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Seeing Chen Weiting again, he didn't seem to have changed. Joining the camping show has made him more aware of life and learned more skills. Along the way, Chen Weiting also shared with us the two tastes of keeping running and enjoying life.
Time back to 2003: 17-year-old Chen Weiting won the first place in the global Chinese rookie Hong Kong trials, successfully signed the emperor, and the dream of "being seen by more people" when he was a teenager finally came true. At that time, Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung stood in front of him, he was the star of the future, the teenager was fearless, the door of opportunity was wide open, and he just bravely took the first step.
In 2022, Chen Weiting is a well-rounded and solid member of the young male actors. He can sing and dance, can act and have variety works, personal tour tickets sold out in 30 seconds, has been on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 6 times, the role in film and television dramas is also increasing, and there are invitations and favors from well-known directors. After nearly a decade of hard work in the mainland, from the time he started from a room and a backpack in the Hengdian Hotel to the time he received the coveted invitation to a police film, this dream road was not smooth. Fortunately, he has been moving forward and has not lived up to the "young lonely courage" that was in the eyes of many people.
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Chen Weiting likes to challenge himself, but for opportunities, he is like an eagle, always hiding his wings, waiting for an opportunity to start the journey.
On the day of the shooting, Chen Weiting arrived earlier than the agreed time. Wheat-colored skin with a sporty figure, simple T-shirt pants and sneakers, natural and clean. After politely greeting everyone, I went to work.
At the end of June, he was a guest on the outdoor camping experience reality show "Let's Camp Together". On this special trip, from the outskirts of the city, the seaside, the jungle, the Yellow River to the desert, Chen Weiting experienced for the first time in the program living in the open air, embracing nature, learning a series of skills such as tenting, making a fire, and cooking.
At the beginning of the show, Chen Weiting still exposed his unfamiliarity with camping life, and setting up a tent to cook is not a good hand. Fortunately, he was good at asking and learning, with the relocation of the camp, Chen Weiting quickly adapted and worked hard to practice, from holding a bowl and his companions to "rubbing stuttering" to "a pot of chicken" stewed by the green feast, which was swept away by the campers, and even took the initiative to sign up after only two stops of recording, challenging the more difficult BC camping. The brave always challenge themselves.
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"With Chen Weiting there, I am very at ease and very secure" is the feeling that everyone has when recording the program. In Chen Weiting's view, there is not much pressure to record a camping show, and he can quickly familiarize himself with the relevant skills and enjoy them. Coupled with Chen Weiting's own lively personality, he quickly mingled with everyone. In recent years, he has improved his Mandarin a lot, and he has also learned to "play with the terrier", so he has naturally become the "atmosphere active" and "topic maker" of the camping family.
"The reason I like Chen Weiting is that he is very affinity and has strong hands-on ability. Being in a group with him is well taken care of, and many times, we are like a family, working together in front of problems. He's a very good partner and teammate. The actors who participated in the variety show with him commented on Chen Weiting, who loves to move and laugh.
Chen Weiting can use a story to make the scene warm up. He and the camping family shared his accidental wrestling at a birthday concert: on the spot, he interacted with the fans on the stage, accidentally fell when he turned back, and the noise of worry was everywhere, he quickly got up, while saying loudly "It's okay, I can stand up", while laughing happily and twisting his body to prove to the fans who cared about him: "I'm fine, don't worry." ”
"I'll tell you, I actually had a lot of pain in my ass." Telling the story again, he made up a handsome ending for himself. "I didn't want them to be unhappy at the birthday party, so I put a very handsome POSE to stand up and show them that I was okay." Chen Weiting told me about the real situation at that time, "Fortunately, my dancing skills are good. ”
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He likes to dance, is tall, and looks good when he dances. From his love of dancing when he was a teenager, dance has become an inseparable and important part of Chen Weiting's life. "It's refreshing to sweat, and it's even cooler to see yourself dancing great in front of the camera." So I kept telling myself, sticking to it, "For this love, he went abroad to study dance at his own expense." From dancing with Aaron Kwok in his youth to carrying his own flag, his progress is obvious to all.
Dance variety shows have long locked their eyes on Chen Weiting, who is diligent in practice and has a strong sense of variety, and has completed the record of singing and dancing for several hours in several personal concerts. If it comes to the male artists who are currently the top dancers in the entertainment industry, Chen Weiting can definitely be among the best. "If you like it, you have to fight it, so it grows in the body." He talks about his relationship with dance.
Chen Weiting is not a person who likes to remain unchanged, breaking into the mainland is a challenge, participating in camping variety shows is a challenge, and filming costume dramas before is a challenge. Including trying out skills in more areas, it was also a good experience for him. He was fully engaged in the process, with a full harvest, and went to the next stop.
After several variety shows such as "Blood Street Dance Troupe" had a good performance, similar program invitations also flocked to chen Weiting, but Chen Weiting let himself stop and took the initiative to choose a slow variety show such as "camping" - this is also his first attempt at camping variety shows. Compared to the dance that requires fierce competition and strong physical fitness and professional skills, camping is like a process of enjoying life for him.
"Because I had practiced so much dancing before, the muscles seemed to have formed a memory. In the past two years, my focus has changed a bit, I work more in the field of actors, I spend more than half of my time shooting every year, and I don't practice dancing as often as I used to. I sometimes reflect on myself, is it because I have neglected to practice recently and have not made progress in line with the times? Does not progress mean regression? But I want to do my best in everything I do. When you go to filming, you may not use communication tools for a day, and the mobile phone is in a state of disconnection, in order to keep the character in the state. I care a lot about these details, and I hope that I can devote myself to one thing so that I can get paid. ”
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The variety show "Let's Camp Together" is another fully devoted job that Chen Weiting has chosen for himself, and trying a new way of life has become his new option. "Participating in the show allowed me to gain a lot of survival skills, feel the charm of nature, and I also fell in love with camping. I even share the joy of camping with my friends around me in my life. Now young people like to camp, and at first I didn't understand why this kind of activity was so popular. Gradually I understood that it was very decompressing, but it was also very challenging for personal survival, and I could also increase my understanding of the friends around me in the process. Division of labor and cooperation is a very important thing in camping, so it requires your trust and help from your friends around you. "While being close to nature and relaxing, he also developed his own camping philosophy: choosing the right partner and learning how to get along with them is at the heart of this trendy activity rather than learning camping techniques." Modern people are too busy to need such proper mental relaxation. ”
Chen Weiting is such a person who likes to constantly beat himself. Breaking out into new areas, pushing your limits to more of your limits, seems to be on the run all the time. Time couldn't stop him, and he wouldn't let himself stop.
"I feel lucky because I'm in the best of times, the best place." This is the opening remarks of Chan Wai Ting in the short film "Hello, Hong Kong" commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland.
He recounted his impressions of Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 1997: He was 12 years old and his whole family gathered around the tv to watch live broadcasts. Mom decided to travel to Guangzhou as a family to experience life in the mainland. His mother bought him a whole string of firecrackers to celebrate, it was the first time in his life that he set off firecrackers, firecrackers more than ten meters long crackled all the way, and the family laughed and jumped.
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Before the official handover, Chen Weiting and most Hong Kongers had learned the impression of the mainland in textbooks, and the Yellow River, Yangtze River and Tiananmen Square were so far away in his young eyes. This time, when recording a program with the "Camp Together" program team near the Yellow River, Chen Weiting had his first close contact with the Yellow River, which could only be seen in textbooks before. "I couldn't help but reach out and touch the water of the Yellow River, which is the Mother River, and it feels very different."
Even after working in Hong Kong for many years, he is still willing to humbly start again as a newcomer and live in a new environment. "Don't allow yourself to stop so that you have more possibilities." Chen Weiting said so and has been doing so.
In 2013, Chen Weiting officially broke into the mainland film and television industry as a young actor, and his first job was to shoot the costume drama "Four Famous Arrests of Teenagers" in Hengdian. He set out from Hong Kong alone, carrying a school bag, and stayed in a small hotel in Hengdian. The first difficulty in front of him is language: he can understand the script but can't say the lines, the opponent actors can't understand the lines, and even when they go downstairs to the hotel to order a bowl of noodles, they have to communicate back and forth with the boss for a long time. "At that time, I was not good at Mandarin, let alone dialects, and sometimes I was in a hurry. I think that's not going to work, I'm going to start learning again. ”
Now that he had decided to go on, he forced himself to make a decision: learn Mandarin well and break down communication barriers. So he insisted on speaking his lines in Mandarin in every subsequent play, even if the producers would use post-dubbing, they would not relax their requirements for themselves. "I can't tell myself that there is still dubbing to guarantee anyway, that is equivalent to leaving myself a way out."
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This effort continues to be demonstrated in every role he has played. His Mandarin was better, and more audiences began to know him and love him. If the master brother Ling Yue in "Ancient Sword And Strange Tan" came out of the circle overnight as a reward for his insistence on choosing, then every role he has created in the 9 years of development in the mainland is a confirmation that his 200% efforts and efforts in acting have finally paid off.
The Republic of China drama "Living Color and Fragrant Fragrance" has achieved very good results in the opening, and the suspense drama "Old Nine Doors" has become the first self-made drama in the history of the whole network to break the tens of billions, and the "Zhang Dafoye" played by him has become the unchanging white moonlight of the fans. Since then, new plays such as "Orange and Red Age", "Storm Dance", "Lady Hu Zhu" and so on have been broadcast one after another, and Chen Weiting's drama path has been continuously broadened, and he has met the role he dreamed of. It was also at this time that the TV series "Illuminate You" threw an olive branch to him and invited him to play the role of firefighter Jin Shichuan.
In Chen Weiting's junior high school essay, he once wrote: "I want to become a firefighter." When asked why, he told me that it was because when I was a child, my sister had a friend who was a firefighter, very brave and responsible, and was a hero in Chen Weiting's eyes. Therefore, Chen Weiting silently included this profession in his ideals: "I also hope that I can become a brave person and stand up at a critical moment." Unfortunately, because of his poor eyesight, he missed the best opportunity to approach his dream and began to learn dance, which was his second future plan for himself.
Chen Weiting refused to miss this opportunity to play a firefighter. In order to become Jin Shichuan, he trained with professional firefighters in advance, and some explosion scenes during filming also required him to personally star, without a stand-in. This naturally requires a risk, but this "risk" makes him cherish it very much, because it is real life, which can make him infinitely close to the character and the real profession behind the character.
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When real firefighters describe their profession to Chen Weiting, they always talk about one word repeatedly: "fear later.". This also roughly explains the high risk and psychological oppression of the profession of firefighter. "I didn't quite understand what 'fear' was, so the fire fighters around me kept telling me the real stories of their experiences. I am also afraid of saving people in the fire or experiencing real explosions, but when it comes to shooting, I am still willing to experience it. To understand an industry is really something to try. Maybe I'll be afraid too, but for me, the experience was enough to make me feel good. Chen Weiting said to me, "Not to mention that this was my dream when I was young." Don't leave regrets behind, right? ”
Chen Weiting's "dare to break through and dare to fight" is not once or twice. In the camping program, he told about his experience in taking a motorcycle driver's license, and in the movie "Storm" directed by Chen Jiashang, Chen Weiting, who was originally fair-skinned, tanned the character Chen Jiadong several times, which made the director look at him with admiration. Before returning to Hong Kong to shoot the dream movie, he spent a long time to experience and prepare. "The real feeling will remain in the heart, and the acting will be real." Chen Weiting is willing to pay more time for the sense of reality.
After working hard in the wind and rain for many years, Chen Weiting seemed to have gone much smoother. "I haven't figured out what the next role I'd like to try is, but another movie character has appeared in front of me. He was cool, and I couldn't help but start thinking, what if I were to challenge a role like that? ”
He chose to try again to return to the set of Hong Kong films. The newcomer who once faced Gu Tianle, Liu Qingyun and Wu Yanzu on the set of "Eavesdropping" and other predecessors would be nervous to the point of shaking their hands, after 9 years of hard work, to become the same person who provoked the new film beam like them.
Chen Weiting was excited, but more nervous. I haven't been back to Hong Kong for two and a half years, I haven't filmed in Hong Kong in the past nine years, and now, "the best times and the best opportunities have been met by me, and of course I have to cherish them." Every role is a unique experience for me, and I'll regret missing it. ”
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It seems that every boy who grew up in Hong Kong has a complex in his bones, that is, the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, the era of the brightest stars. "Cop films mean a lot different things to me, and a lot of them focus on realism. Now that I have the opportunity to be the protagonist of a cop movie, I hope that my performance will show people the power. ”
Which has an easy role? What awaits him ahead is a more severe test, and the pass is sad. For Chen Weiting, it is not just as simple as passing the customs, he wants to pass the wonderful customs by himself.
In the "Camp Together" program, the guest Zhong Chuxi, who participated in the recording together, is also an old friend of Chen Weiting's previous cooperation, and after the two met, Wei Ting took each other's luggage and said that he wanted to help set up the tent first, he said: "I will settle down for you first." ”
"Home" is the warmest and safest place in Chinese's heart, in Chen Weiting's eyes, no matter how tired he is outside, home is his harbor.
For the actors, the crew is home, the set is home, and the hotel is home. For a while, he repeatedly pondered the question of "where to settle down at home", and finally he chose Beijing.
When he first came to Beijing, he didn't like to go out, he was not familiar with life, he didn't speak the language, and he didn't have many friends. For a long time, he looked out the window of his car at Beijing on his way back to and from work, thinking about how he could really get acquainted with and get close to it. He thought that his mother, who liked to shop when he was young, always took him to walk the streets of Hong Kong, and he became familiar with the various food stalls after a few trips. It turns out that the best way to get familiar with a place is to "get close to it."
Chen Weiting bought himself a bicycle and began his cycling journey. Outside of work, Chen Weiting almost walked the streets of the city. What fascinated him the most was the night in Beijing, the summer with friends, the strange uncle who talked to him with his own voice... The city began to show more vivid faces in front of its eyes. Whenever a friend from Hong Kong came, he would drag the other party to accompany him for a ride, take them to familiarize themselves with Beijing, and take them to eat snacks that he had tried, just like introducing an old friend of his own.
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Unlike New York and Tokyo, Beijing is very tolerant and has a stabilizing force. For Chen Weiting, walking between the two cities is just a shuttle between home and home. He said his 73-year-old mother is still keen to go shopping every day and get in touch with life as much as possible. Previously, he told his mother about his feelings about filming variety shows by the Yellow River, and decided to take his mother to the Great Wall, which in his view was "of great significance".
After gradually finding a sense of belonging, Chen Weiting felt that every day in the mainland was happy, and "the opportunities he hadn't expected before were all given." The city was with him every day like a hug of his family, and he no longer seemed to see himself as a stranger.
"With a home, you have more confidence in life." Chen Weiting took a sip of soda: "I still want to continue to work hard, and I am always looking forward to how the future is." I also believe that there will always be new gains along the way. Of course, it is also tiring and bitter, but they are all worth it. ”
Chen Weiting once sang "Time is too fast, just wait for a great sentence". After such a long debut and such a long run, he no longer worries about the time being too fast, because he has prepared everything, time is with him, and he looks forward to the sunshine of tomorrow.
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How do you think Beijing is different from when you first arrived?
Chen Weiting: I didn't want to go outdoors before. At that time, I didn't have any friends in Beijing, so I had to stay at home. But in the past two years, there have been a lot of changes, more and more friends, and I have begun to do various outdoor sports, playing football, camping, and cycling. There is a big difference between being able to go out and not being able to go out, and you will have feelings for this place when you go out often.
Have you been in a bad state lately?
Chen Weiting: I think I have been very lucky in the past few years. When I first came to the mainland, I was curious about everything, and I only hoped that I could always make progress and keep running. In fact, I have always wanted to fight for myself, but there must be an element of luck, not that you can change if you want to.
When does it make you feel like you're out of time?
Chen Weiting: It should be time for meditation. When we fall into a meditative state, we all feel that we are outside of time, beyond the limitations of time and time.
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