After filming "Wading in the Sea of Anger", for nearly a year, Zhou still did not come out of the role. In the film, she plays Jin Lina with borderline personality disorder, and the lack of love brought about by her original family makes her feel like an abandoned and forgotten person. For the complex emotions conveyed in the movie, Zhou is still "still" very resonant, and after filming this movie, she feels that it is also an emotional catharsis for herself.
Zhou still starred in 5 works this year.
This year, Zhou still handed over a relatively satisfactory answer sheet, in addition to "Wading through the Sea of Anger", she also has 4 works to meet the audience: Wang Xuehua in "Our Days", Pony in "Gentle Shell", Tingting in "Three Noble Love History", and Shi Qianqian in "Priceless Treasure". She feels that in each stage of her work, she has left the most authentic side at that time.
Zhou still admits that he is a late bloomer, and when he was young, his parents helped him make decisions, and when he had the ability to make decisions, he didn't like to make plans very much, so he deliberately pursued the content of the plan.
In order to enter the drama to learn Japanese, the funeral parlor was very impressed
Zhou is still in the scenes of "Wading through the Angry Sea", all of which were filmed in Japan. When the movie was first started in Dalian, there was no role of Zhou Yi, and she took advantage of this time to learn Japanese in China for two or three months in advance, "as if she really wanted to study abroad". She found a private language teacher and taught classes in a café every day, which was a process of experiencing life.
When filming in Japan, after finishing work every day, Zhou still went to the local supermarket to buy some local fruit bread. She feels that this is also part of the character's experience of life. Moreover, at that time, she also liked to be alone, and wanted to find Jin Lina's state, so she went for a walk by herself, thinking about what Jin Lina liked to eat every day and what kind of lifestyle she had, so she completed the role from many aspects.
There is a scene in the film where Lao Jin (played by Huang Bo) goes to the funeral home to recognize his daughter's body, which is the only "rival scene" between Zhou and Huang Bo in the whole film. Even though she was lying in bed and just playing a corpse, "but I had to give him a boost," Zhou still said. The scene environment of that scene was all real, and the crew really found a funeral home and let Zhou still lie on the corpse bed.
Zhou is still communicating with director Cao Baoping at the filming site of "Wading through the Angry Sea".
Filming that scene, Zhou still cried for a day, crying so heartbroken that Cao Baoping almost softened, and wavered a little whether he adhered to this real and extreme shooting method. In an interview with the Beijing News, Zhou still explained that there were many emotions when crying at that time, "It's not that I'm afraid, it's very sad, this kind of scene is really uncommon, people are hard and cold lying on it, and that kind of physiological stimulation feels sad from the bottom of my heart, and I feel like a piece of meat."
After filming "Wading through the Sea of Anger", Zhou still had nearly a year and did not come out of the role of Jin Lina. "I cry at every turn, I feel very inferior, and my emotions are not right", Zhou still wanted to get out of the role quickly, but there was no way, all the feelings during the filming were too real, she was immersed in the role, and her sense of belief was very strong, like something stabbed her in the heart, so it took a long time to come out.
At the end of 2019, after Zhou returned to China after filming "Wading in the Sea of Anger" in Japan, the first play she received was the youth romance film "I've Always Liked You", in which she played the heroine Tong Zhi who had a crush on a boy for more than ten years, but she didn't say it. "I feel very anxious now, you can say it, but I can't tell how the character of that character at that time is", Zhou still said, it was also a character with a bit of internal friction, which was quite appropriate to his state at the time, "I think I left the most real side at that time in each stage of the work." If you're going to let me play it now, I probably won't be able to play it, because I'm probably the kind of person who can say it now."
"I only know what not to do, but I don't know what to do"
Zhou is still a late bloomer, and when she needs to make choices at every turning point in her life, such as choosing a major and choosing a school, it is a decision made by her family for her.
From the age of 11 until she graduated from her bachelor's degree, she studied classical Chinese dance. Zhou Yi's mother liked to paint when she was a child, but at that time, the conditions did not allow it and she did not take this path. When her daughter has the opportunity to learn to dance, her mother thinks that it is a good thing for girls to dance, whether they eat this bowl of rice in the future or not. For 11-year-old Zhou Yi, she didn't have any idea about learning to dance, so her mother let her learn it, and she went to dance.
Zhou still remembers that when he went to learn dance at the age of 11, when he entered the school and divided into classes, one was a class with a foundation in dancing since childhood, and the other was a novice class. Zhou was still placed in the novice class, and she found that the students in the novice class were generally higher. Because I have been practicing dance since I was a child, I started to press my legs at the age of three or four, which may hinder bone growth, and if I press too hard, it will affect my development.
However, I didn't start learning dance until I was 11 years old, and I suffered a little more. "Pressing your legs and lowering your waist or something, it really hurts, it's all crying", Zhou still said, learning to dance must be very hard, but she didn't think of giving up at the time, she was not the kind of little princess since she was a child, and she likes to retreat when she encounters difficulties.
Since she was a child, her parents helped her make choices, and Zhou still made a decision for herself for the first time in her life, but she gave up the path of dance after graduation. "I only know what not to do, but I don't know what to do", Zhou still said, he has always been like this, and the things he doesn't like are very clear, but he has been looking for what to do. At that time, she took on some print advertisements and was able to support herself, and she did not use a penny of her family after graduation.
Zhou, who graduated from classical dance, still plays Ah Shu in the just-completed drama "Sifang Pavilion", and it is said that she has a dancing scene in the play.
As for finally embarking on the road of being an actor, Zhou still feels that it is fate. When she first came into contact with this industry at the age of 15, she met a casting assistant director on the road, it was only the first contact, and she did not enter this circle, and after graduating from college, she did not think about becoming an actor in the future, so she filmed some planes, and slowly someone asked her to act, so she tried to take the first step as an actor.
Learning to dance sharpens patience, and I am very happy to play my strengths in the next play
In fact, in the dark, Zhou still feels that acting has something to do with the dancing he learned before.
When he graduated from college, Zhou still chose the classical dance "Dotting the Lips", which tells the story of an ancient woman who longs for her husband to come home from a war, and she is afraid that she will grow old while waiting, and wants to keep the most beautiful side and wait for her husband to come back.
Later, when filming, Zhou still remembered this graduation drama, and felt that when she was dancing, she had a role on her, and she had to rely on dance to interpret this character, "which is the same as acting", but Zhou still didn't realize it at that time.
This year, Zhou Yi has just finished a drama "Sifang Pavilion", which is the first costume drama she has received since her debut. Zhou still has always wanted to make costume dramas, because he studied classical dance, and he always felt that there would be a little connection between the two. What she is happiest about is that there is a scene where she dances in the play.
In Zhou Yi's view, the biggest gain from her nine-year dance career is to sharpen her patience. She recalled that when she first learned to dance and press her legs, the teacher would put the student's leg higher than the ground to pull the ligaments, and just pull a little bit like this day after day, and every time she pulled to the limit, she would stay in the limit state for 10 minutes, and the first minute was already very painful, and she felt that she couldn't hold on, but the teacher would force herself to finally persevere. Zhou still feels that this has invisibly honed his character.
Zhou still said that when she was filming "Priceless Treasure", she learned a lot from the senior actor Zhang Yi.
is not from an acting class, has little acting experience, and in the process of acting with senior actors, Zhou still learned a lot. During the filming of "Priceless Treasure", there was a scene where Shi Qianqian, played by Zhou Yi, went to the backyard to find the third uncle played by Zhang Yi. Zhou still said that this scene has to go a long way, there happened to be a cow in the yard, and she didn't expect to interact with the cow at first, but then Teacher Zhang Yi helped her come up with an idea, and asked her to say to the cow: "Have you seen my third uncle?"
This year is considered a bumper year for Zhou in film and television, with several works to meet the audience, the TV series "Our Days", the movie "Gentle Shell", "Three Noble Love History", "Priceless Treasure" and the latest release "Wading through the Angry Sea". "I always feel that I am clearing the inventory, and I have to shoot it quickly," Zhou still said with a smile.
She filmed two dramas this year, both of which span a long time. For her working hours, she will not deliberately arrange, she will rest when she is tired, and shoot if she likes it, "I don't like to make a special plan, and if you make a plan, you will deliberately pursue the content of the plan."
Beijing News reporter Teng Chao
Edited by Huang Jialing
Proofread by Wu Xingfa