True Star (巨星) [DROPPED]

Vol 2 Ch 33: Hiding

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This translation belongs to the translators and proofreaders of Giraffe Corps.

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To deepen one's line foundations, in Tang Feng's opinion, in addition to personal talent, more practice is needed, continuous practice, repetitive practice, until the lines are firmly remembered in the heart, engraved in the mind, integrating the character's emotions into the lines.

There are no shortcuts or special techniques; it relies on years of uninterrupted practice. One must give up a part of their entertainment time and immerse themselves into tedious practice. This, in the extravagant Hollywood filled with parties everyday, would obviously be rather hard, especially for those stars that got famous too early, who would often require a monumental amount of effort to set aside everything to study.

Many child stars fail to transition properly into adult stars because, other than choosing the wrong direction to develop in, the many different temptations of the outside world lead to their downfall.

The child actor who had previously starred in 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'The Sixth Sense' and other such films with outstanding performance, Haley Joel Osment, seems to have faded out of people's field of vision. Even now, Tang Feng still feels pity for this charismatic little boy.

In 1999, when he appeared in 'The Sixth Sense', little Haley had already been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. At that time, he had only been 11 years old. His exemplary performance had led people to believe he would be an international movie star in the future. Unfortunately, due to a series of problems such as smoking marijuana, drunk driving accidents and getting out of shape, etc., Haley gradually faded from the limelight.

That actor is only 24 years old this year, there are still opportunities in the future. So long as he puts in the effort to cut off those negative influences in his life, who knows, maybe he could even become another Robert Downey Jr.?

These are all things that will only be known in the future. The current situation was that Tang Feng had to help the big movie star Gino practice the basics of acting, line foundations.

Yesterday, Tang Feng tried to contact Gino to make arrangements to get together to practice. Tang Feng didn't know whether Gino's phone battery had died but whenever Tang Feng tried to call Gino his phone was always turned off. Tang Feng had hoped they could practice in the hotel's remote flower yard the today.

When Gino arrived, he didn't call Tang Feng, but went straight to the front desk to ask for Tang Feng's room. When he heard Tang Feng's room was actually a standard double room, he was rather shocked. He knew the room allocated by the movie company was obviously better, how did it become a double room.

After Gino asked the hotel staff, he found out that everything was arranged by Tang Feng himself. Because the hotel kept a record of the credit card statements, Gino was able to find out from the staff that the previous room reservation had actually been the luxury suite. Gino didn't even have to think about it to know who the reservation had been made by.

It must have been that despicable Charles again.

Gino was smarter this time. After chatting with Tang Feng a few times, he had gotten some grasp of his character. That man does not like other people intruding into his private life.

Gino quickly called Tang Feng, claiming he couldn't go over to the hotel because he wasn't feeling well today, and had to trouble Tang Feng to come over to his place instead. Even though he was the one who requested for Tang Feng to help him practice his line foundations, he knew that based on Tang Feng's personality, he definitely wouldn't think much of this matter. As he expected, Tang Feng did not hesitate to agree to Gino's request.