Wu Yanshu is a template needed by the times. It represents the independent choice and growth of women, breaking free from the shackles of old rules and consciousness, and blooming in the old age. But in fact, for Wu Yanshu, this is just her lifeline. Enough to learn from, but not replicable. Below
is her self-report.
movie "Mom! "On the day of the premiere, I called my daughter to come and see, she ran away from work. I was being interviewed after the show and she sent me a message saying, "I'm done watching and I'm going to work. The show is good. Don't worry." to bind each other. We never say things like "I'm here for you". I can put forward any opinions of the juniors, but it is their business to accept or not to accept them. Because sometimes people have to experience what they do wrong. Others say that for a long time, they may not be able to really realize it, so let them touch the nails themselves, and I will not blame them. Once a person hits a nail, they will remember it, so there is no need to be long-winded. If they talk too much, they will feel that their family members despise them.
My daughter and I are happy together and play together.
Neither of us likes to tidy up the house. Now I just ask my aunt to help me. When I am left, I always make a mess of the house. Because once I start preparing for the role, it's impossible for me to focus on other things. It's better to put things where I can see them, but others look messy. Both my daughter and I are like this. She wrote the script, I prepared the characters, and when I got together, I wanted to play - I started to act with two dolls, and I said many things that I can't usually say through the mouth of the dolls.
My favorite doll is Happy, with a big mouth. My daughter always takes him and talks to me, happy in her hands like a real person.
My daughter was raised by my mother. My mother raised me, raised my daughter, and my grandson. My dad bought me dolls when I was a kid, so I buy them for my daughter too.
My grandson is also very independent and studied abroad for many years. He came to Beijing with his parents when he was young, and I was still in Shanxi at that time. Without WeChat, I can only text him if I want to contact him. But the pinyin we learned when we were studying was different from the current one. I bought pinyin characters and hung them on the wall from the kitchen to the living room. I went out and learned one or two lessons, and I quickly mastered them. Until now, the three of us have been making video calls once or twice a week to communicate with each other.
I think mothers all over the world are the same, but everyone experiences different things. In this movie, the mother has to accept that her daughter has Alzheimer's disease. Perhaps other families are another encounter, another pain method. The mom in our movie, she actually has times when she's tired and tired, but you see, as soon as her daughter makes a little movement, she'll get up right away.
In many of the details, I played the mother's instinct, and this instinct is selfless - as long as she can survive, she will never hesitate. As an actor playing this role, I also won't hold back my energy, and when I'm fully immersed in the role, I won't feel tired. Unless one has to run eight or nine times, she will be exhausted, but the state where she has to find her daughter and continue to run even if she can't open her legs is what this mother should have. The characteristics of the profession of
as an actor are like this, if you get into the character, you will not be distracted and aware of your own feelings.
Everyone often mentions the talent of an actor. For me, I didn't realize it when I decided to choose this career. Of course, I went to apply for the exam. Maybe the teacher who interviewed me saw it, but it's one thing for others to see it. , Whether you can really perform on stage is another matter. Before that, I went to see a play with my father, and I fell in love with it right away. But at that time my mother did not agree with me to be an actor. My father said: "Xing Xing is the champion, let her try."
In this play, there is a young actor named Wen Qi , her role is in the whole work It is like a ray of sunshine, a rainbow, without her existence. I especially like this young actor. Although from her point of view, Meijuan and I are more experienced than her, and she admires us, but in turn we admire her a lot, and she performs well.
I think Wen Qi is a very virtuous child, and he also has all the conditions to be an actor. like in our play, Zhou Xia actually made a mistake, and was led by my daughter Xun Xun to finally get on the right track in life. She herself is actually very grateful, but she doesn't want to let the other party know that she has changed or that there is an element of gratitude in it. So the level of performance is difficult to grasp, she did a good job. So I think young actors are very promising. Of course, I have also collaborated with other actors. I think it is because we have such a group of excellent and hard-working young actors, and most of them have been studied and trained in Film Academy and Drama Academy, and they all have certain skills. They have good acting skills, and have moral and artistic virtues, so I think the future of our movies depends on these young people. When
first entered Shanxi Provincial Theater , the most important thing for us was to learn from the old actors and see how they got into the roles. At that time, we were asked to observe life and go to factories, villages, bus stations, railway stations, and places with many people. Take notes after your observations, what you saw, and analyze character relationships. Analyzing relationships is a must, otherwise you won't be able to act out relationships, you will always be on the outside, and the audience seems to be just two actors standing together.
I think actors do have their moments of brilliance. For me, it was relatively early, that is, when I played "Liu Hulan", I was received by Premier Zhou and so on. That play didn't just set me up, but cultivated the three of us at the same time, the ABC corner, and it took more than a year of rehearsal alone. At that time, we still had daily performance tasks in the evening, which was to get up in the morning, queue for three hours, rest in the afternoon, and perform in the evening. The cultivation of
at that time meant grinding drama. The old actors will not praise, they will only find faults in our performance, why not say praise? Afraid of our pride, at most it is "OK". I'm already very happy to get an "okay". The predecessor of our theater was the Eighth Route Army Art Troupe, so the relationship between people is very simple and very good. The teacher is very concerned about young actors, because we are not from a professional school, and we all rely on learning from old actors.
I think an actor is actually talent, hard work and chance. It is always a passive profession. If the director does not choose you, you will have no acting; you will not be able to rely on your talent alone if you are not diligent.
Before retiring, most of my work in the theater was as a director. When directing a play, I was able to memorize almost all the lines of all the characters. For example, if the actors forgot their lines, I would remind them. This is the muscle memory , which has become a habit over the years. In fact, it was this incident that brought me into film and television performances.
should be in 2011. I remember that I didn't have WeChat at that time, and I always left my phone number wherever I went. At that time, there was a boy in our theater who was coordinating the actors in the crew. I was not actually the one who ran the crew by myself. After I stopped being an actor in the theater in the later period, it was difficult to think of me even if it was recommended. I was looking for actors who were still acting. . At that time, I had moved to Beijing to live, and the boy's crew was also filming in Beijing, so they told me to play the role of Pirampo Bodhisattva. After the show was over, slowly opened up the road.
Once, a crew who came to me for the first time, after using it, I found out that this person can say a lot of lines. After that, if there is a need to recite a long line, I will definitely be invited there. Until 2015, an assistant director told me that 90% of a movie was shot abroad, and it needed a 60-year-old actor, but it looked like an 80-year-old face. They searched for half a year and couldn't find it, because now 60-year-old people are all dressed like 40-year-olds, so it is impossible to find a 60-year-old actor to play an 80-year-old. At that time, I was over 70. He said that you can give me a photo, I asked them if it was okay, but he asked me to meet in the afternoon, that is, Xue Xiaolu , and in the afternoon, he set me to play " Beijing Meets Seattle" Two Love Letters ", there have been many people who have known me since that character, until now.
I feel like my highlight moment is long past. As a result, I won the " Tiantan Award " this time, but I didn't think much about it. I just act in this movie and TV, and I just want to be myself. Of course, people are always very happy to win awards, but as a person like me... I think all actors are like this. Winning and not winning are all earnestly creating roles and playing that role well. Because it was us who showed our faces, and my role was not good, the audience would definitely scold me, right? So I think winning the award is a good thing, it's an encouragement to us, but it's not the end. You see the award, I won the Golden Rooster Award for the best female supporting role of , won theThe award work is " relocation ", that is to say, the judge's recognition of me is only for this work, it does not mean that all the characters are affirmed. Therefore, must continue to play his role well, and this is the past. You still have to act with heart and soul in the following scenes, and you have to perform them well and dedicate them to the audience.
My life hasn't changed much, I still live in my small house, and my family of three is happy every day. As long as a role needs me, I can pack and go anytime. Or a walk-away trip with my daughter, that's fine too.
She always advises me not to remember my age, so now I sometimes need to fill out forms, and I have to do the math to find out how old I am this year. I don't have a birthday, I will do whatever I can, has never been a limiting factor for me to do anything with age. My creed is that what you can do by yourself, you don't need help from others. When others carry me behind my back, I have no sense of security. It is better for me to be down-to-earth. I am such a person.
I don't know why I'm doing this either, because other people exercise too. Maybe it’s just that you don’t restrain yourself, don’t think about how dangerous it is, you’re afraid of riding a bicycle, you’re afraid of everything, and in the end you don’t dare to do anything. Moreover, I am afraid of getting old, and I am afraid of getting sick... I just stay at home all day long, the more I stay, the more hunched I become, the less I move, the more I stay out of touch with this world. You go out and be with everyone. I am also particularly willing to be with young people, and I can learn a lot from them, such as how to use electronic products.
I like watching movies, I just watch movies when I have nothing to do, and then arrange flower arrangements and exercise. In fact, there is not much time in a day. You know, you are really at home. After you wake up, you have to tidy up the house. After you finish, you don’t have much time to get some breakfast and eat, and then watch a movie. Then it was afternoon, and sometimes I wanted to squint for a while. Good media have asked me, how do you arrange every day? I said there is no time to do what time to time, impossible things. Everyone is the same. After getting up in the morning, they will do whatever they encounter.
I am a person with "no ambitions", I never imagined that I would go to win an Oscar or anything, so there is no such thing as a sense of security or insecurity, I always feel secure. I think I will definitely be able to control the next role, because I will get into this role, and I will seriously analyze the difference between the role and other roles.
I must ask that my role is not Wu Yanshu, nor is it the same as my last role, or even the same as others. Because everyone has different education, different family members, different living areas, different daily chores, different personalities, and now constellations are added. We used to talk about zodiac signs, which are all different. So it's definitely different, you have to act like the last one, you don't care, you're just memorizing your lines, right?
Other than that, I think I will continue to live independently like this and live my day.
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Makeup / Xue Bingbing Hairstyle / Wang Peng T_KW@THEFUR
Producer / Conan Interview, Writing / Zaan
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