Young actors need to go through an inevitable process from "uncertain" to "certain".
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A general dilemma for young actors.
For Zhou, the most difficult questions for her to answer are "how do you describe your personality" and "what kind of personal planning do you have?" Because she didn't know herself well enough, "I felt that I was uncertain, and I couldn't simply define it in a few words."
Throughout the interview, Zhou still asked more than once: "As a young actor, can I not be sure?" In Zhou's view, at present, she has not thought about how to define and position herself, nor how to achieve specific development goals, she is more pursuing to understand herself, and hopes to see her progress in the process.
In fact, not only zhou is still a young actor facing self-awareness doubts, the vast majority of young actors entering the market need to go through such a process of finding themselves and recognizing themselves. The problem is that the market and the public have ignored this fact, and seem to think that these young actors should mature quickly and become independent.
From this point of view, for young actors, it is reasonable to have "uncertainty". The market and the public need to accept and tolerate the emergence of "uncertain" young actors, and give these young actors more time and space to understand themselves and continue to develop. This is something that deserves attention.
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— "Labels are more positive" —
The label is not trained.
In the development process of the entire market, there are indeed many young actors who have gained relatively good popularity by starring in some representative works, such as Zhou Dongyu, who starred in "The Love of Hawthorn Tree", Yang Zi and Zhang Yishan, who are well known with the "Family with Children" series.
Like these young actors with certain masterpieces, with the role of Dalijiao in "The Sky of the Wind Dog Youth", Zhou still gained a relatively good public recognition: "Although this drama has long ended, there will still be many people who will see me call me Dalijiao and Jiaojie. ”
In fact, for many actors, having a masterpiece means that they have been labeled with a certain label, and if the next work does not show difference and progress, it may be difficult to get rid of this label that has brought a preconceived impression to the public, or people will compare this role with their representative role.
For Zhou, she feels that the label is more positive, "that is a kind of recognition of my acting skills by the public." Although she did flash the thought of fear of the label of "Dalijiao", it was still quite indifferent, "because when everyone sees me, I will feel that my personality is not like Dalijiao at all, and this contrast will make everyone think that I am more than Dalijiao as an actor."
In Zhou's view, when people mention an actor, they think of a certain role, and when they mention this role, they think of this actor, which is a recognition of the role created by this actor, "How the audience defines it is based on their impression and like of this role, and you need to play the next role well is two different things."
In this regard, Zhou still mentioned her favorite actor Sun Li, she felt that everyone would use "Niangniang" to call Sun Li, because everyone loved and recognized Sun Li's performance in court dramas, which is a label, but it did not affect Sun Li's next role in film and television works such as "That Year the Flowers Bloom and the Moon Is Round".
It is a different view of the label, Zhou still did not think to deliberately break the label of "Vigorous Jiao", and insisted on going with the flow of the next role, "This time there are indeed a lot of similar roles to come to me, the overlap of roles is about 20%, more or less concerned about the role and the work itself, as long as this role is good enough, I am still willing to take it, and then several completely different roles do not say, I want to quickly take over the role that is different from Dalijiao, otherwise it is defined what to do."
In addition, Zhou still believes that for young actors, it is very important to understand how their public evaluation is, and the audience's love and problems are certainly worth self-examination and summary. She hopes that she is inseparable from the audience, "not to cater to everyone, I hope that even if I pursue individuality and uniqueness, I am not isolated from the world, and I am a person who understands."
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—Finding yourself among young actors—
You need to recognize your own process.
In recent years, there have been many acting variety shows such as "I Am an Actor" in the market, and we can also see that many young actors actively participate in these programs. Among these young actors, Ren Min, who can clearly see where his strengths are, and maximize his display and win the S rating all the way, is almost a minority.
Therefore, the vast majority of young actors hope to explore and experiment with themselves through these acting variety shows, so as to explore more possibilities for themselves as actors. Zhou, who is "acceptable in any type and style of role," still clearly falls into this category, "most of the actor friends around me are similar to me."
In fact, for Zhou, she is very clear that she is in a state of "uncertainty": "I feel that my mind has not yet been determined, and I can't position myself to develop in this direction." So, I want to try to diversify my roles and styles, at least going through a process of growing and honing my mind, finding myself and opening myself up in the process. ”
If you go back to two years ago, Zhou still can't imagine that he will play roles such as Dalijiao and Chen Zhen, which are not very related to himself, "Although I still don't fully understand the reason why the director let me play these roles, but the director did dig out what I didn't find, which also means that I can find some new things in me, so I won't define myself at this stage."
In addition, unlike the actor friends around who want to try to participate in the acting variety show, Zhou's idea is not so strong, "I am a complete newcomer in this field, or I hope to wait until I have a certain understanding of myself and all aspects are more mature, and then go to participate." If you must go to the show now, Zhou is still more concerned about whether he can hone and understand himself more in it.
However, although Zhou is still "not sure" what her strengths are, she has a certain direction in recognizing herself. Among them, Zhou, who has studied classical dance for 9 years, still wants to try the roles of ancient costumes and martial arts, "One is to look forward to the contrast brought about by this role, and the other is to see if the professional who has studied for so long will be my advantage and whether it can develop into my advantage."
It is worth noting that not only is Zhou still a young actor who does not know much about himself, but also needs to explore himself and find himself, but many young actors are now in or have been in a similar "uncertain" dilemma, and they need to go through the "uncertain" stage of groping and rolling in order to move towards "certainty".
Therefore, for the market and the public, it is necessary to give these young actors a certain amount of time and space to wait for them to change from "uncertain" to "certain".
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—Young actors need "anti-cognitive consensus"—
A race against yourself.
For young actors, there will be some classic cases in the market in the early years, such as "Girl" Zhou Dongyu, who has gained a lot of popularity with "The Love of hawthorn trees", and at the same time entered the market, she began to have relatively good market resources, so as to go more and more steadily.
However, with the importance of content highlighted, today's market has undergone a lot of changes, young actors only rely on a masterpiece, it is difficult to make their talents and potential fully recognized, and the appeal of the label "Girl" no longer has an absolute advantage.
From this point of view, although the market and the public no longer require young actors to have data traffic, they have begun to require young actors to quickly show their acting skills. This cognitive shift obviously ignores the fact that most young actors cannot be determined in terms of development goals and other aspects as soon as they enter the market, but have experienced a series of explorations of "uncertainty" to become "certain".
As Zhou is still in a dilemma, she needs to figure out" As a young actor, shouldN't I be unsure?" The answer to this question. Many young actors have also begun to question the existence of this "uncertainty", not knowing whether this is reasonable. In fact, it is precisely because the market and the public have the above cognitive misunderstandings about young actors that these young actors face such self-perception confusion.
In this regard, the "uncertain" Week still has its own direction - in the current development process, it is most important to be able to see that you play each role well and achieve progress. Therefore, Zhou still sets all his development goals and plans on his own body, "no matter how many works he will shoot every year, how far he can go in this industry, he will only pay attention to his actual changes."
After all, as an actor from a non-science class, Zhou still has not systematically studied film and television performance, and she needs to constantly look back at her own works, analyze and summarize her problems one by one, and see her progress little by little in order to go further. "I agree with my friends around me on this point. I have too much to improve, and I don't have much self-confidence in this. ”
Therefore, whether it is the cooperation with director Cao Baoping, as well as the film works with different styles such as "Shadow Ashes" written and produced by Li Fan, or participating in the "Sea of Stars" young actor selection program, the current "uncertain" Zhou is still looking for direction through one work after another, and perhaps in the near future she can give her own "sure" answer. And Zhou's awakened "anti-cognitive consensus" is exactly what many "uncertain" young actors need.
In addition, what can be seen from the representative of Zhou Zheng is that since many young actors entered the market, they do not lack the cognition of self-development planning, choose all the ways to deal with it casually, and may be more in how to achieve progress from "uncertain" to "certain", choosing a form of self-competition.