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After participating in the "Annual Comedy Competition", Shi Ce was "beautiful"

After participating in the "Annual Comedy Competition", Shi Ce was "beautiful"

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Until 2021, Strauss never felt beautiful. Graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy, starred in many drama musicals, and played roles in popular movies such as "Hello, Li Huanying" and "The Unknown Generation", these experiences are remarkable, but Shi Ce still feels that he does not have a "beautiful face" in the public sense. In 2021, she participated in the "Annual Comedy Competition", people saw an unworldly face, many people thought she was beautiful, and the audience loved her wisdom and agility, especially the comedy work "Hao Shi Cheng Shuang • Love Six Steps" created by her and Wang Hao, allowing people to enjoy joy and sugar while laughing and tears to see their own shadows.

In the past few years, Shi Ce has experienced the pride and bottleneck of the drama career, and has also tasted luck and setbacks in the film and television field, and the ups and downs of life have made her feel that this is the norm. Through the Annual Comedy Contest, she seized this "chance not to escape."

For acting, Shi Ce has a restless, unsatisfied love: "I am an actor, I hope to be able to act all the time." I can act in comedy and be very happy; I can act in the right drama and have fun. I also didn't want to be classified as a 'film and television actor', so I went to try to see if I could do variety shows. I just wanted to be an actor who could do it, so I wanted to change what I could still do. ”

Yu Hewei, one of the "presidents" of the "Comedy Contest", said that Shi Ce has a particularly precious logic of life. At this moment, she has become sunny and confident again in the tempering of life logic, which is particularly beautiful.

After participating in the "Annual Comedy Competition", Shi Ce was "beautiful"

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Passive "Buddhism" from love to confusion

At the age of 12, Shi Ce, who had studied dance in his hometown in Heilongjiang for a year, applied for the Beijing Dance Academy Affiliated High School under the advice of his father and was admitted to the Department of Song and Dance. Before that, she slept in the same bed with her mother every day until the fifth and sixth grades of elementary school. The mother and daughter were inseparable, and the father told Xiao Shi Ce: "Don't be a frog at the bottom of the well, you must learn to be independent, you have to go out and have a look." ”

In junior high school, Shi Ce was the youngest student in the class, but she made a strict study plan for herself, took the initiative to work in the morning, and did not want her parents who came from afar to come to see the debriefing performance one day, and she was arranged to the last row because of her short stature and poor professionalism. In order to learn to dance better, she strictly controlled her diet and weighed herself every day, a habit that continues to this day.

It didn't take long for Shi Ce to clearly find the original sense of accomplishment—acting. Compared to vocal music and dance, acting classes always excite her, and she never worries about acting homework, but looks forward to and enjoys the fun of returning to class. Her imitation performances are vivid and vivid, and it is easy to create new characters. In 2010, Shi Ce was admitted to the Musical Theater Department of the Beijing Dance Academy and continued to fulfill her dream of acting.

However, after Shi Ce entered the university, he found that the acting class was not as much as expected, and the content of the vocal music class was also "pickpocketing". Moreover, she has always had doubts about the art form of cabaret: "Is there anything that cannot be said well?" Why do you have to sing it? Half confused and half relaxed, Shi Ce's whole person became loose.

The experience of appearing on stage for the first time in the third year of college gave Shi Ce a strong dose of medicine, and it also became an unforgettable life lesson for her life.

After participating in the "Annual Comedy Competition", Shi Ce was "beautiful"

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At the end of 2013, the drama "Rent Inspiration", directed by Huang Kai, a teacher and drama director at The Beijing Dance Academy, will start the second round of performances. Huang Kai had long seen that Shi Ce didn't like musicals and had always wanted to act in dramas, so he asked her if she wanted to try it. Shi Ce was overjoyed to join the rehearsal of the crew.

However, she was confused at the beginning of rehearsals. The stage is a three-sided stage, the performance details will be seen by more audiences through different angles, and the stage scheduling is more complicated. Rehearsing together were the original team members of the first round of performances, and only Shi Ce was a newcomer. She either forgot her lines or couldn't remember the movements, remembered the lines and forgot the stage scheduling. Shi Ce, who thought that acting was his strongest subject, was completely shattered by his self-confidence when participating in this drama. She felt like she couldn't perform at all. The day before the official start, Shi Ce finally broke down, and he knelt on the ground and cried in the middle of the rehearsal.

The drama ushered in the premiere, Shi Ce went to the bathroom on stage, and after taking the stage, he couldn't help but shiver, or wanted to go to the bathroom. "It's like a nightmare, I can't remember how it was done. It wasn't until the fourth or fifth show that I felt alive on stage. The experience was later described by her as "the tense pinnacle of life."

Shi Ce woke up like a dream and began to perform evil performances. The following year, she participated in a new round of performances in "Rent Revelation". At the end of the last show, the director came on stage and gave her a big hug and introduced "Actor Shi Ce" to the audience. Shi Ce regained some confidence, and since then, the opportunity for drama performances has continued. In 2016, she also went to participate in the Avignon Theatre Festival in France, and performed 25 consecutive plays "Mr. Zhuang", which was enough to enjoy drama and see the best theatrical performances in the world.

But before long, Shi Ce found that after continuing to perform, the freshness of the drama stage disappeared, and even a little nostalgic for the "peak moment of tension": "The desire to perform a good play is gone, and the most terrible thing is that I almost fell asleep during one performance." "Shi Ce decided to find a way out of the film and television drama.

After participating in the "Annual Comedy Competition", Shi Ce was "beautiful"

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From drama to film and television drama, it means exploring a completely unfamiliar field. Shi Ce said that her success rate in interviewing the crew during that time was "three percent": "Really, I went to interview 100 crews, and maybe 3 of them could give me a response." The profession of actor is too 'chosen', and not being chosen has become the norm in my life. Shi Ce, who had a bad turn, felt a psychological gap: "So he passively became a 'Buddha', but this Buddha was a Buddha for a long time." ”

Once, Shi Ce, who was used to being "not chosen", went to the interview for the movie "Back to the Future", and she told her agent: "Too far, don't come." The face is the female number one, and most of them are not played. But unexpectedly, the night after the interview, she received a notice from the crew and was selected. The male number one who played with her was Zhao Yingjun, and when filming, he recognized Shi Ce, who had been an assistant to him in a variety show. Sze said it was a precious and enjoyable shooting experience. "I used to think that Teacher Zhao was a star, but he always said that he was just a musician and I was a professional actor, so he respected my expression very much and asked my opinion on the handling of some details."

After that, Zhao Yingjun also recommended Shi Ce to other crews. In February 2021, Shi Ce learned the bad news of Zhao Yingjun's death, and after being hurt, he looked through the chat records, and their last conversation stopped at Zhao Yingjun's encouragement to Shi Ce: "Just one thing!" Just one thing you're out of. Good luck. ”

Hao Shi became a pair Of good luck finally came

Good luck really came.

In the spring of 2021, Shi Ce received a private message from Weibo inviting her to participate in a variety show called "Annual Comedy Competition". Sze's first reaction was: a liar. But after confirming the news, her second reaction was: Variety is toxic. Some of the comedians around Strauss were also invited. "Are there people on the stage who know each other and entertain themselves?" Are thirty years old people, than what? Sze reflexively wanted to refuse.

But this matter did not really dissolve from Shi Ce's mind. She thinks about the state of recent years and realizes that the most important reason why she has become the "person who is not chosen" is that she does not take the initiative to choose, but is immersed in a passive cycle. She decided to seize this "opportunity not to escape". Sze accepted the offer and struggled to find a partner. In April 2021, she met Wang Hao through the introduction of a friend.

Stills from "Zhisheng One Strike"

That day, Shi Ce met with his friend Wang Hao at a café in Beijing. The first time we met Shi Ce, we were more than half an hour late, and when we came, we kept saying "I'm sorry." Both Shi Ce and Wang Hao were slow and hot, and fell into the embarrassment of not being able to talk directly. If Shi Ce wanted to express some views on Wang Hao, he would first say to his friends, and then the friends would "translate" to Wang Hao, and Wang Hao would do the same to Shi Ce.

Back home, Shi Ce opened Weibo, and the system recommended a sketch that Wang Hao had played before, and she vaguely felt that this was the fate of the underworld; later received a message from Wang Hao: "If you choose other people, you can tell me early, I am good to choose others." Shi Ce was impressed by the news: "I think he can say this to me after the meeting, it is still very sincere." So at that time, it was decided: the group will be grouped, and the hanging will be hung. ”

Wang Hao and Shi Ce began to write the script together. At first, there was no tacit understanding, the two did not understand each other's attitude and style, they were hidden, the content they wanted to express was only 30% output, and the script created was also very bland. Until the first attempt at improvisation, they suddenly found that they knew every word and every motive that the other party had to say! The two instantly confirmed that they had really found a tacit partner. Shi Ce said: "After the performance, he threw me (his hand), and we both bowed at the same time and closed the curtain together. Not negotiable at all! Shi Ce and Wang Hao saw the psychological rhythm that perfectly matched each other, and after the performance, they went to have a drink together, and since then they have become open-minded comrades-in-arms.

After participating in the "Annual Comedy Competition", Shi Ce was "beautiful"

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The two focused their creations on the comedy of life flow, choosing love as the theme of the incision. None of them expected that the first time they spoke to each other, you said a word to me, and all the sentences seemed to jump out on their own, so they quickly completed the first script they co-created, "Lover Missed". But by mistake, they chose "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" as the premiere, staging an urban warm story that happened in a taxi. The performance was appreciated and encouraged by the judges. Shi Ce cried a lot on the stage, and after the show was broadcast, the family and friends who witnessed Shi Ce's growth along the way also cried.

In the second competition, Shi Ce and Wang Hao staged "Lover Missed" as they wished, which also became their favorite work in all the repertoire. Shi Ce said that "Lover Missed" marked her and Wang Hao's icebreaking: "We are not as unfamiliar as before, and we are one step closer to each other." The premiere chose another play, and it was not until the second stage to perform it, and it was still very emotional to give up and take back something. ”

After participating in the "Annual Comedy Competition", Shi Ce was "beautiful"

Stills from "Lover Missed"

More and more people began to speculate about Shi Ce's relationship with Wang Hao, and Shi Ce's closest friend also came to ask her, and even revealed expectations in his eyes. But It was only after the third or fourth episode that Shi Ce figured out what "SNORT CP" meant. Looking back on those times together now, she feels that the two of them have indeed become more and more like each other - Shi Ce will comfort Wang Hao, who was habitually nervous before the performance, which makes him more relaxed, natural and stable later; and Shi Ce feels that after partnering with Wang Hao, his biggest change is to become sunny and happy: "Slowly infected by Wang Hao, he began to become hopeful and expectant." ”

Now, Shi Ce, who has stepped out of the "Annual Comedy Competition", has returned to the track of work and has also received new film and television drama invitations. Of course, she also hopes to meet the right script and then cooperate with Wang Hao.

Shi Ce said that he had an actress's age anxiety in the past two years, afraid of getting old, and now 28 years old is not afraid. You can be cheerful and lively before the age of 30, and you can also be happy after that. But unlike the original, behind the liveliness of the present is the stability after the twists and turns. "It's a little more stable than before, and I like my current self." She said.

After participating in the "Annual Comedy Competition", Shi Ce was "beautiful"

Shi Ce and Wang Hao

BAZAAR: How do you define "intelligence" and "beauty"?

Shi Ce: Beauty is something with weight and texture, separated from wisdom, beauty can only flow on the surface frivolously; "wisdom", which is wisdom, intelligence, and intelligence, will be continuously expanded with the deepening of experience. I think that there is wisdom to have beauty, and wisdom and beauty are strongly related to cause and effect.

BAZAAR: In what ways do you think it is possible to attain or approach the "wisdom" and "beauty" in the mind?

Sze: Don't complain about life. Having endured pain can make you strong. In this way, whether it is a surprise or a suffering, you will not be surprised, and life experience will bring you closer to wisdom and beauty. Only those who are stable are happy.

(For full text and graphic content, see Harper's Bazaar, April 2022) Curator, Editor/Li Jin

Photography / Wei Wei

Written by Guo Rong

Makeup / Dou Kai

Styling/Qin Lei

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