Cover news reporter Li Yuxin
Wearing a tight and close-fitting jumpsuit and wearing a white safety helmet, he walked through the skating rink with ease while staring at the timer in his hand with a serious face... When the actor Gao Zhiting appeared on the screen again, it was no longer the audience's impression, the green teenager "Wu Baisong" who was wearing a blue and white high school student uniform and smiling brightly. Instead, he supervises the team members to train like a big brother in the camera, occasionally fighting with friends but acting safely. The audience saw the captain of the first generation of speed skating team, a young short track speed skater with a sense of mission.
Just as the countdown to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has entered, CCTV's opening drama "Beyond" officially began broadcasting in early January. The drama focuses on the key project of the Winter Olympics" "short track speed skating", using a double time and space narrative, focusing on the fate of shandong and Heilongjiang athletes, and xu Xudao came to the past and present life of China's short track speed skating. The part starring Gao Zhiting is the youth of Chen Jingye, the first generation of short track speed skaters in China.
In the shot, when the story of the winter of 1989 and the summer of 2014 alternates in the eyes of the audience. People can see the young Chen Jingye played by Gao Zhiting, with ardent expectations for the championship position and unlimited love for short track speed skating; when the camera turns, they can also see the middle-aged Chen Jingye played by Hu Jun, who still can't give up his lifelong pursuit after experiencing the wind and frost, and chooses to become a coach... Recently, just when the TV series "Beyond" was popular, actor Gao Zhiting accepted an exclusive interview with the cover news reporter and talked about the shooting on the ice rink.
Starred as a short track speed skater
"Every day in trick wrestling"
Looking back at the not too long career of Gao Zhiting, it can be found that this is an actor who is often associated with sports. From the "swimmer" Wu Baisong in "To Our Simple Little Beauty", to the unaired movie "The Most Beautiful Marathon", to the current focus on short-track speed skating "Beyond". It can be said that playing the role of an athlete is not unfamiliar to Gao Zhiting. However, when a "skater" stands on the ice rink and faces the camera to show the intensity of racing such as short track speed skating, it is indeed not an easy task.
"The subject matter related to athletes filmed before is actually not so professional." Gao Zhiting admitted that the skating technique to be mastered in the shooting should be the longest and most difficult time since starring in the sports theme. Because as a "skater" without any foundation, when he first started training, he even had a problem standing on the ice smoothly. All he could do was keep wrestling, keep training, and spend nearly 70 days learning short-track speed skating. "When I fell to the back, everyone gave me a nickname, called 'Trick Drop'. Say I practiced short track speed skating into figure skating, and I fell every day. ”
But in the lens, what is shown in the eyes of the audience is that Gao Zhiting waved his arms vigorously through the ice rink, and skillfully leaned over the corner to support the ground with his hands, and his every move was quite an athlete's style. In the interview, Gao Zhiting also talked about an episode, that is, when shooting skating scenes in the wild, there were some small problems with his skates, which caused him to fall out during the shooting process, frightening the actors and crew present. "I didn't feel much pain when I was shooting, but when I came home the next day, I really hurt so much that I couldn't get out of bed." There was also a small pimple on the back leg, and now when I pressed to that place, I still feel it. ”
This seems to be a bit of a painful shooting past, but Gao Zhiting said it easily and interestingly. He also joked that "Beyond" has a special setting, and at the end of each episode, an interview with an athlete is added, and some players have said that they may learn to skate after falling 100 heels. "I shouldn't have fallen 100, I'd already be able to."
Interpret complex human designs
"I want the audience to see the hardships of the athletes"
If the technical problem can be achieved through continuous training, how can the actor figure interpret the complex experience emotions of the characters? At present, entering the keyword "Chen Jingye" on the social platform can see the audience's disappointment, resentment, heartache, helplessness for this role... Behind these "true feelings" emotions are Chen Jingye's tortuous career and the cruel situation that athletes have to face.
When he first appeared, Chen Jingye, played by Gao Zhiting, still had a little youthful childishness, full of enthusiasm to win the championship for China. Later, when he saw his friend Zheng Kaixin surpass his doubts in a very short training time, he admitted that his talent was not as good as others. With the direction of the plot, the light in Gao Zhiting's eyes gradually dimmed, and finally broke with his friends, and the athlete's career ended sloppily, and the young Chen Jingye was really distressed and regretted.
"For me, the hardest point is how to make the audience understand Chen Jingye." In the network, many netizens lamented that Chen Jingye was "blackened" in the later period, and even angrily criticized his "selfishness" and "too small pattern". Because in the play, in the face of Zheng Kaixin, who is a friend and a competitor, Chen Jingye is difficult to accept the strength brought by the talent of the other party, and the jealous emotions cannot be regulated, and he does disgraceful things for the participation quota. It is also this that makes it unacceptable to the audience.
"That's how I felt when I first started." Gao Zhiting said that when he first got the script, it was difficult for him to empathize with Chen Jingye. But later, when communicating with the director, it was found that he was not careful. Maybe people don't know much about athletes, this profession is very hard, from a very young age to start training. Everyone saw Chen Jingye appear, he may have practiced skating for more than ten years. But he saw that Zheng Kaixin had achieved more than ten years of training results with talent, and this moment was actually not jealousy, he would doubt himself and doubt fate. Later, when he continued to try to find that he could not reach the other party at all, it was even more helpless. ”
In Gao Zhiting's view, the young Chen Jingye is a figure with a sad background, and it is also the epitome of tens of millions of ice and snow athletes. Because the road competition of professional athletes is too fierce, talent and hard work are indispensable, and the dilemma that Chen Jingye is in is also a reflection of many athletes. "He really loves the sport too much, until finally he gave up the quota to Zheng Kaixin, in fact, he also gave his life to the other party." Therefore, when Zheng Kaixin lost, he actually felt the most uncomfortable in his heart and had no way to face it. When he chose to retire, his life was close to collapse. So the audience said that he did not contact Zheng Kaixin later, also because he was difficult to accept. ”
Sometimes, Gao Zhiting also feels that the story faced by Chen Jingye is too cruel and bitter, and also understands the audience's "spit" for him, for him, these are positive feedback, is the netizens to see the athlete's hard performance. "I only began to understand Chen Jingye's sadness after playing the role, in fact, it is also the sadness of athletes, he is not easy. There are comments that prove that everyone who watches this play will pay more attention to the athlete's industry, and I personally hope that the audience can understand the difficulties of athletes. ”
Use your role to help the Winter Olympics
"Starring in Beyond is the luckiest thing of 2021"
From Wu Baisong, who is sunny and affectionate in "Little Beauty", to Xiao Wu, who is sharp-eyed and fierce in "Humble City", and Tan Burton, a policeman who is also good and evil and has a "dual personality" in "Detective Quotes", to Chen Jingye, who carries the mission of winning gold in "Beyond". It can be observed that the age span of the role played by Gao Zhiting has gradually become larger, and the character's mental journey has become more and more complex and changeable. "Maybe at this stage, I want to try some complicated characters more, hoping to make everyone understand the characters, which is my original intention."
It is worth mentioning that the actor who plays the middle-aged Chen Jingye in the play is Hu Jun, a brother who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama with Gao Zhiting. Although in the dual-time narrative mode, the two can only connect in the air, there is no cooperative opponent play. But in the network, some viewers lamented that the casting of the series was in place, but the two had some similarities. Previously, Hu Jun had said the famous saying that "actors only rely on their appearance to go long", and Gao Zhiting also discussed the impact of popularity and traffic on the criteria for judging actors in previous interviews, but as a person, it is more important to do a good job. "This may be the tradition of Chinese opera, we pay more attention to this acting aspect." I haven't actually thought about traffic. As an actor, I just have to act down-to-earth, that's my job. ”
As the countdown to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has entered, the start of "Beyond" has also been given more significance. Also for Gao Zhiting, being able to meet the audience as a short-track speed skater when the Winter Olympics arrives, invisibly makes him feel special emotions. "The luckiest thing in 2021 should be to star in this play. Not only was he able to cooperate with the director and Teacher Ma Li, but he also had the honor of starring as an athlete. It will soon be the Beijing Winter Olympics, and I hope that through the role I play, I can show the spirit of the athletes, which can also be regarded as a help to the Winter Olympics. ”
【Dialogue to Thunder】
Cover News: In this play, there are many rival scenes with actor Ma Li, can you talk about the feeling of playing? After working together, did you learn anything about acting?
Gao Zhiting: When I first met Teacher Ma Li, because of the teacher's screen image, she was still stuck in a comedy like Ma Dongmei, and I wondered if she would be very funny in real life. I went to the scene with some doubts, but when I met the teacher, I found that the character she created was still a down-to-earth, very kind, mother-like coach. She will instantly help you bring in some emotions, and even make me feel that she is my mother and a mentor to my soul on the road of life. At the level of all the characters, Teacher Ma Li has acted very well, in fact, she has learned from her predecessors again.
Cover News: The new work "The Story of Time" is about to be broadcast, which is a period drama with a large time span, how do you speculate about the changes in the different periods of the characters? The story in the plot takes place in the 90s, how to restore the feeling of that era?
Gao Zhiting: In fact, "Beyond" also spans more than ten years, so "Story in Time" is not a particularly large time span for me. When interpreting the character, it will be found in some details that he may not be as impulsive as when he was young, will be more adept at thinking, may be more stable in doing things, and will see the growth of some characters in these places.
Then the era in which these two plays were located, probably the era when my parents lived, was a little different from when I was growing up. So I also ask my parents some questions, including their views on love, their views on the times, and sometimes tell them the plot, ask them how they understand it, and what they will do about it. I will also look at some materials, because people in that era actually think it is relatively simple, people want to have "three major pieces", or become a "million yuan household" and the like. Through the data, I can slowly understand what people were pursuing at that time, and then understand the people of that era.
Cover News: Seeing that you have played a lot of sports-related characters, the Winter Olympics are coming soon, what sports events will you pay more attention to?
Gao Zhiting: This year is hosting the Winter Olympics at home, so naturally there will be more attention. Before filming "Beyond", I had done a lot of homework and preparation for short track speed skating, already knew what the project was like, and saw how players like Wang Meng, Zhou Yang, and Wu Dajing in our country won the championship in international competitions. So naturally there will be more attention to short track speed skating events.
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