When I saw Tan Kai, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. He walked straight to us alone, looking more angular than the "Dong District Chief" he played in "Sweeping The Black Storm".
Tan Kai, who had been filming for a day, was slightly tired. Before the official shooting, he drank a cup of coffee and cleared his throat. He leaned back on the couch and talked about the story of his first acting, about the highlight moments of his youth, and about those days in Qingdao.
In the more than an hour of the interview, we saw a Tan Kai who was different from the play, a peaceful, casual and real Tan Kai.
The following is Tan Kai's narration.
1
As Mayor Dong, I was a little fatter than I used to be.
When I first got this role, I thought that my appearance might be a little different from that of Mayor Dong. It's not that I'm handsome, but the actors are also different types, over the years I have played a lot of domineering presidents, elites, generals and other roles, I don't want the audience to see the dong district chief still carries the shadow of "Shen Da" and "Ying Hui".
In the hit drama "Sweeping Black Storm", Tan Kai played the district chief Dong Yao.
Governor Dong is a fugitive, worried about every day, insomnia is certain, he should also be a little puffy. So I'm going to add some officialness to this role and make him a little bit extra flesh.
In the past, I didn't eat at night when filming, and some people shouted that I wouldn't go to drink, afraid of swollen face. But when filming "Sweeping the Black Storm", it was much more relaxed, supper, walking; grilling skewers, stroking. When you watched the sauna scene, I was already a bit stomachy.
"Sweeping The Black Storm" I don't have a lot of scenes, dozens of scenes. Burying that scene alive is quite impressive, after so many years of acting, I have buried others, but I was buried, this is the first time.
Some netizens are curious about how this scene was filmed, and whether I was really buried. In fact, the prop field agent dug a pit in the sand, padded a wooden board inside, and dug a hole for the actor's head to leak out. When I was acting, I put a wooden box in the pit, put a chair on it, and comfortably finished the play. As for the hoarse, desperate plea for forgiveness, it all depends on the performance.
2
I came from a non-science class and started acting at the age of 30.
I can't forget the first crying scene I'll ever forget, I really can't cry. In the play, my comrade-in-arms died, and the person who played the comrade-in-arms was my buddy. Because usually the two of us are always squeezing each other together, I see him lying there and I want to laugh.
But the director made me have to cry, no way, I just howled. I thought about all the unfortunate things in my life, and I still couldn't cry. As soon as the director said to turn on the camera, the people around him began to cry. It was just me, no tears, only saliva, and all over my buddy's face was my spit stars.
In fact, frankly speaking, performing this thing, my nature is not suitable.
I'm an introvert. When a boy is small, the family is not rich, and he comes from a single-parent family, and his academic performance is not very good, and he will slowly become inferior and sensitive. At that time, I would blush in front of the living people, standing on the stage and not daring to speak.
Until I went to college, I was still this character. It seems that my appearance gives people the feeling of rejecting people thousands of miles away, and people who are not familiar with me will understand my personality as Tan Kai is cool, very pretentious, and ignores people. But it's not, it's just that I'm really reserved inside.
I was nervous in front of the camera. The most important thing about acting is not to be nervous, there is nothing when I am nervous, but fortunately, my memory is good, and lines are not my obstacles. When I was in junior high school in Qingdao No. 2 Middle School, I usually did not have a good class, as soon as I took the exam, I ran to the Tianhou Temple next to me, and in one afternoon I could memorize all the history books and score 100 points in the exam. So it's not a problem how long the lines are memorized now, it's probably an advantage for me as an actor.
I'm still not someone who can relax in front of the camera, but no one can see my nervousness when acting. Actors are divided into two categories, one is inherently relaxed, one is always nervous, he can use acting skills to cover up this tension, I am this category.
An interview asked me if I felt red now, and to be honest, I didn't care about that word. A while ago, I had dinner with my former teacher in Beijing, and I was still talking about why others knew that Tan Kai had acted in a lot of plays, but it seemed that he was not popular. What do you say is red? The standard by which we measure actors in this industry is not whether you are red or not, but whether your profession has been recognized by your peers.
A play, it may have billions at the box office, but it doesn't have to be a good work. If we call performance art, the actor is also an artist. I like acting, I enjoy every moment of acting, I look at acting with the standards of an artist, I don't think about the problem of red or red, purple or purple.
Including today's "Sweeping Black Storm" hit, the hot broadcast is hot. I don't think I'm the best at this play, I even think I was acting at this level a few years ago. Acting is a very good profession, and just because you're good in this play doesn't mean you're doing well in the next play, like Bolt, he can't run into 9.58 seconds every race.
So I told myself never to look back on the past, and not to expect too much from the future. The most important thing is to do a good job in the present, don't use too much force, and be normal.
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Before acting, I studied painting, ideally to be a stage design master.
I was born in Qingdao to a working-class family, and no one in my family was engaged in art. But I have loved to draw since elementary school, painting Zhang Fei Zhao Yun or something, and the blank spaces of the textbooks are all painted by me, and I am scolded by the teacher every day. I didn't work hard before, but I have a good memory, my test results are good, and I was admitted to Qingdao No. 2 Middle School at the beginning of Xiaosheng.
That is the second middle school, which is exciting for my mother, my grandfather, and my uncle, they think that the old Tan family can still be admitted to the second middle school, and it is still me, and I feel that I can go to Tsinghua Peking University in the future. After I went to junior high school, I was still the bottom of the class, because I was partial to subjects, and I almost had full marks in history and geography, and I had five or six points in mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Because the score of the middle school entrance examination was not enough for the second middle school, I was assigned to the sixth middle school. In high school, I found that the school had an art class, and I began to formally learn to draw. Because I heard that the art class has a high promotion rate, I can go to college, and I don't have to study mathematics, physics and chemistry anymore.
When I first learned to paint, I was the negative model in the class. The teacher often pointed to my painting and said, "The students are optimistic, they can't paint like this, it's black, it's dirty." "I really couldn't draw at the time, and now that I think about it, it's a bit like acting, and I don't know when I'll get the hang of it." Since one day in my sophomore year of high school, there have always been classmates who come to my easel to see my paintings, and once the teacher took a look at my paintings and said, "Tan Kai, your sketch school is ready to collect." ”
Since then, I've started to feel confident. I found that it turned out that I was gifted and capable, and I found my self-esteem by painting.
Life changes because of a series of small things.
When I was in my third year of high school, I was going to take the art exam, and I had never heard of the Central Academy of Drama at that time, and my goal was to enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts. My teacher said, "Tan Kai, your painting style should be tested in the Chinese opera", at that time, Qingdao Sixth Middle School was admitted to the Chinese opera and dance art major every year, and the results were the first in the country. I listened to the teacher's words to prepare for the exam drama, and as a result, I did not play well in the first year and did not get admitted.
I'm a very shafty person, and things I believe will not change. Art examination, everyone will report a lot of school volunteers, I also knew at that time that there are so many art colleges in China, but I applied for Chinese opera.
I didn't go anywhere if I wasn't admitted, I went back to Qingdao with my luggage, and I took the exam again next year. At that time, my family was poor, my mother's salary was only a few tens of dollars a month, and she supported me and my sister by working as a tram conductor. So I set up a stall near the Qingdao Railway Station, sketched portraits for everyone, five yuan a piece, and put a few sketches of Menzel that I copied on the side.
I was there to move a maza with my head down and wait, because I was really embarrassed. But I can't think of any other way, my major is the first place in the sixth middle school art class, I want to take the Chinese opera, I need to work-study.
The first girl to come to me for a portrait was one, and I am still very impressed. She was about the same age as me at the time, beautiful, and wore a pair of slippers. After I finished painting, I signed a name under the painting, and I said to her, "You keep this painting, I don't sign it here, but you are the first, I will sign it for you." "This girl is supposed to be in her forties now, and I don't know if she still has the painting, which is the only work I have signed and sold."
It's interesting to think back on those days. I have a good reputation, and the traffic police nearby helped me to pull guests. The traffic police are the kind of typical Qingdao uncles, "This young man painted well, come and see." "He just helped me out in Qingdao dialect."
I earned 750 yuan those days, and I thought it was enough to go to college, so I stopped setting up a stall. The next year of the art exam, I still only applied for one volunteer, Chinese drama. Later, I was admitted to the stage art major of the Central Academy of Drama with the first place in the country.
I'm not a person who can sit still. When I was in college, I often took over work outside, doing choreography, evening parties, MTV and so on, and at that time, I could earn one or two thousand by doing a job, which was very rich in school in the ninth year. But in my teacher's eyes, Tan Kai was finished. He wanted to train me to be a university teacher and a scholar like him, but I didn't expect me to become a person he didn't do in his eyes.
When I graduated from college, there happened to be an advertising agency to recruit graphic designers, which could solve the Beijing hukou. It was very difficult to stay in Beijing at that time, and almost no students from other places in our major could stay in Beijing, so I went. It was 1997, I was paid fourteen thousand a month, and the company gave me a Cherokee and gave me a two-room house as a dormitory.
At that time, many graduates of Chinese opera did not work, and everyone envied me. For five years, I was drunk and dreaming every day, and I ate myself into a fat man. One day when I got up on a hangover, I heard su Rui's "Follow the Feeling" being played in the hair salon downstairs. "Follow the feelings and grab the hand of the dream." When I heard this, I immediately cried.
I really didn't want to live like this anymore, so I quit.
At that time, I had a poor buddy who was an actor, and everyone would run out of cars, so I would often drive him to run the group. The director of the "Bitter Cauliflower" crew saw me and thought that my image was not bad, so he arranged a role for me temporarily.
I still remember that the crew was preparing for the Beijing Confused Hotel, and the assistant director was called Hu Tu, and I also entered a new profession in a daze at the age of thirty because of this play.
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In our line, most of the actors settled in Beijing and Shanghai, and I used to be. But when I was forty years old, my mother fell ill once. At that moment, I felt that my mother was old, so I moved back to Qingdao from Beijing.
In the past, I ran all over the world, and even filming to catch up with the Spring Festival could not go back. There was no WeChat before, and I rarely called her, and I probably didn't contact her for months. I suddenly felt how unfilial I was, so I went back to Qingdao to borrow money to buy a house, and the two of them lived together.
I live in Qingdao without filming, and I don't go out much. If there was a party in the evening, my classmates knew that Tan Kai had to leave at ten o'clock, because my mother had to wait until I came home before going to bed.
The people of Qingdao make me feel particularly kind. The last time I came back, I just got into the elevator and ran into my neighbor Uncle who was preparing to walk his dog. He looked up at me and spoke in a Qingdao dialect: "Oh, Governor Dong, come back!" Good acting. "After saying that, Uncle left." I felt like it was coming home. Of course, my mother is not low-key, and when others say that your son is a star, my mother is happy and broken.
When I was a child, I lived at the foot of Guanxiang Mountain, and when I reached the top of the mountain, I could see the church and the trestle in the distance, and the scenery was very beautiful. After a while of rest, I still want to go back to Guanxiang Mountain to see and take a walk in pineapple oil.
If one day I don't act in the future, I want to find a house with a courtyard in Qingdao near the sea. I'm going to get a very big study, read all the books I want to read in my life, draw some paintings in my free time, drink coffee, and ride a motorcycle. It was a dream for the rest of my life.
Source: Qingdao News Network Song Xin