The drama "Hollywood has a big old man" is currently airing, although the drama was arranged to be broadcast in the "cannon fodder file" near the Spring Festival, but the ratings were still ideal. In the play, Shu Qi, played by Baby John, and Mo Ji, played by Wu Yekun, become a pair of living treasures, leaving a deep impression on the audience.
For the name Cai Hanyi, there may be some viewers who feel that it is relatively unfamiliar. It turns out that "Hollywood has a big old man" is the second TVB drama in which Cai Hanyi participated, the first one is 2017's "Old Watch, Graduation Horn!" 》。
Although Cai Hanyi is still a newcomer in terms of filming, in fact, he has participated in many movies, and after media statistics, he has surpassed Gu Tianle and Zhang Jicong to become the most prolific actor in Hong Kong films.
I believe that many people have an artist "chain of contempt" in their hearts, believing that actors who make movies are more advanced and bigger than actors who shoot TV series. Many actors also take the big screen as their goal, but Cai Hanyi, who has made a name for himself on the big screen, cherishes the opportunity to shoot dramas.
Cai Hanyi believes that TV dramas have great power: "The biggest expectation is that someone on the street calls me Shuqi, and when I went to eat with my wife that day, someone said: 'Isn't this Shuqi?'" I'm happy. I've experienced "Old Watch, Graduation Horn!" After that, I found that the power of the TV series was really powerful, and many 6- and 7-year-old children called me Stewart the happiest. Once I went to the fruit barn and a little friend asked his dad, 'Is he Steven Strauss, he's a lot like Stewart' I walked over to him and said, 'Are you looking for me?' I think it's because of a work that brings them closer, especially to children. ”
In addition to making his image more into the house, Cai Hanyi also said that filming dramas allowed him to learn a lot from his predecessors.
This time filming "Hollywood has a big old man", Cai Hanyi and Kent brother Zheng Zeshi have a large number of opponent scenes. He revealed that as long as the performance was slightly inappropriate during the shooting, Brother Kent would directly point out that the directness of the predecessors was indeed difficult for him to accept at the beginning.
But as the shooting progressed, Cai Hanyi found that Zheng Zeshi's suggestion made him improve a lot: "He knows very well what my strengths are, what my weaknesses are, and then he hopes to improve my shortcomings, so for me, he is a teacher, my teacher." 」 ”
Cai Hanyi said that he would chase the drama every night, because Brother Kent would call from time to time and ask, "Is this episode OK?" Looks good, what do you think needs to be improved? ”
In addition to acting skills, there is also a working attitude that the predecessors have inherited to the younger generations.
Cai Hanyi said that Zheng Zeshi's work attitude made him deeply infected: "Not only to be on time, but to arrive early, our group of people will arrive early, if it is 8:30 makeup, we will wear makeup at 8:30, 8:30 can already leave, go to the scene may not be the director is not ready for the machine, we are already rehearsing." ”
After two years of participating in TVB dramas, when talking about why he starred in this drama, Cai Hanyi said that it was because he wanted to go back to the sixties.
He thinks that era was very simple and simple: "Why I like this show, because I want to go back to the sixties, a world without social media, an era when I had to even call home, I think that in that era, everyone communicated more directly, and people's minds were more simple." 」 Now people are smart, but too smart, smart enough to have no conscience, will not kill you, but will not give you the best, because as long as it is just right, such as mobile phones, two or three years, an upgrade of the system will crash, so that you can increase sales. However, in the past, a phone could be used for decades and would not break when it fell to the ground. People's mentality is different now. ”
Cai Hanyi longed to return to that era, probably because he was also a simple person. Since his debut, no matter the highs and lows, Cai Hanyi has always adhered to that simple original intention.
Born in Hong Kong in 1986, Cai Hanyi dreamed of becoming a lawyer rather than an actor as a child. But the first time he stepped into the law firm, he dismissed this idea: "When I had the opportunity to go to the law firm with my mother, I saw that the entire cabinet behind the lawyer was full of books, and I dismissed this idea, but now I find that the actor reads a lot of books, which can be compared to the books behind the lawyer's cabinet." ”
Cai Hanyi wanted to be an actor because of a drama in middle school: "One day I saw a poster at school, it was a drama to solicit actors, I saw that I had to play, I could meet friends, I could go to the West Bay River Civic Center to perform, and I signed up immediately." After the performance, the applause from the audience was thunderous, and I felt good and decided to grow up to be a star. ”
The drama that made Cai Hanyi decide to enter the industry was called "West Side Story", and Cai Hanyi's role at that time was called Baby John, which is his current English name. Cai Hanyi chose this name to remind himself that he did not forget his original intention.
Determined to become a star, Cai Hanyi soon made the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts his goal. The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts has a five-year academic system, specializing in cultivating performance technical talents, which can be said to be a star-making factory.
However, after the exam, Cai Hanyi found that he had missed the registration time of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, which originally required students to register before the exam.
Cai Hanyi later planned to go abroad to study drama academies, but these schools stipulate that students must enroll before the age of 13. Cai Hanyi had to spend a year learning vocal music with Zhang Chongde, learning guitar elsewhere and teaching piano at ballet school to make a living.
A year later, Cai Hanyi finally got his wish to enroll in the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. But this utopia almost made Cai Hanyi give up his dream.
What made Cai Hanyi suspicious of himself was a class in his sophomore year: "In that class, I wanted to play against a grain of sugar, I buried my position for only two seconds, and I was stopped by the teacher; I was not willing, I raised my hand to try more than once, and it was two seconds to cut; the third time I raised my hand, the whole class did not make a sound, and my tears had already flowed to the corners of my eyes." ”
When the teacher commented, he said that Cai Hanyi did not have a jobyment when acting, and he did not really like acting. This comment is more devastating for Cai Hanyi, who has always made it his dream to become an actor, than saying that he can't act.
Cai Hanyi began to think about whether he really liked acting: "It turned out that I had always wanted to prove that I could, I just liked to get applause; after that time, I realized how superficial my understanding of dreams was." 」 ”
The applause of the middle school period made Cai Hanyi accustomed to being affirmed. The teacher's blow made him think about giving up for a while, and he laughed and said that "fortunately" the tuition is expensive, he did not want to give up halfway, rehearsed for more than ten hours a day, and finally let him understand what he loved.
"What exactly acting is, I'm still looking for it today, but at least I think I like to do it." Like playing Qiliang (character name), I really like to play tai chi, and I think about the role and how to act like this person. Now I think that when a character is made, the satisfaction does not come from the applause of the audience, but from the audience to discover that there are such people in the world, so that they have a feeling about life. Cai Hanyi realized that loving performance has nothing to do with whether there is applause or not.
After graduation, Cai Hanyi has been looking for opportunities to appear in movies, but after three years of searching, there is no result. During that time, he auditioned as soon as he had the opportunity, but there was no follow-up after the audition.
However, Cai Hanyi did not regret these attempts: "In fact, I have to audition is already happy, because there is only one scene, to do it immediately, it is very test how flexible you are, and you learn things every time." I'd rather have an audition without (result) than without an audition or an audition. ”
Of course, the dream must be persistent, but the premise is to live. A few years after graduation, Cai Hanyi once tried to fall double digits in the hukou: "There are only 75.5 left in the tried hukou, and I have to ask my mother to transfer 25.5 before I can withdraw money." ”
Cai Hanyi, who was exhausted, had joined the Sino-British Theater Company, a job with a stable income, but at the cost of a fixed 44-hour work a week. This job made Cai Hanyi feel farther and farther away from his film dream, and he simply resigned a year later.
When it comes to the reasons for his resignation, Cai Hanyi did not say very highly: "Because these jobs have to be long-term commitment, to commute to work on time, I can't always teach one or two classes and take leave to audition, which is unfair to students." ”
Those years of poor life also made Cai Hanyi develop the habit of saving, and every time he would save half of his income.
He admitted that he still lacks a sense of security: "Because our line has always been unstable, even if you look at the artist's income seems to be very good, but I am insecure, I often think, this month is good, what to do next month?" If this month is the last good income, what about the next few decades? ”
Cai Hanyi also has a principle, that is, he will not use future money: "I will not only have 50,000 yuan, but buy a car for 200,000 yuan." ”
In addition to saving money, Cai Hanyi also attaches importance to investment, but he also admits that he is very lazy in investment, and all of it is handed over to his mother to do the work.
In various investment methods, Cai Hanyi prefers insurance, even if the company has purchased insurance for him, he will also insure additionally: "Insurance is very useful, because I sometimes get hurt when filming, at least I have to pay." ”
Of course, Cai Hanyi's economic situation is much better now. In 2013, Cai Hanyi played Qiliang in the movie "Crazy Dance Party". This role brought him into the audience's field of vision, and After watching this movie, Zhou Runfa called him Chow Sing Chi's successor.
After Cai Hanyi learned about it, he said that he did not expect Zhou Runfa to watch this movie: "Brother Fa is a god-level idol, and I am not worthy of comparing with Zhou Xingchi, but he said so, so that I set my own goal and continued to develop in the film circle." ”
When asked if he would regard Zhou Xingchi as a goal, Cai Hanyi gave another answer: "It's not Zhou Xingchi, it's Liao Qizhi, what is red I don't know, I just want to keep a drama, the film stage or tv are good, I think there are difficult places, have to learn a lifetime." (I?) Yes, I. ”
"Crazy Dance School" can be said to be Cai Hanyi's masterpiece, but what impressed most mainland audiences more deeply should be the police officer Huang Tiannuo in the movie "Bomb Disposal Expert".
In the movie, Wong Tin Nova, played by Cai Hanyi, originally planned to cross the sea from the Hung Hom Tunnel, but was trapped because the bandits blocked the tunnel with bombs, and then the bandits discovered his identity as a policeman, so he was tied up with a bomb and walked out of the tunnel.
And Andy Lau played by the explosives disposal department superintendent Zhang in the mountain found that the bomb was too late to be dismantled, and finally endured the pain to cai Hanyi to fulfill the responsibility of the police, away from the crowd to wait for the explosion, and finally his role is naturally crushed to pieces.
I believe that the audience who has watched this movie will not forget the scene where Cai Hanyi, who is full of bombs, repeats Andy Lau's orders, this plot can be said to be the most depressing moment in the cinema atmosphere in the whole movie, many viewers have shed tears for the role of Cai Hanyi, and some people have praised his performance for not losing to Andy Lau.
This role also allowed Cai Hanyi to win the Best Young Supporting Actor Award at the "Golden Deer Award" in the Changchun film industry. As a Hong Kong actor, he won the Young Actor Award in the Mainland Film Industry, which shows that Cai Hanyi's acting skills have been recognized by everyone.
Although the popularity has risen, Cai Hanyi's sincere personality has not changed: "There are still friends who say that I have not changed before entering the industry, because of sincerity, so that I am worthy of myself in everything I do in this industry, and I will know why I want to do this, so I am very happy." For me it was the biggest gain. ”
Cai Hanyi believes that in the field of work, as long as you treat people with sincerity, others have feelings, even if that person will not use his sincerity to himself, at least he will not betray or kill himself.
A reporter once lamented after interviewing Cai Hanyi that he had never seen a Hong Kong boy in his 20s sit so straight on his waist and speak without half a joke. Cai Hanyi also said that he was a very stuffy person.
We often say that we can't judge people by their appearance, but Cai Hanyi's heart is as simple as his appearance. In the increasingly impetuous entertainment industry, actors like Cai Hanyi who act quietly are even more valuable.
In this era when traffic is king, Cai Hanyi's popularity is destined to be inferior to the fresh meat that relies on fans to brush the list. But the audience will use a sentence of praise to let the actors who act with their hearts on a broader stage.