Lin Jiaxin accepts an exclusive interview with The Paper. The Paper Journalists Chen Chen and Xue Song Interns Tang Wanting (03:35)
Lin Jiaxin and Andy Lau have known each other for many years, and it's the first time that "Anti-Drug 2" ushered in cooperation. In this alternative police film that is currently being screened during the summer, Lin Jiaxin and Andy Lau act as a couple. They love each other deeply but hide their own concerns. They have a deep understanding and a close relationship.
Zou Wenfeng is a strong-looking woman who pursues perfection, but in fact conceals the fact that she cannot have children from her husband, and is extremely fragile in her heart. There are several emotional ups and downs before and after the role. How to grasp the sense of sense of proportion when the husband and wife quarrel and the contradictory struggles in the role are for Lin Jiaxin It is an interesting character. Lin Jiaxin is already the mother of two girls and knows the joy of motherhood. Because of this, Lin Jiaxin has another understanding of Zou Wenfeng's pain and vulnerability, and also knows how to handle the delicate emotions between husband and wife. But she does not conceal the regret that female characters in Hong Kong genre movies have always been reduced to male foils, and the space for expression is always limited. Her scene was only filmed for seven days, chewing on the meaning of every line in a few scenes, trying to show the character of the characters is the challenge she wants to give herself.
"Anti-drug 2" stills, Lin Jiaxin and Andy Lau
In 2002, Lin Jiaxin signed a contract with Xinghao Company, and won the Hong Kong Film Awards and Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Newcomer with a "Men Forty". Dark horse. On November 21, 2015, Lin Jiaxin won the Best Actress Award at the 52nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for "Hundred Days Farewell", and has won the Golden Horse Awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best New Actor. The first person in the acting award grand slam. In recent years, Lin Jiaxin's film and television works have not been counted. Many times, he is addicted to family and keen on showing babies. He also devoted himself to the artistic creation of photography exhibitions and children's picture books.
The sweet-looking Lin Jiaxin is still said to be full of girlishness, but she does not shy away from her age, and even corrects and emphasizes when she talks about the topic of "woman forty" in an interview: "I am four It’s eleven!” She said that she liked all her looks, so when she was labeled "sweet" when she debuted, she took on various ugly scenes in horror movies, and wanted people to see her under her sweet appearance. Different looks. When teasing her about her “dress” and the dark history, she also said frankly that when she first arrived in Hong Kong, she was an “ugly duckling” who had no money to buy clothes and knew nothing, but she also firmly believed that beauty should never be Uniform standards. Talking to her, I can feel that she is really comfortable and easy now. When it comes to filming nowadays, there are no such topics. In addition to bluntly speaking about the passiveness of the actress, she also presumptuously said that she is a person with too rich emotions and not enough expressive desires, so Passionate photography, children’s picture books and charity projects, “Otherwise I’m done, I’m sure many boyfriends will be broken in love every day hahahahaha.”
[Dialogue]
and Andy Lau acted as a husband and wife for the first time like an "old husband and wife"
: This is your first cooperation with Hua Tsai. What kind of experience do you think it is?
Lin Jiaxin
: Indeed, I have known Huazi for about 20 years. This is the first time we have partnered. My impression of Hua Tsai has actually changed. I used to think that he is a superstar and it is difficult to get in touch with him. This time I can partner with him, I think he is really kind. He is also the producer of our film, so he has done it himself in every department. Although
co-starred with him as a husband and wife for the first time, we had a very good understanding, which surprised me. Usually when acting as a husband and wife, there must be some time to break in. But we were quarreling in our first scene, and we were very engaged in the quarrel when we first came up. This surprised me more, as if we had been married for many years. Because he trusted me very much, and I trusted him very much, I gave him the most vulnerable aspect of myself.
: The contrast between Zou Wenfeng's character is actually quite big. Are there any new challenges to the performance?
Lin Jiaxin
: I am also a wife of other people in real life, and I also have children, so I know the communication between husband and wife very well, or what is wonderful and unpleasant between husband and wife. I understand this very well.
I think the difficulty this time is that you have to show your fragility as an actor. This requires a lot of courage, because after all, we can’t tell which part is ourselves and which part is the role. Really, do you know?
but this time ""Anti-Drug 2", we actually made it quite quickly. We finished the whole film within two months. My part seemed to be completed in one week, so I have about seven or eight scenes a day. . And the first day of filming is our end. You don't have a process, from dating to getting married, you have to quarrel, and you have to get into the most accurate state very quickly. So I think being an actor is very responsible, because you have to be sure that the choice is right.
: How does it feel to work with Director Qiu Litao this time?
Lin Jiaxin
: Director Qiu Litao is a very prolific director in my eyes. He shoots four or five films a year, and there is no limit. He can be police and gangsters, love can also be done, there are many types of filming, and he himself is I came from a photographer, very good. The thing about
working with him this time that made me very satisfied and enjoyable is that he never stopped my choice. He is totally Jiaxin, come on, I believe you, and give me a lot of room for development. I think that when the director entrusts you to you, you will know that this is a good opportunity to play, and I will do a lot of homework to make myself better like this.
: Which ones are more satisfied with the "play" based on the role?
Lin Jiaxin
: For example, Zou Wenfeng and Yu Shuntian have such a good relationship. When you love someone so much, you want to have a love crystallization with him. You think this is something you can give to him as a woman. If it doesn’t work, you just Why do you think God wants to punish me like this? So even if the obstetrics and gynecology department tells her that your chances of pregnancy are low, she is still willing to believe in fortune-telling. When she knew that Yu Shuntian also had a secret, she asked Yu Shuntian, why didn't you calm down with me? But Zou Wenfeng did she confess? I think the communication between husband and wife is very delicate and very fragile. Do you say they don’t love? deeply love.
So in the end they divorced. From the lawyer downstairs, I was holding Hua Tsai's hand. I remember the director asked me, Jiaxin, it was not just signing the divorce paper, how could he still hold his hand? I said that they are still very affectionate to each other, but because Zou Wenfeng's personality is a kind of cleanliness, she wants to be perfect, she wants to succeed, she can't let the stains in her life, so she can't go on. So I will still hold his hand.
Actresses are passive, but you have to fulfill yourself when you wait.
: The best actresses of the Golden Horse and Golden Horse are all taken, are they more casual in their career, so there will be fewer scenes now?
Lin Jiaxin
: Actually, the reason for the low output now is that we haven’t encountered good scripts. I think actresses are often struggling because we are passive and we have to wait. After all, movies are mainly male, so you rarely watch them. An actress drives the storyline of the entire movie.
As for awards, I never accept movies for awards, I am for the audience, we act for the audience, and we tell stories. I like being an actor because I am looking for myself in different roles and different performance experiences. That is, you never criticize the good or bad of a character, but you know yourself in the character, and you are knowing and discussing all kinds of different lives and characters. This makes me very curious.
: Some actresses in this industry will say that there will be fewer age-appropriate roles, so are you afraid of being 40?
Lin Jiaxin
: I think when you are waiting, you are just fulfilling yourself. Since your choice of actor is your lifelong career, you should fully enrich yourself while you wait, and you must not work hard. When you have the opportunity, take it well.
And I don't think that as actresses get older, there will be fewer roles that are really suitable. You see, foreign actresses can still be so glorious, so elegant, and so beautiful until they are 60 or 70 years old. With enough life experience, you are actually getting richer and richer. I can't play me in my twenties again, but I can play me in my forties well. I think you need to know how to embrace yourself at different ages, and you can't be so mean to yourself.
is like a flower, from when it is small, until it begins to open slightly, when it is in full bloom, and then slowly wither. In fact, it has its beauty in different stages. I think women are becoming more and more beautiful because she will become a better storyteller. So I am not at all anxious, I think it's okay.
: The inner pain of the character is that it is difficult to have children.I have a pair of daughters and my marriage is very happy. What do you think of the significance of children to women?
Lin Jiaxin
: In fact, many of my friends are infertile, or they decide not to have children. On the one hand, it may be that because many female friends have relatively high academic qualifications and high positions in the workplace, they feel that there is no need to traditionally have to marry and have children before the age of 30 and start a family. On the other hand, after all, urban life is very stressful, and some people will choose IVF. When you have two children, you will know what a female friend has experienced, and it is very easy to get into this state. I think having children makes my experience very rich, because I will discover how children see the world. They are very honest and very sincere. They often have many questions that I cannot answer because they are very creative, but the questions he asks are very simple. For example, where is the mother's talent? I am also very dumb, and I don't want to perfuse him, and I don't want to give the wrong answer. I just said, where do you think it is? She said, in the tree, in the grass, in the flower, in the sky. So I think children look at the world very honestly, and I am also learning a lot of philosophy of life.
intends to take on the role of "not sweet". The "worst clothing" is a necessary stage. Is the pursuit of perfection a bit similar to your personality?
Lin Jiaxin
: totally different from me, I accept my bad side very much. I don't think there can be a perfect one. You will only know yourself clearly from your badness. On the contrary, you are not good. You have to embrace her and get to know her.
But now I still feel that this self is still part of me. Self-willedness and self are all me. Of course, my appearance is softer and sweeter, which often makes people feel an illusion, but this illusion is not given to you by me. It’s just that I think people have many different faces, you can’t just label them.
: So it's because of this. When you first entered the industry, everyone said that you looked sweet. Did you choose many horror movies to play?
Lin Jiaxin
: I think it was a coincidence, because there were a lot of thriller horror films at that time. It was just a coincidence, but I did deliberately play some "unsweet" roles, just like "Monster". Normally, a girl would never pick up this drama, but on the one hand, I was very curious. When I saw the monster manuscript and saw the special effects makeup, I thought "God is very different"! On the other hand, I want to know how special makeup will change my personality. I am curious about its chemical effect on me, so I took it.
What do I think actors are most afraid of? Is to be labeled. Being labelled feels like you are condemning me to death, that you can only make one type of movie and one type of role. I hope that every time I can present a different face and a different role.
: Speaking of accepting the topic of "imperfection" earlier, would you mind people ridiculing some of the clothes you used to participate in the award ceremony in the early years?
Lin Jiaxin
: Are you saying "the worst clothes"? I think everyone has a past. do you know? When I went to Hong Kong 20 years ago, I only had clothes with two suitcases, one thousand Hong Kong dollars, and that was all I had. So I really didn't have the money to buy clothes before, and then I didn't know what fashion is, so I have very few choices now. Of course, the more you do this, the more you will be exposed to fashion, makeup, and hair styling, and then you will have a deeper understanding of your body structure and will gradually improve. So now there can be many manufacturers to borrow things, or they will want me to wear the latest season. I think through your work slowly, everyone knows that you are a very serious actor, and they will slowly support you and assist you, so I think this is a necessary process.
But I know that I have to go through the stage of "worst clothing", or face the "obesity" problem that is often targeted at me, before I can gradually improve. But you said I will regret it, I do not regret it, because there were so many choices at the time. So I also often remind myself that I have a very humble background. I was not born in a very luxurious and rich family, but a very ordinary well-off family. An ordinary background accompanies me as an actor. We act as real people. If IIf we do not have this ordinary background and real life, how can I impress others?
: You seem to have always been a literary and artistic young woman. You sang in your early years. Later, you went to study theater. Now you are an art curator. Before, you have held photography exhibitions to raise funds for refugees in Uganda. You have also personally produced some photography books. I'm still going to make a picture book. In fact, your interest is not limited to acting, right?
Lin Jiaxin
: As I said before, there are relatively few female-led films in the film world, and they are relatively passive. I think I choose actors because my emotional world is very rich and I need to express. I feel that if there is no way to express through film, I will express through art, through picture books, through photography. These are another way of expressing me. If I don’t have these channels, I will be miserable. I am sure There are many boyfriends and many lovers, and then they are broken in love every day hahaha. Because I think I know myself too well, I need many ways to express myself. I think it’s a very beautiful thing to express myself.
