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In the entertainment industry, Gong Jun is neither an early success nor a late bloomer. Before the opportunity came, he was diligent and self-disciplined, and when the opportunity came, he was still humble and peaceful. What Gong Jun wants more, is continuous growth and continuous flow.
On the day of the interview, the weather in Qingdao was sunny. Gong Jun was sitting in the dressing room wearing a white shirt with his sleeves rolled up high. To his right, there was a large floor-to-ceiling window, and the sea was outside the window.
This is Gong Jun's first winter in Qingdao. "It's cold and windy, but the scenery is good." Gong Jun filmed "Rising With The Wind" in Qingdao, playing the business elite Xu Si in the drama. The drama filming has not wrapped yet, Gong Jun can't talk about it too much, he can only share more feelings about living here. For example, the weather is very dry, so he bought a humidifier, but he still "can't stand it". The good thing is, he likes to eat the raw and pickled seafood here. Yesterday, his friends cooked scallops and oysters and sent them over, he thought it was delicious.
Gong Jun has been away from his hometown of Chengdu for more than ten years. When he was a child, his parents owned a provision store. At that time, Gong Jun thought that it would be great if he could open a skewer store and a hot pot store in the future. But he didn't expect to become an actor when he grew up, and also now he seldom eats red soup hot pot. "I'm not prone to putting on weight easily, but I will still put on weight." Gong Jun is very self-controlled and eats very little carbohydrates. It is not a special requirement for the characters he portrays, but comes from his self-discipline, "You can't get fat when filming."
Gong Jun also likes to exercise. He is very busy with filming, so he can only go to the gym when he has the time. “Fitness training allows me to maintain my body lines and rejuvenate. When I see the effect, I want to maintain it." During the time when he was the most cruel to himself, Gong Jun would use a measuring food scale to calculate the food content, protein, vitamins, sugars precisely. “The effect can only be seen by being strict, so the advice to fitness people is only ‘persistence’, nothing else.” Gong Jun said.
For him now, it is indeed a very important thing to show a full mental state in the camera. On one hand, he is living like that, and on the other hand, he cherishes the moment’s opportunity.
Gong Jun graduated from the performance department of Donghua University. Yuan Che, the frank and loyal eleventh prince in the costume fantasy romance drama "Lost Love in Times", made him known to some audiences, but this is not enough for him to gain a firm foothold in the entertainment industry.
Gong Jun is very afraid that he would stop, because "I don't know what else I could film after this drama is completed”. For half a year after he completed filming for “Lost Love in Times SP”, he had nothing to do for a period of time, the resumes he sent out did not receive a response, he even flew to other cities to audition, but there was no outcome. Gong Jun fell into deep self-doubt. "I just thought am I too stupid, or my acting was too bad, or other reasons."
From the beginning of 2021, Gong Jun gradually gained more attention. Originally, he was in Chengdu for the New Year, and he asked his manager what he should do with the free time in March. Then March came, and he was suddenly so busy that he didn't even have time to rest. In the early hours of the morning, he was still filming on set, after wrapping for the day he had to go to a different city to film a variety show. At times he had more than ten interviews per day, and slept an average of five hours a day... He used to be able to go shopping and eating with friends at will, but now he is afraid of disturbing the public order, he can only make a restaurant booth reservation in advance. However, the compression of personal space also means the broadening of the acting path, at least now when he is selecting drama roles, it’s no longer that passive.
In the rescue-themed emotional drama "The Flaming Heart", Gong Jun played the brave, calm, restrained and determined firefighter Huo Yan, and in the romantic suspense drama "Dream Garden", he became a strict and dedicated psychological counselor Lin Shen, from July to November last year, he filmed "The Legend of An Le" in Hengdian for four months. From December, he played the investor Xu Si in the urban workplace drama "Rising With The Wind". Gong Jun said that when choosing dramas, he will try to avoid similar roles, because, "Not only will the audience feel bored, I will not have a feeling of freshness too."
Gong Jun believes that he is not a talented actor, he can only rely on "acting a lot, seeing a lot, and slowly trying to understand what acting is about". He also doesn't feel that he is able to sense the environment richly, but his “ability to empathize is quite good". Sometimes when his drama character talks about their own life experience or emotional troubles, the corresponding imagery will appear in Gong Jun’s mind, but sometimes due to the constraints of time or space, he cannot 100% interpret the character, but Gong Jun will find a way to be more mindful.
After a long time, these characters have all become people that Gong Jun has spent time with, they are intertwined in Gong Jun's memory, often making him feel like he is traveling through time and space. In the summer of last year, he was filming the costume drama "The Legend of An Le" in Hengdian, he wore a thick headgear and thick clothes every day, and his scalp was allergic. How did he suddenly transform into a business elite? Gong Jun thinks that the most amazing thing about being an actor is this kind of change, it’s not saying goodbye to each role, but seeing the growth they bestowed on you.
In the past six months, Gong Jun has also started thinking about things in the long term. "What I'm perplexed about now is how to transform, what works to film in the future, and how to go further. You have to know what you are doing in this career, and you have to make plans for yourself, instead of letting others push you along." Right now, there are no exact answers to these questions, but Gong Jun is not in a hurry. There might not be a moment of sudden enlightenment and inspiration in the future, but he says, it won’t be wrong to feel slowly and improve slowly.
SUPERELLE X GONG JUN
SuperELLE: For you now, is it important to maintain a good body line on camera?
Gong Jun: It is very important at present, I hope that I look good in front of the audience. In the future if the role requires it, for example, like Matthew McConaughey, to portray someone who is fat or thin, then I will also do it.
SuperELLE: Besides fitness training, what other sports would you like to try?
Gong Jun: I think snowboarding is very cool, and I have taken a few classes. But the thing I want to do most is a self-driving road trip. If I can, I will drive all over the world. The car gives me a feeling of freedom, I can go where I want to go, I can see the scenery along the way, and I can also experience different people and cultures.
SuperELLE: What qualities have your past roles given you?
Gong Jun: What I learned from each character is different. Every industry has its own story, and the process of portraying the role is also experiencing a different life. For example, when portraying a psychological counselor or an elite investor, after receiving the script the first time you may not understand when you read it, but you can check it yourself and discuss it with the screenwriter, it isn’t a very in-depth knowledge of the industry, but you can know a few things.
SuperELLE: So each character bestows on you a different energy.
Gong Jun: Yes, actors are quite lucky in this aspect. You can feel different environments, characters, atmospheres, and that's something I really enjoy.
SuperELLE: What movie and TV works have you watched recently?
Gong Jun: Those I didn’t watch last year. “The Father”, “The Lincoln Lawyer”, “Dune”, “Don't Look Up”. And Teacher Zhou Xun and Teacher Huang Lei’s “A Little Mood for Love”, I heard that many of their details were created on the spot. But the presentation method of a film and a television drama is different, a film has to be expressed in the shortest possible time. For television dramas, especially modern dramas, the performance method should be more lifelike, these can all be referenced.”
English translation by me @gongjun_ also published on Gong Jun Global. Please do not copy and paste elsewhere.
Original article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/T8wrLE9wkEdVLX2WW_2DsQ
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