We have picked up a lot of interesting facts about the casting of many small protagonists in the TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan", because there are few important male characters in the story, so we didn't have time to pick it up. When it comes to interesting stories about actors, most of the things we know come from Mr. Chen Jianbin , the actor of Big Orange.
For example, at the beginning of filming, the director concentrated on arranging the scenes of each concubine and concubine sleeping. Teacher Chen Jianbin who played the role of Da Tang could only lie on the bed and bring up a concubine, and he asked, "Who are you?" Who is playing? "In the scenes where the actresses are more concentrated, as soon as the shutdown is stopped, the girls will talk endlessly, only our emperor Da Tang is on the side, at a loss. The point is, he can't interject either. When there was no big orange scene, he went to the crew of "Step by Step" next door, and while envying the many male actors in the crew, he was looking for those brothers to play basketball. After the series was finished, the director team invited everyone to dinner, and the blind straight man Mr. Chen didn't know a single concubine. Because they've all changed into modern clothes.
Although Mr. Chen had an expression of "I'm a straight man, who am I afraid of", it was Mr. Chen who sprayed the most at the beginning. Because the emperor in the original book is a handsome and dashing young emperor in his 20s, a perfect male protagonist with a story similar to "The domineering president fell in love with me". But when the drama party announced that it was Mr. Chen Jianbin who played the big orange, the fans were reluctant, claiming that Mr. Chen, who was over 40 years old, was not worthy of the perfect emperor image in the original book. But fortunately, after the series was broadcast, Mr. Chen deduced the hypocrisy and calculation of Da Tang with his superb acting skills, and conquered everyone because of it.
However, the focus we want to talk about today is not the big orange played by Mr. Chen. is Bai Yueguang Wen Shichu, who has loved Zhen Huan all his life, and his actor Zhang Xiaolong.
At first, the crew searched the entire entertainment industry, but they didn't find an actor suitable for the gentle and elegant Guojun Wang Yunli. After all, Zhang Xiaolong, who is 180 tall and was born in dance, is tall and straight, but that face has an elegant appearance. But in this trial scene, the director arranged a role for him to be gentle, because Mr. Zhang Xiaolong's face is more like the face of first love.
In order to play the good old man Wen Shichu, Zhang Xiaolong carefully studied the task and added many details to his performance. For example, he found that the character of Wen Shichu had to kneel when he saw a doctor, and kneeling when he was frightened, and he knelt the most in the whole play, including those mothers. Of course, this is related to his identity as a physician, and it is more that the character of Wen Shichu is cautious and respectful in his heart. So he designed himself to unconsciously bow his body every time he appeared, to show that his status was lower than that of the little masters.
Shen Meizhuang, an actor who has a lot of rivalry with Wen Shichu in the play, wanted to ** and hoped to better present the daily life of a lady in the play, so he asked the physical teacher Zhang Xiaolong for advice on how to behave more gracefully and some weight control skills in Chinese opera.
There are many similar details, and the director suddenly felt that it was a bit overkill to give a talent like Mr. Zhang Xiaolong and only one role for him, so he began to let him be a teacher and train the body and etiquette of the crew's ladies. In this way, there is a funny phenomenon in Teacher Zhang Xiaolong: Wen Shichu is in the play, who belongs to whom, and Zhang Xiaolong is caught outside the play who teaches who to kneel, so the actors gave Teacher Zhang the nickname of "kneeling concubine". Not only that, whether it is in the play or outside the play, Mr. Zhang of 180 is either kneeling or hunched over, and after the episode is broadcast, the audience thinks that he is only around 160. But in the end, these are also a good story.
Later, because Mr. Zhang was a teacher who studied folk dance, the only two dances in the play, Zhen Huan's Amazing Dance and An Lingrong's Ice Frolic Choreography also fell to Mr. Zhang. In this way, Mr. Zhang, as an actor of Wen Shichu, although he did not have many scenes, became the busiest person in the crew.
The hard work paid off, and Wen Shichu, played by Mr. Zhang Xiaolong, finally became the white moonlight and uneasy peace of many audiences. With his participation, the ladies in the emperor's harem have become the ceiling of costume dramas in the past ten years, both in terms of speech and demeanor and appearance. Mr. Zhang's reputation in the industry and the audience circle is well deserved.
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