On the afternoon of December 20, CCTV's "Chinese Literature and Art" recorded the 30-year gathering activity of the TV series "Longing". The cast and crew in the play are also the most neat reunion of the whole crew after the broadcast of "Desire" in 1990.
"Longing" 30 years of reunion
Several of the protagonists and supporting roles are the most eye-catching, playing Liu Huifang's Kaili, playing Song Dacheng's Li Xuejian, playing Wang Husheng's Sun Song, and playing Wang Yaru's old friend Huang Meiying's old friend reunited. Lan Tianye, who played Wang Husheng's father, Wang Zitao, was over ninety years old and also came to the scene of the show.
"Longing" crew Li Xuejian, Kaili, Sun Song, Huang Meiying, Yang Qing, Meng Xiu and others
Many protagonists and supporting roles have arrived, but the actor Han Ying, who plays Huifang's mother, Aunt Liu, is missing. Han Ying is exactly 80 years old this year, and due to physical inconvenience, it is regrettable that he did not appear on this stage. However, if it is about the popularity of the role that year, the attraction of Aunt Liu is by no means under many roles, and she has a clear personality, and in the eyes of many audiences, her charm even surpasses the protagonist Liu Huifang, who is too stoic.
Many viewers may not know, or have forgotten many years ago, in "Longing", Aunt Liu and Wang Husheng looked at each other, and the two actors in life are actually a mother and son.
Stills from "Longing"
In May 2013, I visited Han Ying's teacher's house for an interview with the story behind "I Love My Home", which happened to be Mother's Day. When I entered her old-fashioned house, I asked, today is Mother's Day, will Teacher Sun Song come over? Teacher Han Ying, who was full of silver hair, said that in the past few days, he has suffered a lot of pain in gallstones, and he can't come over today, and he won't let me see him.
I like the peaceful mother lao and comrade played by Han Ying in "I Love My Home", and I also like the aunt Liu she played in "Longing". Although Han Ying's teacher was already in a small situation at that time, the conversation was very strong that day, so in addition to "I Love My Home", I also asked some stories about her participation in "Longing".
It was an afternoon, the sun was shining in during the interview, and I took a few photos of Han Ying's teacher, who was deliberately wearing a red shirt. I took two pictures first, she looked at it and was not satisfied, then she cut her hair slightly, I took a few more pictures, and she read it before saying yes. Just this year, at the age of eighty, she opened a Weibo to inform the audience of her recent situation, one of which used the photos I took that day.
Han Ying was at home in May 2013. This article was taken by the author
At the end of the interview that day, I asked her to write a sentence in her notebook. Han Ying's words are very beautiful, at least not inferior to the other cast members on this book. When she signed the autograph, I asked, your name is not like the name of that era, is it a stage name? She laughed and said that no one had ever asked her this question, it was indeed not her real name, when she was a child, she liked movies too much, too much to act in movies, so she changed the name herself, "However, the real name can't tell you." ”
The following is the part of Han Ying's teacher about "Longing" that day.
I love comedy. I worked in the Beijing Opera Troupe and was a colleague with Mo Qi (double reed actor who had been on the Spring Festival Gala). I studied drama, originally worked in the China Youth Art Theater, and later transferred to the Opera Troupe. The opera troupe and the music troupe are separated for a while, and I like comedy and I guess it has something to do with being influenced by the music artists, and I also made a cross-talk drama at that time.
Han Ying's early performance photos. The first on the left is Han Ying
Han Ying took pictures in his early years. The left side in the back row is Han Ying
"I Love My Home" uses the language of crosstalk. Liang Zuo is engaged in music art, so there are many three-turn and four-shaking in the lines, which are all cross-talk techniques. Chinese comedy is not the kind of chaplin and bean in foreign countries, at that time it had not yet formed a fixed style, Liang Zuo put the cross-talk language into "I Love My Home", so it formed this style in the play. At present, "I Love My Home" is unprecedented, and all the sitcoms later are not as good as this play, the language is good, and the characters are portrayed well.
I was in the theater troupe when I was making "Longing.". Director Lu Xiaowei first approached my son Sun Song and asked him to play Wang Husheng. My lover is from the National Drama Theatre, and I always recommend actors to them, and Lu Xiaowei has not seen Sun Song for many years, and I have only seen him when he was a child. Later, the crew decided that Sun Song would play Wang Husheng, and Lu Xiaowei would see my old partner again, and my old partner would ask him, Are you still short of actors? Lu Xiaowei said, I still lack an old lady.
Lu Xiaowei has also engaged in music art. I later learned that he originally wanted to find this old lady in Beijing Renyi, but the actors who are more suitable for renyi are old, and the actor who plays Aunt Liu cannot be particularly old. He said I had several conditions, one was that I had to speak Beijing dialect, one was about 50 years old, and I had to smoke and drink.
My voice was hoarse, my vocal cords were broken, my vocal cords were closed in the theater troupe, and I was 50 years old. Listening to him say this, my lover said, then you see how my lover is. One day Lu Xiaowei came, right in this room, and as soon as he looked at me, hey, hey, I had long hair at the time, and he knew better when he heard it. He said to me, you wait for me for a few days. Why? At that time, he had just booked a person, but he was not satisfied with that person, he was relatively tall, he was a teacher, a bit of a literary style, and his temperament was not the same as that of ordinary people like Aunt Liu.
Lu Xiaowei asked me to wait for him for ten days, and on the tenth day he really called me and asked me to go. The Beijing Television Art Center, just next to the old Beijing Television Station, is quite shabby. When he got there, he didn't say anything, so he asked me to try on it, cut off my long hair, and cut a short hair like Aunt Liu's. When trying on the costume, the person in charge of the costume also said, you see, how suitable you are wearing this dress. He said that the actor was tall and dressed small. That's it, it's set.
Then I read the script, I was also very happy, the end of the lines are all crosstalk ending, and finally there is a bottom, with a small baggage. The crew set up a scene in Xishan, after entering the group has not been officially filmed, the actors first group paired, I and Xiao Yanzi (Liu Dama's daughter, Liu Huifang's sister) is a pair. We need to do sketches one by one, act out fragments from the play, and then show them to the leader. After reading it, the leader also said that our mother and son performed the best. The little actor who played Swallow was called Di Ying, and he was now on the central stage.
There are many people who write the script, mainly Li Xiaoming, as well as Wang Shuo, Wang Shi and many others. They turned to the dictionary and found the language of old Beijing for Aunt Liu, and asked her to say what the common people said in the past.
I remember one time after "Longing" was broadcast, when I took the train to where I was, and as soon as I got off the train, a conductor said to me, "The sky has fallen, and you are still walking in all directions." "This is Aunt Liu's word, I forgot, they memorized it." Similar to this language, there are many in the play, and there are many words after the break, they turned it out and gave the role of Aunt Liu.
The character of Aunt Liu is still relatively full. 50 episodes were originally relatively long, and at that time there were few dramas, and the people did not have anything else to watch. Now looking at "Longing" is still relatively simple, close to life, close to the people, belonging to the "three closeness" at that time. When some viewers saw me, I also said that we don't think you're an actor, it's like an ordinary person on some street. Although the southern audience does not feel as natural and close to this drama as the northern audience feels, they also watch it, saying that reason is the same, and people's thoughts and feelings are the same.
"Longing" is not good after the broadcast, the impact is too big. As far as my family is concerned, there are always people in my family who come to see me, so I stand at home and don't leave. That year's Golden Eagle Awards won four of our "Longing", male and female protagonists, male and female supporting actor contracts, I took the best supporting actress (Sun Song won the best supporting actor award). The people like this drama, and the above children are sure that I was still old enough to attend various seminars after acting.
Han Ying, Kelly, Blue Sky Wild and other members of the "Longing" stills took photos. The man in the front row is Lu Xiaowei, the director of the whole play
Yingda filmed "I Love My Home" and found me, it should be because I and Liang Tian acted in "The Second Son Opens a Shop". In fact, it was a small role, quite spicy, I didn't think how good the acting was, but the crew felt that I played very well, and Chen Laoqiang (old actor Chen Qiang, Chen Peisi's father) also felt good. Yingda should be the one who saw me through "The Second Son Opens a Shop", and isn't Liang Tian also in "I Love My Home"? They found out that I should have something to do with this, and I played Peace's mother. This old lady is more pretentious, going to the people to toss, the whole play is a comedy.
Stills from "The Second Son Opens a Shop", Han Ying and Chen Qiang
In the play, I have a line, "Peace, change the channel for my mother, see which station also broadcasts "Longing", let's watch it together", Song Dandan adjusted the station again and said, "It's all "Love You Is Not Negotiable". These lines were specially added to the script after I went, and the performance also had the actors play on the spot.
Stills from "I Love My Home"
The most important role in my acting career should be Aunt Liu in "Longing", unfortunately I am too old, if I am younger, I can definitely play a lot of drama for the audience.
Note: The photo of the gathering of "Longing" is from "Chinese Literature and Art"
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