Chapter 152 Filming a Commercial with Zeng Lai
The next morning.
After getting up, Xu Kun opened his phone and took a look, only to find that he had 52 missed calls last night.
I can’t live like this anymore, I have to find an assistant!
“You should get an agent.”
Jiang Shan, who was dressing up with her back to Xu Kun, suggested without turning her head.
After leaving Ge You's house yesterday, Xu Kun originally wanted to stay in a hotel for the night, but seeing that it was not far from Jiang Shan's villa, he simply came to live with the rich woman.
"forget it."
Xu Kun went to the master bedroom bathroom without any clothes on and flushed the toilet. Then he said as he put on his clothes, "Didn't Zhao Yanzi get tricked by her agent?"
"What? The one who got beaten, Zou Yu, was a reporter before. She was Junqi's best friend, not his agent."
There are many different opinions about the grievances in the story. Some say that Zou Xue was the mastermind behind the military flag incident, while others say that Zou Yu and Zhao Yanzi opened a bar together and cheated Zhao Yanzi of her money by falsifying the accounts. There are even those who say both are true.
However, Xu Kun focused his main energy on "Heroes of Heavenly Sword", and he didn't understand it very well, nor did he have any intention of studying it in detail.
After bidding farewell to Jiang Shan, with whom he had spent a night together, Xu Kun drove Hao Lei's Golf to an advertising company in the north of the city. Hao Lei was drunk yesterday at noon, and after Xu Kun drove her back, he couldn't just walk to Ge You's house, right?
When we arrived at the advertising company, staff were already waiting for us at the door.
Xu Kun followed her to the dressing room on the fourth floor and saw Zeng Lai had already arrived. She was sitting in front of the mirror, allowing the makeup artist to work on her.
The two nodded in agreement, feeling somewhat uncomfortable with each other.
The two have rarely seen each other since they returned to Beijing on May Day. If the brand had not given too much this time and had not found Jia Yueting to be the middleman, Xu Kun and Zeng Lai would probably have to wait until the Tianjian celebration banquet in a few days before they could meet again.
Xu Kun sat in front of another dressing table, and the staff handed him a thin script before putting makeup on him.
This is quite professional.
It is said that this advertisement is only fifteen seconds long. Xu Kun did not expect that the advertising company had specially prepared a script.
He glanced through it curiously and found that he was actually a supporting role, or a "pendant" in the advertisement.
He didn't have a single line throughout the whole process. All he had to do was look at Zeng Lai lovingly, then half-kneel down and hug her tightly, with his face resting on her belly.
Zeng Lai's initial gloomy expression changed into a peaceful, happy, refreshed and comfortable look.
At this time, a special effect will be added in the post-production stage, and Xu Kun’s chest muscles will be photoshopped into an oversized sanitary napkin, and a voice-over will be heard: Always, 360-degree perfect protection without blind spots, is our unswerving vow until death.
Eunuch, eunuch!
Embarrassed Xu Kun almost mistook the third floor for the second floor.
However, we have to give face to Mr. Jia. Besides, although the price of sanitary napkins is cheap, the price offered by Always is not intimidating at all. We have earned 30 in half a day.
This is almost one-tenth of Uncle Benshan's - at that time, Benshan Media's external quotation was 400 million for one advertisement.
Although Zeng Lai was the heroine, she only received 12 yuan.
However, compared to before, her net worth has increased sixfold - the most expensive commercial she had ever shot was only 6 yuan, and it was a one-minute long commercial.
Although Xu Kun came later, men's hairstyle is relatively simple. Plus, he is not the effeminate type who needs to put on makeup, so he finished his makeup earlier than Zeng Lai.
Seeing Xu Kun being led to the next room to change clothes, Zeng Lai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Yixiang openly "confessed" on TV and apologized to her repeatedly, which made her almost let go of this relationship. But because of this, she felt embarrassed when she recalled how proactive she was in taking revenge on Li Yixiang with Xu Kun.
And in this embarrassment, there are other emotions mixed in, including gratitude and guilt.
Needless to say, she was grateful. If Xu Kun had not agreed to let her play the leading female role in Tian Jian, she would have no idea how long she would have had to wait to gain both fame and fortune.
As for the guilt, it was mainly because of the character Tang Ruoxuan played by her. Although her acting reputation surpassed Liu Yifei with the final outburst scene, the popularity she brought was far less than that of the other.
If someone else played the role...
Half an hour later, when the two met again at the shooting site, Xu Kun had changed into a chest-revealing outfit as expected, and there was no telling what was painted on his chest muscles, which looked like a matte metallic texture, further highlighting his wild charm.
During the formal filming, although the movements were very awkward, Xu Kun was now considered experienced and nothing went wrong during the process.
But Zeng Lai's expression was somewhat stiff.
“Good, not bad!”
The advertising director praised her a few times before reminding her, "Mr. Xu, keep your gaze. Ms. Zeng, can we act a little more relaxed?"
"sorry."
After Zeng Lai apologized to the staff, he took several deep breaths to calm himself down.
"Are you concerned?"
Xu Kun was a little confused: "It's not like we haven't filmed more explicit actions before."
Zeng Lai glanced at him sideways, and then silently adjusted his emotions for a while before signaling to the director that they could reshoot.
Xu Kun also quickly switched to perseverance mode, staring at Zeng Lai with burning eyes, waiting for the director's order, and immediately knelt on one knee and hugged him.
"good very good!"
This time the director praised them a few more times as usual, then came over and corrected the two men's movements - mainly Xu Kun's movements. According to the director, he should use some strength to force Zeng Lai to lean slightly.
At the same time, the director also hoped that Zeng Lai could reveal some surprises when being hugged.
Before starting to shoot the commercial, Xu Kun thought that the 30 yuan was easy to earn and even felt a little guilty.
But when I started filming, I found that filming commercials is actually more tiring than filming TV series. When filming a TV series, as long as your performance is approved by the director, he can directly cut to the next shot.
But it’s different when shooting commercials. Even if the director is satisfied, he will still propose various changes and try to make several versions so that he can compare and select them later.
Xu Kun became annoyed and irritated after having to go through this again and again.
The same was probably true for Zeng Lai, because every time Xu Kun hugged her, he could hear her heartbeat faster and louder than before, and in the end it was almost no different from the beating of a drum.
At 11: am, the director finally let the two go with satisfaction.
Then the deputy general manager of the advertising company showed up at the right time and invited Xu Kun and Zeng Lai to have lunch together.
Xu Kun originally wanted to decline, but Zeng Lai agreed first, and he didn't want to let Zeng Lai have dinner alone with the people from the advertising company.
But during the dinner, Zeng Lai was obviously absent-minded. It was basically Xu Kun chatting and laughing with the vice president.
Finally, when they were ready to leave after having a good meal and a few drinks, the vice president made a new advertising invitation to Xu Kun alone.
This time it was Tide, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, who wanted to create an advertisement for their newly launched two-in-one laundry detergent.
The reason why it was not discussed in front of Zeng Lai was mainly because Tide wanted Xu Kun and Liu Yifei to co-star in this advertisement.
The general idea is to combine two swords with two effects in one to highlight the advantages of the new two-in-one formula.
It is obvious that Tide, like Always, was attracted by Xu Kun's popularity among women.
Since I have already taken pictures of sanitary napkins, laundry detergent will naturally be no problem.
The two parties reached a verbal agreement. As for the specific details, we have to wait for feedback from Liu Yifei.
Originally, the advertising company wanted to contact Liu Yifei yesterday, but she and her mother flew to Hong Kong Island yesterday, so the contact had to be postponed for the time being.
Speaking of Hong Kong Island, Xu Kun calculated the time with his fingers and found that Jiang Yiyan and the other two should already be at Phoenix TV, preparing to be interviewed by Lu Yu.
Although Cai Yinong and Jia Yueting had communicated beforehand that neither of them was allowed to speak ill of the other's TV series when on the variety show, but looking at Jiang Yiyan's eager and high-spirited look, it was obvious that this recording would not be harmonious.
(End of this chapter)
