Top News Reporter Wang Yuxuan
The TV series "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-Wai and starring Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tang Yan, and Xin Zhilei is currently being broadcast on Jiangsu Satellite TV. In a group interview with the media on January 6, Hu Ge shared for the first time his feelings about working with director Wong Kar-Wai, "Filming "Flowers" was like a dream."
He first contacted Wong Kar-wai in 2017 and had three years of preparation before joining the team.
talked about the third Hu Ge recalled a contact with Wong Kar-wai in 2017, " I received a call saying that Wong Kar-wai wanted to meet me. After arriving at the agreed place, I saw Director Wang wearing his iconic sunglasses." said To be honest, I was very nervous at the time, because I have loved watching his works since middle school, and he is my idol in my heart."
" Director Wang first considered letting me play the role of Po. Later, at one point, he wanted me to play A Bao alone. I played the role of a triangle, and also played the roles of Hu Sheng, Xiao Mao and A Bao. Because someone saw the play "A Dream Like a Dream" that I performed at that time, they felt that they saw many of my faces on the stage, so Director Wang came up with this idea. Plan." Hu Ge said.
In the end, Wong Kar-wai cut out the complexity and chose only "Po" as the core character, which also allowed Hu Ge to concentrate on returning to Po's world.
In order to play this role well, Hu Ge made full preparations. "Before officially entered the group, we had a three-year preparation period for . Under the leadership of Director Wang, we collected a lot of information about that era and invited experts in stocks and 'old masters' from foreign trade companies. etc., as the 'brain force', providing guidance to the crew at any time. Before is turned on, the actors also enter the scene in advance, immersing themselves in the atmosphere of the 1990s."
The era atmosphere created by Wong Kar-wai also evokes Hu Ge’s childhood memories. For example, the 1:1 restoration of the Yellow River Road in the play made Hu Ge quite emotional, "Although I have never eaten on the Yellow River Road, I passed by the Yellow River Road, and the Yellow River Road in my impression is just like the one shown in the play. In that way, neon is eye-catching and thousands of flowers are like a sea."
Cooperating with Wong Kar Wai is like falling in love, always providing emotional value
This is Hu Ge's first collaboration with Wong Kar Wai. In his opinion, this cooperation is more like falling in love. "At the beginning, I will be very nervous and anxious, and I will always be wandering between confidence and unconfidence. Slowly I will find that as long as is around, you can It will be very reassuring, very much like falling in love."
The drama "Flowers" was filmed for a total of three years. The long period also affected the emotions of the actors, and Wong Kar-wai provided stable emotional comfort. "After the filming, everyone was on the verge of collapse, and there was a lot of pressure in all aspects. But looking at Director Wang who was energetic and meticulous on the set, and seeing him go back to meetings and write scripts after filming every day, everything... The fatigue was instantly eliminated, and I felt like I could do it again."
In the play, Hu Ge's Abao and Ma Yili's Lingzi, Tang Yan's Miss Wang and Xin Zhilei's Li Li all have many rivalry scenes.
In Hu Ge's view, the relationship between A Bao and the three people is subtly different, " A Bao is like Zhu Bajie, and Lingzi is like Sun Wukong . They are always at the front to overcome obstacles for Zhu Bajie. Miss Wang and A Bao are like second hands. and the minute hand , because when the second hand rotates once, the minute hand has moved forward one frame. The intersection of the two of them is always farther than everyone thinks. A Bao and Li Li are like the sky and the sea , They are mirror images of each other and full of mystery."
"Wong Kar-wai hopes that I can get back the feeling of Li Xiaoyao"
"Flowers" for Hu Ge is a pursuit of the memory of his father's generation and a complement to the imagination of the past years.
""Flowers" tells the story of my parents' generation. I have been interested in my parents' growth experience since I was a child, but every time I try to understand them, I always feel that there are some things they are unwilling to do. "I don't even want to recall it. So when I saw "Flowers", I was immediately attracted. It felt like I was learning about the past of my father's generation in another way," Hu Ge said.
Hu Ge said Wong Kar-wai once reminded him that when performing Ah Bao, he should have the feeling of Li Xiaoyao at the beginning , "I believe that in that era, there were many young people like Ah Bao, and they wanted to seize opportunities in the wave of the times. , change your destiny and life through your own efforts. But after experiencing the ups and downs, you will find that the most important thing is love and justice."
