"Hello, I'm Governor Dong." A simple self-introduction, but it is not difficult to see the actor Tan Kai's love for the role of Dong Yao in the TV series "Sweeping The Black Storm". Tan Kai concluded that Dong Yao was a two-faced man, a government official, but he was doing something that violated the law.
In the hit drama "Sweeping Black Storm", Tan Kai played the district chief Dong Yao. Courtesy of the artist
Tan Kai in life is a person who likes to drift, because he has learned painting since he was a child, and there is a little bit of an artist's pride and small Qinggao. In his words, for so many years, he has never socialized or attached himself to anyone because of his work, and Dong Yao happens to be a person who has a huge contrast with him.
The biggest challenge for Tan Kai in shaping a corrupt district chief is to find dong Yao's "official spirit". Deliberately eating fat, so that there is some extra flesh on the face, walking a little hunchback, and different from the past, this time Tan Kai began to grope Dong Yao's shadow from the external image.
"Sweeping The Black Storm"
——Dong Yao is a "fugitive" who acts every day
When Tan Kai first came into contact with the project of "Sweeping Black Storm", Dong Yao's role was not yet fully formed, and the profession set for him at that time was a prosecutor, and later changed to a district chief. The screenwriter who invited him said that it was a wonderful role, and now, Tan Kai recalls the whole shooting experience, "Well, it is really wonderful, they did not fool me." ”
For any actor, every role that you want to encounter is different, complex and dramatic, and Tan Kai is no exception. Dong Yao is exactly in line with all this, he is ostensibly the mayor of Shimen District of Luteng City, and secretly he is a pawn of Gao Mingyuan (Wang Zhifei), chairman of Changteng Capital. Over the years, he climbed to the position of district chief by helping Gao Mingyuan do things, and was found to want to profit from it in the process of helping the other party win the Yihe New Village project. Subsequently, 14 years ago, when his murder for Gao Mingyuan was exposed to the anti-gang crime task force, Dong Yao felt tormented and gradually collapsed.
In the play, Dong Yao is acting when facing anyone. Courtesy of the artist
Tan Kai defines Dong Yao as a "fugitive", "From the moment Dong Yao killed people on a rainy night 14 years ago, he was a 'fugitive', a person whose fate and life and death were in the hands of others, a very sad person." In his setting, Dong Yao is acting every day, he is acting in the face of his superiors, he is acting in the face of the investigation of He Yong (Liu Yijun), he is acting in the face of Li Chengyang 's (Sun Honglei) pestering, and he is still acting in the face of Gao Mingyuan. Only when he sat alone in the office was the most relaxed, and that kind of exhaustion and hopelessness was Dong Yao's most real state.
Playing Dong Yao, the biggest challenge for Tan Kai is to find the "official spirit" on him. Generally speaking, a profession has been dry for a long time, there will definitely be a temperament that belongs to this profession, Tan Kai from primary school art, he and Dong Yao in life are not at all involved, to let the audience imagine that they are a district chief, they have to find character feelings. In the past, Tan Kai used to shape the role from the inside out, but this time he had to do the opposite, "First of all, I want to thank our styling teacher, so that the actor can first find the feeling from the appearance." All I personally have to do is stop controlling my diet, make myself a little fatter, and have some extra flesh on his face, because he has been mentally stressed, and he must be a person who sleeps badly, and he has to be a little hunchback when he walks. ”
——Meet Sun Honglei again, we are all old
In the play, Dong Yao has been in constant trouble from the moment he appears. When his conspiracy to "eat black" was exposed on the spot, the nervous, dodgy eyes, the fingers that trembled and slid the mobile phone screen when anxious, and every detail of the limb showed the panic of the moment. "The look in Dong District Governor's eyes is too in place" "Across the screen with Dong District Governor's heart", Tan Kai's performance has also won the recognition of the audience.
The GIF is from Tan Kai's Weibo.
From art students to actors, Tan Kai applied the most exquisite structure and relationship of painting to performance, "Acting, in fact, is to play a character relationship, when you let yourself be in that relationship, many reactions are real." I never design anything in advance when I shoot a scene, and I don't perform for the sake of acting. ”
Just like the "micro-expressions" that have always been said in recent years, it is also tan Kai's most taboo, "Some 'micro-expressions' are acted out." These are all means, and at first the audience may feel fresh, but as professional actors, we have seen better performances, real, and only the most real things are the most impressive. ”
Tan Kai is very grateful to the photographer Liu Yingjian of "Sweeping Black Storm". When should the panorama be given, when should be close-up, the actor's inner scenes need to be captured by the camera. After filming for so many years, Tan Kai has a deep understanding, sometimes the actors perform, but the camera did not shoot, and in the end there will be no good effect.
In order to find out what really happened 14 years ago, there is a scene in the play where Li Chengyang went to the mayor's office to test Dong Yao's bridge section, "That was the longest dialogue between me and Sun Honglei in the opponent's play, both testing each other." And it's very comfortable to act, and you can catch it. The photographer also completely recorded our status. ”
"Sweeping The Black Storm" is the second cooperation between Tan Kai and Sun Honglei. The picture comes from the official micro of the play
As early as the movie "Drug War" released in 2013, Tan Kai (first from the right) had a cooperation with Sun Honglei (middle).
Speaking of Sun Honglei, the old partner who cooperated in Du Qifeng's movie "Drug War" a few years ago, Tan Kai sighed, "The biggest feeling of meeting again is that we are all old, and the edges and edges in life are also much less, and more is the focus and contemplation of performance." ”
【Old Friend "First" Experience】
Call Liu Yijun "father-in-law"
In fact, many actors and Tan Kai in "Sweeping Black Storm" are old friends who have cooperated many times, such as Liu Yijun, who plays He Yong, the leader of the special case team. In the last cooperation between the two, "Yan Yuntai", Liu Yijun played Tan Kai's father-in-law. When it came to the "sweeping black" set, Tan Kai always called Liu Yijun "father-in-law", which made Liu Yijun "angry" and felt that he called himself old.
And Ning Li "buried the body" like two stupid thieves
"Ning Li, who plays Ma Shuai, played the brothers in "Yan Yuntai", and this time we were 'killing people and burying corpses' together. Buried is Mai Zili, the actor who plays Mai Zili, the last time we worked together, he played my father. When filming the scene of killing people and burying corpses, "Because it was a rainy night, Ning Li and I were like two stupid thieves, busy with their hands." Shooting the first one, I used too much force and broke the door handle of the prop car. Shoot the second one, I pulled the handbrake too dead, when I want to run, I can't put it down. Later, I shot again, and did not dare to pull the handbrake too dead, so I slipped again, and the car slid directly down from the slope. The on-site staff directly sighed: Kaige fitness is really not in vain. ”
Wang Zhifei also struggled with the co-pilot's tea table
Tan Kai and Wang Zhifei are also good friends for many years, and the two have cooperated many times, so they have a special tacit understanding when filming. In the play, Gao Mingyuan found that Dong Yao wanted to "eat black", so he personally drove Dong Yao to the construction site to scare him. It was also in this scene that the "tea table on the passenger seat of Gao Mingyuan's passenger seat" appeared that shocked netizens. "The clever Mercedes-Benz car in the play has been modified, which is also an innovation of the director Five Hundred, in the passenger seat, a set of alpine flowing kung fu tea tables are installed, and it can also smoke." On the day of filming, it was also the first time Wang Zhifei saw the car in his play, "I can see that Wang Zhifei is very entangled in this tea table, the actor is like this, you must first let yourself accept this thing logically, in order to perform to integrate with the characters." 」 So I made a suggestion at the time, to incorporate the tea table into the lines. ”
Gao Mingyuan threatened Dong Yao in the car.
In the play, Dong Yao said to Gao Mingyuan: Gao Zong, I am absolutely loyal to you. Gao Mingyuan replied to him: There is no absolute loyalty, just like this teacup, because there is a strong magnetism to suck on this case, but it is not okay to encounter a big ditch. "After adding it to the lines, it not only explains the rationality of the tea table here, but also expresses Gao Mingyuan's attitude towards Dong Yao, and everyone is comfortable."
——Life Affairs——
Ever earned tens of millions of dollars a year? Those are rumors
Tan Kai was born into an ordinary working-class family, his grandfather was a carpenter, his mother was a tram conductor, and his talent for painting was revealed very early. "Since elementary school, I liked to draw, and all the blank spaces in my textbooks were full of little people."
Later, he became a student of Qingdao No. 6 Middle School, a famous fine arts high school in China, and was admitted to the stage design major of the Stage Art Department of the Central Academy of Drama with the first professional result. After entering the Chinese opera, Tan Kai came into contact with the performance. "At that time, there were only more than two hundred students in the whole college, the student dormitory was in that one building, the second floor was for girls, the third floor was for boys, and the department of stage art, the department of directing, and the department of acting were all in one building. Every morning, the famous directors and actors now wash by a public pool. In the evening, everyone knocked on the door one by one and asked if there was any instant noodles and squeezed vegetables, and such a feeling of the same window also built my future circle of friends. ”
After graduating from university, because he could solve the Beijing hukou, Tan Kai chose an advertising company affiliated with Beijing Youth Daily to design the real estate advertising business. "Now it is rumored on the Internet that I was paid tens of millions of dollars a year at that time, and later Hu Ge introduced me to filming, which is actually a rumor."
At that time, it was the stage of rapid development of the real estate market and the advertising industry, and due to his outstanding work ability, Tan Kai was quickly appreciated by his boss. In 1997, Tan Kai's monthly salary had reached 14,000 yuan, and the company also assigned him a Cherokee, a two-bedroom dormitory, "I feel that life has come to an end." He sighed.
Tan Kai. Courtesy of the artist
After the material life was satisfied, Tan Kai realized that his spiritual life was always empty, and he felt more and more that it was not his favorite job. Five years later, he decided to resign. "At that time, I was alone in Beijing, with a high income but did not save money, invited friends to eat and drink every day, and did not have any savings after resigning."
Since then, he has been a host on Beijing Satellite TV for a period of time, hosting variety shows, and in order to earn living expenses, he has also worked as a wedding host. Originally an introvert, he was slowly opened up by life.
Playing male one, he almost gave Zhao Baogang a heart attack
In 2000, many actors did not have an agency, and in order to save costs, the crew set up their offices in hotels near the fourth ring road. The actors are running the crew with their own information, many people do not have a car, they have to take a taxi, "At that time, the taxi was still quite expensive, and one of my actor friends asked me to accompany him to the running group, don't I have a car." ”
The two drove to the confused hotel next to the Jianxiang Bridge in Beijing, the assistant director is also called confused, the drama is called "Bitter Cauliflower", Tan Kai's friend went to interview the role of the political commissar, the deputy director turned his head to see Tan Kai, felt that he had a good image, just the role of the regiment leader has not been selected to the right person, "The role of the regiment leader has not been selected for a total of ten episodes, an episode of 2000 blocks, 10 episodes of 20,000, shooting for two months, I calculate, the monthly salary is 10,000, this job can be taken." ”
The first time I had no experience in filming, I always grabbed the lines when I spoke, I was nervous to walk almost, I encountered a crying scene, Tan Kai thought about the tragic things in this life and didn't cry out, and the pressure was so big that I had a headache. Fortunately, he is not the main actor, and others can't take care of him, even if it is so mixed.
"I'm a bit of a person who doesn't accept defeat, and I think that since I did this, I want to find out." Seeing that Tan Kai began to be an actor, the friends around him were either directors or screenwriters, all looking for him to string plays, "I am not from the class, the start is low, people call me, I did not think so much, supporting roles, dragon sets are going, because I feel that I need to learn to act in performance, do not have to pay tuition, pay you money, why not enjoy it?" ”
In 2004, Tan Kai ushered in a small turning point in his career, and under the recommendation of his classmates, he met the director Zhao Baogang. "Director Zhao was also deceived by my image, let me play the male number one of his new drama "VideoTape", after the start of filming, it is estimated that his intestines are remorseful, and he almost gave a heart attack." At that time, Tan Kai had already filmed some works, thought he was experienced, there was an angry scene, he deliberately kicked the trash can next to his feet, so angry that Zhao Baogang quickly shouted to stop, let him honestly act according to the script, without self-play. He remembered that in those days, Zhao Baogang said the most seven words: "Really listen, really see, really feel."
Tan Kai is also constantly learning and tempering, more and more like the profession of actor, "my personality is suitable for being an actor, I like to drift, filming is just in line with this." Sometimes when the actors and friends gather, the students of the acting department will always ridicule Tan Kai for robbing them of their jobs, thinking that he has changed from an art student to an actor, he will also have a lot of feelings. Not long ago, Tan Kai saw Teacher Liu, who recruited himself into the Chinese opera, and sent a message introducing his circle of friends to play Dong Yao, "I was in tears at that time, and I felt the recognition of the teacher. Xuemei also sent him a circle of friends of Xu Xiang, the former dean of Chinese opera, writing that "Tan Kai is a graduate of the Chinese opera and dance art department with the highest achievements in the field of acting", "I thought about the logic inside, I think the dean is right, and it is also my pride to be recognized by the teacher and the dean." ”
Zhang Kunyu, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
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