Thailand and even Southeast Asia as a whole are one of the important activity areas for Kpop. Many famous and up-and-coming idol groups will try to come here to carry out some activities to increase their awareness in Asia.
Although EXO has been limited to a boy group that mainly operates in Peninsula and Xia Kingdom since before their debut, they also attach great importance to the market in Southeast Asia, and their popularity here is also quite good.
After returning from Thailand, Chi Jingyuan returned to the crew of "Misheng" without stopping. Seeing his return, both the director, writer and other actors breathed a sigh of relief.
Not long after filming started, the lead actor was injured and left. Many people who didn't know the specific situation were a little uneasy. Moreover, even if they had been filming other people's scenes for more than eight days, there was not much to shoot, even group portraits.
However, the main character Zhang Keli appeared too frequently in the movie, and it would be almost impossible to film without Chi Jingyuan.
Chi Jingyuan received a warm welcome as soon as he entered the 15th floor of Lotte Plaza. A group of seniors gathered together, applauded and cheered him back from injury. Such enthusiasm made Chi Jingyuan himself feel a little embarrassed.
Although I have been absent for more than a week, fortunately, the crew started filming relatively early, leaving nearly two months of filming before the premiere. In addition, the previous filming went smoothly and progressed very quickly. At present, the remaining time is
It's still enough, but Chi Jingyuan will definitely be busy in the next few days.
At the same time that Ji Kyung Won returned to the crew and started filming again, after such unsatisfactory events as SNSD's relationship was exposed one after another, Byun Baek Hyun's relationship was exposed, Luhan quit the group, FX ended the activities early, Red Velvet was boycotted after their debut, etc.
, SM Company finally announced good news on the 15th.
An announcement was made at noon that the girl group Girls' Generation has reached a contract renewal for all members, and will continue to carry out activities as members of Girls' Generation and singers affiliated with SM for the next three years.
An insider said that this contract renewal is completely different from the model they signed together as rookies before their debut. This time it is the result of negotiations between the members and their agencies. Girls’ Generation members who have already entered the ranks of big-name stars will be based on their own
Everyone asked for different conditions, and after many rounds of negotiations, the contract renewal for all members was finally completed.
Some insiders also revealed that the contract renewal between Girls' Generation and SM Entertainment was actually completed quite early, because the news was not made public at the time.
As for why it was suddenly announced now, the specific reason is unclear.
As soon as the news came out, SM's stock price rose immediately, and the excitement of the sones who remained on the Internet was palpable.
This year's Girls' Generation is actually experiencing a bit of Mercury retrograde. From the beginning of the year until now, few things have gone well. The contract year has already reached September and there is no certainty. This has made many young fans a little on tenterhooks, fearing that they might wake up.
I heard some completely unacceptable news like 'if the contract renewal is not reached, Girls' Generation will go solo and not disband'.
Seeing that the contracts of all members have been renewed this time, many of the previously suppressed ones became elated and made various comments on the Internet: "Even if this year's results are indeed not as good as in previous years, as long as the nine girls are together, there will be no problem, no matter what
We will always support them through high mountains and low valleys!”
"No matter how much Girls' Generation declines, it will always be a mountain standing in the way of all girl groups. I know that this golden brand is something that SM will never give up."
"As expected, how many people in the entire peninsula don't know Girls' Generation's name?"
"Taeyeon, you should have received solo resources after renewing your contract, right? We fans have been waiting for many years, hurry up and sing your favorite songs solo, Wuli Golden Singer!"
"This is Girls' Generation now, it will be Girls' Generation from now on, it will always be Girls' Generation!"
Looking at these speeches through the screen, Chi Jingyuan can feel the joy and relief of the sones. They have really been suppressed for too long.
He didn't pay much attention to this matter during this period. Although the contract extension may have been reached long ago, after seeing it, Chi Jingyuan was still very happy for Taeyeon and Sunny. He even took time to give Jin Tae special care when the crew was taking a break.
Yan and Sunny called to express their congratulations.
But the call process was a bit beyond his expectation. Neither Kim Taeyeon nor Sunny seemed to be very happy about this matter. Although they both smiled when facing Chi Jingyuan's congratulations.
He expressed his gratitude and made a few jokes without any unusual tone, but he felt keenly that there seemed to be a trace of reluctance in the laughter between the two of them, as if they were not in a good mood these days.
But it may be that Chi Jingyuan thinks too much and feels wrong.
Sunny didn't say anything else. They chatted about the recent situation, paid attention to Chi Jingyuan's recovery from injury, and then hung up.
They had already spoken on the phone separately on the day Chi Jingyuan had the accident.
However, Kim Taeyeon made an invitation that surprised Chi Jingyuan:
"We are currently recording a TTS reality show. There are several plans to invite our friends to come over and record together. Jingyuan, do you want to come over and have fun?"
Chi Jingyuan was stunned for a second, then reflexively said, "Reality show? Are you going to come back, Noona?"
"Didn't I tell you a long time ago? The company also announced a lot of news and concept photos in the past few days..." As she spoke, Kim Taeyeon realized something was wrong, and her voice suddenly became louder: "Ah, Chi Jingyuan
,Are you not paying attention to the recent situation of Nuna at all? As a friend, you don’t know about such an important thing as TTS’s comeback soon?”
"Arnie, how could you not know? I have already seen the MV trailer released today. It is quite good. TTS is great!"
Chi Jingyuan popped up the call page, quickly opened Naver and searched for TTS, then glanced at the news on the top headlines, and replied with a clear tone in his heart: "There is no problem with the reality show, Nuna
Ask your agent to send me a rough recording schedule, and I will definitely come if I can spare the time."
"Okay, then I'll ask him to send it to you then."
Kim Taeyeon's voice sounded quite happy, but she still added: "But Jingyuan, aren't you filming recently? Just come in your own time. If there is no schedule, forget it."
"Arathor."
Chi Jingyuan said that he understood and hung up the phone after chatting for a few more words.
Regardless of all the speculation, SNSD's contract renewal is indeed good news, both for the fans, the company and the members themselves.
Just like everything else, this is already a golden brand.
But it's OK to express my concern and congratulations. I haven't had time to think about other things in the past two days.
After returning to the crew, we spent more than two days of reshoots in the dark. From the time we started shooting in the morning until the end at midnight, it was basically all Chi Jingyuan's scenes. It was like we were trying to make up for the 8 o'clock break.
Same as coming back.
However, after two busy days, Ji Kyung-won said goodbye to the crew again and returned to EXO to start preparing for the Incheon Hallyu Tour Concert and the opening ceremony of the Incheon Asian Games to be held on the 17th and 19th respectively.
Fortunately for the former, EXO has already participated several times and is very familiar with it. They sang "Overdose" and there was no problem with a little rehearsal. The main purpose was to rehearse and practice for the warm-up stage of the Asian Games later.
This is a task assigned by the above. From the company to the group, they pay special attention to it and cannot tolerate any mistakes. Everyone in EXO has spent all their time on this in the past few days. I don’t know how many times they have rehearsed it.
It’s not just them, it’s the same with several other groups that also have stage performances. For example, BigBang doesn’t play with mystery or personality this time. Like EXO, they spend all day in the venue rehearsing together these days. They have a lot of love for each other.
We met countless times in the past two days.
It's just that the seniority and age gap between the two groups is a little big. The relationship between SM and YG is average, and the relationship between the members of the two groups can't be said to be very good. Except for Li Shengli, Park Chanyeol and team leader Kim Junmyeon, they often chat and socialize.
, the others are just saying hello.
In addition to the warm-up stage, EXO-M's Lay and Chen were also invited to be guest reporters for the Asian Games on Xiaguo TV. They will participate in the live broadcast and interviews of the Asian Games, which can be regarded as a relatively high-profile event.
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In fact, they initially thought about letting Chi Jingyuan work with Lay as the special reporter, but after some consideration and discussion, they decided to choose someone from the M team, and finally selected Xia Wen's best member Chen
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Chi Jingyuan himself does not lack this exposure. He himself has been so busy these two days that he can almost breathe.
On September 19, the Asian Games was officially held at the Incheon Asian Games Main Stadium. On the warm-up stage before the opening ceremony, EXO, which many fans had been waiting for, finally appeared.
Chi Jingyuan and the members were all dressed in gray suits and stood in the middle of the empty stadium. Eleven people posed in the classic "Tree of Life" pose. All the eyes of the 60,000 spectators in the surrounding auditorium were focused on them.
There are many people with high status among them, and there are no one knows how many thousands of people are watching them on the TV that is filming them live in front of them.
There is really a feeling of being noticed by everyone.
To be honest, when Chi Jingyuan was just standing here waiting for the opening, his legs were shaking a little, and his breathing was very rapid in his chest. He lowered his head and kept exhaling. Even though he had rehearsed countless times, he was really standing on this stage.
At that time, my whole body was very nervous.
He has never felt so cramped on stage before, and he hasn't felt this kind of heart-beating feeling for a long time.
Chi Jingyuan could tell that he was not the only one who had this experience. He could clearly see the hands of Wu Shixun standing in front of him, Luhan who replaced Luhan who had left, and Baekhyun Bian who was holding arms with his partner and playing the role of a tree branch.
His legs and arms were shaking, and he was obviously very panicked. He no longer had the disdainful look he had on his face before he came on the field.
It took a long time for these people to be so calm before they came out, but they were all just pretending.
After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the music of "Wolf" finally started playing amidst the noisy sounds. The dance that had been performed countless times was smoothly displayed under muscle memory. After the performance officially started, the nervousness before was also unconscious.
It faded a lot, and the members were all immersed in the performance on stage.
After "Wolf" ended, the members stood in a row and greeted the audience and introduced themselves. Then Kim Junmyeon took the microphone and said a few words of congratulations on behalf of EXO, and then went on to the next performance without interruption.
"roar"
After the electronic music prelude, which was very familiar to most of the audience, sounded, the stadium was filled with loud cheers for a short period of time.
Even though this year's "Addiction" performed very well, and "I Need U" and "Dope" are both very popular and have their own fans, no one would question the fact that EXO's most representative classic song is still "Roar"
The members themselves also feel this way.
After Luhan left, the 11-person version of the roar was pretty much the same as before. It was just that when it was the second team's turn to perform the second verse, Chi Jingyuan would stand over and fill Luhan's place, but he just danced along without his own part.
, Luhan’s original part has been distributed to several other members.
After the performance, all the members bowed together and then quickly trotted out of the venue and headed backstage, as if they really didn't want to stay here for a second.
The pressure to perform on such an occasion is really quite high.
As soon as he entered the backstage, Chi Jingyuan took off his suit and gasped for air. Just two songs made him sweat a lot, and his legs and feet were still a little weak. It felt worse than dancing for a whole concert.
Very tired.
"Hey Yigu...Hey Yigu...ah..." Chen and Chanye next to them kept shouting to express their emotions. Judging from their looks, they probably managed to hold on.
"We watched it on TV and the performance was very successful. The director just had a phone call with me. The company is very satisfied with our performance."
I went back to the lounge and found a place to sit. I took the drinks handed to me by my agent and assistant, and everyone took a few gulps with relief. Then I listened to Li Chenghuan standing there and summing up a little excitedly.
"Finally we have solved this case. The children have worked hard, but we have to fly to Xia Country later. The company has already booked the air tickets. When we get back, we will have a dinner together to celebrate."
Chi Jingyuan and several other members drank water and gestured to indicate OK.
It doesn't matter if we have a dinner party or something, the main thing is just like what Li Chenghuan said, I finally completed this important stage performance, and I feel a lot more relaxed all of a sudden.
That night, the EXO team flew to Xia Tianjing with the team, and held two concerts at the MasterCard Center on the 20th and 21st.
These two Tianjing concerts are the last two performances of EXO in the near future, and they are also the last two performances of this year's summer tour in mainland China. There will be a long time between the next concerts, and the latest one will have to wait until Neon Fukuoka in November.
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In other words, in the next two months, apart from the unavoidable advertising, Chi Jingyuan can focus all his energy on the filming of the TV series and some accompanying publicity.
After the performance, EXO went back to Peninsula without stopping. Ji Kyung-won had a meal with the members to celebrate and then returned to the set without stopping.
The next few days were continuous filming in darkness. The rest time of the previous few days and the time of rehearsing for the Asian Games were all made up at this time. Every day from the morning until the early morning when the crew got off work, Chi Jing
Yuan, the leading actor, was the highlight of the filming.
Every day is busy and tiring. He once again felt the fatigue and busyness he had when filming "Reply" and "The Heirs". He felt that he had lost a little weight in the past few days.
However, Chi Kyung-won actually enjoyed it. To be honest, it was really fun to shoot the workplace drama, and the atmosphere on the "Misung" crew was also very good. Director Kim Won-seok was often cheerful when he was not getting angry and lecturing people.
He likes to make jokes, and inviting several other actors is also very interesting. Li Xingmin just called Chi Jingyuan several times to go have a drink.
And it’s not just Chi Jingyuan who is tired. All the crew members, including the actors, are actually working very hard, but no one said anything, and they don’t know what’s going on. I feel that the more we shoot, the more energetic we become.
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Maybe it's because they are more in tune with each other, or maybe everyone has more confidence in this drama.
Today is the 25th. At this time, the crew of "Misborn" is taking a break for dinner. Chi Jingyuan and a few seniors gathered together to eat noodles and burgers while watching the extremely popular news on their mobile phones.
There has been a big scandal recently, and several of their leading actors are gathering together to discuss it.
As he was talking, the phone in Chi Jingyuan's hand suddenly rang. He glanced at the caller, picked up a paper and wiped his mouth, then nodded to several senior actors at the table and walked to the side with the phone in hand.
Connected.
As soon as the connection was connected, a very familiar voice came in. He said directly without even saying hello: