Chapter 78 Advertisements and Little Girls

  When Ryan saw the role of a toddler in the commercial script, he immediately thought of someone. Compared to other two-year-olds, this little guy was much smarter, and both she and her parents had taken many videos of her childhood as mementos.

  In this sense, she is also a rare child with shooting experience.

  As for who the little guy is, Ryan knows of a child this big, and there's only one.

  As they got off the car and took a tram to the studio, Ryan wondered how Paige Kingsley had convinced her parents.

  "Doesn't Madame Andréa have anything against it?" he asked.

  "It's not that simple." Jin Silie glanced at him and didn't elaborate. "Persuading others is just a basic quality of an agent."

  Ryan scratched his head, the Swift family and the Rohan family were worlds apart. If the Rohans could barely be considered middle class, the Swifts were undoubtedly part of the wealthy elite. Families like that usually didn't let their kids appear in the media at such a young age.

  As soon as Ryan stepped off the electric car and into the photography studio, he heard a commotion of shouting and screaming. A small girl who was overly lively was chasing after two staff members with a prop brush, playing to her heart's content.

  Seeing this situation, Ryan knew that something was wrong and prepared to make a sneak attack, but unfortunately it was too late. The blonde girl had already discovered him.

  "Ryan, don't...run." The little girl shouted in a clear voice and ran towards him.

  "Hey Tyler, watch out, don't fall down." Ryan had to open his arms and pick up the rushing girl, otherwise, with her mouth askew, there would definitely be a flood.

  The mischievous girl wouldn't let him off easily, picked up a soft-bristled brush and swept it across his face in one swift motion. Luckily, he turned his head quickly, so the brush mostly landed on the sides and back of his head. Although his handsome appearance was preserved, his hair unfortunately became a bird's nest.

  "Halt! Taylor, or else..."

  "Ryan, I...I often give dolls a bath like this." Taylor burst out laughing, "Very...clean, very clean, I gave you a bath, thank you...you should say."

  Ryan's temper was about to turn his nostrils upside down. He had to say thank you? No way, he knew that running into this lazy guy wouldn't bring any good news.

  But anyway, heh heh ~ it'll be my turn to give you a bath soon. Rian thought with a smug expression.

  Handing the little girl over to her mother, Ryan walked into the dressing room and tidied up his slightly disheveled hair. The director of the commercial crew came over to give him directions after chatting with Jin Silie for a few words.

  These kinds of children's commercials are very simple, and for Ryan, there is no difficulty at all. In fact, the director also understands this point, and the key to determining the progress of the commercial does not lie with him, but rather with that little girl.

  "Thank you, Director Meng Di Ya." Ryan expressed his gratitude very politely. Sometimes, appropriate humility does no harm.

  The ad's plot is minimal, with Ryan playing the brother who sees his sibling - whose age and gender are indistinguishable from the camera angle - getting dirty, then voluntarily giving them a bath. Then, the bathing products make their appearance, accompanied by the song "The Show" in post-production.

  "Hey Taylor." Ryan sat down, keeping a distance from her.

  "You're such an idiot, Ryan." The little girl said this with extreme fluency, causing Ryan's eyes to widen in shock, but the girl continued, "Nate told me that!"

  "Alright! Miss Natalie Herschel, you never miss a chance to hit me!" Ryan gritted his teeth.

  The director walked over at this time, looking at Tyler with the most amiable smile, "Tyler, I heard you know Ryan?"

  "Hmph!" The little girl turned up her nose, "He's an idiot."

  It was clear that the director hadn't expected such an answer, and his face looked a bit awkward. He continued, "You two seem to be familiar with each other, shall I get Ryan to help you bathe?"

  "Not good!" Taylor replied very concisely, waving the soft-bristled brush in his hand and said softly, "Why... can't I help him take a bath? Brush... I have one."

  "My dear, didn't you promise when we came?" Madame Andrei had to speak up.

  "Really?" The little girl blinked her bright eyes, thought for a moment and said, "Then... okay! I want to listen to songs while taking a bath, listening to Ryan's silly singing!"

  Rui En maintained her poker face, while Taylor from her past life was said to be a sharp-tongued girl. Who would have thought that at such a young age, she had already shown off this talent? No wonder the ex-boyfriends who were mocked by her all turned red one after another.

  At this age, kids don't listen to reason. Little Taylor insisted that Ryan sing to her while bathing her, or else...

  The director nodded vigorously. If it weren't for the fact that this little girl was recommended by Ryan Jenkins, he really wanted to replace her, but now he had no choice but to make do with her.

  "Director Meng!" Ryan saw the director's dilemma and suggested, "How about this? Do you have the accompaniment for the song? That's good. Play the accompaniment during filming, I'll sing with Taylor, record live... Hmm, it should be hard to meet the requirements, I think we can replace it in post-production, shouldn't be difficult, right?"

  This is indeed a good idea, but in this way, the advertisement script written by himself needs to be fine-tuned. Fortunately, Meng Diya is not someone who doesn't know how to adapt, and he nodded slightly before going to discuss with the crew.

  First, Ryan shot a few scenes, just rehearsed a few times, and he easily found the state, besides, this is just a children's advertisement, the director is not as serious as David Fincher or James Cameron.

  "Cut!" The director let out a sigh of relief. He was an old hand at shooting children's commercials, and if the young actors he worked with could be even half as good as Ryan Jenkins... no, just a quarter of his ability, his job would be a whole lot easier.

  When it was Taylor's turn, that was trouble. The little girl didn't understand the concept of cooperation at all. All sorts of naughty things kept happening, making her laugh on purpose with a mischievous face, and when she tried to look cute, she would pout, as if she might cry at any moment.

  "Taylor, listen," Ryan pinched her little nose, "if you behave yourself, I'll buy you two of the latest Barbie dolls when we get out."

  "I don't want to!" The little girl pouted.

  "What do you want?" Ryan scratched his head, knowing that in the agreement between Strong and Hollywood Records, this ad would become part of an MV, otherwise, why would he bring Taylor here.

  "Embroidered ball flower!" The little girl thought for a moment, and in a soft voice, gave an answer, "I want the garden to be full of embroidered ball flowers."

  "Alright, alright." Ryan didn't care whether it was in season or not, he just agreed first and would talk about it later.

  It seems like bribery was successful, and Taylor cooperated a lot afterwards, although still constantly NG, at least no longer intentionally causing trouble.

  Watching the shooting scene, Ryan thought of Nicole again. The Australian girl is now a favorite of advertisers, although she has not reached the height of her previous life. He heard from Jin Silie that when Nicole participated in the advertisement shooting of a certain perfume brand, she took away more than one million US dollars in less than two hours.

  Ryan believes that with herself, Nicole will definitely shine brighter and won't repeat the past when her acting skills were constantly praised but the movies she starred in kept failing, becoming Hollywood's highest-paid actress while also being a box office poison.

  One day is gone, and I haven't taken many shots, most of the time was wasted on coaxing the kids.

  The next day, Taylor was noticeably obedient. Why? It's simple: after filming ended yesterday, Ryan called Scott and got his agreement to order a whole small truckload of hydrangeas from the gardening company and plant them in Swift's garden.

  In the temporarily set up bathroom, I saw the crew in their respective positions, and the director nodded to the scene recorder.

  "Act V, begin!"

  "The Show"'s accompaniment is lively and lovely, Ryan's vocals are vivid and energetic, yet extremely distinctive.

  "I'm just a little lost, life is a maze, love is one of the puzzles, I don't know where to go..."

  Humming along to the tune, Ryan showcases some of Strong's products...

  "Cut! That's a wrap!" With the director's shout, everyone let out a sigh of relief. This was already the 8th take, and the little girl hiding in the bathtub foam was absolutely a handful, driving them all crazy.

  The director quietly wiped away his sweat and put this girl named Taylor Swift on the list of people he absolutely could not work with.

  "Ryan, sing... can't stop!"

  Just as Ryan let out a sigh of relief, the little girl scooped up water and poured it over his head, warm soapy water with bubbles slowly flowing down from his hair, turning him into a drowned rat.

  Today, Scott accompanied Taylor, holding a camera, wanting to record his daughter's first rare advertisement. Seeing this situation, he immediately came over and pressed the shutter, just in time to capture the scene of Taylor pouring the second scoop of water on Ryan's head.

  "Taylor!"

  Ryan glared fiercely at the girl in the bathtub, but the little girl wasn't afraid of him at all. Instead, she excitedly babbled and chirped, blinking her innocent blue eyes as if to say "Come on, come on, I'm not afraid of you!"

  "Scott." Ryan hastily hid behind him, God only knew if the little guy would continue to sneak attack, "After washing out the photos, can you give me one?"

  "Huh? Okay." Scott clicked the shutter release and asked curiously, "Ryan, what are you going to do with the picture?"

  "This is evidence!" Ryan turned his head to look at the little girl who was playing with water, "When Taylor grows up in the future, I want her to see what she did to me when she was a kid!"

  Little Taylor, when you grow up, I'll definitely take out this photo and blackmail you! Ryan thought viciously in her heart, but suddenly felt that something was off. With her personality, if she were to be blackmailed, she would absolutely write herself into a song and mock her mercilessly.

  ...on vacation, overslept... Collect and recommend~