Cover news reporter Li Yuxin
Under the tapping of the racket, the ping-pong ball was slapped high and fell quickly, landing on the fingertips of Wan Guopeng, but it was still spinning. When this trick "fingertip ball" is displayed in front of the audience through the screen, many people will assume that this is a "special effects shot". But in fact, this is the actor Wan Guopeng who practiced for months before finally showing his skills in front of the camera.
In March, the film and television drama "Glory Table Tennis" was officially launched, which depicted the story of young table tennis players fighting for their dreams in frustration and hardship. Just listening to the subject matter is enough to make people's blood boil. In the play, Liu Shi, a table tennis player played by Wan Guopeng, has a thick and honest personality, and he fights all the way from the grassroots to the national team and shines on the table tennis field.
"Liu Shi is a person who has come out of a cruel reality." Recently, Wan Guopeng accepted an exclusive interview with cover news. When it comes to characters, "suffering" and "struggle" are the high-frequency words mentioned in it. "As the saying goes, life is not as good as it gets. But after playing the role of Liu Shi, I finally felt that suffering is great and real. ”
Dream Ping Pong "Fingertip Turning Ball" practiced for 2 months
"Happy", this is the first emotion that came out of Wan Guopeng when he received the script of Liu Shi's character. It is reasonable to say that starring in film and television dramas with competitive sports themes naturally cannot avoid the professional training to be carried out, which means that more time and energy is spent than ordinary roles, and the hardships can be imagined. But coincidentally, this inadvertently made Wan Guopeng realize his "ping-pong dream".
In Wan Guopeng's childhood, table tennis was the first to teach him what it is to "love". In the interview, he recalled his time in elementary school, often playing table tennis "one dozen is an afternoon", tired and purple, but he could not stop. "Sometimes, the adults across the table have changed two or three, and I'm still playing. Then my mom kept asking me if I was tired, but I felt not tired in my heart. Later, I learned that this is the feeling of 'love', so ping-pong is the first time I understand 'love'. ”
Having the foundation of table tennis is a good thing no matter how you look at it. However, when starring in "Glory Ping Pong", Wan Guopeng needs to "start over", because he has been accustomed to shooting with his left hand since he was a child, and he has to play with his right hand in the play. As a result, Wan Guopeng went to participate in the training three months in advance. "Throughout the playing process, coordination is reversed, and training is equivalent to starting from scratch."
Wan Guopeng "fingertip turn ball" emoji
The three-month-long table tennis training, in addition to allowing Wan Guopeng to master the right and left hands can play the ball, also let him get a small skill - fingertip turning the ball. At first glance at the picture of "fingertip turning the ball", many people still think that this is a special effect, but this is indeed "trained" by Wan Guopeng, let alone required by the director. "At that time, I read a lot of information about table tennis and thought that this 'turning ball' was quite interesting. When I practiced and showed it to the director, he also found it interesting, so he gave me a chance to show it in front of the camera. ”
In the shot, when the ping-pong ball is thrown high, it rotates and lands on Wan Guopeng's fingertips, coupled with his sweat-soaked forehead hair, a determined and focused look. At that moment, the figure of Liu Shi seemed to have a thousand rays of light, and it was the rebirth of Nirvana that had been obtained through all kinds of tempering.
"Before playing Liu Shi, my idea was very simple, I felt that the future was full of beauty, and I wanted to enjoy the present. But after the shooting, I felt that people actually have to suffer and suffer all the time, and only by constantly practicing can life be beautiful in suffering. ”
Maintain the original intention "Passerby A" has light
Although 6 years have passed, when it comes to actor Wan Guopeng, people will first mention the movie "I am a passerby". This film, directed by Er Dongsheng and starring a group of mass actors who "drifted" in Hengdian, is still the "white moonlight" in the hearts of many fans. In an acting competition variety show that ended a few months ago, the film's footage was reinterpreted. It is also because of this "passerby A" that the "horizontal drifting" Wan Guopeng at that time stood in front of the national audience.
Speaking of this film, he is still very grateful to director Er Dongsheng. Because he starred in "I Am a Passerby", he opened the door to Wan Guopeng's career as an actor and let his life see more and more beautiful scenery. "Then, let me make my dreams come true."
In Wan Guopeng's view, "Passerby A" has light, which is also the reason why the film is still frequently mentioned to this day. "This play is light and hopeful. Therefore, its vitality is stronger, let people remember for a longer time, and be a person the same, to have light and hope. ”
But after 6 years have passed, Wan Guopeng is no longer the lonely and nameless actor who floats in Hengdian. At that time, with a movie dream and 1,000 yuan, he came to Hengdian, Zhejiang Province, and slept only for two or three hours in 48 hours. The male protagonist "Wan Guopeng" in "I Am a Passerby" like a chicken blood is a reflection of itself.
"Anyway, until now, my passion has not changed. Every time I receive a well-scripted role, I get a lot of excitement. And in the process of filming, every time you enter the crew, you will have a sense of happiness. The "sense of happiness" depicted by Wan Guopeng is a sense of reality that is getting closer and closer to the "actor's dream". "Over the years, I have been studying acting without stopping, and I don't want to think about it so much. Go ahead. Just do it！ ”
【Dialogue with Wan Guopeng】
Cover News: Is there any interesting thing about the cooperation with Bai Jingting and Xu Weizhou in "Glory Ping Pong"? The main actors of the play are all boys, is the theater particularly noisy and joyful?
Wan Guopeng: In the crew, everyone will play table tennis together when they are fine. Anyway, Xiaobai and Zhouzhou are quite interesting, and people are also quite funny. What impressed me more was to shoot a scene with Xiao Bai, which was particularly enjoyable. It was a scene where the two of us ate hot pot together, and when I started up, my brain suddenly went blank and I forgot my lines. But in the process of eating hot pot, I seemed to be in harmony with the characters, chatting with Xiao Bai, and then found that the scene was over.
After I watched the replay, I said the basic and the lines are consistent content, XiaoBai also has some improvisational feedback. I think this scene is very enjoyable, not like the state of the performance.
Cover News: Did you learn anything from starring in this work? Did it have any impact on your subsequent performance path?
Wan Guopeng: Yes, because before I took this play, I just went to the "Yamashita Academy" to learn 3 months of acting courses. The process of learning itself allows me to have more absorption, and after learning, I directly entered the crew to practice it, and I feel that I have made great progress in performance.
Cover News: In some interviews, I saw that you went to the "Yamashita Academy" for further study, and also posted screenshots of participating in the acting class on Weibo. Is this a way to keep your passion for acting?
Wan Guopeng: "Yamashita Academy" I have studied several times, in 2018 to learn, that is, when they first class, they went to study for 3 months. Then some time ago in the online course, I also went to try it. Because I feel that this is a place to simply learn to act, where you can share and create some acting things, and explore more possibilities of acting together.
Anyway, I think I gained a lot, the most important thing in the performance is to be true, real and sincere.
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