Under the key guidance of the State Administration of Radio and Television, the inspirational sports competition drama "Beyond" is being broadcast on Oriental Satellite TV at 19:30 every night. The drama focuses on the key project of the Winter Olympic Games" "short track speed skating". The first protagonist of the drama is Li Gengxi, a new xiaohua after zero who has soared in popularity with popular dramas such as "Little Joy", "Twenty Not Confused" and "Knife Line in the Snow" in recent years. Chen Mian, a short track speed skater played by her, with his immortal love and strong willpower, transformed from a member of the qingdao team to a national team athlete, and finally stood on the Winter Olympics.
Recently, Li Gengxi accepted and revealed that Sha Yi, who cooperated with him for the second time, was previously a comedian in "Little Joy", and "Yingzi, open the door, Daddy" is the classic funny quote of the whole play. In "Beyond", Sha Yi suddenly changed his painting style and became a strict short track speed skating coach. Li Gengxi was deeply touched: "Teacher Sha Yi is very serious when he shoots, and when he is not shooting, he often jokes with us and is very happy. ”
After training on ice, I fell in love with short track speed skating
"Beyond" presents the development history of China's short track speed skating industry in a double-line interspersed narrative: a clue looks back at the past, in the 1980s, "little bastard" Zheng Kaixin was recruited by coach Wu Qinghong with his outstanding talent on the open-air ice rink, became a short track speed skater, became a teammate with Chen Jingye, and opened a glorious career; another clue depicts that now, more than 20 years later, Chen Jingye's daughter Chen Mian joined the Qingdao short track speed skating team newly formed by Zheng Kaixin and started a dream journey. With her extraordinary perseverance to make up for the lack of talent, she rushed all the way to the top of the world's short track speed skating.
In the play, Li Gengxi restored the real appearance of a short-track speed skater: with a short hair, almost plain face, clean and neat movements... "I haven't seen much short track speed skating before, but it was through this contact that I learned about the project," she said. The director told me that the character has more courage and determination than the average person, and I probably have a sense of picture, coupled with the blessing of the shape, I gradually entered the role. ”
Before the filming of the whole play began, Li Gengxi and other actors conducted skating training for a long time. In the process of training, Li Gengxi fell in love with short track speed skating: "We are divided into land training and ice training every day, and every time we train on land, I am especially looking forward to being on ice. She believes that the biggest challenge of playing a short track speed skater is to make the action standard, let the audience have a sense of substitution, "at least to be decent."
Chen Mian's strength helped me, and I was done
"Beyond" is Li Gengxi's first time shooting a sports drama, talking about the biggest difference from shooting other dramas, Li Gengxi frankly said: "Playing athletes is quite hard, I can personally feel their physical pain. She revealed that filming competitive matches is a long process, a game often takes nearly a week to shoot, and the process is cumbersome. She also learned what sportsmanship and team spirit are: "I and other actors often get injured, but I still have to stand up and continue training, and in the repetition, I experienced what sports are overcoming and persevering. Once the director showed us the first cut clip, all of us saw tears in our eyes, the presentation of blood deeply touched us, so many days of hard work has not been in vain. ”
Every short-track speed skater goes through injuries. There is a scene in the play where Chen Mian's teammates suffer an injury, and the filming process of this scene makes Li Gengxi unforgettable. Before shooting, she was very nervous, not knowing what reaction her teammates should give when they were injured, but when shooting, she suddenly had an epiphany: "That's a sense of guilt." Filming that scene brought me a great psychological impact, after filming, I felt that the strength of my whole body had been hollowed out, and I couldn't cry or speak. ”
Li Gengxi also found inner resonance with the character. In the play, Chen Mian experienced the process of being denied by her family and coaches, competing herself, and getting back up after falling, and she was always optimistic and insisted on what she loved. "Everyone's growth process is more or less similar to Chen Mian's experience, and what I love and insist on is acting." Li Gengxi obviously felt that he had changed after playing Chen Mian, "I sometimes encounter some unhappy things, and when I feel difficult, there may not be too many ways to overcome them, but Chen Mian's strength is helping me, anyway, I will finish it!" ”
He cooperated for the second time and was taken care of by Sha Yi and Hu Jun
In the past screen, Li Gengxi was deeply loved by the audience for his playful and cute little girl image: "Qiao Yingzi" in "Little Joy" and "Ginger Mud" in "Knife Row in the Snow" are his representative roles. In these plays, when Li Gengxi cooperates with senior actors, his acting skills are natural and he is not afraid of the stage. In "Beyond", her collaborative performance with Mei Ting, Hu Jun, Sha Yi and other senior actors is also relaxed and grounded.
The two middle-aged and senior male actors in "Beyond" have previously cooperated with Li Gengxi: Hu Jun, who plays Chen Jingye, is Chen Mian's father in the new drama, and his role in "The Knife Line in the Snow" is Jiang Ni's future father-in-law Xu Xiao; Sha Yi, who plays Zheng Kaixin, is Chen Mian's coach in the new drama, and his role in "Little Joy" is Qiao Yingzi's father, Qiao Weidong. The two seniors took great care of Li Gengxi, and also created a relaxed and harmonious crew atmosphere in addition to filming, so she did not have nervousness from the beginning and quickly entered the creative state.
Talking about the career planning after the "opening of the door" of "Beyond" this year, she is very calm: "Last year I was very hard, this year I want to adjust, when I meet a good script, I will pick up; if I don't meet, I can wait." How to understand "beyond"? She said: "To experience transcendence, you will know what kind of self you want to surpass." ”
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Yang Wenjie