Premier Zhou instructed Sister Deng
"I'm gone.
No cemetery, no tombstone, no ashes,
Take my ashes
Sprinkle the landscapes and rivers of the motherland ..."
Hunan Satellite TV's centenary special program "28-year-old you" reproduced the scene before Premier Zhou's death with a stage play, and the great revolutionary's gao fengliang festival made the audience cry, and the guest Wang Yuan cried red-eyed.
This clip is adapted from the TV series "Begonia Still", playing Premier Zhou is the male protagonist Sun Weimin of "Begonia Still", whose performance in this play is praised by industry insiders as "the peak in the plateau", as a special actor he has "followed" the premier for 31 years, 71 times to play this great man.
In an exclusive interview with ZAKER Harbin reporter, Sun Weimin said that playing the premier is the glory of a lifetime, and it has also changed his life.
"Begonias Are Still", "Diplomatic Storm", "Zhou Enlai's Four Days and Nights", "Crossing the Yalu River", Premier Zhou, played by Sun Weimin, is gentle and humble, personable, and recognized as "both form and god". Some fans have observed that Sun Weimin is the only one among the special actors with dimples on his face, exactly the same as the prime minister.
When filming the farewell scene of "Four Days and Nights of Zhou Enlai", the crew invited the local compatriots to be the extras, and filmed the compatriots treating Sun Weimin as the real Premier Zhou, crying all the way and shouting "Premier".
Sun Weimin himself is very modest, thinking that he is not the most similar, mainly relying on makeup and acting skills. Born in Anhua Street, Harbin's Daoli District, he was only 35 years old when he first appeared as prime minister.
In 1990, Sun Weimin's Dalian Repertory Theatre performed the Great Drama "Mission" to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and originally played the middle-aged Zhou Enlai as a well-known actor on loan, but later the actor left for some reason, and the young Sun Weimin "went to the top".
Playing the prime minister who was more than half a hundred years old, Sun Weimin was too thin and too young at the time, he had to dress up on his makeup and hair, and he stuffed cotton in his mouth, but he did not expect that the makeup effect was surprisingly good, "Mission" was a great success, and he also performed in Beijing. While performing in Beijing, Sun Weimin met a familiar director who was looking for the actor of Zhou Enlai for the TV series "Fragrant Wind and Lotus", and watched his performance like a treasure, so Sun Weimin portrayed Premier Zhou on the screen for the first time.
Listening to recordings, watching documentaries, and reading works, Sun Weimin said that shaping a great man cannot rely on "acting", but must enter his heart and feel his pulse, and every time he plays the premier, he is a stirring of the soul, and he is always moved by his noble sentiments.
He became the premier's most loyal admirer, in 1995 Sun Weimin prepared the TV series "Zhou Enlai in Dalian", personally served as a producer and male number one, the TV series caused a sensation after the CCTV broadcast, and also appeared on the "Focus Interview", Sun Weimin became famous in one fell swoop, becoming a well-known special actor in the country. Invitations to play the premier came and went, and even the Bayi Film Studio threw out an olive branch and invited him to star in the war blockbuster "The Great Turning Point", and later in this movie, Gu Yue, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, played by Sun Weimin, were hailed as a classic combination.
As one of the few special actors who has played the premier of all ages in youth, middle age and old age, he can count the premier's life experience, living habits, and personal preferences, such as accents, "The premier is a native of Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, who attended primary school in Shenyang, led the student movement in Tianjin, and he spoke based on the Huai'an accent, with the taste of the Beijing-Tianjin dialect, and occasionally the tail note and the northeast flavor." ”
Many young people know the prime minister through film and television works, thinking that he is tall, Sun Weimin is 1.74 meters tall, which is relatively short among several special actors, but in fact, he is the actor who is closest to the prime minister. "According to the data, the prime minister is about 1.70 meters tall, his figure is a little bigger than mine, and the photogenic person will be slightly fatter, which looks just right." Sun Weimin said.
(Sun Weimin himself is more like Lu Xun)
Recognized by the audience in his life, one of the most common words he heard was, "You don't look like Premier Zhou." "Unlike other special actors, the roles played by Sun Weimin are extremely contrasting, and the historical figures alone have played Lu Xun, Sun Yat-sen, Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Zhizhong, Liao Zhongkai, Peng Xuefeng, Zuo Quan, etc., and the appearance and age of each character are very different.
He admitted that he was closer to Lu Xun in appearance, and every time he played the premier, he would use glue to widen his double eyelids. When filming "Diplomatic Storm", some people found that Sun Weimin always carried a small mirror in his pocket, and as soon as he had time, he took it out to take a picture to see if the double eyelids were firmly and naturally glued, and practiced various micro-expressions in front of the mirror.
Acting a lot, occasionally people around him will say that he is becoming more and more like the prime minister, such as the walking posture and the habit of slightly bending his right arm on his side, so every time before playing other roles, Sun Weimin will re-examine himself and "walk out completely".
In the upcoming movie "The Island Keeper", he starred as Liu Ye's father, an old fisherman with a face full of vicissitudes, and the audience who watched the screening did not recognize the "prime minister". In recent years, he has won the Feitian Award and the Best Special Actor Award with his superb acting skills, and has been nominated for several major awards such as the Golden Rooster Award, the Huabiao Award, and the Golden Eagle Award.
It is worth mentioning that sun Weimin recently starred in the TV series "The People's Choice", in which Mao Zedong was played by Harbin actor Tong Ruixin, when the audience will have the opportunity to see "Chairman Mao" and "Premier Zhou" from Harbin on the screen.
Reporter Gao Yun
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