The TV drama "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-wai and starring Hu Ge is being broadcast on Jiangsu Satellite TV and other platforms. Hu Ge plays the male lead A Bao in the drama. Recently, Hu Ge said in an interview with the media that he has been exposed to the works of Wang Kar-wei since middle school, and never thought that he would have the opportunity to meet him, let alone appear in his works. "This time filming’Flowers’ is like a dream."
Hu Ge said that filming "Flowers" this time was like a dream.
In 2017, I contacted Wong Kar-wai and imagined one person playing the triangle
In 2017, Hu Ge met Wang Jiawei for the first time. Recalling the scene at that time, Hu Ge said that he received a phone call saying that the director Wang Jiawei wanted to meet him. "When I arrived at the appointed place, I saw Director Wang wearing the trademark sunglasses. To be honest, I was very nervous at the time because I liked watching Director Wang’s works since middle school, and he was my idol."
That day, Wang Jiawei and Hu Ge talked a lot, talking about their views on the novel "Flowers" and Hu Ge’s own growth experience. "Director Wang first considered letting me play A Bao, and then at one point, he wanted me to play the triangle and play Hu Sheng, Xiao Mao and A Bao at the same time. Because someone saw my play" A Dream "and felt that they saw many faces of me on the stage, Director Wang thought of this plan."
The idea of one person playing the triangle was just a "flash in the pan". In the end, Wong Kar-wai cut down the complexity and only chose Ah Bao as the core character. In order to play this role well, Hu Ge and the entire crew made full preparations. "Before we officially entered the group, we had a three-year preparation period. Under the leadership of Director Wang, we collected a lot of information about that era, and invited stock experts, ‘old mages’ from foreign trade companies, etc., as’mental responsibility ‘, to guide the crew at any time. Before the start of the game, the actors also entered the scene in advance and immersed themselves in the atmosphere of the 1990s."
The actors are fully immersed in the atmosphere of the 1990s.
The atmosphere of the times created by Wang Jiawei also evoked Hu Ge’s childhood memories. For example, the 1:1 reconstruction of the Yellow River Road in the play made Hu Ge quite emotional: "Although I didn’t eat on the Yellow River Road, I passed through the Yellow River Road on the way. The Yellow River Road in my impression is just like what is presented in the play.
Working with Wong Kar Wai is like falling in love, always providing emotional value
This is Hu Ge’s first collaboration with Wang Jiawei. To Hu Ge, this collaboration is more like a relationship. "At the beginning, I will be very nervous and nervous, and I will always be between confidence and lack of confidence. Gradually, I will find that as long as he is around, you will be very at ease, much like in love."
"Flowers" was filmed for three years, and the long cycle also affected the mood of the actors, while Wong Kar-wai provided stable emotional comfort. "After filming, everyone was on the verge of collapse, and there was a lot of pressure in all aspects. But looking at Director Wang, who was energetic and meticulous, watching him go back to meetings and write scripts after filming every day, all the tiredness was suddenly eliminated, and I felt that I could do it again."
In the play, Bao and Reiko (played by Ma Yili), Miss Wang (played by Tang Yan), and Li Li (played by Xin Zhilei) all have a lot of rivalry. In Hu Ge’s opinion, Reiko and Bao are the relationship between Sun Wukong and Pigsy. "Bao is Pigsy, Reiko is Sun Wukong, always in front of Pigsy to cut through thorns and let Pigsy sit back and enjoy."
In Hu Ge’s opinion, Reiko and Bao are the relationship between Sun Wukong and Pigsy.
Bao (left) and Miss Wang (right).
Miss Wang and Bao are the relationship between the second hand and the minute hand: "Do you think the second hand and the minute hand meet every 60 seconds? Wrong. It’s 61 seconds. Because when the second hand turns around, the minute hand has already run forward. But in fact it’s not 61 seconds, it’s a little more than 61 seconds, because when the second hand goes another second, the minute hand moves forward a little bit. So this intersection between the two of them is always a little farther than everyone thinks."
Hu Ge believes that Bao and Li Li are like the sky and the sea, mirroring each other.
As for Bao and Li Li, Hu Ge believes that they are like the sky and the sea, mirrored by each other and full of mystery. "The sky and the sea are far away, but when you watch the sunrise and sunset, you find that the two are connected, like a distant."
"Flowers" is a interpretation of the story of the fathers, and I have been interested in it since I was a child
For Hu Ge, "Flowering Flowers" is a search for the memory of my parents, and it is also a supplement to the imagination of the past years. "" Flowering Flowers "tells the story of my parents’ generation. I have been interested in my parents’ upbringing since I was a child, but every time I try to understand them, I always feel that there are some things they don’t want to say or even remember. So when I saw" Flowering Flowers ", I was immediately attracted, and I felt that I knew the past of my parents in another way."
"Flowers" for Hu Ge is a pursuit of the memory of his parents.
"Flowers" tells the story of the 1990s, when Hu Ge was in elementary school. "It’s very limited to see the changing times from a child’s perspective. But I later recalled that adults at that time were very busy. Like my dad, he was also doing business with a group of friends and trying to change his life through his own efforts, and he had very little time at home. Sometimes I would hear my parents talking about someone who got rich overnight. As the narrator in our show said, some people got rich overnight, and some people got zero in half a day."
Hu Ge played the lead character Li Xiaoyao in the TV series "Legend of Immortals and Swords".
Wang Jiawei once mentioned Hu Ge, and when he played Bao, he had the feeling of Li Xiaoyao: "I believe that in that era, there were many young people like Bao, who wanted to seize the opportunity in the tide of the times and change their destiny and life through their own efforts. But after experiencing ups and downs, they will find that the most important thing is love and righteousness."
Editor, Wu Longzhen
Proofreading, Lucie
