Liu Chang: In order to enter the role, I shut myself in the room

Liu Chang plays Song Baiyu, a high-IQ criminal

Yangcheng Evening News reporter Hu Guangxin

The procuratorial technology-themed suspense drama "The Truth" is being broadcast on Youku, and actor Liu Chang plays the elite lawyer Song Baiyu in the play. Song Baiyu is outwardly a mild-mannered, promising young talent, but in fact he is a fierce "two-faced person": he is the illegitimate son of Zhao Rui (Xu Yajun), the chairman of Donghan Group, and runs an antique smuggling business for Zhao Rui with his mother Song Jinxiu (Wen Zhengrong). Liu Chang, who came from a model background, challenged the villain role for the first time, and his performance was recognized by many viewers. In an interview with the weChat of the national media, Liu Chang admitted that he had put a lot of effort into this role: "For more than 40 days, in addition to filming, I shut myself in my room. Because Song Baiyu is a relatively isolated person, I try not to communicate with the outside world and let myself quickly find this role. ”

Talking about the role: "Song Baiyu is a sad person with a sad background"

Song Baiyu is a popular "high-IQ criminal" type of character in recent years, he is meticulous and pursues perfect crimes, which is a great headache for public security organs and forensic identification centers. But on the other hand, he is polite and in love with his girlfriend every time he appears, and is a college classmate and friend of Lin Yuanhao (Chen Xingxu), a technician at the Forensic Science Center. An unhappy childhood and a broken family add a layer of sadness to this character: because he is an illegitimate child, he not only failed to get the love of his parents, but also grew up in a twisted environment.

The good friends Lin Yuanhao and Song Baiyu eventually turned against each other, which made many viewers sigh. In Liu Chang's view, although they stood on both sides of black and white, Song Baiyu did regard Lin Yuanhao as the best or even the only friend: "Song Baiyu really, very much envied Lin Yuanhao, Lin Yuanhao had a bright and upright life, but he did not, which is the fundamental reason why the two became friends." Although Lin Yuanhao was a representative of the public prosecutor's office, Song Baiyu's enemy was never him, but his father, his original family, and all those who tried to control him. ”

Liu Chang described Song Baiyu as "divided, extremely controlling, and sad at the bottom": "The hateful person also has pity, Song Baiyu is not a completely bad person, and many of the bad things he does actually have a more tragic reason." He inherited the wolf nature of his father Zhao Rui, and the experience of lack of love in his childhood also led him to become a person with a strong desire to control now. I hope that when the audience sees Song Baiyu, they can have a little reflection and give more love to the people around them. ”

On acting: "I spent a lot of time figuring out the characters"

Liu Chang said that the difficulty of this role is that there are not many scenes but the personality is complex: "I want to rationalize many of his behaviors in a limited number of scenes, and I myself have spent a lot of time to understand this role." In addition to spending more than a month to "isolate" himself, he also put more effort into it: "I listed all the scenes of Song Baiyu, and each scene will complete some preparation, so that the audience can slowly accept Song Baiyu's behavior." "For example, if Song Baiyu killed someone with his own hands in the play, Liu Chang would think: Why did he do it himself?" This matter needs to be laid out in the early stages, and what I designed for Song Baiyu is that he is a person with a particularly strong desire to control. He has been controlled by his parents since he was a child, resulting in psychological shadows and can't stand anyone controlling him. So when the victim threatens him, he has to do it himself. ”

Liu Chang admitted that his understanding of Song Baiyu was deepened during the filming process: "At the beginning, I found the wrong direction, paid too much attention to the identity of the lawyer, ignored the influence of Song Baiyu's father on him, and later I also continued to adjust. He was very grateful to the director for his guidance: "The director will give me good advice, and some of them are much more powerful than the solutions I have thought of myself." And when we shoot, a lot of it is improvised by the actors, and this is because the director is willing to give us the space to play. ”

In the play, Song Baiyu has two small hobbies of carpentry and coffee making, which is quite in line with the personality of "Sven scum". It turned out that this was also Liu Chang's own hobby. He revealed: "When the director first met me, he asked me what I was interested in, I said something, he wrote down the carpentry and coffee and integrated it into the plot. I'm still happy. ”

As an actor who transformed from a model, Liu Chang's performance in "The Truth" was surprising. Talking about the profession of an actor, Liu Chang is quite modest: "I have not recognized myself too much before, hoping to get some results through my own efforts, so that I can also recognize myself as an actor." "In addition, he also said that he does not resist participating in variety shows, the more attempts, the more experience is a good thing, actors need to try a variety of things."

Source: Yangcheng Evening News