When filming " Queen ", director Li Yuefeng encountered a very headache.
Where to find an actress who can span most of her life? Only by perfectly interpreting Wu Zetian's charm in her girlhood and her uneven self-righteousness in her old age?
After all, who is too old to play Wu Zetian's girlish playfulness, and is too young to interpret the domineering aura of ascending to the throne of the emperor.
Just when the director was at a loss, the screenwriter next to him suddenly mentioned Pan Yingzi . It made the director's eyes lit up directly. Yes, how can you forget the "doll"? (The doll is Pan Yingzi's nickname in the circle)
How beautiful was Pan Yingzi back then?
faces like lotus and willows like eyebrows, and a generation of beautiful waves are chasing waves. The beauty who was praised directly by countless people was even as beautiful as a Barbie doll. Even the mainland actress "Fan Bayi" once said in an interview: The beauty she envies the most is Pan Yingzi.
No matter how many years have passed, her appearance is still so gorgeous. If it is true that people who can cross the age gap in beauty, Pan Yingzi humbly calls herself second, but no one dares to be arrogant and call herself first.
Finally waited for the right director, and was extremely excited to send Pan Yingzi an invitation to the audition. Pan Yingzi was also shocked when she received the invitation. After all, after I came to Taiwan to develop, I have been acting in martial arts dramas. How could a director like me to star in a historical blockbuster? What's more, this character is difficult.
Later, Pan Yingzi also talked about the past of starring in "Wu Zetian" in an exclusive interview with Shen Chunhua and . She said: It was a big challenge to go from 14 to 80 back then.
So, Pan Yingzi made an amazing decision after thinking about it all.
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Pan Yingzi always felt that she was not suitable for playing this role. She mainly thought that her cute and cute temperament could be suitable for playing the iron-blooded queen?
Pan Yingzi also admitted: I didn’t dare to take it at first, and the roles between me and Wu Zetian were very different.
Even if Pan Yingzi resisted the temptation of such a heroine's role, he bluntly refused the invitation from "The Queen of Generation", but the director just recognized her as the actress and came to her several times. As a result, Pan Yingzi, who was moved by the director's sincerity, finally accepted the role.
And in order to play the role of the female emperor well, she also made a lot of preparations. For example: Pan Yingzi searched for many materials and historical books about , Tang Dynasty period, and read some stories about Wu Zetian, including unofficial history and official history to learn about her. Finally, we can figure out the character's personality according to the plot adapted by the director.
At that time, although Pan Yingzi, who had debuted for many years, had never acted in a Chinese historical drama, her acting skills were undoubtedly outstanding. Pan Yingzi, who is born lively and active, has no sense of incongruity when she plays the 14-year-old girl Wu Zetian.
But what really challenges her is her appearance and makeup when she is old. Because Pan Yingzi's skin was so good that she had no wrinkles at all, and the conditions were limited back then, the makeup artist could only apply layers of glue to her face. But the consequence of applying glue is that because it is not breathable, even the skin will be torn off when removing makeup at night, and blisters will grow inside...
At such a great sacrifice from Pan Yingzi, people think of Wu Zetian when they mention her old age. But in order to achieve this classic screen image, she has done much more than that.
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Pan Yingzi encountered a very embarrassing problem during shooting.
is halfway through the show, and the director asked him to gain weight. Because she doesn't look like Wu Zetian when wearing a dragon robe, but she looks like a child who steals adult clothes.
One day, director Li Yuefeng said: Let’s take a picture of you sitting on the dragon throne. As a result, the dragon chair prop was very big and beautiful. But as soon as she sat on it, Pan Yingzi seemed very thin. The director felt that it was imperfect and not good-looking, and he did not have the posture and prestige of Wu Zetian in his later years.
So Pan Yingzi started to gain weight quickly. Try to eat hard to make yourself meet the standards in a short period of time. However, due to physical fatigue caused by filming and insomnia, no matter how you eat it, you cannot achieve the expected results.
In order to film, Pan Yingzi, who has been working all day long, has been worried because she cannot get fat. In the end, she discovered that steamed buns had a huge fat-enhancing effect. I ate more than a dozen buns in one meal until I vomited. After a while, I continued to eat. In this way, in less than two months, Pan Yingzi successfully gained 30 kilograms of weight. She laughed and said that she later sat on the dragon throne to shoot, and she was very confident and could handle it perfectly.
Liu Xiaoqing's version of "Wu Zetian" is also great!
Pan Yingzi's 85th version of "The Queen of the Generation" can be called a classic work, it is definitely related to her life-threatening gain of 30 pounds. After all, her old-age look and self-importance are really unforgettable for the audience. Of course, Liu Xiaoqing's version of "Wu Zetian" broadcast in the mainland in 1995 is definitely not inferior.
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