If Zhao Zhiwei, who is 1.88 meters tall, throws off his steps, the team's staff will be left two meters behind him.
"You choose what you want to eat, and I'll treat you." Zhao Zhiwei led the team to walk in the mall "swinging", like a domineering president. This is not unrelated to his new role, but Leo has always been so bold.
Without taking two steps, he turned back and quipped, "We all have to cherish the time when we can still go out to eat like this." ”
Although he has been debuting for three years and has also made several film and television works, the name Zhao Zhiwei is not well known to the public. However, a while ago, the popular youth drama "I Only Like You" made his handsome and warm man's face and the label of "brother in arrears" remembered by the audience.
Zhao Zhiwei played the "national brother" Zhao Guanchao in "I Only Like You"
The hot pot soup base had not yet boiled, and the little girl at the next table came over and asked if she could take a group photo. Zhao Zhiwei got up happily, but there was some shyness in his expression.
Zhao Zhiwei said that he can be recognized by fans outside, he is actually very happy, and he will greet them like a friend. He respected them, because if he had seen his idol instead, he might not have the courage to say hello.
"Just taking a picture, or signing a name, maybe it makes a family happy all day, why not?" Zhao Zhiwei tilted his head and raised his eyebrows, and his simple and sincere demeanor was as simple as every answer he gave.
After becoming an actor, he is famous and unknown, and for Zhao Zhiwei, there are many more confusions, doubts, difficulties and anxieties in life, and he needs to digest himself little by little.
He admits that his mentality is very good during the day, and at night, he will start to think about many things, because "people who want to improve will not be without a sense of comparison, will not be calm and self-assured, and there is no dispute with the world."
With the "To Our Warm Little Time", "I Only Like You", and "Dear Beloved" three sweet pet youth dramas have been popular, netizens have selected the "month-limited boyfriend" - May Lin Yi, June Zhao Guanchao, July Li Xian.
It was originally a result, but Zhao Zhiwei giggled in his heart: "Why are everyone else the name of an actor, only I am the name of the character?" ”
Zhao Guanchao is remembered by the audience for his success as an actor. However, Zhao Zhiwei's heart still seems to have been splashed with a cup of lemon juice: it is always Zhao Guanchao who is on the hot search, is no one curious about Zhao Zhiwei?
Just as children can understand but it is difficult to accept what adults say, "sensible children should give candy to others", the young Zhao Zhiwei is still eager to taste the sweetness from the tip of his tongue to his heart. After all, in the hustle and bustle of show business, fame is not the only one, but it is also indispensable.
Zhao Zhiwei played Long Haoqian in the new drama "Into Your Memory"
"Fame and fortune, this thing, saying that you don't want to have it is false. I think that as long as it is within a reasonable range, as long as it is obtained through the right channels, there is nothing wrong with the desire for fame and fortune. ”
Zhao Zhiwei took a sip of coffee, thought about it, and continued in a tentative tone that felt that his true words were difficult to understand: "There are still some actors who really desire fame not to satisfy vanity and interests, or to have more choices. Who wouldn't want to do a good script? Who wants to always take on the role of a silly and handsome man? ”
After the birth of the word "flow", the selection of actors to see the heat without looking at acting skills has become more and more normalized, and even has become an open secret. In such a big environment, for the sake of dreams or for the sake of profit, fame cannot be dispensed with. "And after a long time of tepid status, fans will question you - after liking you for so long, why are you still like this?" 」
On the day of the meeting, which happened to be the third anniversary of Zhao Zhiwei's debut, he said that he was really relieved to see fans tell him in a private message on Weibo that he was "very happy that you were finally seen by everyone through Zhao Guanchao this year". He is also more concerned about the comfort he brings to his fans than the benefits that fame brings to himself.
"Before some fans said that telling others that their idol was Zhao Zhiwei, they always had to explain who Zhao Zhiwei was for half a day." He pursed his lips and let out a deep breath, "It's sad. So I hope that through my own efforts, my fans will be recognized immediately when they say my name, and I hope that my agent will not have to make a dozen phone calls to fight for a role for me. ”
But if you put this aside, Zhao Zhiwei feels that his current state is also very good. There are gains and losses, the name of the artist and the life will always have conflicts, although he has not yet become popular, but at least he can have a relatively ordinary life, family and friends will not be disturbed.
"I do hope to be better in my career, but if I balance my career and life, I'm quite satisfied now."
Learning dance since childhood, at the age of 16, he was admitted to the dance department of Shanghai Theater Academy with the first place in professional courses, and won awards in many dance competitions during his undergraduate studies. Before he really came to the crossroads of graduation, Zhao Zhiwei never thought that he would give up dancing to become an actor, after all, this is what he has always been best at and the only thing he is good at.
But in the fourth year, Zhao Zhiwei's knee had a very serious problem, and the hospital did not need to go, and he could only rely on acupuncture treatment to relieve the pain. Watching the long needle pierce his knee, he would repeatedly ask in his mind: After a few years, the knee is really wasted, what else can I do?
Zhao Zhiwei, who has excellent undergraduate results, has the opportunity to stay in the school to teach, but he has always been reluctant to accept this "second-class" choice. He admired the profession of a teacher, but he had greater ambitions in his heart, so when the owner of a film and television company approached him and said that he could give him a chance to become an actor, he was moved.
"He told me that being an actor can experience a different life, that you can play a lot of good people and bad people in ten years, and that all kinds of things you want to try can be tried through roles. This sentence touched me very much. At that time, Zhao Zhiwei did not consider gaining fans and fame at all, he only thought that if he wanted to change careers, he would have to turn into a particularly challenging thing.
But what caught him off guard was that the challenge didn't just come from the work itself. "At that time, none of the people around me particularly understood my decision, and my dance teacher didn't even speak to me." Zhao Zhiwei said in a low tone that he had indeed failed to live up to the teacher's careful cultivation over the years, and what he was most afraid of was to disappoint others.
With his unchanged love for dance, his dazed ignorance of acting, the incomprehension of the people around him, coupled with the instability of working hours and income, Zhao Zhiwei has taken every step in the new field very difficult.
The Jiuxian Apartment on Jiuxianqiao Road in Beijing was a place where he would now feel scared and confused when he thought about it.
Actors, agents, directors, producers, people who work in the film and television industry are not unaware of the wine fairy apartment, and almost all of them have been there, where the crew put the plate. Most of the rooms were rented out by different crews for interviewing actors, with the crew's name posted on the door. Zhao Zhiwei, who had just arrived in Beijing, had no resources and could only take his resume and knock on the door of each room.
After going in, you will get an excerpt from the script, there is no character biography, there is no story synopsis, and after memorizing the lines, you will start acting. "The room was full of smoke, chatting, playing with mobile phones, no one reminded the scene to be quiet when the performance began, and sometimes no one even looked up at you." Zhao Zhiwei said with a bitter smile that it was a feeling of "being picked cabbage".
The frustration was so strong that later he would plead with his agent: "Don't take me there again!" "But whether to go or to go, there is no other way, that is the actor's only way." But it is also this road that makes many actors gradually forget the self-esteem and slowly lose their personality.
There are so many actors, and people trying to become actors.
In the years before the rise of the Internet, many actors would try to develop on the road of singers after filming. Because there are too many actors in a play, in addition to the main actor, it is difficult to be noticed by the audience, and it is more difficult to be remembered, but it is songs and records that can occupy the streets and alleys.
After the emergence of online video platforms, the situation has reversed. Records didn't sell, almost all songs were available for free download online for a long time, and the music industry was on the decline. However, the broadcast channels of film and television dramas have become wider, the number of crews has soared, and many singers have begun to try to change careers as actors.
And compared to singing and dancing, the threshold for actors is the lowest, and with the emergence of traffic, it becomes lower and lower. This is zhao Zhiwei's opportunity to change careers, and it is also an obstacle to his way forward.
He knew he needed to get through the traffic barrier.
When learning to dance, as long as you grit your teeth and insist on training, you will always see some results. In the actor industry, persistence and hard work are necessary qualities, but persistence does not necessarily have results, and efforts do not necessarily pay off.
Sometimes I have already got the script, and I have been notified to prepare to enter the group, but after a few days, I learned through the network that people have been replaced and turned on. "I really think that person is inferior to myself!"
At first, Zhao Zhiwei would feel very unfair, and he could not avoid feeling resentment in his heart. Slowly, he began to learn to accept. "This is the living environment, this is the real society, there is no absolute fairness, just work towards the next opportunity."
In the show business circle, some people have worked hard for ten thousand points and have not been seen, but some people have only worked hard to be seen, which really has no reason to say. So today, Zhao Zhiwei is well-known through the role of Zhao Guanchao, and he also believes that it is more because of luck. "I did work pretty hard, but there are a lot of people who work harder than I have yet to be seen, and I have to admit that I'm lucky."
He said humility takes you further.
Agent Summer said that Zhao Zhiwei is actually very strong. "Every time he went to audition or made an announcement, he would arrive much earlier than agreed, so that many of the staff would obviously arrive on time, but they would feel that they were late."
"People who are really strong don't talk about it, they just do things silently." After Zhao Zhiwei finished speaking, he laughed and felt that he summed it up very well.
Although Zhao Zhiwei said that he had never been militarized at home, he had always been very strict with himself and had a military-like strength to not accept defeat. When others say he can't do it, he has to do it, and that's the way he was from childhood.
When he went to dance secondary school, Zhao Zhiwei was very thin, only one meter four or five, not as tall as the girls in the class, and teachers and friends said that his figure was not suitable for learning dance. But he still had to learn, training every day, front kicks, side kicks, and waist shakes were all up a thousand at a time.
In 2016, Zhao Zhiwei posted a video of his dancing on Weibo
In the summer vacation of the third grade of secondary school, he finally reached the age of "Zhao Zhiwei's eldest son", and he only took two months to grow to one meter eighty-three. Speaking of this, Zhao Zhiwei laughed and said that god loved it. But he also knows that he can't rely on God to "tip" every time.
When he was in college, the choreographer said that his softness was very good and wanted him to dance the main role, but he was afraid that his strength was not enough, so he began to go to the back playground every night with a sandbag to run laps. At that time, the weeds in the back playground were very high, and others were walking hand in hand with couples, and he would run in a circle. After running for a few months, "watching the buddies change several girlfriends."
Looking back on the years when he practiced dance, Zhao Zhiwei said that he didn't know how he had persevered. "If it were now, I wouldn't be able to stick with it." So he was grateful to those who had questioned him, and to the roommate who had practiced with him earlier than he had, who had inspired him.
Unlike those questions that can be turned into incentives, some of the gossip on the Internet today is even maliciously denigrated, meaningless, but difficult to ignore.
Although it is part of the responsibility of an artist to be friendly with fans and try to meet the expectations of fans, it is often difficult to maintain popularity and maintain self when faced with netizens who manage too widely and fans who think that Aidou is a person who is out of the ordinary.
At the beginning of 2017, "First Grade Graduation Season" was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV, and Zhao Zhiwei was the leader of the audit student group. I don't know whether it is for the effect of the program, or whether the students who participated in the recording are themselves good at creating topics, and the program has aroused a lot of public opinion discussion from broadcast to the end. Zhao Zhiwei was also involved.
At the beginning of 2017, "First Grade Graduation Season" was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV, which triggered a lot of public opinion discussion, and Zhao Zhiwei was also involved
"Those netizens don't know what kind of person I am, and they don't know what the ins and outs of things are, and what's even more frightening is that they may not care about these things at all, that is, scolding." Zhao Zhiwei's brow frowned slightly, and his speech speed was unconsciously faster. "I still care, I do care, and when I say I don't care, I'm either comforting others or comforting myself."
For that period of life, Zhao Zhiwei said that he lived a very tense life.
A person who needs a sense of security never knows where tomorrow's job is. He was not good at dealing with strangers, and he had to be ready to face the senseless criticism on the Internet, and he was once very afraid of accepting interviews, even writing down the answers to the questions first, and then frantically memorizing them to the point of word for word.
At the end of 2017, he rehearsed the drama "I am only one you with the world" with Kan Qingzi, and in the small talk, Kan Qingzi said to him: "Even if you can't completely ignore what others say, don't lose yourself." Others say that you are a warm man, you will take back all the dashing and wild, afraid of losing the label of warm man, then do you still have a life and a self? ”
At the end of 2017, Zhao Zhiwei and Kan Qingzi rehearsed the drama "I am only one you away from the world"
These words poked at Zhao Zhiwei's heart. Who is the so-called human design designed for? If it is completely detached from the real him, then what is the meaning of this designed person? It is inevitable that the actor will be labeled with various labels because of the role, and although he does not resist these labels, he cannot live in the label all the time.
Not long ago, some unreliable gossip came out, and many people sent him private messages on Weibo, saying that he had changed and threatened to take off the powder. "I can't always say something and I run out to explain, which is not only useless, but also ridiculous." Just let them go. Zhao Zhiwei frankly said that he is also the first time to become an artist, and he does not know how to run himself into a "perfect idol", but because of this, everyone sees the real him.
After the tour of the play, he began to slowly know what life was. Cooking at home, raising flowers, painting, although not doing a good job, but at least actively trying. Recently, he taught himself bartending because he and his friends planned to open a bar when they had the chance.
Over time, he found that whether it was for himself or for work, it was very important to be a person who could live. "If you want to be a good actor, you really have to be able to live, if I can't eat steak myself, how can I play a person who eats steak elegantly?" 」