Before starting today's article, let's take a look at a screenshot of Weibo:
This question that points directly to the soul is like asking how to secretly lick the yogurt lid, frankly and without losing the opportunity.
But don't get me wrong, this is not a marketing number, nor is it a scribble hand.
He is the taciturn yellow hair in "I am not a medicine god", the glasses of the strong and dry inside and outside in "The Unknown Generation", and the angry Yu Cheng in "The Elephant Sitting on the Ground".
After Song Jia co-starred in "Calm Wind and Waves" with him, she made the following evaluation of him:
I think the biggest significance of the play "I Am Not a Medicine God" is not how high the box office is, its biggest significance is to export actors like him to the Chinese film industry.
He is Zhang Yu.
When he recklessly rushed into the audience's sight with the role of Huang Mao in "Medicine God", the whole network asked, who is this actor with raw eyes?
He has a juvenile-like look, and his body exudes a wild and lustful temperament.
The two are not in conflict, but complement each other, forming his recognition as an actor.
"Wild feeling" is very rare in today's mainland actor circle.
Most of the actors' edges and corners are polished round and smooth, and they carefully protect their personalities according to order. The obvious drawback of going with the flow is that the acting skills have not improved.
And he is like a beast that does not accept defeat, with a fierce force, which cannot be tamed.
How did Zhang Yu's unique sense of wildness come about?
First of all, Zhang Yu's own appearance and temperament are very wild.
If you want to say how earth-shattering Zhang Yu's appearance is, then his conscience will definitely hurt.
Even if he adopts the stricter standards of the world, he may not even be handsome.
He himself has said that his looks are not outstanding, but this is exactly his advantage.
Why did he say that?
Zhang Yu believes that it is the appearance that does not look at first glance that will make the audience feel close, as if he is someone around him in daily life.
For example, the role of Huang Mao, he felt that he had taken a big advantage.
The audience didn't know him, and his appearance had a certain sense of familiarity. These factors add up to allow the audience to focus on the character itself and truly immerse themselves in the film, so that they will be deeply impressed by the story of the character and the acting skills of the actors.
But the strange thing is that although Zhang Yu's appearance is not enough to be noticed at first glance, the temperament is like a deep wine, silently fermenting in the hearts of everyone who has watched his films.
He carries the mysterious tension of male and female killing, which is called the hormone of walking.
With its unpolished wild feel, it stands out among the creamy little students. His aura is not sharp, but a blunt knife, convergent and low-key.
Don He, the producer of "Calm Wind and Waves", revealed that Zhang Yu was their first, or even the only option, without any hesitation.
Zhang Yu has a sense of strength and aggression, but this aggression is hidden under the daily peace and order.
This is inseparable from his growing environment and growth experience.
Zhang Yu is a wild boy who grew up in a small city in Guizhou surrounded by mountains and rivers. His parents are regular employees of the factory and mine, and their living circles are small and stable.
He doesn't have to worry about too many chores, and every day he enjoys playing with his friends and making trouble everywhere. Going up and down the river can do everything, and from time to time I will go to secretly melons and fruits to fight in groups.
His closeness to nature has allowed the most pristine wildness in his bones to be completely preserved.
When he was in junior high school, his mother sent him to Chongqing to study for his future development. He tried to say hello to his classmates, but he didn't fit in with everyone with a uniform dialect.
Ridiculed by his classmates, he stubbornly stopped speaking, and after holding back for a whole week, he learned to speak fluent Chongqing dialect and punched them in the face with facts.
His parents could not help Zhang Yu's "rebellion", thinking that he would definitely not be admitted to college, and was ready to send him to become a soldier. He likes to sing, and was brushed off when he applied for the vocal music department in the third year of high school, but he mistakenly bumped into the performance department of the Art College of Guizhou University.
Since then, he has opened the door to becoming an actor.
These growing marks are engraved in the depths of his soul and shape his wild and uninhibited character.
After graduation, he was successfully enrolled in the provincial repertory theatre and often singled out the beams. The job was stable and well paid, but he wasn't quite happy with the invariance there.
By chance, he looked through his teenage diary, which said he was supposed to be in Beijing in 2008. In order not to renege on his word, he immediately made a decision, handed in his resignation and came to Beijing.
After years of hard work, the 36-year-old Zhang Yu finally entered the public's field of vision with the role of Huang Mao.
According to common sense, after people become red, they will begin to clean up their black history, for fear of being caught.
But people who have read his Weibo will find that this young man is really not shy about it.
It is full of self-expression, cynicism, without any baggage of fame, and is the purest state of freedom. The degree of grounding is like a gag-loving buddy around ordinary people.
Even his Weibo personal introduction is:
He himself interpreted this sentence as:
When I say pseudo-big, I mean hypocritical hypocrisy, pretending to be big and presenting myself is an honesty of myself.
That's my perception of myself, my relatively objective perception of myself, and I see that I'm not actually that honest.
As early as when he was not famous, someone had left a message on his Weibo to advise:
In 2011, he has insisted on being himself, and to this day, he still does not sell himself as a "commodity".
After Zhang Yu was on fire, various variety show interview advertisements came to the scene. He saw money beckoning to him, but he was very strange, and unless he had to ask for an event, he could not go without it.
He doesn't seem to enjoy the popularity, and his so-called ideal is to have good works recognized by people with taste, and to be able to roam the streets freely.
He is used to "hiding" behind the character. He felt that he was not very good at talking, and hoped that the work could represent him and convey his voice to the audience.
Unlike the wildness shown by his personality, he has an unusual seriousness and dedication to improving his acting skills and shaping the role.
In terms of choosing scripts and characters, he is more inclined to small people in the torrent of society.
He has always believed that:
"The life in the city is the life of the capital, it is bigger, more complex, more rough, more solid than those high-end exquisite life, it hides dirt and dirt, hides the dragon and the crouching tiger, and the sexiness it presents also has the atmosphere of the city."
For the script he admired, "The Elephant Sits on the Ground", he preferred not to be paid, and he resolutely participated in the performance. And his good vision has also made him an icon of excellent literary and art films through "Elephant".
In order to shoot "Elephant", Zhang Yu almost pushed off the film contract of "Medicine God". Just out of such a poor crew as "Elephant", he was not quite accustomed to the "luxury" of the "Medicine God" set for a while.
The role of Huang Mao in "I Am Not a Medicine God", at Zhang Yu's insistence, the lines were reduced to 11 sentences.
This is tantamount to objectively depriving an actor of an important weapon in his performance. He can only rely on his eyes, looks, and body language to play the role.
For this crying scene, he came to the set a few hours early and sat on the stairs to experience the mood of the characters. The simmering emotions were too full, which caused him to cry uncontrollably during the shooting.
But he asked that the scene of crying be cut out in the later stage.
Because he believes that if the actor's emotional expression is divided into 1-10 levels, the sadness of the role of Huang Mao is only allowed to 4, and one more point less than one point does not meet the tone of the role.
Immediately after, no longer "nameless", he starred in the glasses of "The Unknown Generation", a stubborn stupid thief.
Whether it is the initial mania and arrogance, or the soft kindness that was later punctured in disguise, Zhang Yu interpreted it with precision and convincing.
This gaze at Ma Jiaqi's eyes did not know how many audiences in the theater secretly wiped away tears.
Released at the end of last year, "Calm Wind and Waves", Zhang Yu once again subverted the audience's cognition.
I thought that the beautiful Song Jia and the grounded Zhang Yu would lack a sense of CP, but it turned out that the rivalry between the two powerful actors playing each other added a lot of color to the slightly bland movie, which can be described as the finishing touch.
Whether it's a kiss on yogurt at a gas station or an umbrella in a glass-shattering car, it tugs at the heartstrings of the audience.
Four masterpieces in a row, applauded and applauded, let the audience thoroughly remember Zhang Yu, who has outstanding acting skills.
His vision of choosing the script and the wild sense of the role he played not only made him a hot search, but also made him a guarantee of a good film in the hearts of the public.
Zhang Yu's friendship starred in "Tropical Past", which has been released, in which he plays a blind singer.
His next male lead film, "Siberian Tiger", has recently been screened on a small scale at the Shanghai Film Festival. According to industry insiders who have watched the film, his acting skills in the new film are still online, and it can't help but be eagerly awaited.
I believe that everyone has seen here and has some understanding of the source of the "wild feeling" in Zhang Yu.
His wild, belonging, does not erupt in silence, but perishes in silence.
Zhang Yu's original name was Zhang Xin.
The name Zhang Yu was given to himself in his third year in Beijing. When asked why he changed his name, sometimes he would say that he was tired of it, and sometimes he would explain it solemnly:
The structure of the word "chapter" is not li early, but the sound of ten, "music is all a chapter", the quotation is "Shuowen Jiezi". What is meant by "宇", is the space of the upper and lower quads.
"Zhang Yu" is connected together, after the end of the music, when the conductor stops, the infinite space after the quiet field.
After the triple overture is completed, what kind of surprise will he bring to us?