What should a middle-aged actor look like? Is it to rely on popularity and popularity, have always adhered to their idol image, played juvenile roles, or should they follow the trend of increasing age, like Lei Jiayin, Zhang Yi and others, and gradually take on some roles that match their age? It is estimated that this is a question that many viewers have been thinking about.
For the girls in the rice circle, their idols, even if they are more than half a hundred teenagers, as long as they look ok, there is no problem. But for the audience, people don't just look at an actor who looks good, but whether his state, acting skills, and whether he can fully support a role.
In the entertainment industry, many middle-aged male actors are always unaware of their age problems, and the roles they play seem to be some young roles. Zhang Han, 37 years old, in "The End of the Smoke", changed into the republic of China student clothes and played a young boy, his face was quite handsome, but the state was somewhat contrary.
Chen Haomin, who is about 52 years old, is already more than half a hundred years old, and he is still consuming the reputation he once played. In the movie "Journey to the East", Chen Haomin interpreted the young male protagonist in the form of 20 years ago, but a face could not go back to before, and most of the audience could not recognize the effect of Chen Haomin's interpretation.
There is also Zhong Hanliang, who has been immersed in costume works, playing young unmarried characters. Even in the latest costume works, the actor is not a teenager, but with the 17-year-old Yuan Bingyan in the same frame, it is still inevitable that the audience will have a sense of father-daughter vision, which is not like a love CP at all.
So, what should a middle-aged actor look like? Feng Shaofeng, who played "Mountains and Rivers Moon Ming" after acting in "Heart Residence", is the best example.
Feng Shaofeng, in 2011, cooperated with Yang Mi in "Gong Suo Xin Yu", and became a popular student in the eyes of the public with this work. Having a good appearance and a figure is the reason why the fans are fascinated by Feng Shaofeng 11 years ago. At that time, Feng Shaofeng, but only in his early 30s, can be said to be an actor at the right time to be popular.
However, with the increase of age, Feng Shaofeng's interpretation of the works is no longer just young roles, but some works that are in line with age, especially after "Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat Red Skinny", Feng Shaofeng's works seem to be linked to "middle-aged" roles, just like Lei Jiayin, Jin Dong and others, began to play some elderly roles.
In the recently concluded "Heart Residence", Feng Shaofeng played an older leftover man, who fell in the middle of the family road, fell into debt in order to treat his mother' illness, and as a result, he met his first love Gu Qingyu, which opened a new life. It's just that Shi Yuan, under the influence of his original family, did not come together with Gu Qingyu after all.
For the sake of so-called face, there are two unclear parents in the family, and his marriage will also take the initiative to be a chicken feather. As an actor, Feng Shaofeng vividly interprets the most common state of middle-aged men. There is no smooth and tight skin, nor does it have that kind of imposing posture, but no audience complains that his appearance is not good.
Feng Shaofeng is no longer the young man of that year, so the roles he played also have obvious differences. The brother in the public memory also became a calm and introverted king with courage, strategy, courage and temperament in "Mountains and Rivers and Moon Ming".
I have to admit that the director of the work "Mountains and Rivers Moon Ming" is very sober, he did not let Feng Shaofeng play the "Zhu Di" in his youth, but let him play the "Zhu Di" after adulthood, which to a certain extent, ensured Feng Shaofeng's reputation, but also let him get more audience recognition.
As an adult, Zhu Di did not have the youthful aura, and there was no stubbornness in his eyes, but he became more dignified and more stable, completely in line with the appearance of an emperor. Feng Shaofeng, 42 years old, is old, but the role is in line with the age, which is exactly what the audience wants.
Of course, middle-aged male actors should not play young roles, or even juvenile roles, not because we are harsh on their looks, nor because the audience wants to blacken them. It is because a person's appearance can remain young, but the state is not. Middle-aged actors, there is a sense of vicissitudes, a sense of experience, mature, stable, out of childish and simple, naturally unable to control young roles.
Therefore, the 42-year-old Feng Shaofeng, from the older leftover man in "Heart Residence" to the young and middle-aged "Zhu Di" in "Mountains and Rivers Yueming", is what a middle-aged actor should look like on the road of acting. Only by choosing a role that matches their age will the audience be willing to pay. Do you think so?