Jiang Cheng’s acting experience

Director Jiang Cheng is not afraid of the box office competition during the Lunar New Year and "makes the debut" for the exquisite Shanghai women

Oriental.com news on December 1: The mainland film market around Valentine's Day next year is destined to be... In a fiercely competitive schedule, "Lovers' Knot" starring Zhao Wei and Lu Yi, "Letter" directed and starred by Xu Jinglei, "Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies" starring Zhou Xun and Chen Kun, and "Beauty Still" starring Zhou Xun, Wang Zhiwen and Wu Junmei are currently planned Released on this date. Yesterday, Shanghai Film Director Jiang Cheng revealed in an interview with reporters that his recently completed film "The Head" is also scheduled to be released around Valentine's Day next year. Although the market competition is fierce, Jiang Cheng expressed that he is quite confident in the film. In this film, he made Hong Kong movie star Rosamund Kwan into an exquisite Shanghai woman.

"Hair Hair" is adapted from the novel "Beauty" by female writer Tang Ying. It tells the story of a sibling relationship between a once beautiful and stunning woman and her hairstylist. The novel has been adapted into a play before and this time into a movie. Speaking of the original intention of shooting, Jiang Cheng said that he was influenced by his mother to a certain extent: "My relationship with my mother has always been very good, and I have always wanted to show the sophistication of real Shanghai women. In addition, I have always wanted to shoot a I can’t say yet whether this new type of Shanghai movie can be achieved, but over the years I have definitely felt the charm of the city of Shanghai. It has a unique feeling, a kind of exquisiteness, delicacy and sentiment unique to the city, which is consistent with it. The sentiments of Shanghai women are somewhat similar. This time I just use my own heart to tell a woman’s story.” Speaking of casting Hong Kong actors Rosamund Kwan and Ng Chun-yu as a Shanghai couple in the film, Jiang Cheng said. The final result was much better than I expected: "While looking for actors, I found that there were very few mainland actors who could actually play Shanghai women. So everyone decided to go to Hong Kong to look for them. At that time, Hong Kong filmmaker Guan Jinpeng Zhang Shuping first recommended Faye Wong to me. Now that I think about it, if Faye Wong was actually used, the film might have a different flavor. Finally, Zhang Shuping persuaded me to consider Rosamund Kwan. To be honest, I didn't think much about it before that. I considered Rosamund Kwan because many viewers and filmmakers thought she was just a flamboyant actress. However, after hesitating, I finally decided to meet Rosamund Kwan. At the first glance, I felt that Rosamund Kwan was the most suitable for this role both in appearance and temperament. She played the role of a delicate Shanghai woman. However, I was still a little worried at the time. I was afraid that Hong Kong actors would have some difficulties in performing the role due to the different cultural atmosphere. For this, I called Guan Zhilin to Shanghai 10 days in advance and stayed with her every day. We read the script together for 2 hours and practiced Mandarin. As a result, Rosamund Kwan's performance in the film was very good, much better than I expected." As for Wu Zhenyu, Jiang Cheng repeatedly praised Wu Zhenyu for his professionalism. There are not many scenes, only 18 scenes, but for this role, Wu Zhenyu came to Shanghai three times. The first time he read the script and said that he must come to Shanghai to discuss this character with me, and he made many constructive suggestions. His opinion. The second time he came to Shanghai specifically for styling and asked to familiarize himself with the shooting environment. The last time he came, he got off the plane, ate a bowl of noodles and went straight to the set. "It's really very professional for next year. Amid the competition for Valentine's Day schedules, Jiang Cheng is quite optimistic about the prospects of "The Head", especially in the Shanghai market: "I'm shooting a Shanghai movie, and it's all about life that Shanghainese are familiar with, so I estimate that the movie will be made on Valentine's Day next year. It should be very advantageous to be in Shanghai at that time."

The movie "One Night" directed by Jiang Cheng and starring Fang Zhongxin and Li Xiaoran will be released soon. Recently, the stills and posters released by the film studio showed the actors passionately kissing and making out in the bathtub. Starring Li Xiaoran said that the person on the poster is not himself, but a stand-in hired by the director. The director also made it clear that the woman in the poster is indeed Li Xiaoran herself. Li Xiaoran listed the director's various unprofessional behaviors on the set and stated that he would not participate in the promotion of the film in the future. Director Jiang Cheng said that Li Xiaoran was talking nonsense and revealed that Fang Zhongxin once refused to act opposite her. The film studio also stated that it would consider releasing the bathtub scene. video.

Is the person on the poster Li Xiaoran?

Li Xiaoran: That person is actually a stand-in.

Director: It is absolutely her.

A few days ago, the producers of "One Night of Love" released a new poster, which shows Li Xiaoran and Fang Zhongxin passionately kissing and making out in the bathtub. Li Xiaoran's agency Xingmei Qianyi stated, "None of the large-scale pictures appearing in the film's posters and stills are from Li Xiaoran. Li Xiaoran did not perform any large-scale performances during the filming of the film." Li Xiaoran also said that the people in the picture were not Li Xiaoran. People are their own substitutes and introduced the facts in her eyes to Sina Entertainment.

"The bathtub available for filming that day was very small, only 1.2 meters long. The script was very simple: the two had not seen each other for a long time, developed a passion, and accidentally fell into the bathtub." Li Xiaoran said, Fang Zhongxin He had a problem with the director because it was a safety hazard. "He said that I am 1.8 meters tall and Li Xiaoran is 1.68 meters tall. If you ask us to fall here at the same time, is it possible to complete it? Everyone on the scene was in a stalemate for more than an hour and the filming was not continued. Later, the makeup artist The costume designer and I came to my house to pick up my clothes. I asked why and they said that the director might have to use a stunt double to complete the scene the next day.

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Director Jiang Cheng also basically agreed with this statement, but he emphasized that he only shot one scene with a stand-in, "We began to take it for granted, thinking that the size of the bathtub was enough. The next day I changed to a bigger one, and then I found a stand-in just like in a martial arts movie. The actor didn't have to fall, he just performed in the bathtub, and that's how the rest of the scene came about. It took a few minutes to actually shoot and changed several angles. By then you can all see the plot in the video. ”

However, the publicist of Li Xiaoran’s agency has always insisted that this scene was not included in the finished film she saw, but she also admitted that she was not sure that what she saw was the same as what the director finally determined. version.

As for whether the person spitting water on the poster was himself, Li Xiaoran firmly denied: "That was not me, it was taken by a male martial artist wearing a wig. But there was one picture of me. It was the next day that Fang Zhongxin and I went to retouch a scene. Fang Zhongxin sat down in the bathtub and he touched my face. The other pictures were not me. "

"The actual shot is of two people sitting on the edge of the bathtub, falling down, and then disappearing. The so-called physical fighting and spitting water (none of them). But because I shot some scenes the next day, the director may have put the camera on us during editing, making the audience mistakenly think that (the people before) were also us. "

Director Jiang Cheng was particularly angry about this statement, "She is talking nonsense. Isn't she afraid of meeting the audience at the end of the movie? Isn't she beating herself up by saying this? There was only one scene where he fell into the bathtub and there was a stand-in, because he was afraid of injuring the actor. Why would anyone else use a substitute? How to perform, how to perform. Jiang Cheng also emphasized that the person in the poster is Li Xiaoran, "This scene is also in the movie, and the copy submitted for review also has this scene." But we didn’t have a stills artist that day because we were in a tight schedule. "Jiang Cheng said that later the film crew took out scenes from the movie and put them on the poster. The photos on the poster were actually screenshots from the movie.

Is Li Xiaoran and Fang Zhongxin at odds with each other?

Director: Fang Zhongxin once refused to play with Li Xiaoran.

Li Xiaoran: Fang Zhongxin was also dissatisfied with the director.

Li Xiaoran was absent from the film's promotion. She explained that it was mainly due to the filming schedule. There were rumors that he and Fang Zhongxin were not getting along. Li Xiaoran believed that the actors needed to get along, but in fact they were very happy overall.

"Fang Zhongxin actually had a lot of disputes with the director during filming. "Li Xiaoran said, "Fang Zhongxin told the director that you haven't filmed in ten years. Your idea is good, but it is difficult to implement it because the investment is so small. (The bathtub scene) If you want me to shoot it, I will take underwater photography. Can you imagine it? This is more beautiful. ”

Jiang Cheng responded, “I am polite to her, others don’t tolerate her that much. (Who are others referring to?) As for the other creative staff, they rarely communicate with her. She had a problem with her creative attitude, and the crew all had objections to her. I later asked the producer Fang Ping to talk to her. She couldn't talk too much about some things, because talking too much would be very detrimental to her. "Jiang Cheng revealed that there was a scene where Li Xiaoran took off his shirt in a tent, and Fang Zhongxin refused to cooperate. "Fang Zhongxin was unwilling to act opposite Li Xiaoran and insisted on finding a substitute, so she (Li Xiaoran) cried. So much so that I didn’t finish filming that day. ”

Li Xiaoran also mentioned the scene shot in Yunnan, “Generally speaking, we shoot cutscenes at the beginning, but suddenly the director said that he needed to shoot a scene where I took off my shirt, so I asked the director. Do you have that kind of 'cutie' (tube top)? This is the minimum protection. Such a request is normal. "

" Fang Zhongxin and I were in two cars. I don't know how the person in the middle passed the message... (Where did this messenger come from?) He was from the production crew. Fang Zhongxin was not happy. He felt that I was unwilling to film this scene. Later I found out and was very angry. I felt that this scene was not included in the announcement and I could have skipped it. If the costume did not have a 'cutie', the scene would have been moved to a later date so that the costume could be picked up. This is the minimum. requirements. There is also a passionate scene in "No Time to Say I Love You", so I won't resist it too much. The key point is that we are making a movie, not doing it for real. The director was not professional in adding scenes on the spot, and the actors also needed to prepare, so this misunderstanding occurred, but the responsibility is not mine. ”

The director revealed that this scene was originally planned, “The reason why we didn’t need to wear a bra is because we only shot the shoulders in that scene, and we couldn’t shoot the bottom.” There were silhouettes in the tent, and the actors were originally wearing bras, so there was no need to strip off. Jiang Cheng finally added, "She is looking for trouble." I was the only one on the crew who called her, and no one else was too embarrassed to call her. "

"We had dinner back in Beijing. Li Xiaoran's attitude was also very good, and his relationship with Fang Zhongxin also gradually improved. "Director Jiang Cheng recalled, "In the end, everyone even sent a text message saying, forget the bad and keep the good.

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