Deng Chao： As a layman, I have gained a lot of wisdom from Buddhism
Back then, Deng Chao and Sun Li jointly built the "Sweet Commune" and danced the loyalty dance, how high-profile it was. But Sun Li recently refused to respond to Deng Chao’s scandal. Reporter, Wang Jianing, photo
Recently, scandals related to Deng Chao have been rampant. First, Lin Jiaxin, the heroine of "Love 2: Love Left and Right", and then An Yixuan of "New Yitian Dragon Slayer". It is even more widely rumored that he and Sun Li are on the verge of breaking up. The day before yesterday, Deng Chao came out of the Wudang Mountain studio of "New Yitian Dragon Slayer" and rushed to Beijing overnight to participate in the promotion of "Love Left and Right". It has been more than 20 hours without a break, but almost all the media pointed the problem to the breakup rumors, which put more pressure on the very tired Deng Chao.
The character of the movie "Love Left and Right" is like Wang Shuo
New Beijing News: It is said that your role in "Love Left and Right" is based on Wang Shuo’s appearance?
Deng Chao: Actually, I only found out about Wang Shuo later. At the beginning, I only knew that this character was a musician and a writer, with multiple identities, so I was ready to play him into a well-rounded person. After I took over the play, the screenwriter told me that there might be some indignation, similar to the shadow of Wang Shuo in it.
New Beijing News: This movie is about the story of 12 zodiac men. You play Gemini men, but which zodiac sign are you actually?
Deng Chao: I’m an Aquarius, and people around me often say that I’m a very standard Aquarius at some times. But I’m blood type A, and they say that type A and Aquarius are very contradictory. I actually don’t quite understand what’s going on with the zodiac sign. What are the characteristics of Aquarius according to the standard?
New Beijing News: For example, you will be more independent, and you will be more rebellious than other children when you are a teenager.
Deng Chao: I am very independent-minded and will not be influenced by the outside world. I have always believed that people should be equal. This is quite Aquarius. When I was very young, I was very obedient. When I was in junior high school, I started to rebel and find various ways to rebel. But now that I think about it, I was just proving something at that time, and I was quite ignorant a lot of the time. Now I think it would be better to do more than talk.
Gossip, I’m already immune to these things
New Beijing News: Recently, you and Lin Jiaxin and An Yixuan have been rumored to have affairs.
Deng Chao: Since I was a child, my relationship with men and women has been very good, and it has something to do with my own personality. I am a person who doesn’t like to put pressure on others and likes to bring happiness to others. My work environment is very popular. But those scandals, I have long been immune to these things and will not take them seriously.
New Beijing News: Do you read news about yourself online?
Deng Chao: I don’t even have to go online, and I listen to people around me tell me these news. But I don’t think those things will be called "negative", I just think some people with bad intentions like to plan these things. I won’t take it seriously, and I won’t play with them.
New Beijing News: What kind of news would you not tolerate?
Deng Chao: I don’t think there’s anything I can’t stand, but I’ve always been unable to understand the atmosphere of the entertainment industry. I just think it’s good for everyone to do their own thing. Why should there be a circle? Why should the atmosphere of this circle be so bad? If the bottom line is more concrete, I can’t say it. I just feel that my immunity is getting stronger and stronger.
New Beijing News: If you and other actresses spread those unreliable scandals, will you joke about these things with Sun Li in private?
Deng Chao: I won’t tell anyone about this.
New Beijing News: You and Sun Li used to be very high-profile and often appeared together, but now why are you suddenly silent again?
Deng Chao: I found that when you are kind to others, others are often very unkind to you. I will find that my words often form all kinds of different things, even completely different versions from what I have said before, so I can only control myself not to say it, just like an ordinary person treats his personal life.
New Beijing News: But when you talked a lot at that time, didn’t you be wary of others?
Deng Chao: At that time, I would think that I was not a person in the so-called entertainment industry. I just liked to perform, and then someone appeared, and they worked tirelessly to take pictures of us, as if we had to come out and say we were in love. Then I found that there were a lot of blessings, and there were a lot of other things that came out, and there were a lot of people with a lot of purposes. I was on a TV show just now, and Lin Jiaxin was there. I thought she should be embarrassed, so I took the initiative to say, "Can we talk about movies?"
The environment, the entertainment industry, gives people temptation and disaster
New Beijing News: What’s the change between your current personality and when you first became a mass star? Will you be more sensitive? Or more slick?
Deng Chao: (Thinking for a moment) I think we are always destroying something, giving inexplicable temptations and great disasters to those who have not stepped into the entertainment industry, including the current society.
New Beijing News: Are you saying that fame, wealth, and personal life have been overblown?
Deng Chao: (Continue to think for a moment) The last time I watched Bai Yansong’s show on Lu Yu, he said that a public figure can become the backbone of the nation in a short time in the public eye, or he can suddenly become a traitor, so you must learn to "close the door". After closing the door, everything outside has nothing to do with you. I always felt this way before, but I didn’t find a good word. That day, I suddenly felt that Bai Yansong’s word "closed the door" was particularly good. What I do is just my job, and it is because I love performing. Performing can bring happiness to myself, bring some longing or thoughtfulness to the audience, and express life in all kinds of ways. I don’t want to think about issues other than work. But I slowly feel different, but these things should also be what we should foresee, it’s just a Vanity Fair.
New Beijing News: What you think now will be more inward-looking?
Deng Chao: I think what people think should point to the heart, but I believe everyone thinks differently in every period, but I hope I can walk more smoothly. I have been giving myself such hints. But there will be times when I don’t care about my own emotions and those of my loved ones, but I will take care of my family. They have no obligation to suffer from external things. They shouldn’t have this immunity. They are not us. Just let them live a "9 to 5" life.
New Beijing News: Do you usually read any books on philosophy?
Deng Chao: Of course, I believe in Buddhism and am a layman. Buddhism is wisdom, and I can get a lot of wisdom from it. But these things are quite contradictory to the industry I am in. But what I want to be is such a person, I will choose to stay away from bad things.
Writing/Our reporter, Kang Pei
Editor in charge: Sun Jie