In the popular drama " rival ", Yan Bingyan plays Guoan captain Duan Yingjiu, who has a different face. When undercover, she is a street gangster with an "explosion" look; when she puts on a uniform, she is a rigorous A conscientious captain of the national security team, she performs tasks of sweeping the streets and tracking people, decisively and neatly; in life, she is also an ordinary middle-aged woman faced with trivial household chores. With her outstanding acting skills, Yan Bingyan portrayed Duan Yingjiu so well that netizens described her as "even her hair can act." In the
TV series "Rivals", Yan Bingyan plays the role of Duan Yingjiu, captain of the national security team.
Yan Bingyan, who was born as a dancer, actually entered the profession of actor by accident. In 1994, she was still a dancer in the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe . She was looking for actors in the movie " Hunting the Wild Wolf Gang". Although she knew nothing about filming, she thought she could use the round-trip train ticket to visit her father who worked in Shenzhen. , he agreed to the audition, and from then on he gained an additional identity as an actor. Since then, she has received "double recognition" of word-of-mouth and popularity in the TV series " Ganjiu Mei " and " Red Cross Squadron ". After her teenage years as a youth idol, Yan Bingyan encountered the cruelest change in her life. Her mother fell ill, so she stopped working and stayed with her mother for eight years. It was the experiences of those eight years that made her sigh, "Life Didn't give me a chance to expand."
After returning to work, Yan Bingyan delivered the movie " Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart " in 2012. Through this movie, she won eight domestic and foreign best actress awards.
In 2012, the movie "A Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" won Yan Bingyan multiple best actress awards.
Yan Bingyan is known in the industry for her "low production" because "reading the script didn't make my pores explode." She was picky about the script to the point where she even disliked her "pretentiousness": in 2016, she didn't take a single role , received one film each in 2017 and 2018, and another one in 2019, until he was accepted into "The Rival" in 2020. You asked her what she would be doing this year if she wasn't taking on roles? She smiled and said, "I'm reading the script."
"The Rival" -
Don't always talk about textbook-like acting skills, I blush when I mention it
Duan Yingjiu in the TV series "The Rival", there are seniors and juniors, housework She has no time to care about anything and only has work in her eyes. Yan Bingyan calls it "an octopus-like life." In her opinion, Duan Yingjiu is actually an ordinary middle-aged woman. "She is not a superwoman, but she has an extraordinary career. She carries the country, the lives of her comrades, and the security of the country and people on her shoulders. The responsibility is heavy. Coupled with her seriousness, meticulousness, and single-mindedness, she can only take care of her work and neglect her family, husband, and children. Her family is her shortcoming, and she can't do it inside and out. "I would not marry her if I were a man." Yan Bingyan said that the actual living conditions of the National Security soldiers in real life are worse than those in the drama. "We should really pay tribute to the National Security soldiers and their My condolences to the family, it’s not easy for them.”
In the drama, Yan Bingyan has many scenes of chasing, beating, and arresting, so she deliberately cut her waist-length hair short. In addition, in order to be closer to reality, he appeared without makeup almost the whole time. "Duan Yingjiu has no time to paint his eyebrows and eyes. It would be nice if he could wash his face and brush his teeth. The definition of modern machines is so high that even with light makeup, the audience can still see it." After she decided to take on a role, Yan Bingyan would spend a long time preparing for it. In the middle of the play, Duan Yingjiu is very skilled and knows how to grapple, so Yan Bingyan also strengthens her fitness, practices lifting weights, and hires a fighting coach to practice professional fighting. Many viewers will think that Yan Bingyan is "fat" in the play. That is because she hopes to be closer to the character. "I am only 1.63 meters tall. If I were any thinner, my credibility as the captain of Guoan would be too low, so I If you want to build tendons, you can’t slim down your arms and legs.” Yan Bingyan weighed less than 100 pounds before joining the group. It was impossible to build up tendons all over her body in two months, and she even had to change coaches along the way. Her appeal for fitness is that the audience must believe that she can knock down a grown man and not laugh out loud. The coach suggested that she eat stronger to look stronger."Actually, I was 106 pounds when I joined the crew, but I couldn't practice as soon as I started filming. The coach strictly controlled carbohydrates and sugar in what I ate every day, which I couldn't do on the crew. Suddenly I stopped and ate the crew's box lunch every day. She got fat. But in the middle of the play, Yingjiu had diabetes, so she became quite fat like a diabetic." Yan Bingyan didn't mind the comments about her body shape and appearance at all, "It's because the character you played was so vivid. "The more people watch it, the more people will comment. If it doesn't hurt, no one will care whether you are fat or thin."
In "The Opponent", Yan Bingyan did not wear makeup throughout the whole process and responded generously in the interview. The audience's evaluation of her body shape.
In "Rivals", many viewers said that Yan Bingyan's life-like performance showed "textbook-like acting skills." In this regard, she kept saying, "Don't keep talking about textbook acting skills. I blush when I talk about this." She said that she is just an amateur player and an ordinary actor. "I am a very stupid actor. I am the kind of actor who tries his best to (People) who want to capture their true inner feelings. It’s relatively direct and there are no methods or techniques.”
Don’t accept ads or variety shows
——“Actors must endure loneliness”
Whether it’s the TV series "Gan Nineteen Sisters". , or "Red Cross Squadron", Yan Bingyan played a stubborn and beautiful young girl. She said that when she was a child, she was only "good-looking" and did not have much understanding of love and family affection in acting. "The age of the actor When you get older and have more experience, you will have a deeper understanding of the role. This is something that no matter how good-looking or talented you are when you are young, you can’t achieve it.” "Team" won the China TV Golden Eagle Award Best Supporting Actress Award. In 2007, she participated in the movie " Love Teeth " and won the Golden Rooster Award Best Actress. In addition, she also won the Golden Eagle Award and Feitian. Award , Huading Award , Golden Phoenix Award and many other honors. 2012's "A Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" is one of Yan Bingyan's masterpieces, for which she won eight domestic and foreign best actress awards.
Yan Bingyan won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for the movie "Love Teeth".
In "A Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart", Yan Bingyan plays Li Baoli, who makes a living by carrying a pole.
After "Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart", the number of Yan Bingyan's works decreased instead of increasing. She revealed the reason in an interview: She is a person who becomes more cautious when receiving praise. Although there are not many works, she likes every one of them. . While many middle-aged actresses face "age panic," this is not a problem for Yan Bingyan. "Most of the actors who have these feelings are because they had a particularly heavy workload before. And my output itself is very low. It's good to be able to take on one movie a year, so I don't feel too bad about it. I usually take it when I meet a good role. I still have money to spend and food to eat, so I don't panic, and there's no need for other exposures. Everyone is good at different things.”
Yan Bingyan not only has a low output in filming, but also refuses all variety shows and advertisements. After "Red Cross Square", advertisers approached her, but she felt that she couldn't tell the national audience "This is good, I want to eat it" and "I can't open my mouth." She asked the company to push away advertisements and variety shows. She said with a smile that fortunately the boss of the company was her best friend and could tolerate her not working year after year. He often asked her if she had money to spend? Yan Bingyan said that she is not a person who can take care of both business and art. "I can only do one thing, and I can't achieve the emotional intelligence, IQ, or physical strength. Then don't watch others accept advertisements or have unbalanced variety shows. You didn't choose that." It’s okay to not get (more attention). I won’t accept roles for money, awards, or other conditions. It will become easier and easier to stick to a way that you think is right.”
In Yan Bingyan's view, the entertainment industry is a circle of fame and fortune. Applause, flowers, and money are all too close and within reach. That's why she thinks actors must endure loneliness.
Real listening, true seeing, true feeling
- "Actors are more like psychiatrists"
Yan Bingyan's past roles were often very "split".She has appeared in many author movies with an underground temperament, starring as some little people wandering on the fringes of society, and has also appeared in many theme films as officials and police officers with very majestic and positive images. In her opinion, experiencing the transformation between different types of roles is the joy of an actor. "I am interested in all types of characters, and I will try to analyze and understand all kinds of people. I think sometimes actors are more like psychiatrists, who have to analyze the reasons why everyone does what they do."
asked about the secret of life-oriented performances, Yan Bingyan said bluntly , "The simplest and most effective method is: really listen, really watch, and really feel." She said that in the initial stage, she would look back at the films she starred in, because only in this way can she know where there are problems, such as being a Beijing citizen. As a human being, she found that her speech and enunciation were not clear, so she consciously followed the news network to practice Mandarin . Another example is that she walks with splayed legs because of dancing. She will try her best to change this habitual movement. "Performance is not innate. Natural performance will upgrade with the continuous accumulation of experience. If you want as many audiences as possible to follow you, If you want to cry and laugh together, then you need to do a lot of practice."
Yan Bingyan has appeared in the TV series "Red Leaves in the Mountains" (Part 1) and "Borrowing a Gun" (Part 2), gaining and losing weight for the role.
Yan Bingyan worked hard for every role: in the TV series "Red Leaves in the Distant Mountains", she played the role of Wang Ying, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Nanjiang, Sichuan. Before filming, she went to the countryside and asked people, "Do you think I look like Secretary Wang Ying?" "The people said, "No, you are too thin. Secretary Wang has a round face." Yan Bingyan gained 15 pounds after returning home. After "Red Leaves in the Mountains", Yan Bingyan took on the role in the TV series "Borrowing a Gun". The costume cheongsam in "Borrowing a Gun" had been made long before Yan Bingyan gained weight. Unexpectedly, she gained 15 pounds, and the cheongsam was even worn. You can't even touch the buttons. The director said, if the cheongsam doesn't work, just make it again. Yan Bingyan said that she could lose weight because the character in the play can play the drum. Yan Bingyan had a week to prepare. She said that she could lose weight by learning drum . Although the director secretly redid the cheongsam, Yan Bingyan lost weight within a week.
[Life and Affairs]
The eight years she spent with her mother made her calmer
In 1998, TV series such as "Gan Nineteen Sisters" and "Red Cross Squadron" were broadcast one after another. When Yan Bingyan's career was taking off, her mother became seriously ill. The doctor predicted that she would only have three years left, so Yan Bingyan stopped working to take care of her mother, and she stayed with her for eight years. Occasionally, the next step is when the doctor confirms that the mother has no physical problems during this period.
Because her mother was ill and her medical expenses were very high, and Yan Bingyan was not filming, she had no financial resources, so she had to borrow money from her best friend, and then she told her father that she earned it by doing guest appearances. "My father was still weird at that time, saying that he could still earn money by guest appearances. So much money. "
Yan Bingyan and her mother have a very typical mother-daughter antagonistic relationship. When she was a child, she grew up with her grandmother. Later, she was admitted to the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe and fell in love early. She called her mother and said: I'm in love, don't worry about me. During the years when her mother was ill, the two gradually reconciled and became a normal mother and daughter. Yan Bingyan lost her mother when she could hold her mother without embarrassment and talk about any topic.
Yan Bingyan does not have many roles, but she said that when she is not working, she is also preparing for filming.
Looking back now, those few years have made her calmer. "Life did not give me the opportunity or possibility to expand. On the contrary, I felt uneasy. After winning the award, I did not make more good movies."
She said, no The days of filming are also a process of preparing for the next film, learning new skills from the different roles I take on. A friend once asked her: "What is your life like?" She smiled and said: "Working." "What about when you are not working?" Yan Bingyan blurted out: "Get ready to work!"
Yan Bingyan said with a smile, she In life, she is a person with a low tear point. She often cries until she shakes when watching movies and crying when playing games. When she was young, she played the online game "Legend of Sword and Fairy". At that time, she couldn't afford a computer, so she played at a friend's house, and the picture quality was poor. Not good, "My friend was awakened by my sobbing in the middle of the night, and I was crying, 'Ling'er is dead.'
Dialogue
Beijing News : With the aura of "Best Actress", but there are not many roles suitable for you, are you worried that you will be submerged in some mediocre roles and not be seen by the audience?
Yan Bingyan : No, I am so "picky", at least I think that the roles I choose are not mediocre. My own output is low, so I usually only accept good roles. To avoid being seen by the audience, my output is really low and I am not very good at doing publicity. The company often tells me to do some publicity. During this period, you are not filming. Let's do street photography. I said: What is street photography. ? I don’t understand. The staff said to me: Sister Yan, could you please tidy up a little and let us take some photos before we board the plane? I said: Why are you taking pictures when I get on the plane? . I am not good at promoting other than my works. However, I have been doing the work I should do. Although it is very single, this is my choice. Life has given me more than I wanted and expected. Much more, I am already very lucky. I should be worthy of all the honors and awards given to me. If you want to be worthy of all of them, you have to continue to work hard.
Beijing News. : What are you busy with when you are not filming? What are your hobbies?
Yan Bingyan: I am actually quite relaxed and have a lot of things to do. I like to grow flowers and plants. Fish. I also try to learn as many skills as possible. I learn skills from the characters in every movie, which is very useful and interesting. I also experienced happiness from these processes when I was filming "Borrowing a Gun". , I have learned Jingyun Dagu , and I have seen many costume dramas where Guqin is played backwards, and I feel that this kind of mistake cannot be made. Some things are just too uncommon and far away, so I need to take it seriously. Study. There was a movie where I played the proprietress of a coffee shop, and I learned a full set of coffee skills. Now I can work in a coffee shop, including learning boxing. Now I also want to take piano lessons and guitar lessons. , anyway, I just learn it one by one. When I practice, I always feel that there is not enough time. But during this period, I am very tired and do nothing every day. I also like to play online games.
Beijing News chief reporter Liu Wei
chief editor Wu Dongni proofreading Zhao Lin
