The Paper's reporter Yang Qian
Zhou Ye's starting point as an actor must be enviable in the acting department.
Through "Young You", the audience got to know Wei Lai. Although there are not so many scenes, Zhou Ye's performance is hateful to Wei Lai, she is done very appropriately, and some readings are still popular in Douyin, attracting many people to lip-sync performances. The audience remembered this beautiful-looking girl with smart eyes. At the time of the film, Zhou was also a sophomore at the Beijing Film Academy, and Wei Lai was her second role as an actress.
If the hateful and pathetic Wei Lai let the audience see the plasticity of Zhou Ye, Gu Xiang in "Mountain and River Order" shows more possibilities for Zhou Ye as an actor.
Zhou Ye himself and Gu Xiang's personalities have a high degree of overlap, both are simple and optimistic, and they are very grinning. What about places that don't look like that? Zhou also thought for half a day, the answer is That Gu Xiang "loves to eat too much, the first to eat in the Ghost Valley", but she herself is not very able to eat, "nor does it love to eat, it is that the stomach is too small, and it is full after eating a few bites." "Versailles?" If it's not, it's just that I can't eat it. Zhou also had a cute regret in his tone.
Stills from "Mountain and River Order", Zhou also played Gu Xiang
Stills from "Young You", Zhou also played Wei Lai
Zhou also got the script and saw that Gu Xiang was a girl who grew up in the ghost valley of Eryu and me, although she was fortunate to have Wen Kexing, the master who protected her, but the jianghu was sinister, and Gu Xiang never really relaxed. Zhou also liked Gu Xiang's temperament, and after seeing the ending, he couldn't help but feel sad.
Similar personalities, similar age, but her and Gu Xiang's growth treatment is very different. Zhou is also a family-loving child, rarely left her parents' life since childhood, she likes literature and art, the piano is her favorite, when she was a child, she dreamed of "playing the piano and then collecting tickets". After the third year of high school, he was in the mood to try the art exam, and he was actually admitted to the Beijing Film Academy. College was the first time she had left home. From the sophomore year, Zhou also tried to see the group filming, the most difficult day is just to the crew of the few days, everyone does not know each other, she does not like the strange environment, the pressure is so big that she can only hide in the room and cry, crying and crying and familiar with others, began to eat, drink and chat, only to slow down.
But Gu Xiang is laughing in most shots, rarely crying, and the scene that cries the most is the big wedding, she loses her lover and fights for her life. Zhou also felt that Gu Xiang was too bitter, so "I should be happy when I grow up", but when she thought of the big wedding scene, she couldn't help but sigh repeatedly, Gu Xiang's short life had just gone to the human world for a walk, and met his true love, "I am difficult to reconcile, why can't they be together?" Can't live well? ”
Stills from "Mountain and River Order"
Set photos of "Mountain and River Order"
Zhou also recalled that the big wedding scene was her most hard-working scene, first of all, she filmed for three consecutive days, because she had been fighting and killing, so she had to hang Weiya all the time, "Basically I have been fighting alone, and I have to beat some hair ornaments in my hair." Costumes are thick and easy to stumble on. And I had injured my foot before, so I was a little afraid to hang myself. ”
Secondly, this part is also the heaviest one for Gu Xiang, and Zhou is also very distressed about Gu Xiang, so he can't help but cry very deeply, "I can't tell whether my face is tears or saliva, cold and cold." She hopes to make everyone feel Gu Xiang's pain through herself. In fact, Gu Xiang is not an easy role, simple cute and spicy, it sounds like a typical small pepper or small white rabbit type role, but over-playing the audience will feel exaggerated, not in place and can not reflect her characteristics, Zhou also said that her grasp of Gu Xiang is to grasp the two keywords of "innocence" and "evil qi".
【Dialogue】
"Gu Xiang is a very intellectual type of small pepper"
The Paper: When you saw the role of Gu Xiang, what did she make you think was your favorite point?
Zhou Ye: I think it is a heartache from the heart. Gu Xiang is a very intellectual little pepper, born from the Ghost Valley, and grew up in a place of fighting and killing since she was a child, but her heart is particularly innocent and kind. Another point, she has a strength, she is not only blindly simple, her heart is actually quite sensitive, and then she will hide some of her vulnerabilities, so she will see people scary, see people curse.
From her experience, she did not know what the outside world was like, she came to the human world, met Big Brother Cao, the whole process is a change in her life, such an experience makes me particularly distressed.
The Paper: How did you feel when you first saw the script?
JC: I started by watching the first 10 episodes. When I wasn't given the entire script, I couldn't read it very well, and I couldn't tell what Wen Kexing was out for? Is it good or bad? In fact, the first 10 episodes of The part about Gu Xiang is not particularly much, it can be seen that it is particularly cute, a child with a big grin, and Wen Kexing have a feeling of dependence on each other.
The Paper: Do you like this kind of character that is not very complex, or is it a more layered, complex character that can show acting skills?
Zhou Ye: I think it's all right, good roles I'm willing to try. I think that if the character and experience of this character are very pleasing, I will have a sense of substitution when I see it, I will like it, and I like it.
The Paper: What is the more difficult part of playing Gu Xiang?
Zhou Ye: The difficulty should be playing drama. "Mountain and River Order" really has a lot of martial arts dramas, because it is a story on the rivers and lakes, so I have a lot of things to communicate before I start the camera, especially the big wedding scene we played for a long time. Literary drama, for me, is not very difficult, of course, not simple, I think each role has its own difficulty, Gu Xiang is you want to play her innocent side, to play her in the ghost valley grew up a little demon side, I think this is more difficult to grasp, naïve and evil.
The Paper: She is a very innocent and cute girl, but her experience is very rich, how do you balance her innocence and sophistication?
Zhou Ye: Snarky and mean, especially fierce and fierce, and she wants to kill and fight at every turn, which is some of the habits she brought from the Ghost Valley. However, she has also been well protected by Wen Kexing since she was a child, so she presents two sides of human nature. In the Ghost Valley, she can only protect herself through fierce ways, but when she meets people like Zhang Chengling, the sisters who sell songs, and Cao Weining, she will go to save them and help them fight hooligans, and she also has a good place in her heart.
The Paper: When you chase the drama yourself, will you be more immersed in the plot, or will you pay more attention to your acting skills?
JC: I hope the next time will be better every time.
The Paper: Does it mean not paying so much attention to your acting skills or...
JC: Don't pay attention.
"My standard is to make every character successful"
The Paper: When considering taking on this play, do you worry about everyone comparing your previous works or achievements? In particular, newcomer actors with a better starting point may encounter such problems.
Zhou Ye: No, I don't think my requirements for myself will change. My standard is to make every character successful.
The Paper: Is the so-called "success" criterion established through the evaluation of people or audiences in the industry, or through movie watching?
Zhou Ye: I will have a certain feeling about the role I play, and I will also look at what others say about me, and the opinions given to me by my predecessors will be combined.
The Paper: Do you care a lot about the various remarks on social networks right now? Do you go to see it very often?
Zhou Ye: I won't watch it, but I don't mind, there must be something I can learn. Of course, at first you will care, but because you care, you have to do better, you can't just care and not do it, when you do it, you will feel that you are going in a good direction, and your mood will not become so bad. I am especially willing to accept everyone's opinions, good and bad, because if a person wants to grow, he must accept everyone's feedback, cannot blindly immerse himself in his own world, and cannot only listen to others praise you.
The Paper: Have you wanted to be an actor since you were a child?
Zhou Ye: It was not a dream from childhood, at that time, it was an unintentional willow accidental admission, just want to play the feeling. But since I got into film school, studied in school for 4 years, and received a series of trainings, I feel that the profession of actor is a goal for me now.
Zhou is also in front of the Beijing Film Academy
The Paper: When did you start wanting to go the path of an actor? Why try it?
Zhou Ye: I started from college. After you enter the film school, you will have many opportunities to meet the director and meet the group, eager to shoot a play starring you, try again and again, meet the scene that is willing to use you, and start the road of filming, thinking that filming is very interesting and happy.
The Paper: At such a young age, you were recognized by everyone for the role of Wei Lai, will you have pressure on the future?
Zhou Ye: First of all, I was able to make such a movie in my sophomore year, and it was with Winter Rain's sister and Yi Qianxi, which was particularly lucky, and I didn't feel that there was any problem at all, and I felt that I couldn't let people who liked me down. I didn't say that I did a good job this time, and there will be no (drama) next time I will not do well, there will definitely be difficulties, but it must also develop healthily.
The Paper: What is the biggest inner motivation for you to stick to the profession of being an actor?
Zhou Ye: I think it may be that I often watch movies in school, if it is the directing department, when I watch it, I hope that I can also make a cow movie in the future, then when I am in the acting department, I hope to be able to act in a particularly powerful movie, everyone will think so, this may be the influence of the school atmosphere.
The Paper: Did you maintain a viewing frequency during your work later? Do you have a favorite actor?
Zhou Ye: I basically go to see new movies, and I also watch some old movies at school, and I like "Smell the Fragrance and Recognize Women". I was watching Back to the Future recently, and I've always known about this movie, but I haven't watched it, and I watched the first two of them recently, and it was really great to shoot in that era. Favorite actors such as Marlon Brando, who played "The Godfather" very well.
"Still need to rely on the efforts of the day after tomorrow"
The Paper: Do you feel like you're a talented actor?
JC: No. I can't be considered completely untalented, but I still need to rely on the efforts of the day after tomorrow.
The Paper: Why do you think so?
Zhou Ye: When you encounter a play that you are not satisfied with no matter how you act, you will feel it. For example, Gu Xiang, there is a scene that does not mean that I can't work hard, maybe after I finished acting, the director felt that he wanted to try another method, that is, the scene where I told Wen Kexing that I didn't want to leave him.
The director stood in a more macro situation, I only stood on Gu Xiang's ideas, and finally everyone synthesized it and fused two ideas to act.
The Paper: Where do you think you should maintain the strengths and the places where you need to improve?
Zhou Ye: I think I am still quite optimistic, and my heart is relatively large and simple. Where there is progress, I think there are many, such as lines and so on. I'm not a talented actor, so I have to be a model worker.
The Paper: So what do you feel like your biggest change and progress?
Zhou Ye: More independent. When I first started filming, every time I entered the group, I would hide in my room alone and cry, especially wanting to go home.
The Paper: What do you like to do when you are not working?
Zhou Ye: Lying at home.
The Paper: Do you like to social networks? Or playing games?
JC: I don't play social networks very much. I like to go home, there will be a lot of things to do when I come home, I don't have to look at my phone, I can play with my dad, play with my grandparents, I can go a day without looking at the phone.
The Paper: As an actor, do you have your own small goals or big goals?
Zhou Ye: Seize the time and opportunity, I hope to have more good works.
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