Many people call Zhang Yu an actor with "extremely low visibility".
The film "Siberian Tiger" directed by Geng Jun is being screened, and this interview took place in June last year, when the film "Siberian Tiger" had just won the Best Film award at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival, and Zhang Yu seemed to be much clearer than ever, with a look of excitement. Talking about hi, he did not hesitate to laugh, talking like the "funny soul" of that year, you asked him if he was red, but he said that he felt that he was going to be "yellow".
The movie "Siberian Tiger" is Zhang Yu's first cooperation with director Geng Jun.
It is said that Zhang Yu and the film circle have always had a sense of alienation, as an actor who is more and more well known and more and more concerned, in recent years, has he adapted to this circle more? "When I interviewed you in 2018, you said, 'Being stared at by so many pairs of eyes is like walking on thin ice.' Now there should be more pairs of eyes, more opportunities in front of you, have you adapted? He was silent for half a moment, thought about it, and then patted his head: "That ice is getting thinner and thinner, more and more easy to fall, easy to break." ”
"On thin ice, will you still insist on being that low-key Zhang Yu?"
"Yes, I try. Besides, I can't get up high profile (laughs). ”
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I don't want to play myself, I just want to play someone else
In summary, most of the characters handled by Zhang Yu do not like to talk, and are often caught up in complex and incomprehensible life experiences. The yellow hair lines in the movie "I am not a medicine god" are just a few words, no cheerful smile, but carrying the pressure of a sick life; Hu Guangsheng, a robber from the bottom of society in "The Unknown Generation", is slightly energetic, but the essence is also underpinned, relying on bluff to embolden himself; Song Hao in "The Wind and The Waves" is making irreparable mistakes, being eaten by original sin all his life, living in a contradictory and torn father-son relationship... In "Siberian Tiger", Xu Dong in the film is faced with the dilemma of middle-aged men's lives, full of fatigue and helplessness after the disappearance of passion.
From "I Am Not a Medicine God" to "Calm Wind and Waves", most of the characters played by Zhang Yu are caught in a complex and incomprehensible life.
The one on the screen is so real that people wonder if Zhang Yu in real life is also like this - good at deep thinking and less words. "That's so different," "I'm mean better than everyone I've played!" It's just that the biggest advantage of the profession of actor is that he can experience sentiments that are nobler than himself by playing the life of others, hahahahahaha After a burst of laughter, Zhang Yu further elaborated on his "self-perception": "Really, too despicable, I am unsightly and unconsidered. ”
"Why do you disapprove of yourself so much?"
"That's why I'm an actor, I want to play someone else, I don't want to play myself." I don't like myself and I don't get along very well with myself. I can calm down, and I'm also someone who often argues with myself. There are many noisy problems, to put it crudely, that is, there is a person who says you are a cow (great), there is a person who says you are stupid (very poor), a little divided, and has been oscillating between self-affirmation and self-denial. ”
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Love the poetry of it filling the void with nothingness
Even if he thinks he is despicable, he is very grateful to have the opportunity to act and find a role with a sense of identity. In addition to his feelings for the character, he is more of a reverence, after all, he constantly ridicules that the character's sentiment is nobler than his.
In 2018, he saw the script of "Siberian Tiger", and the three-dimensional sense and sense of struggle of the characters in the film were very attractive to him: "I watched a lot of Geng Jun's works before, and I was a loyal audience for his works. He was a man of humor everywhere, more humorous than me, wiser than me, a little more than me, but of a quality better than mine. Xu Dong in "Siberian Tiger" is experiencing a "middle-aged catastrophe": because his wife Meiling (Ma Li) is pregnant, he entrusts his dog Ruyi to the builder Ma Qianli (Zhang Zhiyong), and the dog is eaten. "I fully understand Xu Dong's paranoia, his dog is very interesting, for example, there is a dog walking scene, he can run with the dog, jump up, as if life has vitality." If marriage makes him slowly lose interest and can only live pale and dry, dogs are the factor that can make him run. Then the dog was eaten, it became a dog skin, he lost his motivation, he lost his soul, he lost his own fresh, young impulse, the dog was like his shadow, he wanted to find his original thing. Later, he may not know what he is looking for and whether he can find it. ”
In "Siberian Tiger", a dog, Xu Dong (Zhang Yu) and Ma Qianli (Zhang Zhiyong), turn from strangers to "enemies".
What he felt most was that director Geng Jun encountered a shooting treatment that he had not had before in this film, and he was also relieved that a director with feelings had better shooting conditions: "It took about two months to shoot, which is the longest one in Geng Jun's film." First, because the weather in Hegang is very short, there is no light at 3:30 p.m., we have very few night plays, and after reading the script, I also asked him , 'Oh, there are not many night plays!' He told me that in the past, when I wrote a script, I didn't dare to write a night play, because when I wrote it, I had to turn on the lights, and I wanted this money and that money. This time there can be two or three games, which is also the richest and most conditioned one of Geng Jun. ”
Before the filming of "Northeast Tiger", Zhang Yu had been worried that he would not be able to integrate into Geng Jun's works.
Limited conditions seem to be unable to restrain the average person's pure desire to create the mind, in fact, before entering the group, Zhang Yu has a lot of worries and questions, "For example, Ma Li, she is definitely very suitable for the role of Mei Ling in terms of image, I question the performance style, occasionally put a question mark, but also think, can we integrate each other's styles?" In addition, there are also a few actors at hand by Geng Jun, who are also too strong, Zhang Zhiyong, Xu Gang, Xiao Er, I know their strength, and I also want to get the tone of the performance together. I questioned myself even more about whether I could keep a picture with them. ”
After the first scene, Zhang Yu completely "shut up", he said: "This is a unique film, seemingly stagnant, but in fact there is a cunning rabbit violent, will run like a powerful potential energy; like it uses pain to comfort pain, with nothingness to fill the poetry of nothingness." The film may be 'out of place', but it can reach the audience that belongs to it. ”
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Zhang Yu: Little Two is the "nuclear weapon" of the performance
Beijing News: What is the attraction of "Siberian Tiger" to you? What is the siberian tiger creature in your definition?
Zhang Yu: I think this movie is very comfortable to act, but if you ask me to summarize it, I can't summarize it. The Siberian tiger, it seems that everyone is accustomed to trapping it in an environment to feed, implies some kind of natural possibility and real dilemma. You think, the Siberian tiger is locked up in the zoo, it is lying warmly on its stomach, but it has some possibility, that is a kind of unrestrained possibility.
Beijing News: In the film, Xu Dong saw his dog die, the crying scene was very touching, the emotions were very full, how to deal with it?
Zhang Yu: Before the shooting, I was familiar with the dog for many days and got along very well, because I used to have a dog myself, and it was easy to have a sense of substitution. When you see the props of the dead dog, you instinctively substitute it, and the discomfort you see is the discomfort of instinct.
Beijing News: The scene of "vegetables entering the house" in the movie is very interesting, you and Zhang Zhiyong were really smashed by frozen radish?
Zhang Yu: Yes, yes, it was really smashed, the crew did a lot of distance measurements to ensure our safety, but it was still quite dangerous. To say what [this scene] thinks, you have to ask Geng Jun (laughs), it has been refined and deleted, and it is also a very good short film to pick it out.
Xu Dong went to look for Ma Qianli, but was hit on the head by frozen radish.
Beijing News: The entire production team of the film is very simple, you and Ma Li should be the only business representatives in it, which is not very different from your previous cooperation model?
Zhang Yu: Really, in fact, I had a lot of pressure before entering the group, and I knew that the actors in Geng Jun's hands were too good. For example, his cousin Xiao Er, too strong, that is "nuclear weapons", okay? (Laughs) Whoever touched him was killed immediately, he was too powerful, I liked it too much, when he was acting, I basically watched from the side, laughing badly. It's a pity that we almost didn't have any opponent scenes, but that was the director who hurt me, or I would be given "seconds" by him every minute.
Beijing News: "Siberian Tiger" gives people a feeling of seemingly understanding non-understanding, and it is difficult to define what type of genre it is.
Zhang Yu: It has been defined, it is very dark and humorous, it is very GengJun. The label of this movie is Geng Jun, which has been branded with his handprint, and can feel Geng Jun's very strong personal style, humor, or sadness.
Beijing News: Since the yellow hair in "I am not a medicine god" has been paid attention to, everyone thinks that you are very good at acting, how do you think of your own performance?
Zhang Yu: What do I think about this? It is true that I will have a scale for my own performance, I think I acted well in "Siberian Tigers", haha.
Beijing News: Some people say that Zhang Yu was born for the big screen, do you like this evaluation? Some people say it's hard to imagine you acting in a TV series?
Zhang Yu: Of course I like it! I love the big screen. The TV series is that some of the rhythm is too fast, I may not be able to get it down, although there are many good TV series, but because the pace is relatively fast, I am afraid that I (acting) is uncomfortable, and I am afraid of making others (watching) uncomfortable. [Laughs]
Beijing News: The role you play always gives people a strong sense of substitution, can you come out after acting?
Zhang Yu: I can come out, there is nothing that can't come out. But I think more and more that the thing of entering the drama cannot be too valid, and I feel more and more that I can't let myself indulge in the role. A lot of times, even in the creative process, you have to jump out and see your own performance, which is very important. I used to be, painting can not stare at their own painting (content), when painting this part, can not stare at this part, have to take a few steps back, the whole jump out to see. So there's nothing that can't come out, it has to come out.
Zhou Huixiaowan, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
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