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Next year, Jing Bairan will debut for 15 years. Many people don't remember much, he debuted as an idol talent singer in the first place. More than ten years in the industry, compared with the identity of the singer, everyone remembers the role he portrayed as an actor: the soft and kind "demon catcher" Song Tianyin (movie "Catch the Demon"), the young man Zeng Shuai who was deeply in love with Andy Lau's "father and son", the "North Drift" Lin Jianqing (the movie "Later Us") who was entangled between love, family affection and reality... Looking back on his debut experience so far, he thanked himself for knowing how to make trade-offs all the way: when he was very young, he was willing to work as a supporting role in a down-to-earth manner, cooperate with good actors to absorb nutrients, accumulate the trust of the audience, and step by step become his ideal appearance - an actor.
As an actor, Jing Bairan, 32 years old, but his style of acting is quite "old-school": he is not prolific, and he does not like to expose when he has no works. Before 2021, he had not appeared in the TV series for six years, and the most recent film work was back to "The Climber" two years ago. He admits that he is sometimes not active enough, but the main reason for the slow pace of work in the past is the "pickiness" of being an actor: always wanting to wait for a role that makes him like, waiting until everything is perfectly cooperated.
As he grew older and more experienced, his thinking began to change, "more relaxed, more willing to accept himself and then integrate into the market." "Now if he comes across a character who excites him, he's willing to lower some of his perfectionist pursuits and try it." He called this change the new "cultivation" and said that maybe the future ideas will change back, but that doesn't matter. "I feel more and more that every play will not be made in vain, and everything will not be done in vain."
Before this year, the audience had not seen Jing Bairan in film and television works for a long time. Character photography / Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing
"Female Psychologist", a secure cooperation
Being able to participate in "Female Psychologist" is a kind of fate for Jing Bai.
When the crew first sent him an invitation, he did not have the right schedule and was almost about to pass. It wasn't until one day he received Yang Zi's WeChat and asked him if he was here to play "Female Psychologist", that he picked up the project again.
Previously, he had seen the film "Manslaughter" directed by "Female Psychologist" director Ke Wenli, and he was "looking up" to the director. "The remake of the classic play is very risky, and it is also a test of the director's skill, I think "Manslaughter" has been very successful, and I have always been very convinced of the director." Directed by Ke Wenli, coupled with Bi Shumin's original work and partner Yang Zi, the combination of "Female Psychologist" makes him feel very secure and believes that this will be a good cooperation.
After 12 years, Yang Zi and Jing Bairan, who cooperated again in the TV series "Female Psychologist", have a more tacit understanding.
"Female Psychologist" is the second collaboration between Jing Bairan and Yang Zi, and it has been 12 years since the last time ("Girl Rush Chong Chong" 2009). Interestingly, the relationship between the two characters in the two dramas has a wonderful coincidence - in "Girl Rushing Rush", Jing Bairan and Yang Zi are playmates of Qingmei Bamboo Horse, and later spark different sparks on the college campus; in "Female Psychologist", Qian Kaiyi (Jing Bairan) is the object of Horton's (Yang Zi) middle school crush, but he mistakenly thinks that Horton likes his buddies. Reunited as an adult, Qian Kaiyi, who is a radio anchor, is bent on restarting the "Heart Talk night talk" column, but he does not recognize that the psychological counselor he has worked so hard to pull into the gang is the little girl of the year...
Recalling his first cooperation 12 years ago, Jing Bairan couldn't help but smile: "At that time, I was still a singer, and I was arranged by the company to perform that play." Xiao Zi was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and both of them were very young and green, a little silly. "After 12 years of cooperation, similar role relationships make him often have the feeling of returning to that year." But after all, 12 years have passed, the two are more mature on the road of actors, coupled with each other's tacit understanding and trust, the opponent's scene is particularly smooth, and even did not spend much time to run in. They are not limited to the content of the script, but sometimes have improvisations in lines and collisions in performance. "Tell the director in advance, we sometimes improvise, he thinks it's appropriate to use it, it doesn't matter if you don't use it."
In order to play Qian Kaiyi, Jing Bairan specially asked professional radio anchors how to communicate with listeners through microphones. The other person's advice is to find your most comfortable voice line and use a way of chatting like a friend to close the distance with the audience. "I know my voice very well and often voice characters, so it's not hard to find a comfortable and warm way to express my voice." For Jing Bai, the real challenge of making "Female Psychologist" is to memorize a lot of lines every day, which is caused by the different rhythms of TV series and movie shooting. The film time elasticity is large, and the TV series shooting is fast-paced, which is more difficult to give the actors enough time to create, which requires them to use their acting experience to cooperate with the shooting progress.
To Jing Bai, the biggest challenge of playing Qian Kaiyi is that he needs to memorize a lot of lines.
In the film crew, Jing Bairan usually shoots one or two pages of scenes a day, and when it comes to the TV series, he has to take down more than ten pages of content every day. At first he didn't get used to it, and at one point he was a bit embarrassed. He observed the other actors in the crew, like Yang Zi, who also had so many pages of scenes every day, including scenes with emotional outbursts, but she could do it accurately at the first time. "I reflected on it, maybe it was my own problem, and it didn't have much to do with making a movie or making a TV series. In fact, this is a technical job, I am not unable to do it, but I need to get used to this rhythm. This is also the problem that I need to learn and solve in the past two years. ”
Meet better characters at the best age
Jing Bairan is accustomed to finding a corresponding color for the characters he plays. When he saw the script of "Female Psychologist", he thought that Qian Kaiyi should be a warm white. "He's a beat worker, he wears a white shirt every day and communicates with everyone in the radio studio every day." But unexpectedly, director Ke Wenli prepared a bunch of flower shirts for Qian Kaiyi. He dresses colorfully in the play, like the warm wind blowing over the island, so that people can feel his enthusiasm as soon as they touch it. "I think the director is very powerful, and through such a costume, the audience can quickly understand Qian Kaiyi as a person."
Qian Kaiyi in Jing Bairan's eyes is a warm and warm person who has no reservations about anyone. He admits that he also has such qualities in himself, but he will not express them unreservedly like Qian Kaiyi. "Probably only for the people around you who are more familiar and liked, will have such a temperature." Qian Kaiyi's love of flower shirts is very different from his own fashion preferences, and he rarely wears such exaggerated and fancy clothes in real life. "In the choice of clothing, I am still quite reserved, are some classics, more basic colors and styles." If Qian Kaiyi is a friend in his life, he will even be tempted to complain: "You are dressed too fancy!" ”
In addition to Qian Kaiyi, another person he "marked" as white was Li Shao in the movie "Inverted Thorn" (tentative name). The crime drama film "Upside Down Thorn" is directed by Wang Xuebo and co-starred by Jing Boran, Li Ronghao, Shu Qi, Wen Qi, Li Manxuan, etc., and has been successful this year. Douban's synopsis reads: "A bastard died, tracing his wonderful life. This "bastard" is Li Shu, played by Jing Bairan. "He acts like a jerk, but his heart is actually very pure. A very clean and splendid boy. I think Li Is pure white, or the blue of the sky, but he disguises himself as a black-gray cowboy. ”
Jing Bairan said that in the movie "Upside Down", Li Shu (left) played by him looked like a bastard on the surface, but his heart was very pure.
The story of "Upside Down Thorn" takes place in a building in the northeast, which is very similar to the environment in which Jing Bairan grew up. "Although Li Shu and I live in the same environment, we live a completely different life, which is what attracts me the most." The boy (Lee) had a brilliant and short life, tragic but also full of blessings. I was very touched and touched. "In the film, Li Wei and Tang Xiao (Played by Li Ronghao) are friends who grew up together, and their friendship spanning twenty years is like a treasured old wine, full of vitality." My personal understanding is that they are the most familiar strangers, but also the most beautiful and warm companions. Their lives gradually intertwined and they lived like each other. ”
It is inevitable that each character will have the actor's own projection. Jing Bairan said that the warm and warm Qian Kaiyi is like most people's superficial knowledge and understanding of him, while Li Wei is more like the way he looks in his bones, with contradictions and entanglements in his heart, and rich emotions. As for Lan Jue in "Gentleman's League" (formerly known as "Zhang Gong Case"), he is highly powerful, the city government is extremely deep, and he wanders in a gray area, and can do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. It's a role he's always wanted to challenge, but he rarely had a chance to get.
"I think playing a relatively bad role, there will be more room for performance." In the eyes of others, Jing Bairan, the appearance of sunshine is very juvenile, and it is not suitable for playing this kind of role. Fortunately, this time, the director of "Gentleman's League" felt that Jing Bairan just fit the appearance of Lan Jue in his mind, and the opportunity to "fit" finally arrived. "Maybe now my age and other aspects are a relatively good time." Being able to meet some more interesting characters and being able to control him well. ”
Lan Jue (right) in "Junzi Meng" (formerly known as "Zhang Gong Case") is the type of role that Jing Bairan has been looking forward to.
The audience is changing, the market is changing, and he is changing
Before 2021, Jing Bairan had not appeared in the TV series for six years, and the most recent movie would go back to "The Climber" released two years ago. Asked whether the number of works has decreased in recent years, whether he has intentionally slowed down the pace of work, Jing Bairan smiled and took over the stubble: "I don't think I'm very positive, don't you?" ”
Before this year, Jing Bairan's most recent work was the movie "The Climber" released in 2019.
He admits that he does have "inactive" places at times, but the main reason for the slowdown in the pace of work is a kind of "pickiness" as an actor - always hoping to wait for a role that makes him like, until everything is perfectly cooperated. "I don't want to play repetitive roles on the road of an actor, and I always want to find some scripts that can help me break the image of the past and make a breakthrough."
In fact, there have always been good scripts and roles to invite him to star, but some may meet the market, some are to meet the fans, and Jing Bairan has been pursuing to be able to satisfy himself. "This may also be a reason for the lack of positivity." According to his past personality, taking over or rejecting a play is a very temperamental decision, starting entirely from the self, to see if the story has touched him, to see if the role is challenging, and whether he can make himself enjoyable. "Like 'Inverted Thorns,' which was initially rejected by my previous team, they found it to have some less flattering elements. But for me, that thing stimulated me, moved me. I said at the first moment: 'I must take this play!' ’”
In recent years, he has slowed down his work, while also observing the audience and observing the market. "What the audience wants to see, what young people like to see, every year will be different. I have also found that the selection of projects cannot be judged solely by past experience. Because the audience is changing, and the market is changing. The likes of actors and the likes of audiences are sometimes two different kinds of learning. After observing and thinking, he decided to change, trying to satisfy himself and satisfy more audiences. Now he measures the project from a more integrated perspective. If he encounters a role that excites him, he is also willing to lower some perfectionist pursuits to try. He called this change the new "cultivation."
Has it become more positive? Jing Bairan said that now he has become more relaxed, more willing to accept himself, and then integrate into the market. But he also made a "patch" in advance, and maybe the future ideas will change back, so it doesn't matter. "I feel more and more that every play will not be made in vain, and everything will not be done in vain."
Know how to make trade-offs, so as to become your ideal self
Jing Bairan starred in Lou Ye's directed work "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind".
As an actor, Jing Bairan is not very prolific, but he can basically get his hands on every work. For example: he starred in "Love in the City" directed by Xia Yongkang and Chen Guohui, which won the Academy Award nomination for Best New Actor; he saved the scene to star in the live-action animated film "Catch the Demon", which became the local box office champion of Chinese films at that time after its release; Rene Liu's directorial debut "Later Us", in which he and the fifth-generation director Tian Zhuangzhuang played a father and son; "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind" He was able to cooperate with the sixth generation director Lou Ye...
In the film "Lost Alone" directed by Peng Sanyuan, he played Zeng Shuai, a young car repairman who was abducted and sold since childhood, and met Lei Zekuan (Played by Andy Lau) who was riding a bicycle to find his son, and the two experienced a journey of "like a father like a son" together. The role of Zeng Shuai won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Changchun Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Golden Rooster Awards for Chinese Cinema for Jing Bairan.
In particular, it is worth mentioning that Lei Zekuan's prototype Guo Gangtang finally found his son Guo Xinzhen with the help of the public security organs in July this year, and reality continued to write the ending for the movie. Jing Bairan is also very emotional about this, and feels that this is another rare sense of achievement as an actor: the film will invisibly affect some things, which he cannot expect when creating.
Not long ago, the prototype in the movie "Lost Orphans" found a long-lost child, which made Jing Bairan, as an actor, also gain a sense of accomplishment.
From the debut of the talent singer to the actor recognized by the public, the works and cooperation objects that Jing Bairan encountered along the way are indeed very good. But he doesn't think it's just because of good luck: "I think it's because of persistence. No matter at what stage and what kind of artist you are, you will face many different choices. I am very grateful that I have been very persistent all the way and know how to make trade-offs, so that I can get to the present step by step and become what I originally wanted to be - to be an actor. ”
The so-called "know how to choose" means that he got many opportunities to play the leading role when he was young and popular, but Jing Bairan chose to do supporting roles in a down-to-earth manner, cooperate with good actors to absorb nutrients, accumulate the texture of actors, and then slowly transform into the audience's trust in him. "That trust is very precious to actors. At every stage, there are a small number of people who are willing to give me trust, affirmation and respect, and I feel very satisfied. Therefore, looking back on his acting career of more than ten years, Jing Bairan is satisfied with himself at the moment, "which has nothing to do with the achievements in the eyes of others."
[Outside of work] - it can be said that it is very homely
Character photography / Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing
When no work is released, Jing Bairan is almost invisible in the public eye, and rarely takes the initiative to expose. His social platforms are mostly work content, occasionally sharing life moments, and sometimes interacting with friends. At the end of October this year, #Jing Bairan went up the mountain to look for snow leopards for two consecutive years, which made more people know his other identity: WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) Snow Leopard Conservation Promotion Ambassador. Over the past two years, he has regularly followed wildlife conservation organization professionals and volunteers to visit the snow leopard habitats in Wolong, Sichuan, and Qilian Mountains, Gansu. "It's like having a date every year, we're the same group of people, doing the same thing for the same purpose."
Jing Bairan has loved animals since he was a child. He recalls living in a bungalow as a child, and the home was as lively as a small zoo. "My dad, grandma and grandpa all loved animals and influenced me. There were fish and pigeons raised by my dad, as well as rabbits and dogs. I also learned the skill of delivering dogs since I was a child. "But he doesn't have pets to accompany him now, because it's hard to have time to take care of them once he's busy at work." Pets don't just accompany you, they also need your company. ”
In addition to acting, Jing Bairan will also participate in variety shows, but there are not many. He is not the kind of artist with a strong sense of "variety", but he can usually complete the task well in the show, not pulling the hind legs of his teammates, and can also circle a lot of fans with a delicate and affinity personality. His participation in the reasoning reality show "Star Detective 5" as a flying guest left a deep impression on the audience, obviously participating in it for the first time but acting like a script to kill "high play". In fact, Jing Bairan usually does not play offline social games such as script killing. In "Ming Detective", the murderer is guessed by intuition, not reasoning. "It's hard for me to see the truth from another angle. But as an actor, I've read a lot of scripts, and I follow the familiar logic of the script and guess with intuition. ”
The life behind the scenes of the stars in the public imagination must also be colorful. Jing Bairan said that his life is actually very simple, every day is around work, and he likes to be alone at home when he is not working. "Resting is my most relaxed state, and I don't have to think about it. I wanted to be at home by myself. "It is precisely because most of the work is usually dealing with people, I prefer to leave a clean for myself when I rest." At home, you can watch movies, play games, listen to music, or flip through the script, in short, just don't be disturbed. Does this sound like recording an otaku's day? Jing Bairan didn't mind: "Well, it can be said that it is very homely." ”
When he is not working, Jing Bairan enjoys the feeling of staying at home.
Yang Lianjie, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
Chief Photographer Guo Yanbing
Chief Editor Wu Dongni Proofreader Zhao Lin