In the popular drama opposite, Yan Bingyan played the national security captain Duan Yingjiu image changeable, her role is like a multi-faceted mirror, undercover, she disguised as a street gangster, avant-garde styling; in uniform, she is rigorous and serious, decisive and sharp in carrying out the task; and in real life, she is a busy middle-aged woman, faced with the tedious household chores. With her superb acting skills, Yan Bingyan portrays the image of Duan Yingjiu so well that netizens praised her, "Even her hair can act."
Yan Bingyan, an actress who started out as a dancer, accidentally stepped into acting. in 1994, as a dancer in the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe, she auditioned for a movie and became an actress, and since then she has earned word-of-mouth and popularity in productions such as Nineteen Sisters of Gan and Red Cross Squadron. After showing her youthful idol image in her teenage years, she suffered a low point in her life when her mother fell ill and she accompanied her for eight years, an experience that made her lament, "Life didn't give me the chance to expand."
In 2012, Yan Bingyan won eight best actress awards at home and abroad for her movie Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart. She is known for her "low output", as she is extremely demanding of scripts, even so picky as to be self-deprecatingly "pretentious". 2016, she did not receive a single movie, one each in 2017 and 2018, and another in 2019, until she took on the role of her rival in 2020. 2020 took on the role of a rival. Asked why she didn't take on a drama, she laughed and said, "Reading the script."
Duan Yingjiu is an ordinary middle-aged woman who shoulders the double pressure of family and work. Yan Bingyan called the role "an octopus-like life", saying that Duan Yingjiu is not a superwoman, but she shoulders the security of the country and the people, which is a great responsibility. In her opinion, her family is her biggest shortcoming, and she is unable to balance work and family. She believes that the living conditions of national security fighters in reality are even more difficult than in the drama, and that they and their families should be honored.
Among her rivals, Yan Bianyan cut her long hair in order to get closer to her character and appeared in the camera with a plain face almost the whole time. She said that Duan Yingjiu didn't have time to put on makeup, and it was good enough to wash her face and brush her teeth. In order to better portray the role, she also strengthened fitness, practiced iron lifting, and invited a combat coach to learn professional combat. Yan Bianyan less than 100 pounds before entering the group, two months to train into a body of tendons, it is unlikely, halfway through the experience of changing coaches. Her claim to fitness is that the audience must believe that she can knock down a big man, do not laugh.
Yen spends a long time preparing for a role after taking it on. She said that she is just an amateur and an ordinary actor, "I am a very stupid actor, belonging to the kind of people who try to capture the true feelings inside themselves as much as possible. It's more direct, there's no method or technique." She believes that actors are more like psychiatrists, who have to analyze everyone's reasons for doing things. When it comes to acting, she advocates "real listening, real watching, real feeling," looking back at the films she's appeared in to identify problems and improve on them.
Yan doesn't take advertisements or variety shows, she says, "Actors have to endure loneliness." She believes that the acting circle is the circle of fame and fortune, where applause, flowers and money are all too close and within reach, which is why she feels that actors have to endure loneliness. In her opinion, the fun of acting is to experience the transformation between different types of roles, she said, "I am interested in all types of characters and will try to analyze and understand all kinds of people."
In 1998, Gan Nineteen Sisters, Red Cross Squad and other TV dramas were broadcast one after another, and Yan Biyan's career was taking off when her mother became seriously ill. Doctors predicted that she would only have three years left, so Yan Biyan paused her work to take care of her mother, and she stayed with her mother for eight years. The experience made her more calm, "Life didn't give me the opportunity and possibility to expand, I felt jittery instead, and I didn't make more good movies after I won the award." She said that the days she didn't film were also a process of preparing for her next movie, learning new skills by following the different roles she took on.
Yan laughs that she is a person with a very low tear point in her life, often crying until she shakes from watching movies and playing games. She says that the days she doesn't shoot a movie are also the process of preparing for the next one, learning new skills by following the different roles she takes on. She likes to grow flowers and plants, she likes to raise fish, and she will go to learn as many skills as possible, she is learning skills after her character in every drama, which is very useful and interesting, and she will also experience joy from these processes.
New Beijing News: With the aura of "Best Actress", but at the same time, there are not many roles suitable for you, do you worry that you will be drowned in some mediocre roles and not be seen by the audience? Yan Bianyan: No, I'm so picky, at least I don't think the roles I choose are mediocre. My own production is low, so I usually take good roles only when I come across them. Speaking of not being seen by the audience, I do have a low production and I'm not very good at doing publicity. The company often says to me, "Do some publicity, you don't shoot during this time, let's go shoot street photography". I said: what is street photography? I don't even know. The staff said to me: Yan, before we board the plane, can you clean up a little bit so we can take some pictures? I said, "Why do you need to take pictures of me getting on the plane? I said, "Why should you take pictures of me getting on the plane? I'm not good at publicity outside of my work. But I've been doing what I'm supposed to be doing, and it's very singular, but that's what I've chosen to do. Life has given me so much more than I wanted and what I predicted, and I've been so lucky. I have been given so many honors and awards, and I deserve all the more to be worthy of all of it. You want to be worthy of all of this, or you have to do well to keep going to work. XJB: What are you busy with when you are not filming? What kind of hobbies do you have? Yan Biyan: I'm usually quite loose and free, and I have a lot of things to do. I like to grow flowers and plants and raise fish. I also learn as many skills as I can. Every movie I do, I learn skills from the characters, which is very useful and interesting, and I feel happy from the process. When I was filming Borrowed Gun, I learned to play the Peking Rhythm Drum, and when I saw a lot of costume dramas where the guqin was put in the wrong way and still played, I felt that I couldn't make that kind of mistake. Some things are just too remote and distant, that's why I need to learn them seriously. There was once a movie where I played the boss's wife of a coffee shop, so I learned a full set of coffee skills, and I am now allowed to work in a coffee shop with a license. Including learning to box, now I also want to take piano lessons and guitar lessons, anyway, just to learn one by one. When I practice, I always feel like I don't have enough time. But it's a more tiring time and I get very loose and don't do anything every day. I also love playing online games when I'm not working.
