In "Sweet", Tian Mi's friend Li Meng is called "China's good girlfriend with both culture and martial arts" by netizens.
For Zhao Qin, a young actor who plays Li Meng, the female role of urban themes that is rarely dabbled in enriches his acting experience. At the same time, she is the same age as Li Meng, and because of the resonance of the role and herself, she also has a deeper understanding of the core of the series.
The following is Zhao Qin's self-statement.
>>> Me and Li Meng
There are many elements in Li Meng that can reflect the characteristics of the current 30+ women, and there are many urban women who can resonate with her, including me.
The first is Li Meng's working state.
When Tian Mi was in huge debt, she could take out a bank card and tell her girlfriend to "take it to the rescue". This money is the embodiment of sisterly affection, and it also reflects that Li Meng, like countless "hit workers" of the same age, is struggling in this city.
This money also served as a base to support her to give up her 4S shop job and join the "winning winner" who had no clear way forward at that time. 4S shop - constant winner - sweet technology, every step of the choice does not seem to be the most rational, but I saw my own shadow in Li Meng's experience.
I am not an actor, I studied in the management department in college, because I followed the director Zheng Xiaolong for internship work, and I had the opportunity to star in "Golden Marriage". After graduation, I joined Tencent and engaged in marketing business. My own professional experience has made me more able to understand Li Meng's choice.
Li Meng also has a soft side of his own. There is a scene where Li Meng comes home to receive a call from his father, and he quickly asks the dog to play a birthday song, using a white lie to disguise and "trick" his father's colleagues into celebrating his birthday.
The scene was not originally on the script. The teacher Luan Yuanhui, the actor of Dog Leftover, is from the department of directing, and we read the script and discussed with director Yan Jiangang to use this scene to increase Li Meng's emotional shaping. Every one of us who works hard in society, especially those who work in different cities with our parents, will report good news and not bad news.
I had just celebrated my 30th birthday in the year of filming, so I wanted to use this scene to convey to the audience that "even if life is not satisfactory, I must try to continue to walk with a smile", which is common to many audiences.
After Liu Deen's death crying scene, before the filming began, Teacher Haiqing said to me, "Dream, you have to cry more miserably than me, our character relationship is right", substituted for the girlfriend sad, worried for the girlfriend but can not help much self-blame, the whole scene I cried breathlessly.
In the first half of the plot, under the background of Matisa and others, the girlfriend love between Li Meng and Tian Mi is particularly strong and precious.
If there is any characteristic in Li Meng that moves people, it must be that she is very enthusiastic about her friends. Her girlfriend feelings for Tian Mi are the kind that can give everything and fight hard, in addition to emotional companionship, there is also the feeling of common suffering.
I also have two particularly good female friends in my own life, and I borrowed from the relationship between me and one of my girlfriends, "Little Sichuan". I tend to let Li Meng bring a "sense of companionship", will communicate with the director to reduce the number of lines in some scenes, and silently express my support with eyes and real companionship.
"Sweet" was filmed in 2019, and the audience experienced this time period, and the slightest trace of interpretation will be found to be unreal and not living. For me, who is more accustomed to and skilled in entering the state of costume drama, the closeness that runs through "Sweet" makes me more comfortable with modern urban drama.
"Sweet" is a realistic theme work, screenwriter Song Fangjin teacher integrated a lot of daily not very touchable, but life does exist in the modern urban elements. During the filming process, with the rapid changes in society, Teacher Song will grab new things and "throw" them into the script at any time. It makes us feel that the play is very fresh and hot.
When filming, we also discussed why the show was called by this name, after all, the first three episodes of "Sweet" were all crying. Later, we thought that in fact, the real sweetness is full of infinite hope for the future, and the sweetness that comes from bitterness is really sweet.
Of course, "Sweet" actually conveys far more than the two words "inspirational", and the sense of responsibility and the spirit of the contract shown in this work need to be vigorously promoted by us.
At the end of the series, I hope that the sense of strength and warmth that "Sweet" brings to the audience, as well as the spirit of contract and the spirit of struggle, can impress and influence the audience for a long time.