Yan Bingyan broke the middle-aged dilemma, just like the upgrade of fighting monsters

A TV series "Opponent", which cut into middle-aged hardship through the cloak of "spy war", let Yan Bingyan, who has been silent for a considerable time, return to the audience's vision. She appeared in the camera with a plain face, giving Duan Yingjiu the decisive and neat business ability of the national security captain, and also the life of an ordinary middle-aged woman. In an interview with the Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter, she faced the reporter's questions and happily shared her own bits and pieces in acting and life. This filming queen who has a low production but says that there is no mid-life crisis laughs and says that every time a scene is filmed, it will unlock new skills and break the middle-aged dilemma, just like the upgrade of fighting monsters.

Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Nan

Plain face grounded starring, "Eight Materials Shadow Queen" is back

At the end of last year, when she, as a representative of the National Literary Congress, stood in the square and took a group photo with her peers, some people wondered, "Who is that short-haired middle-aged woman standing in a white down jacket between Zhou Dongyu and Song Jia?" There are also various official documents on the Internet that worry about her, such as "From "Eight Materials Queen" to no drama to shoot, what happened to her? 》。 Yan Bingyan was called a "film queen" because she won the Best Actress Award at the 26th Golden Rooster Awards for her film "Teeth of Love"; Later, she won 8 "film queens" including the Huabiao Award for the movie "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart".

At the end of last year, she came back with the "Duan Yingjiu" in the modern spy drama "Opponent". This New Year's Eve "dark horse" subverts people's inherent impression of the theme of espionage. The spy is very "poor", there is no sense of technology and high-class, on the surface it seems to be just an ordinary couple who make careful calculations for life, quarrel for children, and complain about money; the heroism of the national security police in the play is no longer symbolized, bringing more warnings to ordinary audiences with grounded stories.

For this role, Yan Bingyan cut her hair short and appeared in the camera. "Plain face, is what the character needs." Duan Yingjiu has time to draw eyebrows and draw eyes, and it is good to wash his face and brush his teeth. She definitely wears makeup, goes undercover in front, makeup is a skill, and in the back we try to distinguish the image from the front. ”

Self-proclaimed "stupid" actor, life acting skills "crawling and rolling"

Praising Yan Bingyan's good acting skills, she said that she would blush, and she was an amateur actor. "Actually, I'm a very stupid actor, and I belong to the kind of way that captures my inner feelings as realistically as possible, which is more direct and has no skills."

Yan Bingyan, who was born as a dancer, accidentally hit and bumped into the actor industry. In 1994, she was also a dancer in the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe, and the movie "Hunting the Wild Wolf Gang" went to find an actor, although she did not know anything about filming, but she thought that she could rub the train ticket back and forth to visit her father who worked in Shenzhen, so she agreed to audition, and since then she has an actor's identity. "Later, I thought it was fun and interesting before I started filming. Before 1998, I had actually been dancing, taking time out to shoot scenes, and I had to get the consent of the group. ”

Looking back on the experience of the industry, the "Yan Bingyan Acting Class" has begun! Accumulating life-oriented acting skills is a process of overcoming shortcomings step by step and upgrading yourself. At first, I started playing roles with my youth and looks, and I didn't have any acting training. Yan Bingyan recalled that without any shaping ability, it was difficult to play a role that was very different from herself. Later, there was a recording of the same period, and I faced the problem of unclear speech and words. "I'm a Beijinger, and Beijingers are lazy in talking, so they consciously follow the news network, he says a sentence, I say a sentence to record, and then turn it back to listen." The dancers' figure-eight feet also began to change, as far as possible not to let themselves have habitual movements, to minimize these. "Natural performances will escalate as you accumulate experience, and if you want the audience to cry and laugh with you, you need to do a lot of practice." For example, Yan Bingyan said, "When filming a hospital scene, I go to the hospital emergency room and go to work like an emergency doctor every day to see how they pick up patients, what kind of patients they come to the emergency department, and what kind of way the doctor will deal with it." I will also take a winter melon and put on a stocking and practice stitching every day. ”

Recently, the audience found that Yan Bingyan was fat, and the middle-aged state was a bit "miserable"? There's a reason behind the scenes! Before the start of filming of each scene, Yan Bingyan used to spend three months preparing. After filming "Opponent", a fitness instructor was specially hired. "Usually insist on fitness, all aspects of physical fitness are OK." I have also practiced boxing before, and I have dance skills, and I have no problem playing this piece. But because I am not tall, in the face of such scenes as arrest and fighting in the play, I turned over my hand and threw people on the ground, is this credible? Therefore, I hope that from the physical point of view, the audience will feel more trusted, start lifting iron, and practice fighting. "When I practiced for more than a month, I encountered a bottleneck and began to eat meat and sugar, and after two months, I couldn't practice every day because I couldn't shoot it, and I gained six or seven pounds."

The reporter asked Yan Bingyan if she cared, and was evaluated by netizens as fat, and she said she didn't mind. "The actor is to present each of your roles in front of the audience, in fact, I will deliberately strip away many of my personality characteristics, because the more transparent and clean you are in life, the more you throw into the crowd without characteristics, and each role you get may be closer to the role itself." 」

This is also not the first time she has "skinny and fat". In the TV series "Red Leaves of the Distant Mountains", she played the role of Wang Ying, the secretary of the Nanjiang Discipline Inspection Committee in Sichuan, and her compatriots said that she was too thin, and Yan Bingyan gained 15 pounds when she returned. After taking over the TV series "Borrow a Gun", she could not wear a cheongsam, and she lost 15 pounds in a week. Yan Bingyan revealed that in the new film, she played a big truck driver who pulled a pig and fattened up the role to 120 pounds. "Everything should be based on the needs and authenticity of the characters. When you act like and have a strong sense of reality, you have reached the meaning of your job. ”

The casting criterion is "scalp tingling", and there is no banal word in the dictionary

The legend about Yan Bingyan has always been in the jianghu. After the girlhood, the career just emerged, Yan Bingyan suffered the most cruel change in her life, because her mother was ill, she suspended her work to accompany her mother for eight years, and it was the various experiences of those eight years that made her sigh, "Life did not give me the opportunity to expand." ”

Yan Bingyan, who has a full personality, is known for her "low production" in the industry, and she is almost invisible in variety shows and advertisements. She also admitted to reporters, "In fact, I pick scripts and roles. In the past, I would deliberately pick a role that I had not played, but now I basically acted almost, and I would not say which type to choose, mainly based on inner feelings and physiological feelings, such as the feeling that sweat pores should be open and the scalp is numb. ”

He has starred in some small characters hovering on the fringes of society, and has also appeared in many main theme films as officials, policemen and other positive images. In her opinion, experiencing the transformation between different types of characters is the joy of an actor. Talking about the criteria for casting, she said, "Choosing a role is not because of how much money you can make, or what kind of award you can give, what you love is the role itself, what you think can be given to the role, in this case, you will love the job more and more." For so many years, I've also been protecting this passion for work, so I'm not going to take on roles for money or for some other condition. ”

In reality, actresses will encounter role transformation when they reach middle age, and some people face the dilemma of no suitable role to play. "For me, there is no particularly obvious feeling because my production itself is particularly low." Yan Bingyan said, "I think that most of the actors who feel this way may have a particularly high workload before, for example, they can shoot a lot of scenes a year, and suddenly at this age, there may be one or two plays a year, and the number may have this feeling in their hearts." But I didn't take the drama for a year, and it was good to pick up a play a year, so I didn't feel anything. Some middle-aged actresses will "drown" in mediocre roles and no longer shine with classic roles, and Yan Bingyan confidently joked, "I am so 'picky', at least I think that the roles I choose are not mediocre." ”

In the interview, Yan Bingyan's "non-insider attributes" were exposed, and there were many paragraphs. "In fact, you say that you are not seen by the audience, I do have a low output, and I am not very good at publicity, the company often tells me: do some publicity, you do not shoot during this time, let's go shoot street photography." I said: What is street photography? The staff also said to me: Sister Yan, let's take a plane, before getting on the plane, can you clean up the Lisuo point a little, take some photos or something. I said: I got on the plane, why did you shoot it? "She self-evaluates, publicizes these things, and is not good at doing publicity outside of her works." Photo publicity photos have not been updated for a long time.

In her opinion, "I've always been working, doing the work I'm supposed to do, and although it's very single, I think it might be my choice." Life has given me more than I wanted and predicted, and I have been lucky. Giving me so many honors and awards that I did not anticipate, I should be more worthy of everything. If you want to be worthy of all this, you still have to keep going to work. ”

Quick questions and quick answers

Z = Zhang Nan

Y = Yan Bingyan

Y: What are you busy with on days when you don't meet the audience as a character? What kind of hobbies do you have?

Z: I'm actually quite loose, quite free, and I have a lot of things to do, I like to grow flowers and grass, raise fish. But I still try to learn as many skills as possible, because I find that every time I play, I am following the role to learn some skills, which is very useful, very interesting, and I also experience a lot of happiness from these processes. When filming, I will deliberately learn some things that I find very interesting, and I may use them in future scenes. I used to learn the Jingyun drum when I was filming "Borrow a Gun", and I saw that the guqin in many costume plays was reversed, and it was still playing, and I felt that I could not make such a mistake. Because some things are too remote and too far away, I will also go to learn the guqin and learn Peking Opera. Once there was a play in the coffee shop owner's wife, she learned a full set of coffee skills, I can now go to the coffee shop to work, I have a certificate. And then including boxing, now I want to take piano lessons and guitar lessons, I think I just learn them all anyway. When I start practicing, I always feel that I don't have enough time. But if I was tired during this time, I would be very loose and would do nothing every day. When I'm not working, I still love to play online games.

Y: There are all kinds of difficulties in middle-aged people in the play, how do you resolve the anxiety and depression of this age?

Z: A lot of families have this kind of dilemma, and there are other middle-aged problems. In my own case, every experience is something that we need to learn in life, like playing games to level up and fight monsters. You go to every level and you encounter difficulties at each level. The greater the difficulty, the higher the level of upgrade. 40 years old is the peak of the average in all aspects, with a wealth of life and work experience, you encounter the greatest difficulty at this time. Whatever the choice, our dilemma is the same. Don't be afraid, the more this time, the more we have to upgrade, the higher the level will be.

Y: Usually seems to deliberately keep a low profile?

Z: Face your job with a normal heart, this job does not have to be high-profile, it is a normal job, maybe this is my understanding of this job.

Y: Send some blessings to everyone, what are your plans for the new year?

Z: I wish you all good health, good luck and Wishing you prosperity in the new year. I've always been a very planned person, hoping to meet good characters, scripts and teams, and create more characters that everyone likes.

Source: Yangtze Evening News