When "Icebreaker Action" was filmed, two endings were designed for Ma Yunbo. One is to broadcast the ending, in which Ma Yunbo puts on handcuffs and atones for his sins by accepting legal punishment. In another version of the ending, after Ma Yunbo helped arrest Lin Yaodong, he silently walked into the deep sea. Before he died, he left Li Fei with his last words, "I want to stay alone with your master for a while." ”
Character photography / Beijing News reporter Wang Jianning
In the view of Ma Yunbo's actor Zhang Xilin, these two endings are in line with the fate of Ma Yunbo's "tragic character". Ma Yunbo handed over all the evidence to Li Fei, who had no worries and could choose to redeem himself. It is more tragic to end your life by jumping into the sea, but as a policeman who has committed dereliction of duty, the best destination is to accept the people's trial. ”
From "Before Dawn" and "Homecoming" to "In the Name of the People" and "Icebreaker Action", Zhang Xilin has played many complex characters in the "gray area" in recent years. But compared to Zhang Xilin's name, the audience remembers his role more. After the broadcast of "Icebreaker Action", actor Wu Gang sent a Weibo "Cai Chenggong, I heard that you reported it again?" Netizens found out that "it turns out that Ma Yunbo is Cai Chenggong (a character in "The Name of the People")! No wonder it looks so familiar." For Zhang Xilin, each role can be remembered by the audience, and there is no trace of any former role, which is the biggest praise for mature actors, "but if the truth is true, I want the audience to remember my role, and also remember that my name is Zhang Xilin." ”
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He simply couldn't face his own compromises
In the black-and-white public security drama, Ma Yunbo is an extremely difficult "gray" character to portray. Externally, he is the glamorous deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, who needs to preside over the work with justice; but because his wife is addicted to drugs, he has to be controlled by the drug lord Lin Yaodong, and he is always trapped in the shackles of morality, guilt for his master Li Weimin, love for his wife, and wrestling with Lin Yaodong, and it is difficult to achieve balance and redemption.
TV series "Operation Icebreaker"
Before filming, Zhang Xilin first lost weight and lost 10 kilograms to ensure that the anti-drug police on the front line were not a fat man with flesh on his face. He flipped through a large number of anti-drug police works and borrowed the image of the ancient highly controversial assassin "JingKe", "When you have no one to believe, you can only put yourself in it." As an anti-narcotics policeman, Ma Yunbo's behavior was dereliction of duty. But for this character, he is more of a tragic character. ”
In order to reflect Ma Yunbo's inner entanglement, Zhang Xilin added a scene to the role - after Ma Yunbo took a kilogram of heroin for the first time, Zhang Xilin set him to be drunk, and when he returned home, he faced his wife Yu Hui, who was taking drugs, knelt on the ground and said "I love you" and kissed his wife crying. This "kiss scene", Zhang Xilin and the director discussed for a long time, Yu Hui's actor Xiong Ruiling also laughed and said that she dedicated the "first kiss on the screen" for many years to Zhang Xilin. Although this scene does not appear in the finished film, Zhang Xilin believes that this is the moment that best reflects Ma Yunbo's inner entanglement, "because he has no way to face his own compromise, and he does not know how to face Hui." That psychology was so complicated that he had to get very drunk to face it all. ”
After the broadcast of "Icebreaker Action", #破冰行动 the entry of Ma Yunbo ##Ma Yunbo's wife# was repeatedly on the hot search, and many netizens wrote articles for this role, continuing to write many ending directions for fighting back. The audience can breathe with the characters and share the fate, which is the happiest moment for Zhang Xilin as an actor. He said bluntly that in recent years, he has had good luck and received many good scripts, but the actors are just wandering in waiting and seizing opportunities, "If we broadcast well, we can become famous and get more opportunities." If the broadcast is not good, it is not in our consideration, and in the face of each role, we still have to play it well as always. ”
"Escape" from the printing plant and become a "senior" student of the play
A native of Beijing, Zhang Xilin grew up in a hutong on the edge of Dashilar. Reading is his greatest hobby, and he loves everything that is written. A large amount of reading accumulation has given him an extremely sensitive understanding of words. After graduating from junior high school, he studied printing secondary school, and four years later he was assigned to work as an offset printer in a foreign language printing factory in Beijing, and the nine-to-five work still did not erase Zhang Xilin's literary and artistic feelings. "Maybe it's the call of fate, I always think of myself as a passer-by in the printing house, this is not a place to stay for a lifetime." 」
Before work, Zhang Xilin was admitted to the amateur acting class of the Xicheng District Cultural Center and met Feng Yuanzheng, who was preparing for the exam that year, "He kept pulling me and saying no, how can you go to be a worker!" Such good conditions, you have to go to the exam. So three years later, 21-year-old Zhang Xilin decided to fight. In the first year of the Beijing Renyi Examination, Zhang Xilin lived in Feng Yuanzheng's dormitory and became acquainted with Gao Dongping, Wu Gang, Ding Zhicheng and other actors. During the day, they trained Zhang Xilin for professional classes such as recitation and acting, and in the evening, several people gathered in the dormitory to drink and chat. At that time, the printing house did not provide examination leave, and Zhang Xilin lied that he was sick and reviewed while working, but in the end he regretted falling off the list due to the difference of two points in the culture class.
Zhang Xi came at the age of 18.
Two years later, the 23-year-old Zhang Xilin was already a well-known "back to the pot meat" among the candidates. Because the factory did not allow him to take leave to take the exam again, Zhang Xilin, who decided to fight a war, chose to resign, and in the absence of financial resources, he was already overaged, changed his birth year from 1966 to 1967, bought a train ticket to Shanghai and went straight to the Shanghai Theater Academy. During the third examination, the examination teacher bluntly said that if Zhang Xilin now admits that over-ageing is still "frank and lenient"; if he is found after admission, he can only be expelled. For the last hope of going to school, Zhang Xilin admitted, "Yes, I am overage. ”
At that time, Zhang Xilin had no way back. In 1989, Zhang Xilin finally walked into the Shanghai Theater Academy and became a student in the acting department, "If I still didn't get in that year, I would still do acting through other channels." Zhang Xilin said that in the first half of his life, he seemed to have worked hard for this one thing, and he didn't know what else he could do except acting.
In order to be an assistant director for the role, I am happy to be able to act
In 2010, a turning point in Zhang Xilin's career, he played qi Peilin, the director of the intelligence department, in the TV series "Before dawn" directed by Liu Jiang, and played the role's exquisite and thoughtful interpretation. But for this work, he waited for fourteen years.
"Before Dawn" as Director Qi.
In 1993, Zhang Xilin, who graduated from opera, returned to Beijing and joined the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture, where he was responsible for managing the performance certificates of all singers in the city. In the 1990s, the film and television industry was oversupplied, and stable career preparation was an opportunity that many people dreamed of. But three months later, Zhang Xilin resigned categorically, "It's not okay not to let me act." ”
At that time, he was 27 years old, but every day he was crowded into the early twenties to hand in information, find roles, and wait for nearly a year in the continuous no-news. "There were so many opportunities to act in the 1990s, but I couldn't ask for money from my family every day. The only thing I thought at the time was, let's make a living first. ”
In the next three years, Zhang Xilin acted in sketches, worked as a program director, and played miscellaneous in the crew; in 1996, under the recommendation of Zhao Baole, Yingda invited Zhang Xilin to serve as the assistant director of the sitcom "Start-up Stop". The only requirement he made was to play a role in the play, anything. Zhang Xilin, who was 30 years old at the time, got his first role in life - Xiao Xue, a police officer who played a few minutes in "Start-up Parking".
The acting profession allows Zhang Xilin not only to handle the chores of the crew, but also to understand the script and performance. In just a few years, he became a well-known assistant director in Beijing, paid a very good salary, and began to talk to the crew about more conditions: it was okay to invite him to be an assistant director, but he had to be given a role throughout the play. In 1998, the movie "Bath" was originally scheduled to have Zhang Xilin as the assistant director, and also played the role of He Zheng. But before the start-up, the crew was replaced by He Bing, and Zhang Xilin did not sign the contract for a long time, because they think that the assistant director can understand acting, or work the crew. But I always thought that everything I did that had nothing to do with acting was looking for opportunities for acting. However, Sai Weng lost his horse, and in the same year, Zhang Xilin took over the TV series "Year after Year", and began to be well known to the audience with the role of the old Beijing "Liangzi" in the hutong, officially transferring from assistant director to acting, ending his career of one foot in the door and one foot outside the door.
Zhang Xilin played Cai Chenggong in the 2017 hit TV series "In the Name of the People".
Although in the decade before he took over "Before dawn", Zhang Xilin was still in a state of "not refusing to come to the play", no matter how much the script theme and role - he had acted in hundreds of sitcoms and also participated in the emotional drama of Taiwan's eight o'clock file. But Zhang Xilin always believes that as long as you grasp every opportunity, there is always a good opportunity to find yourself, "Now looking back on that decade, there is no confusion, as long as I am acting, I feel very happy." ”
Beijing News reporter Zhang He photographed Wang Jianning
Edited by Wu Dongni Proofreader Zhao Lin