Exclusive conversation with Li Zefeng: Wei Ming is a complete bad person, he doesn't love anyone, and I'm happy to be scolded on the hot search

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Tencent Entertainment and Maruzixing have launched a series of behind-the-scenes interpretation of popular IPs, which is the third issue. Exclusive dialogue with Li Zefeng, the actor of Wei Ming in "Good Things Become Pairs", tells the story behind the new "ceiling of the scumbag world".

"If Wei Ming is not scolded or hammered, it means that I have been too unsuccessful in shaping." Seeing Wei Ming's corner being shouted and scolded by netizens, Li Zefeng said.

After "Good Things Become Pairs" was broadcast on CCTV eight sets and Tencent Video, Wei Ming, played by Li Zefeng, lived in the hot search, and was called "the ceiling of the scumbag world", "Wei Ming is really angry", "Lin Shuangwei Ming, CP name is blind", "Gu Xu only has people in the sky, Wei Ming is everywhere Wei Ming", "Wei Ming not only has a junior but also a junior", "Wei Ming is not pretending", "cheating male Wei Ming divorced and swallowed family property", "cheating male Wei Ming sold his wife and daughter homeless"... Before the halfway point of the play, some netizens shouted for Wei Ming to go to prison.

And three years ago, the "giant baby scumbag" Xu Xianshan played by Li Zefeng in "Thirty Only" was also criticized by netizens. In the past three years, Xu Fengshan has become synonymous with scumbags. Wei Ming of "Good Things Become Pairs" once again subverted netizens' imagination of scumbags, making netizens sigh, "Only Wei Ming can defeat Xu Fengshan."

Why did you take on the next scumbag role? Is it as netizens with clear brains said, "Li Zefeng's scumbag casting and planning is in the next big chess game"? Because Li Zefeng, who plays a scumbag who loses his name again and again, is not very depressed?

Wei Ming was called by netizens as "the ceiling of the scumbag world"

The following is Li Zefeng's self-statement:

Wei Ming is not only slag to the ceiling, but also extremely bad, which is the reason for attracting me to act

Yan Weiming, in fact, at the beginning, I refused. When Sister Xiaopei (producer Yang Xiaopei) found me, I said don't let me play the repetitive genre in the near future. Sister Xiaopei said, you first calmly take a look at the script. As a result, I watched ten episodes in one go. I told Sister Xiaopei that this is not a scumbag, this is the ceiling. This is more than scum, this is a bad person, and it is so bad, I have to play it.

Similar characters came to me after "Thirty Only", but they all felt as if they had seen it before, and they were bored. Wei Ming's kind of role has not been seen before, and the actor will have an impulse when he encounters a character that he feels very different. And this role is particularly warning.

For example, many people don't quite understand how a high-knowing woman like Lin Shuang would be willing to give up her career for Wei Ming, and was cheated by Wei Ming to such a miserable point. In fact, this is all Wei Ming's problem, Lin Shuang is a victim, just like the victims of fraud in northern Myanmar, there are also university professors and doctoral students, the victims regardless of education and age, completely because the deceptive party is too means. I hope that through this role, the majority of female friends will open their eyes, see such people, be careful, don't be fooled.

Wei Ming is not only scum, but also bad, the kind of person that female friends should be vigilant against

And I, as an actor, when interpreting this role, I just don't have any selfishness and can't try to protect the character. Because he is a very purposeful bad person, what he does is outrageous, I feel that I can't protect him, and I don't want to make any excuses for him, so I completely show this side of his bad side to the audience. When performing, I was completely from the perspective of the character, thinking about what Wei Ming would do and say in the face of his wife, his lover, and his second wife at this time? Without any selfishness, just throw yourself into the role without turning back.

After the broadcast, some comments of the short video, I just wanted to laugh after watching it, I felt that the brains of netizens now are really big, and some comments are unexpected, such as "a man who is more Hong Shixian than Xu Fengshan has appeared", "The scumbag is not Li Zefeng's comfort zone but the ruling zone". Xu Phantom Mountain was scolded when "Thirty Only", I said that I was very happy, and I felt that it was a recognition of my acting skills. This time Wei Ming was scolded even more, and I was actually happier, proving that he was more successful than the previous character, and his efforts and efforts for this role were not in vain, and at the same time, I felt that I had to work harder for future roles, because all the efforts can be seen by the audience and every detail can be seen.

Wife, junior, junior, junior, Wei Ming doesn't love anyone, they are all PUA

When playing Xu Fengshan in "Thirty Only", I referred to the male protagonist of "Paradise Lost" Kyuki and borrowed some of his small habits. This time, Wei Ming has nothing to refer to, because he has never met such a bad person, and in film and television dramas, it seems that such a person cannot be found. It can be said that whether there is a person who comes later does not know, this role must be unprecedented.

When performing, I was guided by the idea that Wei Ming would not consider himself a bad person. Everything he does has a purpose, and he feels that everything he does for himself is right.

Lin Shuang, Jiang Xi, Huang Jiayi, the three women, he does not love, the choice of them is Wei Ming's need at different stages. When he went to college, he needed a wife like Lin Shuang. To be a director in the company, he needs a lover like Jiang Xi, who can help him wholeheartedly in the workplace, and even be a scapegoat when he encounters a crisis. Later, if he wanted to rise further, he needed a family with an identity background like Huang Jiayi, and these three women were at different stages of Wei Ming's life, so he would cheat so seriously when he lied.

For Wei Ming, beauty and feelings are not important to him, he is to achieve his goal at that stage, once he has a better choice, he will immediately end this relationship. In similar episodes before, scumbags may be entangled when divorced, and the special thing about "Good Things in Pairs" is that Wei Ming is not entangled at all. When he felt that the marriage with Lin Shuang had no use value, he immediately filed for divorce.

Wei Ming used Jiang Xi to bring down competitors

With Huang Jiayi, Wei Ming immediately divorced Lin Shuang

Why three different types of women can be PUA by Wei Ming is because he has always known what these women lack, providing them with the emotional value they need. This is the scariest thing, a liar understands what the other person needs and thinks from the other person's point of view.

Before the performance, I did a lot of homework, thought about the character very richly, including everything he had, and after clarifying his purpose, I understood everything. When performing, as long as you grasp the purpose of each of his plays and show it in the simplest way, the audience can understand. If it's complicated, the audience sometimes doesn't know what you're playing. And in my case, every scene has its role, and every scene is very important, regardless of cutscenes and heavy scenes. Because I believe that only by doing every scene well can there be power when connected. If it's just a heavy scene, and other scenes are casually let go, points will be lost.

In order to quickly enter Weiming's world, he chose more than 1,000 pairs of glasses and hundreds of suits

Every time I get a role, I like to make the character fuller in some way. This time, some effort was spent on Wei Ming's styling and some designs were made. Many people reported that the glasses added a lot of points to Wei Ming. In fact, in order to choose that pair of glasses, I probably chose more than 1,000 pairs of glasses. I hope that this pair of glasses has a little sense of fashion, and because Wei Ming is in the industry, it has to have a little texture, and at the same time it must be suitable for the role of Wei Ming.

When setting the makeup, the suit also tried hundreds of sets, and discussed with the costumer for a long time, and picked out the one that was suitable for Wei Ming, that is, it was simpler, the color was not particularly gorgeous, and the color was basically gray and black, dark green. The hairstyle should not be too fashionable, it must reflect that he is a quality person and has a refined appearance.

These looks can help me enter Wei Ming's world more quickly and make me more convinced that I am Wei Ming now. Because after reading the script, I think that Wei Ming must be a person who is very strict with himself, very delicate, with quality, and at least taste, otherwise it is impossible for the three different women in the play to be attracted to him and fall in love with him. In order to achieve a refined state of Wei Ming, I strictly controlled my figure during the shooting. It can be said that my figure and state in this drama are the most stable in all the plays.

If you look closely, you will find that on the glasses, Wei Ming's early and late stages are also different. Because his wife from his second marriage was much younger than him, his glasses were more fashionable in the later period. There are also changes in clothing, which may have been relatively straight before, but after becoming a VP, he did not have a belt, and all the colors of the clothing were brighter than before, including the hairstyle before combing neatly, the back was a little messy, in short, if you dress up younger than before the second marriage. It can be said that we have done a very meticulous job in terms of styling.

In the play, Wei Ming is exquisitely shaped

Wei Ming's glasses and dress style also changed

In addition to modeling, it is to work each scene, cut the details, and work with the director to complete the second creation. For example, in the first episode, I was in the office with Jiang Xi, and Wei Ming said that I had no bottom line. The script says that he closes the window and the two talk. At that time, I proposed to the director that this piece did not seem to be suitable, because after all, there were other employees outside, so it was a little too obvious, could you take a folder and sandwich the things I sent her into it, we were talking about work on the surface, but in fact, what we said had nothing to do with work, because people outside the office could only see her report to me about work, and what she said could not be heard.

There is also the first scene with Xiaofei (Zhang Xiaofei), which is that Lin Shuang came to Wei Ming for the child's affairs. It was my first time working with Xiaofei, and that scene was quite impressive. When we walked the scene, the director had actually started filming. The two of us improvised there, and I pushed her, but I didn't expect to push her down all at once. Xiaofei is really a very good and dedicated actor, and she continues to act. Glasses costume stylists can be designed in advance, but they can't design the opponent actors, nor can they design what will happen on the scene, everything is subconscious, put into a subconscious reaction, and what comes out will make the audience look very real.

said that he would no longer act in the "scumbag three-piece" after filming "Good Things Become Pairs"

At this year's Oriental Film and Television Festival, I said that I was a diverse actor and did not want to play the roles of rails, divorces, and prison squats anymore. The outside world may have misunderstood, thinking that I was Wei Ming who picked up after speaking. In fact, at that time, I happened to have finished "Good Things in Pairs", and I thought that these three sets should be changed first. There is such a sequence.

What impressed me was that after coming down, Director Li Lu told me, you look quite right, and next time you will perform something positive. I said that regardless of the pros and cons, as long as the script is good, the characters are good. After that, the characters who came to me were positive and negative, and sometimes they refused, not because the role was positive or negative, but because they didn't feel like a good fit for themselves. If it is not suitable, don't act, you feel inappropriate, and the audience will also feel inappropriate.

For me, the criterion for taking on a play is a good script, a good character. "Ah Cradle", I am willing to go because I play opposite an actor as good as Sister Haiqing. "Breaking Dawn East" is because the character is with Jiayi Ge (Zhang Jiayi), I went to learn, and the character itself is very positive and energetic.

In "Ah Cradle", Li Zefeng and Haiqing play husband and wife

In my case, there is no difference between big and small characters, it doesn't matter whether he is real or not, what matters is whether he is real or not? Whether or not I have the creative impulse, and the presentation of a work, is the result of everyone's joint efforts, not a character can decide. This year's "Crazy" is so popular, and it is also the result of everyone. Everyone feels that Wei Ming of "Good Things Become Pairs" is very bad, and it is also because the other actors are acting very well, so that this bad guy is very bad, and either direction collapses, and the other direction does not hold.

He has also played many positive, good guy roles, but he is remembered through scumbag and bad guy roles. I don't feel depressed either, I feel that I am already a very lucky person. What profession can live in a different world of characters? If you are engaged in this industry, you will do it well. As an actor, wouldn't it be more confusing if there were no roles for people to see? No matter what character makes people see it, they should be happy. Teacher Chen Qiang played Huang Shiren back then, who can say that the teacher is not an artist? Such a good actor makes the audience remember him through the role, and not being remembered is the biggest sadness of the actor!

Everyone said that they liked to watch me play a scumbag, but I also saw that some netizens liked Wang Shijun, some netizens liked Tao Junhui, and some netizens liked Duluo City. What the audience likes, the actor can't control, what can be done is to try to play every role well. If the script is particularly good and the affectionate characters are good, I can also act, and I can also perform a different kind of affection.

Wang Shijun in "That Year the Flower Bloomed and the Moon Was Full" was loyal and affectionate to Zhou Ying

Tao Junhui in "The Twenty-Eight Laws of Love" is calm, rational and delicate and considerate

Xu Fengshan was more famous than Li Zefeng before, and this time Wei Ming replaced Xu Fengshan. As an actor, your real name is not important. Aren't actors just asking everyone to remember the names of one character after another? I'm not a star, I'm just an ordinary actor. Xu Fengshan, Wei Ming, and Wang Shijun and Hei Wa before, these character names can be remembered. The audience remembers the name of the character, which is the happiest thing for an actor, because we ourselves create the character, and let ourselves have expectations for what the next name is, so that we can make ourselves work harder, isn't it a good thing?