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After "Flowers", Tang Yan once again received widespread attention and praise.
is bright, refreshing, straightforward and generous, which are the bonus brought by the character and are also the latest impression of her from the outside world. After three years of silence, he returned with a great reputation. The integration of human and drama in "Miss Wang" has allowed more people to understand Tang Yan's "fading out of sight" in the past few years in order to focus on the completion of the character. Such a calm choice also made many people look at this sweet and well-behaved actress with admiration.
Bazaar conducted this exclusive interview with the same respect and curiosity, trying to present a Tang Yan that is closer to the character's true appearance.
01
Complete focus on the integration of human and play
What changes have happened to me after "Flowers"? People ask this question all the time lately. In fact, the people being interviewed are also thinking along with the question and answer process. "self-change", I don't take the initiative to carry out such self-analysis in my life.
At first, I just gave a more general answer based on my immediate intuitive reaction: Some things don’t seem to be important to me anymore. But what it is is not important anymore. I gradually became clear as I kept being asked.
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When I was asked for the first time, I had just participated in a "Flowers" Roadshow. I wore a very simple sweater that day and didn't dress up too much. This is different from my original style. When working, we are actually used to dressing up for events. But then I discovered that that simple but very comfortable sweater gave me a very good state that day. So that time I said that things like how to wear clothes that are "must" are no longer so "must". Maybe it's something small and insignificant. But I know that a small shackle has been removed.
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Later, I continued to find some similar changes, and my attention was indeed different from before. Some people say that I "escaped the trap of form and got closer to the essence". I don't know if is accurate, I leave the final judgment to the outside world. But these are relatively small changes, very subtle.
During this period, new scripts were constantly being handed over to me, and a very clear voice kept ringing in my head: I want to challenge good roles, and I want to become a better actor.
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As an actor, it is the most natural desire to play a good role, and I must have said so in the past. But I know in my heart that the weight of the same sentence is different. I think this may be a relatively big change. It depends on your definition of a "good role." I found that my vision is no longer limited to the "female lead" thing, and I don't care so much about whether it is a big production. roles, roles, the core thing I am paying attention to now is the role itself.
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conventional and process-oriented things are too familiar to me It's no longer fresh. What excites me are the "rich, complex, and vivid" characters. It doesn’t matter whether is the protagonist or not, the important thing is not to be repetitive as much as possible, which is the exploration of self-extensibility.Even if it is a role with only a small amount of roles, if it is a type that I have never been exposed to, and if the characteristics of the character are very challenging for me, I will be very willing to try it.
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I know a lot of actors that I respect, and they do this. "The drama is bigger than the sky", focus on the character very pure and without any distractions, all the attention is spent on the character, completely focused, the human and the drama are one.
I'm probably on my way to becoming the type of actor that I respect, and I'm on my way to becoming them.
02
Looking up at the high mountains, seeing the wise and thinking about them together
I think this change is the subtle "those who are close to the red will become red" during the three years of filming "Flowers".
"Fanhua Film Academy, I met Gao Shan here." I often said this during this time. Who is Gao Shan? Can I say that it is the entire "Flowers" crew family under the leadership of our director?
Having been in this industry for so many years, I have seen good directors, good actors, and good partners. But like "Flowers", the entire crew works together. This kind of cohesion is extremely rare. Not just actors, every department is like this.
Everyone is working hard, but no one is complaining. No one wants to end the work early, "Hey, okay, hurry up and shoot, let's get over it." No one is in that state. It seems that everyone is working hard to create for the sake of art. There is only one goal, which is to do better.
What’s amazing is that no one is deliberately asking for it, everyone is doing it spontaneously. It's a bit like trying to be a civilized class when you were a child, and every child is highly conscious of maintaining the honor of the entire class. Every day I feel like: Wow! Very touched.
And this "revolutionary friendship" continues off-screen. When we meet again and cooperate again, we all know what each other's standards are. You can tell at a glance. The quality and efficiency brought about by the high degree of tacit understanding of each other are so rare.
Teacher Fan Zhiyi had a line to me in the play: "Xiao Wang, don't embarrass me when you get out." The point of is not "embarrassing", but the "we are one" behind "don't give it to me". The feeling of being one of our own.” We all come out from here, and we will have a sense of mission on our shoulders. That belief is the power of "Fanhua Film Academy". Everyone says that friendship on campus is irreplaceable. This is the kind of emotion between our crew. I didn’t expect to be able to experience it again at this stage of my life. I’m so happy.
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Then I thought, why is this happening? One reason may be that every position on the "Flowers" crew is filled with very outstanding and hard-working people in their respective fields. Everyone usually holds themselves to very high standards. When such a group of people come together to influence and inspire each other, the scene is really spectacular. Another reason, a very fundamental reason, is because of us directors.
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Director Wong Kar Wai, in fact, he will not ask anyone to be a certain way, but each of us seems to have it A very consistent invisible goal, or the spirit of creation, is pulled, and I devote myself to it wholeheartedly.
Why? Charisma. Because the director himself is such a person. He is so meticulous, so uncompromising, so serious, and so pursuing the ultimate in art. In fact, he is more tired than any of us. For example, after the actors, photography, lighting, art, etc. who are working hard on the front line are finished, he will have a meeting with the creative team behind the scenes to make the necessary adjustments before we start shooting the next day.
The biological clocks of the cast and crew on set and the staff behind the scenes are different. We often finish work at four or five in the morning, and may go to work behind the scenes at nine or ten. After the meeting, we have to start work again. Director Wong Kar-Wai is always the first to come to the work site and is always with us. How many hours can he sleep in between? Do you think people who are better than me work harder than me?
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And as everyone knows, Director Wong Kar Wai creates in an environment without restrictions and is always in a creative state when filming. Despite such high work intensity, he still maintains the best working condition and is very elegant. I have never seen him lose his temper. Regardless of the situation, his speech is always very cultivated and gentle, his core is very stable, he is steady and steady, and he is never impatient.
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Countless moments when we are confused, frightened and overwhelmed, It's all because of his charisma that he "climbs mountains and ridges". This is the power of role models. Director is like a magic needle in the sea. As long as his tall figure appears on the scene, our hearts will be at ease. It is a ray of light! He is like a big patriarch, leading us forward and bringing us together. I learned something that I will use throughout my life from our director.
03
The smaller the movements, the fewer distractions.
Ms. Wang is a character I like very much. If she were someone I met in my life, I would be very willing to become friends with her. In fact, the two of us are similar in many ways about . I am also the kind of person who, if I decide to do something, will go all out without hesitation and I don’t like to have to explain myself. When Ms. Wang returned from a trip to Shenzhen, she found that the people she knew before had changed a lot. This meant that they had little interaction during that time. She was focused on her career and doing one thing well.
The three years during the filming of "Flowers" were also the three years when I "didn't have much voice". I am aware of the outside world's speculations and judgments about me. I didn't think of explaining anything. I know that I am very busy and fulfilled, and what I am busy with is something that I like and enjoy very much. clearly knows what it is doing, and this is enough for .
Sometimes we are eager to explain, afraid of being misunderstood, want the outside world to understand us better, and pursue the sense of security of being accepted and recognized. Think about it carefully, are these really that important? In general, my current focus is on continuous streamlining and constantly eliminating factors that deviate from the main task. This may also be my transition from liking to loving performances.
Someone asked me, if "Flowers" did not "pop" and was not as popular as it is now, or if three years were not enough and there would be another three years, how would I cope? To be honest, I haven't thought about . But in the next three years, I will still be so determined. I only have one thought in my mind: take a good picture of it. I didn’t think about how much I invested, how much I needed to get in return, what I would do if it didn’t work out, and so on.
Audiences have the ability to distinguish good from bad. When you meet a good story and a good team, you find that you are absorbing good nutrients every day you participate in it. You find that you are in a paradise, and everything about you is getting better. This process is already a very precious harvest for me. So I just want to focus on this thing, this thing is this thing, and don't think about anything else.
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This is my habit, choose carefully, and then defend the choice. The shortest way to defend your choice is to immerse yourself in it and go all out. We will not consider the hypothetical issue of . Every thought is a deviation from your main path. Once you take a bystander perspective, you may have distracting thoughts and a bad attitude, which will affect the results.
From a certain perspective, the best way to care about the results is not to pay attention to the results. I don't care about the results, but subconsciously, my focus is on getting involved and working efficiently, so the results shouldn't be too bad.
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Run at your own pace
In fact, in 2018, I took a break for more than half a year. I feel tired, confused, and stuck. It seems like I am repeating myself, and I can’t see the direction to go, and I don’t know how to break out. I simply stopped completely and didn’t take any jobs.
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spent eight months practicing piano, arranging flowers, painting, learning skateboarding, learning languages, etc. Just enjoying life, recharging myself, and doing a lot of things that I never had time to do. It’s my “gap year”. It seems that after that, people started asking me, "Are you afraid?" Are you afraid of this or that, are you afraid of the younger generations surpassing you, or something like that? I don’t think so. Why you ask me this is not within the scope of my thinking at all. In the past three years, has been asked constantly. I'm really not afraid, or rather, I really haven't thought about it.
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I understand that planning for a rainy day is a far-sighted quality, but some things will not change just because we think about them over and over again. If you stare at a question like that with a frown and think about it when you have nothing to do, aren't you scaring yourself? Instead, it wastes time and adds to worries. Why not try to stay away and let go of your fear. If I don’t stare into the abyss, the abyss will have no chance to swallow me.
After "Flowers", it will be a process of clearing things up and setting sail again. What the next role will be, I don’t know. The deeper I get into the performance of , the more awed I become. What I can do is to go all out and rush 100% within my capabilities without leaving any regrets. As for what the rhythm of will be in the future, I have not deliberately set it.
I have tried spinning around all year round, I have tried completely stopping, and I have tried "sealing" myself in a role for a long period of time. In the next step, maybe I will meet many interesting characters at once and enter a period of intensive output. Maybe I won’t meet any of them for a long time. The rhythm of is not important. If you can create something good, it deserves more attention. Based on this premise, I am willing to face my heart more honestly and run at my own pace.
During this trip to "Flowers", I met a group of very extreme people, which also inspired my "motivated gene". reminds me of the incredible feeling when I got the only 100 points in the class for the first time when I was a child: "Wow, it turns out I can do it"! Then you will ask yourself to do better, move up, and run at your own pace.
Thank you "Flowers" and thank you for this journey. Goodbye Jianghu, the future is promising.
photography / Zhang Jiacheng
planning / Ge Haichen
interview and writing / Rose
makeup / Chun Nan
hair style / Tang Tian
editor / timmy
styling / Diao Jihan
coordinator / Chen Liuning
producer / Gu Jiahui
art / Chai Shujie
post-production / An Yan
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Editorial Assistant/Zou Yulan
Photography Assistant/Shen Jiabin, Wu You, Liao Zining
Production Assistant/Huang Jinjin, Zhao Haoxuan
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