Shanghai is Wu Junmei's hometown, and she enjoys living in the city. She admired every landscape around her, just as others were appreciating her.
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In 1983, Wu Junmei made her first film in her life, "Long Live Youth". Before filming began, the two drama teachers trained the actors for three months. Director Huang Shuqin said that the role will be decided after three months. There are a total of seven protagonists, and Wu Junmei is designated as the seventh. She thought to herself that the seventh scene was less, lighter, and less stressful. But when it came time to shoot, she was nervous. After filming the first scene, she wrote to her mother that she would not be an actor in the future and would return to school to study well.
Adapted from Wang Meng's novel of the same name, "Long Live Youth" tells the life of a girls' high school in Beijing in the 1950s, and the novel was rated as "the most beloved book" by middle school students across the country in 1982. The film also won the Outstanding Film Award at the 8th Tashkent International Film Festival. For Wu Junmei at that time, this was a very high starting point.
Director Niu Ben watched "Long Live Youth" and felt that she could continue to act in movies. So he found Wu Junmei and let her play herself. Subsequently, Wu Junmei starred in her first TV series "Treading Waves".
After "Stepping on the Waves" was broadcast, Zhang Zhuo, who later worked as the director of the TV drama production center at Hunan Television Station, found Wu Junmei and said that he was going to make a TV series called "Going To the Distance". Wu Junmei played an unemployed young man in the play. This drama won the first prize of the Fifth National TELEVISION Drama "Feitian Award".
One movie, two TV series, these are the achievements of Wu Junmei's middle school years. But she was still unsure of her future direction. Even during college, I studied tourism management, which is far from being an actor.
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Teenager Wu Junmei can shoot so many scenes, which has a lot to do with her mother. Wu Junmei's mother was Zhu Manfang, a famous actress from the Shanghai Film Studio. She followed her mother into the shooting scene since she was a child, and she could get close to the excellent actors of that era, such as Qin Yi, Zhao Dan, and Bai Yang.
After Wu Junmei became an actress, her mother Zhu Manfang liked to compete with her in acting skills. Sometimes Wu Junmei can't accept her mother's blunt comments on her acting skills. Teacher Zhu Manfang is from a background in the study of Stanislavsky's performance theory, wu Junmei is not an academic, she relies on the experience of practical exercises. Whenever she gets the script, her mother will take it to see it, and after reading it, she will help analyze the characters, memorize the lines together, make up the lines, and sometimes the mother and daughter will sit in the hall to observe the people and environment around them when they go out to eat.
In fact, in the beginning, the mother thought that her daughter was not suitable for being an actor.
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Wu Junmei gained international fame because of "The Last Emperor". She played Puyi's concubine Wen Xiu, a woman who chose to divorce the emperor.
At first, Bertolucci could not call out Wu Junmei's name, and always called her "wuwu", after which, the whole group followed "wuwuwu". Wu Junmei said to Bertolucci, do you know that it is very strange to call me by my name? Trains make that sound.
"So what should I call you?" Bertolucci asked.
"You can give me an English name." Wu Junmei said.
The crew all helped her think. From A to Z, someone said "Vivian", and when she heard it, she thought the name was pronounced very well. Vivien Leigh is her favorite British actress, whose English name is Vivien Leigh. She thought, if my name is Vivian Wu and I marry a gentleman named Li, won't I become Vivien Li (leigh)?
In 1988, at the 60th Academy Awards, "The Last Emperor" won nine awards, and Wu Junmei also won the Italian David Award for Best Supporting Actress. Subsequently, she began to recognize her future path and studied film art.
In 1994, Wu Junmei met the producer Oscar when she starred in a play. Two years later, they got married. Wu Junmei's English name is still "Vivian Wu".
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In 2006, Wu Junmei and her husband planned to make a movie called "Shanghai Red Beauty". Her husband is a director and screenwriter; Wu Junmei is a producer and a star.
This movie was written specifically by her husband to Wu Junmei. The background of the story was originally in New York, but before the film began, Wu Junmei decided to make adjustments and change to Shanghai shooting. She wants to make a Chinese film with feelings and a big logo of Shanghai Film Studio in the land of her hometown, which is her wish and dream.
During filming, Wu Junmei, as a producer, responded to the director's requirements.
The first actor the director wanted was Sun Honglei. He was the actor he saw in a TV series, when Sun Honglei played a bad guy. The director said that the actor with a little small eyes was very good.
To Wu Junmei's delight, Sun Honglei quickly agreed.
The second actor the director wanted was Ge You.
Wu Junmei and Ge You have known each other for a long time. Ge You's father, Ge Cunzhuang, and Wu Junmei's mother, Zhu Manfang, took their children to Harbin to participate in the Ice Sculpture Festival, where they met. But they really got acquainted with it in 2004, when Wu Junmei made the movie "Beauty Is Still" in Qingdao, where Wang Zhiwen and Ge You were also there, and several people have become acquainted since then.
The director made the third request, a scene on the Bund in Shanghai. Located on the top floor of a seven-story building on the Bund, the restaurant was once listed by a magazine as one of the 100 best restaurants in the world. They all loved it there.
Wu Junmei called a taxi and went directly to the restaurant. At 10:00 a.m., the store had just opened. Wu Junmei said, we want to shoot a movie, we want to shoot a scene here, can you please support? After chatting for a few minutes, what she didn't expect was that the other party readily agreed, saying that there was no problem. Just about to talk about the price, the other manager said, free, I recognize you.
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In 2008, a TV series called "Snail Residence" threw an olive branch to Wu Junmei, directed by Teng Huatao, and the filming location was in Shanghai.
Wu Junmei was taking care of her sick father in Shanghai at the time. His father had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage the year before, had three craniotomy operations, and stayed in the hospital for a long time, and Wu Junmei often ran between the hospital and the family. She thought that if "Snail House" was filmed in Shanghai, it would be just enough to take care of it when it was empty.
She and Teng Huatao met at a café. The two first met and talked happily. Teng Huatao said that how you make a movie, I will shoot you. Due to fate, Wu Junmei took over the role and talked a lot about shooting ideas with the director. Since then, she has locked herself in her room, studied the lines and pondered the characters for several days, and by the time she arrived on set, she had memorized all the lines in the script.
In "Snail Residence", Wu Junmei played Song Siming's wife. For a long time, because I have not starred in a TV series, on the set, Wu Junmei will be very nervous, and often ask her partner Zhang Jiayi: "Teacher Zhang, I can't do my lines, you have to teach me." ”
Zhang Jiayi said: "I tell you, when I was studying in Chinese opera, my lines sometimes failed. Now there are subtitles, and the subtitles are clearly typed, and others know what you are talking about. ”
Wu Junmei knew that Zhang Jiayi said this to make her relax. He often gave her reassurance pills on the set, and some plots Wu Junmei worried that he did not handle well, Zhang Jiayi said, you have a strong aura, and when you stop there, you will become.
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After the broadcast of "Snail Residence", there was an interesting phenomenon, Wu Junmei was walking on the street, and many people came directly to ask: "Where is Song Siming?" ”
Once a person suddenly rushed to her and asked, "Mrs. Song, why didn't Song Siming come?" ”
"Who?" Wu Junmei was stunned.
"Aren't you Mrs. Song?" The man said, "I recognized you when I heard your voice inside." ”
After this incident, Wu Junmei called Teng Huatao and said that she was out now, and someone would always call her Mrs. Song. Teng Huatao replied that now, you can taste the taste of making TV dramas on fire.
In Shanghai, Wu Junmei also has many friends. For example, Jiang Shan and Ma Yili. Jiang Shan once told a story in a video interview, once when three people gathered, she and Ma Yili carefully dressed up and waited for Wu Junmei, but Wu Junmei had a plain face, wore a pair of cloth shoes, and came with a messy hair.
Hearing this, Wu Junmei laughed and said, "That's a pair of designer shoes I bought locally while filming, and they were also taught by me!" ”
"That hair is not awake, two years later it is popular all over the world, I will always be two and a half years ahead of fashion, hahaha." She laughed, then stood up, moved the chair back, pulled the hem of the skirt, and turned in a circle, "Don't hide from you, look at my dress, this is my mother wore when she was young, and now it is popular again, this is a kind of precipitation of the times." ”
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For many fans of Wu Junmei, the movie "Pillow Book" is her most famous work. The director is Peter Greenaway, who is good at expressing metaphors and symbols in films. Peter Greenaway has rarely worked with actors more than twice.
And Wu Junmei is the actor he has worked with twice.
Later, someone told her: As an actress, you can retire after filming Greenaway's "Pillow Book".
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The TV drama industry has been constantly improving and becoming more and more standardized.
A long time ago, when shooting costume dramas, the set of the play was mostly plastic, the green lawn was plastic, the tree was plastic, and the rockery fake water fake scenery.
When filming "Ruyi Zhuan" in 2016, Wu Junmei, who had not filmed costume dramas for many years, found that they were all real objects with real scenery, and many equipment and technologies would be used to shoot heavy scenes, and the dressing room was lined up and neatly. It can accommodate a dozen actors there to make up.
In "Ruyi Biography", Wu Junmei played the empress, and after reading the script, she found that this empress dowager was too interesting, "She is the only woman who accompanies the emperor to the end." She said to Huo Jianhua: Teacher Xiao Huo, it is me who will accompany you to the end.
In "The Legend of Ruyi", the most impressive scene is that she and the emperor played by Huo Jianhua go from one end of the palace to the other, and she has a lot of lines, and she has to read a lot of complicated names in that clip. You must also stop in front of a parrot to tease it halfway through. Sometimes it is a person who forgets the name while walking, and sometimes the parrot does not cooperate well. She remembered that the scene was filmed many times, and every time she came back, she said to Huo Jianhua and the staff on the scene, "I'm sorry, I have to do it again." Huo Jianhua smiled and said it was all right. Wu Junmei laughed and said, "He didn't say a word in that scene." ”
There was also a scene where the crowd came to ask the empress dowager for peace, and Wu Junmei sat on it, just needing to watch them come in one by one and kneel, kneel, kneel.
Wu Junmei looked down, and the people who invited An below were all well-known young actors in China, Huo Jianhua, Zhou Xun, Dong Jie, Zhang Junning, Tong Yao, and so on. Later, the eunuch palace ladies were all kneeling there, and she was alone on the top, and at that moment, she suddenly felt a little weak and afraid.
After filming that scene, she hurried home to clean the toilet and do housework. She said to herself, "You have to do something more realistic, you are an ordinary person." ”
In the costume drama, the "official" of the role she played was quite large, the bigger the official, the heavier the things on the top of the head, the more experienced it was at the beginning, honestly resisting, cervical spondylosis was committed. Later, when I had experience, I sat against the wall, with my head on the wall, which made it easier. Once, after filming a costume drama, she looked in the mirror at home and suddenly found that a large piece of hair was missing from the top of her head, and she panicked and shouted at her husband: "Oscar, I am as bald as you!" ”
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It's June 2021, and Wu Junmei and I are sitting in a street café in Shanghai, with large floor-to-ceiling glass, no curtains, and pedestrians walking around outside the window. Occasionally, a pedestrian would suddenly stop, look at Wu Junmei through the glass, look at it for a while, and then leave again.
Only a middle-aged woman walked into the café and walked up to us, wandering constantly. Suddenly, she pointed at Wu Junmei and asked, you are, you are the star, right? Then she took out her phone to take a picture.
Wu Junmei tried to cover her face with her hands and said, "I don't wear makeup." She thinks she should wear makeup, this habit is not very good, she feels particularly sorry for the fans.
She asked us, "Who is your favorite female star?" What would you think if you happened to see her plain face? ”
I said, Maggie Cheung, but never seen her plain face. Wu Junmei said, "I've really seen it." Wu Junmei collaborated with Maggie Cheung and Yang Ziqiong on a film "The Song Dynasty". Once, after filming a scene, three women sat in the car. Wu Junmei said let's play a game, if you want the most beautiful face, everyone thinks, what you want me, what you want Yang Ziqiong, what you want Maggie Cheung.
Maggie Cheung said, I want Wu Junmei's nose and mouth, and I want Yang Ziqiong's hair.
Wu Junmei said, I want Maggie Cheung's eyeballs. She felt that Maggie Cheung's eyes were like elves, black and slippery, and particularly attractive.
"Yang Ziqiong is the most reserved, she didn't ask for anything from both of us."
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Wu Junmei said that the most handsome actor she has ever worked with is Zun Long. Worked together twice, but the two don't have much contact now. She said Zun Long was too mysterious and didn't have his phone number, only where he had lived before.
She remembers that about ten years ago, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Shanghai Silver Star, as soon as she walked into the lobby, she suddenly saw Zun Long, who was holding a golden retriever and walking over.
That was the last time she saw Zun Long. She recalled that his dog was so beautiful.
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