This article is excerpted from a post by Teacher Liping.
Now I know that the TV series "Wind and Cranes" Zhou Jie is also there, when the director Liu Yiran called me and invited me to play the role, I could not participate because I was filming "Ridge of Heaven" in Shanxi, if I go, then we will be able to know. In 2004, she cooperated with Zhou Jie in the TV series "Spark", but there were very few scenes in the same scene, she played mrs. Zhou, the rich man's wife, and I played the "Lin Family Shop" type character Chen Tianfu. The real collaboration was in 2011, when the filming of "Paper Boats Burning in the Sky", a TV series depicting the treatment of schistosomiasis by the people of Jiangnan in the early days of the founding of New China. In the preparatory stage, director Liu Yiran told me that I wanted to ask Zhou Jie to play my wife, and I was very happy, but many years after the last cooperation, I don't know if she remembers me...
Zhou Jie is a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, we are gradually familiar with each other at work, and the relationship between husband and wife has narrowed the distance between the two of us. I remember that the whole drama brigade was in Jiaxing, and she and I went to Shanghai, and finally killed Qing on the steamship from Shanghai Baoshan to Chongming Island. The scene was filmed when our couple returned from overseas, and I played Xi Zhang, the first generation of returnees in New China, who played my wife, Fang Yuan, who is also a doctor of medicine. Zhou Jie was very enthusiastic, and on the day of the killing, she arranged a place and let the director ask me and the photographer Dongge to have a drink.
Although ten years have passed, there are some details of filming that I still remember. As a dancer, I witnessed her dancing posture on the filming scene, it was a scene of the couple walking, the lady came to the countryside on the front line of blood defense to see me, concerned about my life and diet, I made a fine adjustment of the lines of this play, remembering a sentence that the good big brother Yang Shulin, who had cooperated with me before, said when chatting with me: "The family has 10,000 acres of three meals a day, and the family has a thousand houses lying three feet wide at night..." I rubbed this into the line, it was a night play, after saying the line, I inadvertently hummed the "Voltava River" that the couple liked overseas. The theme song, Zhou Jie actually improvised; there was also a scene where she knew that I came to see me after using my body for immunization tests, it was filmed at the dock, in front of everyone we stared at each other, I held her shoulder, couldn't help but kiss her, she hugged me, the young actors around could not help but applaud; Zhou Jiemo's scene of back words was very cute, she did not make a sound, in a daze, some people thought she was idle, wanted to take a photo with her, she would refuse, after the play, she took the initiative to find someone who wanted to take a picture with her and apologized There are many details that can be recalled...
The last time I met her was in June 2012 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, to see the shanghai opera troupe performed by her supervision of the shanghai opera and dance troupe "Zhou Xuan", it was she who let the actor of the National Drama Theatre, our mutual friend Zhao Xiaochuan contact me, I and Xiaochuan brother discussed well, wait for the performance, together on stage to present flowers to her, but failed to do so, the National Centre for the Performing Arts has regulations, in addition to mobile phones, cameras, handbags and other items can not be brought into the theater, can only be sent outside the theater, and later wanted to invite her to gather, she said she is very busy, soon to return to Shanghai. Looking back now, this was the last time I met her, when she was really busy, and when the dance performance was over, she just squatted on the stage and said a few words to us offstage, because the media, her friends were still waiting for her...
None of us can predict how long the time will be in the future, only with the passage of time. While it is important for people to live, the meaning and breadth of life are more important. Teacher Zhou Jie, you are beautiful in my heart, you are tired and asleep...