"Chinese Partner" is in advance, Deng Chao deeply interprets the legend of returnees
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Directed by Chen Kexin, the entrepreneurial legend "China Partner" starring Deng Chao, Huang Xiaoming and Tong Dawei will hit the big screen on May 18. Recently, the film began to premiere in Beijing, Kunming, Chengdu and other places. The entrepreneurial story full of positive energy made the audience feel the same, and cried and laughed during the viewing process. In particular, Deng Chao’s flesh-and-blood performance made Meng Xiaojun the "soul character" of the three musketeers of "new dreams". Especially every time he went to the screening, director Chen Kexin would tell the camera that "among the three characters, Deng Chao played myself." It shows the importance of this role.
Deng Chao loves Meng Xiaojun "not pretending" Meng Xiaojun = Chen Kexin
In the film "Chinese Partner", Deng Chao plays the image of a returnee who has never tried – and is also a frustrated returnee who struggles to start a business. This role is quite different from Deng Chao’s own temperament, but Deng Chao said that he decided he wanted to play this role from the moment he read the script. "I am a child of a working family, very grassroots, but Meng Xiaojun has learned piano since childhood, is familiar with English, and wears clothes. When the director came to me, I also praised Haikou, and asked me to play anything. Wang Yang (Tong Dawei) can do it, and Cheng Dongqing (Huang Xiaoming) can do it, but I still like Meng Xiaojun after reading the script. I think he is very real. He does not pretend. He always does what he thinks is possible, and always pays for his actions."
According to Deng Chao, when Chen Kexin wrote the character of Meng Xiaojun, he recalled too many memories of his own past: washing dishes in the United States and being looked down upon by others. Even during filming, Chen Kexin looked at more than 20 restaurants to find a restaurant where Deng Chao could "work" before he was satisfied – the reason is only "not like the one I remembered working in the past." – Such exquisite thinking also touched Deng Chao so much that Chen Kexin even gave Deng Chao a copy of his book "My Road" after finishing, in which he wrote a meaningful sentence to Deng Chao: "Thank you for playing Meng Xiaojun, thank you for acting him, and thank you for expressing my psychological words." "The director wrote at the time that Meng Xiaojun was actually a little annoying, just like me [Chen Kexin], but they would all admit it," Mr. Deng recalled. "So when I created Meng Xiaojun, I said he was a person who would admit himself, and even if he was jealous, he would put these things on the surface and not do things like that."
The madman’s perfect conquest of "The Devil’s Journey" was praised by Wu Junru
In addition to working hard on the role, Deng Chao also played the nature of a madman in the play, not only crying Huang Xiaoming and Tong Dawei, but also the director repeatedly shed tears for the role of Meng Xiaojun. As the only returnee in the film, Meng Xiaojun was asked by the director to "zero spoken English". Faced with several pages of English lines during filming in New York, Deng Chao admitted that he almost collapsed. In order not to disappoint the director, Deng Chao practiced his English lines day and night, and took the initiative to play and borrow his sight at the scene. From time to time, the staff would applaud him for his excellent performances.
And Deng Chao’s efforts have also been rewarded, and the returnee who has been struggling to start a business has been recognized. Some viewers believe that Deng Chao supports everyone in the film with a full spiritual strength from beginning to end, and is completely a "leading brother". Even Wu Junru, the wife of the director Chen Kexin, said after watching the film: "The clothes that Chen Kexin liked back then, the glasses he liked, the songs he liked, and even the women he liked, all the feelings were interpreted."
It is reported that "China Partner" will be released nationwide on May 18, and the Three Musketeers led by Deng Chao will stage a desperate counterattack.