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In 2013, actor Yan Zhuoling was nominated for Best Actress at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards and nominated for the 50th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for his film "Crazy Dance Party".
She was 20 years old that year, and she had no concept of awards of the magnitude of the Golden Statue and the Golden Horse, and for her, the Golden Statue and the Golden Horse were "the ceremonies that appeared on TV", which was a program that would be watched while eating with her family, "It is difficult to imagine that I really jumped in." ”
Before preparing to go to the ceremony, Yan Zhuoling was completely confused as to why he appeared there, "I am very confused." "It wasn't until she actually stepped on the red carpet of the awards ceremony that she had a real sense of where she was.
However, the impression of mainland audiences on her does not begin with the Academy Awards and golden horse awards, but from the movie "Finding the Dragon". The short purple-and-white haired, playing girl Yoko with a strange accent was the beginning of most mainland audiences getting to know her. Later, she successively starred in the movie "Beijing Meets Seattle's Love Letter", "Six Alley Cafe", the web drama "Original Sin", etc., and also participated in the director's casting reality show "Actors Please Take Place", which belonged to zhao Wei's directorial group and gradually became famous.
Now, she plays the heroine in the suspense drama "I Met Him in Hong Kong", starring in "Hong Kong Little Nezha" Zhang Fork fork.
This young actor is free-spirited and free-spirited. Her heart occasionally fights, and her work self, her acting self and her private self sometimes fail to understand each other. How to balance market rules, popular preferences and her own tastes, she is still looking for.
But there's one thing she's stuck to all along, whether it's when she was just nominated at the age of 20, or now.
"I remind myself not to forget my original intention. It may be difficult for the world to change because of you, but don't forget the things in your heart that will glow, the things that hold you here. ”
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Zhang Fork in "I Met Him in Hong Kong" is a quirky real estate agent who calls himself "Hong Kong Little Nezha", and he is grinning and informal.
This role is very different from Yan Zhuoling herself, Yan Zhuoling is introverted, many times more "slow", Zhang Fork is the opposite, she is very "fast", very outgoing. Director Ju Xingmao's request for Yan Zhuoling is to release.
"He needs me to have some rhythmic or expressive adjustments, and he gives me some Japanese actors' performances as a reference." Because I haven't seen a lot of Japanese works before, after shooting for so long, I looked at it again, and found that there are some actors or some character types in Japan, and I will put out my thoughts very bluntly. I think the director's suggestion to me at that time was actually very good. ”
Her idea is that the role of Zhang Fork must be separated from the character and personality of the male protagonist Li Jia. Because Li Jia, Zhang Fork fork, including the male number two Shi Cheng, are all somewhat extreme characters. "Li Jia's words, he is a rather extreme nerd, very persistent, very serious, a little less social. Among us there is Ah Cheng, who is also one of the comedians. We all have to have different acting styles or personalities. ”
However, this kind of outgoing performance, in the eyes of some audiences, is a bit too exaggerated, and they can't fully get used to this kind of outgoing performance. Yan Zhuoling has worried about whether the audience will accept it, but there is no way, because the role is the role. Playing a role that is different from his own personality is also an attempt that actors must do.
"Actors are not the same as singers, singers can be themselves, but actors are playing other people's roles. So at least you have to try, and after trying, you can slowly improve. ”
Before playing "I Met Him in Hong Kong", Yan Zhuoling spent a month learning skateboarding because the role needed it. She doesn't want to "fake her hands and feet", and she can do it without a stand-in, so that the audience can look more natural. And skateboarding is actually the embodiment of her character's personality, and learning it yourself will help shape the character more deeply.
In addition to skateboarding, the preparation she also needs to do is to do psychological construction for herself, after all, Zhang Fork is "really very different from me personally.". When she is acting, she must constantly put aside her own ideas about Zhang Fork's "how to exaggerate so much" and substitute herself into it.
Yan Zhuoling feels that he is an experiential school, and after each role, some role characteristics will remain on him, especially Zhang Fork. "She was so different from me, and after the shoot I felt a lot more lively and active. But because it's been a long time now, she may remain in a very deep place in my heart. ”
The plot of the play that reveals her life is the moment when Yan Zhuoling is closest to Zhang Fork fork, patting and patting, she seems to have slowly entered the world of Zhang Fork Fork. "My story with my mother is actually only explained in that unit, but I don't know why, by that time (we) had a strong relationship." 」
Zhang Chacha sat in the Kowloon Tong Theater, looking at his parents on the big screen, tears flowing down his face. At that moment, Yan Zhuoling had an unexpected feeling, as if Zhang Fork had really completely run out of her heart.
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The idea of acting was rooted in Yan Zhuoling's heart when she was very young. She was exposed to stage plays in middle school and has been fascinated by acting ever since.
On stage, everything is concentrated, there are spotlights, and the audience doesn't argue around. Everyone is very focused on the performance on the stage, and the whole performance is also in accordance with the time.
But filming is different. "It's not sequenced to shoot, and there's a lot of difficulty on set. The scenes seen by the audience and the camera are close to the real, the situation of the characters in the story, but from the perspective of the actors, you will see a lot of messy machines, lights, a lot of staff, and the time is very fast. ”
This kind of jumping around, fragmentary working environment, in Yan Zhuoling's view, is a challenge for acting. In her own words, "At that time, I didn't know what to do, and I wanted to challenge the difficulty." So she chose to go in the direction of the big screen.
Yan Zhuoling used all the channels she could access at that time, including shooting advertisements and dramas, and entered this circle step by step.
Movie "Dance Faction"
But her fascination and fascination with acting is found on stage, "and it's easier to find that feeling than when filming or filming." "At that time, including when she first entered the film industry, acting was natural, and she would have a lot of feelings when she read the script. Then put on the character's clothes, put on the character's makeup, walk and talk will naturally become the role.
After really entering the circle, it is inevitable that there are many things to take into account, to publicize, to maintain her popularity, So Yan Zhuoling has a lot of things that are not completely related to performance and need to be maintained in this industry, which makes it more and more difficult for her to concentrate. "So now, I think I still need to find that natural mentality, but it's about trying very hard to get that feeling back."
"Looking for nature" is one of the obvious changes that Yan Zhuoling has felt since filming. It sounded like a step backwards, but some of her friends who read acting told her that this was a necessary path for an actor. In addition, in recent years, she has begun to shoot dramas, and she has a new experience for acting.
"Sometimes making a drama is closer to life than making a movie, because it has more bearings and transitions. Just as our lives don't have a single event waiting for you, many events happen when you don't expect it. When filming the drama, it is as if I have really lived another parallel life. ”
It sounded very mysterious and somewhat incomprehensible, so after saying it, Yan Zhuoling asked, "Can you understand?" I'm talking about it one by one. ”
She also doubted the so-called market rules, and had the idea of "is this really good?" In her opinion, "you watch the performance intently when you act, and listen to the song intently when you sing," but there may be many external factors that affect the audience and the audience's love, and everyone's taste is different. "Now I find that a lot of times the world is like this."
Even sometimes, Yan Zhuoling couldn't even figure it out himself. "For some people, Yan Zhuoling may have a cute face, but my own taste may be different, not very mainstream."
She was trying to find a balance.
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At the age of 20, he was nominated for the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards, and Yan Zhuoling more or less carried the hope of some Hong Kong fans.
Experiencing this expectation, Yan Zhuoling admitted that she would be under pressure, and the goal she was giving herself now was to put aside this pressure. "Because the most important thing is how to go down this path, and when you meet the role, how to follow the role."
After receiving the nomination, Yan Zhuoling did not have any plans for himself, and did not say very rationally, "How will I be this year, how will I be in the next year, how will I be before how old, no." "She has only one heart to rush forward.
After all, acting is a passive industry, and she does not have enough strong support behind her, even if she wants to shoot what kind of work, it is impossible for the crew to "fall from the sky". She had to work on her own.
Movie "Dragon Quest"
Many people have double award nominations because of her young age and think that she is a talented actress. But Yan Zhuoling only recognized experience, and was not very sure about talent. "And I don't think it's enough, even if you're a type, you have to add 100 percent firmness, which is determination, focus and hard work."
Yan Zhuoling in life does not like to socialize, she loves to clean up, stay at home to read books, do yoga, or climb mountains, run, rather than noisy, she prefers places with fewer people, is a standard housewife.
She prefers the works of modern women writers, because the minds of female writers are generally more delicate, especially the female perspective stories or autobiographies they write, which can make her feel more empathetic.
Yan Zhuoling also conceived some stories in his heart, thinking that he would see if they could be turned into works in the future, they were all female themes. Among these ideas, the more formed one is the first one, which was born when "Dance Party" was released. Like her taste, there is no particular mainstream.
"There are too many different aspects of the story in this world, and there are some meaningful angles and issues that need to be discussed with people behind the scenes. The road to acting can be very long, and when you are old, there are also old roles that need you. "Whether it's a career or an expression of self-awareness, there's no need to rush it.
"Of course, just at this age, I also feel very eager to fight." It is really only with age that there is such a mentality. ”
Web Drama "Original Sin"
Yan Zhuoling does not give herself rules, for the future, she hopes that while she is in awe of the performance, she can walk with the character more and more loosely and continue to look for her "natural".
Q&A
Hoshiban: Do you have a role you particularly want to play right now, or something you particularly want to try?
Yan Zhuoling: I want to teach my parents yoga, which has nothing to do with acting (laughs). Because their age began to slowly increase, they did not do much sports, this year I went to Bali to take a yoga instructor card, when I took the exam while taking notes, learned some things, I felt that my parents must need this.
Hoshiban: I didn't expect that. Do you have any other hidden skills?
Yan Zhuoling: What else? I wanted to take a fitness coach card a while ago, because actors may be more likely to get injured when filming. I think of a point that is a bit similar to the fork, we like to carry a lot of things by ourselves, plus my own curiosity is relatively high, so I want to know my body, because these things are not time to study when you are busy.