The second round of the stage play "The Life of the Abandoned Pine Nut" will begin on July 15. With nearly a month to go before the show, the actors have already begun rehearsals. In late June, in the weather of about 35 degrees, it is not easy for the actors to rearrange such a play that lasts for nearly 4 hours and has a large number of physical performances. The seriousness of the lead actor Zhang Jingchu and the actors in rehearsal is no less than the formal performance.
After many years of graduation drama "Xihe" and Lai Shengchuan's "Watch TV with Me", Zhang Jingchu returned to the theater stage to challenge the novel adaptation of the same name, "The Life of the Abandoned Pine Nut". When the line was read, "I could only bear it in silence, and my heart was almost crazy with fear." Only by doing our best to sustain ourselves, we will not be mad...", Zhang Jingchu's tears came out of his eyes, blending with sweat, which was moving.
At the end of the rehearsal on the same day, Zhang Jingchu said in an exclusive interview with a Reporter from Beiqing-Beijing Toutiao that "Songzi" is undoubtedly one of the most challenging roles in her acting career, "The intensity of the performance and the degree of emotional explosion are equivalent to playing a "Tangshan Earthquake" plus a "Peacock", plus a "Disciple". And she did not hide her love for the role of Matsuko, "Can you have a pure heart and love with all the tolerance and no cost?" In fact, we can't do it, we are very realistic laymen. So I have a lot of respect for the role of Matsuko. ”
Because of "Peacock", "Aromatic Journey", "Peerless" and other movies to get acting recognition, and then act in stage plays, 41-year-old Zhang Jingchu admitted that age is not the bottleneck of actresses, the trouble of casting plays has always been there, and now she is more concerned about the beauty of the process, "A good text, a sincere team, everyone to create a sincere, real life, I think it is very meaningful, I enjoy the process, as for the result, I have not been too concerned." ”
Talk about roles
Acting matsuko is a huge physical exertion Yoga and vegetarian food help through the difficulties
The movie "The Life of the Abandoned Pine Nuts" is known as a classic in film history, and its original novel has long been a bestseller, and the discussion and interpretation of pine nuts has continued to this day. The stage play "The Life of the Abandoned Matsuko" is adapted from his novel of the same name, and compared with the film, the stage play pays more attention to deconstructing the causes of Matsuko's tragic life. Zhang Jingchu, who played the heroine "Songzi" in the play, said, "Every role is actually a fusion of your life and that role, and the stage play is played by me, which must be different from other actors." The stage play is closer to the novel, the pine nuts in the movie actually do not give too many reasons and explanations, and this stage play is more of a return to the people themselves, and the audience can clearly see the reasons why the pine nuts fall in love with these men. ”
In order to better bring The story of Matsuko to the stage, Director Zhao Miao, who is already famous for his body dramas, added a lot of dance and body movements to the choreography to present Matsuko's innocent inner world. In the play, The pine nuts played by Zhang Jingchu have a bad fate, and they are repeatedly abandoned and even beaten throughout their lives. According to Zhang Jingchu's own statistics, in the past 4 hours, he was beaten by his opponent more than 30 times on the stage and tumbled on the ground more than 300 times. Although he claimed to be "interested in seeing that the bones are not good to gnaw" and "like to challenge himself", in the face of such a large physical exertion, Zhang Jingchu still frankly admitted that he was "quite collapsed", "I played very hard in the first ten performances last year, and the physical exertion was really large, equivalent to running a marathon on the stage all the time, or a marathon that tears my heart and lungs and cries." Especially in the three months or so from rehearsal to performance, we only had one day off, and I felt that my body was seriously overdrawn. In order to be able to perform normally, Zhang Jingchu revealed that she often needs to go to the hotel to beg people to go to work a little earlier, "because I need to go to massage before rehearsal, otherwise the waist feels like it is broken, and the whole body is sore." ”
It was in this extreme case that Zhang Jingchu began to adjust the state through the breathing methods he had learned in yoga, "The most nourishing thing for people is breathing, I began to look for some breathing methods to reduce unnecessary consumption, and now when I am on the stage, I will completely loosen the body, including the position of the sound is much better than at the beginning, which is actually learned on the stage." ”
In order to make himself have better endurance, Zhang Jingchu also borrowed the method of marathon runners and changed to vegetarian food, "I know a lot of very strong marathon runners, they told me that vegetarianism will be very helpful for endurance, especially after exercise, our body will produce a lot of lactic acid, vegetarian diet makes the body alkaline, will neutralize lactic acid, and the next day will not be sore." After a few months of vegetarian food, Zhang Jingchu came back this time to rearrange and found that the change was great, "I feel that my body is very light and comfortable." Even with a lot of training, I didn't get up the next day where it was sore, it was amazing. ”
Talk about emotions
Each of us is insecure in our emotional relationships
Matsuko's lifelong pursuit of love, no bottom line to please the lover, but can not get the response of true love, after being injured again and again still thrown into the abyss of disaster again and again. Many people hate Matsuko for iron and steel, calling her a "love brain" and not thinking of repentance. But Zhang Jingchu expressed his understanding of this role, "After slowly entering this character, I read a book called "Narzis and Goldmund", which talked about two completely different ways of cultivation, one is rational, one is to use his own flesh into the torrent of life to bravely embrace love and feel love, and in the end it seems to outsiders to be a very sinking and miserable life, but in the end she actually gained that she knew what love is, so through that book, I understood that Pine Nuts is The Goldmund in my mind She did a lot of things that we didn't dare to do. It's very easy for us to stand outside and point out a person, but do you have the courage? Can you love with a child's heart and with all your tolerance at any cost? In fact, we can't do it, so we are very realistic laymen. When I talk about this, I am full of respect for her. In a way, I feel like I'm getting more and more in love with the character. ”
In contrast, Songzi's attitude towards feelings, Zhang Jingchu believes that there is a reason for the original family, "She was very lacking in fatherly love in her childhood, lacked a sense of self-worth identity, and always hoped to please others and prove her existence, in fact, at this time she did not see that there was a black hole in her heart that was not filled, so she constantly needed the love of others to make herself more complete." Zhang Jingchu believes that such a causal relationship has great commonality, "Each of us is insecure in the emotional relationship, we constantly want to take, and then keep bumping into the head and bleeding." No one in a relationship is going well. I just think that the problems with her, in fact, we all have, light or heavy, or when you stand outside and look at others, you think you look at him so stupidly, and you are exactly the same when you are in it. ”
In Zhang Jingchu's eyes, "The Life of the Rejected Pine Nuts" has a certain inspiration for how contemporary women can find happiness, "Pine nuts actually need psychological help, if a person always pins his hopes on another life, in fact, you will never be able to get happiness." If in terms of emotional relationships, we must see ourselves truthfully. And our value as actors is to be able to arouse the empathy of others, to understand a life that we don't understand at all, which I think is very valuable. ”
On the good play
Good drama is never very rare Work offers a much higher chance of happiness than entertainment
Although in his 20s, he became a blockbuster for the movie "Peacock" and won awards at domestic and foreign film festivals for his excellent performances in films such as "Aromatic Journey", "Disciple", "Peerless" and so on, Zhang Jingchu believes that good roles are never many, "We just have to think about it, how many good plays you count every year to know how difficult it is for everyone." It has something to do with age, but not exactly. There are never many scenes that have thickness, depth, and penetration, that impress or impress people. Entering the "Mesozoic Generation", Zhang Jingchu did not have the age anxiety of other actresses, and seemed to have made her mentality more peaceful because of her health. She said that what she thinks about most about taking on the role now is whether it makes sense. "A very important question that I might consider at my age is whether it makes sense for me to spend a few months doing such a thing, and the meaning of it in my life is not how much money I gain, but whether I would like to spend my life like this." Playing Matsuko, I was tired like a dog every day, and after crying on stage, my eyes were swollen to the point that it took days to repair before I could see people, but I thought it made sense. Although only 20,000 or 30,000 people have seen it so far, I feel like an inter-event in everyone's life, very precious, very sacred, very full. ”
Before each performance of "Pine Nuts", Zhang Jingchu would go to the theater two hours in advance, first go through the lines, then meditate, stretch, and then put on makeup until the end of the performance at 12 o'clock in the evening, the whole time, she was in a state of high concentration. In this regard, she said that she is very happy, "I have recommended a book called "Flow" to many friends before, and in that book, it is said that the greatest happiness of people lies in your extreme concentration, which is also the condition for getting flow. True happiness comes from extreme concentration, so we don't always say that work seems miserable, in fact, work is likely to provide you with a chance of happiness, much higher than when you are entertained. ”
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting
Photo / Beijing Youth Daily reporter Hao Yi
Editor/Bow Lifang