Exclusive dialogue with Zhang Yi | After running for many years, the golden rooster turned positive, and he broke through his true colors.
Special feature of 1905 film network The moment I won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor, my mind was blank — — Nominated with his partner in the same group, he was ready to "run with him" again early. And the sudden "becoming a full member" makes Zhang Yi, who has always been calm, look happy and somewhat "embarrassed" on the stage.

"I know I’m not the best, but I really love my career!" When I was a student, Zhang Yi used a "fake actor’s card" to show off that he had become an actor. Nowadays, the "genuine" award is not only recognition and praise for all his past efforts, but also will give actor Zhang Yixin new thoughts and answers.

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At the age of 10, Zhang Yi stood in front of the cinema on Harbin Central Street and saw the huge poster of the director’s works for the first time. Years later, at the age of 40, he finally walked into the lens of director Zhang Yimou. Behind this dreamlike experience, which now seems to be full of "cinematic feeling", is an actor’s rough years and namelessness through his love and persistence.

Ordinary appearance made Zhang Yi have no performance opportunities for a long time. The drama troupe has been a walk-on for ten years. He worked as a screenwriter and a reporter. When the group was busy, he made a guest appearance as a host, but he just couldn’t wait for the role that belonged to him.
Later, I went to the crew to audition and cast thousands of resumes, almost all of which sank into the sea. Some directors bluntly said, "We’re going to shoot an idol drama, and we’ll take your photos away quickly." Some even told him, "Zhang Yi, you should stop acting, and acting is a’ death’".
Depression, pain, but Zhang Yi convinced himself to take these as "polishing", just to keep the "lowest dignity of actors" in his heart.
If the appearance is not dominant, he will work harder than others in other aspects: in order to win a substitute role in the drama version of Soldier Assault, Zhang Yi memorized all the lines of everyone. At that time, he finally failed to get on the stage, but these accumulations became the "capital" for Zhang Yi to recommend himself to the director.

Zhang Yi plays Shi Jin in Soldier Assault.
Before the TV series "Soldier Assault" started shooting, Zhang Yi sent a 3000-word letter of recommendation. In this way, the "monitor Shi Jin", which has not many scenes, together with this work, has become an unforgettable classic in the minds of countless audiences, and this role has completely changed the fate of Zhang Yi.
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It’s hard to wait for the first play, and it’s even harder to gain the first recognition.
"Monitor Shi" made Zhang Yi feel the satisfaction of being recognized by the audience when he went out on the street for the first time, but there are still voices in the industry questioning whether he can only rely on the "true colors" of his military career to support his role compared with acting.
When he joined the army at the age of 18, the lush years meant nothing to Zhang Yi. For this reason, from "Soldiers Assault", "My Head and My Regiment" to big-screen works, he has a deep military complex, and he is cautious about taking on such works because he "doesn’t want to waste precious opportunities on an unworthy work."

Zhang Yi plays Yang Rui, the captain of the "Dragon" in Operation Red Sea.
He was once rated as "the way of acting is not wide", but Zhang Yi never stopped there willingly. Outside the military theme, he began to make bold breakthroughs to prove that he had more possibilities in performance.
In Dear, Han Dezhong, a strong and painful father, a night security guard who is down and out, a wretched and treacherous "old abacus" in the movie, and a nameless ordinary hero … … No one tries to distinguish Zhang Yi’s "true colors" among these characters.
In order to complete these roles, Zhang Yi endured a broken leg injury and once lost 110 pounds; He learns all the scenes that need to use dialects word by word, even in the dubbing stage. Some people say that this person is like a "drama madman". Zhang Yi said with a smile that he just wants to compete with himself and the outside world. This "awkward" process has also achieved his continuous gains on the road of performance.

Zhang Yi plays Gao Yuan in My People,My Country.
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Zhang Yi once spent four years writing a collection of essays entitled "An unreliable actor loves to say what if". The opening paragraph reads, "Actors, they walk on the road almost every day, stay in different hotels and listen to different dialects … … They usually have strong imagination and expressive power, and the stories they tell are interesting, rhythmic, suspenseful and burdened … … It’s just a pity that no one has recorded it. "
So he decided to take notes of the next actor’s work every day. "I have a work diary and a schedule. I have been planning to be 60 years old by 2038. " Through these diaries, Zhang Yi found that there were not many days when he really "rested", and filming in the crew became the normal state of life. Compared with being busy and tired, he felt that such days were practical.
During the months of filming, Zhang Yi found the lens of director Zhang Yimou on the central street in Harbin, which he was familiar with. The dream returned to the place where it started, and it took Zhang Yi 30 years to get here.

In the Golden Rooster Award acceptance speech, his voice trembled and he said that he was not the "best actor". From plain appearance and repeated missed opportunities to "the road to play is too narrow", from the rudeness of blindly "adding drama" on the stage to the resignation due to the pressure of the role, this once "unreliable actor" finally gained recognition in the industry and "turned positive" was the best actor.
The voice that once questioned has become the praise of "Zhang Yi products must be fine" — — In the upcoming Spring Festival, his new film with director Zhang Yimou will meet the audience again. "Pressure doesn’t exist (for me)." Faced with a lot of expectations, Zhang Yi was very calm. "The quality of a movie is by no means determined by one actor or several actors. The film is the art of the director first, and the second place is the book of a play."

At the age of 40, Zhang Yi participated in the works directed by Zhang Yimou for the first time; Forty years after the Golden Rooster Award, he won the first Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor trophy. "Forty is an important growth point, just like driving, it’s time to change gears. We will get better and better, and China movies will get better and better. "









