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面对张静初才发现，女人还有一种美丽叫从容，一种恬淡的从容。
去年第一次采访时，正值《孔雀》得奖归来，作为女主角的张静初一夜走红，几乎每天都能在各种媒体上看到她的新闻。但当我给她手机发了一条要求采访的短信，几乎是立刻接到了她的电话，她说她正在云南拍《芳香之旅》，现在正好有空，要不现在就开始吧。没有一丝的故作矜持和矫情，电话中的张静初淡淡的、静静的，不张扬，不做作，言语中透着坦然、冷静、谨慎，当她常常因为工作而中断我们的谈话时，总是满怀歉意，那份善解人意，为她冷色调的性格添上了一笔浓浓的暖意。
一个演员，有了目标，有了自身的条件，又有了机会，还有冷静的头脑能自我审视，能从容面对鲜花和掌声，这个演员必成大器。时隔一年后的今天，再见张静初证实了我的这种预感。过去的一年对张静初来说是火爆过后的沉寂。眼前的她，经历了更多的历练，显得更沉静平和，更自信从容，顺着她娴静、坦率的声音，我们窥见了她的成名之路，看到了艳丽的雀屏背后的美丽与平淡。
爱画画的女孩
当年，她只是一个爱画画的女孩，就近考上了福建厦门艺术师范学校，那时她的理想是当一个小学美术老师。
“师范毕业后那时想考美院，但后来发现自己专业比别人差得远，因为师范学校的美术课像万金油，什么都学，没那么专。所以真要考美院的话，估计还得补课两年，这对我来说有点太严峻了。”于是张静初想到了和美术有关的学校，后来“中戏”开始招生了，第一个招考的就是导演系，张静初决定试试，说是“权当练兵”。
请了一位导演系的老教授辅导20天，张静初走上了考场。她不慌不忙，要讲故事就讲，问专业知识就答，一路过关斩将，竟轻轻松松拿下了三试。“既然考上，我肯定是适合学这个专业，走上这条路，以后得更加努力。”当年的张静初这样想着。
学导演的演员
自认为自己不漂亮，从来没有想去做表演，可偏偏在读导演系时常常被请去当演员。这是发生在张静初身上挺戏剧化的事。她在电视剧《你的生命如此多情》《蟋蟀大师》《不回家的男人》《英雄》《秦始皇》《三少爷的剑》所饰演的都不是主角，张静初却乐此不疲。几年的“中戏”生活使她改变了表演与自己无关的想法，导演系的课程中本来就有表演课，特别是一场毕业大戏，更是激发了她骨子里的表演欲望：“那是话剧《夕鹤》，是一个日本很有名的神话故事，它被改成过歌剧，讲的是一个农民救了一只受伤的仙鹤，仙鹤就变成一个女孩来报恩，但后来却演化成一个悲剧。我就是演那个悲剧的女主角。”张静初的声音变得快乐起来。张静初演《夕鹤》感觉到一种释放自己的快感。这个戏让她发现了自己其实是很爱演戏的，而且是个很有爆发力的演员。“之前我一直以为我比较害羞，比较内向，其实我在一个角色里是可以完全释放的，这点我自己也没想到。”
中戏毕业后，表演的机会不断找上门来。“很多人找我让我拍这个拍那个。不过我把这些演出都视为‘客串’，所以心理上没有任何压力。”
为“姐姐”而战
“那你认为你现在是个职业演员吗?”
“《孔雀》以后是。”
一部《孔雀》，让张静初放下了她所有的矜持和清高。在她的日记中写道：一点退路也没给自己留，什么面子、尊严都不讲究了！
“有这么严重吗?”
“我是个外表看上去好像挺随和的人，但其实我骨子里是个很倔、自尊心很强的人。我不喜欢被人挑来挑去，以前做演员就不太愿去面试，我也因为这个失去很多次机会。即使去面试，如果发现有很多跟我一样的人被安排在一起见面的话，我会掉头就走。我觉得这是对我的不尊重，我觉得哪怕是要挑选的话也应该安排单独面谈，做一个私人的深入的聊天，像黄瓜西红柿一样地被人挑来挑去我是不能接受的。不过这种心理在看到《孔雀》剧本的时候就完全没有了，就觉得竞争其实是非常幸福的，当时我就豁出去了。”
为了得到“姐姐”这角色，张静初几乎是经历一场脱胎换骨的蜕变。她学会了疯狂的争取。她和众多的“姐姐”一起学河南话练手风琴打兵乓球……。“每天早上7点起床，9点钟去学手风琴到12点半，1点钟到剧组学一小时方言，下午打乒乓球， 6点回到剧组吃饭，再学语言学到晚上8点半或者9点，然后回家，每天都是这样。回忆这段日子，她觉得很充实很陶醉。“两个月我一直在一点一点地进入姐姐这个角色。我是挺能理解姐姐的，我自己也是一个挺爱幻想的人，我想要什么样的生活得不到，那我就会比较痛苦，所以我比较理解姐姐。”
在《孔雀》中，“姐姐”有两个让观众震撼的镜头：“姐姐”为了向果子要回降落伞，在小树林里忽然脱下自己的裤子……“姐姐”离婚之后，和弟弟在街头选西红柿，忽然遇到她心中最爱慕的那个军官，他已经变成了一个很市井的男人，她侧着脸无声地哭了。张静初说这也是她最喜爱的两个镜头。
“小树林那场戏，挺佩服你的勇气的，拍摄前有心理障碍吗?”
“一开始没说要全脱的，虽然剧本里写的是要全脱，但当时还是希望能保留一个分寸。所以拍这场戏的头一天我一直在试各种颜色的小裤衩，粉的、白的、大一点的、小一点的，但那天拍时，导演、编剧都问我能不能全脱，他们自己保证不穿帮，因为衣服很长，完全可以遮住的。其实我一开始就有预感，最后会全脱掉。如果不脱就根本没有那个力量!留一条裤衩什么意思啊?!当时也拍了好几条有裤衩的，导演还是觉得什么颜色的裤衩都不行，都没有全脱掉更好。我觉得其实恰恰是一脱完之后就显得‘姐姐’更圣洁，有一种让人心疼的感觉。”
许多人说张静初演姐姐是在演自己，她俩太像了。但她自己看得很客观：“我觉得挺能理解‘姐姐’的，我自己也是一个挺爱幻想的人。但在生活里，我还是比较随和比较开朗，‘姐姐’她更理想主义，有的时候完全不考虑别人的想法，而我很在乎别人的说法和看法，活得没她那样放得开。”
自己选择的“芳香之旅”
“去年采访你时，你正在《芳香之旅》片场，忙得不可开交。如今影片已经上映了，你自己看了吗?感觉如何?”
“这应该是最能代表我演技的作品。”
《芳香之旅》讲述了上个世纪60年代，情窦初开的售票员春芬与长途车上的男子刘奋斗相爱，但命运却安排她嫁给了公交车司机老崔(范伟饰)。当春芬决定离开这段无爱无性的婚姻，重新寻找过去的爱情时，老崔却意外地变成了植物人……片中，张静初饰演的春芬对生活充满憧憬，但随着初恋情人的背叛和时代的变迁，她的青春也渐渐逝去。寂寥一生之后，春芬最后释然：每一个年代、每一段经历的情感，都是令人感慨万千的“芳香之旅”。
张静初说《芳香之旅》让她过足戏瘾： “第一次看到剧本的时候，我就被这个角色吸引住了。但当时还有些担心，因为自己从来没有演过那么大年纪的妇女，怕演出来会很假。不过试妆后，我发现效果还不错，而且导演一直鼓励我，我也豁出去了。”同样是发生在上世纪70年代的故事，但春芬和《孔雀》中的姐姐性格完全不一样：“如果这个角色也同样能得到大家的认可，那就是我的成功了!”
“这个人物你从17岁演到60岁，当时有压力吗?”
“这对我来说是表演上的一个挑战。开始导演是想再找个演员来演老年春芬的。但当我的老年造型出来，他都认不出我来了。”
在拍老年戏的时候，张静初每天早晨四五点起床化3小时妆，忍受贴眼袋、画老年斑、雀斑、下拉眼皮等“酷刑”，最后再套上大棉袄。“为这个妆每次都要花3个小时，每一条皱纹、血丝都是一笔一笔画的，就算是很近的特写镜头都还是很真实，所以对皮肤的伤害当然很大，因为那些画皱纹的笔质量又不太好，一些皱纹画好后都弄不下去了，我每次卸妆后就要用大量的眼贴膜、面膜。化好老年妆后，对着镜子看到自己变老还真有点害怕。记得一次做好这个老年造型的时候，导演走进化妆间老半天都不理我，后来我叫他，他却吓了一大跳，立即很心酸地感叹一个女人怎么就变成这样了。到后来看片的时候，我觉得拍摄两个半月的戏就走完了一个女人的一生，人的生命历程真的是太短了，比这两个半月也长不了多少。”从17岁演到60岁，太难了，但却是张静初表演的一个高峰。
拍完了《芳香之旅》，张静初接演了一部国际性的大制作《玉战士》。《玉战士》是根据芬兰民族史诗改编的魔幻电影，由中国、芬兰、法国共同投资，芬兰导演执导。张静初担任这部电影的女主角，这是张静初第一次出演武打女角色，她主动提出所有动作场面全部亲自上阵：“演武打戏对我来说是一次挑战，虽然过程中辛苦了一些，不过借机改变一下戏路，对今后扮演各种角色肯定会有启发。”
从《孔雀》到小成本的艺术电影《花腰新娘》《芳香之旅》、大卡司大制作的《七剑》、国际制作《玉战士》，张静初的选择透出了她的志向和智慧。
灿烂后的余音
因为《孔雀》获奖，张静初穿一身色彩斑斓的华贵礼服在柏林电影节的红地毯上亮相，整体造型宛如一只美丽的中国孔雀开屏，艳惊全场。
因为《七剑》，张静初再次在国际性场合——威尼斯电影节上绽放她的美丽。
在美国新闻杂志《时代》举办的“亚洲英雄”的盛大颁奖礼上，张静初成为获得“亚洲英雄”称号的首位中国女演员。在国内，张静初更是拿奖拿到手软：华表奖优秀新人女演员、上海影评人奖最佳女演员……张静初如一只孔雀，在一瞬间灿烂开屏后，她的美丽已辐射到海外、国际。
“成名的感觉如何？”
也许这样的问题已面对得太多，张静初显得从容淡定：“没什么特别的感觉，可能就是媒体的采访多了，还有就是一遍一遍问这样的问题，其实我还是像以前一样就对了。反正还是把更多的精力放在演戏上吧，其实我演的也都是社会上特别普通的人。除了必要的比如说是电影节啊，做一些必要的宣传之外，我其实还是要做我自己，做一个最普通的人，这样才比较有可能在电影中把角色处理得好，创作才会比较扎实。”不过她不否认《孔雀》给她带来的巨大变化：“演了《孔雀》以后，我的命运突然出现了急转弯，是这部电影让我立志做一名好演员。”
Starlight
Woman of Quiet Beauty
By Sun Qing
The first time I interviewed Zhang Jingchu, a film star on the rapid rise, I became aware that serenity was the right word to describe her youthful beauty.It was last year shortly after Peacock, in which Zhang starred as the heroine, won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her fame came about overnight and her name appeared in the media across the vast country. When I sent her a short message by mobile phone, asking for an interview, she almost immediately called back saying that she might as well start the interview then and there because she just had some time before her next film in Yunnan.
On the phone, she sounded low-keyed.By no means was she eager to publicize her name and fame. When we talked face to face, I was more impressed. When the talk was interrupted because of her work, she was always apologetic, which added a touch of warmth to her seeming aloofness. I could not help but believe that the young film actress would be bound to bloom into a film star because of her good looks, level headedness, modesty, artistry, and the way she faced applauses and flowers, let alone the opportunities now coming her way.
I recently met her again, almost one year after our first interview. She was still low-profile, confident, quiet, and candid.
Her childhood was characterized by her dream of becoming a teacher of art at a primary school. To realize this dream, she enrolled herself into Xiamen Normal School for Art Teachers. After graduation from the school, she wanted to further her career at an academy of fine arts, but she found that what she had learned at the school was inadequate. Then she began to think about colleges that had something to do with arts. When the Central Academy of Drama came to enroll students, she signed up. After a 20-day private crash course, she went to the entrance examinations. She passed and was enrolled into the department of directing. She thought to herself that she must be fit for the profession since she had sailed through the examinations with unexpected ease.
She never thought she was pretty. Nor did it ever occur to her that she would like acting. But while in college, she appeared in six television series. It was the acting experiences and her college studies that changed her view of her potentialities as an actress. She found she had a passion for acting and she had the ability to let herself go totally into the roles she played. After graduation, she had more opportunities to act. She regarded her roles as extras, so she did not feel pressured.
In my interview, Zhang described how she changed because of Peacock. “I look like an amicable person. But in my heart I am stubborn and I have a strong sense of self-respect. I didn’t like to be one of the numerous candidates to be examined closely, discarded or picked. I didn’t like audition either. For this stubbornness I lost a lot of opportunities. On some occasions when I did go to an audition, I would quit when I saw many candidates waiting there for a group interview. I thought it was an insult. I thought an interview should be private and it should never be arranged like a vegetable market. But I seemed to experience a through going change after I read the script of Peacock. I began to feel that competition meant happiness. I went all out for the role of the elder sister in the movie.”
Many competed to be the elder sister. They went through a tough selection process. All of the candidates would get up at 7 in the morning. They would learn how to play the accordion from 9 to 12:30. At one o’clock, they would gather to learn the Henan dialect. And then in the afternoon, they would learn to play table tennis. Then they would have dinner at 6 pm. In the evening they attended a language class till 9. The routine lasted for two months. They tried to remold themselves after the elder sister. For Zhang, the training was a process of complete metamorphosis. She was the winner of the fierce competition. Her brilliant acting helped the film win the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Since Peacock, Zhang Jingchu has become a full-time actress. Since 2005, she has appeared in several important films such as Seven Swords. And she will soon appear in Jade Warrior, an international action film to be directed by A. J. Annila this year.
She dazed the audience at Berlin’s prize-awarding ceremony. She appeared at the Venice Film Festival because of Seven Swords.
In the interview, I asked how she felt about her fame and public attention. She was characteristically serene. “I don’t feel hugely excited. Probably it is because I have experienced so many press conferences. Similar questions come to me and I answer in the same way. I focus on my acting career. As a matter of fact, the roles I have interpreted are ordinary people. Promotions are full of fanfare. They are inevitable and necessary. I haven’t changed. I am still a woman living an ordinary life. That’s how I can handle my roles satisfactorily and how my passion for role creation can bear solid fruit.”
But she affirms the tremendous change Peacock has brought to her life. She says, “After Peacock, there occurred a sharp turning in my life. It is this film that built up my resolution to be a good actress.”
(Translated by David)
去年第一次采访时，正值《孔雀》得奖归来，作为女主角的张静初一夜走红，几乎每天都能在各种媒体上看到她的新闻。但当我给她手机发了一条要求采访的短信，几乎是立刻接到了她的电话，她说她正在云南拍《芳香之旅》，现在正好有空，要不现在就开始吧。没有一丝的故作矜持和矫情，电话中的张静初淡淡的、静静的，不张扬，不做作，言语中透着坦然、冷静、谨慎，当她常常因为工作而中断我们的谈话时，总是满怀歉意，那份善解人意，为她冷色调的性格添上了一笔浓浓的暖意。
一个演员，有了目标，有了自身的条件，又有了机会，还有冷静的头脑能自我审视，能从容面对鲜花和掌声，这个演员必成大器。时隔一年后的今天，再见张静初证实了我的这种预感。过去的一年对张静初来说是火爆过后的沉寂。眼前的她，经历了更多的历练，显得更沉静平和，更自信从容，顺着她娴静、坦率的声音，我们窥见了她的成名之路，看到了艳丽的雀屏背后的美丽与平淡。
爱画画的女孩
当年，她只是一个爱画画的女孩，就近考上了福建厦门艺术师范学校，那时她的理想是当一个小学美术老师。
“师范毕业后那时想考美院，但后来发现自己专业比别人差得远，因为师范学校的美术课像万金油，什么都学，没那么专。所以真要考美院的话，估计还得补课两年，这对我来说有点太严峻了。”于是张静初想到了和美术有关的学校，后来“中戏”开始招生了，第一个招考的就是导演系，张静初决定试试，说是“权当练兵”。
请了一位导演系的老教授辅导20天，张静初走上了考场。她不慌不忙，要讲故事就讲，问专业知识就答，一路过关斩将，竟轻轻松松拿下了三试。“既然考上，我肯定是适合学这个专业，走上这条路，以后得更加努力。”当年的张静初这样想着。
学导演的演员
自认为自己不漂亮，从来没有想去做表演，可偏偏在读导演系时常常被请去当演员。这是发生在张静初身上挺戏剧化的事。她在电视剧《你的生命如此多情》《蟋蟀大师》《不回家的男人》《英雄》《秦始皇》《三少爷的剑》所饰演的都不是主角，张静初却乐此不疲。几年的“中戏”生活使她改变了表演与自己无关的想法，导演系的课程中本来就有表演课，特别是一场毕业大戏，更是激发了她骨子里的表演欲望：“那是话剧《夕鹤》，是一个日本很有名的神话故事，它被改成过歌剧，讲的是一个农民救了一只受伤的仙鹤，仙鹤就变成一个女孩来报恩，但后来却演化成一个悲剧。我就是演那个悲剧的女主角。”张静初的声音变得快乐起来。张静初演《夕鹤》感觉到一种释放自己的快感。这个戏让她发现了自己其实是很爱演戏的，而且是个很有爆发力的演员。“之前我一直以为我比较害羞，比较内向，其实我在一个角色里是可以完全释放的，这点我自己也没想到。”
中戏毕业后，表演的机会不断找上门来。“很多人找我让我拍这个拍那个。不过我把这些演出都视为‘客串’，所以心理上没有任何压力。”
为“姐姐”而战
“那你认为你现在是个职业演员吗?”
“《孔雀》以后是。”
一部《孔雀》，让张静初放下了她所有的矜持和清高。在她的日记中写道：一点退路也没给自己留，什么面子、尊严都不讲究了！
“有这么严重吗?”
“我是个外表看上去好像挺随和的人，但其实我骨子里是个很倔、自尊心很强的人。我不喜欢被人挑来挑去，以前做演员就不太愿去面试，我也因为这个失去很多次机会。即使去面试，如果发现有很多跟我一样的人被安排在一起见面的话，我会掉头就走。我觉得这是对我的不尊重，我觉得哪怕是要挑选的话也应该安排单独面谈，做一个私人的深入的聊天，像黄瓜西红柿一样地被人挑来挑去我是不能接受的。不过这种心理在看到《孔雀》剧本的时候就完全没有了，就觉得竞争其实是非常幸福的，当时我就豁出去了。”
为了得到“姐姐”这角色，张静初几乎是经历一场脱胎换骨的蜕变。她学会了疯狂的争取。她和众多的“姐姐”一起学河南话练手风琴打兵乓球……。“每天早上7点起床，9点钟去学手风琴到12点半，1点钟到剧组学一小时方言，下午打乒乓球， 6点回到剧组吃饭，再学语言学到晚上8点半或者9点，然后回家，每天都是这样。回忆这段日子，她觉得很充实很陶醉。“两个月我一直在一点一点地进入姐姐这个角色。我是挺能理解姐姐的，我自己也是一个挺爱幻想的人，我想要什么样的生活得不到，那我就会比较痛苦，所以我比较理解姐姐。”
在《孔雀》中，“姐姐”有两个让观众震撼的镜头：“姐姐”为了向果子要回降落伞，在小树林里忽然脱下自己的裤子……“姐姐”离婚之后，和弟弟在街头选西红柿，忽然遇到她心中最爱慕的那个军官，他已经变成了一个很市井的男人，她侧着脸无声地哭了。张静初说这也是她最喜爱的两个镜头。
“小树林那场戏，挺佩服你的勇气的，拍摄前有心理障碍吗?”
“一开始没说要全脱的，虽然剧本里写的是要全脱，但当时还是希望能保留一个分寸。所以拍这场戏的头一天我一直在试各种颜色的小裤衩，粉的、白的、大一点的、小一点的，但那天拍时，导演、编剧都问我能不能全脱，他们自己保证不穿帮，因为衣服很长，完全可以遮住的。其实我一开始就有预感，最后会全脱掉。如果不脱就根本没有那个力量!留一条裤衩什么意思啊?!当时也拍了好几条有裤衩的，导演还是觉得什么颜色的裤衩都不行，都没有全脱掉更好。我觉得其实恰恰是一脱完之后就显得‘姐姐’更圣洁，有一种让人心疼的感觉。”
许多人说张静初演姐姐是在演自己，她俩太像了。但她自己看得很客观：“我觉得挺能理解‘姐姐’的，我自己也是一个挺爱幻想的人。但在生活里，我还是比较随和比较开朗，‘姐姐’她更理想主义，有的时候完全不考虑别人的想法，而我很在乎别人的说法和看法，活得没她那样放得开。”
自己选择的“芳香之旅”
“去年采访你时，你正在《芳香之旅》片场，忙得不可开交。如今影片已经上映了，你自己看了吗?感觉如何?”
“这应该是最能代表我演技的作品。”
《芳香之旅》讲述了上个世纪60年代，情窦初开的售票员春芬与长途车上的男子刘奋斗相爱，但命运却安排她嫁给了公交车司机老崔(范伟饰)。当春芬决定离开这段无爱无性的婚姻，重新寻找过去的爱情时，老崔却意外地变成了植物人……片中，张静初饰演的春芬对生活充满憧憬，但随着初恋情人的背叛和时代的变迁，她的青春也渐渐逝去。寂寥一生之后，春芬最后释然：每一个年代、每一段经历的情感，都是令人感慨万千的“芳香之旅”。
张静初说《芳香之旅》让她过足戏瘾： “第一次看到剧本的时候，我就被这个角色吸引住了。但当时还有些担心，因为自己从来没有演过那么大年纪的妇女，怕演出来会很假。不过试妆后，我发现效果还不错，而且导演一直鼓励我，我也豁出去了。”同样是发生在上世纪70年代的故事，但春芬和《孔雀》中的姐姐性格完全不一样：“如果这个角色也同样能得到大家的认可，那就是我的成功了!”
“这个人物你从17岁演到60岁，当时有压力吗?”
“这对我来说是表演上的一个挑战。开始导演是想再找个演员来演老年春芬的。但当我的老年造型出来，他都认不出我来了。”
在拍老年戏的时候，张静初每天早晨四五点起床化3小时妆，忍受贴眼袋、画老年斑、雀斑、下拉眼皮等“酷刑”，最后再套上大棉袄。“为这个妆每次都要花3个小时，每一条皱纹、血丝都是一笔一笔画的，就算是很近的特写镜头都还是很真实，所以对皮肤的伤害当然很大，因为那些画皱纹的笔质量又不太好，一些皱纹画好后都弄不下去了，我每次卸妆后就要用大量的眼贴膜、面膜。化好老年妆后，对着镜子看到自己变老还真有点害怕。记得一次做好这个老年造型的时候，导演走进化妆间老半天都不理我，后来我叫他，他却吓了一大跳，立即很心酸地感叹一个女人怎么就变成这样了。到后来看片的时候，我觉得拍摄两个半月的戏就走完了一个女人的一生，人的生命历程真的是太短了，比这两个半月也长不了多少。”从17岁演到60岁，太难了，但却是张静初表演的一个高峰。
拍完了《芳香之旅》，张静初接演了一部国际性的大制作《玉战士》。《玉战士》是根据芬兰民族史诗改编的魔幻电影，由中国、芬兰、法国共同投资，芬兰导演执导。张静初担任这部电影的女主角，这是张静初第一次出演武打女角色，她主动提出所有动作场面全部亲自上阵：“演武打戏对我来说是一次挑战，虽然过程中辛苦了一些，不过借机改变一下戏路，对今后扮演各种角色肯定会有启发。”
从《孔雀》到小成本的艺术电影《花腰新娘》《芳香之旅》、大卡司大制作的《七剑》、国际制作《玉战士》，张静初的选择透出了她的志向和智慧。
灿烂后的余音
因为《孔雀》获奖，张静初穿一身色彩斑斓的华贵礼服在柏林电影节的红地毯上亮相，整体造型宛如一只美丽的中国孔雀开屏，艳惊全场。
因为《七剑》，张静初再次在国际性场合——威尼斯电影节上绽放她的美丽。
在美国新闻杂志《时代》举办的“亚洲英雄”的盛大颁奖礼上，张静初成为获得“亚洲英雄”称号的首位中国女演员。在国内，张静初更是拿奖拿到手软：华表奖优秀新人女演员、上海影评人奖最佳女演员……张静初如一只孔雀，在一瞬间灿烂开屏后，她的美丽已辐射到海外、国际。
“成名的感觉如何？”
也许这样的问题已面对得太多，张静初显得从容淡定：“没什么特别的感觉，可能就是媒体的采访多了，还有就是一遍一遍问这样的问题，其实我还是像以前一样就对了。反正还是把更多的精力放在演戏上吧，其实我演的也都是社会上特别普通的人。除了必要的比如说是电影节啊，做一些必要的宣传之外，我其实还是要做我自己，做一个最普通的人，这样才比较有可能在电影中把角色处理得好，创作才会比较扎实。”不过她不否认《孔雀》给她带来的巨大变化：“演了《孔雀》以后，我的命运突然出现了急转弯，是这部电影让我立志做一名好演员。”
Starlight
Woman of Quiet Beauty
By Sun Qing
The first time I interviewed Zhang Jingchu, a film star on the rapid rise, I became aware that serenity was the right word to describe her youthful beauty.It was last year shortly after Peacock, in which Zhang starred as the heroine, won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her fame came about overnight and her name appeared in the media across the vast country. When I sent her a short message by mobile phone, asking for an interview, she almost immediately called back saying that she might as well start the interview then and there because she just had some time before her next film in Yunnan.
On the phone, she sounded low-keyed.By no means was she eager to publicize her name and fame. When we talked face to face, I was more impressed. When the talk was interrupted because of her work, she was always apologetic, which added a touch of warmth to her seeming aloofness. I could not help but believe that the young film actress would be bound to bloom into a film star because of her good looks, level headedness, modesty, artistry, and the way she faced applauses and flowers, let alone the opportunities now coming her way.
I recently met her again, almost one year after our first interview. She was still low-profile, confident, quiet, and candid.
Her childhood was characterized by her dream of becoming a teacher of art at a primary school. To realize this dream, she enrolled herself into Xiamen Normal School for Art Teachers. After graduation from the school, she wanted to further her career at an academy of fine arts, but she found that what she had learned at the school was inadequate. Then she began to think about colleges that had something to do with arts. When the Central Academy of Drama came to enroll students, she signed up. After a 20-day private crash course, she went to the entrance examinations. She passed and was enrolled into the department of directing. She thought to herself that she must be fit for the profession since she had sailed through the examinations with unexpected ease.
She never thought she was pretty. Nor did it ever occur to her that she would like acting. But while in college, she appeared in six television series. It was the acting experiences and her college studies that changed her view of her potentialities as an actress. She found she had a passion for acting and she had the ability to let herself go totally into the roles she played. After graduation, she had more opportunities to act. She regarded her roles as extras, so she did not feel pressured.
In my interview, Zhang described how she changed because of Peacock. “I look like an amicable person. But in my heart I am stubborn and I have a strong sense of self-respect. I didn’t like to be one of the numerous candidates to be examined closely, discarded or picked. I didn’t like audition either. For this stubbornness I lost a lot of opportunities. On some occasions when I did go to an audition, I would quit when I saw many candidates waiting there for a group interview. I thought it was an insult. I thought an interview should be private and it should never be arranged like a vegetable market. But I seemed to experience a through going change after I read the script of Peacock. I began to feel that competition meant happiness. I went all out for the role of the elder sister in the movie.”
Many competed to be the elder sister. They went through a tough selection process. All of the candidates would get up at 7 in the morning. They would learn how to play the accordion from 9 to 12:30. At one o’clock, they would gather to learn the Henan dialect. And then in the afternoon, they would learn to play table tennis. Then they would have dinner at 6 pm. In the evening they attended a language class till 9. The routine lasted for two months. They tried to remold themselves after the elder sister. For Zhang, the training was a process of complete metamorphosis. She was the winner of the fierce competition. Her brilliant acting helped the film win the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Since Peacock, Zhang Jingchu has become a full-time actress. Since 2005, she has appeared in several important films such as Seven Swords. And she will soon appear in Jade Warrior, an international action film to be directed by A. J. Annila this year.
She dazed the audience at Berlin’s prize-awarding ceremony. She appeared at the Venice Film Festival because of Seven Swords.
In the interview, I asked how she felt about her fame and public attention. She was characteristically serene. “I don’t feel hugely excited. Probably it is because I have experienced so many press conferences. Similar questions come to me and I answer in the same way. I focus on my acting career. As a matter of fact, the roles I have interpreted are ordinary people. Promotions are full of fanfare. They are inevitable and necessary. I haven’t changed. I am still a woman living an ordinary life. That’s how I can handle my roles satisfactorily and how my passion for role creation can bear solid fruit.”
But she affirms the tremendous change Peacock has brought to her life. She says, “After Peacock, there occurred a sharp turning in my life. It is this film that built up my resolution to be a good actress.”
(Translated by David)