Lanli's shoulder muscles tightened slightly, uncontrollably.
All the eyes of the whole Radio City Concert Hall were projected one after another. Lanli was just like a moving little sun, shining out and attracting the attention of the whole audience. Every move became the focus of everyone's discussion, and every twinkle and smile triggered countless conjectures.
In this chamber, Langley and stark Sanders greet each other again; In that room, people were speculating one after another whether Langley deliberately excluded the other three nominees, or vice versa, the other three nominees were working with the veteran Broadway actors to exclude Langley.
Here, Charlotte Martin, the current chairman of the lenley Broadway alliance, nodded; At that time, people began to wonder whether it meant that the best musical actor of the evening was going to be lanli.
In this chamber, Langley stopped to chat with Lyle Kessler, the screenwriter of this year's best drama nomination "orphans"; In that chamber, the speculation that lanli will return to the stage of drama has already begun to spread.
No one can be an exception.
Literally, every pause, every conversation, every nod, every greeting and even one look of lanli seems to have hidden deep meaning. Every guest on the scene starts to read, explain and analyze from his own perspective, and tries to find the direction of tonight's awards from the clues.
This feeling is very, very special.
It's like walking in the jungle, I always feel that I can feel the peeping sight in all directions, but when I turn my head, it's still and I can't find any trace at all. The feeling of being like a horse on my back is like dancing wildly on a high-altitude steel rope. All the hairs on my body stand up, and my nerves are tense to the extreme.
On such an occasion, lanli is very sensitive. A little wind and grass can trigger the alarm. At this moment, this sensitivity will further amplify everything, and the invisible sense of oppression will crowd over little by little, slowly and heavily. More and more heavy forces force the body to make a conditioned response, The shoulder line slowly tightens up.
After all, lanli is just an ordinary person.
Before attending the Tony Awards, Langley has adjusted his mind, completely ignoring Nathan, Roy and Andy, who are just like ants on the hot pot, and Edith, who are calm but anxious, and who are super abnormal. He embraces tonight with a normal heart and welcomes any possible results. Therefore, Langley can be calm and calm on the red carpet.
But now, it seems that every look, every smile, every action is suggesting or indicating that this is not an ordinary night, and even carries the weight of the whole history. The huge pressure is pouring in and pressing on the chest, which can not be ignored or eliminated. Just like countless rules and regulations, it is firmly He tied up Lan Li's limbs firmly and was trapped in the same place.
Making history?
People have never realized that creating history is glorious and magnificent, but the difficulties and dangers are far beyond imagination. If there is no expectation, you can face it calmly; But after the breeding of expectations, even the slightest bit of expectations, once missed, disappointment will pour down, it is unbearable.
Involuntarily, Lan Li straightened up.
More tough, more calm, more calm. Even the London aristocratic circle with hell difficulty has come here. Do you need to worry about the New York Vanity Fair with ordinary difficulty? When he lived again, he finally got a glimpse of the different faces of the world. Perhaps, when his life came to the end again, it would become an interesting memory segment.
Then, Langley saw Tom Hanks.
As the most influential actor in North America, Tom's appeal and influence are unmatched, even Langley or Robert Downey Jr.
This year, Tom officially returned to the Broadway stage, playing an old friend's work "lucky man". The play was written by Nora Ephron, a well-known Hollywood screenwriter, who worked on the well-known "sleepless in Seattle".
Unfortunately, Nora passed away in the second half of last year and did not wait until the premiere night of "lucky man"; But Tom still conscientiously completed all the performances, and with the wonderful performance of this work, he won the nomination for best actor in the drama tonight.
There's another little anecdote about Tom and Langley.
Last year, during the performance of Langley on Broadway, after each performance, the fans waiting at the back door also became a beautiful scenery. According to incomplete statistics, there were more than 280 spectators waiting for each performance on average, which also broke the new history of Broadway——
"One of the most prosperous actors in the history of Broadway" is reported by the "New York Post". They emphasize that although Broadway has existed for a long time, no actor has ever had such appeal, which is just like a shot in the arm for the still depressed Broadway.
At the beginning of this year, when Tom performed "lucky man", his supporters, in order to set a new record, specially called on his fans to take turns and keep on waiting. With an average of 300 audiences per night, Tom broke the historical record that lenley had just set not long ago.
As expected, this incident was still on the news, which also became a joke among the media: Tom Hanks fans actually did not show up with lenley hall. Is this progress or retrogression?
Tom is still the same Tom. His whole body exudes a father's breath. He is honest and simple, warm and tolerant. He takes the initiative to welcome him and gives him a big hug. After the hug, he winks at him, "I know you don't like hugs."
The subtext is, it was intentional.
"Well, guess what other people are talking about now?" Tom, with a simple and honest face, made a sly joke like a fox, but he didn't disobey it at all.
Lanli chuckled at the corners of his mouth and said solemnly, "let me guess: the friendship between lanli and Tom is completely over. Now they are pretending to be intimate, even hugging each other exaggeratively, trying to hide their incompatibility?"
"..." Tom showed a slightly surprised expression, then saw the smile of blue Li's eyes, and shook his head helplessly, "you know I don't mean that."
"You know I don't mean anything." Langley's answer was vague, but Tom knew it immediately.
Tom was just joking about whether their intimate embrace would change other people's conjecture about the trend of the awards tonight.
Lanli's reply was that he didn't have any idea about these discussions and didn't care.
Tom laughed in silence. "Really? To be honest, don't you have any idea? "
Even Tom can't help but be curious at this time, because he is very far away from egot, he has no interest in Grammy, and he doesn't have the intention to try to have a look in order to get together egot; Even if it was a Tony Award, Tom didn't insist. Now, all of a sudden, there is a blue ceremony. Curiosity is inevitable.
Langley shook his head helplessly. "Tom, I thought we were friends." Since you are a friend, don't ask more.
"I think so, too." Tom replied that because he was a friend, he was able to ask without scruple.
Lanli chuckled, "I have a lot of ideas, but I'm trying not to have any now. Really, my real idea now is, if tonight really comes true, I will become the public enemy of the whole Hollywood. "
23-year-old egot? What's more, in just three years?
It's not just the public enemy of Hollywood. I'm afraid all the news media and social networks will be filled with envious voices. At that time, Lan Li may really be the enemy of the whole people.
Tom nodded his approval. At that time, after he won two consecutive Oscars, he faced the same situation, and it has continued to this day - he is now struggling to win the Oscar nomination. It's true that his reputation and popularity are among the top in Hollywood, but when it comes to performances and awards, people will habitually ignore him.
"I thought you didn't care." Tom cast a curious look.
Blue Li spread out his hands, showing a funny look, "Tom, you know, I'm not Superman."
Tom nodded heavily. "Thank you for telling me. I finally got confirmation today." Both of them couldn't help smiling, "don't pay attention to those eyes. If you win, they will envy you."; If you lose, they will have pity. However, they are not you after all. No one but you can understand how you got here and what it all means. "
Lan Li's heart slowly flowed a little bit of warmth, and he didn't continue to tease, but said sincerely, "thank you."
It's too high to be cold.
In the past, Lan Li thought that it was a compliment, because only when he really reached the unreachable height, he could feel the piercing cold. So it also means that he had come to the height and won everything that everyone yearned for.
Now Lan Li thinks it's a sad word, because the loneliness and loneliness hidden in it can't be relieved. People see the "high place", but no one sees the difficulties and obstacles of climbing the "high place".
Look, now lanli has already felt it.
He hasn't even won the Tony Award, or he doesn't need to win the Tony Award. At the age of 23, he has achieved such a high level, which is beyond the reach of countless people in their lives. Now he can feel the loneliness and alienation everywhere, which is drowning him bit by bit.
If you win the Tony prize tonight, can you see anyone else around him?