- Part 1 -

The Paper Interview LAY [ENG]

(at the set of Old Nine Gates) Zhang Yixing, wearing a white costume, gently shook his head, his eyes shining brightly, he foams with the spirit of youth, "Do you really think i acted well? Thank you!" After getting a little happy, he didn't forget reminding himself : "I'm someone who can accept criticism. Of course there are times when I delve into praise, but such a situation does not last more than a day and I'm not praising myself anymore." After saying this he blinked his eyes, showing his dimples.

Weird things happening at the set in the evening. Er Yue Hong (the character Lay's playing) and his wife are laying in bed together, having a romantic conversation. Just when they wanted to start filming, Zhang Yixing raised his hand and asked : "Director, do we have to sleep in the same bed?" The whole crew bursted out lauging but his face was expressionless, "My grandfather and grandmother sleep in seperate beds! One person sleeps in one bed, ah.." In the second scene, there was only him and there was another question : "Director, can you see my puppy (his handwarmer was a little puppy)?" The director shouted with a higher decibel with a Hong Kong accent "No we can't, hold it proberly!" 

That day the shooting of 21 scenes ended with a happy atmosphere and everyone finished work two hours earlier. His co-actors told the reporter : "Yixing is the most adorable person i've ever seen, he deserves his fans, amazing."

Zhang Yixing caught a cold when he arrived in Hengdian. As EXO's last chinese member, he has to fly a lot between Korea and China and his schedule is very busy until the middle of next year. The crew counts every program as one day, whenever he wants to ask for a day off the director grumps : "The schedule's really tight." EXO recently released their winter album and Zhang Yixing was really busy with his work and wasn't really seen in any music programs, as they spoke about this, he took a deep breath. Go Fighting will start filming the second season next year. 

His secretary said : "At the end of each shoot for the first season, you couldn't wake up the third day, even when you look at that you feel that it's very hard."

"When was the last time you took a break?" When Zhang Yixing heard this question he paused. "A break? No, how is this possible? I'm a man, i have to take the chance to work hard when i'm still young." He always tells his little secretary that life is very short, there are a lot of things that he wants to do but there's just so little time. He also believes in the horoscope "Libra's always want to maintain a balance in many things but my name is Lay (means 'tired' in chinese), so being tired is my destiny..."

"One day, my popularity will leave me", "I always think i have the mind of a 17 year old but the body of a 30 year old person." Those are sentences that he uses a lot. "He usually looks like he's full of a life but he tries to only pay attention to our feelings." said his secretary. Zhang Yixing is the leader type who doesn't look like a leader. He loves playing games for children like hide and seek and one time at the airport he even made his korean stylist panick. "He's afraid that one day we'll get sick of following him around."

But there are times where he can't stand all the weight on his shoulders. Everytime he cries during tv programs or award ceremonies, the tears are for his brothers.

"If i made a promise, i'll definetly do it."

Zhang Yixing has a stability to never-give-up : "I want to prove that Zhang Yixing is a three-dimensional person, even when other people think i'm only an idol, as long as i know that my goal is to be an artist, that's enough."

"Artists are like a picture : acting the tree, singing that river, and music that little helicopter bug. When all these things appear in my picture, you can see the whole world scene in this picture." In Zhang Yixing's own words, his way is the way he dug himself and being young is the greatest facilitiy.

 

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Notegirl99 #1
Chapter 1: Thanks authornim! I really appreciate you taking the effort to translate in into english! Thanks so much