People's Artist Trung Anh, U70, seeks newness in his career with the horror genre

People's Artist Trung Anh decided to play a scheming, calculating role in the historical horror film "The Bride Contract" because he always wanted to explore, learn, and experience new roles.

People's Artist Trung Anh tries his hand at a villain role. (Photo: Producer)

"The Strawberry Contract" was released last weekend and by September 15 had grossed 10.2 billion VND. The film revolves around the tragedy of a wealthy, powerful family that made a deal with the devil.

People's Artist Trung Anh plays Mr. Tri - the head of the Vu family, with bottomless greed and willing to sacrifice his children for wealth and prosperity.

The veteran artist shared that he accepted the role because he wanted to challenge himself with a new acting style, just like he did before with the role of a gangster in “The Judge,” a father who lost his wife in “Come Home, My Child,” or in “Battle of Minds” as an honest police officer.

“I don’t want to portray Mr. Tri as a mere villain, but as someone corrupted by power and family tradition. I also want to test myself to see if I can play this role, because no matter how old I am, when I first made this film, I was still an apprentice,” the artist shared.

On the set, People's Artist Trung Anh appeared cold. He rarely interacted with young actors like Huu Vi and Lanh Thanh, who played his sons, in order to play his roles more convincingly.

The artist had to wear fake nails throughout the entire film to play the role of a shaman using spells. (Photo: Producer)

“There is a reason for this,” the actor explained. “The distance between my character and the children is an inhuman distance. Because it is like that in the movie, in real life I want to keep a distance so that you can have that real feeling when acting.”

People's Artist Trung Anh's role is a supporting character. His screen time is not much, but he is the source of all disasters in the family.

"The Contract to Sell Strawberry" is directed by Le Van Kiet, the script was adapted by Bui Kim Quy from the novel of the same name by writer Thuc Linh.

The film revolves around Jasmine (Lam Thanh My), the new daughter-in-law of Mr. Tri's Vu family. She is considered a tool to give birth, with the requirement to give birth to a son for the family after many previous daughters-in-law have failed.

The more supernatural phenomena she sees in the Vu family, the deeper Nhai gets into the family's dark, evil plot.

In addition to People's Artist Trung Anh and Lam Thanh My, "The Contract to Sell Strawberry" also features People's Artist Minh Chau, young actors Lanh Thanh, Nguyen Phuong Tra My and some screen newcomers such as Huu Vi and Tuyet Anh.

The film has many body horror details and is considered well-rounded, neat and beautiful, but does not have many marks and highlights compared to previous Vietnamese works of the same genre./.

People's Artist Trung Anh was born in 1961, from Ha Tinh . He acted in films since the late 1970s, starting with a number of revolutionary films such as " Hanoi in the season of birds making nests" (1978), "Red Ban Flower" (1994) or "Hanoi 12 Days and Nights" (2001)... Later, he participated in more television works, most famous for roles such as "House with many windows" (2008), "Criminal police: The judge" (2017) or the role of the national father in "Come home, my child" (2019).

Currently, People's Artist Trung Anh is also a guest lecturer at the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema, supporting and guiding many young students on their path to becoming professional actors.

(Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/nsnd-trung-anh-u70-tim-kiem-su-moi-me-trong-su-nghiep-voi-dong-kinh-di-post1061906.vnp