Many young people may not be familiar with "Zhang Zijian". He has no Weibo, does not go live, and even uses WeChat voice slightly unfamiliar. However, Yin Jianping in the TV series "Gan Nineteen Sisters", Li Shizhen in "Daming Dynasty 1566", and "Yan Shuangying" (a character in the TV series "Hero" and its derivative works) that has been replayed by TV stations countless times every holiday, "Yuanfang" (a character in the "Detective Di Renjie" series) has been greeted by netizens for nearly a decade... Since debuting on stage at the age of four, in Zhang Zijian's more than forty years of acting experience, he has successfully hidden himself behind the role.
"Yuanfang" and "Yan Shuangying" are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but Zhang Zijian still hopes to interpret different types of roles.
In the TV series "Win or Lose" directed by Zhang Li a few days ago, Zhang Zijian played a fashionable but arbitrary boss Lin Zhenwei. This is a role that Zhang Zijian cherishes very much: he can't see Yuanfang, he can't see Yan Shuangying, and he can't see Zhang Zijian; although the role is not much, it is enough to seek a slight change. "I want every play to bring some joy to myself and make the acting a fun thing, which is very critical."
"Win or Lose"
Waited for fifteen years, waiting to cooperate with Zhang Li again
Lin Zhenwei is unique in the TV series "Win or Lose".
He is not a businessman in the traditional sense - his appearance is always fashionable, smiling, he loves sports and health, and he is also an "internet celebrity" of the live broadcast platform. Every day after work in the company, he rushed to the lounge to broadcast live ball. Therefore, most of Lin Zhenwei's plays in the play are either in the gym or in the yoga studio.
Before the start-up, Zhang Zijian, who had just returned to China, was isolated for nearly a month due to the epidemic, and there were not many opportunities for exercise during the period. After arriving on the set, Zhang Li's first words were: "How are you fat?" This is not OK, this character can't be fat. So Zhang Zijian began to diet madly, hungry enough to go to sleep, and quickly lost 10 pounds in a week.
In order to shape Lin Zhenwei's obsession with sports, Zhang Zijian also suddenly learned high-altitude yoga. "I searched the Internet for 'rope' yoga classes, but I couldn't find videos of men practicing. There is no way but to practice ordinary yoga first. I told the director that I had to help me find a teacher when filming. ”
In "Win or Lose", Lin Zhenwei, played by Zhang Zijian, is a boss with a heavy heart, but also a lot of means.
But under the appearance of the trend, Lin Zhenwei is also a boss with a heavy heart, a deep city government, a value for interests, and a dictatorial approach. "Acquiring a company" is his biggest dream and must be achieved by any means. And his employees must also obey his orders, otherwise they will be immediately dismissed.
"I'd rather find more details to rationalize his behavior." In Zhang Zijian's design, Lin Zhenwei's "arbitrariness" is because others have hurt the interests of the company, so he must use means to fight back and protect. "I always think this guy is quite 'sad'. He values his deputy, his apprentice Luo Jia (Xin Zhilei), so much that everyone is talking about Lin Zhenwei's way of doing things (there is a problem). But judging from the factual results, it is indeed Luo Jia who hurt the interests of the company. ”
In addition to the role, "Win or Lose" is also a "learning opportunity" that Zhang Zijian values very much. This is his second cooperation with director Zhang Li after the TV series "Daming Dynasty 1566", which is fifteen years.
"Daming Dynasty 1566" is the first collaboration between Zhang Zijian and Zhang Li.
"I've been waiting for Uncle Li's call. To be honest, it is to let Uncle Li put me in the performance again. "After more than forty years of filming and participating in nearly 100 film and television works, Zhang Zijian's experience tells him that a good crew and a good director can accurately raise the actor's questions and guide the actors in the right direction."
In the months of filming "Win or Lose", Zhang Li gave Zhang Zijian many suggestions, such as which direction to develop in the future and what kind of works to pick up. "From my personal point of view, I want [every play] to have stricter, more refined requirements. But in fact, this market is not always like this. So you can meet such a drama, you will cherish this opportunity. ”
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After "Gan Nineteen Sisters", I didn't feel tired when shooting anything
In the era when Zhang Zijian first entered the industry, the performance atmosphere was completely different from the present.
At that time, the crew was not enough, there was no so-called field work, and the actors needed to do a lot of trivial work in addition to acting. For example, posing props and carrying photographic equipment. In 1996, a large number of scenes of the TV series "Gan Nineteen Sisters" were filmed in Thousand Buddha Mountain, and the filming was more than half a year. Zhang Zijian and the rest of the group often carried dozens of pounds of photographic equipment and climbed from the rest place to the shooting site on foot, which took an hour to walk. "The biggest benefit I got at that time was that I don't feel very tired shooting anything now."
The shooting conditions were very difficult. There is a scene where the heroine faints after falling from a cliff and is awakened by heavy rain. The filming location is the coldest mountain stone area behind the Thousand Buddha Mountain, the temperature is minus 19 degrees Celsius, and the fire trucks have to spray water non-stop. When the first shot was taken, Zhang Zijian had no other feelings except cold. But after the second shot, Zhang Zijian's hood, eyebrows, and eyelashes were all ice ballast. After the stylist came over and photographed the ice ballast on Zhang Zijian's face, he directly patted the third one.
The TV series "Gan Nineteen Sisters" is Zhang Zijian's first work as a male protagonist.
Not only that, most of the actors at that time were "experience-oriented", especially martial arts actors, who had no stand-ins and special effects, and most of them were on their own. In the play, Zhang Zijian has a large number of "light gong" plays. Weia, which has a span of only 32 meters and a height of 18 meters, needs to "fly" for a whole week at its longest. Every day, as long as you finish filming the literary drama, you must go up the mountain and "fly" without stopping.
AVIA also has occasional safety incidents. According to Zhang Zijian's recollection, the equipment and protective measures at that time were not perfect, and on the first day of start-up, it was broken twice, fortunately no one was injured. On the last day of filming The Weiya drama, it was a scene that fell from the sky, Zhang Zijian was at the bottom of Weiya, the actress was in the middle, and the photographer was at the top. But Wia was unable to protect such a long distance, and suddenly lost control during the shooting, and the three fell directly from mid-air. Zhang Zijian was the first to kneel on a cushion, and underneath the mat was a hard rock. "There weren't so many opportunities back then, and when you had one, you would try very hard to do it."
After decades of shooting martial arts scenes, Zhang Zijian has accumulated a "traumatic experience", but last year when shooting a certain work, there was an unprecedented accident. It was Changbai Mountain in April, a rare snowy weather, the ground was snow white, and the branches were all snow. Zhang Zijian is filming a scene of "the enemy chasing me". During filming, Zhang Zijian designed the character to lie in the snow and crawl under the roots. With a stroke of genius, he grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into his mouth, and clicked to eat it. The hardships and beliefs of the warriors are vividly displayed. "I was pretty funny when I was shooting." But then ran through the explosion point, the staff pressed the control switch early, Zhang Zijian was "blown" into a crushing fracture of the ankle, which has not yet been fully recovered, and every rainy day, the old injury will still faintly hurt.
He confessed that in the past, the shooting scenes relied on the fearlessness of the ignorant, anyway, it was normal to be young and injured a little; even if he was "blown up" like last year, he still felt normal, but this time he was unlucky. The first thing Zhang Zijian thought after he was injured was, "I still have two unfinished scenes, and I can only think of various ways to stand or sit and finish my little scene." ”
"Meta Aromatic Body"
The fire is very unexpected, in fact, there is no such line in the play
In "Win or Lose", Lin Zhenwei's clothes are always full of color: flower shirts, pink T-shirts, blue embroidered suits... The same piece of clothing, not worn twice. In addition, he is also a "5G surf master", good at using social platforms and public opinion, and knows how to use the Internet, live broadcasting and other emerging methods to build himself and the company into "Internet celebrities".
Zhang Zijian in life is an out-and-out old-school. "Lin Zhenwei's clothing matching, I can't accept." Since his debut, he has not had any social media; Weibo was registered in 2017, and there is no one who has posted or followed; trying to find Zhang Zijian's life photos on the Internet is futile.
But it was such an actor hiding in the hustle and bustle that caused one of the earliest entertainment carnivals on the Internet.
In 2012, when commenting on current affairs news, some netizens imitated the tone of Di Renjie in the TV series "Detective Di Renjie" and asked: "Yuanfang, what do you think?" This move instantly detonated the network, and many netizens followed the trend and imitated. From national current affairs and social news, to whether this dish is delicious or not, and disputes with friends, they must be accompanied by a sentence: "Yuanfang, what do you think?" "This has become a fixed sentence pattern for netizens to express opinions, question questions, and put forward views; even Un.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has quoted this sentence on Weibo to solicit his own views on being asked to jump "Jiangnan Style"... Many sociology enthusiasts also use this to analyze the reasons for the popularity of "Yuanfang body".
Zhang Zijian and Liang Guanhua starred in the series of TV series "Detective Di Renjie".
When "Yuanfang Body" and Yuanfang stills were forwarded on the Internet nearly 100 million, Zhang Zijian, who was filming in the crew, knew nothing. Until more and more media called for interviews, some of them questioned that this was a hype. In fact, before the popularity of "Yuanfang Body", "Detective Di Renjie" had been broadcast three times in a row, and the broadcast time was more than eight years. "We also thought about it for half a day, in fact, there is no exact same line in the play, 'Yuanfang, what do you think?'"
This seems to be the most paradoxical thing That Zhang Zijian has experienced: a content that has been created twice has quickly exploded and become a social phenomenon, but the person concerned is confused by the second monk. That year, Zhang Zijian won weibo's annual breakthrough power award, but at that time, he did not even have Weibo.
Zhang Zijian talked about the reason why he didn't open Weibo, "In fact, I know those (popular) things, but I'm quite lazy, and I can get good acting." Many things can't make up their minds. Just like "Yuanfang Body" still allows Zhang Zijian to have absolute communication value, last year someone also invited him to live stream with goods. But after much thought, Zhang Zijian still declined. "In the end it didn't convince me. I always felt uncomfortable doing something that I couldn't convince myself. Actors still need to come up with their works to let others pay attention to you, and no matter how well you promote them, they can't compare to your works being accepted by the audience. ”
From the main character to the supporting character
An actor cannot be brilliant forever
There are six TV series represented by "Yuanfang", "Detective Di Renjie", and a series of TV series "Hero", "Falcon 1949", "Flying Tiger Condor", "Lonely Island Flying Eagle", "Desert Gun God" and "Jinmen Flying Eagle" with "Yan Shuangying" as the main character. These two roles mark the golden twenty years of Zhang Zijian's acting experience.
The role of "Yan Double Eagle" impressed the audience.
Zhang Zijian attaches great importance to friendship and is willing to cooperate with his old partners again and again. "But after forty years of filming, I hope that [the characters] will change."
For example, in the 1997 historical drama "Kou Lao Xi'er", Zhang Zijian played the Song Dynasty emperor Song Zhenzong, an alternative and comedic character. In the 2002 TV series "Winter Solstice" with director Guan Hu, Zhang Zijian played a rogue who returned to China to hide debts and intended to steal demolition and resettlement funds, a veritable "villain".
The characters in the TV series "Kou Lao Xi'er" (part 1) and "Winter Solstice" (part 2) both subvert Zhang Zijian's previous role types.
These are the roles that Zhang Zijian likes very much, but it is difficult for the current market to respect the actor's ideas. In the past ten years, most of the roles looking for Zhang Zijian have been branded by Yuanfang or Yan Shuangying, and most of them are supporting roles and friendships.
Born in a family of qu arts, Zhang Zijian took the stage at the age of four to perform the Allegro Book. His father never intended to teach him, and he quickly learned the skin from the sidelines. In the fourth grade of primary school, Zhang Zijian participated in the children's drama of Tianjin Television Station, and in the fifth grade, he had his first film work. After graduating from college, he quickly received the TV series "White Eyebrow Hero", and the second work "Gan Nineteen Sisters" became the male protagonist...
In Zhang Zijian's view, the actors of that era did not have so many opportunities. He was lucky enough to always be able to perform some good works and get good ratings. Now, taking a back seat from the core of the crew, he calmly accepts that after getting older, there are no longer so many suitable male number one roles. "Actors can't always be the most brilliant time in their lives, there will definitely be times to go down. If I have the opportunity, I also want to play the male lead, but what age people, do what age things. You can't always say that you are in your early fifties and still think about playing a role in your early thirties, that is unrealistic. ”
Zhang Zijian does not reject playing Yuanfang again, but it is certainly not 30-year-old Yuanfang.
At present, Zhang Zijian still loves acting. In addition to acting, he also enjoys life more, and will go to self-driving tours and sports. I will ask myself as much as possible and take on more different and interesting roles. For example, as for whether he will play Yuanfang in the future, Zhang Zijian does not shy away from it, "After all, there is an emotion." And now it's really working on a new script. Zhang Zijian will be old, and Yuanfang will also be old. If we let the audience see an old Yuanfang, will there also be a new meaning? There is at least one change. It is definitely not that we will do this work again, or let Zhang Zijian play a 30-year-old Yuanfang, I will not accept it. ”
Zhang He, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
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