He has just been Zhu Xiaotian's girlfriend in the movie "Love In a Line", and starred in a fashion designer in the TV series "Transparent Sky". In the gap between hurried filming, the famous young actor Liu Zi was interviewed by reporters.
About the new film "Love leads the line"
The story of "Love in a Line" consists of two parts: the first half takes place on a university campus in the 1980s, and Tong Dawei, Liang Yongqi and Tao Hong perform an intricate love triangle at this stage. The second half of the story takes place in Shanghai in 2003, with Zhu Xiaotian playing Wen Jiahui, the son of Tong Dawei and Tao Hong, and Liu Zi playing his girlfriend. The two people had already broken up, but Liu Zi still loved Zhu Xiaotian very much, so he tried his best to get back together.
For this role, Liu Zi told reporters: "I played a college student in 2003, her body concentrated on the characteristics of young women, and there is a strong contrast with the seventies, in her body can see the confidence of young people, do not think of anything, the pursuit of external packaging, very sensitive to fashion things." The most important thing is her relationship with Zhu Xiaotian, they have already broken up. Many modern young people do not know the reason for breaking up, it is likely that a sentence is not right, or they are not accustomed to each other's shortcomings, and then they can easily say that they broke up. The film is about two different loves in two eras. Modern people yearn for freedom, but lack the security of that era. ”
Liu Zi said: "Because of the producer's regulations, I can't tell the complete story. All I can say is that the final outcome will feel quite unexpected. ”
Liu Zi believes that her role in the movie is quite typical in real life, and the particularly interesting part of the film in the school, the teacher asked her to show her student ID, she asked the teacher: "Is the driver's license OKAY?" The reporter asked: "Is there any similarity between this role and yourself?" Liu Zi said: "Maybe there is a little bit of my personality, but it is magnified." Sometimes I am more casual about many things and live a very egotistical life. ”
According to reports, before filming this drama, Liu Zi felt a lot of pressure. Because after starring in the movie "Love You Don't Want to Run" five years ago, he has been making TV series. There is still a feeling of just being exposed to the "big screen". "Sometimes I will be more free of this feeling, often put a question mark on myself, this performance is right, this performance will not be too exaggerated." I think it's my own problem. But Liu Zi quickly adjusted himself and solved this psychological problem: "After the problem was solved, I felt very relaxed." In fact, this play is not particularly challenging for the actor's performance, this play is very lifelike, as long as it naturally shows the interest and state of young people in life. ”
About the partner: Be F4 Zhu Xiaotian's "girlfriend"
In "Love Leads a Line", Liu Zi plays the girlfriend of Zhu Xiaotian, one of F4. Talking about the feeling of cooperation, Liu Zi said: "Most of the actors I have worked with before are much older than me, and working with them and zhu Xiaotian is a completely different feeling. Zhu Xiaotian is a big boy, his experience, his views and ideas, I have a feeling of long-term absence. In the past, when I was filming, I talked to a lot of people about that age group. But Zhu Xiaotian represents the ideas of the group of young people who are walking in front of the contemporary era. He's very fond of jokes, he has a great sense of humor, and I think he's a very thoughtful guy and a very good collaborator. ”
Talking about his impression of Zhu Xiaotian, Liu Zi said: "He is a very idealistic person, he is not limited to 'I am now red', he also feels that this is just a phenomenon, and he does not seem to be so great." He also feels that F4 is actually a collective, which does not mean that he is different from Zhu Xiaotian, he feels that he is still an ordinary person. I think he sees the problems very clearly. But he once said a word to me, and I re-understood the man. ”
It was in the interval between shooting, Zhu Xiaotian asked Liu Zi: "If there is a button, you press it will make time go back ten years, which means that you can re-choose your life, do you choose or not choose?" ”
Liu Zi told Zhu Xiaotian: "I should not choose, and I have no regrets about my previous life." Because I think if I had to choose again, maybe it wouldn't be as good as it is now. I went on like this without complaint. I didn't think much about it before, but I think a lot of things come naturally and naturally. ”
Zhu Xiaotian said: "If I had to choose, I would not hesitate to press that button, and I would definitely not live such a life as I am now." Liu Zi told reporters: "This is his real thoughts, before I didn't feel it, I think he is a person who is shrouded in a heavy aura, I think he will definitely be complacent about the current state, I did not expect to be treated as a burden by him." I felt that in fact, he was not what everyone saw, not the person who asked questions to reporters at the press conference, where he wrapped himself very deeply, he was also helpless, and he was also very good at protecting himself in front of the media. ”
Being an actor is more important than a presenter
In early 2000, Liu Zi succeeded Zhang Yan as the host of "Happy Story", partnering with Cheng Qian, which caused a lot of shock in the entertainment industry. When Liu Zi first joined the "Joy Story", because of her introverted personality, hosting was not her profession, plus she had a nature to see everything very lightly, she once lived in self-doubt, often asking herself: "Am I really suitable, or because of vanity——— when people chose to be the host of this very popular program, so I did not think more about it." ——— Am I suitable or not. ”
Liu Zi said: "I think that no matter what I do, I must do what I can, and exceeding my own ability is actually putting pressure on myself." "Fun Story" is a variety show, and the host needs to communicate with the audience like a master. This is actually my weakness, I am a very passive person, I think this show actually exercises me. In front of a group of strangers, my own state is very free from this group of people, and it is difficult to actively integrate into them, let alone become the center of this group of people. I prefer to be a listener. I think I can do some talk shows in the future and talk to some guests about topics of interest. If you deliberately want me to pretend like that, that's not my strength, it's not my nature. Now that I think about it, it was actually a burden to host "Happy Story" at that time, and it was really inappropriate. ”
But Liu Zi couldn't convince himself not to do it at the time. "I kept telling myself that it was my job and I couldn't concede. You can't let people say that Liu Zi is like a piece of wood. In fact, I know what kind of person I am, and I know that my performance in front of many people is not my strength. But at the time I kept telling myself ' don't concede, don't concede'. I've always instilled this kind of thinking in myself and kept going. ”
It is with this "don't admit defeat" momentum that Liu Zi made "Happy Story" have a big leap. She herself went from being a layman to a nationally renowned host. But in the end it had to be brutally replaced. Liu Zi said: "At that time, I did not feel very lost, I was also prepared, in fact, I also mentioned to them, I may change a lifestyle, I may go to study or do something else, the company has already felt it." At that time, the company told me that the show was going to be revised, and I was very calm. ”
It was this "substitution" that became an important turning point in Liu Zi's acting career. Before that, "I didn't know what I was going to do, I didn't know what kind of person I was, I didn't know where I was going, I didn't know what my goals were. It was someone else who told me, 'Liu Zi, you do this well,' and I did it very passively. I was in this state before I left Glee, but after I left Glee, I suddenly had a clear goal. ”
Liu Zi's goal is: "I don't want people to think that I am a host, and I am a very good host." I want to make people think I'm an actor, because I studied acting in film school. I want people to see my plays all the time and shout the names of my characters. So after that, I made scenes like "My Life", "How Far Is Forever", "Bangkok Rainy Season" and so on, all the efforts were to overcome myself, to give myself a report card. Including those to be filmed in the future. ”
When it comes to acting, Liu Zi believes: "Acting is a gradual process. You get the script, you start to slowly get into the characters, and then slowly release what you want to express, it's a slow,heated process that doesn't need to get there in a second. ”
In the past few years of wind and rain, Liu Zi's biggest feeling is: "I like the feeling of filming, but I am particularly uncomfortable with dealing with people and dealing with interpersonal relationships when filming, which is my weakness, but I am also trying to overcome, every time a new crew I have to work hard to adapt." I want to keep my original personality. Another point, I was slowly changing my personality, I was originally the person who locked myself up, but after entering this circle, I became able to communicate with people, and I didn't talk to every meeting when I first went. ”
Liu Zi believes that for her, being an actor is more important than the host.
From the artistic reason: I want to see Tiananmen
Liu Zi was born in Zunyi, Guizhou, the son of a civil servant and a doctor to a doctor. She grew up in the hospital compound, and after school, she often ran to the apple orchard behind the school with her classmates to pick other people's apples, and after picking them, she ran. "When I was in elementary school, I used to hold bonfire parties on the playground, watch open-air movies, carefree, and the childhood time was the happiest. My liberal arts are good, I am in the composition interest group, we observe life, write essays, and participate in essay competitions. I write my essays very well, and when I have a sports day, I write a manuscript while watching the game, and then I take the manuscript and read it. The dream at that time was to become a journalist. ”
At that time, people in the hospital compound were often admitted to universities in Beijing, and parents used them from time to time as an example to educate Liu Zi, and later some people were admitted to the journalism department of Chinese Min University, "I think this school may be my goal, and I want to be a journalist in the future, which was a very naïve idea at that time." ”
Liu Zi believes that she did not accept much artistic enlightenment, nor did she think about becoming an actress. But one day after school, she stayed behind to do her duty. The teachers who came to the Beijing Dance Academy from the school were looked at. The teacher asked, "Do you want to go to Beijing to see Tiananmen?" Liu Zi said, "Think." The teacher asked Liu Zi to go to Beijing to take the exam. Liu Zi made up a dance based on the song "Panda Mimi". In this way, the eleven-year-old Liu Zi was admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy Affiliated High School. When she is alone, she will secretly cry, and then continue to study and practice.
It was a coincidence that I studied at the Dance Academy, and it was also accidental to apply for the Beijing Film Academy. Once, Liu Zi and her aunt went to see a classmate from film school, and they met the later teacher who took the class, and the teacher asked if he wanted to enter the film school. She said: "I don't know, I don't know if I can get in. The teacher encouraged her to try it.
One try and two tries are very smooth, but when the third try, there is an accident. It turned out that the boy who played the opposite role with Liu Zi did not read according to the lines prepared in advance. "I was completely stupid, and I cried. I remember that our physical teacher pulled me to another small room to do my ideological work, asked me to abide by the rules of the examination room, and said that since I came to the examination, there must be a beginning and an end, so I persevered. As a result, I was admitted, the boy did not get in, I always feel sorry, I think it must be because of my reasons that affected his mood. ”
Although Liu Zi did not realize her dream of being a journalist, she still wanted to realize her dream through film and television works, and she wanted to play a war correspondent.
While attending film school, seventeen-year-old Liu Zi experienced a first love. But he is still alone in the world. Liu Zi said: "My life and my work are separate, and I will always protect my life. Because it's my personal space, I don't want to expose my life to the public eye. ”
Liu Zi told reporters: "Talking about love now, I am a bit dazed. In fact, I now spend more and more time on the work, there is not much time to consider, the people around me are suitable or not, I think the more I think about the more I leave love itself, the less. I think true love is the feeling of two people touching each other and colliding hearts, and I don't have these feelings now, so I can only do things well. ”
Review: Growing through learning
Talking about the experience of breaking through the film and television circle, Liu Zi said: "The "Moment of Danger" in 1997 was the first play I got involved in this circle. That period of time was a relatively jerky stage, ignorant of understanding, very eager to create a good role, especially with Zhang Guoguo, especially afraid, I hope that time will pass quickly, there is that feeling, because I have not found the trick at all. "Moments of Crisis" is not very skilled, but I think that state is actually the most primitive state, I quite like the feeling of that time, and if I want to play it well, I can see a lot of flaws, in fact, I have a lot of good memories, I think it is the most beautiful memory. Clumsy but with all sincerity and enthusiasm. ”
Subsequently, Liu Zi successively filmed films such as "Female Patrol Press", "Divine Eagle Hero", and "Mulan". Psychologically, an important turning point was after leaving "Joy Story" in 2000, when Liu Zi thought: I am an actor, I studied acting, but in the mind of an audience, I am a host. She secretly set herself a goal: to make sure to make achievements in her profession. So there are excellent performances in film and television works such as "Bangkok Rainy Season", "White-collar Apartment", "My Life", "How Far Is Forever", "The Heroine Breaks through the Sky", "Black Cambodia", "Buyizhi County Fan RuHua" and so on. In these works, Liu Zi mostly served as the "female number one". Liu Zi believes that idol dramas and modern fashion dramas are easier to act, because the way of speaking and feeling is the same as themselves, "My Life" and "How Far Forever" are more difficult to act, because they have to subvert themselves to create another image.
Among these works, Liu Zi's favorite works are "Financial Storm", "Bangkok Rainy Season", "My Life" and so on.
In the host industry and the show business for many years, it is inevitable to encounter setbacks, but Liu Zi often has a good mentality to face: "I never regard things as setbacks, and then forget them." I'm not too brainy about a lot of things. I try not to touch things that I don't want to think about. I myself am like flowing water, and my own life is still going forward as always. ”
After leaving school, Liu Zi did not stop learning, she often learned a lot from other co-actors, who also impressed her.
——— 1997, when filming the commercial film "Female Patrol", Liu Zi met Chen Daoming. Before that, I heard that Chen Daoming was very strict, but Liu Zi felt that it was quite easy to shoot with him, and he quite liked to talk and laugh, "I think Chen Daoming is a very easy-going person, and I have never felt his severity." In "Female Patrol", I also worked with Chen Baoguo. He is a very traditional Chinese man, which gives me this feeling. This year, Liu Zi also played Lu Wushuang in "Divine Eagle Hero", and met Ren Xianqi, who played Yang, and she thought that Ren Xianqi was a very dedicated and modest person.
——— 2001, she and Ahn Jae-wook met in "White Collar Apartment", and she felt that Ahn Jae-wook was like a big brother and took good care of the people around her.
——— Liu Zi has cooperated with Zhang Guoguo in four TV series: "Moment of Crisis", "My Life", "The God of Wealth to the God of Wealth Hurts Good People", and "Buyizhi County Fan Ruhua". Liu Zi said: "I feel like he is like my father, and he speaks to me in a tone very similar to my father. He would often tell me very harshly that I should do this, and it would be good for me to do so. ”
Liu Zi told reporters: "My previous feelings about acting were not very clear, and I was slowly brought in. There are a lot of people who work with me, and I can feel their smooth, smooth rhythm, and I know that I have a gap with them, but the window paper has not been broken, and the distance with them has not been eliminated. In this world, there are two kinds of people that I admire, one is a scientist and the other is an artist. They are all people who can promote the development of society and bring us real material food and spiritual food. I'm also pursuing a realm when I'm acting. When I took on the role, I wanted to integrate my body and mind into the role, not only to play her shell, but also to play her core. I want people to see that this character is alive, and I especially hope to be able to reach that state now. ”
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Name: Liu Zi
Live Date: November 13
Height: 168cm
Weight: 46kg
Blood type: B
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Law School: Bachelor of Acting, Beijing Film Academy
Current: Actor of Beijing Film Studio Actors Troupe
Major TV drama productions
2004 "Resisting Evil", "Moon Sinks Jiangnan"
2003 "Another Face", "Chinese Story", "Transparent Sky"
2002 "Buyizhi County Fan Ru Hua", "Black Cambodia"
2001 "Bangkok Rainy Season", "White Collar Apartment", "My Life"
2000 "How Far Is Forever"
1999 "The Heroine Breaks the Sky"
1998 "Financial Storm", "God of Wealth to God of Wealth Hurts Good People", "Signing Season"
1997 "Moment of Danger", "The True and False Princess of the Female Inspector", "Eagle Hero"
Major filmography
2004 "Can't Eat Hot Tofu in a Hurry"
2003 "Love in the Line"
1998 "If You Fall in Love, Don't Want to Run"