Tencent News "Star in Business" Author: Hu Mengying Editor: Kaidou, Yaoyao, Qiangqiang
In Xiao Shede, which is being broadcasted by Oriental TV, Zhang Guoli once again showed his skillful acting skills and performed Nan Jianlong, a complicated "father", to the fullest. Before retiring, he was the vice president of the design institute, but he put down his dignity and asked for help for his daughter and grandson, which was very bitter. Emotionally, he was criticized by netizens. He gave up princess royal and married Cai Juying, which was questioned by some people as "cheap".
A few days ago, Zhang Guoli accepted an exclusive interview with "Star in Business" and talked about Nan Jianlong’s marriage to Cai Juying. "When he was most helpless and thought he was about to leave the world, he got a little warmth. That warmth kept him in mind. "
Zhang Guoli’s performance in Little Shed-Up is considered as a "needle in the sea". As for the retirement plan brewed many years ago, it has also been shelved. He smiled and said, "Let’s wait until I can’t play."
I am confident that the popularity of Xiao Shede will break the previous work.
Star is in business: At present, you rarely receive TV series. What’s the story behind receiving Xiao Shede? You are considered to be a "needle in the sea" in the play.
Zhang Guoli: I have really done less TV dramas in recent years. Because of my age, I can’t talk about love, and there are very few plays by leading actors. Some people came to see me, but after reading the script, the amount of more than 1000 plays was really too much for me to touch it.
Unlike when I was young, I devoted all my energy to TV dramas, but now I’m a little stuck. Several films have been made in recent years, but they have not been released for various technical reasons. But I didn’t appear less on the screen. I have been fighting on the battlefield of variety shows, and all the major variety shows are on the screen.
I have worked with several actors and like them very much. In addition, at the climax of my TV series, I was tired of filming costume dramas for a while and filmed a lot of warm realistic themes, which were not very popular in the market. But the founders of Ning Meng Film are very supportive of me. Come to me this time, and I said, you must come.
That’s why I’m here, not to fix the sea. I am particularly happy. First, I am grateful to them for their friendship. The second is to cooperate with these young actors.
Star is in business: Have you seen Little Parting and Little Joy?
Zhang Guoli: On and off. I have less time to watch TV dramas now, either because I pay attention to the actor or the director. Not all of them.
Star is in business: are you confident to continue the previous heat and become another explosion?
Zhang Guoli: This depends on the market. From the perspective of drama, it is also a masterpiece, which is very good; In production, it is also a production unit that is willing to work hard and pay attention to it; The actors they invited were all very good.
Star in business: Regarding education, do you support children not to lose at the starting line, or is a happy childhood more important?
Zhang Guoli: Personally, I think it is more important to have a happy childhood. The so-called "starting line" is a starting line drawn for him by ourselves, and there is no such form. Didn’t say that on the day of school, after we finished the first grade competition, we ran once, and we ran again in the second grade. Nothing like this, this starting line is something in their minds.
Don’t worry about being criticized for your role.
Star is in business: The characters in the play, including Nan Jianlong, have their own problems. What do you think of this?
Zhang Guoli: This man’s problems are related to his life and his social background. In the play, the parents of the characters’ generation have only given birth to one, four old people and two couples, and they spoil one child together. After starting school, the characters in the play didn’t want him to lose at the starting line, and then there were various cram schools in the society, thus depriving the children of all their youthful happiness. Let him spoil, and began to breed a kind of pressure and rebellion, and he began to be unhappy and unhappy. At the same time, adults also live in anxiety. Because you will have a competition, their children can play the piano, and our family will buy a violin or trumpet or saxophone even if they are desperate, so that children can also have a skill.
Moreover, it is necessary to pass the economic barrier, because it will cost another teacher’s money and squeeze the children’s time. In this way, in the cycle, constantly circulating. Until the child finally graduated, everyone thought that he would be very happy after graduation. He lived like this, and he was stressed and uncomfortable at work. He didn’t think about how the old people at home would fall in love, get married and have children, and so on.
Every character in the play is like this. If you think about it carefully, you, him, her and more people in life are also in a cycle. Some people are sharper, some people are more marginal, and it’s all the same.
Star is in business: Many netizens question that he is partial to his daughter’s children.
Zhang Guoli: There is nothing biased. He just "pushed the gourd and lifted the ladle". He wants to maintain this family, and through this maintenance, he wants to find his affection with his daughter. I think he’s nice and real, not so fake. The whole behavior line of this character is not so fake.
Star is in business: he is considered irresponsible for his feelings in a complicated family.
Zhang Guoli: I think these are two different things. He went from the countryside to the city, and after graduation, he stayed in the city and married a city girl. The city girl can’t work or do housework, but she is quite powerful. A serious illness, the doctor told him that he should be gone, when he was most helpless and thought he was about to leave the world, he got a little warmth. That warmth is the best moment in his life, in his heart. It was this moment that made him want to live again, but he didn’t live well.
Star is in business: will some people say he is "scum" for him? Do you care if you are accused of this?
Zhang Guoli: I won’t. Slag is slag, everyone has slag sometimes. But I think it was the warmest moment of his life. Whatever. I’m not worried at all.
I once said "a little hobby" to Song Jia Rulu.
Star is in business: I have cooperated with Song Jia and Rulu in Once upon a Time in China and Dad Being in Charge respectively. Do you think they have changed a lot this time?
Zhang Guoli: They are still the same, still so cute. Their output has been particularly large in recent years, a bit like when I was young. I also told them to set aside some time for themselves properly, because that’s how I’ve lived my whole life.
When I was old, I discovered that I had no hobbies except TV dramas. So I told them to have some hobbies and a life of their own. The two of them also treat me like an old father. Including David, I said so. But that’s what this business is like. It’s all pushed away. It’s no use talking about it. They are as busy as ever, and they love drama, TV series and movies as always.
Star in business: Looking back, will you regret not cultivating your hobbies when you were young?
Zhang Guoli: No regrets. This is a person’s life, it is fate. There’s nothing to regret. All regrets are for others. Or you feel this way yourself, but I don’t. I think that life is like this, and no one knows how you should go. In fact, you are threatened by your thoughts or the whole state.
Star is open: do they all call you "dad" on the set?
Zhang Guoli: Yes, they still call me Dad, and they always call me Dad when they meet.
Star is in business: As a person who has been through it, what else would you say besides telling them not to concentrate on acting?
Zhang Guoli: It’s very important whether you like it or not. Looking back, I like my life in recent years.
I leave before dawn every day, and I can’t come back to sleep until it gets dark. I have to recite my lines before, see what play to shoot tomorrow, and chat with the creative staff. What about tomorrow? Where are the big seats? Where are we opening? It’s like this every day. It’s interesting to think about it now.
Star is in business: There are many young actors in the play. They play opposite plays. Will they identify with you at first?
Zhang Guoli: No, they are more familiar than me. Grandpa, grandpa, grandpa, grandpa, one by one. Before I knew who was who, they had already figured out what to call me, and then they introduced each other. These children are extremely clever, little geniuses, and extremely clever. I think their love for acting is much greater than their interest in learning. And I am very happy to play with them. Every time I finish a scene, I am reluctant to part with them.
Take the scene naturally, there is no fixed position.
Star is in business: from my son and father to my grandfather, I hope that there will be more breakthroughs in becoming a grandfather’s professional household.
Zhang Guoli: I always let nature take its course, and I am always pushed away. I never refuse what I like. If I’m allowed to play yellow love, that’s fine. So I don’t think it’s a problem of grandpa’s professional households or grandpa’s professional households, but it’s an age. When you reach this age, you should do what you should do at this age. If you like it, you can play it, if you don’t like it, you can’t play it. Almost every play will be different from the past.
I have a lot to do. Recently, I have been directing movies and variety shows, but now I have pushed away variety shows. I am serious about directing a movie, and I have a lot of drama appointments, and I like it very much. Now I’m on stage to play a drama, but I really enjoy it. I like to slow down the rhythm and let myself enjoy the process more. For me, there may be no fixed position.
For a while, people called me "national father", "national uncle" and "national elder". Now I probably want to call me "national grandfather"? No, I won’t.
In the business of Star: Will there be a gap in my heart from first hero to the old professional households now?
Zhang Guoli: Honestly, no. I’ve been making retirement plans for myself. I originally said that I would definitely quit at the age of 60, but when I was 60 years old, I felt like starting over again. In recent years, you have watched so many variety shows and made three movies. Because of technical reasons, they have not passed, but they have been busy. They have also directed and performed a drama. The drama is still touring the country and the world, and I almost never stop.
Star is in business: just put retirement on hold?
Zhang Guoli: I don’t think we can act anymore. Originally, this is the business of an actor, and your creative materials are your body. When you are old, you will naturally play some old roles, because we also have old people in life, such as grandpa, or even older people. As long as the script and characters are in line with my personal aesthetics, no problem.
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