Beijing News (reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) According to the data of the professional version of the lighthouse, the movie "Everything About My Mother" directed by Zhao Tianyu and starring Xu Fan, Xu Yajun, Zhang Jingyi and Zhang Xinyi officially reached 150 million yuan at the box office, and this movie tells the story of her mother Ji Peizhen who endured illness and still worried about the life of a family in the countdown to life. Li Xiaomei, a rebellious north drift girl played by Zhang Jingyi, has gone from running away from her mother to re-understanding and cherishing the person closest to her. Playing her daughter Li Xiaomei is 22-year-old actress Zhang Jingyi, in the play, she and her mother Ji Peizhen have quarrels, have sympathy, have mutual incomprehension, and have also resolved differences. A little stubborn, a little persistent, this is the character background of "Li Xiaomei" in Zhang Jingyi's eyes, in her view, Li Xiaomei is like a mirror, from which you can see her own shadow.
Zhang Jingyi, who plays her daughter Li Xiaomei
Looking back, Zhang Jingyi debuted as the role of "Li Anran" in the high-profile youth drama "The Sky of the Wind Dog Youth", and graduated from the 2017 undergraduate class of the Acting Department of the Beijing Film Academy, and the 22-year-old resume already had film and television drama works such as "I Want Us Together", "Ideal Shines on China", "1921" and so on. Finding the direction and positioning of performance in more and more roles, Zhang Jingyi is more and more passionate about acting.
In "Everything About My Mother", the mother Ji Peizhen is the "soul pillar" of the whole family and takes meticulous care of the family; Li Xiaomei is a well-behaved child in the eyes of her mother, but there is a rebellious spirit in her heart that does not want to be disciplined: Li Xiaomei returned home from Beijing during the holiday, and her mother peeked at the photo album on her mobile phone in order to find out her daughter's emotional situation; Ji Peizhen and her husband drove from Qingdao to Beijing to visit their daughter, and the back of the car seat was stuffed with carefully prepared food; when she arrived in Beijing, she did not rest, and when she stepped into the room, she began to clean up, even in the garbage can "Suspicious" cigarette butts were to be turned over and placed on the table to question the daughter. Zhang Jingyi said that this role is "easy to play but not easy to play" for her - "The role of Ji Xiaomei is not pleasing, I have no similar life experience with her, but the same as her is the lack of understanding of her mother, I think this mentality everyone will have, in the process of playing also let me see my own shadow, as if exposing a certain side of me." During the playing process, I will go to the point that I have in common with her, people are multi-faceted, and each character will have similar resonances in you, just seize this point to expose some aspects of yourself.
Mother and daughter duo
It can be said that "Everything About My Mother" presents the most classic Chinese mother-daughter relationship - "Mother and daughter are the closest people, but you always challenge me and I challenge you, this is actually because the daughter knows that the mother will never be angry with herself." After watching the movie, many viewers exclaimed, "This is my right" and "This is my mother herself", which is the evaluation that most touched Zhang Jingyi. "A lot of the real revelations in this performance come from our original experience, such as we are all drifting north, so we can feel empathy when performing." After making this movie, I also changed a lot, such as arguing with my mother before, arguing after the quarrel, reconciling or how I will think about it later. But after acting in this movie, I will be stunned after the argument, think about it for a while, reflect on myself, and suddenly apologize to her. I used to think it would be fine in a few days anyway, but now I think more from her point of view. ”
This is the first time Zhang Jingyi cooperated with Xu Fan, in the face of a highly qualified actor, Zhang Jingyi said that it is more to calm down the mentality, under some of Xu Fan's guidance to naturally perform the play well: "At the beginning, I shot a lot of my own north drifting plays, this part is basically not difficult, and later there are more plays with my mother, and I gradually get close to Xu Fan a lot, and naturally let go." Teacher Xu Fan is the kind of person who often cares about your 'legs are cold or not, hungry or not', and you will feel that she really looks like a mother during the play. Many times I would think that my mother would say this kind of thing, and I would have the courage to enlarge her a little, really treat her as a mother, and go to pick up her play. Zhang Jingyi said that before cooperating with Xu Fan, she thought she was more serious, but she was indeed extremely affinity when she got along: "She is like a little girl, she has to eat snacks when she is hungry, her mouth is hungry, and she is happy every day, and she is a particularly amiable predecessor." Privately, she would also deliberately call me 'Xiaomei Xiaomei', and I would call her mother, who got along on the set every day, and we would use these ways to get closer to each other. ”
Zhang Jingyi. Photo: Beijing News reporter Zheng Xinqia
One of the scenes that Zhang Jingyi was most impressed with was when Li Xiaomei and her mother played with their fingers on the bed. The performance was completely improvised, and the director said at the time that the two needed to show the state of the mother-daughter relationship, "Teacher Xu Fan said, 'I'll teach you a game I would play when I was a child', so I learned it on the spot, and this shot was captured." For the "sense of reality" presented in the film, Zhang Jingyi said that she would not memorize the lines too much when filming, nor would she set up the actions to be done in advance, but she would definitely figure out what the most needed to do in this scene was. "I think the sense of reality is to not use so much effort to shape, just to reveal it in the moment." After filming this scene this time, I have also changed a lot, I really feel that it is not that you have finished shooting how your acting skills are, whether you have improved, but that you have more feelings. Like when I filmed a scene in the Republic of China earlier, once I needed to brew emotions and cry sadly, I sat there by myself, and suddenly the voice of Teacher Xu Fan in the movie suddenly sounded in my head, and I cried when I thought about it. In fact, acting skills are not about what kind of skills you have, you have to really sink, experience, feel the role, you will remember. ”
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
Edited by Wu Longzhen Proofreader Li Shihui