"Light and Shadow" dialogue with Ding Liuyuan: into the inner world of the character

Source: People's Daily - People's Video

Not long ago, the Actors Working Committee of the China Television Artists Association successfully completed the change of term, and Ding Liuyuan was hired as the secretary general of the Actors Working Committee. At the 34th Golden Rooster Awards for Chinese Film, the film "My Father Jiao Yulu" received four nominations, and Ding Liuyuan was nominated for Best Actress for this film. On January 12, 2022, Ding Liuyuan, a dialogue actor in the high-end dialogue program "Light and Shadow" produced by People's Daily People's Video and titled by Rongsheng Refrigerator.

Jiao Yulu's story is well known, and Li Xuejian's version of the movie "Jiao Yulu" in the 1990s has also been a huge success, and how to interpret such a story in the new era is also a huge challenge for actors. Ding Liuyuan plays Jiao Yulu's wife in the movie, such a character who has little ink in past literary and artistic works, if he wants to impress the audience, the actor must make a hard work, "I want to express it as fully as possible in the limited performance space." As soon as he entered the crew, Ding Liuyuan asked Jiao Yulu's daughter Jiao Shouyun for advice, hoping to find the focus of the performance from the real memory fragments. Speaking of this "homework", Ding Liuyuan was immersed in an indescribable affection, "I am like a drop of ink falling on rice paper and rendering." When the role was presented on the big screen, Jiao Shouyun took her hand and said, "You let me see the shadow of my mother."

Ding Liuyuan believes that actors should be good at capturing the characteristics of the role, and then fully integrate with the role, so that the performance is a natural outpouring, and the design outside the script will not affect the main play, but become the finishing touch.

To achieve such an effect, you must do your homework. The classic red image of "Sister Jiang" has been interpreted many times by artists such as Yu Lan and Song Chunli. In 2010, Ding Liuyuan played the role of "Sister Jiang" for the first time, becoming the film and television drama "Third Generation Jiang Jie", she did not dare to have any sloppiness: "All about "Red Rock", about Gele Mountain, about the White Mansion, about that era, whether it is online related materials, or internal reference materials, I have seen it. By looking at a large amount of information and understanding the living conditions of the underground party members at that time, Ding Liuyuan found the feeling of playing Sister Jiang.

In the filming of "Sister Jiang", she tried to get herself as close as possible to the state of the character, whether it was being hanged for execution, or nailing bamboo sticks, she asked to experience as realistically as possible. She modestly says she is "too stupid" to get close to her character in this way.

Because of this interpretation, Ding Liuyuan won the Best Actress Award at the Golden Eagle Awards of China Television for the role of "Sister Jiang".

Special guest Huang Bin screenwriter believes that what many actors lack now is the reverence for the role, and when the reverence is discarded, they cannot go deep into life and cannot present life. And the attitude of entering the role with all kinds of methods like Ding Liuyuan is a very valuable quality for an actor.

In addition to "Sister Jiang", Ding Liuyuan has also created many heroic model characters, which not only brought her flower applause and word-of-mouth trophies, but also affected her entire life. In the process of entering the role, she experienced what Sister Jiang said about "the will of a Communist Party member is steel", the original intention of the "most beautiful strivers" Gong Quanzhen, and was also touched by the romance of Deng Jiaxian and his wife, the "founder of the two bombs".

In the words of screenwriter Huang Bin, art should reflect the style of the times and the spirit of the times, and good works must have feelings. And good actors will use their roles to interpret the times and understand life.