Zhang Weijian is always thoughtful and polite, and he is used to being the one who takes the initiative to "break the ice". As soon as I entered the interview room, I took the initiative to say hello, "Have you eaten?" After getting the answer of "not yet", he cared and said, "When it's over, I'll eat it." He would ask everyone present what to call them, not superficially polite, and after an hour he could still accurately call out the corresponding names; seeing the familiar lighting teacher would naturally open the topic "Just you too!" After the interview, he asked everyone if they wanted to take a group photo and patiently met all the group photo requirements. Responsible for "Chase the Light! The publicity staff told us that such a proper fit exists in every work of Zhang Weijian, with almost no exceptions.
Writing_Reporter Lu Qian Video Production_Reporter Zhong Junhao
Interview with _Intern Qin Yuxi
, duration 09:59
"Chasing the Light" stage leads to "memory killing"
Tired and happy, it doesn't feel too hard
"Hello everyone, I am..." Zhang Weijian handed the microphone to the audience and signaled them to "relay.".
"Zhang Weijian!"
He shook his head, not satisfied with this answer, and reintroduced: I am Wei Xiaobao, I am Fang Shiyu... Again and again he lists his classic roles.
After playing tired, he solemnly said, "I am Zhang Weijian who grew up with everyone." ”
Zhang Weijian appeared on the variety show "Chase the Light!" The stage of "Physical Health" debuted; for the first performance, he cooperated with Han Yu in the theme song of the TV series "Qi Tian Dasheng Sun Wukong", "High Under", reproducing the shape of the Monkey King, and successively staged "Memory Killing".
Before deciding to participate in the festival, Zhang Weijian only asked the team what to do, did not inquire about the situation of the previous season, even if there were a group of friends in another similar type of show "cutting thorns", he did not ask much. Zhang Weijian does not like to know too much information in advance and wants to retain freshness. Chase the Light! "When I spend most of my time on acting, the words singing have never disappeared in my mind, and this fire has never been extinguished." Zhang Weijian can still feel the existence of that "fire", and he is more concerned about whether he can win himself than whether he can win or lose in the competition.
Recording is not easy, take Yigong for example, Zhang Weijian not only has to rehearse the repertoire of the group stage, but also follows Han Yu to learn the dance of the double stage, and the program group also arranged a light-chasing sports meeting before the official performance, which is a fast pace and high intensity for the physical strength of the slightly older brothers. Zhang Weijian has always maintained abundant vitality, even in the long waiting time, he can still activate the atmosphere in the background like a "little sun", and always "rub your fists" ready to go on stage. Talking about the feelings of recording so far, Zhang Weijian also admitted that he was "tired", often ending this performance, and then having to meet to discuss the theme and concept of the next time, and he could not slacken off at all. But fortunately, physical tiredness cannot transcend the joy of the heart, so "I don't feel too hard when I do it."
The 56-year-old Zhang Weijian ranks second among all his brothers, but he does not shy away from talking about his age, and even took the initiative to mention on the stage that he is a year older than Han Yu's mother. He hopes that the audience will not only see their own performances, but also want young people in their early 20s to think: Zhang Weijian can jump like this, can we? "If you can't, you may really have to review it, and if you can today, ask yourself, will you be able to do it by my age?" So start exercising well today, don't give up on yourself, don't drink, smoke, and turn the day and night upside down. "At the same time, we must also convey to the middle-aged audience: Zhang Weijian is about the same age as you, and we must cheer together."
Slow down the pace "I want to act, can act, have been acted"
Chase the Light! In the first issue, each brother can bring a "light-chasing object", and Zhang Weijian appears with a photo record book, which densely shows every work, every album, and every experience he has had since his debut. The characters created by Zhang Weijian accompany the childhood memories of too many people, Wei Xiaobao, Xiaoyu'er, Sun Wukong, Fang Shiyu, Xiao Wusheng, Shen Wansan... He bluntly said that he has his own preferences among many roles, namely Fang Shiyu, Sun Wukong and Wei Xiaobao, Fang Shiyu officially introduced Zhang Weijian to the mainland audience for the first time, which is of great significance to him, and Sun Wukong is a role that he misses for a lifetime, and is almost missed, "I did not decide to shoot, but someone told me in a serious voice, calmly think clearly, you can play this role well, don't let go." ”
Wei Xiaobao is the most special, he is the most "brain-burning" and zhang Weijian is the one that zhang Weijian is most reluctant to give. Wei Xiaobao is a classic character in Jin Yong's pen, and there have been many outstanding actors who have performed before, Zhu Yu is in front, "If I play a mess, everyone will notice." Zhang Weijian felt unprecedented pressure. This pressure is different from Sun Wukong, who has become half of the makeup and dressed up, and unlike Fang Shiyu, he has no handsome martial arts action and cannot rely on play to satisfy the audience's visual experience. In addition to the head covering, from the appearance point of view, Wei Xiaobao is completely Zhang Weijian himself, and every scene must rely on "hard work", how to deduce the difference between the seven loves? How to present his relationship with Kangxi? Relationship with Aobai? Relationship with the Heaven and Earth Society?
Perhaps with too much effort, after "Xiaobao and Kangxi" was completed, Zhang Weijian stayed alone on the set of the hotel and spent nearly a week filtering emotions. He watched the crew members say goodbye one by one with their luggage and asked him, why don't you leave? Zhang Weijian didn't know how to answer, "I really don't want to go, I don't want to go, I don't want to be in such a hurry, I just leave it after the shooting, Wei Xiaobao has left me ever since." ”
Before meeting Fang Shiyu, Zhang Weijian had experienced three ups and three downs in his career, and all three falls fell straight down at the peak, without buffer. Looking back now, why did it fall so quickly? Zhang Weijian did not want to understand, "I can only say that at that time, the show business circle may like new things and fresh people." And what if I'm no longer fresh? I have no other way, I want to continue to do it, I hope to make another storm. In Zhang Weijian's view, this experience made him understand the value of persistence, he asked himself whether he had ever been proud in the high place, and he did not look down on himself when he fell, "It turns out that as long as I don't give up, the next peak will be higher than the peak you thought before." "At the same time, he doesn't look down on anyone because he believes that anyone has a chance to succeed."
After returning to the nest TVB in 2018 to shoot "Big Handsome Guy", the audience rarely saw Zhang Weijian in TV works. He admits that there is a reason for the epidemic, but even if there is no epidemic, he has long been determined not to shoot too intensively, "because every play is a whole layer of skin for me." "Zhang Weijian calculated for us, a 30-episode series, each episode according to 30 scenes, a total of 900 scenes, and usually his role accounts for about 90%, that is, 810 scenes." And if a third of the scenes need to be laughed at, then he has to design more than 200 points. In addition, there will be touching, warm, sweet, intense and so on. Therefore, after filming a play, Zhang Weijian is "collapsed".
Are there any plans to shoot in the near future? Zhang Weijian replied, "To be honest, everything I want to act and can act has been performed." If you ask me what type of role I want to play, I can't think of it for a while. Today, he has only one standard for the script - to trigger his strong creative impulse, "that impulse is very strong, I will agree to do it." Once I've agreed to do it, I'll let the fire burn as much as possible. ”
Nandu Entertainment × Zhang Weijian "has light in his heart"
"Just play the game seriously, dedicatedly and happily"
Nandu Entertainment: As a captain, how does it feel when a team member is eliminated?
Zhang Weijian: Of course, I don't want anyone to leave, but I always feel that a stage can represent all the talents of a person? impossible. A small audience can represent whether your future acting path is bleak or brilliant? impossible. So I think [this] is a game, but we have to play this game seriously, we have to play this game with dedication, we have to play this game with joy, and it's good.
Nandu Entertainment: Tell me a few about the team members, how about the impression of them after contacting them? The contact is very good, they are actually very humble people, and maybe God hurts me. I went to invite these younger brothers, they are really good, they are all very good, they are very hardworking, and everyone, you can clearly see that they have a very high talent. For example, Han Yu, needless to say, he is "This! It is the champion of "Street Dance", and he has a very high talent in dancing and choreography. Yang Zongwei has helped us solve a lot of problems in music and has also put forward many very good opinions. Liu Ye, originally I did not know Liu Ye very well, this is the first time to have contact with him, it turned out that he is so able to dance and so can sing a young man, I am even more overjoyed is that he can not only dance a single dance, from ethnic dance to street dance to modern dance, many kinds of dance he can dance, because he has been exposed to dance since he was a child, and handsome. So I admire each of them, but I think I'm not bad, nothing bad (laughs).
Zhang Weijian:
Nandu Entertainment: Does your wife have any advice for you to come to the show? Tell me to sing a little better and dance a little better. When I'm practicing songs at home, because our living room is facing the kitchen, [she'll say] can you please stop singing in the kitchen? I'm watching a movie, can you go to your room and practice? I've listened to this song 30 times. I said, didn't you tell me to sing better?
Nandu Entertainment: Did she praise you after watching the show? She thinks it's good, and every time I know the concept, I'll tell her how to act, what kind of stage, I'll tell her. She liked it, as if she liked the part of my reality show more.
"As long as you love, you will insist on it"
Nandu Entertainment: In the trough period, have there been moments of wanting to give up or despair?
Zhang Weijian: Of course, I am not iron-hearted, of course, there will be feelings. But I'm asking myself, what can I do if I give up? What do I love most? Although I am not allowed to do it now, I still love it the most. Then I can only wait for the opportunity like this, and while waiting for the opportunity, I will think a lot myself, when I have the opportunity, what kind of scene do I shoot?
When I have the opportunity to make a record, what type of song do I sing? When I have the opportunity to be in front of the camera, when someone ignores me, what is my mentality? These questions have been answered later, and the most powerful answer is how much I cherish when I have the opportunity to stand in front of the camera again.
In front of the camera, whether it is acting, singing, speaking, I cherish it, I don't think of it as a task today, (as long as) it is completed. Because I don't think these opportunities are inevitable, you've tried to lose them. When you step onto the stage again and hear the cheers and applause of the audience; when you say a word, hear their smiles, these are not necessary. Because I once had no more, when I have it again, I will cherish it.
Nandu Entertainment: Can you give some advice to young people? How to face suffering? How to relieve negative emotions? In fact, in the content I just interviewed, it already contains a lot. First of all, the sun rises every day, and it gives us a definite answer, that is, every day is impartial, it rises in the east, and if you want to come to see me. In fact, it has a subtext that if you don't want to, you will always carry my words, and you will never see me.
Second, as long as there is a trace of light, we will pull away from that light, and we will pull it apart with force, and one day a whole beam of light will come in and warm you. Hopefully, one day you can see all the light shining on you, and while shining, you can also illuminate others. If you say, now you can't see five fingers, there is no light, what then what? If there is none, it is good to have light in the heart. Those friends who can't see with their eyes, don't they never have light? Where is their light? There is light in their hearts.
The third is to stick to your passion. Many times when I go to some universities and middle schools to give speeches, I will give you a suggestion, that is, to love your future work, otherwise it is difficult to maintain. When you are difficult to maintain, you may change a working environment in three years, and then change a work field in five years, and ten years may pass before and after, you seem to know everything, but in fact, you may not be fine at anything. At the same time, your classmate may be focused on one thing for ten years, and he may already be able to do a good job. So I think the most important thing is to love, as long as you love, you have to insist on it, as long as you insist, you can suffer, you can bear failure, you can hope (do) better, don't give up.