"Enough, have you cut enough?" Zhang Dongjian's last line in "Friends" turned out to be a popular phrase in Korea at that time. The pole next to the International Hotel in The East District of Busan City, where the scene was filmed, was already a tourist attraction.
Interpreting his youth, he hid in the corner silently with a small flat head, a pair of glowing eyes flashing with light, coldly peering around. In the second half of the film, he saw him appear in the shape of vulgar and bright leather pants, and the violent and fierce gangster boss posture made it difficult to connect with the gentle and meticulous him in the TV series "In Love with the Female Anchor".
In order to perform "Friends", he spent 4 months learning the very difficult Busan dialect, and before each shooting, he smoked desperately, even more than the usual 2 to 3 packs a day, and refused to drink water to make the sound extremely harsh.
"The characters I play have always been glamorous and stylish, and the untrimmed underworld characters are very new to me. In fact, being a villain like Aaron Dillon has always been my desire. At first, I thought about growing a beard and making it look a little weaker, but my bearded appearance was too funny, so I finally dismissed the idea. ”
The result of this effort was the best supporting actor award at the first Asia Pacific Film Festival. Liu Wucheng, the opponent of the same play, was crowned the emperor of the film, and Zhang Dongjian, who was well-known, was somewhat discolored in comparison.
"Many people ask me if I will be unhappy when I take the supporting role award, in fact, I am not the male lead at all in the play, and it is logical to take the supporting role award, but I am more famous, and everyone misunderstands that I am the male lead."
Because of an MBC actor application form handed by his mother, he participated in the actor training class in 1992 and began to live under the mercury lamp.
"I've been acting for so many years, and suddenly one day I hate acting, I feel like an acting machine, and I'm used to those expressions when I face the camera..."
In order to seek a breakthrough, he decided to readjust his pace, believing that he was stuck in a bottleneck.
Idols have their own troubles, and even their handsome appearance in their careers can be a stumbling block. When he was studying, he often met an agent on the street and gave him his business card endlessly. Although his parents wanted him to concentrate on his studies, he still became an advertising model. The first soap commercial "only photographed the body", and since then he has become a star step by step, but the role he plays is often a young handsome man who lacks a soul. 97's "Doctor Brothers" is a turning point, wearing glasses, wearing a doctor's white robe, arrogant and frivolous, it is this villain role that made him win the MBC Best Actor Award that year, but also made him give up his studies.
Watching "The Temptation of Eve" and "The Brother of the Doctor" successively, I found that in the two dramas, he had a different personality, and occasionally presented similar expressions in different ways, and he was able to strengthen the character material, which showed that he had indeed made a lot of hard work in acting.
"Pretty faces can be an obstacle, at least in terms of acting. I can play good people and bad people, but I don't like people to ignore my acting skills because of my appearance. ”
"I want to live a quiet life." He said.
There is a saying in The Korean showbiz circle: "Zhang Dongjian only has friends and no enemies." It is said that Mr. Zhang is responsive to both fans and journalists.
However, in real life, he is actually very introverted, except for often self-guided travel with the sworn parties Che Renbiao and Han Jae-seok, most of the time he always likes to be alone.
"I rarely have a phone ringing in my house, I don't call for someone, sometimes I'm a slow-paced, laid-back person, and most of the time, what I crave is complete silence. Even when the alarm clock rings in the morning, I feel inexplicably irritable, and if there is a hammer next to me, I will definitely smash the alarm clock. ”
Seek life in the brilliant circle, but feel the heavy loneliness in the noise around you. There is no more helplessness in life than this.
"As I get older and go through different stages, the way I adjust myself is always changing. Since I grew up with an introverted personality, I am used to an undisclosed dialogue between my own mind, which is very bad autism! Ha! I used to hope that others could see the lonely expression in my heart and hear the voice of loneliness in my heart, but I still didn't want to let the subconscious thoughts appear in behavior and expression, so even if someone found out, I wouldn't necessarily admit it. ”
Perhaps under the pressure of handsome appearance, there are really many emotions that cannot be seen on the screen.