April 9 upcoming inspirational film "Great Dad" recently exposed the latest trailer and stills, Gong Beiyuan played the "gold medal coach" Xia Lu in the film, the trailer of her neat shape, with gritty eyes, cool character image is eye-catching. This year, for Gong Beiyuan, it is a big screen harvest year, she and Duan Yihong's "One Knife Paradise", "Broken Bridge" with Ma Sichun and Wang Junkai, and "Hannan Summer" starring her will all be released this year.
Gong Beiyuan played the coach in "The Amazing Daddy".
On March 5 this year, the winners of the New Generation Section of the 71st Berlin Film Festival were announced, and the film "Hannan Summer", directed by female director Han Shuai and starring Gong Beiyuan, won the Best Film Award, becoming the only Chinese-language film to win the award in Berlin this year. The film tells the growth story of a thirteen-year-old girl from a delicate female perspective, which also makes Gong Beiyuan win the Special Jury Award for Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival after starring in the short film "Car Forty-Four" in 2001, and was once again recognized by the three major international film festivals after being selected for the "Film Fortnight" section of the Cannes Film Festival.
When Gong Beiyuan learned that "Hannan Summer" had gained something at the Berlin Film Festival, she was on her way to her hometown to celebrate her grandmother's 95th birthday, and she felt both happy and relieved to hear this good news that she had "never thought about". She recalled the excitement of filming to the Beijing News reporter, and said that compared with winning the award, she hoped to get the recognition of her acting skills by the majority of the audience, "Many viewers can't recognize Gong Beiyuan in the past after watching the movie, which is the happiest thing for me." ”
"Hannan Summer" character version poster.
One person plays two roles of sisters, practicing dialect with his son
"Hannan Summer" is a purely female theme film, which tells the hazy awakening of the girl Yang Guo from girl to woman during the homestay of her aunt' house. Mother and aunt, Yang Guo and cousin, two pairs of sisters mirror each other, reflecting their own pain, but still accompany each other.
At the beginning of Gong Beiyuan's contact with the "Hannan Summer" book, she was attracted by the "special" character design of this movie, and the careful female director Han Shuai once made a super detailed PPT-style character biography for her, and explained the plot to her in particular. The complexity and multi-faceted female group portraits in the film, the awakening of female identity and other characteristics have made Gong Beiyuan pick up the book and do not want to let go, and the huge challenge of the big acting skills of "one person playing two roles" in the film is even more exciting for her and at the same time extremely "technical itch", after all, an actor is likely to never encounter such a "drama addictive" character setting in his lifetime.
In the process of filming, Gong Beiyuan felt that she had ushered in a big explosion of acting skills after a long time of savings, she played two roles of sisters in the film, she was Yang Guo's mother, full of charm, living in a glamorous, at the same time she was also Yang Guo's aunt, removing all the soft light filters, and writing all the destruction from life on her face and body. This stark contrast once made Gong Beiyuan uncomfortable, after all, in life, she has always been known for her straightforward and simple image.
Gong Beiyuan played "Mother" (left) and "Aunt" (right) in "Hannan Summer".
For the role of "aunt", Gong Beiyuan spent a lot of time preparing, and she told herself that she absolutely could not live up to this rare opportunity to "accept" acting skills. With messy short hair, ill-fitting overalls, and spotted cheeks, it seems difficult for the audience to recognize that the character in the film is Gong Beiyuan, who has always been glamorous. "Before I started up, I went to the steel factory in Wuhan, felt it for several days, and then combined with the plot told me by the director to practice the Wuhan dialect. It was a big test for me because I had never acted in a language other than Mandarin. Gong Beiyuan laughed while "complaining", Wuhan accent is difficult to learn, she wants to do everything possible to practice Wuhan dialect, in the local area to observe the status of the locals, can not be in the local, through the online video to "immerse" the place: "That time is basically crazy, every day at home to practice dialect, and then even my son will suddenly appear a sentence or two (laughs). ”
The "wet market" has become an observational spot for honing their acting skills
Gong Beiyuan believes that the most direct way to polish the performance is to observe in life, any role is placed in front of her, she must use full strength to feel the breath of life of the character, she said that the most courageous observation resort is the vegetable market, the criterion for testing whether she has successfully integrated into the role is whether the locals have a different reaction to you: "Those days I wore a wig to hang out in the vegetable market when I had time, and when I had time, I would squat there to observe, just like before Hu Ge filmed "The Party at South Station", I would also be specially integrated into the local area. Once he was recognized, he was very frustrated, and then he observed and imitated until no one recognized him, which is a success, indicating that you are compatible with the locals. At that time, when the film was screened at the Pingyao Film Festival, many people told me that they did not recognize Gong Beiyuan, which was what I most hoped for. ”
Gong Beiyuan played the "aunt" in "Hannan Summer".
Han Shuai is a newcomer director, and in Gong Beiyuan's eyes, she is a director who respects actors very much and gives them space to play. In the movie, in addition to Gong Beiyuan, the others are basically non-professional actors, and Gong Beiyuan must also minimize her "sense of professionalism" in the process of cooperation, so as to achieve the most natural and sincere character emotions. Gong Beiyuan said that in the cooperation with non-professional actors, sometimes because of some experience expressions, but at the same time, it will inadvertently produce sparks: "Our budget for this play is limited, the cycle is also very short, sometimes the director needs to emphasize the advantages of professional actors, and supplement the things that other actors lack, and the final effect is still quite satisfactory." ”
【Interview】
"Mom" scenes have been deleted a lot, and I'll make it back next time
At that time, Gong Beiyuan, who was still in junior high school, was selected by the famous director Mi Jiashan, and starred with Zhang Guoguo in the movie "You Are Not Sixteen" (released in 1994), completing her film debut, and she was also admitted to the Chinese opera acting department after graduating from high school. In the hearts of many post-80s generations, Gong Beiyuan, who is highly recognizable in appearance and temperament, is one of the earliest idol drama actresses in China, she played the simple and beautiful Xing Jiahua in the drama "Beijing-Hong Kong Love Line" broadcast in 1997, and played The Bei Bei who pursued Yang Zheng (Played by Li Yapeng) in the 1998 drama "Carry Love to the End", daring to love and dare to hate. What makes Gong Beiyuan go international is known to more audiences for her and director husband Wu Shixian's films "Waiting Alone" and "Inseparable", especially her role as Li Jing, who has long hair, smiles, is cool and considerate in "Waiting Alone", making her an "ideal girlfriend" in the eyes of the audience. Over the years, Gong Beiyuan has created a broader drama path, in "I am not a medicine god", she plays Cheng Yong (Xu Zheng) the atmosphere and calm ex-wife; in "My Motherland and Me", "Beijing Hello", she plays the wife of Zhang Beijing (Ge You), playing a city well. The "sisters" in "Hannan Summer" are perhaps the most different roles that Gong Beiyuan has encountered in her acting career today.
Stills from "Waiting Alone" and "My Motherland and Me".
Beijing News: What is your most direct feeling about the three major film festivals?
Gong Beiyuan: When I first started to study acting, I saw famous directors, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, who went overseas and won some awards in foreign film festivals, I sincerely admired it, and later after I started filming, I starred in "Car Forty-Four" to the Venice Film Festival, and was also selected for the Cannes Film Festival, at that time I thought there was still a Berlin Film Festival, so this time there was such a harvest is indeed a realization of the dream of the student period, it is really a happy mood.
Beijing News: Do you still want to cooperate with Han Shuai, the director of "Hannan Summer"?
Gong Beiyuan: For some reasons, in fact, the scene of the mother in the movie has been deleted a lot, and I still tell her that you owe me a mother, and the next time I make up for it (laughs).
Beijing News: When you talk about "Hannan Summer", your eyes seem to be bright, and your love for this play is overflowing, what do you think is the key to this role?
Gong Beiyuan: It's very strange, when I was shooting this scene, the whole person was in a state of extreme excitement, and I especially liked this state, because this time I needed to play two roles by one person, I had to put a lot of effort into it, you needed to use the performance to distinguish between these two roles, in terms of appearance, personality, and all aspects of my life that made me in a state every day - I always wanted to create, and I couldn't wait to wear a wig to the scene every day, if I was in this state, I spent energy for the role, a sense of accomplishment.
Beijing News: Is this the norm in your filming?
Gong Beiyuan: It's not that every play is so exciting, to meet what you like and can stimulate your own creativity, it is really happy and precious.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
Edited by Huang Jialing Proofreader Lucy
Source: Beijing News