Yang Zi： Many roads are not set by yourself
"I set myself a two-month vacation, but I didn’t expect to take six months at once." The 2019 film and television industry is nearly halfway through the competition, and the competition is in full swing, but the post-90s actor Yang Zi seems a little "empty".
In the past six months, Yang Zi has not been in a hurry to take on more plays. She has chosen the script cautiously, or traveled with friends. During the free time period, the company will not urge Yang Zi to shoot. "They are actually more worried about my fat problem. They are afraid that if I relax, I will become a ball, and it turns out that I will become a ball."
In an exclusive interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily Zhongqing Online, Yang Zi talked about several plays with the meaning of "life nodes". "I am lucky that everyone did not give up on me after playing’Family with Children ‘."
When he was young, he first appeared in "Out of the Mountain" and "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang". At the age of 12, he participated in "Family with Children". The role of "Xiaoxue" made Yang Zi popular all over the country. Now some young artists can’t help but say "you are my childhood idol" when they see Yang Zi.
Yang Zi would "learn secret techniques" when she was a child, observing the acting state and rhythm of those seniors in the entertainment industry. She found this "learn secret techniques" very interesting, and the "rhythm" of each actor is different.
Yang Zi, for example, used to act with Jiang Wenli – "She flows into your heart like a spring, every word of her is very gentle, the rhythm is slow, the role is very charming, and the charm makes you irresistible".
When filming "Family with Children," Yang Zi was impressed by Song Dandan’s language talent, on-the-spot play and humorous personality. Yang Zi revealed that she learned a lot of "performance rhythm" from Song Dandan. "I think comedy can train people very well. As long as you do a good job of comedy, it will be easier to master the rhythm later."
Every child star who tries to pursue acting as their lifelong ambition will almost encounter a difficult period of transformation. Yang Zi admits that many child stars can’t hold on in the end, and rarely receive plays that are truly suitable for them when they grow up, and she has also experienced times when she wants to give up halfway through. "I feel that it is not worth mentioning. God has favored me very much, and I am very lucky to come step by step."
The turning point of Yang Zi’s transformation was the TV series "Battle of Changsha" directed by Kong Sheng and Zhang Kaizhou. In this drama, Yang Zi plays Hu Xiangxiang, a nurse in a field hospital, and interprets the growth process of transforming from a girl to a wife and a mother.
Yang Zi was not the original candidate for the role, she was temporarily "picked up and sent to the battlefield" a week before the start of the game. Yang Zi said with a smile that as soon as the official announcement of the role was made, all aspects were strongly questioning that she would definitely not work, and her mentality became better. "I just want this! If everyone thinks I can’t do it, I have no pressure, let go of the acting, and the effect will come out."
Yang Zi expressed her fear that after the official announcement of a new drama, everyone would cheer "Wow, it’s Yang Zi, she’s so good". She would rather be underestimated before going LIVE, and then usher in a moment of word-of-mouth "reversal".
"Battle in Changsha" is a node that Yang Zi believes that God has given her, because "people in the industry will think that little Yang Zi has grown up and can act."
Director Kong Sheng and Zhang Kaizhou’s style is to grasp the big style and then give the actors full play space, which makes Yang Zi appreciate it very much.
Yang Zi recalled that there was a scene where she was caught in the shooting. The script was written very simply. Hu Xiangxiang said to her brother-in-law something like "Is the pony okay? Is mom okay? Say hello to me." This kind of line. "After I finished the performance, Director Kong didn’t speak, and his assistant director came over and said to me, ‘Xiangxiang, do you think you are still in such a flat mood at this moment?’ He told me about the national environment first, and then about the small family. I cried directly. The scene I played was completely different from the script and when I auditioned for the play. I cried so much that I was moved by myself."
In 2016, Yang Zi starred in "Qiu Yingying" in "Ode to Joy". She self-evaluated that the show could be regarded as "the second" Family with Children ". But the role of" Qiu Yingying "also caused controversy for a time.
During the broadcast of "Ode to Joy", Yang Zi happened to be filming in the mountains during the day, and there was no signal. When she came back, she was scolded on the Internet, "The whole people are tearing Qiu Yingying by the hand." "What did I say is wrong? The audience will be a little involved, and they will scold you very badly. I was a little sad at the time, and Qiu Yingying, who was written in the original book, was a little more stupid. I have tried my best to make her cute. The helpless thing about the actor is that you can’t play this role into a perfect person, and the script is set like that. The profession of an actor means that I have to play her stupidity and stupidity."
Yang Zi said helplessly that when she was eating with some elders or meeting strangers, the other party would ask her why she didn’t speak, not as lively as in "Ode to Joy"? She could only reply in surprise: "Huh?" "Everyone has been saying that I am the one who plays, what am I thinking about! I am very angry when I hear this."
Due to the unlikeable character being scolded to the point of being sad, Yang Zi comforted herself: It means that the character has succeeded, which means that the play is too popular.
In 2018, Yang Zi starred in "Fragrant Honey Sinking Like Frost", which exploded in ratings. She commented that the play "made more young people know me again".
Half a year of filming "Honey Sinks Like Frost" in Hengdian happened to be a hot season. "It was 60 degrees Celsius in the studio, and it was more than 10 hours a day. There were many crying scenes, and sometimes I was physically exhausted." Yang Zi lost 9 kilograms after filming, "It was a small ball that entered the group, and it came out of phase."
The final result of this drama made Yang Zi very happy, thinking that this was God telling her that hard work would pay off. "Many paths are not set by you, you are waiting for opportunities to find you. There is no way, you can only work hard, who knows what opportunities will find you?"
Recently going LIVE’s new drama "Dear, Love", Yang Zi revealed that this is a completely different image from the past. She and actor Li Xian play Tong Nian, a straight-A student who specializes in programming, and Han Shangyan, who strives to start a business and lead a team to win glory for the country in international competitions.
"It was so cool when I played it. I played a very intelligent girl who often lectures college students in the lecture hall and talks about facial recognition systems, which is so cool! In addition, ‘Tong Nian’ is also a sweet singer. This is a very cute, kind, and intelligent straight-A student, which is perfect."
Yang Zi told reporters that now she is very careful about the choice of the script, "I feel a little bit worse" and "very similar" scenes, Yang Zi is not very interested in picking up, "I am very afraid that everyone’s expectations for me are too high, and the result is not satisfactory."
China Youth Daily · China Youth Online reporter, Shen Jiequn, Source: China Youth Daily
