Peng Yuyan was interviewed by reporters [Click to view the album of interviews]
Movie Network News(Photo/Venice Film Festival News Team) Sometimes, the identity of a male idol is more embarrassing than that of a female vase – a dignified seven-foot man can’t always be told to eat with his face. Therefore, transformation has become the only way for a large number of male stars to debut as idol actors, sooner or later, like Feng Delun, the director of "Tai Chi", and Peng Yuyan, the villain.
Peng Yuyan said he really wanted to have some breakthroughs in the performance
Villain first experience — I didn’t want to play a particularly evil person.
Ten years ago, Peng Yuyan was still the spotless teenager in the "White Paper on Love". Later, he was no longer satisfied with the single idol line. He practiced his muscles in the middle and seemed to have fought a bloody path, which made people impressed. In the middle, Peng Yuyan surprised people and played a big villain – which trick is this?
Movie Network: When I first heard that the villain in Tai Chi was you, I was actually quite surprised, because your image was too positive and the image of a high-quality idol was too clear. Did you deliberately want to break this state before taking this scene?
Peng Yuyan: In fact, I don’t particularly want to talk about breaking any state, because I have shot some plays before, like, it is a relatively student, a relatively simple love story, "Roll Over! A Xin" is a gymnast, shot some plays to learn something, I have always wanted to break through in the performance, this time playing the villain is a rather new attempt for me, it is a challenge.
I have collaborated with Feng Delun before, and when he asked me to shoot "Tai Chi", I was also surprised how I could play a villain. After chatting with Feng Delun, I felt that this villain is not an ordinary villain, because it is three episodes. This villain follows emotions. From a young man with ideals and ambitions, he wants to create a railway in his Tai Chi village – Chenjiagou, a lot of things happened in the process, so how did he go from a literary and artistic youth to being slowly eroded by interests and rights, and finally become an evil villain. He (transformation) has a process, a complete story, and is very close to the villain I want to play. It is a very interesting villain.
Movie Network: How do you understand the role of Fang Zijing? Do you think he is bad? Do you think you are bad?
Peng Yuyan: I didn’t deliberately play a very evil person. I wanted to make a normal performance, but I didn’t know how bad or torn I was after editing. When I designed this character, I wanted the audience to see a different villain and a different performance from my previous one.
Movie Network: Fang Zijing was actually not a villain at the beginning. He also experienced some failures that led to some distortions. What do you think were the main factors that led him to go against Chen Jiacun?
Peng Yuyan: I play this character Fang Zijing grew up in Chenjiagou (the birthplace of Taijiquan). He is a foreign surname and cannot learn Taijiquan. He was bullied by Angelababy’s two older brothers. He was a thin and bullied boy. Later, he went to study in the UK and wanted to use what he learned to rebuild his home after returning. So he has to use many things, such as Yuniang (baby) ‘s connections. After going through this incident, he found that everyone still looked down on him and was a character with low self-esteem. So when he felt he had to fulfill his mission, he brought his "Troy" with him, and actually he didn’t mean to hurt the villagers, but a tragedy happened — his love Claire died, and then "Troy" died, which hit him hard, and he had nothing left, so he became more and more cold-blooded, more and more extreme, and by the second episode, the character’s character was even more different.
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