting, I’ve always watched other people’s performances, imitated and learned from them. A lot of people are actually like teachers to me. Like the Meryl Streep and Liang Yuanpu you just mentioned, I’ve basically watched all their films.”

Zhou Jianfeng let out a surprised ”wow.”

”What is it?”

Zhou Jianfeng said, ”Nothing, I just think you’re amazing, Sister Xiao Yun, you’re so busy and you’ve still watched so many movies.”

”A lot of people think I’m very busy, but I’m actually not that busy,” Zhou Yun said. ”Like when I’m filming abroad, after we wrap for the day, apart from going out for a walk, there’s nothing else to do, so I’ll just watch movies in the hotel, or go to the cinema to watch movies.”

Admiration and envy showed on Zhou Jianfeng’s face.

The biggest difference between Zhou Jianfeng’s work and Zhou Yun’s work was that his was too scattered.

The company arranged a lot of work for him outside of acting, because he was very unknown and he needed exposure.

Only with a large amount of exposure could he be recognized by everyone.

So Zhou Jianfeng had a schedule almost every day. Even when he was filming with a crew, it didn’t mean he could skip other work.

From time to time he had to ask the production for leave and go out to attend some commercial events, magazine shoots, or other jobs.

It was very hard for Zhou Jianfeng to truly settle his mind.

The only relatively pure stretch of filming time he’d had was when he shot Under the Grand Dress, because that was a project Zhou Yun controlled, and everyone knew Zhou Yun’s requirements for her co-actors were very high; she really disliked actors taking leave from the crew at the drop of a hat.

Even for someone from the same company like Zhou Jianfeng, the company didn’t make an exception.

The period filming Under the Grand Dress felt very comfortable to Zhou Jianfeng.

Because during that time he felt he was truly acting, truly creating a character.

For the few projects he did afterward, you couldn’t say they were all slapdash junk, but from the producer to the director to the co-actors, everyone basically took it for granted that this was just a show meant purely to please the audience and succeed commercially.

Under the Grand Dress was actually like that too, but the difference was that everyone was gritting their teeth and creating in earnest.

Zhou Yun and Ning Yufeng were both the kind of people who wanted innovation and respected expression.

So everything was about respecting the creation of this drama; everything was done to make this drama better.

Nobody got some inexplicable extra scenes added, and no actor slacked off and let a stand-in shoot for them, or simply had the screenwriter change the script on the spot just to get the scene over with.

All of this, Zhou Jianfeng had never thought about telling Zhou Yun.

He knew that in a crew where Zhou Yun was filming, this kind of thing would never happen.

Zhou Yun would not allow it.

Zhou Jianfeng also really wanted to be able to tell the director, with full confidence, that he didn’t want to act that way.

But he couldn’t.

He knew his own status and position. He also knew that the reason he could act in these projects wasn’t because his acting was so good or his popularity so high. The only reason he could get these roles was that the company had done a lot of work for him, making some resource exchanges so he could obtain those opportunities.

Zhou Jianfeng didn’t have the confidence to bring his own opinions and ideas to the production.

On the surface, Zhou Jianfeng looked like a very cool, hard-to-approach person, but in fact he was not as rebellious and unrestrained as Gu Huaichun.

Of course, Zhou Jianfeng also knew that someone like Gu Huaichun had been accused of acting like a big shot on set more than once.

Whether he was really putting on airs was unknown. But the fact that people said so about him had indeed happened.