Nandu News reporter Cai Liyi "Artemisinin is a small step in the process of human conquest of malaria, and it is also a gift from traditional Chinese medicine to mankind. This is a sentence that Tu Youyou, a tenured researcher of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, winner of the country's highest science and technology award, and nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, said. This legendary Chinese woman, winner of the "Order of the Republic", is also a character that many actresses dream of playing.
The unit of "Tu Youyou's Gift" was broadcast on the 15th.
In the main melody drama "Meritorious Service" that recently received a douban score of 9.1, with Zheng Xiaolong as the general director, Wang Lei, Lei Jiayin, Guo Tao, Huang Xiaoming, Jiang Xin, Tong Dawei, Zhou Xun, Huang Zhizhong and other big celebrities starring, Zhou Xun will challenge to play the role of Tu Youyou in the "Tu Youyou's Gift" unit premiered by Oriental Satellite TV at 19:30 on October 15, and another Guangdong-born powerful actor Zhang Songwen will play Tu Youyou's husband Li Tingzhao, and the eye-catching lineup has once again aroused the warm attention of the audience.
Zheng Xiaolong revealed that Zhou Xun did not even read the script and agreed to play Tu Youyou.
The unit "Tu Youyou's Gift" tells that in the 1960s and 1970s, in the absence of advanced experimental equipment and difficult scientific research conditions, Tu Youyou led the team to overcome difficulties, and even tried drugs by herself, and after experiencing countless failures, she finally successfully completed the scientific research task. Zhou Xun, who is petite and quite girlish, has rarely starred in this type of scientist role in the past, but her strong role shaping ability is praised, and the director of the play, Zheng Xiaolong, revealed in an interview with the media: Very focused and devoted to the cause of love, not good at words, not fond of hilarity, and even a little stuttering, this is Zhou Xun thinks that she is similar to Tu Youyou's teacher, "Xiao Zhou's creative desire is particularly strong, she agreed to act as soon as she heard that she wanted to shoot this drama without even reading the script, she felt that the role was a fit with her, She dreamed that she was going to play a heroine with glasses. ”
"Undistracted concentration", the creator only wants to shape "the one in the group"
The "Tu Youyou's Gift" unit is directed by Zheng Xiaolong himself and written by Wang Xiaoping. Zheng Xiaolong is a leading figure in Chinese television dramas, many works have won the "Magnolia Award", "Feitian Award", "Golden Eagle Award" and "Five One Project Award", he is good at realist creation, "Beijingers in New York", "Golden Marriage", "The Biography of Zhen Huan" are his phenomenon-level masterpieces. This time, taking over the baton of the general director of "Meritorious Service", Zheng Xiaolong said that he wanted to make it "a realistic theme work that the audience likes, the audience loves to watch, and the audience is satisfied with."
Screenwriter Wang Xiaoping's representative works include the movie "Gua Sha", the TV series "The Biography of Zhen Huan", "The Biography of Mi Yue" and other well-known works. In "Meritorious Service", she chose to be the screenwriter of the unit "Tu Youyou's Gift", because Wang Xiaoping grew up in Zhongguancun, the base camp of Chinese scientists, and her mother was one of the founders of the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and her unit was also the collaborative research unit of Tu Youyou's "523 Project". She said that participating in the creation of such a work is also the best memorial to her deceased mother.
The creative goal of the creators was to "create one of those characters." Screenwriter Wang Xiaoping said: "Tu Youyou is a very famous Chinese scientist, but as a pharmacist, her experiments and life from the public materials she sees, it is trivial, bland, boring and boring, and she may lack dramatic tension." But I grew up in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, including the detail that Tu Youyou forgot her child in kindergarten, in fact, when I was very young, it was also my experience. What is the state of life like as a mother and wife? I'm particularly familiar with it. ”
How to create an image of Tu Youyou, who is both ordinary and vivid, different from other film and television works, and different from other female scientific research workers, and create a special one in that group, this is what Zheng Xiaolong and Wang Xiaoping are most concerned about.
After a large number of interviews and contacts with tu youyou's people, the creators found Tu Youyou's character traits - undistracted concentration, which is simple and stubborn beyond all interpersonal relationships, ignoring the opinions and eyes of others. Wang Xiaoping writes Tu Youyou's focus interestingly and cutely through various details, in order to develop new antimalarial drugs, for the sake of mothers and children in the world, she ignores her children; her attention is always focused on topics related to scientific research, and in the eyes of outsiders, she often seems to be "out of the soul". These details of life may make Tu Youyou's image unforgettable as soon as she appears.
Zheng Xiaolong: Zhou Xun's appearance was approved by Tu Youyou himself
The main creative team of the "Tu Youyou's Gift" unit can be called "detail control". In order to show the face of that era, the crew did a lot of preparatory work. From the production of clothing, to the restoration of women's hairstyles at that time; from a pair of glasses and a notebook, to the restoration of the "Great White Building" of the Chinese Medicine Research Institute of the main scene, to the construction of the field hospital of the Vietnamese army in Hainan, and the transportation of seven heavy props for extracting artemisinin from Elephant Mountain... The crew strives for a high degree of restoration from all aspects.
Tu Youyou, a straightforward, unconcerned and sophisticated, and regards scientific research as his destiny, is also a character that the lead actor Zhou Xunda likes and wants to play. Zheng Xiaolong and Wang Xiaoping know Zhou Xun and know the similarities between her and the characters, they say: "If you know Zhou Xun, she has similarities with Tu Youyou, she does not like to be lively, she is not good at interpersonal communication, and even Zhou Xun will stutter when expressing herself." When she was filming, she was very focused on the scene, so Zhou Xun read the script herself, and she said: There are many places where I am particularly similar to Teacher Tu. ”
Zheng Xiaolong commented that Zhou Xun is an actor with a particularly strong sense of shaping: "We chose her because her sense of shaping is particularly strong, and she likes to challenge roles that have not been played before. The second is that her desire to create is particularly strong, as soon as she heard that she wanted to shoot this, she agreed, and she didn't even read the script, she felt that it was a fit with her, and she dreamed that she was going to play a heroine with glasses. Wang Xiaoping revealed that after Zhou Xun finished acting, he watched the film, "she rarely voted for herself satisfactorily, and she liked it."
Zheng Xiaolong also revealed an interesting detail: "Tu Lao originally did not know who Zhou Xun was, because she was involved in her scientific research, she did not watch TV, did not know who Zhou Xun was. But her daughter-in-law heard about it, and she told her mother: How good is Zhou Xun as an actor, and how good is acting. Her mother said: Then Zhou Xun."
Zhang Songwen plays Tu Youyou's husband, and the family drama shows the romance of scientific researchers
On the 15th, the drama party released the unit poster and unit trailer of "Tu Youyou's Gift". In the unit poster, Tu Youyou (Zhou Xun) looks into the distance with his usual calm look, showing that this simple, straightforward and calm scientist still upholds scientific ideals in difficult times, and finally discovers the code to attack human diseases. At the same time, Li Tingzhao (played by Zhang Songwen), Lao Xu (played by Song Jialun), Zhang Jianguang (played by Yu Rongguang), Dr. Liao (played by Chen Baoguo), Tu Mu (played by Xi Meijuan), Tu Father (played by Bai Zhidi) and other family and colleague characters also appeared.
Zhang Songwen starred as Tu Youyou's husband Li Tingzhao.
Among them, Zhang Songwen's role is also a major attraction. He starred as Tu Youyou's husband Li Tingzhao, in order to let his wife focus on her career, he took care of all the family affairs alone, which was the most solid backing for Tu Youyou's scientific research career. Between the two people, there is not only chai rice oil and salt, chicken feathers and garlic skin, but also thinking about the future of their careers and the fate of life. In the play, when the two look up at the stars in the middle of the night and imagine the future, Tu Youyou said to Li Tingzhao: "Do you think people will get old?" I don't think so, people who believe in science and truth will never get old! This scene exhibits the romantic feelings unique to scientific researchers.
In an interview, director Zheng Xiaolong talked about his realistic creative concept: "I am particularly afraid of realistic creation, that is, the truth of life and the rationality of logic, including the serious treatment of common sense. When it comes to "Meritorious Service", everyone says that it is a heroic figure, and there must be heroic expression. But I offered to photograph the extraordinary in their ordinary, and also include the ordinary in their extraordinary. We do not engage in that kind of pseudo-passion, through shouting slogans to move people, which is what modern people especially do not like to hear, through the story, plot, character shaping to move people, the people can see it, have emotional investment, but also let people really like these people who "Meritorious". ”