If you've seen the movie "The Two of Us" from 16 years ago, it may be difficult to connect the female college student ponies in the film with Wang Shihua in the movie "The Island Keeper", which is being released. The former is young and simple, intersecting with the life of an old lady in a courtyard; the latter has experienced vicissitudes and has been guarding her husband and guarding the island for 32 years. Both roles are played by the same actor, her name is Gong Zhe.
Character photography / Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing
Gong Zhe, who has a deep affection for painting since childhood, was discovered by director Ma Liwen when he was a freshman at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, starred in the literary and art film "The Two of Us", which won the reputation of the industry, and Gong Zhe, as a newcomer, also began to be concerned, winning the Best Newcomer Award at the 13th Beijing University Student Film Festival and nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress. But after that, she rarely appeared in the public eye, and the "pony" seemed to disappear. In Gong Zhe's view, the real life cannot be magnificent every day, in fact, most of it is ordinary, "I accept every accident in life, just like the earliest filming of "The Two of Us", I also accept the inevitability of every time in life, these years are actually inevitable." ”
The first time they cooperated, Liu Ye thought she was a fisherman
When director Chen Li looked for wang Shihua's actor, he considered many actors, but his heart has been bottomless. Because this play has to live half a month in advance, go to the island to expose to the sun, let the mosquito bite, she is particularly afraid that the actress can't eat this pain, "the front foot just said not to let makeup, the back foot will be on", Chen Li is worried. At this time, she suddenly remembered a movie "The Two of Us" more than ten years ago, felt that the drama was very simple, and thought about where the little girl in the film went. Through many searches, when they met again, Chen Li found that the little girl in front of him was still so simple and low-key, so it was soon settled that Gong Zhe would play Wang Shihua.
After doing the styling, Hou Yong, an actor with the crew, saw Gong Zhe in the dressing room helping the makeup artist pack up his things, busy with this and that, and wondering where this was a mass actor. Later, when I acted, I learned that people were the heroines, and Hou Yong was shocked, "She really doesn't act."
In the movie "Shoudao People", Gong Zhe and Liu Ye played a couple who have been keeping the island for many years.
Liu Ye, who plays Wang Jicai, the husband of Wang Shihua, is the first time to cooperate with Gong Zhe. Gong Zhe's non-acting requires every actor to completely relax when playing with her, which also makes Liu Ye's pressure surge, "Sometimes Gong Zhe sits on the beach, you will think that she is a fisherman on the seaside," Liu Ye said.
Gong Zhe is not from the acting class, and he is considered to be a halfway monk. But she feels that no matter what profession, when expressing itself, the most important thing is to be sincere, and the works of art or film and television that really impress the audience are because they resonate with the audience.
In fact, the role of Wang Shihua is quite far away from Gong Zhe. Gong Zhe is a native of Heilongjiang, and has no experience in living on the island, usually going out to travel, but also to go to the blue sky and clear water and white sand beach, but Wang Shihua lives on the island, even the nearby sea water is yellow.
While doing his homework for the characters, Gong Zhe learns that the archetypal characters in the play have heard 19 radios on the island, which is their only contact with the outside world, and only through the radio can they know what is happening outside. She feels that Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua have been guarding the island for 32 years, and they are almost isolated from the outside world, but now there are too many various information on mobile phones, which is a kind of interference to shaping characters. Therefore, when shooting, she did not allow herself to bring her mobile phone on the set, "to control the spirit of this character from beginning to end, the whole energy, from all aspects of a protection of the self, to keep the soul of the character." Therefore, when she returned to the hotel after filming every day, she did not look at her mobile phone, had no energy, and could not watch it.
There was no interference from mobile phone information, and the months of shooting were particularly clean. Gong Zhe sometimes hangs out on the island and basks in the sun. She also brought several books, a gefi novel, as well as "So It: The Fountain of Love" and "Shi Hua Talk Art Record: How Actors Capture the Audience", all of which were read while filming and waiting.
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Acting as a child is a manual job
In the movie "Island Keeper", Gong Zhe plays the role of the mother of two children.
The scene in which Wang Shihua gives birth to a child on the island in the film is a great challenge for Gong Zhe, who is not yet married. Before filming, Gong Zhe went to the maternity hospital to experience life, and watched a lot of documentaries, such as a 10-episode documentary "The Human World", involving the content of giving birth to a child, but it could not be fully borrowed, because the pregnant women in the documentary were finally caesarean sections for various reasons, and the whole person was in a semi-anesthetized state with a calm expression. Because Wang Shi peanut is a second child, Gong Zhe also asked some friends who had given birth to a second child what was the reaction of the first child and the second child.
Gong Zhe said that giving birth to a child is actually a manual work, this scene was filmed for three days, but also to ensure that each one is in the same state as before, and each one is accurate. For more than a week after the shooting, Gong Zhe felt that his brain was hypoxic.
He left home at the age of 16 and was forced to grow up and become independent
Compared with the acting profession of halfway home, painting is Gong Zhe's child skill. Gong Zhe's father was an engineer, and when she was a child, she often watched her father draw design drawings, and she drew ducklings with a pencil next to her. Later, she saw others drawing portraits of human heads, and she especially liked it, so she taught herself to draw.
The family felt that she really liked to draw, and enrolled her in a class, at first learning to draw Chinese painting with a grandfather, every weekend, six or seven children surrounded a table, holding a brush to draw a brush first, and then drawing lines, coloring, and freehand. In order to go further in the painting profession, Gong Zhe later went to the local children's palace to learn drawing, color, and sketching.
When he was in high school, 16-year-old Gong Zhe traveled alone from Heilongjiang to Beijing in a sleeper to attend the Affiliated High School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. On the day of the trip, her parents were at the platform to send her off, and a boy a few years older than her sat in the opposite seat, and she cried all the time after getting on the bus. Gong Zhe belongs to the kind of people who don't like to show their sadness, and he thinks that the car should be driven quickly, and it will be uncomfortable after driving. The boy on the other side also felt embarrassed, so he pulled the curtain on his side and covered his face and cried. Crying is contagious, looking at his father outside the car window, Gong Zhe also couldn't help but hold the curtain on his side and cry.
When we arrived in Liaoning, a train in front of us broke down, causing Gong Zhe's train to be delayed, and it was early in the morning when we arrived in Beijing. She only remembers when she left Beijing Station, it was dark, and the dim street lights were her first impression of a foreign country.
For Gong Zhe, 16 years old is actually a process of being forced to be independent and forced to grow up. "We have to face the step of going out, if we don't go at the age of 16, we have to go at the age of 20, there is no way, maybe my time is in front." When she was studying in Beijing, Gong Zhe was also homesick, and she still has a thick stack of IC phone cards, which she said with her hands, and the swing together is about 20 centimeters long. "At that time, all the pocket money was used to buy calling cards, and I called home every day."
When he was in the attached middle school of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, every time he took a sculpture class, Gong Zhe was particularly excited. At that time, the mud was limited, and after digging the mud out of the mud trough, each person could only divide it into one piece, but each person had to make two sculptures, how to do it? Finish one first, take a picture, destroy it, and then make the next one.
At that time, there were no digital cameras, only film machines, and a roll of film could take 36 pictures, one for each person, and washed out to hand in homework. Later, the students pooled their money to buy film, they could take pictures of the front and sides of the sculpture, and finally take a group photo with the sculpture.
Because he likes to make sculptures too much, sometimes at two o'clock in the morning, Gong Zhe still can't sleep, and wants to hurry up and then fall in the mud, so he secretly gets up and goes to the classroom and finds that several classmates are there. When the teacher saw that the children liked it, he turned a blind eye and did not lock the door.
A quarrel scene in "The Two of Us" embarrassed her
Most people know Gong Zhe through the movie "The Two of Us", which was released in 2005. At that time, director Ma Liwen cast the film and "found" her in the canteen of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, so Gong Zhe, who was still in his freshman year, became a college student pony who came to Beijing to study in "The Two of Us", rented a courtyard, and began a bumpy life with a lonely old man (Jin Yaqin).
The story of the film runs through the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the crew started production in June 2004 and shot intermittently for a year. Gong Zhe, who was electrocuted for the first time, has no concept of filming, and does not know what is called "announcement", "let shoot what you shoot, trust each other's words, I will not ask anything, just come.".
In the film, when Xiao Ma first moved into the courtyard, his relationship with the landlord and the old lady was not harmonious. There is a scene where the old lady cuts the telephone line in the pony's house, and when the pony returns, she is very angry, takes a ladder to connect with the cable, and then enters the house and quarrels with the old lady. This scene is a little difficult for Gong Zhe. Because on the set, she and Grandma Jin Yaqin have a particularly good relationship, and she will not quarrel in life, let alone argue with her elders. Later, Grandma and the director said that it was all fake. When shooting, they mobilized their emotions, and Gong Zhe was easier to substitute for it.
The movie "The Two of Us" let more people know Gong Zhe.
"The Two of Us" has a Douban score of 8.7 and has won many film festivals at home and abroad, and Gong Zheya won the Best Newcomer Award at the 13th Beijing University Student Film Festival for this film. But for the future, Gong Zhe did not have any plans at that time, because the undergraduate science was photo photography, which belonged to freelance, and she did not limit herself to a specific area. After that, in addition to starring in film and television works, she also occasionally appeared on the drama stage, playing Si Feng in "Thunderstorm 2.0" and Ophelia in "Ophelia on the Roof". Gong Zhe said that she was actually exposed to drama earlier than movies. When reading the Attached Middle School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Gong Zhe watched the first drama called "Pirated Faust", Chen Jianbin acted, in the Renyi Small Theater, it seems to be 50 yuan a ticket, the classmates also bought a ticket for the drama "The Accidental Death of an Anarchist", more than 300, in 2000, I thought it was too expensive.
When watching "Pirated Faust", Gong Zhe was completely calmed, she had never seen this form of artistic expression before, and the opening scene was a dozen people standing in a row, the light was very dark, each saying "I am Faust", the louder the back. She realized that in addition to painting, there is another form of expression that can impact you more intuitively. On that day, there was a strong wind in Beijing, Gong Zhe walked out of the gate of renyi, and there was a girl in front of her whose hat was blown away by the wind, and she felt as if her life had also flown away with the hat. Since then, she has developed a deep affection for drama.
"Real life, not every day"
Whether in work or life, Gong Zhe has maintained a very good mentality. Over the years, she actually has no standards for taking on plays, "anything can be done, as long as you like, you are willing to try." But in life, she still likes to pick up a paintbrush to draw and hold up the camera to capture some moments. Like ordinary people, every day is to repeat the triviality of life, and maintain good living habits, when not working, never stay up late, no more than 10 o'clock to sleep, wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning. She quipped that she lived the "life of an old man."
Nowadays, painting and taking pictures are still an important part of Gong Zhe's life.
Over the years, Gong Zhe is often asked, why did he rarely see her after "The Two of Us"? She didn't know how to answer, but she knew that real life couldn't be magnificent every day, it was actually ordinary. "I accept every chance in life, just like the first filming of "The Two of Us", I also accept the inevitability of every time in life, these years are actually inevitable." And the appearance of "Island Keeper" this time is another accident of hers, but the next accident in her life, I don't know when it will appear.
Teng Chao, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
Chief Photographer Guo Yanbing
Chief Editor Wu Dongni Proofreader Zhao Lin