"Actually, it was nothing. Lately, I'd been trying not to sleep much at night."
To portray Fang better, Lu Heng had done no small amount of preparation. But one limitation stood before him—he could spend a great deal of time and effort refining the character's backstory and studying his psychology, yet he had no way to fully recreate Fang's state when taking drugs. He couldn't exactly try drugs himself just for this role, could he?
Since he could not take drugs himself, he had to find another way to get a feel for it. After Lu Heng had gone to rehabilitation centers to observe quite a few addicts during withdrawal, he vaguely came to understand that the feeling of drug withdrawal was actually rather similar to sleep deprivation—
Basically, both involved mental breakdowns, endless yawning, and being unable to control oneself.
So after joining the cast, Lu Heng deliberately began cutting down on sleep. At first, he went from eight hours a day to six, then from six to four. By the time they began filming the climactic dockside arrest scene, Lu Heng had already endured more than a month of insufficient sleep, along with three straight days and nights without shutting his eyes.
The torment of prolonged sleeplessness, coupled with his increasingly refined acting, the buildup of the character's emotions, made Lu Heng erupt without hesitation during yesterday's shoot. He perfectly portrayed Fang's madness, despair, gloom, pain, irritability, and agony worse than death.
After filming that part, Lu Heng's dialogue scenes were more or less finished. All that remained was one ending sequence, as well as the location scenes in T Country.
"I think my current state is pretty suitable for filming that final scene too." After breakfast, Lu Heng lightly curled his lips. His face showed the pallid