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Young battlefield nurse Yang Zi

Yang Zi black-faced Miao girl

"Wounded" makeup

Yang Zi and the younger brother in the film "Gazi"

　　A few days ago, a war movie "Changde Bloodshed", which reflects the Kuomintang’s frontal resistance to the Japanese army, is under intense filming at Wang Zuo’s Bayi Film and Television Base. The film stars Lv Liangwei, Yang Zi, and An Yixuan. Yang Zi plays a tragic Miao girl in the play – Tao’er, which is also Yang Zi’s first role as an adult.

　　The film tells the story of 8,000 Kuomintang troops who stubbornly resisted after being surrounded by Japanese 30,000 in Changde in 1943 due to the miscalculation of the situation by the Kuomintang army. Yang Zi plays the tragic Miao girl Tao’er, who was born into a poor family. Her parents were killed by the Japanese invaders. She lived with her younger brother since she was a child, and later grew up into a revolutionary youth through the experience of war. Yang Zi, who is 17 years old, experiences many "firsts" in this film.

Participating in a war drama for the first time

　　"The Great Battle of Changde" is a majestic war drama and a man’s drama. During the Battle of Changde, the 57th Division of the 74th Army of the Kuomintang Army, which was responsible for defending Changde City, fought alone for 16 days and nights with 8,000 divisions against well-equipped 40,000 invaders under the circumstances that it was easy to attack and difficult to defend. In the end, almost the entire army was killed, but it also caused heavy casualties to the Japanese army. Yang Zi plays Tao’er, an army nurse who goes through the baptism of war with the troops. Yang Zi’s previous roles were all good girls at home or good students in the school. The scenes were all familiar schools and units. This time, he changed to the battlefield where the war was raging and the corpses were everywhere. She confessed that when she first arrived on the cast of "Changde Blood Battle", she was very uncomfortable. "When I saw the wounded soldiers, I was very afraid." I didn’t even dare to approach the "wounded" who were wearing makeup. Later, Yang Zi gradually integrated into the character, experiencing the difficult environment of the war era and the emotions of people in extraordinary times. She is a senior in high school and said that the film was an important lesson for her life and made her "grow a lot."

Playing an adult role for the first time

　　In the film, Tao’er is positioned in her twenties; for Yang Zi, who has just passed her seventeenth birthday, this is her first time challenging the role of an "adult". The biggest problem when setting makeup is how to look old. Several makeup tests were considered "too tender" by the director, and finally the director and makeup artist finally came up with a trick to look old: wearing a black face. The makeup artist used foundation on Yang Zi’s face and body that was several sizes darker than her skin tone. After makeup, Yang Zi looked like a "female bag", and she really looked haggard and old, which was more in line with Tao’er’s identity and age. When it comes to this unique makeup, Yang Zi laughs and says: "In the past, when I was filming, I always worried that my makeup was not perfect, so I would bring a small mirror to check myself at any time. This time, I don’t worry, it seems that the dirtier and uglier the better." When asked if I would worry about looking too ugly, Yang Zi said: "No, the actor just needs to be close to the character, and it doesn’t matter what kind of sacrifice is made in order to be close to the character!" — Yang Zi, who is only a senior in high school but has 12 years of acting experience, has already demanded himself by the standards of professional actors.

The first time a tragic woman

　　Unlike the simple and simple characters in the past, Tao’er, a Miao girl in "Changde Blood Battle", is a woman with a bumpy fate. Her parents died when she was young, and she raised her younger brother alone. Afraid of losing her younger brother, she stopped him from fighting against the Japanese, and later joined the revolutionary team. Yang Zi said that her previous roles were all children, who were cared for, but this time she has to take care of her younger brother as a "sister" or even a "mother", which is not a big challenge for her; the inner drama is much more complicated, and it needs to be natural and appropriate to express Tao’er’s change from not supporting the revolution to joining the revolution. Facing such a difficult role, Yang Zi has no stage fright – she started acting at the age of five, and she has accumulated a lot of experience with many big names. She is like the "youngest old actor". Yang Zi’s performance was well received by the director, who said she "played better than many actors who graduated from college."