Recently, Yu Zheng's new drama "Being a Housewife" has finally started broadcasting in a thousand calls. In addition to continuing the same production standard of The Costume Road in the previous game, the performance of the actors in the play can also be remarkable. Jiang Qinqin, who has been away from the screen for several years, has created a Mei Dai Chunshan, a calm and dignified housewife Shen Cuixi; "Queen of the Shadows" Hui Yinghong has changed her previous image and portrayed the role of Wei Nono's aunt and grandmother into three points...
Among them, Dong Youlin, who is a singer, challenged the costume drama for the first time as an actor, which was quite surprising. In the play, the "Shu Yan" played by Dong Youlin has a beautiful face and a plain dress robe, which can be said to be a subversive change compared with his previous image.
It is said that the probability of costume styling overturning is very large, especially the Qing Palace style without any embellishment, so in recent years, Aidou has turned to the film and television drama market, compared with participating in more face-shaped and body-shaped costume dramas, fashionable fashion dramas have become their best choice. This time, Dong Youlin's strong ability to digest the shape of the Qing Palace made many viewers sigh, and Dong Youlin, who had debuted as a singer, seemed to have found another positioning suitable for himself.
Since "Idol Trainee", "singer" is Dong Youlin's most well-known label. From the first heart-warming single "Don't Be a Stranger", to the silver Valentine's Day hit single "A Man Goes to Paris", the romantic love song "Just Like You" on White Valentine's Day, to the affectionate and painful ancient song "Hurt Cain", Dong Youlin interprets the singer's original intention with a warm and healing voice.
Dong Youlin, who has emerged in the music field and gained a group of fans, did not eagerly use traffic to obtain greater acting resources, but was willing to take "role suitability" as the first at the beginning of exploring the performing arts industry, and use small roles to play steadily and hone his acting skills.
For example, in 2020, As a newcomer to the acting arts, Dong Youlin participated in the hit drama "Who Said I Can't Get Married", in which he played the "Xiao Ha" who had a yearlong love affair with the heroine Tong Yao, although the role was not much, but left a deep impression on everyone.
In "Being the Master Mother", Shu Yan, played by Dong Youlin, is not the traditional male protagonist image, but the personal retinue of Ren Xuetang, the grandfather of the Ren family. He is loyal to the Ren family, and when he encounters love, he reveals a sense of youth, and his sincere and pure personality traits coincide with Dong Youlin himself at this stage. It can be said that no matter in the difficulty of character shaping, but also in the suitability of the shape, Dong Youlin has done his best to turn the blind spot of performance into a comfort zone.
As we all know, choosing the right role means doing more with less for the actor. Looking back at the experience of domestic dramas performing "rollover" again and again, most of the reasons are that the actors chose roles that were not suitable for themselves, and their acting skills could not bridge the gap between them and the roles, which eventually attracted criticism from the audience. Therefore, when choosing a role, newcomer actors cannot take too big steps, but should use their own advantages to avoid disadvantages based on their understanding of themselves. Dong Youlin's eyes are clear, his face is clear, and he perfectly controls the braided head in the Qing Palace drama, and has won the recognition of the audience in the image. Because of the blessing of the external image on the role, Dong Youlin not only has no sense of violation in the play, but also makes the audience feel that he is acting in his true colors, and even Yu Zheng has posted praise for it.
Yu Zheng said that the first time he saw Dong Youlin, he felt that he was a singer and a dancer and could not be an actor, cross-border was very strange, and even thought of replacing him when trying to play, but Dong Youlin's progress in performance was unexpected, very relaxed and comfortable, and yu Zheng was also pleased by the director's praise. "His play is very suitable for the character, and everyone can see from the stills that he feels engaged." As long as the actor has talent and is willing to work hard, nothing is impossible, just like Dong Youlin, I believe he has successfully transformed himself from an idol into an actor. ”
In fact, in the matter of being an actor, Dong Youlin's footsteps have always been firm, although there is no lack of doubts in the process, but he does not think so, and still bravely tries. In 2019, Dong Youlin was invited to participate in the variety show "I am the peak showdown of actors". When he partnered with actor Niu Li to perform the Pretty Mother clip, he played a small who was accidentally bumped into, because the emotions were not in place, and he could not show anger for a long time, and director Zhang Jizhong slapped him twice in public, allowing him to show the most natural reaction. Under the guidance of director Zhang Jizhong, Dong Youlin has a deeper understanding of actors.
In an interview, Dong Youlin admitted that the gains in this show exceeded all the experience gained through filming and learning in the past. "I've had two acting teachers before, and they've taught me to liberate my nature and make me imitate all kinds of animals. But to be honest, those two studies did not liberate my nature, but this show gave me a key to unlock the performance system. My progress is more of a mental progression, because this stage has given me a huge impact and forced me to quickly find more ways to perform that suit me. The last time I recorded, I was affirmed by all the teachers and directors on the scene, which was the most important thing for me. I came to this stage not to show the skills I have, but to go through the process from the beginning to the bottom, which is meaningful. In the process, I began to slowly find out what acting was, what I could do. ”
Dong Youlin, who gradually groped out the trick, did not rush to achieve success, but through the urban emotional drama "Who Said I Can't Get Married" and the micro-short drama "Dream! Jingjing", "Being the Housewife" and many other works digest and feel the theory of performance. He said frankly, "What I am most eager for at this stage is that there are good film and television works precipitated, and the efforts I have accumulated hope to blossom and bear fruit." ”
Next, Dong Youlin will unlock more and more aspects of himself as an actor. The urban emotional drama "Their Names" cooperated with Qin Hailu and Bai Bing, the comic web drama "Say I Love You to the Moon", and the cinema film "My Diary" cooperated with Andy Lau and Wang Lihong are also worth looking forward to.
In the ever-changing entertainment industry, whether it is the traffic that is in the limelight or the senior artists who have been working hard for many years, almost everyone has to face the problem of being wrapped in a sense of crisis and anxiety. This also means that in order to stand in an invincible position, systematic and long-term planning is an indisputable survival rule. And when artists bravely abandon homogenization and regard "breaking through themselves" as a program of action, they also have a button to start the inflection point of their careers.
As a post-95, Dong Youlin, with the courage to reject the routine, went through every adventure about singers and actors, giving us reason to believe that such a Dong Youlin, a good play, has just begun.