Exclusive interview with Peng Guan Ying: I put another ending, hidden in the drama, for Zhuang Guo Dong.
“The Tale of Rose” is coming to an end.
The online broadcast platform has also opened the grand finale.
First love Zhuang Guo Dong returns.
Discoveries by audience:
Zhuang Guo Dong appears at the beginning and end of every love relationship of Huang Yi Mei, and it runs through every stage of Huang Yi Mei’s life story.
Finally, even though there are no clues, he also found Huang Yi Mei’s secret room and solved her puzzle.
“Perhaps, Zhuang Guo Dong also understands Rose.
It just happens to be at the wrong time every time.”
With these two people, one pursues emotional satisfaction, and the other pursues career achievement.
They are people who put their own needs first.
The ending is destined to be separation.
In the interview, Peng Guan Ying said:
“Zhuang Guo Dong spent his whole life making up for a wrong decision.”
“In the most painful scene, I can’t resist the ‘god who controls the fate of the character'”.
He also said:
“In the drama, everyone can see another ending I wrote for Zhuang Guo Dong.”
After following actor Peng Guan Ying’s story with CCTV Dramas interview and looking back at the passionate first love between Zhuang Guo Dong and Huang Yi Mei, do you feel differently? What kind of ending do you expect for Zhuang Guo Dong?
Question and Answer:
Q: What do you think attracted Zhuang Guo Dong to Huang Yi Mei?
Peng Guan Ying:
When they first met, in Zhuang Guo Dong’s mind, Huang Yi Mei was dazzling and showed courage in her character traits and independence in her attitude towards love.
Q: How would you describe the different emotional stages of the two people?
Peng Guan Ying:
It was love at first sight when they first met. It can be described in three phrases.
All his emotions were hidden.
He created various opportunities and pretended to be casual,
but in fact he was always paying attention to the girl he admired.
In their second encounter, it was still being in love at second sight. The third stage was running towards each other wehn the two were in different places, and they were talking on the phone under the rain. Zhuang Guo Dong said on the phone: “The rain from Shanghai has reached Beijing.” In fact, I added these words myself, and I think it is quite romantic.
In the end, the two broke up. This stage was a painful to leave behind your love. When he received the notice of new employment, his relationship with Rose was rapidly heating up. He had to make a choice. If he chose work, they would have to live apart. If he stayed in Beijing, he would lose a job opportunity that he had waited for a long time and worked so hard for.
Zhuang Guo Dong made the wrong decision and will have to spend his whole life making up for it.
Q: If he could do it again, what do you think he would choose?
Peng Guan Ying:
In fact, there is no “if” in life, and everyone has their first time. I saw a passage a few days ago that I think is particularly suitable for Zhuang Guo Dong: “Three miles of breeze and three miles of road, step by step in the wind without you.”
If he was given another chance to choose, I don’t think he would make the same choice. When I was laying out the story of this character’s exit, I actually had an answer: I tried my best to give him another alternative. In fact, in the drama, everyone will see the ending I wanted to write after watching it.
Q: What’s the sweetest scene between the two of you?
Peng Guan Ying:
It was the scene where they sealed their love over the phone. Huang Yi Mei meant a beautiful love to Zhuang Guo Dong .
The director used the method of imagery to bring two young people who were at in different places together. That scene was an important connecting point which was their confirmation that they could start a relationship.
Q: Which scene was the most painful?
Peng Guan Ying:
The scene where we were about to separate was a setting on a small bed in a corner, which would shake if we moved casually. She walked past me, kissed me, and then left. Our relationship entered another chapter.
Why do I say this is a painful scene? Because at that moment, I actually felt all her actions: her getting up, her kissing me goodbye, her leaving. But at this time, the “god who controls the fate of the character” gave me an order – “You are not allowed to wake up”, so I could only close my eyes and feel it all, letting it happen quietly.
Q: What is the difference between “Zhuang Guo Dong” and your previous roles?
Peng Guan Ying:
When I got the role of Zhuang Guo Dong, I was also thinking about letting go of some of the appearance/manners of my previous roles .
I wore suits in “To Dear Myself” and “The Confidence” (Under the Sun), and I will be wearing suits in “The Tale of Rose” this time. With the similar clothing, but different occupation and character traits, can I give different feelings? I have to find differences from the interior within a framework.
In “To Dear Myself”, I gave the character some life-like characteristics, being angry like being on fire. In “The Confidence”, he was very superficial because he had to rely on those qualities to hide the complex and “bad” things in his heart. As for Zhuang Guo Dong, I wanted to give him more dignity and elegant qualities.
As an actor, I still want a lot of breakthroughs and challenges. No one knows when they will come or what results they will achieve. When that role appears, I will be very eager to create him. I think will be a fine ideal that I particularly want to pursue in the future on the path of an actor.
Perhaps it’s like Zhuang Guo Dong’s lines in the drama.
He used the movie “Midnight in Barcelona” (original title “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”) and was referrring to the two characters to describe the difference between himself and Huang Yi Mei:
“Now I finally understand the difference between us. I think you are like the girl played by Scarlett, who is fearless and curious about love. You can grow more mature in every relationship, and when it ends, you will become a brand new Huang Yi Mei, and then start the next relationship.
I am more like Rebecca Hall, a little old-fashioned, but once I set my sight on a certain goal, I will not be moved by anything else. Therefore, no matter how old I am or how much I have accomplished, I am still like a child with my emotions, crying and making a fuss to get back the toy that I can no longer find.
I have thought it through and I am ready to have a relationship like an adult.”
Can you guess what Peng Guan Ying had designed for Zhuang Guo Dong?
What’s the other ending?
Come and comment to leave your guess!
Source: Exclusive Interview with Peng Guan Ying by CCTV
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