At this moment, Guo Xinya, who was also wearing wire work equipment, walked over to Xiao He's side: "These people really know how to flatter the wrong person."
Xiao He chuckled lightly, maintaining his cautious and prudent style as he tactfully agreed: "It's mainly because everyone is hearing for the first time that Yan Shaohan is Director Ning's disciple."
Director Ning, whose real name was Ning Jiaqi, was also quite a capable major director. He was an outstanding figure from the same era as Lin Yipeng's father Lin Jiexiu, except that Lin Jiexiu's network foundation was in Shanghai, while Ning Jiaqi's network foundation was in Beijing.
These two networks belonged to different circles, respectively belonging to the Beijing circle and Shanghai circle. In earlier years, there had been subtle competitive relationships between them. However, in recent years with the rapid development of information and the emergence of more and more outstanding young people, the older generation's practice of drawing circles and taking sides was gradually becoming less effective. So actually, the exchanges between these two circles had become quite close.
Of course, these weren't the main point. The main point was that even though Ning Jiaqi also taught as a professor at Beijing Drama Academy, not just anyone could become his "disciple."
There could be many students, but only a few disciples.
Taking Xiao He's relationship with his private acting teacher An Chengguang as an example, Xiao He was currently still just An Chengguang's student, far from reaching a "master-disciple relationship."
So just from this single form of address, one could already see what kind of relationship this newly arrived assistant director had with Director Yan.
I'm afraid these people's original calculations were about to fall through.
Guo Xinya had previously appeared in Ning Jiaqi's films, so she wasn't unfamiliar with him.
"Actually, I had vaguely noticed before that he had some of Director Ning's shadow about him." Guo Xinya smiled, "His set of scolding techniques carries some of Director Ning's true teachings."
Xiao He laughed out loud directly.
So when a disciple learns, first acquiring the master's true scolding techniques - that indeed makes sense.
"Alright, alright, let's quickly start normal filming." After just a few simple pleasantries over there, Fan Congwen urged Yan Shaohan to continue his work, "The filming tasks here are heavy, unlike over at our place. Recently, you're the one who's been working hard."
Then he called over the young assistant to bring him a lounge chair to sit in, simultaneously cutting off Tang Wenjuan's eager desire to chat. Lying back in the lounge chair, he said leisurely and contentedly: "Little junior, I'll leave this to you. I believe in you."
Yan Shaohan also nodded: "Okay, senior brother, just watch me! I'll definitely complete the task smoothly!"
"Ah?"
This time, not only was Tang Wenjuan completely dumbfounded, but everyone else was stunned too.
Fan Congwen had returned to the crew, but he wasn't taking over Yan Shaohan's directing work?
Then what about them? Were they going to continue suffering under Yan Shaohan, this great demon king?
"Director Fan has indeed been working hard recently." Tang Wenjuan tentatively said, "You really should rest well, after all, the upcoming filming tasks are still quite heavy?"
Fan Congwen immediately widened his eyes and looked at Tang Wenjuan: "What? I'm here to be an assistant director. Being able to take over the filming over there is already quite good enough. Don't think about making me work more."
Making him work hard to film on set here? No, that wouldn't do - that's a different price!
Tang Wenjuan: ...
Others: ...
The sky is falling!!!
The savior isn't a savior, the savior can't be relied on either!
Yuan Sitong walked to the set with vacant eyes, letting the wire work technician beside her adjust the equipment on her body.
Thinking about the upcoming filming schedule, she felt like crying but had no tears.
Beside her was another male actor, Li Haoxuan, who looked equally devastated.
Xiao He glanced at Li Haoxuan and, thinking about his upcoming scenes, showed a sympathetic look in his eyes.
Actually, compared to Yuan Sitong, that actor named Li Haoxuan was even more miserable - it could be described as having troubles both at home and abroad.
Li Haoxuan was of mixed nationality from multiple countries, starting as a model with superior looks. But he couldn't even speak Chinese clearly before being stuffed here to replace Lu Yuxi's role, who had been terminated for being late. Normally, forget about scripts, even daily communication still required a translator.
The only comforting thing was that Director Yan could also speak English, so any problems could be directly communicated in English, avoiding the situation where he would talk a bunch, wait for the translator to translate, then Li Haoxuan would talk a bunch, and Yan Shaohan would wait for the translator again.
That would truly be somewhat hopeless.
At the same time, precisely because Li Haoxuan had replaced Lu Yuxi's role, he was now being targeted by Lu Yuxi like a mad dog.
Even though Lu Yuxi had been warned by Zhuang Hongyi before leaving, how could he really swallow his pride and do nothing when his role was replaced by a foreigner who couldn't even speak clearly?
Recently, it had been lively both inside and outside the crew, and the person causing controversy and being questioned by netizens was no longer Xiao He, but Li Haoxuan.
Large numbers of water army and haters had joined the fray, slaughtering the entire "Corner Also" square - the scene was almost unbearable to watch.
Although Li Haoxuan's side wanted to fight back or clarify things, the effect was minimal.
Fortunately, Li Haoxuan's fan base wasn't primarily in China anyway, so these attacks hadn't shaken his overseas fan foundation. Looking at it this way, it was actually Lu Yuxi's side spending money to do marketing for their crew.
Actually not bad, hehe.
But considering that Liu Rulan wasn't here today, and everyone else had already greeted this Director Fan, Xiao He thought for a moment and decided to take advantage of a break in filming to come alone before Fan Congwen and greet him.
"Hello Director Fan, I'm Xiao He, an artist from Linghui Studio. Liu Rulan is my manager. She mentioned you to me before and originally planned to come welcome you, but she happens to be absent today..."
When Fan Congwen heard Liu Rulan's name, he finally looked up at Xiao He, then smiled and gestured for Xiao He to sit: "I know. Liu Rulan actually met with me this morning. She praised you quite thoroughly to me."
Xiao He was somewhat surprised.
He hadn't expected that Liu Rulan's actions were actually the fastest - she had already met with him before Fan Congwen even arrived at the crew.
But that did fit Sister Liu's style.
"Perfect timing, why don't you tell me about the recent situation in the crew." Fan Congwen said with great enthusiasm, "There must have been many interesting things happening in this crew, right?"
Xiao He: ...Well, there have been plenty of interesting things, enough to talk about for a whole day without finishing.
Xiao He originally didn't want to tattle, but considering what happened in the makeup room today, he ended up mentioning it to Fan Congwen.
He had originally planned to tell Sister Liu and let her handle it, but since Director Fan asked, he might as well let Director Fan deal with the headache himself.
Fan Congwen's expression immediately turned somewhat unpleasant.
He had originally been listening to it as gossip, but hadn't expected someone to actually dare use such despicable methods.
If something really happened, the first to bear the brunt wouldn't be Yan Shaohan, but him.
After all, Zhuang Hongyi had sent him to the "Corner Also" crew mainly to intimidate the various bizarre characters in the crew.
"I understand. I'll investigate this thoroughly and handle it properly. Thank you. You can go film now, don't worry about this matter."
Fan Congwen said seriously, then no longer dared to sit and leisurely slack off. He quickly got up to deal with these potential problems.
Confirming that Fan Congwen was taking these issues seriously, Xiao He finally felt relieved and leisurely returned to the set.
Meanwhile, Liu Rulan had already prepared gifts and knocked on the door of a villa in a certain district.
"Hello, my name is Liu Rulan. I'm here to see Director Ning. Is he home?"