But with the original masterpiece already in place, your imitation will only be met with audience ridicule.
I wonder what the investors and the crew were thinking?
Dare to greenlight a show that invites such criticism? Was this borrowing courage from Liang Cuiping?
Jiang Ling looked through these scripts one by one but couldn't find the script for "Little Fish and Flowers."
"Is there nothing else?"
She had already returned to the position of a top-tier A-list actress, and her status was clear. The system was unlikely to arrange for her to actively seek out roles.
Therefore, a script related to Jiang Yuyan must be among them.
"There are still a few scripts, but they are all for supporting roles, and several aren't even considered second female leads. They don't match your current status, so I didn't bring them over."
Because Jiang Ling had returned to the top-tier ranks in less than a year, Sister Sa's mindset hadn't fully adjusted.
Previously at Spark Media, the company arranged roles for artists according to their status.
A third-tier artist would play supporting roles, and with good luck, might play the female lead in small productions with low investment.
A second-tier artist had opportunities to play both lead and supporting roles, but was unlikely to be cast in productions exceeding hundreds of millions. They could only play supporting roles to A-list actors.
As for A-list artists, due to their established position, they wouldn't play supporting roles to artists of the same caliber, nor would they condescend to be overshadowed by second-tier artists. Therefore, they were basically cast as leads.
Leads had high exposure and were an important channel for A-list artists to maintain their traffic and popularity. Thus, many at this level would only accept lead roles.
In fact, it wasn't just Spark Media; other companies also had clear hierarchies and were serious about seniority.
Being above the A-list meant having several times more resources.
This also led to fierce internal competition, with endless instances of sabotage, defamation, and rumor-mongering, all aimed at bringing others down and rising to become top stars themselves.
Jiang Ling's expression immediately darkened upon hearing this: "Roles are not distinguished by good or bad. I am not the Jiang Ling from before. It doesn't matter if it's a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch mice, it's a good cat. I don't care if it's a lead or a supporting role, as long as the character is good, I can play it. Do you understand?"
Sister Sa was startled by this stern reprimand and quickly said with a smile, "I understand, I understand. It was my oversight this time. I'll be more careful next time."
In fact, Sister Sa's automatic filtering of supporting roles with less screen time was also for Jiang Ling's consideration.
After all, in the entertainment industry, many rules are unwritten conventions.
What kind of status an artist holds dictates the kind of roles they play.
A-list artists, as top-tier traffic, are inundated with offers to act.
If they didn't filter out those seemingly unimportant supporting roles with little screen time, they would be exhausted just by reading scripts, let alone having time for announcements and endorsements.
However, Sister Sa didn't know that the role Jiang Ling wanted to play this time was a supporting one.
Jiang Ling sighed and said softly, "A well-played supporting role can sometimes be more outstanding than the lead. Look at Zhao Hede, whom I played before. She was a supporting character, but the audience's affection for her was more than ten times that for the female lead Wang Zhengjun. Treating every role seriously is the basic quality of an actor. I just want to be a good actor." httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
Sister Sa nodded heavily: "Alright. From now on, for all the scripts sent, whether for leads or supporting roles, I will only look at the content. I will filter out those with thunderously cliché, idiotic, or vulgar plots before sending the scripts to you."