Tushan Jing & Ye Shiqi - Heal the world with kindness

The day before the YLF Season 2 was started, some KOLs on Weibo interviewed Deng Wei (Tushan Jing). His answers were very impressive. No wonder everyone said that Deng Wei understood the role of Tushan Jing well. He just loves this character so much.

（Attaching the Q&As below）

 Fiona_YOLO:

Q: For Jing in this season, which is harder, "loving others" or "loving yourself"?
A: I think loving yourself is the prerequisite for learning to love others, and loving others is to restrain the instinct to love yourself.

Interesting. I've always felt that Jing's development as a character in LYF is to learn to love himself - to accept all of himself and not feel the need to denigrate himself all the time. At the same time along his journey, he learns also to love others (namely Xiaoyao) without the fear of losing them or the feeling of insecurity (the contrast between the 15 year promise he has XY make in the earlier part of the story compared to ep 6 of S2 when he essentially accepts letting XY decide her fate).

Q: The second season of "Lost You Forever" is about to start airing, and netizens are saying that their white moonlight Tushan jing is coming back. How do you feel when you see that the character you play is so popular? In addition, in your opinion, what are the reasons why Tu Shanjing is so popular? 

A: Of course, I am very happy!!! [Hehe] I am very grateful for everyone's affirmation of me, which is a kind of encouragement. I think the most popular part is the characteristics of Tushan Jing. In addition to the ”hardware strengths“ as the richest man in the Great Wilderness world, he also has "software strengths" - he is gentle, firm, loyal, kind, tolerant and sweet.

Just as what's indicated with this thread title. Tushan Jing's core is kindness. This has never been changed. 

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Q: In your opinion, are there any differences of Tushan Jing in S2 vs. S1? Any changes in his mentality? Has your own mentality changed?

A: Tushan Jing's spiritual core is very stable. I feel that his mentality has not changed much, but you can still see Tushan Jing's different states in different environments. My own mentality has changed from ”being reluctant“ to ”being even more reluctant“ (to say goodbye to Tushan Jing).

A: What are the words that neither Tushan Jing nor Ye Shiqi would be able to say, and what do you want to say for him?
B: Go and watch LYF Season 2. Tushan Jing can say it better than me.

I think this question could be a trap and difficult to answer. But Deng Wei gave a very clever answer and smartly avoided it. Great job！

Q: During the filming, was there a moment when you felt sorry for Tushan Jing?
A: Many times. Sometimes it might not be because the script said that Tushan Jing should cry, but because I was in Tushan Jing's situation. I would unconsciously feel sorry for him and couldn't help crying.

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Deng Wei has a soft and kind heart just like Tushan Jing. As he mentioned in another interview,  strong empathy was the similarity between him and Tu Shanjing. He relies more on instinct when performing, immersively experiencing the character's joys and sorrows and responding, rather than stereotyped performance and thinking. This kind of performance is very harmful to the actor's body and mind, but the advantage is that it is easy to resonate with the audience and allow people to immerse themselves in the role.  I still remember a video clip of him in "Meeting the Dragon". After the director shouted "cut", he still couldn't stop crying. It was Deng Wei who was still crying after the CUT, not the character himself. 

The vomiting-blood and crying  scene ┭┮﹏┭┮ 

Check out the behind-the-scenes video (https://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:5054331620360236), he expressed his thoughts to the director, and then quickly got into the role: tried to control himself - eventually lost control and started vomiting blood - and after that, a tear fell... He got them all in one go. So brilliant. It's tragic yet beautiful. Sometimes I find it very interesting to watch Deng Wei's performance over and over again, especially observing his handling of details, such as the acting with his eyes, expressions, body movements and so on.