Cai Lu: Some of Cui Qi's experiences are very similar to mine

Original title: Cai Lu: Some of Cui Qi's experiences are very similar to mine

The hot drama "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" brings fire to many personality actors, and if you want to say that the most infuriating role in the play, there must be "Cui Instrument": dragging his feet, leading his subordinates to betray Jing Ansi, and arresting Zhang Xiaojing with public instruments and private use... The rabbit's lips are crooked, chewing mint leaves, and two sledgehammers behind him bring a mysterious comedic effect. Some say he's a "pig teammate." But in the recent episode, he returned to his original intention to sacrifice his life to defend the city, and wrote the word "Chang'an" on the military card with blood, which made the audience cry.

Without the scar at the corner of the mouth, there is no need to bite the back teeth when speaking, and the sunny face of Cai Lu looks a bit like Cui Ji, but it is a little different.

Prior to this, Cai Lu had starred in the movie "Rescue Mr. Wu", playing the rich second generation Xiao Dou who was kidnapped with "Mr. Wu", and in the TV series "Kyushu • Sea Muyun", he also played the hanzhou bandit-like tribal leader Helan Tieyuan.

Cai Lu moved to the United States with his parents at the age of 6, the language barrier, different cultures, he can not integrate into the feeling of American life, just like cui qi who cannot integrate into Chang'an. When she was in junior high school, Cai Lu took the course of acting, and after graduating from college, she returned to China to enter the master's class of the Beijing Film Academy.

After that, he secretly decided to give himself 3 years to go on a rampage, and if he couldn't go on, he would return to the United States to work. I didn't expect this shot to be filmed until now. Asked him what the ideal was, he thought about it and said: "I can support my family, shoot two or three plays a year, and go on vacation with my family twice." ”

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The experience of youth is like a very strong instrument

When he was 3 years old, Cai Lu's father went to the United States to study. The next year, mom also went to the United States. When Cai Lu was 6 years old, his family decided to let him go to reunite with his parents. It was a friend of his mother who flew to the United States with him, "That experience made me more independent, which is why I was able to return to China alone later." I'm not afraid to be alone, and although I'll be lonely, I'm slowly learning how to cope."

Cai Lu, who had just arrived in the United States, could hardly speak English. On the first day of his first year of elementary school, he taught all his classmates to say a Chinese, and that was "What?" Speaking of getting along with his classmates, Cai Lu said, "In fact, everyone is very normal, there is no malice, that is, they can't understand, they won't reject anyone, they are listening very hard, and I will try very hard to spell out what I know."

Cai Lu and Cao Dun had been cooperating until "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", "Before that, we just cooperated in "The Record of Muyun on the Sea". He told me that he felt that there was a role in 'Twelve Hours' that suited me, but he didn't say who it was, and he said that you had never felt this way, and you always wanted to become a person, but you were always not recognized and rejected." This reminds Cai Lu of her own experience, "There will still be racial discrimination in the United States, and you know where your roots are, and that feeling is very similar."

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Initially, I studied acting to increase my credits

Cai Lu graduated from New York University with a double degree in economics and politics, but he was also taking an elective acting and "studied acting since junior high school." At first, I didn't take the elective because I liked it, "My grades in other subjects have always been b+, b-, and I feel that the elective performance is very easy, and it can help me pull up the total score." Slowly, Cai Lu found that he had been doing a good job in acting classes, "When I studied economics in college, I felt that my parents spent a lot of money on my schooling and wanted to have a degree that I could get my hands on, but my interest was not on that."

After graduation, Cai Lu decided to return to China to study acting, "My first acting class in the United States, the teacher said that 15% of the local people can support themselves through acting, and the remaining 85% need to find another job to maintain their dream of being an actor." Initially, Cai Lu did not go directly to the Beijing Film Academy for the exam, but went to Hong Kong. "Because I see that 80% of TV series and movies are produced in Hong Kong, I have always thought that China's Hollywood is in Hong Kong." After spending some time in Hong Kong, Cai Lu came to Beijing, "The Beijing Film Academy gives people the feeling of being very down-to-earth, people who want to learn this profession, and can make friends."

After graduating from Nortel, Cai Lu experienced a year and a half of "unemployment period", but because he signed the company, he still felt safe, "Anyway, someone is looking for me a job outside, I will play with peace of mind and maintain my mentality." During that time, he and his friends rode bicycles to Nanjing and also joined a softball team.

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Lei Jiayin's bitterness saw me in obedience

Unlike many male actors, Cai Lu said that he is a very lazy person, and he is certainly not fit when he is not filming, "I only maintain the state I need when filming." Before filming "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", Cai Lu had just finished filming another play, in which he needed to gain weight, "I was very happy at that time, and I ate a little fat under false public welfare." Later, when Director Cao Dun found him, he looked at the round Cai Lu and said, "Are you going to lose weight?" Cai Lu took two months to reduce from 84 kilograms to 77 kilograms, "every day is to eat salad, insist on sports, run 4 to 5 kilometers." Two months later, Cai Lu entered the group, began to train with the martial arts team, and slowly became more robust.

In the play, Cai Lu has a lot of action scenes, but he said that the most bitter thing in the whole play is Lei Jiayin, "From winter to summer, the hardships he eats have been subdued, in winter, he wears very thin clothes, I also have a big armor, the activities are warm, he, either frostbite, or heat stroke." There was a scene where Lei Jiayin picked up Cai Lu, who was wearing armor, and then fell to the ground, and several downs, not only were his hands scratched by the armor, but the muscles of his arms were also strained. "When I watched him fight, I felt that it was too hard, although everyone envied the male protagonist, but this bitterness is not something that everyone can eat."

■About Cui ware

Rabbit lips and hand rubbing brand are specially designed

When shaping the character, Cai Lu felt that Cui Qi should have a "baggage". He consulted with the director Cao Dun, hoping to add a rabbit lip to Cui Qi, the director asked him why, Cai Lu said that this can make others look down on him, "because the rabbit lip is a mark from small to large, it is different from scars, scars on the battlefield are glory, only rabbit lips can make me have a starting point of inferiority." The rabbit lips were not very obvious, and Cai Lu added the details of chewing mint leaves to herself, "so that the audience's attention is more focused on the mouth."

Cui Qi's place of origin was "Long Right Dao", and his brother gave up his life to let him stay in Chang'an. Cai Lu added a small gesture to himself, "The back of the sign hanging on the soldier's chest will have his place of origin written on it, and I have been rubbing that sign with my thumb, because Cui Ji hopes that one day the back of the sign will become a black bar, and he does not want people to know that he is from Long Right Road, because he thinks that this makes others look down on him."

■ Fresh Q&A

Reporter: After the episode began, many people scolded Cui Ji, what do you think?

Cai Lu: I have long been mentally prepared, and actors are an industry between praise and scolding. I'm looking for his reasons, what he's scolding, is it because he doesn't like the role, or he thinks my acting skills are poor, and I'll think more about the comments about poor acting.

Reporter: Netizens found that the script you posted before was also marked with a phonetic transcription?

Cai Lu: Yes, I know and read these words, but spelling them together is more tongue-twisting, and in order to better memorize the lines, I put pinyin on the script.

Reporter: Do you chase the drama yourself?

Cai Lu: Chase, I usually watch it three times. The first time I looked at the whole, the second time I watched my performance, and the third time I watched the bullet screen. I used to be particularly afraid of watching the bullet screen, because sometimes I was scolded very badly, and my heart was very weak, but this time I saw the bullet screen and thought it was too funny, I couldn't help it, I knew that immediately I came out, what they were going to say, I began to laugh. According to the Beijing News

(Editor-in-charge: Zhang Huawei, Gao Hongxia)