Sohu Entertainment Special Article (April Day/Wen Yuanhui/Video Mason/Photo) If you want to find actors who have played both domineering presidents and scumbags in domestic TV dramas, Li Zonghan must be on the list.
Whether it is Song Ningyu, the love scene master in "Mr. Love", or Zhai Yunxiao, who is quite deep in the city government in "An Jia", or the almost harsh "Tiger Daddy" Gu Jiawei in the recently broadcast "Growing Up with You" and the perfect marriageable man Xu Minjie in "Rational Life"... In recent years, Li Zonghan has played most of the hegemonic elite roles with a bit of "scumbag" color. Because of this, the audience labeled Li Zonghan as a "scumbag professional household".
However, although most of the actors are "scumbags", Li Zonghan is committed to performing the same role with different novelties. For example, in the recently popular "Growing Up with You", Gu Jiawei, played by Li Zonghan, has a successful career, his wife Lin Yunyun is dedicated to housework as a full-time wife, and his daughter is a well-behaved and talented "cow baby", whether it is career or family, she can be called a winner in life. But even so, Gu Jiawei still continues to give the baby chicken blood, and the management of his wife is also quite strict, so he has made a lot of funny moves that make people laugh and become the funny responsibility of this drama.
Li Zonghan said that since he acted in the first play "One Foot in the Country" when he was young, he has been playing in various tragic and villain-type roles, but he wants to "release the true color of his own comedy star" through a play, so when he plays Gu Jiawei, he deliberately added some vivid and humorous acting methods, bringing everyone a lot of joy. In "Rational Life", Li Zonghan transformed into an elite boss who was firm and decisive and omnipotent in the workplace, and emotionally he was a caring, perfect and gentle rational faction. Although he is often scolded by the audience because of the scumbag's interpretation, in Li Zonghan's view, the role of the scumbag always has to be played, "If I can play the scumbag's abcdefg multi-faceted words, let you polish your eyes in life, away from the scumbag, it is not also very good." ”
In recent years, sweet love scenes have often been missing Li Zonghan, to which he said: "Of course, I also long for sweetness, but the experience has made me face reality more. And 40-year-old men and women, your eyes can no longer show the sweetness of innocence, you may have to face marriage, family, children, including life and old age, illness and death. ”
Although he has entered the age of confusion, compared with most male actors of the same age, Li Zonghan's figure has been maintained very well. Once in order to lose weight, he insisted on exercise, ate only six proteins a day for four consecutive months, and was so hungry that his eyes were full of Venus, and even Haiqing was ashamed of himself. Moreover, li Zonghan in real life is also very exquisite, according to him, there are fifty or sixty suits in his wardrobe, in addition to seeing friends in life wearing suits, he will also bring costumes into the group when filming. In order to improve himself, he also went to the eMBA. It's not hard to see why the elite overlords always favor him.
At the end of the interview, when we asked Li Zonghan how to resist the sense of crisis brought about by age, he replied very calmly: "Shoot what each age group should shoot, don't blindly cater to the market, when there is really nothing you can shoot, go and enjoy life." ”
Gu Jiawei is a straight male with advanced cancer, and "Growing Up with You" released my comedian nature
Sohu Entertainment: Recently, there are two dramas starring you in at the same time, first of all, let's talk about the role of Gu Jiawei in "Growing Up with You", everyone says that it is a hated character with itchy teeth, what do you think?
Li Zonghan: I think Gu Jiawei is a particularly extreme person, and his biggest problem is the lack of communication. Do you think he's a bad guy? Or doesn't he love Lin Yunyun? I don't think so. He just didn't find the right way, and he was a straight man with advanced cancer who didn't turn.
In fact, in the first month of my performance, I would also ask the people around me, do you think he is very annoying and bad? None of them take a stand. After about half a month, after each scene, many people laughed violently, and everyone especially wanted me to come to the scene and say that I was the source of joy for everyone.
Sohu Entertainment: You play him as a comedy character?
Li Zonghan: I have always wanted to find such a character to release myself. I actually feel like I've always been a comedian, and no one has discovered that I'm a comedian. In my first play "One Foot In the Mountains" when I was very young, I acted in a tragedy, and then I began to define me as a sad little student, a small student of the Republic of China, a bitter love, my mother did not recognize me, I was a little three students, and the villains of revenge all came to me.
I've always wanted to find an opportunity to unleash the true colors of my harmonic star. When this play was broadcast, I told Haiqing and Hu Jing that my play was going to be broadcast, and you were all mothers, so help me cheer up. They said, "Tell me what this character looks like?" I said, "He's a knife mouth, a tofu heart, a poisonous tongue, an arrogant one," and they said, "Isn't this your Buddha-figure?" ”
Sohu Entertainment: Is there a certain scene that you play on the spot?
Li Zonghan: Almost all of them, such as the "dolphin-style" applause in the kindergarten, after filming that scene, Liu Tao said, "You followed the kindergarten director in, and Hu Ke and I almost laughed to death, saying that we thought this kindergarten was invested by you." I said, "Yeah, it's my own design." ”
I felt like God helped me at that time, I had a lot of inspiration every day, and every scene wanted to achieve the ultimate in the characters. There was also a scene where my daughter didn't get the first place when she played the piano, and I suddenly said: "She didn't get the first place when she played the piano, Lang Lang lived in the basement when she was learning piano, I lived in a big villa for you, and you didn't give me the first place." Ying Er has been laughing.
It's good to play different versions of the elite, and I'm also looking forward to sweet love scenes
Sohu Entertainment: Recently, "Rational Life" is also broadcasting, in this drama you play the role of Xu Minjie, can you briefly introduce us to this role?
Li Zonghan: Xu Minjie is a perfect male second character, he will make everyone a little suspicious of him when he first appears, because the AIRBORNE CEO, came to this company, as a joint investor, why does he care for the female protagonist, including her flower protector all the way behind, to help her complete the growth and transformation in the workplace.
Sohu Entertainment: You have several roles in a row that are overbearing presidents, is it that the elite type of characters are particularly attractive to you?
Li Zonghan: I am really a person who wears a suit in my life, my parents have worn suits for me since I was a child, and I have about fifty or sixty suits in my closet, and I will wear suits when I meet my friends. I'm also studying eMBA myself, studying financial management, and our class is a leader in various industries, and I know their lives.
I think the elite theme is more handy for me, I don't reject the same theme at all, and performing different people is more challenging for me. For example, when I shoot a Republic of China drama, I shoot ten young masters in ten versions. I shoot elite dramas, the elite of finance and the elite of real estate are not the same, I think it is good to interpret different versions of elites in different plays.
Sohu Entertainment: Everyone says that you have not had a sweet love affair for several dramas in a row, do you prefer this sadistic tragic feeling?
Li Zonghan: I think sweet love really does not belong to 40-year-olds, but may belong to energetic young people. Of course, I also crave sweetness, but the experience has made me more realistic. And 40-year-old men and women, your eyes can no longer show the sweetness of innocence, you may have to face marriage, family, children, including life and old age, illness and death.
Sohu Entertainment: Are you looking forward to playing a sweet love drama?
Li Zonghan: I am still very much looking forward to it, but I think it is a kind of skill to be able to perform sweetness without getting tired. "Growing Up with You" has a scene in which Ying Er said: "The old woman is no longer dry" and ran away from home. When she came back, she gave me a massage, and the scene was over. I said to Ying'er, "No, we have to be sweet." She said, "How sweet?" She said: "I teach children, who does not have a tight curse on their head?" I said, "You're saying that very well, who doesn't have a tight curse on their head in real life?" I have too. That's a very down-to-earth sentence. Later, Ying Er rubbed it for me, and I said, "I'll buy you a bag, you don't sell it to me, every bag is what I spent on buying for you." Ying Er said, "Okay, I see," and put her hand here. I said, "Don't move, be comfortable," and this is actually sweet, because you don't feel greasy and it's real.
I don't mind being called a "scumbag professional", and I care more about the discussion of the role than the position
Sohu Entertainment: Some viewers said that "half of the scumbags in domestic dramas have been contracted by you", is the old scumbag a deliberate choice?
Li Zonghan: I saw a comment today that said, "Li Zonghan must have invested in this play, because he consumed all the worst roles himself." "I admit that Song Yuning is a scumbag in 'Mr. Love', and I don't quite recognize Gu Jiawei and Zhai Yunxiao as scumbags. Because I think Zhai Yunxiao is a particularly cruel person in the workplace. But in the workplace, I know that it is really necessary to either keep you or keep me. In terms of the law of survival, there is actually no right or wrong. You said he was a scumbag, and he didn't do much bad work except to give Sun Li a fake bag. After the play was broadcast that day, I received a lot of Taobao links, saying that 280 Hermès bags are available. Gu Jiawei's words, I think he is good to Lin Yunyun, he just doesn't know how to express it.
You have to say that the scumbag is contracted, there must always be someone to play, many people think that their image is taller, he is not willing to act. But I don't think there's that much beauty in life. If I can perform the scumbag and give everyone a wake-up call, the scumbag abcefg is multi-faceted, polish your eyes in your life, away from the scumbag, not also very good.
Sohu Entertainment: Don't you mind if everyone gives you the title of "scumbag professional"?
Li Zonghan: I don't mind much, I told others that day, I acted for more than ten years, I didn't see you pay so much attention to me, I started playing a scumbag, all of you pay attention to me, I think the actor's heart is strong enough, I actually don't particularly mind.
Sohu Entertainment: Don't you care about the position in a drama?
Li Zonghan: I really don't really care, I have experienced the time when I was all male one. I enjoy the process of creating characters even more, and if I act like water and don't have any discussion, I think it's quite boring. When there was a degree of discussion, I thought it was quite interesting and could achieve my original intention of being an actor. I would reject a lot of scripts every year, and people would say why do you refuse, big man, I said I didn't feel it, I couldn't arouse any interest in my creation.
Sohu Entertainment: Before everyone said that you were the "first young student of the Republic of China", you took over the role of Wu Yong in "New Water Margin". Now that everyone says that you are a "scumbag professional", and you have taken "Rational Life", do you not want to be defined by everyone?
Li Zonghan: Yes, once when I was at a gathering with a tv audience of fifty or sixty years old, five or six aunts said, you want to shoot anti-war dramas, I like to watch your costume dramas, you play the big young master really well, I think you should shoot sweet pets, or shoot a crossing. I said, "Six moms, these six plays are six genres, and I can't finish them in my lifetime." The title of "the first young student of the Republic of China" is of course good, at least in the actors who do not have too much exposure, there is at least one label, but it only belongs to the past.
Costume dramas were particularly well filmed at that time, and I think that was once. Now do you say "scumbag professional household"? Yes, and neither. What will happen in the future, in fact, I don't know, is to move forward step by step.
I don't want to consume and consume myself in variety shows, even if I am old, I must grow old gracefully
Sohu Entertainment: Do you have a sense of crisis in terms of age? For example, in the past, I found you in love, and now I am acting in a family drama, is there a gap in my heart?
Li Zonghan: No, I also experienced more aura when I was younger. If I hadn't been more aggressive, I would have said that I was 20 years old, and I might have maintained my appearance better, but my eyes weren't 20 years old. I've experienced my father's death, I've experienced caring for him in the hospital, I've experienced a lot of people's joys and sorrows, and my eyes are not so simple. So I wouldn't mind.
Sohu Entertainment: You have now acted in hundreds of film and television works, and everyone says that you are a "labor model" in the show business circle, do you spend most of your time acting? Haven't thought about participating in variety shows or something?
Li Zonghan: First of all, I don't think I have the physical strength, I don't have that energy, and then I want to be honest, I don't want to consume and consume myself more. I can indulge myself in the role, how to act, good or bad, I can do anything, but I can't indulge myself in the variety show.
I think consumption will eventually become a kind of consumption of yourself, so that everyone has a little doubt about your actor's life. Is he in the variety show, or is he in the role? Maybe I don't have a better balance, so I just choose to act steadily, and I can only prepare for this one thing.
Sohu Entertainment: How did you keep being a man?
Li Zonghan: I think self-discipline makes me happy. I spend almost two or three hours a day exercising, both anaerobic and aerobic.
Sohu Entertainment: Now many mesozoic male actors are blessed, to maintain this self-discipline, it takes a very strong will, how did you stick to it?
Li Zonghan: First of all, hunger, that is, do not eat. Shut your mouth and spread your legs. This is very important, many people say how are you so thin, I said I have gold in both eyes, you have not seen, really hungry. When filming "An Jia", Haiqing said how can you be so thin, I said that I want to lose weight recently, I only eat six proteins a day. She said: "Only six proteins? How long has it been? I said, "Four months." Then she said, "Oh my God! She immediately sent a circle of friends and said, "Our group of male actors only eat six proteins, let me do what." "I think if you're hungry, of course, it's not particularly good for the body, but you want to lose weight quickly, eat protein, eat greens, be nutritionally balanced, take a little bit of carb, and then it's a lot of practice, I run five kilometers, ten kilometers a day."
Sohu Entertainment: Why are you so cruel to yourself?
Li Zonghan: Even if I am old, I still have to grow old gracefully. In fact, it is difficult for an actor to be fat, fat is not OK, saying that this person is fat like this, thin is not OK, saying that he must have lost weight, old can not, he is old like this, beautiful is not OK, he must have injected.
Sohu Entertainment: Do you have a sense of crisis in terms of age?
Li Zonghan: To say no, that is false.
Sohu Entertainment: How to resist that?
Li Zonghan: Every age group should do what each age group should do, each age group should shoot what each age group should shoot, don't blindly cater to the market, when there is really nothing you can shoot, go and enjoy life.