On the screen, "Chinese Doctor", Feng Wenjuan looked at it and couldn't stop shedding tears. The huge pressure during the shooting made her breathless to this day. Even so, it hadn't changed her determination to do the best she could.
In the movie "Chinese Doctor", which is being screened, Feng Wenjuan plays Xin Wei, the director of the anesthesiology department.
From the debut, she cooperated with directors Liu Weiqiang and Wang Jing, partnered with Huang Xiaoming and Zhou Runfa, and over the years Feng Wenjuan played more and more roles, but she did not think that she had a "high starting point" and has been practicing the concept of "overcoming any difficulties for the role". Some people say that she is "not popular in drama", but Feng Wenjuan only thinks, "Drama is good, more important than everything". Asked what kind of actor she most wanted to be, she blurted out: "I want to be an actor that the audience can trust, and through my play, I can believe in movies and characters." If one day I play [the character] they don't believe it, it's more painful than they don't know me. ”
A play doctor, all emotions must be in the heart
At the meeting after the premiere of the movie "Chinese Doctor", Academician Zhong Nanshan shared his feelings about watching the movie, saying: "I was very excited to watch the whole movie. It is not easy to shoot in such a short time. The details of the film are very real, truly embodying the conscience, responsibility, determination and action of Chinese doctors. At this time, Feng Wenjuan, one of the leading actors standing on the stage, had long been unable to cry.
Feng Wenjuan has not been able to use words to describe the filming experience of "Chinese Doctor".
One day last year, Feng Wenjuan, who was on the scene, received a text message from director Liu Weiqiang, "Wen Juan, "Chinese Doctor" is in preparation, and the screenwriter has written a role for you. Despite the excitement, but thinking that I don't know when I can start filming, and I don't know what kind of role this is, Feng Wenjuan, who can't calm her heart, flew to Wuxi, the filming place of "Chinese Doctor", as soon as she finished her new play, and reported to the group. Subsequently, she began to conduct professional training for the role of Xin Wei, the director of the anesthesiology department in the film.
Feng Wenjuan said that the process of filming "Chinese Doctor" is to completely "zero" herself.
However, the filming process is far more difficult than Feng Wenjuan expected, although she has been watching the news in Wuhan every day during the epidemic and has long prejudged and understood the situation, but in practice, she knows that this role needs the most professional medical knowledge and appropriate performance emotions, and she needs to completely "zero" herself. "I have worked with director Liu Weiqiang many times, like "The Great Undertaking of Building the Army" and "Captain China", he can always provide the most correct performance guidance to the actors, and this time he hopes that we will put our emotions in our hearts."
Feng Wenjuan explained that people will panic about the sudden disaster of the epidemic, but they will also be disappointed and anxious, but as medical staff, they cannot vent their emotions at will, and they must be calm and rational in the blood: "The new crown virus is different from the previous pain, there are many unknowns, in the cognitive process, even doctors will be helpless. This requires us to face it with a firm attitude, in order to succeed in the fight against the epidemic, everyone is fighting forward. ”
B for a few minutes of character, practice running for half a month
Playing a role and learning a new skill is the sweetness that Feng Wenjuan tasted in her performance, she described herself as an idle person, as long as she finds her role, no matter how big or small, she will try her best to act well. From the youth version of Ye Zhiqiu in the movie "Great Shanghai" to the only heroine in "Mekong Action", from the agile policewoman in "Equator" to the two roles of one person in "Peerless", Feng Wenjuan has created many different roles.
In the movie "The Great Father", although Feng Wenjuan did not play much, she practiced running for this role for half a month.
Zhou Qingyuan, the director of the movie "The Great Father", who is being screened, is deeply impressed by Feng Wenjuan's seriousness: "Although her role in the film is very small, but just for a look back in the running, she found a coach to practice for half a month. In Feng Wenjuan's view, these are the things that actors should do: "How lucky to be an actor, "Mekong Action" made me a policeman, "Great Dad" made me experience running, and "Chinese Doctor" let me learn medical knowledge. So even if it's only a few minutes, I have to practice my skills to the extreme. ”
In "Chinese Doctor", Feng Wenjuan plays an anesthesiologist, and the anesthesiology department is an all-round department, surgery, emergency, ventilator... They need to deal with almost every link, and anesthesiologists are the first medical teams to be deployed to the covid-19 battlefield. Feng Wenjuan said that you must arm yourself with medical knowledge so that you will not be timid when performing: "Director Liu Weiqiang has always insisted on real shooting, and it is all a sports shot, the picture will cut from your hand to your face, and it will also be translated from the face to the details of the work, and it is impossible to use a stand-in." The crew invited many professional doctors to test our operational skills, if not professional, the actors will not have confidence in front of the camera, in order to this confidence must also be skilled. So, before filming, learning medical skills became a daily routine for actors, from putting on and taking off protective clothing to seven-step hand washing, from central venipuncture to ventilator, and even surgical sutures. Feng Wenjuan said that now it is not necessary to find blood vessels, distinguish between static arteries, infusions and injections for yourself.
After performing "Chinese Doctor", Feng Wenjuan also mastered the techniques of infusion and injection.
"One day everyone will know me, it's just a matter of time"
There are many roles and many supporting roles, so that Feng Wenjuan has been in the situation of "drama red people are not red". Once, when she looked through the comments of netizens, she saw that someone commented that she was a "drama throwing face" (comparing an actor with good acting skills, what is like acting, and every time she changes a play, there is no shadow of the character in the previous play), first a burst of happiness, but found that the netizen said, "I have seen this play, I have an impression of the role, but this actor does not seem to know much."
Feng Wenjuan
"I'm confused and wonder why this is the case, and I probably don't have an answer until now." I don't know why I shot so many scenes, but the audience did not have too high recognition of Feng Wenjuan. Although Feng Wenjuan was a little bitter at that time, in recent years, she has also been reflecting on herself, "In fact, there are many ways to increase exposure." But come to think of it, it doesn't seem like I want it, and what I still want people to remember is my work. The play is good, I believe that one day the audience will know me, it is only a matter of time. ”
Beijing News: The roles you have played, there are protagonists and supporting roles, how do you think about the size of the role?
Feng Wenjuan: I think the power that each role gives to the actor is different, like Xin Qi in the movie "Perfect Victim", who may have a little more role, more elements on his body, and more things that the actor can perform. But like "Chinese Doctor" is a group portrait play, everyone "performs their own duties", the actor can only express himself in a limited space, and it is right to think about doing what this role should do.
Beijing News: Feel like you don't care much about the size of the character?
Feng Wenjuan: Because I never felt that an actor acting was to rely on stealing the scene, by adding drama to himself, or by how big the role must be to have the performance space, the goal I gave myself was to play to the extreme in my play, so that the audience felt that the actor acted like that, trustworthy, and my whole attention was on the role, not on myself.
Beijing News: You seem to have an endless passion for movies, what do you like to do when you are not filming?
Feng Wenjuan: Watching movies, I think watching more movies and increasing the amount of reading is very helpful for an actor. I am a veteran film fan, almost every week will go to the cinema to see the movie, but also more and more feel the film technology to the benefits of watching the movie, like IMAX and other formats for me to attract a lot, for example, this "Chinese Doctor" has an IMAX version, let me feel very shocked, this movie is focused on real events, high-definition camera display can indeed make the audience immersive, but also more resonant.
Beijing News: In the Internet era, feedback on a work can soon be presented in front of fans, will you read the comments?
Feng Wenjuan: Yes. Every time the play is on, every once in a while I will go to see everyone's comments, and the comments of some netizens are very pertinent, and also help me improve my acting skills.
Beijing News: You have been quite productive in recent years, what other plans do you have for the future of taking over the drama?
Feng Wenjuan: Every time I shoot a scene, I seem to be able to learn a new skill, and I especially want to keep myself in a relatively busy state, because I want to try a variety of roles, and if I stop, I will be anxious. Maybe too many roles are also the reason for everyone's weak cognition, short hair today, long hair tomorrow. But I can't help but want to try more roles and play each one well.
Zhou Huixiaowan, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
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