Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 1 (Reporter Wang Shiyao) Zhang Jiahui, who has been in the industry for 16 years, has spent 34 years from playing tricks to being an actor. However, winning awards has never been his goal and goal, "a good actor" is the annotation he wrote for himself.

Zhang Jiahui, who was born as a police officer, played a cadet of the Junior Police Academy in "Ambition" in his first movie. Coincidentally, his first screen appearance was as "Zhang Jiahui".

Since then, Zhang Jiahui, who has officially transformed into an actor, has brought one wonderful role after another to the audience: he is the "Bone Dragon" who is a little gambler who swindles everywhere in the "Gambler" series, the suave Tang Bohu in "The Four Talents in Gold", the ruthless professional killer Hong Jing in "Witness", and the debt-ridden Hong Kong boxing champion Cheng Hui in "Fierce Wars......

Dressed as a character, he can interpret different life stories with ease. But for playing "Zhang Jiahui", he thinks he is the worst. The "Zhang Jiahui" here is no longer a character name, but an ordinary person Zhang Jiahui in real life.

"On camera, you can do whatever you want. But in reality, no one can tell you in advance how the plot will play out and how the story will develop. ”

Life is a script that can't be repeated, but fortunately, movies can be polished repeatedly. Zhang Jiahui, who doesn't love right and wrong and stays away from the hustle and bustle on weekdays, pours all complex and noisy sounds and emotions into the role.

In the recently released movie "Raging Tide", Zhang Jiahui plays the mysterious killer Chen An, a complex character that cannot be simply evaluated as good or bad. "I didn't define whether he was a good guy or a bad guy, I treated him like an ordinary person. ”

Actor Zhang Jiahui played Chen An in the movie "Angry Tide". Courtesy of the filmmaker

Good movie, there is no standard answer

Angry tide describes a rapid, raging wave. In the movie "Angry Tide", Chen An and his sister Chen Le originally lived a calm, warm and happy life, but a seemingly ordinary blood donation activity was like throwing a stone in a bottomless lake, and the "angry tide" set off swept the three protagonists into the criminal whirlpool with the Hongtai Group.

The role of Chen An is not difficult for Zhang Jiahui, police and bandits, crime, and action movies, these movie elements are already in his comfort zone. Therefore, he described the shoot as "having a delicious dinner".

The "ingredients" for dinner are delicious, but it's just as important who you have dinner with. Zhang Jiahui and director Ma Yuke met in the movie "Sweeping Drugs" ten years ago, when Duan Kun played by Ma Yuke left a deep impression on Zhang Jiahui. is also a "movie idiot", after hearing that Ma Yuke was preparing to challenge the role of director for the first time, Zhang Jiahui, who had read the script, happily joined.

As for the other two leading actors in the film, Ruan Jingtian and Wang Dalu, although they cooperated with Zhang Jiahui for the first time, they are also junior actors he is very optimistic about. Not long ago, Zhang Jiahui watched another movie starring Ruan Jingtian in Hong Kong, "Removing the Three Evils Around the World", and after watching it, he immediately called Ma Yuke and praised him: "This is the best movie I have seen in recent years." ”

Zhang Jiahui was worried that such a high evaluation would cause pressure on Ruan Jingtian, so he asked the director not to tell Xiaotian, "I'll talk about it when we meet."

"Angry Tide" and "Eliminate the Three Evils Around the World" are both action and crime movies, and this kind of film is also Zhang Jiahui's personal favorite theme. But he also admits that the influence of movie themes on the audience is gradually declining, and good looks are the key points that can attract audiences.

"No matter what the current audience is, what actor, or what story you are, the filmmaker has no way to sell it. If the movie is good, some people will watch it, but if it is not good, it is useless to do more. It seems cruel to say this, but consumers are spending money on entertainment, and how to attract the audience is the key. ”

So, can making the audience pay for it as an evaluation criterion for a good movie?

"It's hard to say, if there is really a standard, then it will be much easier for everyone to make movies. ”

Actor Zhang Jiahui played Chen An in the movie "Angry Tide". Courtesy of the filmmaker

Don't keep looking back

At the end of the 80s of last century, Zhang Jiahui, who resigned from his police job, entered a film and television company to do behind-the-scenes work through a friend's introduction, and unexpectedly got the opportunity to star in the movie "Ambition". Coincidentally, Zhang Jiahui made his first appearance on the big screen as a police academy cadet named Zhang Jiahui.

As a small role in the film, this debut did not bring much influence to Zhang Jiahui, but the gears of fate have begun to turn, and the door to a new career is officially open to him.

However, changing careers is not an easy task at any time. After becoming an actor, Zhang Jiahui spent a long period of no-name. However, he is very open to this, "In the era when I debuted, everyone was playing tricks, and superstars were all coming from tricks. ”

Even during the dragon set, Zhang Jiahui was the one who could endure hardships and persevered the most. Because of his past status as a policeman, he was often assigned some beaten roles at first, and he was covered in injuries. He gritted his teeth and could get through the bitterness of his flesh and skin, but some things could not be easily compromised.

may be the innate rebellion in his character, since he entered the industry, Zhang Jiahui has not been a particularly "obedient" actor, especially for those who have formed a patterned routine performance, he is the most disgusted. When he first started filming a TV series, Zhang Jiahui was uncomfortable and sad in the face of the requests made by some directors.

"For example, when I play a bad guy, the director will ask me to laugh 'hahahahaha' after I finish a line, and I really can't (act). Speaking of it today, Zhang Jiahui still has a wrinkled face, and his body exudes a signal of refusal.

Some senior actors thought that he didn't know how to act, so they kindly demonstrated it to him. "At that time, I was embarrassed because people really wanted to help you, and I was afraid that the newcomers would not know how to do it. But he didn't know, I didn't want to act. But where is the newcomer actor "qualified" to say no, and in the end, Zhang Jiahui was still embarrassed to finish filming that scene.

Although this situation did not happen frequently, when he encountered it, Zhang Jiahui was still sad. "Sometimes I want to say, I beg you, I lose money and leave, is it okay?"

Although he has been playing others, Cheung Ka Fai always remembers what he wants. The rebellion of the character may be precisely to maintain the true self.

Later, he desperately challenged different roles and made breakthroughs again and again. The outside world commented that he wanted to prove himself with the actor. Zhang Jiahui is also not pretentious and generously admitted, "Everyone wants to win the award, and for me (the award) is a shot in the arm." ”

Whether it was in the past or now, Cheung Ka-fai has never had too strong ambitions for the award. It's good to be recognized by the award, but even if you don't, you have to do your best. He couldn't understand why he had to be recognized by others to do things? Whether he won the award or not, he had to move forward, "don't always look back at the past."

Data map: On the evening of April 2014, 4, Zhang Jiahui won the Best Actor at the 13rd Hong Kong Film Awards with "Guild Wars". Photo by China News Service Zhang Yu

Playing Zhang Jiahui is the worst

In 2009, Zhang Jiahui won 7 best actors in one fell swoop with the movie "Witness". Behind the infinite scenery is a road of actors who have been silently trekking for 20 years. Since then, Zhang Jiahui has often been classified as a "late bloomer" actor.

"Do you need to endure loneliness as an actor?"

"At the very least, you have to like loneliness. ”

has been in the colorful entertainment industry for decades, Zhang Jiahui still doesn't seem to be used to the noisy social scene, he is a person who doesn't like to listen to gossip and gossip. "A lot of people like to talk about it, but I don't want to hear it, it's better not to know any of them. ”

He also knows that those "gossip" are a secret weapon used by others to close the distance, and sometimes they reject the "kindness" of others, and they will be complained about not knowing the goods, "no one knows this secret"!

Zhang Jiahui, who likes to be lonely and afraid of many people, is used to the taste of walking alone. "When there are so many people around you, I don't dare to say that everyone is like that, but there are always people who are jealous of how well you are doing. So you have to understand that when you don't seem to have anyone to share with, whether you're happy or not, you're a little closer to success. ”

"Actually, I'm a Type I. Perhaps because he felt that the topic was too serious, Zhang Jiahui coldly threw out a popular "stalk". When the reporter asked him about the specific type of "MBTI", he replied with a blank face: "I don't know what it is." ”

Although he doesn't understand MBTI, Zhang Jiahui enjoys solitude, is good at drawing energy from himself, and his "i person" attribute is correct. Zhang Jiahui, who turned on the "energy-saving mode" in his life, released all the energy he stored in the role.

"I love what I do and I think I'm a good actor. But I think I played Zhang Jiahui the worst. ”

As an actor, Cheung Ka-fai thinks he can bring out his best every time, but once it is converted to real life, he is not satisfied with his performance.

"In front of the camera, you can do whatever you want. But in reality, no one can tell you in advance how the plot will play out and how the story will develop. Zhang Jiahui said. (ENDS)