"This role really doesn't work well. This role is particularly important to me, if you want to create this role is also very very difficult, this role will feel particularly tired and tired after a while, and now looking back on the shooting of some scenes, it is a kind of torment for me, because you have to really live in the spiritual world of that character, and what you touch around this character is a kind of suffering, such as responsibility, so you just said that he can't act well. You must use your heart to understand that it is possible to vividly show this role to everyone. ”
On September 11, Zhao Tianyu, director of the movie "Everything About My Mother", who will be released in the Mid-Autumn Festival, starred Xu Fan and Xu Yajun in Chengdu Wanda Cinema (Golden Bull Store) and other cinemas to meet with Chengdu audiences, Xu Yajun said bluntly in an exclusive interview with Red Star News reporters that the role created this time is very difficult and very tired.
Stills from "All About My Mother" According to the film
"Everything About My Mother" tells the story of the family relationship between "nagging mother" Ji Peizhen (Xu Fan) and "decadent youth" Li Xiaomei. Li Xiaomei, who drifted north, lived an ordinary and mediocre life. A sudden visit by her mother shattered the trajectory of her life, and also made her realize that everything about her mother did not seem to be as simple as she saw... The film will focus on the realistic emotional bond between Chinese mother and daughter, and project the true and complex mother-daughter affection in the film. During the test screening in Chengdu, many viewers cried. "Powerful actor" Xu Yajun, who plays his father Li Wenfang in the film, said that this role is particularly important to him, and it is very difficult to create this role.
There is a scene in the film where Ji Peizhen and her husband Li Wenfang snuggle closely by the sea and exchange heartfelt feelings. When Ji Peizhen asked himself when he would miss himself after leaving, this seemingly wooden husband, finally could not suppress his emotions, and his voice trembled and revealed the love in his heart: "When I go out; when I go into the house and turn on the lights; when I am sick and lonely; when I sleep..."
Talk about new films
"This role is really not good."
Red Star News: I remember that you rarely walked, but this walking performance is to give the audience a close interaction and see how everyone reacts?
Xu Yajun: This is a work arrangement, the roadshow I really did not go through, for me is a very new thing. Originally, I made more movies, and later I made more TV series. What is the difference between a movie and a TV series? TV drama is more like a fast food, but the movie is different, the movie is a delicate work, there is no way, this is limited by the art form.
Red Star News: Do you often come to Chengdu?
Xu Yajun: I am very familiar with Chengdu, I often came here in the 1980s to shoot movies, and the place where Eying Studio used to come to shoot scenes almost every year.
Red Star News: The role of Li Wenfang is a role with a rich sense of layering, how did you play this role well?
Xu Yajun: This role is really not good. This role is particularly important to me, if you want to create this role is also very very difficult, this role will feel particularly tired and tired after a while, and now looking back on the shooting of some scenes, it is a kind of torment for me, because you have to really live in the spiritual world of that character, and what you touch around this character is a kind of suffering, such as responsibility, so you just said that he can't act well. You must use your heart to understand that it is possible to vividly show this role to everyone.
Red Star News: What was the scene with the biggest mood swings during filming?
Xu Yajun: I don't know, I am following this character and following the heart, which scene has greater emotional ups and downs, I really don't know, I just do my best in every scene.
Red Star News: Many people say that you have a strong sense of CP with Xu Fan, which is very good, do you and Teacher Xu Fan have any stories on the set that you can share?
Xu Yajun: We are very familiar, because we are a generation of actors, including the feeling that is naturally very familiar when filming, we play mom and dad together in this play, when we cooperate, we have a tacit understanding, eye contact can be understood, no need to say anything more, no need to run into, very naturally integrated into this environment.
Red Star News: Before watching you post a weibo about your mother on Weibo, people were very touched, what do you think is the impact of your mother on you?
Xu Yajun: My mother is 85 years old, and I still communicate with her a lot, because she lived through that era, and I think it's very interesting to listen to her. In the play, there will also be a relationship with the mother, that is, Ji Peizhen's mother-in-law, our whole life is from birth to death, from young to old, this story is to tell the whole family together about the love story, no matter what kind of setbacks we encounter, we will use our hearts to drive away the setbacks and turn it into a road without bumps, which is the ultimate performance purpose of our story.
Talk about the future
"Cherish the opportunity to work with every director."
Red Star News: You have worked with many directors, including Zhang Yimou's "Rock Solid", what is the difference between this time and director Zhao Tianyu and the previous cooperation with director Zhang Yimou?
Xu Yajun: I think the two directors, if the difference is tall, fat and thin, but they have a lot in common, they are very serious about their work, their own career, very dedicated. I have learned many excellent shining points from them by working with them, and it is my honor to work with them, and I cherish the opportunity to work with them.
Red Star News: Many of the TV series you played have finally become blockbusters, like the role of the public security director in "The Name of the People" before, which is very attractive, when this role of this TV series became popular, did it have an impact on your future scripts, are you afraid of being labeled by the popular works?
Xu Yajun: In fact, after many actors play a role and are loved by the audience, they will face a problem, that is, whether they will fall into a trap, I think we are okay, when each role you use your heart to shape, you will not encounter this situation.
Red Star News: You have played so many roles, what means do you generally use to enter the role before receiving the role, is there any method or what kind of preparation?
Xu Yajun: In fact, each character has to have a process of entry, this process is very, very difficult, not so easy, sometimes we will say that the actor has a charm, that is, you create a character you have experienced a life, but this kind of life is not something you can easily experience, you have to enter the person's inner world is very difficult, just like a circle, you may need to find a breakthrough point to enter, each breakthrough point will be inadvertently found, we will try to do.
Red Star News: You've played a lot of roles, do you have any roles you want to challenge in your next play?
Xu Yajun: I don't know, depending on the situation, actors are sometimes very passive, and when they encounter roles, they need to use their hearts to feel and shape.
Red Star News: Is there a director you would most like to work with?
Xu Yajun: Being able to cooperate with these excellent directors is my own blessing and an opportunity, and I will cherish the opportunity to cooperate with every director.
Red Star News reporter Zhang Shihao Intern Wang Zuxi Guo Congli photo report
Edited by Duan Xueying
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