What kind of actor will set the WeChat avatar as a flying saucer pattern? Zhang Haowei may provide a concrete aspect of one of the answers - having a strong curiosity about the world, enjoying the process of exploration, regardless of the outcome, and having a harvest is the most important.
In a sense, this is also a portrayal of Zhang Haowei's performance path: from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, from the supporting roles to the protagonists, seemingly accidental, but in fact inevitable, curiosity has become the engine for him to break into the world of light and shadow. The two popular dramas that have just ended, "Hello Prosecutor" and "A Cut of Fanghua", are picked by him, and the former is Zhang Haowei's male debut. Coming to the spotlight, he used it for five years.
During the interview, due to the transition of the new drama, Zhang Haowei drove through several tunnels on the highway, and the signal was temporarily interrupted, which seemed to constitute a kind of intertextuality with the unknowns he faced on his performance journey. When is there a signal that can connect with the outside world? When will you be able to make a good work, play a good role, and be known by more people? The answer to these doubts will not be revealed until the last minute.
Zhang Haowei was not in a hurry, after all, in those years when he had hovered on the edge of the stage, the five tastes and miscellaneous Chen were all digested by him alone. Therefore, he firmly believes in the power of time, can sculpt the richer face of the actor, and then he can seize the opportunity to accumulate thick hair. Thirty and standing, Zhang Haowei's golden age is beginning.
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The performance challenge of "atypical male protagonist"
Zhang Haowei has two "firsts" in "Hello Prosecutor": one is the first time to play the male lead, and the other is to play a lawyer for the first time. The tension mixed with the freshness came to him, and he met with the public as Ren Tianyu, and the feedback was not bad. During the broadcast of the drama, the performance of the prosperity index was stable and from time to time refreshed small peaks, which showed the bright performance of this youth industry drama broadcast on Zhejiang Satellite TV and YoukuTai Network.
In addition to the group portrait of young prosecutors who symbolize light, Zhang Haowei's ren Tianyu, an elite returnee lawyer with a blurred boundary between good and evil, is another major attraction. Ren Tianyu carries a suspense line of the mystery of the accidental death of his parents, and his motives for his actions in the early stage are subject to this mountain of family affection, so under the conventional setting that lawyers should represent justice, the characters have more complicated backgrounds. The dislocation between Ren Tianyu and the typical male protagonist in the film and television drama opens up more space in the gap to reflect the subtlety of human nature. This is not only the attraction of Zhang Haowei by the role, but also the biggest difficulty of the performance.
In order to grasp the chaotic sense of the role, Zhang Haowei studied the entire system of public prosecution law that needs to be dealt with in the work of lawyers in advance, and also learned through exchanges with lawyer friends that "the talent of lawyers is very important, and the thinking logic and language expression ability are very strong." In addition to the hard conditions, the characteristics of lawyers are also that because the nature of their work occasionally wanders in the gray area, they will face human, legal, moral and other trade-offs. At this time, the bottom line is to distinguish the good and bad yardstick of each lawyer.
Ren Tianyu has rarely failed in the workplace, and when handling cases, he often pulls between the family mission he shoulders and the professional belief that "I have the responsibility and obligation to find out the truth", and many contradictions are piled up on him. And his entanglement with the fate of the heroine further aggravates the sense of confusion of the characters.
Although Ren Tianyu will help the bad guys fight lawsuits, he will still stick to the bottom line and is essentially a good person. Grasping the inner logic of the character to perform is vividly reflected in Zhang Haowei's handling of the school bullying case. Despite his vengeful intentions, he wanted to maintain fairness and justice within his power. Therefore, he knew the reason and moved to persuade the students who knew but hesitated, to impress the parents who were afraid of the truth, and finally brought the murderer to justice.
In a sense, Ren Tianyu plays a mirror role. It not only reflects the profound warning contained in real social cases, but also allows the viewer to enter his transformation process from paranoid revenge to reflection and let go and obtain self-reconciliation relief. This is the double eye-catching point of the role, and Zhang Haowei's performance gives Ren Tianyu vitality, which will naturally attract attention.
Review is a homework that Zhang Haowei has to do after each performance. Looking at Ren Tianyu, who played two years ago, he said that it might be better if it was interpreted in an introverted way. Isn't the actor summing up the lessons learned again and again, and then in the next improvement and improvement, to achieve the progress of acting skills?
"Hello Prosecutor" has gained more than this for Zhang Haowei, and he has a deep understanding of interpreting such film and television works on social and public issues. "I don't think there are absolute bad people in real life, there are no absolute good people, 'Ren Tianyu' has broadened the dimension of my thinking, looked at things more dialectically, and wanted to understand what its underlying logic was."
In "A Cut of Fanghua", Zhang Haowei plays another completely different role. Lu Yuanzhi, a talented and untamed little tailor, was wrapped up in the torrent of the times and used wit to resolve the crisis, and eventually became a master of Chinese clothing. The arc of character growth alternates between the darkest and bright moments of fate. Zhang Haowei plays a typical inspirational male protagonist, which is also eye-catching and shows strong plasticity.
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The internal drive triggers the business to rise
Like most young people who study acting, Zhang Haowei began filming during college, but unexpectedly, after graduation, he turned to behind the scenes and formed a team to develop scripts. "Hiding" off camera for two years before regaining his identity as an actor.
The performance pause did not degrade the perceptual tentacles, but on the contrary, from the perspective of shaping the root of the role, he further exercised his aesthetic and insight, so that he could use a similar modeling thinking to macroscopically control the performance and deconstruct the role - which laid the groundwork for the advancement of his acting career after his "comeback".
"Marriage Proposal Battle", "One Thousand and One Nights", "The Wind of Langya List Rises in the Long Forest", "Qing Yu Nian" these circles or national hit dramas, all have Zhang Haowei's figure. Although he is a supporting role, he performs an aura beyond the scope of the role, engraving Chen Haonan, Chen Mo, Lin Jiu, and Prince Li Chengqian in the hearts of the audience.
As we climb to the top, the world of performance becomes more and more open. Finally, the quantitative change ushered in a qualitative change, and Zhang Haowei joined the male protagonist camp. In the double male lead drama "Rebirth", he and Zhang translated tricks, once again used his acting skills to justify his name, and then single-handedly picked the beam and starred in the industry drama "Hello Prosecutor".
Zhang Haowei's performance of the road of thorns, willows and dark flowers, he won with his bare hands, is a strong internal drive to touch the inflection point of career ascent. The first internal driving force is curiosity, which makes him knock on the door of the performance hall, dare to venture out of the field beyond the comfort zone, and step out of the diverse drama path of costumes, suspense, workplace, romance and so on, which are composed of a variety of characters.
Zhang Haowei said that people can not only do what they are good at, but also to develop their own shortcomings, and actors are the same. "In fact, actors should challenge more, although it will be accompanied by unknown risks, but the greater the risk, the greater the benefits that may be brought." You don't try and make mistakes, that road is always blank, but after trying, you may find a new path that works for you. ”
Indeed, the actor's comfort zone and non-comfort zone are not clearly distinguished, and as the boundaries of the performance are broadened, the boundaries of the comfort zone will expand. It is a process of growing up to know yourself more deeply, to make yourself stronger and to improve your resilience to risks. Zhang Haowei is well versed in this, he understands that to create a good role, you need to build on the basis of understanding yourself, only in this way, in the performance can you closely connect yourself with the role, know how to amplify a certain aspect of the body, how to mobilize some personal experience of the emotional understanding.
The second internal drive lies in the experience gained in script development, which inspires the performance. Zhang Haowei agrees that "TV dramas are the art of screenwriting", based on his previous behind-the-scenes work experience, when he gets the script again, the depth and breadth of the dissected roles are greater, and he knows how to switch the performance method according to the type of work. In other words, in the film and television dramas with different tones, Zhang Haowei's ability to break the reshaping has become stronger.
The performance is most afraid of falling into inertial thinking, which means that it will fall into a strange circle of process. And if the actor constantly repeats himself, it is tantamount to "out" in advance on the performance track. Obviously, the restless Zhang Haowei refused to be such a person. In practice, he came up with a performance methodology that takes into account both rationality and sensibility, and believes that good performance should be reasonable and unexpected.
"Within a reasonable range, when I perform, I will preset several performance plans for the characters, and then choose a performance method that I am most comfortable with and can distinguish from other actors, which is also a kind of self-challenge." Zhang Haowei stressed that the accuracy of the performance should be ranked first.
But performance is artistic, abstract, there is no formula to apply, what is the "standard answer"? Zhang Haowei did not hesitate to answer the reporter's doubts. In his view, the "accuracy" of performance refers to a character-centered system - including the character traits of the character, the relationship between the characters associated with them, the stage of life, the things experienced and the influences of the outside world, and then define the performance method after comprehensively considering all internal and external factors, so as to achieve the accuracy of the internal logic of the character.
The third internal drive comes from the sponge-like learning force. In order to get close to Lu Yuanzhi, the master of Chinese costumes in "A Cut of Fanghua", Zhang Haowei studied the history of the development of modern Chinese clothing; in order to find the feeling of the policeman Lu Mingjia in "Rebirth", he made up the relevant knowledge of the entire judicial system and communicated with police friends.
Doing enough desk homework before shaping the character is just one aspect. More importantly, he knows how to "steal the master" to borrow power. The cooperation with Chen Daoming in "Qing Yu Nian" has benefited Zhang Haowei a lot. "Teacher Dominion was very inspiring to me, and when we walked the scene, I saw that his workflow was to first figure out what the core of each scene was, and then start performing on this basis, which is the accuracy of the performance."
"A Cut of Fanghua" is full of old drama bones, and Zhang Haowei once again turned the set into a classroom to improve his acting skills. He honored Liu Peiqi, Zhang Chenguang, Chen Peisi and Hou Yong as "masters", and was tolerated and cared for in the play, and received sincere teachings about performance outside the play.
The connection with the "National Opera Door Face" is another window through which Zhang Haowei opened his eyes. "Wenzhou Two Families", "He's Coming, Please Close Your Eyes", "Surgical Storm", "Langyabang Wind Rising Changlin", "Ode to Joy 3", before and after cooperating with the noonday sun five times, let Zhang Haowei feel the professional atmosphere created by the mature industrial system, the actor can get rid of distractions, fully devote himself to role creation, and the awe of performance is also born.
The fourth internal driving force is the calm state of mind after tempering. The performance curve is normal, calm when sinking, floating when indifferent, no matter in the adversity, the actor must see through the script in his hand and shape each role, which is Zhang Haowei's understanding. "Blockbusters can be encountered, you have to catch up to have an essential jump, so you can't be discouraged and doubt yourself because you haven't encountered a blockbuster in filming, and it's important to keep a good attitude."
With the rich experience of acting, Zhang Haowei also has a new thinking about the profession of actor. He believes that the environment pays more and more attention to humanities, and the requirements for actors will become higher and higher in the future, and the actors' inner will be more important. Professionalism and their own knowledge system need to be possessed, because the actor plays a variety of people, and they must have a certain understanding of all walks of life, just like a "miscellaneous family".
These new reflections feed back into the behavior, he immerses himself in the big dye vat of life, feels the true meaning of art from life, abandons the beautiful filter of illusion, chooses to use the most authentic appearance to spy on the reality of the world, and absorb the raw materials for performance. Only pure input outside the play can have the output of the play and form a virtuous circle.
Looking back now, Zhang Haowei is entangled with many propositions that an actor needs to experience from youth to maturity - the impact of professional passivity, whether to adhere to the dream of acting, how to curve to save the country, how to build a core competitive foothold... Trekking through each proposition, he relied on the "blunt sense" honed by the male thinking of science and engineering and the increasingly firm belief in performance, and spent a game with the outside world again and again.
Zhang Hao only uses actions to dissect himself, as if to convey: even if there is no good luck from heaven, we can still rely on our own strength to go to the center of the stage and open a new situation in life.
Therefore, Zhang Haowei's life background is inspirational, and he is the "growth type" protagonist in his life script. Green is his representative color, and this color, which symbolizes hope, vitality and tranquility, is in line with the tone of his struggle as an actor.
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Empowered by "roles are greater than actors"
Kazuo Inamori once proposed a human generation equation: the result of life/career = way of thinking× enthusiasm× ability. The last two variables range from 0 to 100, but the way of thinking is from -100 to 100. This means that the right way of thinking can rewrite fate; the wrong way of thinking will eat back on life. Without setting limits for yourself, meeting the challenge in the endless learning is undoubtedly the former.
Just like zhang Haowei's curiosity, he said, when you know more faces, you will find more unknowns, so you want to understand all fields, so that everything can be pointed. Perhaps, this is the pillar of Zhang Haowei's core competitiveness in building his acting career. As a result, more and more well-known film and television companies and video platforms handed him an olive branch.
The film and television industry 'content is king' return, and the good actors who have been precipitated ushered in the spring. The most intuitive embodiment is Zhang Haowei's public opinion. Due to the acclaim of "The Wind of Langya List" and "Qing Yu Nian", he gained good passers-by with his role in the play, and the audience's popularity increased so that the positive sentiment of his public opinion was as high as 76%.
Lawyers, justice, case solving, emotional lines and other public opinion keywords around "Hello Prosecutor" show that the role has driven Zhang Haowei's attention as an actor. Keywords such as new image, another work, and expectations show that the public has high expectations for many dramas to be broadcast, such as "Amai Congjun", "Two No Doubts" and "Ode to Joy 3" starring him. It can be seen that "the role is greater than the actor" positive empowerment of Zhang Haowei. With the continuous output of subsequent works, the exposure is stable, which is conducive to strengthening his awareness and once again using brilliant roles to achieve career advancement.
Zhang Haowei, who has already achieved a small success, humbly said that he was just starting out. "As I learned more about the profession of an actor, I felt more and more that whether it was the theoretical methods I had learned before, or the way I looked at things, including how to adjust my mentality, in fact, at this age, I was just able to completely control it, so at this stage, I was still in the beginning."
A clear head pointed out the direction for his career planning. If you don't have a choice, you try to make the role grow on the body; if you have a choice, you seriously think about which is more suitable for you. Down-to-earth efforts always pay off. At present, Zhang Haowei most wants to try villains and comedy characters such as Sven scum. The typed performance style is indeed the choice that Zhang Haowei will make when he is brave enough to go forward.
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epilogue
Fate gives a starting point that seems lower than others, and wants you to fight back in a story of adversity. This sentence, placed on Zhang Haowei, may be more suitable. The interview made us find that Zhang Haowei is an actor who is not in a hurry, has deep thinking, and has the potential to develop, and he has the possibility of giving more surprises to the market.
For Zhang Haowei, following the footsteps of others may not be able to reach where he wants to go, only by following his heart and taking every step is more powerful. Since his debut, the performance trajectory he has written along the way is not exactly the original heart and the long-term vision? As he said, a man of faith will surely reach the end of the mountain and wade through the waters.
Written by: Shin Min
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