Many days after the finale of "Crazy", it is still often hung high on the hot search.
The male protagonist Zhang Yi appeared in "News Network".
As an outstanding literary and artistic worker, participate in the symposium.
Zhang Yi once won Magnolia and Golden Eagle Vision Emperor with "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", and won the Golden Rooster Film Emperor with "On the Cliff", the highest award for domestic entertainment film and television dramas, and he has all been pocketed.
Now the popularity of "Crazy" has been soaring, he has always been in the state of "no such person outside of acting", but he has also been involved in the dilemma of "why not publicize / why not go to the celebration banquet" and other popular people.
Let's start at the beginning.
One
When he was a child, Zhang Yi, in his own words, was a bad child.
Both parents are teachers, my mother teaches Chinese and my father teaches music.
At one point, I hoped that Zhang Yi could learn various musical instruments.
But he doesn't seem to have one.
When I was a child, my family was in poor condition and did not have a piano.
Just like in the movie "The Piano of Steel", my father drew him a set of piano keyboards on cardboard.
Ask him to "play the piano on paper".
Because of his frailty, his father played badminton with him from the age of four to thirteen in order to exercise his body and strengthen his perseverance.
The style of play is peculiar.
While walking and fighting, I walked from his house to the Songhua River, about half an hour.
The middle ball is not allowed to drop.
If you fall off, you have to start all over again.
My father was so strict, probably because he was quite naughty.
Bear children have a lot of past.
I used to feed my neighbor's rabbit with green onions.
Causing the rabbit to "run away".
The most outrageous event at the age of four or five was probably "chopping ants with an axe".
Because he is too young, he has not yet learned that "ants are life".
After chopping the ants, Zhang Yi himself was "retributed", and his neck hurt hotly.
He said it was a lesson for him and he knew it wasn't right.
Zhang Yi's most honest point is probably that he will also say the content that seems less glamorous or even less positive.
Zhang Yi's early years of cockfighting and recruiting dogs gradually gave way to the pressure of school entrance examinations after entering middle school.
As a teenager, Zhang Yi's ideal in life was to be an announcer.
He couldn't watch the performance at the time.
The first lesson in learning acting is to liberate nature.
A group of people gathered around, one person stood in the center, playing a tiger and a dog and a madman.
This was worth resisting for Zhang Yi at that time.
At that time, he was addicted to the kind of upright broadcasting fan, and he could not appreciate the "liberating nature".
In his second year of high school, Zhang Yi successfully passed the professional course examination.
However, because he was not a senior in high school, he was not able to take the college entrance examination for cultural classes that year.
The second year I was able to take the college entrance examination, but unfortunately, the professional class was not passed.
Zhang Yi's father could not accept it for a while, so he hurriedly borrowed money to buy a plane ticket and went to Beijing to inquire about the situation.
After inquiring around, he could not change the fact that his son did not get to his ideal college.
Zhang Yi was unwilling to repeat the study, and did not read, and successfully won a "unemployed youth card".
Long-term "unemployment" is not a solution after all, and after that, at the suggestion of his family, Zhang Yi was admitted to the local Harbin Drama Academy acting study class.
From the drama troupe, he was admitted to the Beijing Comrades in Arms Repertory Troupe study class.
Go to Beijing to study at your own expense.
Study, work, stay there for ten years.
Two
The days of the trainee class of the Comrades-in-Arms Repertory Troupe, Zhang Yi is still very grateful after many years.
The schoolwork is heavy, but it gives them a good foundation.
Years later, he is still proud: "Many of our classmates now have food, thanks to the intensive study in those years."
In addition to attending classes, they occasionally have to work.
Zhang Yi shared a "very tasteful" tidbits of work in the interview.
One year Chinese New Year's Eve, they were asked to dig for sand.
If you don't have equipment, use a washbasin.
Go back and wash it, wash it, and keep using it.
In the afternoon, he was told to take out the manure.
Still unequipped, then it's still a washbasin.
Go back and wash it, just act like nothing happened.
Make dumplings in the evening for the New Year.
Still unequipped.
To use a washbasin and noodles.
At this time, Zhang Yi stopped doing it and ran to the senior group.
He comforted himself that "they have a lot of tools in their senior grades, and they should not have used a basin when they worked before."
Whether it was useful or not, he didn't dare to ask.
At that time, although the conditions were relatively difficult, the days were flavorful.
At that time, the unit was not allowed to fall in love, and Zhang Yi and the female classmates had a youthful first love, which brought out a sense of "underground joint".
He said that often as soon as we met quietly, someone kicked in the door with a wave of people.
When the door is kicked open, it is usually only the girl.
Zhang Yi was missing.
Zhang Yi, on the other hand, either covered his nose miserably behind the door that was kicked open.
Either they have already dismantled the window railings and installed them, fled through the windows and ran all the way back to another classroom.
Along the way, he ran all over the dust, pulled a curtain, covered his body, and blended into the army of lunch breaks.
This youthful and ignorant beautiful crush escaped all kinds of "inspections", but in the end it still failed to escape the beating of the woman's parents.
The girl's mother dislikes Zhang Yi and is ugly, not like an actor.
Say he looks like a brigade accountant.
He also disliked his face as "like he had been sat on his ass."
The first love ended in nothing and failed to achieve positive results, but the friendship remained.
Later, the girl unfortunately had a car accident and became a vegetative person.
During her ten years as a vegetative bedridden, Zhang Yi often visited.
After her eventual death, Zhang Yi was deeply regretted because she was unable to attend her funeral at a foreign film festival.
Three
When Zhang Yi was young, his career was not smooth.
He has acted in dramas and done scene chores.
Also tried to be a screenwriter.
In his own words, "the screenwriter is also a half-hanger, and he should not understand".
A few years later, Zhang Yi looked back at himself at that time and described that at that time, people did not grow up.
The limbs are also stiff and the performance is unnatural.
The lines also have a heavy recitation tone.
He didn't boil all the problems down to "not handsome, so lack of opportunity."
However, Zhang Yi seemed to be quite concerned about his "little eyes" for a while.
He cooperated with Sun Li and other big-eyed beauties in filming, and the measured result was that "the range that big eyes and small eyes can see is different".
He even said that people with double eyelids, one day, have natural muscles that are naturally more advantageous when performing shots where they are awakened and suddenly open their eyes.
He said he had no such advantage.
At that time, Zhang Yi was once shouted that "you can only run tricks".
was even named by director Hu Mei, "If the actor has not come out at the age of 28, hurry up and wash and sleep."
Zhang Yi didn't think that director Hu Mei was pouring cold water on him because of his appearance, but he felt that he was guiding him in planning direction.
For Zhang Yi, who is in his twenties, the most important opportunity is, of course, "Soldier Assault".
The original version of the drama "Soldier Assault" was originally operated by Zhang Yi's unit.
He has acted in many scenes, but he has never been a starring actor.
The TV series version of "Soldier Assault" once reported the news of preparation.
After several twists and turns, there was no follow-up.
After several turns, I heard that it will be directed by director Kang Honglei.
At that time, Zhang Yi had previously collaborated with director Kang Honglei on "Migrant Worker".
He wants to play Xu Sanduo.
To this end, he even wrote a letter of petition to director Kang Honglei.
The writing is very practical and lists its many advantages.
Even, there are six disadvantages listed (such as no dialect advantage, etc., too real).
At that time, Zhang Yi and director Kang Honglei were watching the performance together, and he handed the petition to the director during the intermission.
The other party smiled and did not say no.
After the performance, director Kang Honglei asked Zhang Yi for dinner and asked him "is there a schedule".
Zhang Yi was flattered.
He said that at that time, where did he have such a thing as "schedule"? (I've been idle at all)
And then the story was seen on TV.
That year, "Soldier Assault" became a big hit, and the actors from all walks of life were sent, and now there are several directors of the film emperor and TV emperor.
That year, Zhang Yi played the squad leader of Shi Jinshi, and the scene of crying in the car in front of Tiananmen Square before he was discharged from the army, is still difficult for many people.
Zhang Yi himself served as a soldier for ten years, and even had a real parting of life and death with his comrades.
That kind of emotion, permeating the character, will have a devastating impact, which can be seen.
Four
After "Soldier Assault", Zhang Yi finally had a name as an actor.
Although it can't ascend to the sky in one step, it has finally been seen by many directors and producers in the industry, and finally has a better stepping stone.
In the following years, he went up one play by one.
From the dragon set, to the top actor who has worked with all the excellent film directors.
In an interview a few years ago, Zhang Yi was frequently asked about Chen Kexin's director "Dear", for which he won the Golden Rooster Best Supporting Actor for that play.
At that time, director Chen Kexin asked Zhang Yi to play this role, and Zhang Yi was very confused: Am I like an upstart?
Director Chen Kexin replied: It is precisely because you are not like that we are looking for you, and we don't want to find one that is so smooth.
This role was previously set for another actor, so Zhang Yi was dragged to the film press conference when the contract was not signed and everything was very temporary.
Huang Bo, Tong Dawei, Hao Lei and others were all strange when they saw Zhang Yi: What are you here for?
During the filming, Zhang Yi has always been very "weak-hearted", saying that they all have children, but I don't.
So, Zhang Yi tried to imagine his cat as a child and bring that emotion into the performance.
"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong," he said.
As it turned out, it was just too good.
In this movie where the per capita tragedy is aggravated and the per capita tears are pointed, the picture of Zhang Yi tearing his heart and lungs against the wall and crying is still embarrassing.
Then, the list of big directors that Zhang Yi cooperated with became more and more brilliant.
Jia Zhangke directed "Mountains and Rivers Departed", and Zhang Yi played an "upstart".
"The Chaser" directed by Cao Baoping, to "Operation Red Sea" directed by Lin Chaoxian, to "Eight Hundred" directed by Guan Hu, and "One Second" directed by Zhang Yimou.
From "Embroidered Spring Dao 2" directed by Lu Yang to "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" directed by Feng Xiaogang;
From "Me and My Motherland" (starring Zhang Yi in the "Encounter" unit) directed by Chen Kaige, to "The Climber" produced by Tsui Hark, to "Ten Thousand Miles Home", produced by Guo Fan and directed by Rao Xiaozhi, Zhang Yi is now the rhythm of "gathering the great directors of the Chinese-speaking world".
"One Second", "King Kong River" and "Eight Hundred" were released in the same year, and the 2020 big screen seems to have become the "year of Zhang Yi".
The sacrifice of life and forgetting death in "King Kong River", and the "fear of death" in "Eight Hundred" who desperately remembers Xiaotianyuan who wants to run for his life, are completely different poles, and his performance is convincing and moving.
Since "One Second", Zhang Yi seems to have become Zhang Yimou's director.
He doesn't have many scenes in "Sniper", but his voice is like a tear.
In "Above the Cliff", the picture of him looking for Yu Hewei on his deathbed made people cry every minute.
In "Man Jiang Hong", he has become a fan and a ghost blade villain He Li, and he is dedicated to being Qin Juniper's dogleg.
Whether the role is exactly evil, whether the scene is more or less, Zhang Yi may not judge with a utilitarian vision.
For him, there is no doubt that the drama is bigger than the sky.
When he was not a "movie king + TV emperor" a few years ago, Zhang Yi had already said that he had pushed several reality shows.
He believes there is no commercial value.
Asked if you resist being "consumed" as a star.
Zhang Yi replied that he felt that he was not thick enough to withstand consumption.
Today's Zhang Yi is still "no one to find except acting", and in addition to acting and roles, he is obviously still unwilling to be consumed.
But contrary to expectations, many things are too wild and can easily get out of control.
Compared with the words "popular" and "top", Zhang Yi must prefer the definition of the ordinary duty of "actor".
He said that he liked director Jia Zhangke's evaluation, "Boss Zhang can do it."
(His nouveau riche role in "Mountains and Rivers Departed" is Boss Zhang)
Yes, Shanxi dialect directed by Jia Zhangke, it's okay.
He seems to be a little repulsed by the overflowing praise of "absolute" and "fengsheng", and he likes the attitude that seems to be able to complete the work, can be, and still has room for improvement.
epilogue
You see, from the dragon set to the supporting role to the actor TV emperor, Zhang Yi is undoubtedly smart for so many years.
Know the trade-offs and pay attention to the actor's job.
No matter how much money reality shows give, no matter how fast the money comes, he always says "I can't provide (entertainment) value."
The play exploded, the traffic flocked in front of the door, and the hook finger could directly cash out into real money, but he didn't seem to have any intention of it, and didn't say a word except for the clarification of the studio from beginning to end.
To some extent, Zhang Yi seems to be a combination of Xu Sanduo and the advantages of becoming a talent.
There are talents of intelligence and sensitivity, and there are many great wisdom and foolishness, and great simplicity.
Once he was immortalized by storms and gossip, he was immersed in the world of drama.
In the role, life and death are white-headed, and the search is endless.