"In fact, I prefer to eat ice cream", when we repeatedly teased Zhang Zifeng that the cake on the table was particularly delicious, Zhang Zifeng finally asked out, "Will there be ice cream?" ”
One day in December 2018, Zhang Zifeng and I were having dinner with a cat café and learned that she liked to eat ice cream, strawberry flavor.
This is the second time we have seen Zi Feng sister this year, she had a magazine shoot that day, we went to the shooting site to pick her up for dinner, said to pick her up, and finally rubbed her car.
This year is a year of post-00s Xiaohua's strength, especially Zhang Zifeng in the second half of the year, who starred in "Take My Brother Away" and won 375 million yuan at the box office, and at the end of the year, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actress with "Hello, Zhihua", followed by "Secret Visitor" cooperated with Duan Yihong.
The development trend of the little girl is very good, and many people call her a genius girl. Teacher Xu Zheng, who has worked together, praised her as a small artist, and Chen Kexin said that he regretted that he did not find Zhang Zifeng earlier.
And she herself said in an interview with "Twenty and Standing" in August this year that she didn't want people to call her an actress, she was just an actor.
We asked her why, you are obviously an actor, acting for more than ten years, are you not ready to act? Zhang Zifeng told us that she likes acting, she can't imagine herself no longer filming, but it is precisely because she likes it that she will worry about consuming it after turning it into a career.
This time we talked to Zi Feng about the problem of "consumption".
Zhou Xun and Chen Kun do the Yamashita Academy, will invite some actors in the circle to write some feelings, Zi Feng was also invited this year, wrote a letter about the "happiness of actors". She said in the letter that acting when she was a child was based on feelings, and emotions came out naturally, but as she grew older, she began to fear that it was not enough to rely only on love and the experience accumulated since childhood, and one day it would be consumed, maybe one day, maybe the next play.
What exactly was consumed, she did not say explicitly, but I think it should be what we laymen often say, talent.
Genius girl, Zhang Zifeng
Zhang Zifeng's talent for acting emerged when he starred in "Tangshan Earthquake" at the age of eight.
In the movie, she plays a girl who is crushed into the ground by a hard stone slab, and at the other end of the stone slab is her brother, and the sisters and brothers can only live one. When Zhang Zifeng heard her mother say "save her brother", a tear fell, just caught by the camera. Someone asked her if she had rehearsed this scene, why could this tear fall so accurately? Zhang Zifeng said no, the mood arrived, and naturally fell.
Later, Feng Xiaogang said that Zhang Zifeng was the eye of the whole play, "If she didn't believe the story, the whole movie wouldn't be able to be established." This is very similar to Zhang Zifeng's evaluation of herself, she just has a "sense of faith".
This "sense of faith" is an important criterion for many big directors to select small actors. Ang Lee has said that the young brother Sura Shama can become the male protagonist of "The Fantasy Drift of the Young Pi", that is, the boy has the power to believe, "he is willing to throw himself into a state of belief". The power of this belief is the actor's sense of faith, and it is also Zhang Zifeng's "talent" as an actor.
When we talked about how "Hello, Zhihua" distinguished between "Girl's Hua" and "Zhihua's daughter Zhou Saoran", she suddenly asked me with some happiness, "Eh, do you know why There is that dog nibbling on bangs?" I said with a blank face, this, I really don't know.
She said that she has always had a habit of cutting her hair after filming, and this time she did not cut it because the next play requires her hair to be longer, and then there is no more cutting. But she didn't feel very comfortable every day, because her hair was still the same as in the freshly finished "Secret Visitor", and one morning, she got up and pulled her hair into a middle part, and she felt better, and felt that she was no longer the character.
Before picking up "Hello, Zhihua", Zhang Zifeng just finished filming "Fast Brother". She was already a very short Qi bangs in it, and immediately went to cut the bangs after filming, and just after cutting, she received an invitation from director Shunji Iwai, and there was no way to take the dog to nibble the bangs.
That day in the cat café, we talked about a lot of bits and pieces, she described to us how proud her cat was, spit on Peng Yuchang and invited her to eat an ice cream, promised to send her "Dragon Clan" has not been given to her, just like an ordinary 17 little girl, but after saying "dog nibbling bangs", I suddenly got excited, at that moment, you really feel, Oh, this little girl who picks up the cat to eat ice cream is an actor, an "old" actor who has played for more than ten years.
How far can talent make an actor go?
Many people first remember Zhang Zifeng as a smile of her "bad guy" in "Detective Chinatown". Liu Hao then came to the interview and complained that when you watch a movie, you are afraid, you think about me, she is smiling at me!
In fact, Zhang Zifeng did not know what the "bad guy's laugh" should be like at first, because it has always been the image of playing a little girl, on the day of the role, she tried to smile at Chen Sicheng, and when she really started shooting, she felt that the difficulty of Si Nuo's laughter was not in the "sinister laugh", but in the former "bad", the latter simple.
She designed the "laughing" method in advance, and her daily smile is bent in her eyes, and Si Nuo's laughter is a deliberate sneer, staring at Liu Haoran in front of her. Before the official start of filming, afraid that the brewing emotions would disappear, she chose to stay alone, which is also her habit on the set.
In 2015, when she played "Little Parting", she played the rebellious Fang Duoduo. In an interview with Elle, her mother said that there was an empty study on the scene that no one used, and she sat there alone after filming, and the chair did not move.
Chen Sicheng said that when he chose Zhang Zifeng, in addition to believing that she could act well, the most important thing was that she did not have the "oil and gas" of other child stars.
At the age of seven, Zhang Zifeng starred in "Longsugou", adapted from the Lao She drama. There was a scene of falling into the water on a rainy night, and the director had promised her that as soon as she fell into the water, there would be 4 people in the water. Later, it was found that the ditch was too shallow to flood Zhang Zifeng, and the adults would expose the filling as soon as they squatted, and the result of repeated consultation could only make Zhang Zifeng "fall alone into the water".
For people who can't swim, as long as the water doesn't pass through the chest, it is difficult to breathe, not to mention Zhang Zifeng, who was still a child at that time? Later, someone teased her, is it cruel for her mother to let herself shoot this scene? She said that if she didn't let herself act, she would be angry. "Sense of faith" is zhang Zifeng's talent, but to act well, it is her persistence.
She created 26 little girls, and Chen Sicheng and Chen Kexin evaluated her: there is no routine.
The affirmation of the outside world makes Zi Feng happy at the same time, but also feel the pressure, acting is like a superpower for her, she is often afraid, this superpower, disappeared, often worry that she is using past experience in acting.
She didn't want to consume herself all the time, she wanted to find a way to enrich herself, so she started the bus trip. At first, I didn't want to go out to see the world or anything, but I was a little bored, and I suddenly thought that sleeping on the bus should be good, so I sat on the top of the double-decker bus. She saw a young man sitting in front of her on the phone, supposed to be selling insurance, and she began to observe his tone, the state of all aspects, and at that moment, she suddenly found that there were still such people in the world.
Gradually, she fell in love with taking the bus, saw all kinds of people, young, old, happy or angry, and found a lot of "life" that she could not see on the set and in her original life.
Li Once said that the anxiety of young people now comes from the desire for success. Because of the desire, everyone is pursuing rapid success. However, the performance is a slow work craft, not the beginning of the shooting in October, and the surprise practice before the start of the machine can produce results for two or three weeks. And actors, not acting in one or two blockbusters, can become good actors.
Xu Zheng said that actors do not come out through a drama, but through their entire career.
Talent can push an actor in front of the audience, but the effort determines how far she can go. God gave Zhang Zifeng the "rice bowl" of acting, whether she can hold it up or not depends on how she chooses. Zi Feng said that her wish for herself every year is to hope that she will not change in this part of filming.