"The King: Eternal Monarch" Li Tingzhen: Starving and losing 9 kilograms for the show villain, slimming down to the point where his underwear doesn't fit...
In "The King: Forever Monarch", the villain Lee Lin Lee Ting-jin, who has always opposed Lee Gun played by Lee Min-ho to the final return, has a very heavy role in the play and impressed the audience, and he also made a weight loss plan for the role of this performance.
Li Tingzhen plays the villain Li Lin the Prince of Zhen, who is a rebellious character who wants to have the treasure Wanbo Flute for the sake of eternity and immeasurable desire. This is a big breakthrough for Li Tingzhen, who has mostly performed kind roles in the past. When receiving the role, the production team mentioned that he wanted to perform the feeling of "people in their 40s and 70s in one", and Li Tingzhen thought a lot about Li Lin's character setting and villain appearance.
Li Tingzhen said: "This role is very arrogant and rough, and it is not the same as the previous role, so the acting presentation makes you want to have a performance that everyone has not seen, how to perform it? Although it is a face in his 40s to show that the mentality is Li Lin, who is in his 70s, he uses all his strength to act. Although to give everyone a tough impression. But too exaggerated is not suitable, Li Lin is not a "person full of anger", but a character who "belongs to me everything", thinking that everyone is under him. Although he lives in modern times, he is the murderer of the king decades ago, and he has no guilt about killing people."
"First of all, to state that this is a bad way to lose weight, don't you all know that the shape of the artists before and after receiving the signing payment" can be very different, generally when I lose weight, I usually lose weight reluctantly, but for the role I have to lose weight in a not very good way." 」 Li Tingzhen said that he worked hard for the appearance of the character.
"Every day hungry, smoking is very fierce, eating three eggs a day, plus staying up late watching TV to see very late, so I lost 9 kilograms, but I have a lot of wrinkles and the skin condition is also damaged a lot, although it is a little embarrassing to say, in fact, it is so thin that even the underwear does not fit." 」 In just one and a half months, I lost 9 kilograms, and I continued to adjust during the shooting, and now I have just finished shooting for about 2 weeks, and I have begun to eat three meals normally, and my physical condition has gradually recovered."
For The sake of Li Lin's character setting, hoping to give everyone a stronger sense of appearance, Li Tingzhen deliberately lost weight to let the audience see a different him, "Although I have worked very hard, but all the judgments are still made by the audience, just see Li Lin's very strong role, there may be a sense of strangeness, from the actor's point of view, instead of worrying about how to perform the script well, in fact, more worried about how to act better." 」
"At first, I only heard that I could perform, but then I saw the script and gradually had a picture, and I was just thinking about how to accept and represent the parallel world as an actor, and when I first received the script of the writer Jin Yinshu, I seemed to be unable to think in terms of the reality of the ether, "How can I have such an imagination?" As each episode went on, I got busy, focused on my own roles, and I was always curious about the development of the script for the next episode, and the overall story was very powerful, and let our actors also be curious about the works." Li Tingzhen showed his intention for this work, is everyone still satisfied with Li Lin's performance?
Photo: Stills from The King: The Eternal Monarch