Recently, a set of CCTV dramas "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" has received a lot of praise, Xiaobian noticed that there are a group of people on Weibo who are chasing and crying, especially the recent plot, with the departure of Xu Buzhou, Du Qingming and other characters one by one, the sound of "smoking and choking while watching the drama" on Weibo has also increased, including many young viewers.
Why does such a drama depicting aviation themes and a plot spanning up to 70 years have such an appeal? The following is the "appearance statement" of a group of leading actors in this drama that we have collected.
The filming of "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" lasted four months, and Zhang Bo, Li Naiwen, Huang Man, Xu Xiaosa and other actors acted from the green years to the white-haired and faltering steps. During the filming process, they were moved by the story of the aviator and did not know how many times they had broken into tears, and they were "tortured" by special effects makeup and old age makeup: "This drama made me stupid, and I also shot crazy." ”
Lead actor Zhang Bo used "unprecedented ancients" to describe this drama, the history of China's aviation development in the past 70 years has never been fully displayed through the way of TV series, and its shooting difficulty can be imagined. And the more arduous the shooting, for good actors and directors, it is often easier to twist into a rope, accumulate feelings in the collision, and harvest good teachers and friends.
In the past four months, Zhang Bo, Li Naiwen, Huang Man, Xu Xiaosa, Wang Ziquan, Ren Donglin and other starring actors, together with director Li Yunliang, overcame difficulties such as "professionalism", "sense of age" and "cross-age", and jointly completed a very difficult work and became an "aviation family".
Zhang Bo said: "First of all, I think our collective is a crew with an extremely good creative atmosphere. The atmosphere of the crew is extremely positive, full of positive energy. The relationship formed by all of us in the past 4 months is to become a relative, a lifelong relative, a relative who can never be separated, and a crew that cannot be separated. We are all 'you have me, I have you', I have not seen a play, there are so many actors will shed tears, will cry will not give up, this is what I have not felt in many groups, but this crew I feel, is the sense of truth, whether it is life or in the heart, is full of this full of positive energy, will let us always remember this special time together. He even gave the play another name, "The Years of a Group of People Burning With Passion."
Back to the starting point of "chasing dreams", the actors overcame many challenges
The time span of "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" is as long as 70 years, returning to the starting point of "Chasing Dreams" and finding the memories and feelings of that era, and every actor is facing great challenges.
First of all, the professional gap needs to be filled quickly, one is the feeling of finding the character archetype, and the other is that there are a lot of technical terms in the script.
Taking Qin Tian's actor Zhang Bo as an example, this time he played an "unpopular" profession - a person who changed from a pilot who drove a fighter jet to an aircraft designer.
Aviation consultants communicate with the actors on set
Referring to how to overcome these problems, Zhang Bo shared: "This scene needs to overcome a lot of difficulties in the difficulty of shooting, the first 5 episodes are basically war scenes, to fight in the air, we all don't know how to act, no one has ever driven a fighter jet." Our communication with these experts mainly depends on asking, because there are many professional things that you can't understand yourself. By watching documentaries, relying on communication with aviation workers, and relying on the director's shooting methods to restore that era. "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" contains too many elements, and it can be said that it is the highest score of comprehensive art I have ever shot. ”
Actor Li Naiwen plays the aircraft designer Zhao Deliang, who sets himself as a "sensitive and emotional intellectual". In order to make this role more real and believable, he has done a lot of work, such as related technical and aviation professional terms must be memorized, and even blurted out, which can make himself and the audience believe that he is Zhao Deliang.
Zhang Bo also mentioned that Niu Piao, the actor of Du Qingming in the play, his father is an aviation brigade; Director Li Yunliang's parents are building nuclear submarines, "We also moved out some of their experiences and professional knowledge, which is another kind of experience life, another side of learning." On the one hand, it is the help of experts and directors and teacher Niu Piao, on the other hand, it is to listen to the older generation of people tell us stories, watch documentaries, feature films, and read a lot of historical materials, which are all part of the homework we have done, and then strive to present it well. ”
The 70 years of playing a character, from the age of 20 to the age of 90, is a great challenge for every actor, Zhang Bo is particularly touched: "I have never seen a TV series depicting the elderly will have such a long length, but at the same time, I have never felt the mentality of an eighty- or ninety-year-old man in his twilight years, he is not willing, he wants to continue to work hard, but also insists on the spirit of daring to dedicate his life to the aviation industry." ”
Zhao Deliang and Qin Tian, played by Li Naiwen, are "peers", "This is really a challenge, very heartfelt, you want me to be almost 50, you let me start acting from the age of 20, it is reasonable to say that this is not very similar, I can only use some of my methods, so that everyone may slightly ignore my age, as far as possible with this group of young people when there is no sense of violation, in fact, I am already very content." ”
Immersive "Dream Chasing"
The actors were deeply touched by the spirit of the aviation people
The process of interpreting a generation of aviation people is also a spiritual baptism for each actor. One of the scenes that the actor Li Naiwen was most impressed with was the scene before "death": "Before shooting, I also told the director that I didn't want to shed tears in this scene, because I wanted to 'lighten' it. The director said no problem. Then when Du Zhiqiu went to fetch water for me, I said that the first person I asked to see was Xu Meng, because she was special to Zhao Deliang. I vaguely saw a person at first, and then I found out that it was master brother (Xu Meng), Xu Buzhou, Zhang Changjiang, Professor Du, Commander Yan, jiang Xingjian, and I got up from my wheelchair... The director didn't shout to stop, you know? He didn't shout to stop, and I had to keep acting. Li Naiwen admitted that he was not "acting" at that time, but Zhao Deliang himself, so hard to endure the emotion of facing the collapse: "The more you endure, the more you really want to cry, and then I really can't hold back a little tears, so I added a word to myself, that is, 'I miss you too much'." ”
Although The returnee expert Xu Buzhou, played by Ren Donglin, although the role is not much, he is the first character to "earn" a lot of tears from the audience. Together with Qin Tian and Zhao Deliang, he formed the "Three Musketeers" of the 417 Factory, and dedicated his youth and life to the take-off of aviation. One of the scenes that Impressed Ren Donglin the most was that the three people were locked up in a cowshed to herd cattle: "This is a play where we are suffering together, and later someone wants to take me and Qin Tian away, which is under the specific historical environment at that time, it may be life and death, and may never be seen again." That scene was played against the words, because of a line from Li Naiwen, "When are you coming back?" Ren Donglin "broke the defense": "At that time, it collapsed, and it was completely impossible, because I had never encountered such a situation." I haven't filmed it yet, we're just talking to each other, and then Brother Naiwen and Zhang Bo look at my state, and don't dare to talk to me, and then I silently endure on the side, I said I must not collapse, but the more I want to endure, the more uncontrollable. ”
Regarding this play, Zhang Bo recalled: He (Ren Donglin) cried for half an hour before he began acting, and then we all reminded each other that at this time, you are not Zhang Bo, you are not Li Naiwen, you are 'Qin Tian', you are 'Zhao Deliang'. You have to do it, you can't open your mouth, the emotion has overflowed, and the play has done it. ”
Mutual confidants support each other, tacit cooperation in the pursuit of perfection
Encountering a good play, the actors who play chess against each other's acting skills are not only the pleasure of the audience, but also the luck of the actors. In "Chasing Dreams and Blue Sky", Qin Tian and Zhao Deliang are such a pair of partners who "love and kill each other" outside the play. In the crew, Zhang Bo called Li Naiwen a "dead ghost", and he has always "confessed" Li Naiwen, saying that he is his "partner" and loves him to the point of no return. "I and Li Naiwen, the two of us in this scene are to become the Haier brothers, become Shuk and Beta, become the strongest CP, I can't do without him and he can't do without me, the scale can't leave the lump, the best male CP."
He said with a sigh: "I have not met a man in n years, so 'love it', a man who regards it as a treasure, from the level of business." Later, everyone said that it turned out that you two were true love, Naiwen was my (Chinese opera) brother, ten years older than me, I was very aware of Naiwen's strength very early on, I knew him well, but I didn't expect him to be so good, he also belongs to the genius type of actor. ”
Li Naiwen said that he felt that Zhang Bo was his younger brother. "Zhang Bo is a very intelligent person, and his understanding is too high. His cleverness is not only in the play, but also outside the play. He was male number one, but he never had the kind of shelf or the kind of style that male number one had, and he was even like a little brother next to me. ”
Li Naiwen also specially "confessed" to the director Li Yunliang, "The director is a person I especially trust, because I can give myself, my own body, my own heart, and even my soul to him." ”
Cao Huifang, played by Zhang Bo and Huang Man, is the "life cp" in the play, which is also the first time the two have cooperated. Initially, their "marriage proposal scene" was arranged at the stage of just starting filming, and the two actors proposed marriage after communicating and discussing.
Zhang Bo said: "This scene was postponed three times and did not let the filming, because I and Aunt Man, the two of us have not yet established a relationship with the characters in life, we are going to propose, which violates the law of creation." So we both have to find each other's feelings, find it in the play, and then look for it in life. I think this is a good actor, of course, our director is indispensable, the overall control of him is more feeling, because we are only actors after all, more need the director to help us complete, we still quickly entered the state, quickly completed this marriage proposal scene, the effect is still very good. ”
Qin Tian proposed to Cao Huifang and took photos of the work at the scene
For this scene, Huang Man added: "In fact, the previous one was me proposing to him, the next one was that he proposed to me, and I was particularly nervous about that scene, very nervous, afraid of problems, because it was a too important center, but after it was completed, I remembered shooting two scenes, the first director was not satisfied, and then we adjusted each other again, and the second one was ok. ”
In addition, Huang Man's professionalism in filming also made Zhang Bo particularly impressed, "She had a scene that was too devoted, and when she clapped her hand, the needle that sewed the clothes passed through her fingers, and she did not shout to stop, and she was still acting there, which hurt us badly." ”
"Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" is like a big family with a harmonious atmosphere, and the actors are also close and friends, and they are happy and harmonious. Wang Ziquan, who plays Zhang Changjiang, and Yan Qing's actors Xu Xiaosa and Zhang Bo have formed a "big head combination": "She (Xu Xiaosa) is too big. Zhang Bo's head is also big, my head is also big, the three of us together, like three lollipops, put in a bag is the whole can only sell this bag. Outside the play, the three have also cooperated many times, "because it is too familiar, the scene is very happy, and every day is a wrinkle." ”
Actor Niu Zifan plays a young generation of aviation designer Jiang Zhanpeng in the play, and his outstanding performance in the play has also been affirmed by his predecessor Zhang Bo: "Zhan Peng is played by Zi Fan, and now Zi Fan worships me as a teacher, call me Master, I will see this persistence of these young actors, I think this is the problem of the upper beam, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is definitely crooked, and the upper beam is not crooked." We have experience to take these little brothers and sisters up, to give them more room to improve, we should give them a 'sample'. ”
In addition, There is Wang Lu, the actor of Zheng Guoqiang in the younger generation, who is usually ridiculed by "Aunt Man" (Huang Man) as "points exchanged", but when it comes to performance, he also expressed praise: "Including Wang Lu, who exchanged points, it is particularly good, and I think he may have a strong sense of faith." In reality, he is two years younger than his father Zheng Youfu (played by Li Haozhen), but his sense of faith is particularly strong in performance. ”
Whether it is the atmosphere of the crew during the filming process or the performance state presented by the work, "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" has always been filled with a revolutionary optimism spirit in the exploration of the wind and rain and the blue wisps of the road. It is precisely because of the condensation of such a group of excellent and lovely actors that they can jointly complete this wonderful performance in the four-month shooting process, under great pressure, in the scorching emotions and passionate passion. It is their dedication that restores and weaves this aviation years that are both blood-boiling and warm, in exchange for the recognition of the audience. As director Li Yunliang said, as long as you love it enough, you will bravely rush forward through thorns and thorns, and no matter how hard and tired you are, you are not afraid! They did it, and their love and belief made an epic aviation drama.
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