"Super Detective" Zhang Jiahui switches five personalities with one click

Cheung Ka-fai, a Hong Kong actor who won awards including Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for "Guild Wars," has collaborated with Chow Yun-fat on "Macau 2," and with Louis Koo on the "Apostle Walker" series. In the movie "Super Detective," released on April 4, Cheung Ka-fai "switches" five personalities with one click. This fun and exciting setting excites him. In an exclusive interview with a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, Cheung Ka-fai laughed and said that he played a crime-solving team by himself, and said that the reward he received was a sense of achievement. "The challenges and breakthroughs I have always pursued in my career as an actor have been satisfied in this film."
"The interesting book aroused some of my desire to be an actor"
Written and directed by Mr. Wong and starring Jang Ka-fai and Zhang Yishang, "Super Detective," a film about psychology, multiple personalities and the behavior of highly intelligent people, experiments with new character settings – with an extraordinary memory, he can go into the subconscious to review and detect cases, and explore the boundaries between good and evil in the battle between illusion and reality.
Although Zhang Jiahui has starred in "Anti-Drug", "Witness", "Rage Tide" and "Burst Point" and other police and gangster films before, Zhang Jiahui could not help but be eager to try when he encountered "Super Detective". "This detective is very capable and can solve so many cases, but he can’t solve the case of his own relatives being killed. This conflict, I think, is different from the police and gangster films I have played before." He revealed that he and Huang Mingsheng, the director, have known each other since they were in their 20s. "He now came up with such a strange and interesting book, which also aroused some of my desire to be an actor."
In the movie, Zhang Jiahui plays Guo Wenbin, an amnesiac man. In the film, Guo Wenbin uses his subconscious to handle cases, so he has to play several clones of himself, and also have conversations and exchanges with them. Zhang Jiahui said: "Some of these personalities are very honest, some are violent, and some are very cunning. Based on different personalities, I have been fantasizing and designing different attitudes and behaviors through words."
Due to the complexity of the message, Zhang Jiahui is also highly active on the set. "After filming my own part of the play, I will immediately change the character of other characters. So when changing clothes and changing shapes, I will make adjustments to change the character’s state into another me under the design, and use different languages and details to interpret." To make the detective more vivid, Zhang Jiahui also designed a lot of small movements. For example, the detective will take a towel to wipe his sweat. "This diverse design will give the character more space, increase the sense of humor and interest in the tension."
Frankly admit that the real difficulty is the true self in life
One person playing the five-fold personality makes Zhang Jiahui more malleable. How can he unearth so many different selves? Zhang Jiahui said: "Everyone has to have many sides to survive in society. No one can maintain a one-sided life all the time. When you face family, friends, and all kinds of people in society, you have to use different attitudes and different ways to communicate and solve problems. Therefore, splitting four or five selves is actually similar, and there may be more sides. I have not actually explored how many sides I can split, but I think everyone has four or five or six personalities at the most basic. It is not surprising to say seven or eight. Of course, the splits in "Super Detective" are of course for dramatic effect and to explore human nature, which is a bit exaggerated. "
Zhang Jiahui laughed and said that compared with the hard work of one person playing multiple roles in "Super Detective", he felt that the real difficulty was the real self in life. "It’s not that difficult to act, but it’s more difficult to act yourself. Everyone will find that the best people in acting are never actors, but people in life. So, when I act well, but when I play Zhang Jiahui in reality, I don’t play well. Because when acting, the actor follows the direction of the script, and everyone actively cooperates. Even if there is an opponent or a bad person, you know what he will do next in the script, but in reality, you can’t see where things are going, and there is no chance to do it again. You have to deal with the sophistication of the world yourself. I guess if I am an undercover in reality, something will happen every minute. This is a difficulty in real life, and everyone can’t escape. "
No matter whether it is literary drama or fighting drama, it is equally strict
In "Super Intentional Detective," in addition to the difficulty of the literary drama, the martial arts drama is not easy. Zhang Jiahui said that the director Huang Mingsheng was previously a martial arts instructor in the "Cheng Family Class" in Hong Kong, and he has deep skills. "When I shoot the action part this time, I hope to cooperate with the director, and I can improve my ability in both the literary drama and the fighting. On the set, when I don’t have to start work, I rehearse the movements with Director Huang and study how to handle the movements better."
Once in order to shoot "Guild Wars", Cheung Ka Fai insisted on exercising for six or seven hours a day, and in nine months he became a "muscle man". "Guild Wars" has become a classic of Hong Kong films, and Cheung Ka Fai has also attracted countless fans for it. Asked if he would still work so hard on filming scenes today, Cheung Ka Fai said: "The era when I entered the industry was the most popular era for Jackie Chan’s action movies. Although I didn’t make Jackie Chan’s movies, in the overall atmosphere of Hong Kong movies, every actor needs to shoot their own scenes, and it is a real action – whether you like it or not, or whether you have fighting experience or not. I started my career in this era, and I must slowly establish a concept of’I can fight ‘in the film industry. "
In order to maintain a good state, Zhang Jiahui still maintains the habit of exercising, "In fact, whether it is an actor or not, whether it is filming or not, normal people also need enough exercise. I myself will have specific sports, such as running, climbing, weightlifting, and I will do it three or four days a week to maintain a healthy state. Even if I go outside to film sometimes, I will go to the nearby gym to exercise."
In addition to exercising and filming, Zhang Jiahui also quiets himself down: "I don’t drink or smoke. Apart from sports and spending time with my family, the most I do is to hide myself: in the studio thinking about things, listening to music, maybe thinking about some scripts, or reading scripts given to me by others. It’s always around my own work, watching movies, reading books, watching the news."
In addition to the actor, Zhang Jiahui is also a director. He revealed that the film he directed will also be released this year. "I made up a reasoning film called’Redemption of Dreams’, which tells the story of a person redeeming himself in a dream." Text/Reporter of this newspaper, Xiao Yang