Reporter Lin Yiru/Taipei News
Wu Kangren played a humble water boy in the public television flagship drama "Scalo", surviving in the cracks, losing 11 kilograms of "rib appearance" for the role, concentrating on the performance is very dedicated, he is also very satisfied with this work, revealing that the first and second episodes have been watched five times, "When I watch the first time, I may not immediately understand this land and ethnic group, but I saw the fifth time, inexplicably moved, suitable for chewing slow swallowing works, I thought that "A Handful of Blue" is already my most important work, I did not expect that there will be "Scalo"."
Wu Kangren and Huang Jianwei have a big difference in body shape. (Photo/Public Television Provided)
In the play, Wu Kangren leads sheliao to survive among the indigenous people, minnan and Hakka groups, in contrast, Huang Jianwei plays the Qing Dynasty general soldier "Liu Mingdeng", the role is a symbol of authority, is the only role that can gain weight among all actors, for the play to eat 15 kilograms, even can not bend down to wear socks, but also once returned to Taipei for medical treatment, was said to be fat by the doctor, he laughed and said: "What he (Wu Kangren) lost and I increased is the weight of a fifth-grade primary school student!" 」 He ate 2 bento boxes at each meal, stressing that it did not harm the crew to spend more money, Wu Kangren broke the news: "Because I eat 2 bites, the rest he eats."
Wu Kangren was violently thin, and Huang Jianwei was 15 kilograms fat. (Photo/Public Television Provided)
Huang Jianwei also thanked Fabio and Zhou Hou'an for their help, so that the role was completed more three-dimensionally, "My role is based on the equestrianism of Li Xiande (Fabio), and the English of Bi Qilin (Zhou Hou'an), help me to complete, I learned ten riding lessons in Taipei first, the coach was very gentle, I did not expect to hengchun, the coach was more arrogant, said to me, 'You run', how do I run on horseback? Later, it was Fabio who rode a horse to take me, and for the first time in my life, I ran on horseback, and I was most grateful to Fabio. During the filming, Zhou Hou'an and I thanked both of them every day for their lines and for studying the accents that Qing officials might have learned."
Xia Jingting, Wu Kangren, and Lei Hong play the three heads, fighting for survival. (Photo/Public Television Provided)
Lei Hong and director Cao Ruiyuan had a pleasant first cooperation, he said: "Filming "Scalo" is a real scene, even if it is a grass liao, even the inside is done very carefully." One of his most impressive scenes, "There are natives chasing after us, we want to run, I think I'm in my seventies and want me to run, and then I explode, I can't run." Cao Dao laughed back when he heard this: "I'm sorry, I forgot about your seventy-something!"
Fabio and Zhou Hou'an performed for the play. (Photo/Public Television Provided)
Xia Jingting described the profession of an actor as "learning to do, doing middle school", with half of the Hakka blood, he painstakingly learned hakka for the drama, "spent two or three months to find the mother tongue in the memory, is the biggest gain." In order to maintain the character's lean body, he "ran in the sun every day bare-chested after shooting on the set, leaned down with aerobic exercise to reduce body fat, trained the chest and back muscles with single and double bars exercises, and supplemented nutrition with only eggs and protein powder during filming." He was impressed by the environment of many shooting in the wild, "snakes, insects, everything; the climate of the Hengchun Peninsula is unstable, the wind is falling, heavy rain, it feels like shooting a wilderness survival story, an unforgettable shooting experience."
Wen Zhenling and Huang Yuan play sisters and brothers in the play. (Photo/Public Television Provided)
Wen Zhenling challenged the "Four Channels" performance for the play, and practiced the Wan ethnic language, English, Hokkien dialect and Hakka language, so that the audience could amaze her language learning ability. In the play, she also had wonderful rivalry with the three heads, Wen Zhenling said: "When I played with Shui Tsai (played by Wu Kangren), Lin Ajiu (played by Xia Jingting), Zhu Yibing (played by Lei Hong), I seemed to become a man to compete with them, Butterfly Sister brought me the strength of perseverance, shooting this part is a bit like the process of adventure, her original intention is for the sake of others, in addition to the role itself is very difficult, Butterfly Sister is a very great female character, in too many emotions and identity, Butterfly Sister brought me a new feeling that I hadn't had before."
Fabio plays Li Xiande, French-American consul in Xiamen. (Photo/Public Television Provided)
"Scalo" director Cao Ruiyuan led Lei Bin Jin Lu'er, Wu Kangren, Wen Zhenling, Fabio, Huang Jianwei, Lei Hong, Xia Jingting, Zhou Hou'an, Huang Yuan, Cheng Yuan, Zhang Weifan, Yu Zhuru and other starring actors to attend the world premiere online press conference. The drama took three years to prepare, cost 202 million yuan to produce 12 episodes, the content is adapted from Chen Yaochang's novel "Puppet Flower", the plot is set in 1867 at the southern tip of the Hengchun Peninsula " Luo Mei Incident", the story intertwined with historical characters and fictional characters.
Director Cao Ruiyuan through the presentation of film and television adaptations, leading the audience to re-understand this key history belonging to Taiwan, and learn to respect the culture of diverse ethnic groups, "Taiwan's early history is like a vague mother, but also like a scattered and broken puzzle, I hope that "Carrow" can become one of the small pieces of the puzzle, hoping that in the future we can slowly spell out our common 'mother', that is, the complete face of the land that has always nurtured us, and feel the moving life story and soul of this beautiful island together."