In the just-concluded "Eat Well with You", the heroine Su Kelan has become the endorsement of contemporary people to "eat well and live well". For its actor Zheng Xianghong, the big thing in life is "good acting".
In the lifelong career of "acting", she spends her life pursuing and exploring.
Less than halfway through the broadcast, fans of "Eat With You" began to leave messages in the bullet screen area, Weibo and so on. In this era when everything must be "inner volume", the heroine Su Kelan uses "one meal and one meal" and "love family" to construct a very happy anti-inner volume energy, so that modern people who have suffered for a long time re-examine the value and meaning behind their busy lives.
When she first met Su Kelan, Zheng Xianghong was full of good feelings for this almost perfect girl. Smart, three views of integrity, a sense of proportion in dealing with people, the standard of the hall to the kitchen. Zheng Xianghong, who was filming the costume drama "This Guy I Can't Afford" in Hengdian at the time, has been pursuing a certain character authenticity for a long time, and Su Kelan let her see the possibility of interpreting the truth.
Anti-inner roll girls, new challenges
At first, Liking Su Kelan was attracted by her strong anti-inner curl temperament. As the plot progresses, she actually loves life and breeds a certain ability to balance life. Someone commented on Weibo on the heroine Su Kelan in "Eat With You".
This PR girl who refuses to work overtime and will use a health pot in the office to cook food for colleagues has become the envy of many professionals. With the development of the plot, excellent business ability, high emotional intelligence and correct three views for Su Kelan to continue to suck powder, the series entered the end, Su Kelan began to fade the "perfect" coat, showing the entanglement and powerlessness of ordinary people in life and emotional choices, so that this role compared to many urban emotional heroines have more grounded "flesh and blood" and "popularity", but also more pleasing.
Playing Su Kelan well is a challenging and continuous learning process for Zheng Xianghong, and it is not difficult to see her love for the role when sharing her shooting experience, as well as her real feeling of efforts in details. After talking to the producer about the role and the story feelings, she began to prepare audition clips: Su Kelan, who had just been promoted, interviewed the scene behind the criticism of her own employees in the same department.
After thinking about it, Zheng Xianghong decided to prepare two versions, one is to set the performance according to the script, and the other is to start from his own understanding, change the perspective of the character, and interpret the role in an empathetic way as a friend rather than a boss. The result, of course, is the success of getting the character, and the final episode clip is presented in a way that transforms the perspective of the character.
The intention of the audition clip was extended to the official shooting, and many viewers were impressed by Su Kelan's gentle and non-aggressive personality, which made Zheng Xianghong very happy. Because the character setting in the original script is intellectual and cold, but many of the lines are a bit literary, she is worried that the characters presented in this way will be "screwed". So after reading through the script, she hoped to use a more convincing way to interpret, after repeated discussions with the director and screenwriter, she decided to hide Su Kelan's own high coldness and intellectuality, amplify the gentleness and firmness of the characters, and it turned out that her understanding and perception of the characters was right.
Amplifying the gentleness wrapped a layer of humanity for Su Kelan's rationality, and also made her mishandling of some situations more convincing. However, this is just to figure out the background of the character, in the actual performance process, Zheng Xianghong also put a lot of effort into the details: although she can cook, she still personally tried to do all the food involved in the play, in her opinion, "a person who often cooks, for kitchen utensils, spices are very familiar, in the production process of the order of ingredients and process actions are subconscious natural reactions, you will make a dish and will not do the feeling is definitely different." ”
In addition, Zheng Xianghong, who is a boy herself, also has to grind "gentleness", she observes the friends who are very similar to Su Kelan in her life, studies their behavior, and the gentle and not cowardly character feeling comes from the daily life of these friends. As for understanding the background of the characters, constructing the psychological state of the characters when different events occur is a lesson that she is always preparing. Some people think that Su Kelan can weigh up work and take care of her mother most of the time, and even love is very good, Zheng Xianghong seems to be a very natural thing: Su Kelan was a bully when she was a child, and occasionally rebelled but encountered family changes, before the burden of taking care of her mother and family fell, she was an elite girl who could go to a famous school as a lawyer, cooking and staying at home were changes made in response to changes, and she also adapted well to this change.
"Self-sacrifice" and "striving for perfection" are a prominent label attached to Su Kelan," and Zheng Xianghong added some of her own small designs to this: a scene of being scum by her predecessor, the whole dinner table was overturned, she went downstairs to find evidence, and when she came back, she deliberately laid out some kind of emotional transformation outside the house, and finally faced her mother with a "no big problem" look. This kind of forbearance and indifference runs through almost all the plots of her relationship with her mother in the play, until finally her mother is critically ill and she breaks out.
This outbreak was originally set in the hospital stairwell to cry silently, Zheng Xianghong felt "depressed" after the performance, and Su Kelan came all the way, her every forbearance and concession, let Zheng Xianghong feel the energy and influence of the role, expressing understanding at the same time indispensable to hurt each other, so she communicated with the director to perform another version: in the face of her mother's critical illness, Yu Hao (played by Gao Hanyu) hospitalized, the company was in danger, after a series of changes such as emotional breakdown, she completely collapsed, and released without scruples in the collapse.
This "collapse" allowed Zheng Xianghong to release the emotions that had been suppressed for too long in his heart, and also made Su Kelan a real flesh and blood person. Even if the barrage area expressed surprise and even controversy about such a change, more people empathized with the pleasure of finally being able to "fight back" under the pressure of life through Su Kelan.
Sweet and moderate, sprinkle sugar with "opponents"
Zheng Xianghong, who has filmed more than one sweet pet, confessed that he encountered a different way of sprinkling sugar in "Eating with You". "The scale of the kiss scene is large, but many of them have been cut", and the love scenes that have been retained are more suitable for the characters and plots in her opinion.
In the eyes of the audience, Su Kelan and Yu Hao are a pair of lovers who are different from each other, a workaholic, and a home-based anti-internal volume, this difference is an obstacle that is difficult to cross in real life in the eyes of many people, so every time the two sprinkle sugar in the play, it triggers a heartwarming effect. Among them, the famous scene of Yu Hao wearing a shirt and letting Su Kelan sew buttons was repeatedly used by many fans to amway, and this scene also impressed Zheng Xianghong. "That scene was filmed for an hour or two, and the director shot it with his hands, and although Gao Hanyu and I were already familiar with each other, we were still shy. Be ambiguous, but not too many small feelings. ”
The way of hand-held and detailed close-up magnifies the ambiguous and emotional atmosphere, and the lighting and atmosphere make the sugar of this play different from the industrial saccharin sense given by many BG dramas, and another important factor in the "success of sugar sprinkling" is the opponent actor Gao Hanyu in Zheng Xianghong's view. This brain-opening opponent also inspired Zheng Xianghong's creative desire, and the two often discussed the plot and characters on the set, and some interesting scenes were the crystallization of inspiration collisions.
A scene after the breakup Of Su Kelan making a drink, she put the paper bag on Yu Hao's head, and then began to confess, the whole scene down she felt uncomfortable, so Gao Hanyu suggested that she borrow the prop pot to say some lines such as I cook for you to eat, and the final effect is a barrage area hahaha. In the plot of the marriage proposal, Zheng Xianghong also provides advice for Gao Hanyu from the perspective of the woman, such as inviting his mother out later, not showing signs of marriage proposal, such a design makes Yu Hao look thoughtful and have a sense of growth.
For fans who chase from the first episode to the finale, the position of the mother in Su Kelan's mind is unshakable, and putting the mother in a key position in a scene like the marriage proposal is undoubtedly a better show for the relationship and growth of the characters. From the perspective of Su Kelan, Zheng Xianghong is complete with the love in the play, keeping the spiritual core of herself and her opponent's characters, giving a real happy ending, and completing a "real person" that she has always hoped to create.
Playing the "real" person
In 2019, Zheng Xianghong participated in the recording of a young actor's on-set survival reality show "Acting School". She was impressed by what the show's guest, Zhang Songwen, said about "real people and real reactions", and she has been groping for what the so-called "real" is in her works and characters.
"In my understanding, when you see this character, you can think of someone around you, and that's a real person."
Such a reality does not have to land on a certain theme and genre, ancient costumes, the Republic of China, modern... Real people should be able to reflect the situation and state of people in real life. They may go to work to touch fish, feed stray cats, may face family dilemmas, may have dreams but have no chance to realize... Just like Su Kelan, there are flesh and blood defects, but also through their own efforts to achieve the ideal life, such a reality can resonate with the audience.
Playing a real person is also to let her grow up after some experience, Zheng Xianghong feels that Su Kelan has inferiority in her bones, this inferiority stems from family experience and the natural repression caused by it, but with Yu Hao's intervention and balance of family and work (the original Su Kelan is more focused on family life), she has completed her own transformation and growth, and also encouraged all people who follow the drama with this change.
For Zheng Xianghong, who entered the industry as a singer, the accumulation of works and roles is not small, and most of them cannot get rid of the lively and cute label: "The ghost horse girl dart master Yue Ziyuan in "This Mane I Can't Afford", the bully Lin Luojing in "The End of the World", the girl Lin Xia in "PenglaiJian", Zheng Xianghong will "find a difference" for each seemingly similar role, combined with the character background and growth experience, even if they are lively and cute, but some are angry, some are green.
Being an actor is a career of continuous advancement for her, choosing works and roles is more from the production team, a good production team can give her more creative nutrients, and she is particularly good at exploring and finding fresh unknowns in each performance. In her daily life, she will also constantly add weight to herself: singing, playing the piano, fitness, and experiencing a variety of different lives are also part of the accumulation of roles.
Worried about limitations and bottlenecks?
She seems to have never had such concerns, and there are still many who have not tried, leaving more space for actor Zheng Xianghong to leave the audience with many surprises.