Directed by Liu Jin and starring Sun Li and Zhao Youting, the realist workplace topic drama “Ideal City” is broadcasting two episodes every night at 19:30 in the prime time of Dragon TV. “Ideal City” tells the passionate career advancement of cost engineer Su Xiao (played by Sun Li). She upholds the professional belief that “the cleanness of the cost table is the cleanness of the project”, leading the company to get rid of the business difficulties and regain its strength. . After the start of the show, its ratings have consistently ranked among the top of the satellite TV, and its reputation has also been quite good.
Yesterday, Sun Li accepted an interview with the national media WeChat organized by Dragon TV. She revealed that Su Xiao would wander and bump into the wall as she grew up: “It is not a good thing not to rub the sand in your eyes. As Xia Ming (played by Zhao Youting) said, she needs to roll in the mud before she can become an atmosphere. .”
“Su Xiao” is full of security while “Fang Sijin” is much more bitter
“Ideal City” focuses on the construction industry, and Su Xiao, played by Sun Li, is a Shanghai-based cost engineer. At work, she pursues perfection, has strong professional skills, and is meticulous in doing things. However, because of an engineering accident, she has fallen into the bottom of her career. During this dark period, the cruel “reality” declared war on her “ideal world” time and time again, and Su Xiao vowed to use actions to take a clean path to ideals in the cold, mixed steel and concrete.
What’s interesting is that Sun Li’s last TV series role is also a professional who deals with the house-the real estate manager “Fang Sijin” in “An Jia”. Before the filming of “Ideal City”, Sun Li asked herself: “Will the two characters make the audience feel the same type?” However, she quickly built up confidence and dispelled worries in the process of interpreting the characters: “Fang is like Jin Bisu Xiao suffers a lot. Su Xiao grew up in a loving environment and has a great sense of security and faith in doing things, but Fang Sijin lacks the support of family love behind working hard alone.”
Sun Li’s analysis found that in the face of work and life, Su Xiao has no room for anxiety: “People who have been looking at their mobile phones are a manifestation of insecurity, indicating that they have been in an anxious state, always wanting to obtain information from the outside world, and will not relieve loneliness by themselves. Su Xiao rarely picks up a mobile phone, but Fang Sijin does not leave her hand.” Sun Li saw more humanity in Su Xiao: “Su Xiao’s’cost list is a cost list’, which impressed me very much. Later, Su Xiao often wandered between persisting and giving up, but in the end she chose to stick to herself.”
Realistic shooting style Sun Li appeared almost “without makeup”
After the launch of “Ideal City”, Su Xiao’s style surprised many viewers: short hair, no makeup, jackets, backpacks… Is this still the heroine of the workplace drama? Sun Li very much agrees with the director and stylist’s arrangement: “Su Xiao’s job doesn’t have to sit in the office every day. Many times, she has to go to the construction site and wear a safety helmet. Therefore, people who do this job often wear outdoor clothes, and because they often stay up late. Working overtime, she doesn’t have much time to pay attention to her appearance.”
Director Liu Jin pursues a realistic shooting style. Before shooting, Liu Jin and Sun Li discussed not to make up or even let her use foundation. The director’s words, Sun Li only listened to half. After watching the film, Sun Li regretted: “I should have listened to the director. Nowadays TV series are too high-definition, sometimes I put the film on the big screen to watch myself, and I can still see it. Foundation particles. I told my colleagues that next time I will shoot a very down-to-earth scene. If I don’t need makeup, I really don’t use foundation. I need a more realistic state.”
During the filming, the director had extremely strict requirements on Sun Li’s makeup and dress. Sun Li’s makeup artist has worked with her for many years, and during the filming of this scene, she often felt that she had nothing to do. One day, the makeup artist secretly applied an eyeliner to Sun Li. Unexpectedly, when the first shot was taken, the director discovered that her eyes were different. On another occasion, Sun Li wore a very ordinary dress, but the sleeves were red, and the director immediately asked her to change her clothes, “The color is too bright, I want to bury Su Xiao in the office, there can be no protagonist halo.” The scene was filmed, and Sun Li was also used to it: “Sometimes I would tell the makeup artist that Su Xiao had just been up all night before this scene, and my hair was messed up a bit, dark circles under my eyes should not be patched up, and acne marks should not be covered. “
Sun Li’s ideal life has family, love and work
Through the filming of “Ideal City”, Sun Li also saw her own changes: “I can’t blindly pursue the appearance of the character, just like picking the script. Now I am more pursuing what this drama will bring to my spiritual realm.” Sun Li was moved more than once by Su Xiao’s persistence in his ideals and the spirit of not forgetting his original intentions: “There is a scene. After Su Xiao turned to normal, he went crazy with his girlfriend Wu Hongmei, drank, danced, gnawed duck necks, and yelled on the terrace… I watched this scene ten times back and forth. The soundtrack was very good and the scene was particularly exciting. After watching the samples for the first time, I put the soundtrack in the play “Chasing Dreams” and “The Train Toward the Clouds, Meng’an” I listened to “Soul in the Nine Heavens” back and forth for two or three days.” During the performance, Sun Li didn’t like others calling herself “Sun Yield”. She thought that the play needed to be polished, just like peeling brown rice, removing the edges and corners of her body, and her own thoughts. Only by grinding off can it become exquisite rice and become “Su Xiao”. “I think it needs a process, and then the acting will become more and more accurate.” Sun Li said frankly.
Recently, it coincided with the promotion period of “Ideal City”, and Sun Li was very busy with her work. Sun Li’s family originally had a family rule—you can’t use your mobile phone when you eat, but these days, Sun Li has to use your mobile phone to communicate with your work while eating. She revealed that her husband, Deng Chao, would be very careful to remind the two children at home that they should be obedient and read well in the past two days, and should not mess with their mother, “because mother is too tired and too busy.” Sun Li smiled and said that his family gave him a particularly great encouragement: “Now as long as Deng Chao raises his hand at home, clenches his fist and shouts’Children!’ the three people will shout the slogan’ideal ideals, ideal city’.” Talking about their own ideals Sun Li said: “This is how it is now, with family, love, and work.”
The whole network knows that Sun Li is keen on health preservation, even on the set. Before starting work every day, she would run to open her body, practice calligraphy to calm herself, and sink into the role. Sun Li has practiced Chinese characters for several years, and this filming also came in handy. She created the title of “Ideal City”: “I usually practice official script and seal script, but this is an urban drama. It should be written more modern. I specifically asked a teacher to practice.”
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