Thanh Son's fear and the cast of 'Brain Battle'

The film Dau Tri, currently airing on VTV1, has attracted the attention and following of the audience because the film explores major economic, corruption, and smuggling cases that are real in society. The Dau Tri script is long pages with dialogues dense with specialized and in-depth economic investigation language, requiring the actors' acting and dialogue to be standard and professional.

Therefore, memorizing lines and rarely used languages ​​is a big fear and challenge for the cast.

Thanh Son (Captain Vu) and Xuan Phuc (Captain Phong) in an interrogation scene in the movie "Brain Battle". Photo: VTV

Playing the role of an economic police officer for the first time, actor Thanh Son had the opportunity to refresh himself with unforgettable experiences. In the VTV Connect program, Thanh Son shared that what attracted him most to Dau Tri was the difficulty of the role. When accepting this role, Thanh Son thought that if he played a police officer, the thing he feared most was being stereotyped, framed and rigid.

Thanh Son shared: "Son is a very confident person in his ability to learn dialogue until the movie "Dau Tri" was a real challenge because the dialogue has specialized words that I rarely use in everyday life. Therefore, to remember the dialogue and be able to apply it, speak naturally and comfortably was quite difficult. After a while, when I got used to it and it became a habit, I didn't feel embarrassed anymore."

Actor Thanh Son shared that the biggest challenge for him when filming "Brain Battle" was the dialogue. Photo: VTV

With People's Artist Trung Anh,Mind gameThis is also the first film in his career in which he plays a police officer. Confirmed with PVPeople's IntelligencePeople's Artist Trung Anh said the biggest challenge for him when playing the role of Colonel Tran Giang was the dialogue.

The actor shared: "The dialogue is very long, with pages of specialized and in-depth words, so it is a bit dry and difficult to remember. When speaking, it requires precision and accuracy in each sentence and each word. In addition, because the film is about negative issues, many other serious crimes and the character I play appears in a rather sensitive story, so when expressing it, I have to be very focused and skillful.

Sometimes I also have to "fight with myself" to blend in with the character and bring out the most realistic image of a police officer that can be on film. How to have the right demeanor, but also be gentle and approachable so that the audience can feel the character."

Actress Anh Dao plays Lieutenant Phuong Linh, the only "beauty" in the police squad in the movie "Dau Tri". Playing the role of an economic police officer, the actress also could not "escape" suffering and experienced the most memorable "first times" in her acting career. The actress shared with Dan Tri: "My role has more dialogue than action, so when I read the script, I was startled by the very difficult technical terms, many of which I had never heard before. I have never had the feeling of finishing a scene and still mumbling the lines like when I played Lieutenant Phuong Linh. At first, I was always haunted, mumbling in my head about learning the lines. For me, that was also a challenge and a valuable experience."

The actress said that in the film, she and her colleagues had to act out many interrogation scenes in a 10m2 room, with no lights, no air conditioning, and no fans. The entire film crew had 10 people. "On cool days, it was fine, but on hot, humid days, everyone was sweating profusely and soaked," the actress said.

The actress told the story of her hardship when she first played a police officer, but it was also a memorable behind-the-scenes story: "Because I'm quite skinny, when I wear the uniform, I don't look presentable and it's a bit difficult. When I wear pants, I have to tie them up but they still don't fit my waist. After finishing the scene in Lao Cai, I was able to change my pants, but the color was different from my co-stars.

Then one day, in a hurry to get the costume, I mistakenly wore actor To Dung's pants because the pants were similar in shape.

Each person only had one police uniform, one pair of socks, and one pair of shoes. Filming continuously for many days in not-so-cool weather, we had to be very careful."

People's Artist Trung Anh plays Colonel Tran Giang. Photo: VTV

Actor Xuan Phuc (Captain Phong) also confided in PVPeople's Intelligencethe pain of filmingMind game:"The first time I played the role of a police officer, especially an economic police officer, I also encountered many difficulties and pressures because I did not have much knowledge and understanding of the economic police force. The next pressure was that the film was about extremely hot topics, which were receiving a lot of attention from the public and society. Therefore, I had to research, consult and listen to professional advice from my uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters in the industry to build and transform my role as best as possible.

The film's dialogues are mainly sentences and words related to the profession, so it requires 100% correct memorization, not even one word is allowed to be wrong, and if it is wrong, it must be re-shot. This is also a big challenge for me and other actors in the film.

In interrogation scenes, you must know the psychology of the criminal, how to observe and approach him so that he surrenders and confesses.

During the filming of the scenes of tracking down the smuggled goods warehouse, we had to film outdoors in the sun, stand on high hills or hide in the jungle to chase down criminals. Especially in the scenes of encircling a large crowd, all the actors had to coordinate very well with each other. With the harsh weather around the beginning of June, it was really hot and hard."