Chapter 192: Chapter 192 Oprah Interview (above)
Alina's husband was a corporate executive, her oldest son was attending a state university in the same city, and her youngest daughter was in high school. After giving birth to her two children, she quit her job and settled down to be a full-time wife at home. She goes out shopping in the morning and starts preparing dinner for the whole family at four o'clock in the afternoon.
At around three o'clock that afternoon, Alina was sitting on the couch with her feet curled up, watching the new soap opera on Fox with great interest, when her husband Danny suddenly walked into the living room, carrying his briefcase. He ripped off his tie, tossed the briefcase aside, and stood next to the water fountain, not even bothering to greet his own wife before gulping cool water down his throat.
Once his thirst was quenched, Danny smiled somewhat apologetically at his wife, "Honey, I'm home."
Alina looked at her husband who was acting a bit erratically today, her eyes full of puzzlement, "I know you're back, but it's not even time to get off work yet."
"I took a vacation and came back especially to tune in to the Oprah talk show..." before Danny could finish his words, his wife's hand was already pressed on the door of his head, and feeling that the temperature there was normal, Alina muttered to herself, "you don't have a fever ...but you've been acting really strange today!"
Danny was about to explain when Ariana shook her head, "I can understand you leaving your job to come back for the Super Bowl, but the fact that you took time off work for a talk show is baffling to me. I'll admit that Oprah is a witty and funny host, and a lot of people like her, even though she's average looking, dark, underdressed, and has a bit of a grin on her lips when she smiles, which isn't exactly classy at all. But you never used to watch her show, so what's this today?"
Faced with his wife's barrage of questions, Danny hastily explained, "It's true that I'm not a big Oprah watcher, but she's going to be interviewing a big star on her show today, and I'm interested in that person."
"But you've never been a stargazer either..." the look on Ariana's face became increasingly puzzled.
Danny suddenly found it really a bit difficult to explain this clearly, "Do you remember that movie we went to see together the day before yesterday, the one where the main character ends up becoming an alien?"
"Is there any relation between the two?" Of course Alina remembers that different kind of alien movie, which depicted aliens as a group of "intergalactic exiles" whose shrimp-like appearance subverted all the images of aliens on the big screen. These aliens come from an enormous spaceship that stopped over Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 years ago.
In a departure from the usual portrayal of aliens as immensely powerful, the movie makes them so vulnerable that they are not only refugees, but also ravaged by humans. The most surprising thing is that these aliens are particularly fond of canned cat food, and even put down their dignity for this reason. Perhaps it is these perverse factors that have attracted the attention of the attention, or it is also Lin Ming Yang's first cult-style movie that has made the moviegoers very curious. Since its release, District 9 has been surprisingly well received by audiences in North America. The movie exceeded $100 million at the box office in three weeks of release, jumping to the top of the charts.
"Because Oprah's interview on today's show is with the director of that movie, Felix Lin, and this is his first TV interview..." Danny still wasn't able to finish his sentence this time, as another voice interrupted him.
"He'll be revealing the concept of that movie and a lot of the filming in the interview, and Dad he's always been interested in the subject of aliens." The one who spoke was their oldest son, Leo, who came out of nowhere just like that, startling everyone.
"Your dad came home suddenly to watch the Oprah talk show, so what are you in for?" Ariana clasped her hands together, when she had talked to her son on the phone yesterday, Leo had said that he had been busy with school lately and that he hadn't had time to come home.
Leo pointed to the TV and said with a hefty grin, "The TV in my dorm room is broken, so this time I came back so I could rub in dinner!"
"So you came back to watch 'Aliens' too?" Alina was sort of completely defeated by this father and son.
Leo shrugged, "I'm not interested in aliens, but I'm interested in the guy who made them, whether it's as an actor or a director, Felix Lim is always so cool..."
"Lucy!" He was talking about his excitement when his mother, Alina, suddenly yelled out, and the crowd turned around together before seeing her youngest daughter, who was standing regally at the top of the stairs with an embarrassed look on her face after being called out by Alina.
Under the gaze of the other family members, Lucy, who was "a thief in her own right", forced out a smile, "Oh, everyone is here!"
"Lucy, you should be in school at this time!" As the father, Danny spoke first.
"And you should be at the office at this time, and Leo didn't stay at school honestly... "Lucy stood there with a helpless look on her face, thinking that her mother would be the only one in the house at this time, and she could sneak back to her room. She didn't realize that her family, who usually rarely got together, were sitting together like a meeting today, which made her infiltration plan a complete failure.
"But I asked the company for a vacation!" Danny looked at his daughter gravely while Leo nodded a little gloatingly at himself, "There are no classes in college today!"
"But I also took a leave of absence from my teacher and didn't skip class!" Lucy defended reluctantly.
"What's the reason, are you sick?" In front of the rest of the family, Danny had to pose as a strict father.
"I think she should have the same agenda as you guys." Alina, who had been sitting over there and hadn't said anything, said in place of her embarrassed daughter, "I'm guessing she's not much interested in the subject of aliens either, and skipped class just to watch Oprah's interview with Felix Lin."
"Lucy, I didn't think we'd actually..." said Danny, realizing that he couldn't hold his serious face any longer, but his wife gave him such a hard stare that Danny hastily changed his tone, "I mean, it's not right for you to do that."
"Oh my God, the show's already on!" Leo lunged for the remote control, Lucy dropped her book bag and grabbed a spot on the couch, and Alina looked at the three guys with a helpless look on her face, the question bubbling up in her mind: was Felix Lin really that attractive?
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Before the talk show officially started was a short video introducing Lin Ming Yang, "He is globally renowned and has a position in the hearts of the new generation of young people that no one can replace." The short video opened with a point of view that whether or not Ariana agreed with it, she did deeply appreciate it from her own two children.
The first half of the short film is made up of classic footage from movies starring Lin Mingyang, and the narrator uses a soothing, low-pitched baritone voice: "This kid is good at everything, he's different, he's unique, and he's not clichéd in his behavior or his movies. Beginning with Song and Dance, people got to know this energetic teenager, and then each of his movies brought different surprises."
"There are many stories of overnight success in Hollywood, but the one belonging to Felix is undoubtedly the most legendary." As soon as the narrator's words left his mouth, the scene shifted to last year's Oscars, where Lin Mingyang received the trophy from the award presenter.
"When he held up the small gold medal, which symbolizes the highest honor for a movie actor, it was one month before his 20th birthday, and he was the youngest Oscar winner, from an obscure high school student to a big star known by everyone on the road, he did all this in less than five years."
The camera shifted again, and the scene changed to various excited expressions from Lin Ming Yang's fans, some were even so excited to see him that they were in tears, "People are crazy about him, and are willing to trample on each other just to get a look at him."
"Compared to his acting career, the talent he has shown in other areas is even more amazing. He's the author of best-selling novels that have taken the world by storm, he's a talented Hollywood screenwriter, and he's also a director with unlimited potential."
The second half of the short film cuts clips of interviews with many celebrities who know Lin Mingyang and have commented on him.
A Fox TV producer said, "Everyone knows he's a great actor, but everyone overlooks the important fact that Follies wasn't his first Hollywood debut, his screenplay was first used by us, and then the screenplay was turned into a TV series, and The Boys from Orange County was born. "
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The second person to be interviewed on TV was director Kenny Ortega, who has worked with Lin Ming Yang on several occasions, "My first meeting with Felix was in a gas station, but he was working part-time there, and I heard him sing, and it was a song he had written himself, and it went on to become one of the most popular singles on the Follies music album. "
Immediately after the camera actually appeared pop diva Avril, in the face of the reporter's question, she bristled, "You're talking about Felix?That guy I know, the song he sang at the Grammys, 'Baby', had quite a lot of inspiration for the style of singing in my later songs."
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"You can imagine my surprise when I saw the novel Twilight!" Avis, Managing Director of Simon Publishing, gushed, "It's interesting that at the time we suspected it was something he'd copied from someone else, and now over 200 million people worldwide have read the novel, and that number continues to grow."
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"He was a part-time cinematographer on the set during the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean 1, and by the time the sequel came around he was guest starring as an action director, and that guy always has some weird ideas in his head." This is what Keira Knightley said about Lin Ming Yang.
"He's a mature boy, and that was especially evident during the filming of the movie Back to 17, where he managed to blend the mentality of a middle-aged man with his own identity. Maybe I'm the only one who wasn't surprised that he won the Oscar, because that's the honor he deserved." So says Jennifer Aniston.
"He knows exactly what kind of shots he wants and he always tells people exactly what he wants." Blake Flatley, who has played the female lead in two of Lin Ming Yang's directorial efforts, smiled sweetly in front of the camera, "Working with him is a very relaxing and enjoyable experience."
"Apart from my aunt, he is the biggest star I admire the most, I love the TV scripts he has written, I am fascinated by his novels, and unlike ordinary girls, I have the opportunity to work with him, he gives a great feeling!" Emma Roberts was excited to look into the camera, her big eyes playfully blinking and clearing forced.
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At the end of the short movie, Matthew, the principal of the high school Lin Ming Yang attended, appeared in the camera, and said with a grin, "I know that there are a lot of comments about him from the outside world, but in my eyes, he will always be that student with excellent grades and occasional little rebelliousness. I won't forget that outside of movies, he's brought a lot of honor to this school. He used to be the captain of our school's basketball team, and while he was on the basketball team, we took the state championship. If he hadn't chosen Hollywood, maybe people would still be able to see him on the court in the NBA."
The talk show didn't start right after this celebrity interview, and after a blooper reel was inserted, the first thing everyone heard was Oprah's familiar voice and her usual opening line.
"Good afternoon, I'm Oprah, and live to North America and countries around the world is an exclusive interview with Hollywood superstar, Felix Lim!"
As the camera stretched, Oprah, the famous talk show host, slowly stepped into the camera's field of vision, "You will not be unfamiliar with the scene around me, right now I am in Felix Lin's home in Florida, where he breaks all kinds of film and television records but refuses to be interviewed and stereotyped for many years. I'm sure you saw a lot of familiar celebrity faces in the segment that was inserted before the show, whether it was producers, publishers or the many actors he's worked with, all these people who know Felix Lim seem to think he's an incredible guy. There are all sorts of rumors about him, and he's able to draw attention to every move he makes."
The camera of the live broadcast skimmed hurriedly past the front door of Lin Mingyang's house, and the screen shifted back to Oprah once again, "That door in front of me has rejected all the TV hosts who came before me. And this spot where I'm standing right now is where Felix Lin works out every morning, and of course where the paparazzi are most likely to sneak a peek at him."
"Regrettably, all the photographs taken of the house have captured only its exterior. This is the first time Felix Lim has shown the outside world his court house, including his bedroom, without reservation. In addition to hearing him talk about the conception of the film "District 9", you can be informed of more details about his private life. Today, he will break his silence."
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