Zhang Su | There's a good deal between the front and the back
Who is more attractive, the good guys and the bad guys? In this era of positive energy slogans sprouting everywhere, "good" and "evil" have never been so clearly distinguished. People are fanatically pursuing the perfect persona carefully created for them on the screen, abandoning "evil" as if they were walking, and on the other hand, they are deeply attracted to what is hidden behind "evil". And what about the actors who spend their days switching between "good" and "evil"? Maybe it's often intoxicating, but there's clarity in your heart.
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Zhang Su
Rejecting "Bad for Bad' Sake"
"78 days... Doing the same homework every day, how to play a character with a flawed personality to make it easier for you to accept..."
This is a Weibo post sent by Zhang Su on the afternoon of July 2, and the 20th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland, "Crooked Big Bay", has come to fruition – a story about a group of young people in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area who have grown up in love and worked hard to start a business in the 20 years since Macao's return to the motherland. Zhang Su breathed a sigh of relief, he was finally able to slowly pull himself out of the role, "Try your luck, in case it is broadcast, you will like it." ”
The character who has caused Zhang Su to fall into countless entanglements is Guo Yongwang in "Crooked Big Bay", a complete villain. "When I first read the script, I was positioned as a person who was particularly faceless, who had a good life, and then he began to compose, all kinds of works." 」
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In the face of his wife, Guo Yongwang's suspicious and selfish nature was revealed after marriage, and his former affectionate person became vulnerable after listening to a few gossip; in the face of his career, although he had ambitions that were not willing to be ordinary, he could not keep the business under hard work, and he was ignorant of his conscience under the temptation of money, and finally ended up empty-handed.
This completely blackened villain made Zhang Su have a natural sense of rejection when reading the script. He ran to the director and asked, "How did Guo Yongwang change from a sheep to such a wolf in sheep's clothing?" You've got to do enough for me in the script. The answer given by the director is: the heroine Mai Siyu is too strong, and Guo Yongwang feels faceless.
This seems to make sense, but Zhang Su thinks that external things are just the cause of people's continuous degeneration, and Mai Siyu's strength is at best a catalyst for Guo Yongwang's personality to change dramatically. If the originally gentle and affectionate sheep suddenly turns black into a wolf in sheep's clothing one day, then his character itself is flawed.
Guo Yongwang's "bad" is not a problem, what really bothers Zhang Su is how to let the audience understand that Guo Yongwang is a person with character defects, rather than "bad for bad" in order to promote the direction of the plot.
"Man is either born a bad person, not black and white, it must be because of his experience, because something affects him, will go to another personality extreme." 」 It is necessary to make the starting point of Guo Yongwang's behavior reasonable, let the performance be natural and close to life, and let the audience feel that there are really such people around them, and they will be easy to believe. ”
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The rebellion of the "professional households of the main drama"
This is actually not the first time that Zhang Su has come into contact with the villain role of "gradually blackening". In "The Galloping Years", released last year, Zhang Su played the male number two Xiao Xiong, a tragic figure whose fate rose and fell with the wave of reform and opening up in the 1970s.
In the face of such a role with a huge time span, Zhang Su divided four nodes for Xiao Xiong when reading the script, the introverted kindness of the appearance, the despair of imprisonment, the black belly of revenge after being released from prison, and the later stage of the wealth. The complexity of Xiao Xiong's character lies in the fact that his moments of joy and sorrow are connected with the times - when the waves rise, they advance, and when the waves retreat, they fall. Fate created people, so that he lost the opportunity to take the college entrance examination; filial piety to his father, let him embark on a road that can not be turned back. Such a tense character image is very challenging for the actor's control over the role, because behind the "evil" is the endless sorrow of ordinary people who have been played with by the torrent of the times - they are the tide of the times, and they are also the cannon fodder of the times.
Guo Jingfei's wonderful performance in "All Is Good" made Zhang Su feel the same way, and he found that the reason why the role of Su Mingcheng was unbearable was because Guo Jingfei consciously strengthened the advantages of the character when creating this image - loving his wife as if he were alive. In Zhang Su's view, whether it is a positive or negative image, if you want to avoid the face and labeling of the role, you must do the opposite, playing a positive character emphasizes the shortcomings, and playing the villain emphasizes his advantages, which has Xiao Xiong's fist filial piety when facing his father and Guo Yongwang's gentle affection for his wife when he was young.
Xiao Xiong let Zhang Su, a "professional in drama", taste the sweetness for the first time, one word to describe: addiction. So much so that the drama is about to be broadcast, and he has not yet swallowed this "water of forgetting love". Last Christmas, he posted a blog in the early hours of the morning: it is almost over, and he is still reluctant to this "male child".
During the broadcast of "Running Years", a fan private message Zhang Su said: "I see Xiao Xiong feels particularly bad, very angry, I want to take it out of the TV series to beat you, but I can't help but want to leave you a message." After a while, he sent another sentence: "I saw xx episodes, I think Xiao Xiong is not so bad, he has a reason." This made Zhang Su feel particularly relieved and had a special sense of accomplishment: "A negative role, it is very, very difficult for the audience to like you, it is very difficult, unless this role can really go to his heart and let him breathe with you and share the fate." ”
Before Xiao Xiong, the roles played by Zhang Su were mostly positive images. However, there are also troubles in performing too many plays - he helplessly finds that almost all the olive branches thrown at him are dramas with a sense of age.
I hope the character I play will grow. At this stage, I think this script character can really move me, whether it is negative or positive, as long as it is well written, like a person, first of all, let me believe that there is such a person in life, I will act. This is also the reason why Zhang Su began to deliberately change his inherent image, he did not want the audience to subconsciously think that he was a good person as soon as he saw himself on the screen, "I don't reject the negative role, because I think in fact, no matter what character I have to try." 」 They are all acting people, and if you play a character to life, you will make the audience like it. Sometimes the positive characters are not easy to play, the protagonist aura is too much, but this kind of extreme character will make you have the desire to create, and there is a lot of room to play. I also wanted to challenge myself to try a character that was far removed from my personality. ”
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I wouldn't say I was lucky
"I hate the word 'good luck,' which devalues a lot of hard work. Living in a small, unheated apartment, I don't feel lucky every day when I count copper plates for dinner. Acting in a play only earns 50 yuan, but in order to insist on the artist's self, he refuses to dress up as a pony to shoot advertisements. To say that I was 'lucky' was a denial of these struggles and an insult to the guy who froze into a dog in Brooklyn. So, I wouldn't say I'm lucky. ”
This quote comes from Peter Dinklage, the actor of "Little Devil" in Game of Thrones, whose views on luck and hard work resonated deeply with Zhang Su. I summed up his words in fact that talent plus persistence equals luck. Indeed, at this stage of the show business luck is really important, even necessary, to get a good role, a good director, a good team, a good script, it takes luck. But I was also thinking, you are not lucky enough, luck comes and you have to be ready, right? With professional qualities and professional skills, you can grasp it. ”
After nearly 20 years in the industry, his desire for luck has weakened a lot, and he has a little more transparency in his speech: "Now many actors are really lucky, and they have not graduated from college or just graduated from college to receive a good role, and then they are on fire." I think luck may bring you a momentary honor, but it must not be forever. Strength is the most fundamental in our line, strength is strong enough, you can go very far. ”
When he first arrived in Beijing, Zhang Su was forced to take on a lot of work because of his livelihood. I don't pick a script much, sometimes I even give money to shoot, I take a month off at most throughout the year, and I have been in the crew for many years. The young Zhang Su has just become a north drifter, full of energy, "That period of time actually did not want to rest, I felt that work is a kind of happiness, to put it a little more vulgar, seeing the money in the bank card in the heart has a sense of pleasure, but for me I feel like a robot in the pat." ”
Zhang Su no longer had to take on the scenes that could not be stopped for Beijing's high rent, but he always felt that it was not a matter of shooting so vaguely. "Every acting is the same, and I'm tired of acting. You don't have to memorize the scene of the meeting, and when you get the script, you will have a kind of inertia, but you will not study the characters. He asked himself: People say that they don't forget your original intention, what is your original intention?
Now, Zhang Su only receives two or three plays a year, and he is more cautious in the choice of scripts. Waiting is painful, but he knows he deserves better. "Adjust your mentality is the most important thing, and in the process of waiting, you need to enrich yourself, such as reading more books and watching more cultural films." Like I usually like to go to the market, buy vegetables and visit the supermarket, I am also observing the characters, I have not lost, and now in the past two years, I will feel down-to-earth when I grow up slowly. ”
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