"It means that acting can't be a hundred percent restoration like shooting a documentary. It's actually the same principle, which a lot of people have said: acting is, after all, an art. Art is about processing and creating on the basis of life. Just now, you mentioned Nicole Kidman, Tony Leung; you see, no matter how they act, nobody would say their performances are fake or unlike real people. But then again, if you think about it, very few people in real life talk like the characters they portray. This contradiction is precisely the creation of acting. That's how I understand it. In the end, an actor is a character who uses a story to resonate with the audience. A hundred percent carbon copy of life is just a flat mirror, while acting is a distorting mirror, designed to show different spectators different reflections of themselves—what they aspire to, what they detest, all sorts."
Zhou Yun nodded.
