Duan Yihong, 48, and Zu Feng, 47, played a son-in-law and a son to 55-year-old Arya in "The Mystery of the Octagonal Pavilion".
The difference is less than 10 years old, and the middle-aged actress actually wants to "be a mother" to the middle-aged male actor.
I don't know if it is feng shui that takes turns, in the new drama "Breakout", 46-year-old Geng Le played his father to Pan Zhilin, who was 14 years old.
When the two were in the same frame, I thought it was a husband and wife, whether it was the image or the actual age difference, there was a sense of discord.
Even if Geng Le sacrifices his image for the new drama, he looks like he is about to go bankrupt without trimming and his hairline. But he did not have many wrinkles on his face, and his speech was full of confidence, which was still the taste of literary and artistic youth in Beijing.
Although Geng Le, who has starred in many idol dramas, is not a mainstream aesthetic flower beauty man, he is also a type man. Unexpectedly, in order to act, he was willing to subvert the audience's previous understanding of him.
To be honest, when Geng Le first appeared in "Breakout", I didn't recognize him at all, or confirmed it by voice. Sand monk-like curly hair, M-shaped hairline, not too rich overhead hair volume, very real middle-aged rough man.
Niu Junjie, played by him, was promoted from a front-line worker to the position of manager, and his practical combat ability is very strong. Wife Shi Hongxing (Yan Ni) is a company executive, and the two have both work contacts and interests.
It is a pair of plastic CP shouting "Hugh Husband" and "Repudiation of Wife", mutual hatred is the norm, and public and private are clearly distinguished as daily life.
However, Niu Junjie's jealousy of Hongxing, and the request to lower his stature at a critical moment, as well as Hongxing's silent attention to Niu Junjie, all show that the two sides are not without emotional foundations.
It's just that one of them is stubborn and one is sleek.
Geng Le's rivalry with Yan Ni and Pan Zhilin is not much, and in the first 4 episodes, most of them are shaping the image of his heart's work.
The reserve of professional knowledge, the concern for the miners, the sense of responsibility that has gone to the scene of the incident for the first time in the middle of the night, the audience sees an upright middle-level leader.
However, because Niu Junjie is informal, not good at interpersonal communication, and the projects he is involved in involve a huge amount of money, his image in leadership is not very positive.
Just when he was asking for help everywhere for the headache of funds, the newly appointed Qi Ben'an (Jin Dong) wanted to set Niu Junjie as a model and investigate it to the end.
On the one hand, Niu Junjie, as a middle-level leader, involves many people. On the other hand, the husband and wife relationship between Niu Junjie and Hongxing is somewhat meaning of killing chickens and monkeys.
But Niu Junjie is a dashing man, and he doesn't care about being investigated or even losing his job. He wanted to solve the urgent need for funds and not let the workers suffer losses.
Because of the hard work, the staff meeting is late, and even snoring in public. The audience seems to be a very cute image, but the impression left on the leader is not very good.
Geng Le comes with a Geng zhi filter, which is very close to the character.
He showed boldness, both free and somewhat deliberate. Between "carrying clear" and "mixing up", it is a role with a strong sense of existence.
Especially in the complex workplace, when everyone has multiple faces and high emotional intelligence, the role of Niu Junjie is a clear stream.
Geng Le's sense of rhythm is very good.
Late for meetings and sleeping, being asked by the leader to talk to, he was not in a hurry to explain. After Qi Ben'an called to confirm, he also behaved very calmly. The timing of each other's pushing and pulling and speaking lines is particularly important, and the rhythm is right, and the characters stand up.
Geng Le shows the difference between the personality and the actors of the opponent through the details of his eyes and actions, neither as excited as Qi Ben'an nor as cowardly as Pi Dan. When it comes to the vital interests of the workers, he will be impatient, but he will become Buddhist in the face of the leadership, and the whole will not be humble.
Breakout's meeting shots also use a lot of parallel montages, the ambience is full, and the content is quickly filled. As a TV series with a partial group portrait, everyone's characteristics are clear and do not collide, and they can feel the intention.
Accustomed to watching 40+ male actors and post-80s and post-90s actresses playing couples, Geng Le and Pan Zhilin's father-daughter file does need time to adapt. But fortunately, the acting skills are online, and there will be no eye drawing to cause the role to be misplaced.
Geng Le has performed well in "1921", "Chinese Doctor", "My Father and Me" and "Changjin Lake", and has already transformed into a successful one. This shows that 40+ male actors do not play the "hegemony", and there are still good scripts to pick.