The status of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" in palace fighting dramas can be said to be unsurpassed. Zhen Huan, played by Sun Li, has entered the hearts of the audience, no one can replace her, and she has achieved a classic role.
But at that time, in the same crew, many actors said"Sun Li is not easy to get along with"., After the whole drama was completed, Chen Jianbin was blunt:"I don't know Sun Li well. ”
Director Zheng Xiaolong also broke the news that during a dinner, Sun Li left halfway through eating, and even if the director asked her to have a meal together, she didn't give face many times.
As the heroine in the play, why is she so evaluated by everyone? Is it really that Sun Li is not easy to get along with?
In fact, of course, Sun Li is not a cold person, the reason why she rarely interacts with everyone, and she does not eat or play with other actors during breaks is because she is extremely serious about her work, because most of the time, Sun Li is memorizing lines.
The complete version of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has a total of more than 1,500 scenes, and Sun Li alone has to shoot 966 scenes, the task is very heavy, and she has her scenes to shoot almost every day. Even when Deng Chao went to visit the class, Sun Li was also writing and painting and studying the script on the side, ignoring her husband at all, and Deng Chao was so angry that he complained"I just read the script every day, and the script is as good as me. ”
Sun Li also posted her own scripts on Weibo, each with dense color labels, drawing in circles. She will record her understanding of the script in the book, and will also write down her experience and details after reading it, which shows her degree of care.
Sun Li's hard work is not only reflected in being familiar with the script, but also in making the details as perfect as possible when shooting on site.
There are many summer scenes in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" that were filmed in winter, because the temperature in the mouth is higher than that of the outside world, so there will be white gas wafting out when speaking. So, Sun Li took an ice cube in her mouth, which would lower the temperature in her mouth, and she wouldn't wear it when she read the lines.
Even if Sun Li was so attentive, when she first started filming, she was still questioned by Chen Jianbin about her acting skills. Because, at the beginning, Director Zheng Xiaolong's favorite candidate for Zhen Huan was Zhou Xun, and the Zhen Huan created by the original author Liuyuzi was based on Zhen Mi and Guo Huan played by Cai Shaofen when she was young.
But at that time, Zhou Xun was filming "Painted Skin", and Cai Shaofen refused to play this role because she was middle-aged and couldn't play the teenage Zhen Huan, so Sun Li was selected, which was really a miss.
Therefore, from the very beginning, Sun Li was very psychologically stressed. Zhen Huan and the emperor have a lot of rivalry, from the first time they met Ganlu Temple in the Imperial Garden, the emotional line is very clear and clear. But in fact, their first scene is a big wedding scene, and the two people who have not run in will naturally have some twists and turns.
After filming the first scene, Chen Jianbin did not give Sun Li face, and directly complained "Do you know how to act", of course Sun Li felt wronged and ran to the director and referee. And Director Zheng also felt that the concubine was too twisted, so that the emperor had been taking the initiative to not be like words.
Sun Li, who was not recognized, could only work harder to figure out the psychology of the characters, and at the same time, the pressure was greater. Sun Li even wanted to quit acting for a while, feeling that she was too stressed.
After filming "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Chen Jianbin said that he was not familiar with Sun Li, of course, he was not really complaining about her, but also recognized Sun Li's seriousness in her work from the side, and the "unfamiliar" was only because Sun Li spent all her time memorizing lines, so that the two had little contact outside the play.
Sun Li's dedication in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" made her immersed in the play and couldn't extricate herself, during the filming of the sister chapter "The Legend of Miyue", Han Xi and Jiang Xin both had rivalry with Sun Li, Sun Li said afterwards that she didn't dare to look them in the eyes when filming, because she could dance and would find back the feeling when filming "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
Later, Sun Li starred in many TV series, such as "The Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full", "An Home", "Ideal Life", etc., although they are also very good, and their acting skills are still great, they have not been able to surpass Zhen Huan's classics.