In 2014, Cui Jian's "Blue Bones" allowed dancer Yin Fang to officially appear in the public eye as an actor. In the seven years since entering the industry, Yin Fang has played important roles in many popular film and television works, such as Li Qiao, a naval observer in "Red Sea Action", such as Hong Kuo, a racing driver in "Flying Life", such as Zheng Yi, a policeman in "Young You", such as Qin Chuan, a forest policeman in the recently launched anti-poaching theme "Wolf Hunter". Although there is no masterpiece enough for the audience to remember for the time being, Yin Fang has made everyone remember his highly recognizable face with his excellent acting skills. Dancer Yin Fang, actor Yin Fang, which one does he prefer? How does it feel to work with Cao Dun and shoot with Qin Hao? Recently, this magazine interviewed Yin Fang and talked to him about the above issues.
Editorial_Reporter He Haizhu Intern Xu Tong
I only got the script before starting because director Cao Dun took over "Wolf Hunter"
Yin Fang played a new forest policeman, Qin Chuan, in "Wolf Hunter". He revealed that he took the play entirely for director Cao Dun, and the script was obtained shortly before the start. In Yin Fang's view, director Cao Dun is a particularly cohesive person, his team is following him all year round, "he can let the whole crew play their creativity, he gives everyone a lot of space, everyone is very cohesive and careful to cooperate, the atmosphere, efficiency and enthusiasm of the whole crew are very high." "Acting is a passive profession, and it is not easy to meet a good creative team, so even if you don't get the script in time, Yin Fang also took over this work."
The script was changed and changed, and before starting up, Yin Fang finally got the script that had been fixed. "At that time, after watching it, wow, it was such a stunned character again, (Qin Chuan) was very impulsive and reckless." Before the interview, Yin Fang watched the first episode of the show in the cinema with the media and the audience. Similar to the feelings of some viewers, Yin Fang said that he also felt that the role of Qin Chuan was reckless and a little unintelligent at first. But later, as the shooting deepened, Yin Fang slowly understood that Qin Chuan was a young policeman who was still looking for his mission and did not have much experience himself. From the perspective of character setting, the role of Qin Chuan and the old policeman Wei Jiang played by Qin Hao are complementary, and from the perspective of the watchability of the play, the existence of such a contrast is necessary, and the growth of Qin Chuan after that is also a major attraction. Therefore, when it came to the back, Yin Fang began to understand Qin Chuan, he saw Qin Chuan's integrity and kindness, and gradually excavated the sense of responsibility and mission in the depths of this "stunned Head Qing".
From dancer to actor, feel the multifaceted life
Before becoming an actor, Yin Fang was a dancer who danced for many years. The experience of dancing since childhood has left a unique temperament on Yin Fang, and it may be this temperament that has led Yin Fang to knock on the door of acting. Yin Fang's first work as an actor was "Blue Bones" directed by Cui Jian in 2014. Talking about his first work, Yin Fang said that the role the director wanted to find at the beginning was the role of a dancer. After watching Yin Fang's dance performance, Cui Jian found Yin Fang and asked him to audition. The results of the audition, everyone knows, Yin Fang became the male protagonist. Recalling the reason for his selection, Yin Fang said that on the one hand, the director felt that he was natural when he auditioned, on the other hand, Yin Fang felt that his temperament might be very compatible with the "bone" in "Blue Bones". Whatever the reason, yin fang's life began to change, and he began to enter the world of actors only in the previous world, and the multi-faceted nature of life began to play out on him.
Becoming an actor and entering the industry for seven years, Yin Fang is no stranger to acting now, although in the eyes of the public, he still lacks a masterpiece that is enough for everyone to remember, but he has let the public remember his highly recognizable face after participating in many popular works. From Li Qiao in "Red Sea Action", to Hong Kuo in "Flying Life", to Zheng Yi in "Young You", and then to Qin Chuan in "Wolf Hunter", in the eyes of others, Yin Fang is lucky, because he can cooperate with so many big directors, how many people can't ask for it. Yin Fang also admits that he is lucky, but compared to luck, he is more grateful for the spirit he learned when working with different directors, "They are very, very enthusiastic about what they do, they really want to do this thing well, and they have been thinking about how to make this thing better, rather than just completing a job." ”
Nowadays, for Yin Fang, dancing and acting are two very important things in life. He enjoyed both of these things, but the point of enjoyment was different. But when it comes to essence, Yin Fang feels that they are the same, "that is, you are entering another world through an artistic language, or creating a world, and then making this experience richer, more magical, more beautiful." For the future road, Yin Fang does not want to set too many rules and regulations for himself, he will not think about the things of a lifetime, he just wants to focus on the present and do what he is willing to do. Life is very long, the world is very big, actor Yin Fang, sail away.
Nandu Entertainment × Yin Fang
"Qin Hao is a joker, likes to joke about hurting me,
I sometimes lose him."
"Generally, I don't think much about the script
Will it be liked by everyone?"
Nandu Entertainment: How do you feel after watching your own performance of "The Wolf Hunter"?
Yin Fang: I think it's really like watching a movie in a movie theater, it's very cinematic, the rhythm is very cool. I haven't seen a series like this before.
Nandu Entertainment: You played the newcomer policeman Qin Chuan in this play, what is the most impressive point of this role?
Yin Fang: The most profound point is that because he is a new forest policeman, he has not yet found the meaning of doing this thing for himself, he also feels that it is too pediatric, and the things he does every day are trivial, but in such a small matter, he encountered a poaching gang, and then there was this pursuit operation, together with Wei Jiang. Then in this process, I slowly found the meaning and mission of doing this myself.
Nandu Entertainment: In the first episode, Qin Chuan feels that he is acting recklessly, and the personality does not seem to be very good, will you worry that the audience will not like Qin Chuan very much after that?
Yin Fang: In fact, I usually don't think much about whether this character will be liked by everyone when I receive the script. I couldn't even think of the audience's reaction when I was shooting. As for liking it or not, I think it is the liking and fate of each audience for the character. For me, I like people with this personality, I think he is very honest, very kind, very responsible, just needs a certain degree of growth. Of course, the growth may not be so fast, and it is necessary to have a master to bring a belt. It is that although Qin Chuan is very stupid, he is very cute and naïve!
Nandu Entertainment: But we will be a little anxious when we watch.
Yin Fang: If this is not the case, it will directly end the whole drama.
Nandu Entertainment: Did the director convince you in the same way?
Yin Fang: The director didn't convince me.
Nandu Entertainment: The director thinks Qin Chuan is very similar to you?
Yin Fang: I don't admit it anyway, I'm still very wise.
Nandu Entertainment: Do you think Qin Chuan is not like you?
Yin Fang: Good places are like, bad places are not like.
Nandu Entertainment: Where is the good place?
Yin Fang: Integrity, kindness and responsibility.
Nandu Entertainment: How does it feel to cooperate with Qin Hao this time?
Yin Fang: Very good. Before I thought he might be more serious, because I watched a lot of movies before, after contact, I found that he was a joker, and then often joked, hurt me, and my mouth was more damaged. I slowly learned from him how to damage him, and sometimes I damaged him. [Laughs]
Nandu Entertainment: There are many scenes of falling down the mountain in the play, did you really fall when filming?
Yin Fang: Most of them are real falls, some are difficult, there may be stand-ins. And sometimes it's the stand-in and the guys we'll shoot, and then the action director will see which one is better.
Nandu Entertainment: This time there are a lot of live-action shooting, beaten and hair, has the amount of hair changed after this shooting?
Yin Fang: Fortunately, it was fine, anyway, the amount of hair was not very much. I grew up with a hair volume like this, I didn't lose my hair.
Nandu Entertainment: In recent years, you have often cooperated with director Cao Dun, can you talk about the feeling of working with Director Cao?
Yin Fang: First of all, he is a very childlike person, he is sometimes very much like a child, so he has a very cute side. He easily stopped telling me the drama. But once, for example, he thinks the play is important, or he has another understanding, he says that the point of the play is very accurate. So some of the things he sometimes tells me, I'm very inspired. He was very nice to me. And because these plays have a lot of contact with him, he is a very emotional person, sometimes he will shed tears when he says something himself, which will make me particularly moved, that is, he really cares about certain things and is a very sincere person. Including when he once talked to me about Akira Kurosawa, and then he talked and talked, he shed tears, and he felt very touched, and then I also liked director Akira Kurosawa, and then he gave me a picture book signed by Akira Kurosawa, "The Picture Book of Dreams", and he was very good to me.
"I'm a very contradictory person"
Nandu Entertainment: You were born to dance, left in the middle, and then danced again, what was your mental journey in the middle?
Yin Fang: Just like Qin Chuan. When you can't find the meaning of this thing, you will doubt it, doubt whether it makes sense for you to do this thing, you may have the idea of giving up, in fact, Qin Chuan is also in this play, but when you really find the real meaning of this thing and when I give this thing meaning, it will be different.
Nandu Entertainment: When did you rediscover the meaning of dance? What happened to you?
Yin Fang: After leaving the dance. Leaving the dance, you will have a different feeling about this matter. It may no longer be something that other people, teachers, or stereotypes have instilled, because you have been through this for many years, and you may have your own feelings and understandings after leaving. Coupled with meeting good artists and seeing good works at that stage, this thing will make you re-understand this thing.
Nandu Entertainment: Many people are very anxious in this era, will you?
Yin Fang: Sometimes. My friends around me say that I am a person who is not easy to be anxious, but I sometimes feel that my anxiety may not be anxious, and it may sometimes be a little... I sometimes have self-doubt. I am a very contradictory person, and I often struggle and hesitate with myself. To be or not to be, to do or not to do, is to always think and look at a thing.
Nandu Entertainment: Do you have a way to eliminate anxiety?
Yin Fang: Because I can't turn pressure into motivation, when pressure comes, I sometimes avoid it, or I think of some way to make it not become pressure.
Nandu Entertainment: When you don't have a job, how do you arrange your life?
Yin Fang: In the past, I was actually quite good at arranging myself, but in the past two years, I don't know how to arrange my life, and sometimes I even don't know how to live. I wasn't like this before, I used to arrange myself in various ways. I will try my best to make myself learn, different learning. But now the time, I always think that a lot of time is fragmented time, but looking back, some time is also quite tidy. Of course, for example, if I feel that this time is a little bit full, I will arrange for myself to do dance dramas, or to create, this time is no problem. But even if there are some fragments of time, you don't know how to arrange it, that is, when you are in a state of being on standby at any time, you don't know how to arrange it.
Nandu Entertainment: You read a lot, and someone on the Internet has compiled the books you have read into a book list to urge themselves to learn from you. Have you loved reading since you were a child? What book have you been reading lately?
Yin Fang: In the past two years, I have read less books, and I feel a little quiet. I recently read a short story, which may still be related to the creation I want to do later.
Nandu Entertainment: If it has nothing to do with work, what type of book do you like?
Yin Fang: Some novels will like to read, such as history, or the comparison between China and the West, speculative, philosophical different ideas, different regions. I used to like to read philosophy, but then I was a little tired and didn't like to read it.