Performing Chinese drama Zheng Binhui found himself happy filming

Zheng Binhui played the Kuomintang agent training officer in the anti-Japanese drama "Braveheart 2", and the role was not light. (Courtesy of Zheng Binhui)

MediaCorp TV Istie is tired of the local TV ecosystem and wants to retire from the background or go into business in February next year. However, he participated in two Chinese dramas in succession, which made him ignite his passion for acting.

Zheng Binhui, who had just returned from filming in China, was caught by a reporter from lianhe Zaobao and admitted in a telephone interview: "My contract with MediaCorp expired in December, because I took over their new drama "New Life" and will be filmed until February next year, so I renewed the contract for two months, but the long-term plan for the future has not yet been decided." ”

After Zheng Binhui won the Super Star Award, production plummeted, and since the "Take Off" of Wow Wow, he almost did not appear on Channel 8, and later joined the performance of Channel 5 "Tanglin", but the overall feeling of idleness was scattered. The reporter asked insiders, it is said that Zheng Binhui is usually straightforward, and when he sees the shortcomings in the production, he will directly point out that he may have offended some people and maliciously spread that he is difficult to engage, resulting in a significant reduction in his output.

In response to the rumors, Zheng Binhui did not comment, only saying that some rumors made him deeply troubled, but gently replied: "In the past four or five years, I have also been thinking, I have encountered a bottleneck in filming, and later became a film director, and I was a little tired after filming." ”

<h3>Did what I couldn't do in 17 years</h3>

There was a gap in MediaCorp, and it happened that he met the local "Perfect Jianxin" in China to invest in the filming of Jin Yong's martial arts series "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", and was enabled to play the role of Temujin. His performance satisfied producer Guo Jingyu, so he recently participated in the latter's "Braveheart 2" performance, which was also his first participation in the Republic of China era drama. In this anti-Japanese drama, he played the Kuomintang agent training officer, because the proud disciple was killed, he stepped forward to avenge him, and the role was not light.

Zheng Binhui said: "After filming Chinese dramas, I have done things that I have not been able to do in 17 years, including performing large-scale costume dramas with 500 extras and performing real historical figures! I just found out that it made me find the joy of filming again. ”

"I was the only Singaporean on the set of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, and for the first time I found myself Chinese, from memorizing the script for the first time under so much pressure in terms of lines, to speaking feeling that I used words inappropriately and pronounced them incorrectly, and I, a perfectionist, developed the motivation to improve." He laughed and said, "I am also grateful to go to China because I didn't shoot locally." ”

<h3>When the trapeze is tired and full</h3>

"Braveheart" premiered in 2014 on Shandong, Beijing, Tianjin and Jiangsu four David TV premieres, because the response is good, so open another 100 episode sequel, the plot tells the Chinese actor Yang Zhigang played by Rehe renren who left his hometown to teach Chinese in Shanghai Middle School, he wanted to flee south but he was forced to stay because his adopted daughter became disabled, after witnessing the invaders mutilating compatriots, he swallowed his breath to save his life, secretly planned a series of things, using himself as bait, to help comrades of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party jointly eliminate the Japanese secret service base. Until the Japanese surrendered. The co-cast is also a Taiwanese actor Kou Shih-hoon. The series is expected to be broadcast through Zhejiang Satellite TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV next year, which will be a precious exposure opportunity for Zheng Binhui.

Zheng Binhui has been filming for three months, the role has not yet been completed, this time back to the new filming of "Tanglin", in two days to go back and forth between Singapore and China, while embarrassing these new dramas, although tired but very fulfilling. He laughed and said, "I haven't been a trapeze artist in a long time!" ”

<h3>I want to be a director</h3>

Zheng Binhui admitted that preliminary negotiations have been held with MediaCorp, and whether he will renew his contract is under consideration. Asked what conditions he considered, he replied, "I want to make good scenes, scenes that make me proud." ”

Even if he is not an actor, he still wants to develop in directing and hopes to cooperate with Zhu Houren again. The two had previously worked together to create the movie "Goodbye Giant".

Zheng Binhui and a friend previously opened a six-digit technology company to develop a set of applications (apps) for smartphones and computers. He is one of the company's main creators, and the programming is carried out by a friend of the tech master.