The TV series "Shangyang Fu" is being broadcast, which is Zhang Ziyi's first TV series work, and many excellent actors have also gathered in the play. But young audiences may not know that Jia Yiping, the actor who played Wang Yu's brother Wang Su, was also a "top- and"top-notch" actor in the film and television industry.
In 2001, after Graduating from Chinese Opera, Jia Yiping won the Huabiao Best Newcomer Award. In the next few years, the TV series he starred in, "Qianlong Dynasty", "Zazhuang", "Chinese-style Divorce", and "Wrong Love For a Lifetime" were almost all ratings champions.
In those years, Jia Yiping swelled, and there were also times when he couldn't help himself and was pushed forward by capital. With the ebb and flow of capital, Jia Yiping knows that what he values most is the creation itself, and in recent years, if he has not impressed his script, he would rather not act, "Not acting well, acting badly but humiliating." ”
In "Shangyang Fu", Jia Yiping and Zhang Ziyi play brothers and sisters.
"Shangyang Fu"
He and Zhang Ziyi are classmates and have been "neighbors" for four years.
Jia Yiping and Zhang Ziyi are Chinese opera students, one is a 97-level acting department, and the other is a 96-level. Zhang Ziyi was a candidate majoring in dance before, although he was one level older than Jia Yiping, but he was a little younger than him, and he always called him "Old Jia".
At that time, there were not many Chinese opera students, from the first year to the senior year, and the total number of acting departments was only seventy or eighty. Everyone lived in a dormitory building and was a neighbor for four years, so naturally the relationship did not have to be said. After work, although the two have not cooperated and their development routes are different, their affirmation of each other's business capabilities and professional tacit understanding have always been there.
In 2018, Zhang Ziyi was preparing for her TV series debut "Shangyang Fu", when the drama "Beijing Fayuan Temple" starring Jia Yiping was on tour. After watching the performance, Zhang Ziyi handed an olive branch to Jia Yiping, hoping that he would come to star in the play.
Jia Yiping said that he had read some of the original works, but he had not read them all, "I don't need to have preconceived notions, dramas and novels are certainly not the same thing." "In his opinion, although wang Su, who he plays, was born in the clan, he is a person who has no desire for power, and even hates to fight for power and profit." What I need to do is to show this character, and I don't want to interpret things other than his understanding, and the more I act, the more I become flavored. ”
On and off the set
Raising his sword to confront the second prince, he lost his voice
Wang Su, played by Jia Yiping, has a major play - the second prince Zilu launched a palace coup, escorted Wang Su and Wang Shu's brothers and sisters to the palace square, married Wang Su's concubine Huan Mi, and wanted to "rest" Wang Su. Zhang Ziyi had a small accident before filming this scene, and his arm was dislocated. When filming, her arm had not fully recovered and could not move, and when Jia Yiping rushed up with a knife, he instinctively waved his hand and just happened to touch Zhang Ziyi's injured arm. Because the machine has been following, but also have to continue to act, Jia Yiping panicked, the lines did not shout out, the vocal cords also snapped a little, "At that time, I lost my voice, filming for so many years has never been like this, the crew quickly found a Chinese medicine doctor to give him acupuncture." ”
Lose 12 pounds for young age
Although the plot does not emphasize the age of Wang Su when he appeared, Jia Yiping reduced from 138 pounds to 126 pounds in half a month in order to play a good role when he was young, "I hope that I can lose a little weight, so that people will appear more energetic." ”
In "Shangyang Fu", the heroine Wang Yan, played by Zhang Ziyi, starts from the age of 15 and The Ceremony of Zhen, and other peer actors also have to challenge the growth process from young to adult. When it first started broadcasting, it triggered a discussion among the audience.
As a creator of the film and television industry, Jia Yiping feels that this is also no way to do it, this kind of TV series, the highlights of the male and female protagonists are from a young age, can not use small actors to play such a complex role, "then it will become a children's drama." ”
When he can't help himself, "responsibility" makes him stick to it
In 2001, Jia Yiping entered the National Theatre of China after graduating from Chinese opera, and in the same year won the Best Newcomer Award at the 7th China Film "Huabiao Awards" for his film "Silent River". Since 2002, he has starred in the TV series "Qianlong Dynasty", the TV series "Zazhuang", which depicts the shady scenes of the stock market, the TV series "Chinese-style divorce" and "Wrong Love For a Lifetime".
Thinking back to several popular works in those years, Jia Yiping said that the ratings at that time were astronomical now, "Now the ratings are very powerful, and those TV series in the past were just more than 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, or even more than a dozen." There weren't so many entertainment channels at that time, and at eight o'clock in the evening, everyone went home to watch TV. ”
With the broadcast of high-rating works, Jia Yiping has also expanded. "It is no exaggeration to say that at that time, I had read all the scripts on the market and would look for me first. I am also too confident, but I will not lose my temper with others and play big cards, but I will be particularly picky, and I think that this play has me. ”
Around 2010, capital and hot money began to pour into the film and television industry, which also pushed Jia Yiping to the forefront of the storm. Three years later, Jia Yiping, who had attracted investment, opened a film and television media company and prepared to shoot a TV series himself. "Those years tired me, gave me the indicators, 40 episodes of TV series, three a year, to manage the script, but also to act, some also have to be producers, manage editing, anyway, all aspects have to be managed." 」
When many factors pushed him forward, Jia Yiping found that these were completely different from what he imagined, but when he woke up, the company's employees and the investors behind him were counting on him, and the responsibility made him have to persevere. "Involuntariness" was his only feeling at that time.
The most painful thing is that Jia Yiping is a person with feelings and requirements, "I am a person, the things I make are not good, I really can't go over, I will go to be more real, and my energy can't keep up." ”
Not acting is not wrong, and it is really humiliating to not act well
When the boom of capital subsided, Jia Yiping decided to return to the performance itself. But the environment has long been in disarray. In recent years, his works have not been much, "In fact, I have been filming, but for various reasons many have not been broadcast." ”
After experiencing all kinds of things in the past, Jia Yiping felt that filming still had to adhere to his own principles, and he could impress himself by filming, and he did not force it when he could not meet it, "No acting is not wrong, acting well is called humiliation, in fact, the best state is not to take yourself too seriously." I've been lucky that so far, I haven't come across an unprofessional crew. ”
"I always thought I was a craftsman." Jia Yiping boiled down people in this industry to three kinds of values, the first being commercial value, which means that this person has the ability to shake capital. There is also a kind of entertainment value, "there is a topic, not necessarily any work, but always can make people focus on him/her, usually there is no good thing, this is the entertainment value." He categorized himself as the third kind of artistic value, "I think I still have a little artistic value, such as you ask me to play a play, you have confidence in me, I can do what you want, if possible, it will be better than you think." 」 ”
Although it is nearly a confusing year, in Jia Yiping's view, the actor's artistic life has just begun, from a worldwide point of view, a good actor, the real good work should be after the age of 50, "such as Marlon Brando, "The Godfather", that is the work of the gods. Including Al Pacino, Hiroko Tanaka, Jiao Huang, So Zhi, Hu Qingshu teachers in China, and so on. ”
Characters who are truly skilled and artistically accomplished cannot be too young. "This is related to a person's self-cultivation and life experience."
Writer/Reporter Zhang Kunyu