Caught in Affairs with Superstar-Chapter 913 - 569: The Parachuted Girl (Part 3)

Xu Jinbo asked Yuk Chu, "How well do you hold your liquor?"

Yuk Chu smiled and said, "I’m similar to Zhou Yun, just average. Mainly, I don’t really enjoy drinking; at most, I have some cocktails occasionally."

Xu Jinbo: "You women all like cocktails. If you ask me, they’re just sweet drinks, not much to them."

Yuk Chu: "Well, you men can drink. If you really make me drink liquor, I’d pass out from just one sip, totally knocked out."

"It can’t be that exaggerated, right?" Xu Jinbo widened his eyes and asked.

"It really is that exaggerated, I’m not lying to you," Yuk Chu said.

At the dining table, since everyone was from the crew with no special guests to entertain, the conversation was quite relaxed.

"You were quite something this afternoon, Xiao Wu." Zuo Yuan suddenly brought up the afternoon incident, looking at the screenwriter Wu Zhengguang.

Wu Zhengguang was eating, and upon hearing Zuo Yuan’s words, he sighed. He had a scholarly look with fair skin, a bookish air, wearing silver-rimmed glasses. He didn’t look old, but was actually over forty. Sitting at the table, he hadn’t been talking much, mainly listening and occasionally smiling and agreeing.

"I put so much effort into writing the script, and it got nitpicked by someone not thinking straight. I was quite angry at that moment," Wu Zhengguang said. "To be honest, I was already holding back my temper."

"Don’t be fooled by Old Wu’s appearance. When he really gets angry, he’s quite fierce," Zuo Yuan laughed. "I’ve worked with him on another film before. There was this actor with connections who kept pointing fingers on set, blaming Old Wu for writing convoluted lines that were hard to memorize. Wu Zhengguang was so angry he gave the actor a good scolding right on set."

Zhou Yun gave Wu Zhengguang a surprised look.

Just like Zuo Yuan said, Wu Zhengguang didn’t look like someone with a bad temper. He seemed more like an elegant scholar who would use a gentler method to advise an unruly student.

"But, Teacher Wu, what made you want to write a story about two women?" Zhou Yun curiously asked, "I always thought the scriptwriter was a woman. When I read the script, I felt like only a woman could write with such delicate insight into female minds."

Wu Zhengguang waved his hand. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

"I’ve always been interested in human psychology, whether men or women. I like creating dilemmas for characters to explore how they change within those predicaments."

"I like this script, especially every decision between these two women," Zhou Yun said. "Even though not every decision was right, in the end, they chose not to compromise and instead trusted their true selves amidst their struggles. That’s admirable, something we ourselves rarely manage to do."

"Exactly."

They chatted about the script for a while.

Wu Zhengguang suddenly mentioned He Wenyun.

He asked Xu Jinbo, "Producer Xu, what’s the deal with He Wenyun? She suddenly parachuted in just before we started filming."

Xu Jinbo sighed, "Our company boss went on a business trip to the United States and happened to encounter her. He saw some scenes she filmed there and was very impressed, so he persuaded her to come back home."

Saying this, he glanced at Zhou Yun.

What he didn’t say was that his boss had another remark.

His boss said, if nurtured well, this person could potentially compete with Zhou Yun.

Xu Jinbo didn’t quite agree with his boss’s view.

For an actress to reach Zhou Yun’s level, talent and luck are indispensable.

Even if He Wenyun can act, can she have the audience appeal and award-winning luck that Zhou Yun has?

Not necessarily, especially since Zhou Yun is already established. The best resources will always be offered to Zhou Yun first, and only if she declines would they go to others.

But Xu Jinbo had to support his boss’s words.

Wu Zhengguang said, "I heard that this young woman has a solid foundation in delivering lines. Did she graduate from a professional college?"

"I don’t know about that, but she is indeed quite capable. I’ve seen a few of her scenes. Her acting is really impressive," Xu Jinbo said. "She acted in two films in the United States. As a Chinese without any fame, she got a supporting role in a superhero movie with about ten minutes of screen time, and she played the third female lead in another film by a renowned director. Honestly, she was doing quite well in the United States. If she continued to stay there, she might even become the next Yang Ziqiong."