Last week, "Wind Rises Luoyang" began broadcasting, the plot is compact, the texture is high, the costumes are exquisite, and the actors' acting skills are online, and the drama is really enjoyable to catch up.
Today I want to talk to you about Wu Zetian, who is not angry and arrogant in the play - Yong Mei. Because "I didn't expect it to be like this" is probably the voice of many viewers chasing this drama, surprise is the norm, and the moment Wu Zetian played by Yong Mei appears, this surprise has been instantly elevated.
Unlike the image of the Heavenly Son in the previous film and television dramas in which the dragon robe is on the body and sits in the Golden Ruan Hall to point out the country, Wu Zetian's appearance is all low-key and cold. She was dressed in white, without any Chinese costumes, nor any beads. The speech was low and whispered, and there was no pretense of thunder and anger, but the ministers sitting on their knees in the hall were trembling, and the majesty of the Son of Heaven was not angry.
Let's draw our attention back to the actor himself, Wing Mei.
After 24 years of supporting roles, he won the Berlin Film Festival at the age of 49 with "Long Days on Earth". If you summarize it with a golden sentence that immediately attracts the interest of others to read, this sentence is undoubtedly the best slogan. In fact, this is also the most intuitive impression of Yongmei after she won the award that year. But with more interviews and reports, as well as the emergence of character charm, the audience, while learning more about Wing Mei, has gradually realized that Wing Mei is not just an actor whose life is full of counterattacks. Her insistence on acting, her low-key and down-to-earth outlook on life, and her punk heart under her gentle appearance are the energy pools that converge into the individual "Wing Mei". After understanding this, it is probably not difficult for the audience to understand why Yongmei's interpretation of Wu Zetian can be so unique.
Let's start with Wing Mei's attitude towards performance. 24 years of supporting role experience, not that no one has rushed for Yongmei, after all, playing the main role and doing something seems to be the default expectation of the outside world for the actor. And Yong Mei's response was not hurried: "I am waiting for the role that belongs to me, I am not in a hurry, you don't have to worry." The supporting role and the protagonist are not much different in YongMei's mind, and her only measure is the role itself. "I don't think I'm going to amplify the main role and supporting roles, my starting point is that the character can impress me, you find me I like, can express well, this is fate." 」 The supporting role of the protagonist may sometimes not be related to the protagonist, and then if you think hard about this thing, it is utilitarian to enlarge it, I don't think it is very comfortable, so I don't think about it."
"I'm a craftsman, shaping female characters is my craft, I'm not a big star." This is Wing Mei's positioning of herself. Looking back at more than two decades of acting, she said that she did not have a magnificent legend or a blockbuster sensational effect. Yes, she is just an actress who loves acting, an expressor who uses her craft to talk to the world.
Walking into Yong Mei's performance past, you will actually clearly see her banishment of desire. We often say that the film and television circle is like Vanity Fair, there are always people who want to come in, but few people are willing to stay away, and Yongmei is the one who has the courage to allow herself to enter the buffer partition. 16 years ago, the 34-year-old YongMei starred in "Chinese Divorce", which is more popular than anyone imagined. YongMei, who participated in the performance, was like a rocket on the opportunity, countless invitations flocked to her, and money, fame and fortune lined up to beckon to her. But Yongmei only felt that it was not right, and the indifference to desire always made her retain a little calm, "Don't let desire run with you, you have to manage yourself, self-respect and self-love." Have the ability to think independently, otherwise you will have no dignity."
She sets her phone to call forwarding, no longer answers the phone, and always keeps a short distance from the outside world. "It's been 15 years, I haven't taken the phone, but I haven't missed anything." She said that her energy is limited, her energy is also limited, and she prefers that her effective energy can be released in a work. "Or you could say I don't want to be consumed too much." If you're going to consume every day, one aspect of the person may be diluted."
At this time last year, the topic of middle-aged actresses was still the social currency in the field of public opinion. At the scene of the 33rd Golden Rooster Awards, Yongmei, who won the best actress, did not overly criticize the market, she just stood there and expressed her incomprehension about the plight of the actress with the same calmness as ever. "Can I try not to repair my diagram, if not, can I not flatten my wrinkles, that is how hard I have grown."
Retaining the most essential self, but also respecting every change given to oneself by the body, this is the perception brought by time and experience to Wing Mei, and it is the behavior of the great heroine who is really righteous and confident and not afraid of the guidance of the outside world. "I've reconciled with my wrinkles, and now I'm not nervous about them, but I feel a little proud." Age is not my enemy, my story is written on my face. And this face is the most authentic tribute to time."
The strongest sense of contrast in Wing Mei is that she is so gentle on the outside, but in fact, she prefers rock and roll and motorcycles in her heart. Who would have thought that underneath the dignified and gentle exterior, there was actually a heroic and uninhibited soul.
Influenced by her father, Yongmei has always liked rock and roll, and even her relationship with her husband Luan Shu is also because of rock. Luan Shu is the former lead singer of the Black Panther Band. Remember Black Panther's classic "Don't break my heart"? The heroine of the MV is Yongmei. Yongmei also has a great love for locomotives. It is said that more than twenty years ago, she rode a motorcycle from Beijing back to Hohhot.
Over the years, Wing Mei has been using her understanding of freedom to connect with the world. Perhaps everything is as she puts it, "Although we have a lot of vulnerabilities and imperfections, we also have the ability and possibility beyond imagination, which makes us understand that it is naïve to demand the ideal environment." It also makes us realize that no matter how bad the environment, it may not be able to imprison a free soul."
Article source: vogue
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