《The Great Long March》Broadcast: Yu Hewei lost 15 pounds, and the character fell into the eyes and movements

After tying up the straw sandals for Xie Xingguo, a member of the Children's League, he heard the child read “Walking on the blood of the martyrs”, and the smile on Yu Hewei's face gradually faded, and his eyes darkened.《The Great Long March》At the beginning, the scene next to the Red Army Martyrs Memorial Tower in Ruijin aroused the audience's discussion about his role as Mao Zedong.

The TV series is created by the original cast of "The Age of Awakening" and will be broadcast on CCTV's prime time slot from October 9th.Yu Hewei described this challenge as "complex", "uneasy" and "the most special creation" at the film screening.In order to get closer to the lean and weather-beaten state he had during the Long March, he lost 15 pounds; his cheeks and figure in the play also lost weight.He mentioned that he was not the only actor on the crew to lose weight.In addition to the appearance preparation, he repeatedly discussed with the chief screenwriter Chen Jin and set the creative tone of using history to lead people and people to lead history.He said: “Chairman Mao is also made of flesh and blood, has a rich and sensitive inner world, and has a broad mind. What I want to figure out is how to express it.”

The anxiety and pain he felt when he encountered defeat were put into his furrowed brows and low voice.Holding the desk due to back pain after sitting for a long time, and the brief pause of the fingertips when looking at the map are also details in the performance.Filming a scene of setting off by the Du River, on a full moon night, he looked at the stars in the distance and suddenly shed tears.The tenderness when tying shoes next to the memorial tower, the worry after hearing the child's words, and the emotion when setting off, all show the emotions of the characters in different situations.

During the nine months he participated in the filming, even if he had finished work for the day, he would review his performance every night and continue to ponder his expression.

Director Zhang Yongxin said that the spiritual resemblance honed by acting skills will lead to the physical resemblance.Audience feedback after the broadcast also talked about the eyes and temperament: some people think that Yu Hewei captured the character's worry and determination in adversity, while some people gradually shifted from focusing on “likeness” to “belief” as the plot progresses.“ took into account the barrage, and the more I looked at it, the more it looked like ”“ that this was Chairman Mao ” and other messages during the Long March.

The whole play takes the Long March of the Central Red Army as the main line, including the First, Second, and Fourth Red Army and the 25th Red Army. It also includes the anti-Japanese advance team in the north, the southern guerrillas, and the Northern Shaanxi Red Army.The story extends from January 1934 to January 1937, covering the process of being forced to strategically shift, settle in northern Shaanxi, and start a new phase of the Anti-Japanese War.Leaders, senior generals and ordinary soldiers all have their own narrative perspectives, and the arguments of the decision-makers and the experiences of the little people enter the plot together.

The first four episodes revolve around the military command of Bogu and Li De and the battle over the route of the fifth counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.The changes in the battlefield are intertwined with the decision-making and debate, explaining why the Red Army reached a situation where it had to move, and also describing the process of continuous analysis and adjustment of direction in the difficult situation.

In order to film this period of history, the creative team re-traveled the Long March three times and reviewed and compiled more than 30 million words of historical materials.The script was polished through six drafts, totaling more than 700,000 words, and the crew filmed it for 457 days.More than 100 important scenes, such as the Zunyi Conference site and Luding Bridge, have been restored to a 1:1 ratio. From the architectural layout to slogans and military uniform patches, everything has been verified; the explosions and smoke in the war scenes were shot in real time.

Cao Lei grew a beard for a year to play Zhou Enlai and lost weight to return to the state of marching while sick.Wang Jinsong, He Zhengjun, and Zhai Xiaoxing starred as Chiang Kai-shek, Zhu De, and Peng Dehuai respectively, Wan Qian played He Zizhen, Guo Guangping played Liu Bocheng, and Zhu Gangriyao played Bo Gu.Chief producer Liu Guohua said when talking about the Long March: The history of the Long March is not just a dusty past, but also a spiritual coordinate that illuminates the present. Every generation must have its own Long March.%