The TV series "Graduation Song", which pays tribute to the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, will be broadcast this summer, and the work written by Yan Geling has attracted much attention long before it was broadcast. This is a well-made era drama, focusing on famous screenwriters, famous directors, famous actors, in addition to the strong cast of Cass, the performance of several young actors is also worth looking forward to, and Wang Sisi, who has a large number of rival plays with Wang Yaoqing and Fu Xinbo in the play, is one of them.
Taking advantage of the gap between Wang Sisi's filming and filming, we interviewed her.
With short hair, a loose T-shirt, jeans, and a casual dress, Wang Sisi looks better than her on the screen. She said that because she is a round face and her facial features are not three-dimensional enough, she will suffer more when she is photogenic, but she is indeed a beautiful girl in life. It is rare to see actresses with round faces in this era, and it is also a good thing to be able to maintain their own characteristics, otherwise there are awl faces everywhere, and excessive similarities are easy to get bored. Not only are the facial features original, Wang Sisi's name is also her real name, Wang Sisi's father was a soldier in Shijiazhuang when he was young, originally wanted to name his daughter Wang Sishi, but also felt that this name is too strong for girls, simply called Sisi.
Being an actor is not an easy task
This summer, Wang Sisi can finally rest for two months, the previous year she has been filming, living a long life in the crew, "the internal division Qin is out of balance, the key is that she has gained a lot of weight." "Just with this holiday, she can adjust her body, go to see a Chinese doctor, and now try to live a healthy and regular life, do not drink cold things, do not eat sweets, insist on walking for an hour every day, and go to bed before 11 o'clock at night...
After the end of the holiday, Wang Sisi wanted to join the group again to shoot the TV series "Twilight clouds on the sea". The director of this play is Cao Dun, and Wang Sisi has cooperated with him many times, and the upcoming TV series "Graduation Song" is directed by Cao Dun.
The story of "Graduation Song" takes place in Shanghai during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in which Wang Sisi and Fu Xinbo play a pair of young people with green plum bamboo horses, and the two of them ran into each other for a long time when they filmed the first scene. In the first scene, Wang Sisi's father died, and she wanted to find a photo of her father to use at the funeral, but the home had been destroyed by the Japanese, and the photo could not be found, and Wang Sisi's whole son was in a state of turmoil. At this time, Fu Xinbo, who had been away from home for a long time, returned, and in this scene, Fu Xinbo's main task was to wake up Wang Sisi. He shook Wang Sisi over and over again and said, "I am Ah Mu!" I am back! ”
"Fu Simbo shook me for half a day, I didn't feel anything at all, the two of us were not on the same channel at all." After that, the director told them about the scene little by little, and this one was filmed seven or eight times, and suddenly there was a moment when it felt right. "Sometimes two actors need to touch little by little to find the feeling."
When filming this play, Wang Sisi's face grew two quite large acne, and Wang Yaoqing, who played her brother, always teased her: "Sister, don't you stare at me like this with these two pomples?" ”
When it comes to the process of filming, no matter how hard and tired, Wang Sisi feels very interesting. At first glance, being an actor should be a fun thing to do, to travel through different times and experience different lives. Is it easy to ask Wang Sisi to be an actor? Her answer was yes: not easy! She always remembers the year when she graduated from Chinese opera, she met seventy or eighty crews in half a year, because she was a newcomer, it was difficult to get the opportunity.
There are many variables in the actor's path, the competition is fierce, and sometimes fame is a matter of an instant, but sometimes you may not be able to catch a good opportunity after decades. Wang Sisi is not the kind of child who has dreamed of stardom since she was a child, and before she went to college, she thought that if she could not pass the Chinese opera, it would be good for her to be a teacher in her hometown of Shenyang, which was an ideal that she felt was practical and feasible. Now, it has been five years since she graduated from Chinese opera, filmed a lot of scenes, and walked smoothly on the road of an actor, but she still feels that it is too difficult to be an actor. Actors need strength, but they also need opportunity and luck, and we can only give our fate to time and let it give us the answer.
The first time I filmed a period drama
"Graduation Song" is the first period drama filmed by Wang Sisi, the background of this play is Shanghai in the late 1930s, the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders are rampant in China, some enthusiastic young people in Shanghai have embarked on the road of resisting Japan and saving the country, they have students who are studying and engineers who have returned from overseas, the whole drama has a certain spy war color, the plot is ups and downs, gripping.
In this play, Wang Yaoqing plays an aircraft manufacturer and has emotional entanglements with Sang Xia, played by Li Xiaoran. Wang Sisi as Wang Yaoqing's sister Hong Wangmei, is a naïve little girl, the cruel war made her lose her homeland, the boy she liked since childhood, Fu Xinbo, has another love, in the mood of despair, she went to Chongqing and married a Kuomintang officer. A few years later, she returned to Shanghai, at this time she became an official wife who only knew how to make money and enjoy, and the complex plot continued to unfold...
In this play, Wang Sisi's crying scene is particularly vivid, she said that because she has loved to cry since she was a child, her emotions have come up, and tears can gush out like a tap. "But it's not okay to cry, and I later found that just having tears is not enough to express the pain, and the feeling that there are tears that can't flow is more impressive."
Because it was the first time to shoot a period drama, at the beginning Wang Sisi was a little unable to find the rhythm, and after being said by the director a few times, she slowly found the feeling. Wang Sisi is very good at learning, even if there is no her scene in the crew, she will also observe how other actors act on the filming scene, this time she entered the group relatively early, at the beginning there was no opportunity to see other actors filming, for a while it was a bit blind.
Although he is a newcomer, Wang Sisi is still quite hard to play. When she first debuted, she filmed the TV series "Xiaoju's Spring", and the director was Yang Guanyu of Taiwan. Wang Sisi was a little nervous because of his lack of experience, and he was not in a state at the beginning, and he was scolded by the director very badly. "I was scolded for having no face, so I simply tore my face to act, and then the director said you were right, you found the feeling!"
"Tearing up the face to act", this is Wang Sisi's perception of the actor industry, she said that in the classroom of Chinese opera, the teacher also taught them this, but for the new actors, it is not easy to really do this.
Catching up with Yan Geling's works for the first time to shoot a period drama is a rare opportunity for Wang Sisi to exercise. Wang Sisi is still very familiar with Yan Geling's works, and when we talk about "Little Aunt Duohe", she can tell the difference between the original work and the TV series.
I was "blinded" on the middle play
Wang Sisi began to learn ethnic dance at the age of 4, and later went to art school. Like many art school children, entering an art university like Nortel is an important choice when they graduate from art school. They have a foundation in dance or vocal music, and their image is good, and the probability of entering these universities is higher.
When she was admitted to the play, her family did not have much hope for her, because her family did not do this line of work, and they felt that the goal of going from Shenyang to beijing university was too ambitious and did not dare to think. Wang Sisi's grandmother even said: "If you can get into the Chinese opera, I will screw my head down and kick you as a ball!" ”
However, her parents supported her choice and hoped that she would try it. In the first year of the examination for the play, Wang Sisi's score was more than 100, and he was not admitted. In the second year of the re-examination, her score ranked 43rd, the admission quota of the undergraduate class of the Department of Acting was 25 students, and 18 people in front of Wang Sisi did not score enough in the cultural class, and she entered the Chinese opera as the last student to make up the record.
Before going to college, Wang Sisi's personality was a bit introverted, and after going to college, Wang Sisi changed a lot, his personality became lively, and even became a "female man". The students carried the scenery, two girls carried one, and Wang Sisi carried it alone and left. When other girls move, there will always be boys to help, Wang Sisi is busy alone, when the boys walk past her, it is like they did not see it, because they are used to it, and the boys regard her as a buddy.
When actors also need talent, Wang Sisi said that her artistic feeling is very good, especially when she is a freshman, the freshmen who have just entered the school do not know much about acting, she can master the rhythm of the performance, and she is also very comfortable when she goes on stage. But since her sophomore year, she has not worked hard, and she has never read the script in its entirety, and with her little cleverness, she can successfully pass her coursework. In her senior year, she began to work hard, and when she rehearsed the graduation drama, she won the female number one in one of the groups, and the homework she turned in several times that year was also good.
Like many girls in the flower season, relaxing their studies is only because of an unforgettable love, which is a compulsory course for youth. Love will make people grow, for people who study acting, love is also a kind of learning, if you have not loved yourself, how do you show your love and hate in the drama? Acting is a very practical science, and it is necessary to understand the subtle things in human nature from the details of life.
Observing life, this is the basic course for those who study acting. In freshman year, the teacher asks the students to observe and experience the things around them, and then hand over their homework. Wang Sisi's first homework was to observe the small shop in front of the school, the shop was opened by a couple, they also sold pancake fruit, Wang Sisi went to learn pancakes with others, when doing homework, the stove and pot were moved to the classroom, and the pancakes were performed for everyone on the spot. "The pancakes in my stall are full of color and flavor, and they are still good."
Since entering the industry, Wang Sisi has always given people the impression of being a well-behaved woman, very young and sweet. This is not only her screen image, she is more or less like this in life, very homely, when not filming, she hides at home and watches movies, and at most she can watch six films a day. She likes to watch American dramas, like "Game of Thrones", "Basic Deduction", "Super Heroes" are her dishes, and she likes to watch detective and fantasy things.
Looking at Wang Sisi's work list, the number is not small, and she also said that she is an "old man". She feels that she is now at a hurdle in her acting career, needing to adjust, need to recharge, and need to reflect. After filming so many scenes, it is inevitable that a pattern will be formed, she hopes that she can make a breakthrough, now is just the beginning, there is still a long way to go in the future. "I now watch more films when I have time and learn how other people act."
After more than five years in the acting industry, Wang Sisi has not become another person, and this original taste is one of her characteristics. Sometimes it's hard to keep yourself, especially in this bizarre entertainment industry.