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When we stomped our feet in the high-ceiling studio and sighed cold, Huang Xuan appeared full of energy and greeted us. He wears a thin coat with a sea soul shirt underneath, and a pair of kangaroo shoes under his jeans. At the end of the shooting, in the gap between changing clothes, if you inadvertently meet his eyes, he will smile at you and fall generously, which is mixed with his smooth tone of voice, accurate and informative wording, focused eyes, and extremely small facial expressions during the chat to form a certain impression: Huang Xuan is light but calm.
The diligence behind this calmness is evident in 2021: from "Mountains and Seas" at the beginning of the year, to "1921", "Changjin Lake", "My Father and Me" in the middle of the year, and then to "Wuhai" and "Wind Rises Luoyang" at the end of the year, several works have not been broken, the reputation is good, and 2021 is marked as Huang Xuan's career "big year".
In Huang Xuan's mouth, he used to be like a "guinea pig running in a cage, never ending", before the outbreak, five consecutive years of Chinese New Year's Eve, he spent in the crew. "My mom came to the crew, had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with everyone, got up the next day, and in the morning we both had a cup of tea and chatted, and I started work." The dense rhythm of work weaves into the body, and the habit is not noticed.
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Yet everything has changed. "If you were driving, before the pandemic, I might have been driving at 120 per hour, and after the pandemic, I'm now driving at 80." It all started with a vacation. Originally, Huang Xuan only wanted to take his family to spend 5 quiet days in the mountains, who knew that the epidemic had extended this time to three months. Huang Xuan only brought a few clothes, the logistics were interrupted, and life degenerated into its original appearance. Until the express delivery was restored, Huang Xuan bought a pot that could cook hot pot, several books, friends sent him pen and ink paper, wrote calligraphy, read books, and the days were happy and full, Huang Xuan suddenly had an epiphany: "In fact, my life elements are not too much, just these things, my heart is suddenly steadfast, and I re-planned my future rhythm." ”
"Mountains and Seas" is The drama that Follows Huang Xuan's re-rhythm, and when it comes up, although the words are restrained, they are still full of excitement. "I have always wanted to shoot a northwest story, play a northwestern person, speak the northwest dialect, this is a kind of complex for my hometown, I have always wanted to cooperate with director Kong Sheng, when director Kong Sheng came to me, it was equal to 4 wishes at the same time, I was very excited."
His wish was fulfilled, but Huang Xuan, who had no experience in rural life, had doubts about whether he could play Ma Defu, a poverty alleviation cadre. He and other actors in the same group entered the local countryside in advance, set makeup and tried makeup, and rehearsed on the Gobi Desert every day, isolated from the world. It was a hot summer, the sun was scorching, it took a long time to drive to the set, there was not a single tree in the four fields, the wind was blowing, the yellow sand was blowing, and it didn't take long, the skin was cracked, and the lips were covered. It was also all kinds of hardships that immediately brought Huang Xuan into the atmosphere of "Mountains and Seas".
The unbridled costume drama, the glamorous and fashionable contemporary urban drama, the ever-changing Republic of China drama... Nowadays, Huang Xuan's performance resume has another warm and affectionate rural poverty alleviation drama, and many people still can't forget the light in Ma Defu's eyes when he listened to Director Zhang describe the future of Hangzhuang, and the smile that spilled from the corner of his mouth to the tearful smile in his eyes when he saw his first love splash in the morning light, and the audience's love and recognition made Huang Xuan gain a sense of accomplishment. Meeting a good role and a good performance state makes him grateful.
Subsequently, Huang Xuan contributed wonderful performances in "1921" and "Chosin Lake". The two characters, Li Da and Mao Anying, are real characters in history, and the difficulty in playing this type of character is how to enter the role without being kidnapped by authenticity. For Huang Xuan, books, biographies, and the few pictures and images are all entry points to the characters, but what is more pertinent is a way of understanding: "What exactly are they doing, and why did they do it at that time?" What kind of historical environment are they in? Why do they have such a great desire to do these things? They are all young and brave idealists in Huang Xuan's eyes, and when they are linked to the video materials or stories of the country's suffering, empathy naturally occurs, and Li Da and Mao Anying also "live" on the screen again through Huang Xuan.
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Over the years, in addition to a few landslides, Huang Xuan's vision of selecting roles has always been praised.
He has his own requirements for a good role in his heart, or to be representative, a microcosm of a part of the population; or a member of a special group of people, people who are in the shadow and are not paid attention to, such as the pony in "Tuina"; in addition, this role needs to accommodate a lot of inner space, with joy, fear, anxiety, anger and other complex intertwined emotions, is facing the collision and reconciliation of the self and the world. Undoubtedly, Yang Hua in "Wuhai" is such a role.
Regarding the behind-the-scenes story of "Wuhai", Huang Xuan has shared many times on different occasions, and he took over the role in a very emotional state. Originally after filming "Only Yun Knows", he wanted to reject the script because of the almost overloaded emotions in Yang Hua in "Wuhai", but changed his mind because of a meal with director Zhou Ziyang.
"I talk to the director, I know what kind of a state of character he wants to express, but specific to the script, in fact, there is still something missing, not the so-called has been very mature, I think he gave a lot of space for actors to create again." So it was a very exciting creative experience for me. ”
The experience of filming "Wuhai", in Huang Xuan's words, is the process of "pulling out a lot of my own things and using them", a process of immersion like a bone and flesh. After taking the next scene, he felt very uneasy when he came to the scene, and realized that he had to harden his scalp, "Many of the more important scenes have to be discussed with the director for a long time, and they have to sort out their psychological activities, comb their behavior, and comb their language."
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In order to fit the character, Huang Xuan voluntarily refused the local hotel that the crew had originally arranged for him, a room full of sunshine and flowers and fruits, and moved into another cold, unlit room. Every day the curtains are half-drawn, he wears Yang Hua's clothes every day, does not wash his hair, his hair is tied into knots, and tortures himself in various ways, "I watched the movie afterwards, I felt that my face had changed, and the whole person was puffy and deformed", which was an experience that gradually forced himself to a desperate situation like Yang Hua in the story, and the Gobi Desert with bad wind and sand was like some kind of external manifestation of the psychological environment, "from physical discomfort, and then gradually into psychological discomfort, and then into this character."
We wondered if it would be difficult to let go of the role after blending in with the role, Huang Xuan denied our idea, acted for fifteen years, and said goodbye to the role became a professional thing. Naturally, it still needs a little ceremony, after the killing, quietly stay in the room to reminisce about the bits and pieces of the shooting and the history of the characters, sometimes sigh a long sigh, stop there, then take a bath, change into your own clothes, spray a little perfume, go out to eat a full meal, the next day take a plane back to Beijing, return home, back to your own state of life, "Those scenes passed like a dream." Of course it's grown in your body, in the form of memories or dreams, like we recall a past from our childhood, or an experience from last year."
Sometimes there will be times when you are greedy for the state of the character and reluctant to leave, such as the affectionate, dashing, and a little crazy Bai Juyi in "The Legend of the Demon Cat", Huang Xuan will continue that state into his life, which may be a certain magic and privilege of the exclusive actor: to bring part of the life of the character into his own life.
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Sensitivity is an actor's innate nature, a meeting of eyes, low line of sight, laughter, shoulder rubbing, wrong body, can produce infinite interest, which is inseparable from a person's developed perceptual experience, and perceptual experience is often divergent, random, traceless, literary, when Huang Xuan mentioned his memory of childhood, there is such a trait: "Sometimes you will remember a particularly inadvertent thing, some people who can't hit eight rods, a stranger said a sentence to you, Or an act done to you, or an atmosphere, the look of a certain building, a certain light, a certain smell. ”
In life, Huang Xuan is a person who feels all the time, and the subtle spiritual reactions caused by observation and observation will be absorbed by him as performance material: "If one day I play a reporter, when I interview people, I may think that when you interview me today, you are listening to me very carefully, you are receiving my information, and then when you record, you do not read the details of words. ”
And this also means that his brain often has another consciousness looking at himself, observing his reactions, behaviors, thought activities and emotions, this consciousness will continue to absorb the information in the surrounding environment, air, temperature, smell, from a person's association derived from different branches, when the consciousness remains active, it constitutes a circulating energy field around Huang Xuan, waiting for one day to be infused into the performance. For this special endowment, Huang Xuan felt "loved and hated", "this is a very precious element, and sometimes I feel, Oh, too tired and too annoying.".
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When his thoughts were mixed, Huang Xuan would write calligraphy. In his eyes, the text is not just a symbol, a code, when it is transformed into calligraphy, flowing out of the pen, conveying emotions, it is the arrival of art, at the same time, he also sees it as a way of meditation. This habit was started very early on, interrupted for a few years in between, but still retained, "I like the feeling of the tip of the brush rubbing against the rice paper, it wraps my attention, my scattered heart on this tip at once, it is particularly wonderful."
The epidemic has changed the pace of Huang Xuan's work and life, after the filming of "Wind Rises in Luoyang", he rested for three months, in good weather days, he climbed mountains, visited parks, wandered in the streets and alleys, and also gathered with friends, worked, socialized, and everything went complicated and simple, which was in line with his division of his actor's career, from the initial stage of curiosity, groping, understanding, and trepidation, to the next stage to try a variety of roles, and now, Huang Xuan asked himself more: "With the identity of an actor, with the help of roles, What do you want to express more? ”
He is filming a TV series called "Welcome", in which he plays a hotel doorman, the professional attributes of the doorman himself, how to live as a small person, how to pursue his ideals, these firmly grabbed Huang Xuan's interest. Light comedy performs in a way he had never tried before, and the plot and lines with a hint of absurdity pose a new challenge to him.
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In the face of the challenge, Huang Xuan found an answer to the question he had been thinking about for a long time, and it was also an anchor point for his performance boat to go to the depths of the still water: "In fact, many people are facing a lot of anxiety and risks now, so I still want to transmit some warm and joyful energy, which may not be able to solve many problems substantially, but at least let others see your performance, see your work, and be able to generate some joy." ”
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