Actor Zhu Yilong's half a year is quite bland in the eyes of outsiders. He filmed honestly, worked diligently, and silently day after day, leaving everyone with vague Reuters and high-definition stills. He constantly shuttled between characters and works, becoming part of one work after another.
This is his cleverness: he can keep his own piece of pure land, and he can make different expressions in the changing light and shadow. So, what new understanding does he have about acting now? What is the difference in the view of the play itself? Everyone says he was successful in his transformation, how does he think about it?
The following is Zhu Yilong's self-statement.
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Difficulties always follow choices
Just as much
Hello everyone, I am Zhu Yilong. I played a tunnel engineer in "Peak Explosion", Hong Yizhou. This year just happens to be the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, and it is also a story about the old railway soldiers of China Railway Construction, and I was touched by the theme and emotional core after reading the script. In fact, the establishment of the railway soldiers has been disbanded, and many young people at present do not understand what china's old railway soldiers are like, nor do they know the stories that happened to them. And as an actor, this is an opportunity for me to use this film to carry forward the spirit of the old railway soldiers and China Railway Construction, and to show you our Chinese strength and Chinese speed.
In order to understand the background of the story, we went to the museum of the headquarters of China Railway Construction, where there is a whole history of the old railway soldiers. After returning, I and Mr. Huang Zhizhong, who played his father in the film, began rock climbing training before filming. I practiced for more than two hours a day on average, and I insisted on this for more than twenty days—it may not seem like a very long time, but in fact, people who have been exposed to rock climbing should know that the whole person is hanging up, gravity is dragging people down, and every step of climbing has the illusion of falling, and in less than two hours, the arm will be sore and swollen, and even the hand can't be pinched.
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When training, I have begun to be mentally prepared, but the difficulties encountered after the real shooting are still a bit beyond imagination. In the daily state of shooting, we will be hung on the rock wall of ten meters and twenty meters every day, trying to overcome our physiological reactions and not let the body that trembles because of the cold affect the expression of the characters' emotions. Sometimes Teacher Huang Zhizhong and I will encourage each other, men do not necessarily need to say a lot, a look, or a smile, is enough.
There are indeed some thrilling moments during the filming process, and maybe everyone will feel nervous when watching the film, but my experience in filming for so many years has told myself that the more this situation is, the more I need to focus. When you are afraid, or if you are hesitating yourself, you are more likely to get hurt.
It seems that now everyone mentions the movie "Peak Explosion", which is "filmed very hard", and the problems of all parties are not bad, and they will revolve around the difficulties in shooting. Of course, this is in line with the theme and the story, but when I tell it repeatedly, it is always a little awkward.
The reason is too simple, and the hard work of filming is normal, because I do such a job, not only is it not enough for outsiders, but even when I talk too much, there is a kind of embarrassment of putting the cart before the horse.
Disaster movies, urban dramas, maybe in the setting, disaster movies need to hang people in cold weather and fall to the dusty ground, while urban dramas can wear coats, grab a cup of coffee, and walk into the office building; but outside the genre, this is the same. It is the same as investing in the role and putting in the effort, and the same is dealing with another character who is different from yourself. The "difficulties" in those outsiders are actually as many as the actors' own "choices".
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Ann Demeulemeester
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Life in the crew
It's a journey
Recently, after filming "Life Events", I was in a state of rest. The next trip is mainly to promote the upcoming movie "Peak Explosion". Actors are waiting for instructions most of the time, and before the arrangement is made, I can finally take a while to do my own thing.
Many people will ask me, is there anything that has changed this year? My answer was as stable as my state: nothing had changed. This half-year's work is no different from the past: enter the crew, prepare, shoot, and then make preparations and shoot the next scene.
Some people may think that the crew life will be a bit monotonous. Not in my eyes. Although it seems that there is only filming, eating, resting, sleeping, and the cycle, it is actually very interesting. A group of different people get together and work on the same play every day, you are character A, I am character B, most of the story is fake, from the author and the screenwriter' creation, but all of us are enthusiastic about taking it as real, mobilizing our emotions and emotions, using ourselves as a tool to express the character itself... What an interesting thing that is.
This is the romance of the ideal into reality, but also the inner belief from the false to the real, and it is also the like-mindedness with countless people. Until now, I still enjoy my days in the crew.
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At the beginning, I would still think that a play would take four months to shoot, which is a long time, but now I find out how a play can be filmed so quickly. Before I could even think about it, time was racing on me. This is also the reason why I now treat each play more cherished, because the day of really entering the creation is always happy and short.
This year's "Rebel" broadcast well, my friends, classmates, partners around me are watching, the happiest thing is that when I was filming in Wuhan, when an old man walked past me, he shouted at me in Wuhan dialect: "Lin Nansheng." "I'm from Wuhan, and I heard Uncle calling my character name in his hometown dialect, saying that there was no joy and self-satisfaction in his heart, which was false.
Uncle also told me solemnly that you don't look as good as Lin Nansheng now.
Uncle is right, because my appearance at that time was somewhat different from Lin Nansheng, I was filming the next play, but the people watching the play stayed in another time and space, I met with Uncle, and what I recalled together was the story about "Lin Nansheng". This is the time dislocation between the actors and the audience, and it is also a more sober way of observing in my eyes.
After I finished shooting that role, after I finished, I was already trying to get out. Maybe those characters have left a part of the mark on me, and I haven't thought about it properly or deliberately summarized it. It seems to me that I have never had the right to interpret the character I have played, it does not belong to me, it belongs to its author, it belongs to its readers, it belongs to its audience.
Our relationship is more like a friend we met on the road. In a prescribed situation, I met people that I would not have met in my life, and during this time we experienced things together and had feelings, but this was always a prescribed situation, and we would eventually be separated from each other. After the separation, every time I think back to that place, I think of such a person, and we spent some time together.
Of course, another reason why I want to go out from "Lin Nansheng" as soon as possible is really a bit depressed and sad. In the film, I kept sending my comrades and friends away one by one, and that state of mind was better to seal it.
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Never be
You in other people
It's not the first time I've heard the words, "Xxx is Zhu Yilong's transformational work." I heard it when I broadcast "Rebel" this year, and maybe some people will say this when "Peak Explosion" is released, but I never believed this.
As an actor over the years, I feel that I am not a talented player, at most it is quite in line with the eyes of some audiences. When I first started acting, I always held my breath, cared about every scene of myself, and wanted to mobilize all the "strength" and "acting skills", it was best to pass one by one.
But now I've become a lot more relaxed, I no longer have that feeling like an enemy, and I don't fear making mistakes in front of the camera, because mistakes are really inevitable, and it won't become a black and white judgment book. In this state of relaxation, it is easier to play better. This requires myself to be neither too concerned with the voice of doubt, but also the voice of praise.
The audience likes to watch my plays, and that's enough. As for the evaluation of the explosion of acting skills, in fact, the audience is expressing their recognition of me, but I can't take it seriously, I think a good actor should be when you watch the whole movie, you don't feel that his acting skills have a particularly big impact on you. The viewer doesn't produce: Wow, it's a really good acting, that emotion. Because once you think like this, you are already outside the characters.
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When I watch some good actors perform, I never feel that way. But when I think back to the details after reading it, I will find that he has handled it so advancedly and spent so much care in it. But all of this will not make you aware of it the first time you look at it.
For example, after I studied acting, I didn't see that it was him the first time I watched Dai Lewis's "Blood Is Coming", and after watching the cast list, I found that it was him. This sense of surprise in retrospect is more real than the current "he acted really well". A good show is a knife with a sheath.
Another interesting point is that I seem to have passed the stage of wanting to "pursue some extreme artistic expression". When I was in college, my classmates liked to challenge some particularly extreme roles, such as playing some villains, or people who are not common in life, and everyone felt that it seemed as if this particularly reflected the core of the performance.
But I don't have that idea at all now. Because after you play for a while, you will find that the bland role is the most difficult to play. They have no reference, they are very close to life, basically what you act like, he is what he is, and needs to have real similarities with the people around him as far as the eye can see, in order to be convincing.
This may also be a point of view that I have produced after communicating with directors, producers, and creators over the years and influencing each other. I no longer deliberately seek a breakthrough, nor do I want to shoot some roles that make people feel "acting explosion" at first glance, you know very well in your heart that it is not good enough. Of course, in two years, I may want to challenge some extreme characters, maybe, but at the moment, I don't want to shoot the type of photography, nor do I want to live in the shadow of everyone's praise, and plan my journey according to the route of flowers.
I don't know if I can say so, I am also a "person who came over", I think I really don't want to be wrapped up in everyone's comments. For example, an actor is an idol, a powerful person, saying that a certain work is his transformation work, saying that he is the successor of so-and-so, or what changes he needs to do next... This is all everyone's comment.
People will comment that you are a small fresh meat, or you have acting skills, or you have no acting skills, or you rely on luck, I think it doesn't matter, everyone has the freedom to evaluate, but for the actors themselves, you must not believe this thing. You just have to ask yourself what you want to do, what progress you've made in your performance, whether you really want to present good works to the audience, that's what matters.
Frankly, everyone's comments about me now don't affect me very much. Although sometimes I search for my own works and my own names on Weibo, and I am very happy to see everyone's feedback, the timeliness of that sense of accomplishment is still short, and the more solid pleasure comes from my determination to follow.
Now I, whether it is physical or mental, I think it is the best time. At the best time, it is the right thing to shoot one drama after another. And for all the hustle and bustle, I chose to close my ears and open my eyes.
Photography by ZACK Zhang Yue
Styling Sherry
Interview, article By Mai Yuan
Set art direction By Cathy Rosie
Makeup and hair Li Pengkun
Art Assistant Li Jiayu
Producer Fang
Costume Assistant Arata
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