Fan Bingbing: Willing to announce the relationship, because Li Chen is the one
Phoenix Entertainment:This is your second time playing Concubine Yang Guifei. Why did you take on the same role again?
Fan Bingbing:Actors are sometimes very strange, and we don’t want to play a role again, but there is something special about Concubine Yang. This is a historical theme that I like very much. What makes me especially like about such a woman is her way of love, including my watching "Eternal Regret Song", including my reading of books about Concubine Yang. In their words, I think she is a very legendary woman. The first time I acted in a TV series, and then Concubine Yang’s movie found me, it was 10 years later. When I was filming the TV series, I thought that if someone asked me to play the role of Concubine Yang one day, I would like to try to play her again, and then I just had such an opportunity.
Phoenix Entertainment:Will it be easier for you to perform the second time?
Fan Bingbing:I think you will be a little more mature, because a lot of people and things may have happened to you in these 10 years, and then everyone may have grown up. I watch the TV version of Concubine Yang now, and I still feel very much like a child, and Huya at that time. But everyone has grown up in the process of this decade, feeling the ups and downs of life differently. Emotions include friends and personnel, and the process of these experiences is placed in the new movie character. Then your relationship with this character, including the details of her love for Tang Minghuang and Shou Wang, has actually gradually matured a lot.
Phoenix Entertainment:Did he gain weight for this role?
Fan Bingbing:Yes, I have changed it to about 62 kg. But I don’t dare to be too fat, because the real Concubine Yang is about 130 catties, but I can’t reach 130 catties, so the lens will look very greasy, so I may keep it at about 61.5 kg, and I can still control this weight within four months.
Phoenix Entertainment:You mentioned that you appreciate Concubine Yang’s dedication to love, but she married a father and son. What do you think of this?
Fan Bingbing:I think when you first heard this story, you also thought it was completely incomprehensible. I think it is actually a discussion of human nature, because Tang Minghuang is a king and can have everything, including women and the country, so in fact, the imperial system is a rather cruel thing. His control of the entire country is completely different from that of a small woman. So for me to understand her, the initial love was actually very helpless. After Yang Yuhuan was forced to leave the King of Shou, there were a lot of misunderstandings in the middle, and then the acceptance of true emotions was a very legendary thing. In today’s society, of course, you think the possibility of it happening is very small, but in that era, there were actually quite a lot.
Phoenix Entertainment:I heard that the scene of "Ma Zhen" in the film was your idea?
Fan Bingbing:Then I’m really high-powered. I saw this scene in the script. When I saw this scene at the time, I also thought it was quite fresh, because I had never experienced such a feeling. What I want to say is that this scene gave me a very, very beautiful feeling. We were shooting in Bashang Prairie at the time. Later, when the director finished cutting the material, I was quite surprised, because the whole environment and picture were very much like an oil painting, like some plots in a European movie. That’s because I think we are all acting characters, and that person will have seven emotions and six desires. This kind of desire is reflected in a scene where two people struggle and are torn emotionally for a long time before it breaks out, so I think this scene is a must have. But as an actor, of course, it was hard for me to act with Big Brother Dawn, because how to act it felt like a real feeling, and then there was the scene of the horse in this movement, which was still a very difficult thing for the two of us.
Phoenix Entertainment:How many times have you been in this scene?
Fan Bingbing:Many, many times, after the scene was over, the two of us got into a fight. Because I was going to ride upside down on the horse, and the horse was in motion. The scene was filmed all day, and then our hands and feet were all bruised because of the stirrup and the saddle, and he was going to carry me from another horse to his horse. The whole process was very painful, but you also had to perform beautifully.
Phoenix Entertainment:In fact, when I first saw it, I felt that the technical content of this scene had to be very high before this could happen.
Fan Bingbing:In fact, I don’t think everyone should take it too seriously. Because I think in the movie, there is actually such a good imagination. Whether watching European movies or American movies, I see such scenes, and I look at them with a beautiful eye, because I think you can only see what you are thinking in your heart. So I think this is human nature, and emotions and desires are normal. I don’t think it’s a big deal.
Phoenix Entertainment:The clip of "Ma Zhen" has actually been exposed, and netizens have also complained of various kinds.
Fan Bingbing:I think making movies now really has to deliberately make some slots. I think the audience is very happy like this, and I can accept it if they find some slots in a happy and peaceful atmosphere, because I don’t think there is any malice. And life is so stuffy, you don’t let the public find some happy things, we all have this mentality of entertaining the public.
Phoenix Entertainment:Before, Guo Biting said that he was eaten tofu by a male star while filming an intimacy scene. Have you ever encountered it?
Fan Bingbing:I’ve never met one before, because I’m usually a girl who everyone thinks has a strong personality. In fact, everyone still has a sense of awe for me. That’s just when filming scenes.