Chapter 413: Chapter 326: Food Poisoning (Part 2)
Why do many great directors like to use newcomers? Especially for certain unique roles, why can’t even the most skilled Movie Queens compare to a green newcomer?
Because directors are well aware of one thing, for the audience, newcomers are unfamiliar and fresh, without any predefined labels, without any preconceptions. The first time they appear on the screen is the first time the audience sees them.
Zhou Yun knows exactly why Wan Zhiliang is not satisfied with Meng Ran.
The sensuality Meng Ran displays is a type of stage sensuality.
On stage, through the capture of the camera, she can be very beautiful, captivating, and make people scream.
But in a movie, especially in a movie’s everyday life scenes, such sensuality becomes a jarring presence.
In the evening, Zhou Yun was alone in her room when suddenly the doorbell rang.
She thought it was Zheng Xiaojue or Cao Jun looking for her, but when she looked through the peephole, the person standing outside was Liu Yuqian.
Liu Yuqian said with a smile, "Xiao Yun, I just went to eat with some of the cast members, we had steamed crabs, and I brought two back for you."
She gestured to the plastic bag holding takeout boxes.
Zhou Yun looked at her in surprise and said, "Thank you."
Liu Yuqian handed the plastic bag to Zhou Yun and said, "Then I won’t bother you anymore, good night."
Zhou Yun said thanks again.
After closing the door, Zhou Yun put the bag aside, hesitated for a moment, and did not open it. Zhou Lan had warned her, when outside, not to eat randomly, especially not food given by others.
Who would have known, the next day, suddenly news came that Shen Yao had been hospitalized due to food poisoning.
Zhou Yun was utterly shocked.
How could Shen Yao suddenly get food poisoning?
This news caught the entire cast unprepared.
Shen Yao was the core of the entire movie shoot; his hospitalization brought the filming to a halt.
Zheng Xiaojue asked, "Sister Xiao Yun, should we go to the hospital to visit Teacher Shen Yao?"
"Let’s wait a bit longer, it must be chaotic at the hospital right now, we’d only add to the confusion," Zhou Yun replied.
She asked suspiciously, "How did Shen Yao suddenly get food poisoning? Didn’t he eat at the crew’s canteen? If it was food poisoning, shouldn’t a lot of people have been affected?"
Zheng Xiaojue shook her head, "I don’t know what happened."
About an hour later, Zhou Yun suddenly received a call from Liu Yuqian.
She sounded panicked on the phone, asking: "Sister Xiao Yun, are you okay?"
"Ah?" Zhou Yun was puzzled, asking, "What’s wrong? I’m fine. You must have heard wrong. It’s Brother Shen who is in the hospital."
Could Liu Yuqian have thought that she was the one hospitalized?
Who knew that Liu Yuqian then said, "The crabs I brought you yesterday, you didn’t eat them, did you?"
"Crabs?" Zhou Yun’s eyes shifted towards the table, "I haven’t yet... wait, you also brought a portion for Brother Shen?"
"Yes." Liu Yuqian’s voice sounded like she was about to cry, "Yesterday I ate with everyone, thought the crabs were good, had the boss pack a few, who knew the boss would be so unscrupulous! It’s because of the crabs I brought that Brother Shen ended up in the hospital! Zhenxi also got food poisoning, she went to the hospital last night, I just found out... thank goodness you didn’t eat!"
Zhou Yun couldn’t believe that the problem could be with these crabs.
She momentarily didn’t know what to say.
It was really unexpected.
"What should I do? Brother Shen will definitely kill me!" Liu Yuqian was full of regret and sorrow, "My God, I want to kill that boss!"
Zhou Yun really wanted to offer her some comforting words, but she couldn’t come up with any effective comfort.
She certainly couldn’t say, "It’s okay, dear, no worries." Shen Yao was in the hospital, how could it be okay?
Zhou Yun sighed.
She could only offer Liu Yuqian a few trivial comforting words.
Zhou Yun didn’t know how many days the shooting would be delayed; this depended on Shen Yao’s condition.
Then in the afternoon, news came that Meng Ran’s management company had come to take her away.
The reason was, since the filming was halted anyway, there wasn’t much for Meng Ran to do on the set.
What perplexed Zhou Yun even more was that Meng Ran appeared that evening in a popular influencer’s livestream, promoting for one of the brands.
The job was picked up so fast and... quickly.
Zhou Yun was astounded and bewildered, had Meng Ran’s company already discussed this deal with them, or did they really only find out today, after learning Shen Yao was hospitalized, and then hastily arranged this gig for her?