A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 431 Going to the neighboring crew to ask for money

After two days of promotion with the Wolf Warrior crew, Chen Jinnian returned to the crew in Qingdao alone to continue the intense filming.

Wang Yidi was persuaded by Qiao Yingzi to leave and became a volunteer under an assumed name. Wang Yiming was worried about his sister, so he followed her.

So Chen Jinnian became completely alone, and even had to queue up to get food and water.

"Can't you arrange a life assistant?" Zhao Jinmai pouted and stuffed the lunch box heavily into his hands.

"Thank you auntie for me."

After Chen Jinnian finished speaking, he casually sat cross-legged on the ground, opened his lunch box and started eating voraciously.

"Can you please pay more attention to your image? Look at the other guest actors. They all bring four or five assistants and professional makeup artists with them at all times. If they're thirsty, there's someone to give them water. If they're hot, there's someone to fan them. They even have professional chefs to prepare their three meals a day. They eat very different food than us."

Zhao Jinmaidun was beside him, pointing at the artist team in the distance. It was the first time she had seen a star with such an air of arrogance.

"If you work hard to earn more money for the company, I will also help you form a comprehensive assistant team." Chen Jinnian was not surprised. For first- and second-tier actors with some fame, this was basically standard.

Human resources in the entertainment industry are not valuable. A personal assistant can earn a maximum of 50,000 yuan per year. It doesn’t cost much to hire eight or ten of them, and it’s also a good idea to take them out.

"How could I have money? The most money I ever earned was from the money you gave me from my last movie." Zhao Jinmai muttered to herself as she poked the rice in her lunch box with her chopsticks.

"The money will come, and the variety show has been arranged for you. If Huang Lei doesn't admit it, I will take you to find him." Chen Jinnian reached out and patted the other person's head.

He found that Zhao Jinmai was really twisted. She was obviously a wealthy woman, but she accepted all kinds of outrageous pay. When she was filming "Go Brother, Go", she accepted a pay of 20,000 yuan, and now she is filming "Little Big Women", and she also accepted a pay of 50,000 yuan.

"You have money, so why don't you form a team?"

"Thank you, I have hands and feet, and I don't accept commercial performances or announcements, so I don't need a team." Chen Jinnian doesn't like having strangers around him, and he can't enjoy it as comfortably as a rich landlord.

Then he saw that Zhao Jinmai didn't want to eat, so he asked, "Do you still want to eat? If not, I'll take you to the next door crew for a buffet."

"This rice tastes so bad." Zhao Jinmai showed a distressed expression on her face.

The reason why the boxed lunches were unpalatable was not because Guo Xun was stingy. It was simply that there were too many people in the crew, and it was already very difficult to ensure that everyone could eat hot and clean meals at the same time. As for the taste and the small pot dishes prepared for the leading actors, he really couldn't take care of them.

"Wait until I finish these two bites, then we'll go." Chen Jinnian quickly shoveled the food into his mouth, then closed the empty box, poked it upwards with chopsticks, and walked out with Zhao Jinmai.

The treatment of the crew next door was much better than that of the little broken ball. In order to cater to the tastes of foreign staff, they even arranged a buffet.

Ning Hao, who was tired of being poor while filming in his early years, spared no expense when it came to food.

Chen Jinnian drove a broken manual transmission Jetta and rushed over with Zhao Jinmai. The security of the crew saw the familiar car and didn't even try to stop him, letting him drive into the set unimpeded.

"Hey guys, why are you two here again? It's not over yet, is it?" Huang Bo asked jokingly when he saw the two people getting out of the car.

Zhao Jinmai was shy and a little embarrassed, so she shrank behind Chen Jinnian to avoid his sight.

But Chen Jinnian was already an iron wall, and such a light sentence could not break his defense.

"Of course I have to come. I have to regularly check how you are doing and whether the hygiene is up to standard. We can't let these foreigners who come from afar say bad things about us when they go back."

There are quite a few foreigners in Ning Hao's crew. Some of them are actors who appear on screen, and a considerable number of them are behind-the-scenes staff, who are employees of foreign special effects production companies.

Chen Jinnian picked up the plate and handed it to Zhao Jinmai behind him, then walked to the buffet area to pick and choose. He didn't eat everything, for example, he just skipped the pile of Italian fried noodles.

Seeing them coming over to ask for money, Ning Hao, holding a Buddhist rosary he'd found somewhere, walked over with a square step, "You two can't just eat for free every day, how about a guest appearance?"

Chen Jinnian tilted his head and glanced at him, and found that after coming to the beach, the other party had let himself go. He wore frog-eye glasses on his forehead, a baggy sailor shirt tucked into his shorts, and a short-sleeved floral shirt on the outside. From a distance, he looked like a gangster.

He was a gangster who had just been released from labor reform. Huang Bo stood next to him, looking as docile as a lackey who had made an error.

"Rangrang, your abacus beads are breaking my face."

Chen Jinnian said unhappily, "Like brother, like brother." As the leader of Guo Xun, Ning Hao was also good at calculating. He knew how much a guest appearance would cost and how much a self-service fee would cost. It was a nice thought.

After hearing this, Zhao Jinmai could only try hard to hold back her laughter. After all, Chen Jinnian's status allowed him to joke with Ning Hao casually, but she couldn't. She was still quite afraid of this "gangster boss" in front of her.

"Based on our brotherhood, can't I let you make a cameo appearance? And I won't let you help me in vain. How about I make a cameo appearance in your movie next time?" Ning Hao continued.

Chen Jinnian originally wanted to refuse. After all, the other party's acting range was very narrow. He could only play gangsters and gangsters. But on second thought, he seemed to really need this kind of special actor.

"You take two steps back."

Ning Hao reached out and scratched the beard on his cheek. He didn't understand what he meant, but still followed the instruction and took two steps back.

"Turn around, slowly."

Ning Hao took small steps and turned around twice on the spot.

Chen Jinnian nodded in satisfaction and immediately agreed, "Deal, then it's a deal."

"No, you really want me to make a guest appearance." Ning Hao himself was confused. He was just joking, but he didn't expect Chen Jinnian to take it seriously. That would be terrible, he had never performed on stage himself before.

"Don't worry, just act as yourself. Just be a little restrained during filming."

Chen Jinnian planned to let Ning Hao play a gangster boss who would get killed right at the beginning.

"Oh, wow, this is really great, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In this situation, shouldn't we go for a drink? Come on, I'll treat you, let's all go." Shen Teng immediately started to make a fuss and pulled Huang Bo out.

Huang Bo's eyes flickered, and he knew what Shen Teng was planning. He immediately agreed, "Yes, a directorial debut is indeed worth celebrating. So, I'll go book a venue now, and we'll all go have some fun."

The two of them supported each other and walked out in unison, which made Ning Hao so angry that his face was full of black lines.

"Stop right there, both of you. Come back here. No one can leave until today's filming is finished." The louder he shouted, the faster Huang Bo and Shen Teng walked. After they reached a certain distance, they ran away.

Chen Jinnian and Zhao Jinmai were stunned.

"What kind of scene did you guys film today that could make these two run away?"