On the top floor of Baiyou Entertainment Company's office building, inside Tang Youyou's office.
A woman who looked to be in her thirties was wearing an office uniform and sitting behind the desk with a solemn face. The woman was very beautiful, with a round face, no trace of fat, and a pair of bright eyes that flashed with an inexplicable light.
, if it weren’t for the occasional wrinkles appearing at the corners of her eyes when she frowns, it would be hard to tell that this woman is actually getting older.
Tang Youyou, female, from S City, debuted at a young age, graduated from a major, is the big boss and big boss of Baiyou Entertainment Company. She is already forty-seven years old this year. In two months, she will be forty-eight years old.
For a woman who has been in the entertainment industry for more than thirty years, what kind of thing has she not experienced? Once, in order to act, she suffered a lot, received countless looks, was hurt, and was punished.
She gritted her teeth and persevered. People often say that success is 99% hard work and 1% talent. But for Tang Youyou, her success is only 100% hard work. What is her talent?
have no idea.
When she was young, Tang Youyou did look very cute, but when she grew up, she was no longer cute, and even a little ugly. Others were an ugly duckling when they were young, and a white swan when they grew up, but she was just the opposite. This is for a girl.
For Tang Youyou, who has dreamed of becoming a celebrity since she was a child, this is undoubtedly a big blow. Seeing other people's glory, she can only watch silently, envy, and even be jealous.
However, Tang Youyou did not complain about others, nor did she give up on herself, nor did she choose some dirty transactions. Of course, transactions were not popular at that time, and even if they were, she would not dare to do so. What's more, she really didn't look good at that time, except for
She had no choice but to work harder than others. Many people were not optimistic about Tang Youyou's acting career. Her family advised her to give up, her friends advised her to give up, and people in the industry advised her to give up...
However, Tang Youyou did not give up. She persisted as always. From very early on, she began to run to the crew to grab roles. At that time, the competition was not so fierce, but there were actually very few roles that could be grabbed.
Even if there are, they are all small roles with no lines and only appear on screen for a few seconds. Even so, Tang Youyou still works very hard. Others only look at their own part of the script when they take the role. However, Tang Youyou spent a lot of time.
It took me a long time to read all the scripts, and then try to figure out how to play my own role.
Hard work may not necessarily lead to success. For Tang Youyou at that time, this was indeed the case. She once wanted to give up because there was no hope, but she still persisted.
In the scenes, Tang Youyou performed very well and worked very hard. However, because she had so few scenes, no one could remember her. However, the crew did, and they admired actors like Tang Youyou very much.
It's one thing to admire a practical actor, but he still doesn't think highly of her. After all, at that time, decades ago, actors worked very hard and worked very hard.
Tang Youyou has been in the entertainment industry for nearly ten years. When she was almost thirty years old, she had her own opportunity and met her boss, who would also be her future manager, Tang Jianguo.
Tang Jianguo is nearly twenty years older than Tang Youyou. He used to be a member of the military industrial corps, but later, with the reform, he embarked on the path of the entertainment industry.
It was a very chance opportunity. Tang Youyou struggled to grab a small role, and Tang Jianguo was the male lead of the play. At that time, Tang Youyou knew Tang Jianguo. Comparatively, he had been famous for a long time, and Tang Youyou
It's the kind of small role that can't be smaller. During the filming, Tang Youyou's character happened to be paired with Tang Jianguo, playing an orphan. He had no lines, but had more than a minute of footage. This was very important to Tang Youyou.
It is undoubtedly an opportunity.
At the beginning, when the director saw Tang Youyou, he felt that Tang Youyou's appearance was not pleasing, and he was a little reluctant to use her. However, there were no other actors available at the time, so he had to make do with it. Originally, the director was prepared to cast her.
I failed many times, but I passed it once.
For more than a minute, Tang Youyou didn't have a single line in the whole process, and only relied on her acting skills and eyes to deliver the scene. It was precisely because of this scene that could be called a mime that everyone in the theater couldn't help but sigh.
She is a capable actor, and I feel that although this girl is not very good-looking, she has good acting skills, and at that time, what actors strived for was acting skills.
After the filming was completed, the directors were very satisfied, and Tang Jianguo was also very satisfied. He was surprised, yes, indeed surprised, because he didn't have much hope for Tang Youyou at first. After all, some things can't be accomplished by just stacking lines.
, However, Tang Youyou did it. After the filming was completed, Tang Jianguo took the initiative to find Tang Youyou and chatted a lot about the role. It was also at that time that he realized how much this little girl had paid to play the role well.
He admired Tang Youyou's efforts very much, so he found the director and applied to add Tang Youyou to the role.
In normal times, if an actor does this, the director will directly refuse it. Unlike now, as long as you have traffic or money, you can join the scene regardless of whether you have acting skills. Tang Jianguo was indeed very popular at that time.
, plus, Tang Youyou’s acting skills were really good, so the director agreed.
Although it is said to be an extra scene, in fact, it only adds less than five minutes of footage before and after.
, and, most of the time, there are still no lines.
After the filming was completed, the two got to know each other and chatted a lot. After the movie was released, the movie became very popular. In addition to the hero and heroine becoming famous, Tang Youyou also appeared in the public eye. Just like that, Tang Youyou
Finally became famous.
When a person attracts attention, there is no shortage of resources. At that time, there were no popular brokerage companies, and Tang Youyou was just a small actor. It would be good to have a movie. With the popularity of that movie, Tang Youyou
The road to fame began.
When Tang Youyou began to become famous, people's aesthetics also began to shift. People gradually liked to look at appearance. In the past, people didn't think Tang Youyou was good-looking, but after Tang Youyou became famous, her temperament gradually became apparent.
, this kind of temperament has a certain relationship with appearance and the environment in which one grew up, but it has more to do with one's own efforts and long-term accumulation.
After Tang Youyou collaborated with Tang Jianguo once, she began to receive a lot of roles as the fifth female lead, and then she started to play the third female lead, the second female lead, and so on.
Three years have passed, and Tang Youyou can finally play the leading female role, and she has truly transformed from a passer-by into a second-tier artist.
When Tang Youyou was rising, Tang Jianguo's acting career encountered major changes. First, he was taken away by the police because he was drinking and causing trouble. Later, it was revealed that Tang Jianguo suffered from depression. Later, more scandals broke out.
, and every time a scandal broke out, it would have a fatal impact on him. What followed was a decline in fame. In just three years, Tang Jianguo fell into the tragic fate of having nothing to film.
Of course, for a popular star, it is too much to say that he has no scenes to film. There are still scripts, and there are many people looking for him to play roles. However, Tang Jianguo refused. Yes, he refused. He was a person who was interested in himself and in the future.
The script, the person responsible for the audience, he was unwilling to compromise, so it was completely reduced to nothing to film.
This is the case in the entertainment industry. When you are popular, you will have many friends around you. When you are down, these former friends will stay away from you one by one. They may even come over to step on you and spit in your face.
phlegm.
Tang Jianguo was very broken at that time. He was already suffering from depression. He once thought about committing suicide and did so. However, he was rescued every time. The more he sank, the more he was looked down upon by others. At that time,
He is already fifty years old.
At this time, the actress whom he once helped out of impulsiveness found him, and this person was Tang Youyou.
When Tang Youyou met Tang Jianguo, she didn't say anything about arranging scenes for him or anything else. Instead, she said, "I don't have an agent yet. You should be my agent."
Tang Jianguo looked at the ugly duckling in the past, but now the white swan was still the most beautiful one. He felt a little dazed and sighed for a moment. He refused, and the reason for the refusal was naturally that he could not accept this kind of thing.
In fact, no one understands why Tang Jianguo fell so quickly. Only he knows that it is because he has exhausted his talents, or in other words, he is no longer able to be a good actor, and he himself is very strict with himself.
He is a person who once relied on this kind of strict self-discipline to become famous, but now it has become a burden to him.
Faced with Tang Jianguo's rejection, Tang Youyou was not discouraged and went to Tang Jianguo to discuss the matter many times. Finally, Tang Jianguo agreed. He knew that his own era had passed, and Tang Youyou's era had just begun, so he started from
An actor transformed into an agent, and Tang Youyou was his artist and the only artist.
With Tang Jianguo's help and planning, Tang Youyou quickly reached a higher level and became more and more picky about scripts. And precisely because of this, Tang Youyou not only did not have a decline in fame, but successfully became a first-line artist and became a popular star.
Hua Dan.
Tang Youyou once signed a contract with a company for ten years. After she became famous, when she was thirty-seven, the contract expired. The company originally wanted to continue signing the contract. After all, Tang Youyou was so popular, so she could
It brought great benefits to the company, but Tang Youyou didn't really want to sign the contract, and Tang Jianguo didn't feel the need to renew the contract. At this time, many other entertainment companies knew that Tang Youyou's contract was about to expire.
They all came to poach Tang Youyou one after another, and the benefits offered were great, which made people feel very useful.
In the end, Tang Youyou did not renew her contract with her former company, but she also did not sign with another company, and this was one of the costs of her refusal to renew her contract. After all, Tang Youyou was just an artist and did not have a big background. If Tang Jianguo was not there,
Behind her, help her, she has already fallen from a high place.
After completely terminating the contract, Tang Youyou opened his own entertainment company on Tang Jianguo's suggestion, which is now Baiyou Entertainment.
After no longer cooperating with a large company, without the company's help, resources will naturally be pitiful. Moreover, when a new company is established, there are many things that need to be done. Therefore, in the first two years of the company's establishment, Baiyou Entertainment Company
It was still very difficult, but because of Tang Youyou's reputation and the fact that she started her own company, she still received support from many people in the industry.
Baiyou Entertainment Company was opened and it also had its own team, so Tang Youyou continued to act, but with the stability of the company
Not long after arriving, Tang Jianguo died unexpectedly in a car accident. After police investigation, it was found that this was indeed a traffic accident. At this time, the company had only been established four years ago.
Tang Jianguo's unexpected death was a huge blow to Tang Youyou. It was precisely because of Tang Jianguo's death that Tang Youyou began to shift his career focus from acting to the company.
When Tang Jianguo passed away, he happened to be 61 years old. That day was Tang Youyou's birthday, and it was also his birthday.
Tang Jianguo has been married twice and has no children. He is a DINK family through and through. His first wife chose to leave when his career had not fully started, and his second wife was when he was popular.
, two people got together, but they chose to leave when Tang Jianguo was in despair. From then on, Tang Jianguo never got married again.
Tang Youyou, who is now forty-seven years old, is still unmarried.
Many people say that Tang Youyou's rise mainly relies on Tang Jianguo. This sentence is correct or wrong. If Tang Youyou had not met Tang Jianguo, she would indeed not have succeeded. It was precisely because of Tang Jianguo's seemingly unintentional help.
, started to become famous; many people have rumors that the reason why Tang Jianguo was willing to become Tang Youyou's manager was because they were a pair of secret lovers. Regarding this speculation, the two parties have never refuted or admitted it.
In fact, the truth is that the two people have a relationship that is both teachers and friends. They have reached a state of friendship but not yet full love. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are close friends. However, they are not lovers. Maybe Tang Youyou has this idea.
However, Tang Jianguo didn't. After all, he was really twenty years older than Tang Youyou.
When Tang Youyou was popular, she once said that when she was fifty years old, if you were unmarried and I was unmarried, we would be together.
Many people thought that the you Tang Youyou was talking about was Tang Jianguo. However, when Tang Jianguo was asked by media reporters, he denied this, but Tang Youyou never explained this, never.
Six years have passed, six years since Tang Jianguo's death. Tang Youyou is still alone. Now she looks like she is only in her thirties. After Tang Jianguo died unexpectedly, Tang Youyou rarely filmed anymore. In the past six years,
Here, she only filmed two movies. This is very dangerous for an aging female artist. However, she is still very famous because she has many new stars under her banner.
Artists, such as Xu Lulu, Li Ziyu, etc.
In fact, since Tang Jianguo's death, Tang Youyou has been responsible for many things in the company. However, she is not a professional after all, so most of the business is still left to Huang Xiude to handle.
Two years ago, she wanted to make Li Ziyu famous, but with the intervention of Huang Xiude and Xu Lulu, Li Ziyu failed and Xu Lulu became famous instead.
As she got older, she saw, encountered, and experienced more things, so she got used to it. Now that Xu Lulu became famous, that was it. And some time ago, she decided to praise Li Ziyu again because,
She felt that she was ashamed of Li Ziyu for no other reason than that when Baiyou Entertainment was first established, Li Ziyu signed a contract with their company. However, ten years later, instead of becoming popular, she went downhill. At first, she followed Li Ziyu
Most of the artists who signed a contract with the company were either swept away by the waves or moved to other companies. Only Li Ziyu still stayed in the company. Just six months ago, Li Ziyu's contract with the company expired, and she talked to Li Ziyu
once.
Originally, Tang Youyou thought that Li Ziyu would not renew her contract, but unexpectedly, Li Ziyu renewed her contract again, and Tang Youyou promised Li Ziyu to invest in a movie specifically for her, which was the previous "Mermaid".
The idea was good, but the result went awry. This script, which was specially designed for Li Ziyu, was snatched away by Xu Lulu again. Tang Youyou was very angry about this result, but for the overall interests of the company,
Thinking about it, she had to sacrifice Li Ziyu again, just like two years ago.
However, she never thought that Xu Lulu was actually killed at this time, and the person who killed her was probably Li Ziyu. Li Ziyu hated Xu Lulu. Tang Youyou was not surprised by this. What surprised her was why Li Ziyu did this.
Why be so stupid?
Tang Youyou was sitting behind her desk, flipping through a thick script. This was the new script "The Legend of Zhen Huan" that she had specially hired a famous screenwriter to write for Li Ziyu in the past six months.
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and she planned to give the script of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" to Li Ziyu as a New Year's gift. However, before the gift was sent out, something like this happened in the company.
First, Xu Lulu, the company's top artist, was murdered, then her manager disappeared, then Li Ziyu disappeared, and finally, Huang Xiude's murder of his wife occurred.
In just one day, Baiyou Entertainment Company lost two artists, a partner, and a gold medal manager. This is a very big blow to any entertainment company, and also to Baiyou Entertainment Company.
Since its establishment, the biggest crisis, even the drug abuse scandal of the first-line artist whom she poached at a high price, was not as sudden and unexpected as this time.
Tang Youyou raised her head, looked out the window subconsciously, and murmured to herself: "It seems that the company is going to collapse!"