On Wednesday, the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards announced the results online, and 55-year-old Zhang Daming won the Best Supporting Actor Award with the movie "Mai Luren" beating Jiang Haowen and Wan Ziliang, which is also his "breakthrough of zero" since the film.
Many people have bound Zhang Daming's role in "Mai Luren" to his real-life experience, and even he himself laughed that this role was "additive-free" and really starred. Because of a serious illness nine years ago, he originally had a good career and a beautiful marriage from heaven to hell, the family wealth was scattered, and many sequelae were left behind, Zhang Daming has been using the mentality of "living a day to earn a day" to try to discover the people and things around him, and insist on creating. A year ago, in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Beijing News, the three words he said the most were "so beautiful."
Character photography / Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing
"I didn't love my creations that much before, but now my biggest wish is to dedicate my most beautiful things to the audience. If I was beautiful, I would give everyone my appearance, but I didn't. However, words, performances can. Just like a painter, does he paint to make money? I think he wants to put his favorite things in the painting and give them to the outside world, and for me, my conditions can only be like this. ”
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Because of the nap, I missed the Academy Awards live broadcast
Since his debut in 1987, Zhang Daming has made countless films, acted in several dramas and stage plays, hosted programs, and served as a director and screenwriter. Speaking of song shijie, tooth rubbing su, golden boat and other roles, audiences familiar with Hong Kong films and Hong Kong dramas, no one does not know this face.
Stills from "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair"
Zhang Daming has been outgoing since childhood, likes to be watched by others perform, applause and laughter are his favorite things to get, this habit has not changed until now.
Zhang Daming has talent, in 1992, he wrote and directed "The Journey of a Distant Home" and won the Best Director and Best Screenwriter of the First Hong Kong Stage Drama Awards, the following year he went to the United States for further study, had a deeper understanding of theatrical performance and creation, and began to make movies after returning to China, in addition to starring in the emperor in "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair", he also co-starred in "Counting Dead Grass" with Stephen Chow and Karen Mok, and "Song Shijie" starring Guo Aiming became the 1997 Hong Kong drama ratings champion...
In the interview, Zhang Daming also revealed his "knack" for starring in comedy: "It is actually difficult to do comedy, I have acted in so many comedies, I have never felt that my image is set in stone. If you want to act well, the trick is that you have to really feel the state of the role, not deliberately, everything must come from your own sincere expression. ”
Zhang Daming won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the movie "Mai Luren".
Despite his versatility, this is the first time he has won an Academy Trophy. In Mai Lu Ren, his character always has a frost-beaten numbness, and at the end of the film, he is full of tears, a mouthful of rotten yellow teeth, and says to Aaron Kwok, Do you think I haven't tried? I really can't find a job. When he learned the news of the award, Zhang Daming said that he was taking a nap and missed the live broadcast. He said that the award is not his own credit, but the efforts of the whole team, and he hopes that "Mai Luren" can be released as soon as possible and get more echoes from the audience.
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The three most terrible performances in life
In Zhang Daming's impression, there are three movies that are the most difficult to shoot so far: the first is the film "Killer Butterfly Dream" directed by Tan Jiaming, the on-site shooting conditions are difficult, the character played by Zhang Daming eventually died of an explosion, and he needed to roll on the sand with a high temperature of thirty or forty degrees Celsius when shooting, because the blood plasma is made of sweet pulp, the whole body is surrounded by flies, even the eyes can't be opened, and when he said that at that time, he couldn't help but spit out a sentence: "The whole process is very difficult (very uncomfortable)".
Played the emperor in the movie "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair".
The second part is the "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" that has impressed many viewers, that shooting was Zhang Daming's first time in Beijing, he remembered that he was frozen unconscious, almost unable to show the expression on his face, he said that the scene, that temperature may be difficult for him to forget in his life.
The last one is "The Birth of a Word" with Liu Qingyun, there is a scene where he needs to vomit blood constantly, in order to be true, he hides a small stick in his mouth, the whole process can not say clearly, "That time, my mouth was not closed for 12 hours, because for a long time, it led to the final real squirt of blood, which was quite terrible." ”
Zhang Daming is like this, in order to perform can open up all, he said that when he was young, he worked very crazy, for a few years he only slept two hours a day, because there were so many things to do. He said that it was really hard, and he also felt that too hard and too tired was not good for his health, and it was not cost-effective, but he thought that there was no room for regret for many things. "As far as life is concerned, you need to make money, you also need to have a job to support your family, and it is understandable to fight when you are young; as far as creation is concerned, no matter what stage of life you should be seriously persistent." Even if there is only one in the audience, you must do the ultimate, and it is my dream to show people the best works. ”
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The road to anti-cancer has been more than nine years
In 2011, Zhang Daming was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, through two years of treatment, he thought that the fight against cancer was successful, but he fell behind the sequelae such as paralysis of hands and feet, nasal congestion, etc., and must be regularly examined and treated every year. He said that seeing a doctor is very expensive, doing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, MRI, a serious illness can easily drag the whole family from the economy, he is most afraid of his illness to bring burden to the people around him. "At first, the doctor said that it would be better in a year or two, but then, I couldn't even walk, and my physical condition was getting worse and worse, so I thought that I might be like this for the rest of my life."
In order not to drag his wife down, he chose to separate. Fortunately, Zhang Daming's popularity is good, Andy Lau and Gu Tianle have donated money to help, Zhou Runfa took him to run and climb the mountain to exercise, Wu Junru offered medicine, Wu Zhenyu found an actor to take him to make a movie... These, Zhang Daming remembered in his heart, "Once filming with Yuan Yongyi, it took several hours every day to make up and remove makeup, and she was very worried that I was very sick and would cause a face infection and stopped me." My idol, Andy Lau, was also the first person to take me to the Red Pavilion to sing, I was just a creator, but he invited me to be a special guest of the concert, how beautiful, how incredible. ”
Zhang Daming often went hiking with Zhou Runfa and other people.
The road to anti-cancer is long, and Zhang Daming has been gone for more than nine years. For the sick state, he is not willing to mention too much, in the face of life's difficulties, he has not been defeated by setbacks, but still optimistic, he said that it is good to have drama and money to earn. "Everyone has a different view of illness, and over the years I have kept telling myself that I will be fine, even if my legs and feet are inconvenient and my body is emaciated, but I think Hawking will also encounter a serious illness of paralysis, but the whole world likes him and thinks he is great, so I have to think about it." 」
Zhang Daming has always been optimistic, but in the low tide period there is too much helplessness, illness makes his work stagnate, a large number of production cuts, during which many film and television dramas cast olive branches, invited him to play the main role, because it takes a long time to shoot in the mainland, time is in winter, his body can not withstand a long period of low temperature, coupled with leg and foot inconvenience, he refused, "Now the role is not to make money or have drama, the important thing is to see if I can play this role, as long as I can bear, the next role will do my best to play it well." He laughed and said that he would act until he died, but the most important thing at this stage was to raise his body well: "If you still want me to play the emperor in Stephen Chow's movie, I can also do it; Song Shijie, I can also, because these roles don't need to move around too much, there is no drama, just talk, I can play well..."
Stills from "Song Shijie"
Exclusive Conversations——
Had planned to cooperate with Star Ye in the stage drama version of "The King of Comedy"
Beijing News: It is said that people who are good at performing comedy may not be so happy in private, and the contrast is very large?
Zhang Daming: In life, I am a very optimistic person, and I am also very funny and humorous in private, so the contrast is not so big. My first job was performing at the Hong Kong Comedy Theatre Company, and I later experimented a lot on stage. Of course, wanting to make the audience laugh is a very tiring thing, you see how tired Zhou Xingchi's state is, you have to spend time to consider how to make the audience laugh, just like cooking a dish, what materials to buy, what seasonings to use, how to cook, how much time to spend, each step must have ideas, racking their brains can be.
Beijing News: They all say that you are the golden supporting role of Hong Kong movies, what do you think about the difference between the size of the characters?
Zhang Daming: I will not deliberately distinguish between the protagonist and the supporting role, nor do I particularly want to force myself to encounter any good scenes, of course, if you can have the opportunity to be the protagonist, you will have a lot of scenes and space to express. I think of myself as a person close to art, and getting applause and laughter is a beautiful thing for me. If a work inspires the audience and allows them to have ideas to solve some problems in life, it is the icing on the cake.
Beijing News: Do we still have a chance to see the sequel to "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair"? Have you talked to Stephen Chow about the possibility of re-cooperation?
Zhang Daming: This is what I have always wanted to do, but objectively speaking, it needs to be in the right place at the right time. In fact, Xingye and I have also been trying hard, I had planned to plan a stage play version of "The King of Comedy" with him, asked Eason Chan to play Yin Tianqiu, who expected that in the end, the investor felt that the timing was not good to overturn this decision. My dreams have been walking, but not every step can be illuminated by light.
Beijing News: Do you feel helpless or frustrated?
Zhang Daming: Frustration is not enough, some things are not there, just go to the next thing. Of course, I am looking forward to having the opportunity to cooperate with Stephen Chow again, and the most important thing is that you must know that you have been persevering, working hard, and persevering in the process, and one day it will be achieved.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
Character photography Guo Yanbing
Edited by Wu Dongni Proofreader Zhao Lin