In Inner Entertainment, Zhang Yi's life is almost difficult to replicate.
Not only the ups and downs of red, but even the traffic is particularly different.
During this time, Zhang Yi was scolded for an unprecedented traffic peak.
Logically, this is a period of time that Zhang Yi harvested——
In the movie, he participated in "Manjiang Hong" became the box office winner of the Spring Festival file,
In terms of TV series, "Crazy" starring him has become the first phenomenal hit in 2023.
This drama also pushes the starring Zhang Songwen to the peak of traffic, and Zhang Yi was originally ignored by this wave of traffic.
Until the black material about him came like a tide.
It's been nearly a month since the end of "Crazy". The fury outside the play finally stopped, but the aftermath of Zhang Yi did not stop.
The once well-known national acting school has become the target of group ridicule without any substantial negative news.
Not only the speculation of Zhang Yi's discord with the crew, not only his character, but also his most stable acting skills began to be questioned by the masses, and many people said: Zhang Yi fell to the altar.
But unlike domestic entertainment stars who are accustomed to making statements in advance, Zhang Yi himself has not made any public rebuttal so far.
As if he hadn't heard anything, he continued to immerse himself in acting.
This is not in line with the common sense of the entire internal entertainment, but it is extremely in line with the common sense of Zhang Yi.
He has been in the industry for many years, from not popular to popular, from unknown to famous in the world, but Zhang Yi has never really entered the "entertainment industry" system.
He is an actor, not a star.
"I'm not thick enough to withstand too much consumption," he said. It's like how thick other domestic entertainment stars are and how much they can withstand consumption.
Zhang Yi seems to have been doing some stupid things, but we can't change Zhang Yi, just as we can't change the smart internal entertainment.
After repeated defeats, the frustration of being turned away, and the suffocating despair, he finally became red, but in the face of the torrential applause and flow, I am afraid that his heart was more calm and trepidation than ecstasy.
Now he is not used to standing up for himself.
But if he doesn't defend himself, we have to defend him even more. Whether it is black or white, Zhang Yi himself can not care whether he says it clearly, but the audience cares.
Because Zhang Yi's embarrassment and silence are the biggest sorrows in the entertainment industry.
01 Turmoil
Su Shi's "Fixing the Storm" wrote: Who is afraid? A cloud of smoke and rain for life. The spring breeze wakes up with wine, slightly cold, and the mountain is obliquely photographed. Looking back has always been bleak, return.
There is neither wind nor shine.
The so-called turmoil never needs a reason, and there is never wind or rain or ruthlessness.
In the story, Zhang Yi seems to have become a bully who is difficult to get along with overnight.
But in fact, the only proof is that shortly after the end of "Crazy", Zhang Yi was exposed to delete the only episode-related Weibo.
and his failure to attend the celebration banquet.
Rumors of discord in the crew arose, and the actress of the crew was suspected of accusing Zhang Yi of adding drama at will, "everything he has the final say". He also said that he "never wanted to see Zhang Yi in my life".
Although she later said that the responses were misunderstood, they were still reminiscent.
Director Xu Jizhou also directly bypassed the question about Zhang Yi in an interview, and when asked which actor in the whole play had the best acting skills, he answered directly: Zhang Songwen.
Even the screenwriter posted an article suggesting that the crew communicate with Zhang Yi to apologize.
Until the studio issued a statement of accountability refuting the false rumors. As a result, a rebuttal to the rumor that Zhang Yi had deliberately smoked in front of Sun Li caused an uproar.
The so-called tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop.
If these are still extra-theatrical storms.
Then what is really likely to stir up waves in Zhang Yi's heart is the question of Zhang Yi's acting skills.
Since the beginning of the series, the accent problem in Zhang Yi's drama has caused widespread controversy.
This was followed by the controversy over the role not being brilliant enough.
Compared with the rich and full character image of villains such as Gao Qiqiang. An Xin, played by Zhang Yi, is the core protagonist, but his image is much thinner.
Not only Gao Qiqiang, but even supporting roles such as Chen Shuting, Gao Qisheng, Gao Qilan, Li Hongwei, Dragon and Tiger Brothers, Killer Lao Mo, Secretary Wang and other supporting roles are also quite outstanding.
This seems to be the first time in history that Zhang Yi's character brilliance has been clearly overshadowed by other actors in the work.
It's really weird.
So everyone seemed to come to the conclusion of course: Zhang Yi's acting skills were wrong.
02 Facts
But let's see, are these facts or not?
Let's start with the rumors of the drama bully.
There is a key message that has been overlooked - Zhang Yi is not only the starring actor, but also the artistic director of the whole play.
During the filming of this drama, Zhang Yi designed a lot of details after being busy on the set.
In addition to designing the details for his own play, of course, he also considers other people's plays, such as Lao Mo finally holding a bomb with his backhand, which has become a famous scene that everyone talks about in the play.
In the tidbits, in addition to guiding adult actors, Zhang Yi also taught young actors how to play the juvenile version of Gao Xiaochen.
An action of holding a toy pistol, he personally demonstrated seriously, and it turned out that the juvenile version of Gao Xiaochen's shaping was more successful than the adult Gao Xiaochen.
Zhang Songwen's friend and actor of Tang Xiaolong, Lin Jiachuan, thanked Zhang Yi for guiding his performance, and Zhang Biao's actor called Zhang Yi "a benefactor for life".
"Adding drama" is also a fact, but not for yourself.
Xiao Wu and other actors revealed that Zhang Yi took the initiative to add scenes to them on the set, and Xiao Wu's tone of slowly swallowing and speaking was designed by Zhang Yi.
But this became the so-called evidence that he was good at advocating additional drama, saying that because the actors of Little Five were close to him, the last episode had an emotional scene of "only five dexin".
He also said that as soon as "Crazy" was completed, he ran to other crews, and he couldn't find anyone for the post-shooting.
These so-called "stains" are simply chasing the wind.
Not to mention that these cannot be empirical, even if there is, what kind of evidence can it be considered to play big names? The crew has been completed, shouldn't an actor like Zhang Yi who has a full schedule go to other crews to report?
In the final analysis, why are there so many rumors on the Internet about Zhang Yi's "playing big names"?
This reminds me of another famous "drama bully" of that year: Li Baotian.
Like Zhang Yi, this veteran actor has also served as an artistic director in many plays, not only managing his own scenes, but also managing the script and directing other actors.
The crew wanted to fill with water, and he wouldn't let it. The actor wanted to release water when he performed, but he was not allowed.
As a result, the actor with both virtue and art was jointly "banned" by the drama party, and only proved his innocence many years later.
In fact, there is nothing new under the sun.
The fact is: few people like to be told to do this, especially in the cumbersome filming process, a re-enactment and reshoot time-consuming crew, who dies in the details, who does not tire of it, who will inevitably provoke people to "not get used to it".
It is difficult for outsiders to distinguish between what is tireless and what is a "good teacher", and performing the duties of an art director is only a line away from "playing big names" and "playing big names".
But I want to ask: If dedication is a good teacher, is it better to eat vegetarian meals under the name of director?
Let's talk about acting.
Admit the facts first: An Xin is indeed not the most outstanding character in the whole show.
But I have to ask a rhetorical question: also a classic anti-black drama, do you remember the positive roles of "Conquest", "Wings Can't Escape", "Black Hole" and "Black Ice" of that year?
In "In the Name of the People" 6 years ago, Qi Tongwei and Gao Yuliang are more brilliant than positive characters?
The fact is: in this type of drama, the villain is more likely to shine.
Villains like Gao Qiqiang, who get up from the bottom, have complete growth clues, are more human ups and downs, naturally more three-dimensional and vivid, flesh and blood, and easier to play.
On the contrary, the more positive the character, the more fixed the space for play.
And An Xin, as a character with a sense of tragic fatalism, entered the police station with idealism, but was tortured to the prime of life.
It's a standard decency.
It can even be said that if it were not for Zhang Yi's strong acting skills, the role of An Xin would be more difficult to be recognized by the audience.
Because in the past, few protagonists had their own halo as soon as they appeared.
The two leaders in the bureau are his uncle, and Miss Qianjin Meng Yu loves him until the end.
The character personality is also a tendon, the black-haired Anxin is too presumptuous, not afraid to confront the villain leader on the spot, this character personality was okay 20 years ago, but now it is difficult to be recognized by the audience.
Although the role is relatively thin and the performance focus is limited, Zhang Yi still performs the character with a considerable sense of layering.
An Xin in "Crazy", from the initial ideal of vitality and jealousy, to the only promise after a night of white heads, dormant and silent, and then finally reborn by fighting back.
Who the hell has the guts to tell me this is bad acting? If this is all bad acting, is our standard for good acting too high?
In addition to the overall role shaping, Zhang Yi also handed over many famous acting scenes.
For example, pulling the cordon and forcing Gao Qiqiang to retreat.
Another example is when the traffic police are on duty, and the mood suddenly breaks down.
But Zhang Yi's best performance is not the collapse, but the previous numbness, that is, the part questioned by the audience: Why was An Xin's whole person wooden when Li Xiang was offline, and why was he so restrained when he broke up with Meng Yu?
Is there a problem with Zhang Yi's acting?
On the contrary, it is Zhang Yi who is playing An Xin's ignorance! When a person is extremely sad and extremely painful, he is precisely without emotions, and only when returning to his daily life, such as when he is on duty, suddenly feels that his whole world is collapsing, and then collapses and squats.
Only by understanding An Xin's squatting crying and a night of white heads can we understand the stunned and clear eyes in the opening, and the white-haired middle-aged man in the finale, staggering and faltering.
At the end of the story, An Xin was not promoted or commended, only his comrades in the cemetery, and his inner conscience was clear.
A staunch idealist, in silence, to be a lone hero, will be more forbearing, more difficult for ordinary people to understand, if it is so easy to understand, then not a lone hero.
Zhang Yi performed such an An Xin, where did the acting skills suck?
You recognize. I don't recognize it.
03 Strange circles
So where does this wave of doubting Zhang Yi come from?
It is not so much from Zhang Yi himself, but from a trend in internal entertainment: acting skills, rice circles.
The same thing, why do many people have a strange interpretation of Zhang Yi?
In the era of classic Chinese dramas, isn't it natural for acting schools to compete in acting skills? Young actors can't act, I'll teach you to act. Isn't this a fine tradition of Chinese drama?
How can you give birth to rumors of drama bully?
I think one answer is: many netizens who have fallen into the thinking of traffic rice circles can no longer understand that there are old-school actors like Zhang Yi in this world.
In particular, the Internet has greatly shortened the distance between the audience and the actors. It also invisibly promotes the thinking mode of rice circles.
For individual actors, they do not delve into acting skills, but like to dig into history.
This session of netizens seems to be accustomed to the actor being held up to the sky overnight, and then turning his head and falling off the altar because of "black material".
In the past, Chinese dramas were each beautiful, a good drama, and most of them were acting skills.
Nowadays, under the sweep of rice circle thinking, any explosive drama, characters and actors cannot escape the fate of being trampled.
For example, Zhang Songwen and Zhang Yi.
Fans have been arguing outside the show, and it is not too much to say that the situation is the same, but the two actors clearly cherish each other on the set.
The good show of "using the police cordon to force Gao Qiqiang back" was thought up by Zhang Yi on the spot, and the whistleblower was Zhang Songwen.
Some people also said that in several "noodle eating plays", Zhang Yi was completely exploded by Zhang Songwen.
Finished explosion, "one-sided crushing", what a familiar rice circle phrase.
But these fans who only know how to interpret the performance with rice circle thinking and measure the actors with traffic thinking will never understand that a truly excellent performance is always evenly matched and inspires each other.
The real strong and weak rivalry is not interesting, and the real classic never appears only one top actor.
And the Zhang Yi incident is just another manifestation of this wave of rice circles in the entertainment industry and the flood of traffic-based thinking.
But when many people fall into the strange circle of online speech and emotional venting is far greater than rational thinking, the biggest circle is precisely that: under the herd effect, no one feels that they are caught in the strange circle, and everyone feels that they are keyboard warriors who speak up.
04 Zhang translated
But the skeptical people forgot to see what kind of person Zhang Yi was.
There have been so many stories about Zhang Yi's life story, I will only tell a small story.
Zhang Yi was born in Harbin in 1978, and walking out of his home, it took about half an hour to reach the Songhua River.
When he was a child, Zhang Yi's greatest pleasure was to peek at TV while his parents were not at home, and in order to prevent detection, he also invented a set of methods that I never thought of when I was a child-
While watching, put the lunch box full of ice cubes on the TV to dissipate heat, after watching, scan the TV screen by hand to eliminate static electricity, and finally put the remote control board back in its original place.
But Dao Gao Yizhang, every time after returning home, Zhang Yi's father did not touch the TV series at all, and directly watched the electricity meter, and after watching it, Zhang Yi was going to be beaten.
After failing the college entrance examination, Zhang Yi became an unemployed youth in the family, coinciding with the Harbin Theater Troupe recruiting students, and at the suggestion of his father, Zhang Yi also took the exam and was finally admitted as a self-funded student.
Seeing that Zhang Yi liked drama, a teacher said to him: "You can go to Beijing to try it, you can watch drama every day in Beijing." ”
In this way, 18-year-old Zhang Yi left Harbin and went to Beijing alone.
First take the PLA Academy of Art, fail the physical examination, and have no interview opportunities; He also applied for the Chinese drama exam, but was recognized by the teacher as "not very suitable for being an actor in appearance".
Until he heard that the Beijing Military Region's Comrades-in-Arms Cultural Troupe was recruiting actors, he immediately signed up for the exam.
Half a year later, I received a notice that although I passed the exam, because of my low grades, I could only enter the comrades-in-arms literary corps as a self-funded student.
When he was in the Comrades-in-Arms Repertory Troupe, Zhang Yi was recognized by the teachers of the whole troupe as "the person who can't act the least".
Peng Peng, the director and acting teacher of the drama "Soldier Assault", saw Zhang Yi for the first time and felt that "this kid is not standing or sitting, sitting or not sitting, and it is not material to be an actor at first glance."
In the group, Zhang Yi is the student that Teacher Peng beats the most, but Zhang Yi knows in his heart that Teacher Peng is actually the person who cherishes himself the most in the whole group.
Zhang Yi understands that his appearance is a "deduction item", describing himself as "not having a face that would make the audience interested in paying to see it in the cinema." ”
At that time, the dormitory with Zhang Yi was Xiao Jian, who later played "Yan Xiaoliu" in "The Legend of Wulin", and many years later Zhang Yi recalled that he said:
"The two will become more and more similar after staying for a long time, maybe I can look better without him at that time."
After turning from cadet to regularization, the brothers who joined the group at the same time as him have already played the leading role, and he also plays Passerby 1, Corpse A, and Soldier A on the stage, and for a few hours of a play, he is generally assigned no more than 10 words.
But Zhang Yi is still the most active in rehearsing each sketch, from the baggage buried in the script to the design of the scene in the performance, all of them have done enough preparations, but as soon as they stand on stage, they will always cause jokes.
In those years, he received the most evaluation in acting as "introverted and no acting talent".
Zhang Yi also had a mentor, nicknamed "Five Masters", before he was discharged from the army, he gathered everyone together for a meal, and the teacher drank high during the banquet, holding Zhang Yi's shoulders and saying with tears in his eyes:
"Translation, the five masters love you, you are a good boy."
But there is also the second half of the sentence: "But don't dare to act anymore, you are a dead man when you act!" ”
Zhang Yiyi froze entirely.
Until the age of 27, he was only a marginal actor in the Beijing Comrades-in-Arms Repertory Troupe. When he was most desperate, he also thought about quitting it.
Teacher Peng Peng, who was no longer teaching on the front line, took the initiative to find the student, and the two chatted for a long time. Many years later, Zhang Yi still remembered the content of the conversation, saying that if it were not for Mr. Peng's encouragement, he might really give up acting.
Choose to persevere, just do it. At the age of 28, he took the initiative to write a 3,000-word cover letter to director Kang Honglei, titled "My Petition", asking for many roles in the TV series of the same name in the drama "Soldier Assault" directed by Peng Peng, and finally got the role of Shi Jin.
Other people in the play are afraid of being dragged down by Xu Sanduo, and Shi Jin is only afraid that Xu Sanduo will be left behind.
The scene where the whole drama was finished was the scene where Shi Jin's retirement from the army.
At the beginning, he sat in the car, passed by Tiananmen Square, looked at the neon lights outside the window, and played Gao Cheng silly music by Zhang Guoqiang; But suddenly he couldn't stop, and finally cried with a big white rabbit in his mouth.
In fact, the role of the head of the squad has only 9 episodes, but it is this role that makes Zhang Yi.
It was a happy thing, but Zhang Yi was very entangled, and many people who had not been in touch for a long time specially called congratulatory calls for this, but he "felt very bad" because he did not enjoy this feeling of overnight fame.
Once, Zhang Yi went out to buy eggs in big pants, and was recognized by a girl at the door of the market, Zhang Yi panicked, picked up the egg and ran, but hit a tree, and the egg broke into a pocket.
A few years after "Soldier Assault", Zhang Yi starred in two plays "My Regiment Commander My Regiment" and "Life and Death Line", with more opportunities, but still encountered a change of role.
The entertainment industry worships high and low, and he is not qualified to bypass.
Until 2015, 37-year-old Zhang Yi won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role of Han Dezhong in the movie "Darling". This is his first professional award.
Before going on stage, Zhang Yi also thought about whether he could just say "thanks" and then step down, but after thinking about it, he decided to express his gratitude in place: "Maybe this will be the only time I win the award." ”
That time, Zhang Yi said 17 "thanks" in one breath, one of which was "Thank you to my acting teacher Peng Peng".
Shortly after the Golden Rooster Award ceremony, Peng Peng was ill and admitted to the hospital, Zhang Yi went to visit, entered the ward, he joked playfully and smiling as in the past, but after seeing the teacher's postoperative wounds, he did not hold back and hid in the hospital corridor and cried.
Before leaving the hospital, Zhang Yi secretly left the Golden Rooster Award prize to Mrs. Peng Peng. Peng Peng didn't return it to him after he knew it, and he didn't spend it, but just wrote "Zhang Yi's bonus" on the envelope containing the money with a pen, and then put it in a drawer.
After this play, Zhang Yi began to play widely.
In 2017, he won the Golden Eagle and Magnolia Double Vision Emperor with "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky".
In 2018, he ushered in the first film "Operation Red Sea" starring him.
Those troubled days, those unbearable pasts, have finally passed.
From "Eight Hundred" and "King Kong River" to "On the Cliff" and "Ten Thousand Miles Home", Zhang Yi has become the fifth actor in China to break the 10 billion box office mark. But he rarely uses social media and rarely promotes his work.
It is a silent acting.
He broke a bone shortly after the start of "Operation Red Sea", and director Lin Chaoxian said to find him a stand-in, but Zhang Yi refused, and he was lame until the end.
Filming "The Climber", Zhang Yi climbed the ladder to the top in the snow at minus 20 degrees Celsius barefoot, and his feet were so frozen that he couldn't even walk.
When filming "One Second", for the sake of the role, he lost 20 pounds in 20 days, and his lowest weight reached 110 pounds.
Once, he met Teacher Peng again, and Teacher Peng took the initiative to step forward, patted him on the shoulder and said:
"I've watched all your plays. Everywhere I went, I said to people, you are my student, and I am proud of you. ”
05 Treasure
But Zhang Yi still can't play the set of internal entertainment.
He doesn't understand that the rice circle is not open. I don't even understand the fanaticism of fans for actors outside the play.
When it was just popular, many people trekked through the mountains and rivers to meet him, and bought gifts with real money, which made Zhang Yi feel guilty, because "even if the gift is received, it is not right".
He also doesn't understand crisis public relations.
If it is popular, there are many people who are popular, and according to the practice of internal entertainment, a full set of personality + crisis management will be carried out immediately.
但《狂飙》大热，网上流言蜚语不断，甚至被抵制，张译还是全程保持沉默，不辩解，不攻击任何人，不让戏外的风波盖过戏本身。
He also doesn't understand traffic.
It became popular, and invitations to variety shows also poured in.
Not to mention that the quotations are as high as 10 million, the key is that variety shows are the flow engine of actors.
But he found no such person except "works".
He never participated in reality TV because he didn't think he had the ability to entertain the masses.
To put it bluntly, this is the most "stupid" actor in the entertainment industry, and if his past experience has not taught him, he will not go to make fun.
Li Chen, Chen Sicheng and others, who became famous at the same time as him, have long opened another path in the colorful entertainment industry, but he will say one sentence: "It won't be that."
He decided that his strength and life thickness were not enough to withstand consumption for too long.
After becoming famous, he still maintains the sobriety of an actor, believing that the actor is not the main reason for the success of the work.
"It's natural for an actor to act, and I'm also doing it for a living. The work is directed by the director, the book is written by the screenwriter, the things are good, and you can win the award like an actor."
What will that translator do? Do a good job as an actor should do, that's all.
Lan Xiaolong, the screenwriter of "Soldier Assault", who worked with Zhang Yi in the Comrades-in-Arms Repertory Troupe, always remembers that Zhang Yi once ran to his house on a snowy day to borrow a script written by the former Soviet writer Geliman.
Zhang Yi was embarrassed to borrow other people's collections for too long, so he spent money to copy all the thick works.
When he was in the Harbin Repertory Theater, Zhang Yi read more than 2,000 plays, and today, his collection of drama plays is four to five thousand copies.
Time rewards what a person puts into his time.
Grow melons to get melons, and plant beans to get beans.
Zhang Yi is not without grievances, but he is unwilling to put time on these, argue a round, sell a miserable round, search for a wave, and earn a wave of traffic, which is a regular operation in the entertainment industry.
But these are meaningless to Zhang Yi.
His non-response is the best response.
Next, he still has too many plays to act, the spy war drama "City Without Me" directed by Zhang Li is said to be filming again, how can he have time to delay the effort with you here? Studying the script is the right thing to do.
Some people are like this, mixed for decades, did not become a horn, only achieved the role.
It did not become a farce, only a good drama.
Such a person is destined to be a unique product in the entertainment industry, and it is a beautiful jade who has been immersed in the big dye vat for many years and still harbors the heart of a child.
Finally, let the time go back to the winter of 1996, Zhang Yi, who was studying in the Harbin Theater Troupe, watched two plays, and at the scene, he was moved to tears by the story on stage.
Since then, he has really fallen in love with the profession of "actor", and specially spent more than a dozen yuan to get an actor card that has no use, and he hates to take it out everywhere to show others and tell everyone:
"Look, I'm an actor."
At that time, Zhang Yi may not know that he will also create moving good shows again and again in the future, let alone predict the future storm.
But that winter, the snow in Harbin melted and piled up again, and actor Zhang Yi's dream, from that winter, the mountains were high and the sea was wide, and it was invincible.
And the world is as wise as foolish, and as clever as clumsy.
He finally went further and further on another path of "smart people".