In the show business circle, when it comes to people who dare to give up their lives to act, I believe that many people will think of actor Zhang Tong, a person who was once blind in order to make the scene real.
Mention the name Zhang Tong, perhaps people who don't like to watch period dramas and spy dramas are not too familiar with him, but when it comes to the monk Wei Dayong in "Bright Sword", I think many people will shoot their heads, oh! It was him!
Zhang Tong, born in 1981, Tianjin is his hometown, and like many Tianjin people, Zhang Tong is also a very direct-talking and impatient person.
Before the age of 19, Zhang Tong's life was flat and stable, and he did not experience any big waves.
Zhang Tong, when he was a student, has always been a good student who studied seriously, did not let his parents worry about anything, and was admitted to the Computer Science Department of Nankai University smoothly.
However, after being exposed to philosophy and Plato's Republic on a college campus, he began to think about it, and he suddenly wanted to go to France to study theater performance, experience different life experiences, and did not want to live a step-by-step life.
Before finishing college, he ran to France to study, completely ignoring the high cost of survival in developed countries, and his parents lived a life of frugality in China for this crazy son, selling a house in the family, just so as not to let their son who was far away in a foreign country suffer.
In 2001, when Zhang Tong returned from his studies in France, he received a postgraduate diploma from the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
However, this golden diploma did not play any role at all in the North Film Studio.
Rent a basement, eat instant noodles, once because he really can't stand it, he bought a bag of cereal, wanted to increase some nutrition, but sent to the mouth but found that the taste is not quite right, carefully look at the bag instructions, only to find that it is a bag of dog food.
But since he bought it with money and couldn't waste it, he still ate the dog food.
When the group performance was paid well, it was only a few tens of yuan, and the time of obscurity was quite painful.
Just when Zhang Tong was running dragon suits in various crews, he was still four years away from the famous work "Bright Sword".
At that time, the author of "Bright Sword", Du Liang, was not related to the profession of writer, and was still drinking with friends and talking about the mountains, frequently complaining about the market chaos of the film and television circle's continuous bad dramas and remake dramas.
Friends think that although he has some truth in what he said, but to slander others in this way, is he more capable than those people? Can you write a good script?
The satire of his friend made Du Liang angry, and he spent 8 months writing a book "Bright Sword", which became a bestseller not long after the novel was published.
The book was later discovered by the producer Liu Yanming, who immediately regarded it as a treasure and decided to put it on the screen.
Liu Yanming was bound to win this work, and after much effort, he finally got the copyright.
However, when the drama first invited actors to star, it experienced a series of twists and turns, and the director wanted Tang Guoqiang to play the role of "Li Yunlong", but Tang Guoqiang hated that the salary of 1 million yuan was too small, and the shooting environment was too difficult, and he did not want to suffer this crime.
Later found Li Youbin, it is said that Li Youbin also felt that it was not cost-effective, did not plan to act, and later daughter-in-law Shi Lanya blew some pillow wind, he played this role.
It was said that he did not like the anti-Japanese dramas with roughly the same plot, and the director stepped on the threshold of his home before he nodded.
It is precisely because several leading actors are particularly difficult to hire, when Zhang Tong took the initiative to find a role for the director, he saw the golden signboard of the Lyon drama graduate student on his resume, and the director had a feeling of winning the lottery.
So he asked Zhang Tong, do you know kung fu? Although Zhang Tong did not, but he felt that since he had a martial arts instructor, there was nothing he could not learn, so he nodded, and also waved his fists a few times, the director felt that he was tall, and it was like that when he fought, he continued to ask him: "Give you a monk role to play, what do you think"?
Zhang Tong was confused at that time, what was the matter with the monk in the anti-Japanese drama? Wouldn't it be another small supporting role? He didn't think it was interesting, and simply shook his head and refused.
The director saw his concerns and hurriedly explained: "This role is quite heavy, not a small supporting role, the monk is the nickname of this role, this is a particularly powerful figure in fist and foot kung fu, he is Li Yunlong's bodyguard."
Zhang Tong listened, his heart was full of flowers, the role of hanging around the male number one, close-up shots must be indispensable, and the opportunity to become famous seems to arrive soon.
After reading the script, Zhang Tong was impressed by Wei Dayong's bold loyalty and fierce and heroic chivalry, and he said to the director: "I have decided to play this role, even if there is no remuneration, I will play it."
When the filming of this play began, all the actors participated in the scene suffered a lot, and the weather environment of the filming location was quite cold and the living environment was also very difficult.
Even so, Zhang Tong did not forget to steal the scene with Li Youbin, there was a scene that filmed the dialogue between him and Li Yunlong, the line was "Regiment Leader, I also want to eat meat" On this sentence, everyone saw his careful machine.
When the close-up camera is aimed at his face, he laughs and finishes his lines, revealing a mouth of large white teeth, which not only highlights the monk's thickness, but also a little cunning and cuteness, which makes everyone laugh at the time.
After the filming of this play, Zhang Tong got a salary of 28,000 yuan, which was the first time he got such a high salary, thinking that his parents had experienced such a hard day for themselves, and he sent all the money back to his hometown.
In 2005, after the release of this drama, Li Youbin was on fire and Zhang Tong was red, but after that, the roles played by Zhang Tong were basically the same, and did not produce too much splash.
Later, at the recommendation of a friend, he received a play, and it was said that the director was a very talented person, but what happened later made him almost collapse.
Because this director is also a newcomer who has just walked out of school for a long time, his requirements for actors are completely set according to his own imagination, so he is very dissatisfied with Zhang Tong's performance, and Zhang Tong has communicated with him many times, but no matter how Zhang Tong adjusts, he cannot meet the director's requirements.
Later, the director was also anxious and said impatiently: "Will you act in the end?" How did your French diploma come about?"
Zhang Tong, who had never experienced workplace PUA, finally couldn't hold back, and once fell into extreme depression, for a while, he even had suicidal thoughts many times, and even wrote a suicide note.
But fortunately, he has a girlfriend who knows cold and hot, and his girlfriend Guan Siting has known and fallen in love with him for many years, and the two once had a love affair with each other because of the drama when filming "Chinese Guards", and each other was very serious and single-minded about this feeling, so they stayed together for many years.
When Guan Siting found out about her boyfriend's abnormal behavior, she realized that his spirit was wrong, and when Zhang Tong climbed up to the balcony on the 8th floor and intended to jump off the building to commit suicide, Guan Siting said, If you want to die, I will definitely jump with you.
At that moment, Zhang Tong realized how important he was to his girlfriend.
At the insistence of his girlfriend, Zhang Tong went to see a psychologist, and after a long period of psychological treatment, he finally recovered his health and re-established his self-confidence.
Because during the period of depression, Zhang Tong often nestled at home, and his weight accidentally increased by a hundred pounds, becoming a big fat man, and later under the encouragement of his girlfriend, he underwent shaping and weight loss, people became thinner, the appearance conditions also became better, and the drama began to follow.
However, the disaster did not end there, and what happened afterwards almost plunged him into darkness for the rest of his life.
In 2013, during Zhang Tong's participation in the TV series "One and Eight", in order to pursue the realism of the picture, Zhang Tong took the initiative to propose to the director that he was closer to the explosion point, but he did not expect that there was a problem with the props at that time, and the exploded shrapnel collapsed into Zhang Tong's eyes, and the injury was very serious, and he once fell into a state of blindness.
During that time, Zhang Tong fell into despair, he did not dare to tell his parents, afraid that his parents were worried, in that most difficult time, his girlfriend has not abandoned him, perhaps because this true feeling touched the heavens, under the careful care of doctors and girlfriends, Zhang Tong's eyesight gradually recovered and saw the light again.
Zhang Tong, who lived for the rest of his life, soon married his girlfriend into the family, because he felt that such a kind and sincere girl was worth spending his life taking care of her.
After marriage, Zhang Tong, in order to give his family the best future, he worked harder and harder in his career.
In 2016, he starred in the war drama "Desperate Defender Division", with superb acting skills, won the Feitian Emperor Award, as the first post-80s Emperor in the show business circle, he was on the stage, full of awe, saying that he was not worth mentioning.
When Zhang Tong took over the role of Li Dazhao in "The Age of Awakening", in order to get close to the inner world of this great man, he read a large number of historical materials and did enough homework.
When filming Li Dazhao's speech on a piece of Marx thought, there were a large number of professional terms in economics, this 15-minute speech, Zhang Tong in one go, did not forget the word card situation, passionate speech, let everyone present surprised.
After the scene was filmed, the director appealed to everyone, let's give Teacher Zhang Tong some applause!
From being scolded by the director to conquering all the cast members on the set, the sour, sweet and bitter, for Zhang Tong, it is like a dream in the past life.
When the director of "The Age of Awakening" first looked for Zhang Tong to play the role of Li Dazhao, Zhang Tong had always been in awe of this red figure, and he was worried that he had desecrated the founding hero, because he was afraid, so he would invest all his energy and time to precipitate and do a lot of preparatory work.
From the past eager performance, stealing scenes, to removing impetuousness, conceit and inferiority psychology, Zhang Tong's transformation has won him the respect of people in the industry.
One minute on stage, ten years offstage, time will not slack off a good actor, Zhang Tong, worthy of the actor two words!
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