With the script of the TV series "Breakout", Geng Le couldn't find the common ground between this grumpy Niu Junjie and himself. But it was such a character who was full of contradictions in personality and was 18,000 miles away from himself attracted him. His friend Yan Ni inspired him to say: "In fact, when you drink too much, you feel a bit like Niu Junjie. Geng Le pondered for a moment and felt that it made sense.
In the play, Geng Le plays Niu Junjie, a middle-level leader of a state-owned enterprise who was promoted from the grassroots level, and also has to overcome his stupid characteristics and create a "cow devil king" image that is intimidating, "When reciting lines, it is more diligent, but it is still quite cool when it is intimidating." "After gradually getting into a better situation, when playing against Geng Le, Yan Ni often laughed, especially when the old cow played by Geng Le jumped violently and shouted, Yan Ni smiled very happily. At first, Geng Le was a little weak-minded, and later he knew that this was Yan Ni's recognition of his own portrayal of the old cow, "At this time, I felt that my old cow should be standing." ”
Geng Le plays Niu Junjie, a middle-level leader of a state-owned enterprise.
With the encouragement of Yan Ni, he took over the role of Niu Junjie
Off-screen Geng Le doesn't talk much, speaks at a moderate rate, and doesn't have a lot of volume. In a slightly more tense environment, sometimes he has to think for a while before speaking, and in his own words: "I am not a person who can speak eloquently, and I am a person who is stupid in his mouth." When he got the script of "Breakout" and saw the role of Niu Junjie, he looked at his friend Yan Ni, who invited him to play, and asked: "You tell me, what do I look like him (Niu Junjie)?" Yan Ni said, "It's not like anything." Geng Lemeng: "Then how do I act?" Yan Ni was very confident in him and said: "The amount of lines is very large, you first memorize the lines." ”
In the play "Breakout", Yan Ni played Shi Hongxing, and Geng Le played her husband Niu Junjie. Geng Le knew that although he and Niu Junjie had no resemblance, Yan Ni believed that he could play this role well, and she also needed someone who was very familiar and had a tacit understanding to play this role.
Geng Le broke through himself and played a role that contrasted greatly with his own personality.
"For acting, trust between partners is important. Strange actor partners, that kind of familiar relationship is to be played out, sometimes it will be a little awkward, the opponent actor in the communication, not to say that the dialogue is so simple, your micro-expression is not deceiving people. Geng Le said that at least he is such an actor, an actor's confidence in the role sometimes needs the environment and opponents to give you, he gave an example, such as playing an emperor, when the civil and military officials kneel in front of you, you will naturally believe that you are the emperor, on the contrary, if you are particularly confident, but there is no one around, you will also begin to doubt yourself.
"Sobriety on earth" is because they don't care about money and power
If you want to create a good character, Geng Le's habit is to first find a fulcrum in his heart. "I think Niu Junjie is a very contradictory person, he went all the way from the bottom of the mine to the middle level, you can see from his dress, he is different from other people, he is not trim, informal, the education level and quality are not too high, he is in this circle, but it seems that he is not a person in this circle."
Many viewers have commented that Niu Junjie is the "sobriety in the world" in this drama, in Geng Le's view, everyone can be "sober", but if you care about too many things, or are tied up by the desire for money and power, you can only be unconscious. And the reason why Niu Junjie can achieve "sobriety in the world" is precisely because he doesn't care about these, "he always shouts to resign, he wants to divorce, he doesn't want to do work, and his family doesn't want to live, so he is naturally very sober." "Although his mouth always shouts resignation and divorce, Niu Junjie has always said nothing, which confirms his contradictions." In fact, he especially wants to do a good job, and the same is true for his wife, shouting for divorce every day, in fact, he loves Shi Hongxing very much. ”
Geng Le and Yan Ni are familiar with each other, and it is natural to play against each other.
It is also this complexity and contradiction that stimulates Geng Le's desire to create as an actor, "I think the joy of being an actor is here, you can shape different characters, if you are all familiar with the road show of similar personalities, I will feel very bored." 」 ”
A curly hair is designed by himself, and Niu Junjie's big voice wants to thank Yan Ni
When I first met the director, Geng Le still had straight hair, a little long, and was quite literary. The director shook his head and felt that this was not the appearance of Niu Junjie in his mind, but he also felt that shaving his head into an inch showed that this character was too capable. In the end, Geng Le proposed that if you try to roll it into a small roll, you can comb it with a suit, and when you don't take care of it, it will not be trim.
The director felt that it was okay, so Geng Le took the stylist to create a piece for forty minutes, and when a small volume was hot, the director immediately felt that this was the meaning.
It is precisely because of this hairstyle that the director also captured a small action of Geng Le, Geng Le, who had just finished a small roll, always felt a little awkward, he always scratched his head, and then the director felt that his action was particularly good, so he designed a total head scratching action for Niu Junjie in the play, "He scratched his head in a hurry." Geng Le said.
There is also Niu Junjie's big voice. When the first scene began filming, Geng Le said the lines according to his original normal volume, and the director said that this was not quite right, Niu Junjie was nicknamed "Cow Devil King", so he spoke too gently. Later, Geng Le thought that he needed to change his habit of speaking lines, amplify his voice, and every time he spoke, it was like arguing with others, "I have indeed seen such a person, and I have such a fulcrum in my heart." Then Geng Le thought about his growing environment, under the mine where he used to work, the noise of various machines, he needed to communicate with others must be to talk with his throat, so that the character characteristics of the loud voice could stand up more.
Although these foundations are laid, it is not as simple as imagining to shout out the lines, "always deliberately speaking like this, not being able to say it, or shouting it out will be very awkward." At this time, as a good friend of Geng Le and the rival drama partner of this play, Yan Ni remembered: Every time Geng Le drank and drank happily, his voice was very large. After Yan Ni's reminder, Geng Le also remembered that the old cow (Niu Junjie) did not speak like when he (drank) and drank beautifully.
After memorizing the shocking lines and acting, it is like being full of ammunition to the battlefield and can be fired
In 2008, Geng Le once starred in a TV series called "Falling in Love with My Ex-Wife", and the reason why he was still impressed by that play was because the amount of lines in that play was very large, and he played a man who was very eloquent and good at arguing.
"Breakout" has a lot of lines, and the actors spend a lot of time memorizing the lines.
Geng Le also clearly remembered that after reading the script at that time, he refused, he felt that this role was really different from himself, and probably only an actor with the same mouth as the host could be qualified for this role. "My agent encouraged me at the time: 'But the audience can't see other people playing this role, they see you." That was also the first time that Geng Le felt that he could still play a person who was completely different from himself. Although the process of filming that scene was extremely hard, Geng Le felt that it was a good tempering for himself, and even the skill of memorizing lines was well improved through that play.
And this time in "Breakout" as Niu Junjie, so that Geng Le seems to have found the feeling of that year. "In this play, each of us has long lines, a mouth, a line presented on the paper are three or four lines, so everyone will work harder when preparing lines, basically to the rest of the hotel has been memorizing lines." 」 Moreover, Niu Junjie still belongs to a very extroverted personality in the play, and there are many words in the sky, and Geng Le needs to memorize the lines better.
"I'm not stupid, I don't scare people at all in life, and I've never scared people." In this play, Geng Le experienced a shocking "pleasure". "It's really cool, I remember there was a scene that was a democratic life meeting, and I was very happy to finish this and that." In that scene, Geng Le's lines were very large, and the night before, he memorized the lines in the room and memorized them many times, "That feeling is like being full of ammunition, and then on the set, I thought: The battlefield is here, you can shoot!" ”
Geng Le had enough of the addiction of "shocking people".
——Talking about cooperation with Yan Ni——
"Yan Ni has a characteristic, that is, she often generates ideas based on the on-site props temporarily." Geng Le remembered that there was a scene in the script where he stepped on Lin Manjiang's oil painting portrait, but Yan Ni felt that Geng Le should be asked to pick up the portrait, and then she ran after him. "At first I disagreed, because I had a lot of lines, and I didn't want to move back and forth, so I could concentrate on finishing my lines by stepping on the portrait. But then I also felt that it was more vivid to perform like this as she said, so the last thing that came out was the scene of her running after me. ”
And Yan Ni played by Shi Hongxing always holds a notebook in her hand, this is Geng Le to help her design, "In fact, we do not have the experience of meeting in the enterprise unit, compared with Yan Ni, I have also participated in two similar meetings, so I remind her to always hold a notebook, which is also a meeting etiquette." ”
——Talking about cooperation with Jin Dong——
Previously, in the TV series "Surgical Storm", Geng Le and Jin Dong had a cooperation. In Geng Le's heart, Jin Dong's entire temperament and tone of speech itself are very suitable for playing leading cadres, "Didn't the Internet summarize him before, saying that he was an 'old cadre', I think it is particularly right." So I think he is Secretary Qi, and now I have contacted him privately and called him Secretary Qi. ”
Beijing News reporter Zhang Kunyu
Edited by Tong Na Proofreader Wu Xingfa