Chapter 149: Filming

"Link, you did a great job just now. The show will definitely be a hit."

After leaving the ABC Television Building, Ms. Mandy praised him.

"I hope you're right."

Link exhaled and got into the car.

After the ABC interview, there were still CBS's Late Night Show, NBC's Saturday Night Live, TBS's Conan, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, and so on. Dealing with various types of hosts was also a big challenge.

Link suddenly realized that being a celebrity was not easy. Public figures needed to interact with the media frequently to gain sufficient exposure, but the media was a double-edged sword. While exposing one's strengths, weaknesses would also be exposed and magnified.

Sometimes accidentally saying the wrong thing could affect one's reputation and career prospects.

This situation was like walking on a tightrope, and it was best not to make any mistakes.

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The View aired on Saturday at noon. Before the broadcast, ABC TV promoted it in advance, saying that the guest of this episode was Link Baker, a controversial figure recently.

Because Link was famous enough, and the show was quite popular, the average viewership of the show after it aired was between 14 million and 18 million, with the highest reaching 17.88 million, setting a new record for The View in 2009.

The show's effect was indeed good. Link's handsome and healthy image, coupled with his good eloquence, gained him a large number of female fans who considered him the best date of the year and a public lover.

Ivanka even called to tease him, saying that when she went to parties, many wealthy socialites asked her for his contact information, wanting to date him, and asked if he wanted to meet them.

Link naturally had no interest. When it came to wealthy families, Ivanka and Taylor were the real deal, one born into it and the other achieving it later.

With these two wealthy beauties around, he had little interest in other socialites.

Besides the positive aspects, the show also brought some negative effects.

Some online media, for the sake of traffic, intercepted some of Link's words in the interview and published some controversial news.

For example, 'Link says violent tendencies are a rare quality,' 'Link boasts about his sexual prowess on The View, claiming to be one of the strongest men in the world,' 'Link mentions Kanye on the show, suspected of being dissatisfied with Kanye's lack of apology.'

With the hype of these topics, Link's name stayed in the media for another half a month, and the album sold tens of thousands more copies.

In March, Link was busy in Los Angeles for a whole month, doing interviews, shooting commercials, and music videos. In the middle, he also went back to Miami to attend Lady Gaga's concert at the Hard Rock Stadium.

68,000 people attended the concert, and it was the first time Link sang in front of so many people.

When he sang "Despacito" and "Unstoppable" on stage, tens of thousands of people waved and sang along, creating a very shocking scene, completely different from the shouts at boxing matches.

Fortunately, he performed well, and after the concert, his performance was praised by many media outlets.

Fans also flocked to his Twitter to leave messages, urging him to start a tour soon, otherwise, they would have to go to other people's concerts to see him perform.

After a busy March, Link faced an even busier April on the set of "The Fighter."

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"Link, Link, did you see the news? I made it to the finals."

During a break in filming for "The Fighter," Link received a call from Mario, who told him in a very excited voice that he had successfully made it to the finals of the United States Amateur Championships.

The United States Amateur Championships is one of the three major amateur boxing events in the United States, hosted by the United States Amateur Boxing Federation. It is held every year in March or April, and the contestants are recommended by the amateur boxing associations of each state, with three places for each region and each weight class.

The first round is the elimination round, the second round is the qualification round, and the third round is the final. The final is divided into 1/8, 1/4, and 1/2.

With Mario's level, making it to the top eight in the light heavyweight division was considered good.

"Link, our boxing gym will have another champion. Do you want to come and watch my match? My performance will definitely be no worse than yours back then."

Mario shouted somewhat proudly.

Link raised his eyebrows. This guy was still the same, getting a little cocky with a little success.

"Really? What's your KO rate?"

"This amateur competition focuses on technique, the KO rate is not important."

Mario stammered.

"Okay, if you can make it to the semifinals, I'll come and watch your match."

"Okay, just wait and see. The light heavyweight championship of this tournament must be mine."

Mario shouted confidently.

Link smiled, hung up the phone, and called Coach West.

He asked about Reggie and the other boxers' results.

This year, West Boxing Gym was even livelier than last year, with more than twenty adult boxers, a large group of boxing apprentices, and more than ten boxing coaches and assistant coaches. It had become a large boxing club.

Coach West told him that Reggie was participating in the super welterweight competition and had also entered the third round of the finals.

Reggie had not lost a single match in this competition and was ranked in the top three in the super welterweight division, with a chance to win the championship.

Mario had lost one match in the second round and was temporarily ranked eighth, with a chance to break into the top five.

However, the fact that both of them could enter the finals was good news.

"Link, it's time to start filming."

Assistant Anna came over to remind him.

Link nodded, handed his phone to Anna, and walked into the set to start acting.

In the movie "The Fighter," he played Micky Ward, who was a second-rate boxer in the early stages, but later became the champion of a small boxing organization with the help of his girlfriend, brother, and family.

The story was not very inspirational, at least not as inspirational as Link's story, but the main selling point of this movie was brotherhood, family, and career.

Today they were shooting scene 34, take 3 of the 6th act of "The Fighter."

"Action!"

In a bustling bar, Link, wearing a dirty cotton T-shirt, stared blankly at the girl busy at the counter, the female lead Charlene, played by Amy Adams.

Amy Adams was wearing a red camisole, with fair skin and long golden curly hair. She was wearing denim hot pants, showing off her plump and round buttocks. She was skillfully mixing cocktails at the counter, looking very sexy.

"Are you just going to stand there and stare at my butt?"

Amy Adams asked without turning around.

This was the scene where the male and female leads met for the first time. Link scratched his head when he heard her words and looked back at coach Mike and his brother Dick at the booth.

"Go ahead, be brave!"

Coach Mike encouraged him.

Link took another step forward, but still didn't have the courage to speak.

"Your dad also stares at my butt, but he talks to me."

Amy Adams dealt with a few drunks, turned around, and said to him.

"He, he said you're the hottest girl here."

Link leaned closer to the counter and said, lowering his head slightly.

(End of Chapter)