It's an age where there's no shortage of stars, and fast-paced lives seem to require us to be famous and successful quickly; people subconsciously confuse actors with stars, and when the wave fades, what are the young actors who really love acting doing? This issue specially invites Huang Yao, Huang Miyi, and Li Jiuxiao, three young actors who are in the ascending period, to let them talk about their true selves and feel their serious lives together.
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If it weren't for the fact that the filming location was too far away from where Huang Yao lived, we would have seen the young actor riding a bicycle to the set, and then in front of a group of makeup and hair photographers, taking off his goggles and protective hats, and wiping off the excess beads of sweat on his face with a towel in his backpack.
"I really want to come by bicycle, but I really did that, and maybe everyone should leave work when they arrive."
Huang Yao cheerfully told us that this joke soon made us fall into reverie, and then felt a little regret, began to make up the picture missed because of the distance, it must be quite interesting, very youthful, perhaps can also be used as a photographic material, just as Huang Yao himself has a certain kind of cordial atmosphere, bringing people around them the pleasure of being able to relax at any time, not deliberately created, without carefully prepared modifications, everything is naturally presented in nature. The slightly raised corners of her eyes, and the eyes that always flash inadvertently, form a contrast with the calm and introverted characters she has interpreted, although not strong, but there are traces to follow.
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Huang Yao, born in 1994, is another representative of this generation of young Chinese actors who has been widely anticipated by everyone. However, her path from film is not smooth, until with the superb interpretation of the young girl Pepe in the movie "Over Spring", she has won the best newcomer actor awards in several film festivals, including the queen of the Pingyao Film Festival, in the expectation of a number of professional eyes, her acting career has swept away the decline and ushered in comprehensive and positive progress. Last year, she won the Magnolia Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Mountains and Seas". Shortly after his 27th birthday, Huang Yao said with a frank smile when we mentioned these amazing advances:
"It's the good work I've met."
Huang Yao does not have the strong self-confidence of the young actors of the same period, she habitually believes that performance is a process of mutual selection and confirmation, good works meet the right actors at the right time, plus some luck, which is a logic that works in any era. Huang Yao does not want to emphasize the subjectivity of the individual, or that some kind of stronger talent can transcend all this and become the ultimate factor affecting a work, an actor.
Last year was Huang Yao's busy year, three TV series and two movies were launched at the same time, at the same time, she also participated in the filming of two new films, one was a cameo director Er Dongsheng's "The End of the Sea is grassland", the other is Qiu Litao's genre film "Jedi Pursuit" directed by Yunnan border anti-drug police, although the cooperation with Director Er Dongsheng was short, Huang Yao himself felt kind, "Director Er Dongsheng is not as fierce as everyone says. She joked.
The preparation of "Jedi Pursuit" is much more complicated, and there are a lot of scenes in the play that need to test the physical fitness of the actors. "Since the characters are in extreme weather for most of the time in the story, I deliberately started adding some strength exercises when I started preparing early."
Huang Yao said that now that the play has been completed, but the habit of strength exercise has been maintained, she began to add anaerobic exercise to her daily regular exercise plan. She's not a newcomer to sports, and every week she takes time to schedule some of her long-cherished aerobic activities, such as swimming, badminton, basketball, and tennis. Last year she began to ask herself that if she went within ten kilometers of the distance, she would try to ride a bicycle, she would generally arrange the time, do not pursue the speed of cycling, and add another aerobic exercise. All along, Huang Yao likes to keep her body in a healthy state as much as possible, she hardly stays up late, and exercise seems to have nothing to do with performance, but it is actually closely related. Acting is a light skill, you must always keep the body's metabolism is healthy, the posture is relaxed, in order to save enough energy to cope with the consumption brought to you by any kind of role. And exercise is the only option to maintain this lightness.
"The body is an actor's tool, and cherishing it is our profession."
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For the matter of becoming an actor, Huang Yao has long been prepared. This is due to his father's work in the Foshan Repertory Theatre in Guangdong, when he was a child, Huang Yao always listened to his relatives and friends around him to exchange drama performances, and sometimes, he was led to the theater by adults, and in the noisy audience, he understood the dedicated and serious performances of the actors on the stage. Therefore, Huang Yao has been keen to participate in various drama clubs in the school since childhood, every time there is a new book to perform, she always seems excited, this excitement continues to this day, she likes the drama performance of that moment of forgetfulness, the world shrinks to only herself and the lines in a moment, and then she goes from the drama stage to the big screen, the unique forgetfulness gradually moves away, from drama actors to film and television actors, although they are all performances, Huang Yao gradually understands the difference, compared to drama, The performance of the film and television drama will give her more room to play, at the same time, it also sacrifices more immediate feedback.
"Before the work was launched, you could shout a lot of cards."
The only thing she asks of herself is to be sincere, she doesn't like to lie in performances. The so-called lying in the performance, Huang Yao explained to us - "That is actually a stereotype, your understanding of the character is superficial, only according to the direction of the plot to hand over things within the scope, this kind of performance is hypocritical." ”
Huang Yao likes the word persuasive, no matter what the genre of the work, the expected confusion in the cruel youth film, the unexpected reaction of individual suspense thrillers, Huang Yao likes to emphasize the dynamic relationship between the actor and the character. She confessed that in every play, she did not want to be a passive expression tool.
"Every time I interpret a character, I try to want her to be me, not me to be her."
Huang Yao was impressed by last year's "Miracle" with director Wen Muye, who in the film cycled back and forth in life, knowing that nothing new would come out, but still repeating the same mistakes every day. This reminds Huang Yao of the clumsiness and helplessness of individuals in life, and the dilemma that people always have to make a choice. On the spot, she thinks of acting through the role, thinking that the actor is sometimes a dilemma, your one and your next, you always need to make a choice, sometimes you may make the wrong choice, sometimes luckily go in the right direction, but in any case, you have to try again and again until the miracle happens. This is the truth of life, and it is also the truth of performance.
When not filming, Huang Yao likes to wander alone in the hutongs of downtown Beijing, she will take transportation to observe pedestrians, morning peak wave and evening peak wave after wave, go to various restaurants, bookstores, markets, her just right fame makes her less worried about being recognized, like an invisible person slowly record the scenery of the city she has lived in for many years, who knows that these landscapes will be performed by her in a certain play of Huang Yao, with a sincere and frank unpresupposed posture.
Probably related to the innate passion for acting, Huang Yao does not have the sense of surprise that young actors have for unfamiliar roles, and it is not difficult for her to enter a new role, the difficulty is that she needs to understand more delicately, she needs time, she is the kind of actor who enters the role very slowly and leaves the role fast enough. Before the filming of "Over the Spring," she spent six months figuring out the script and trying to get into the depths of the girl's heart. And usually in the week before each play, Huang Yao is always in a trance, between the real self and the fictional characters, it feels like a hangover.
For an actor, it is a great fortune to have a certain degree of freedom, a certain degree of fame, and some good works, and maintain a benign balance between the three. But Huang Yao inadvertently has most of the luck of being an actor. In an era of traffic coercion of content, her luck is really enviable, luck protects her natural freedom and gives her a decent posture. Compared with other young public figures who are tired of satisfying the outside voice, Huang Yao is relaxed and frank, as if he has never been burdened by the reputation behind the actor's identity that is extremely easy to sink into. At the same time, she also has a lot of time and opportunities to go to different worlds and communicate with different people.
Huang Yao does not shy away from her luck at all, luck is a kind of thing that is easier to disappear the more avoidant, and above luck, is the talent she has been clear since she was a child, this talent has nothing to do with self-confidence, more like a firm understanding of self, Huang Yao knows where she is, but also knows where she should go, in the face of the unknown, she remains curious, in the face of praise, she remains rational.
"Talent is something that makes you always handy for doing what you love."
Huang Yao said she had never felt any moment of reluctance in her performance.
"If you don't become an actor, what kind of job would you want to do?"
Curious about Huang Yao's voice outside of her talent, we asked her a hypothetical question. Huang Yao replied almost without hesitation that there were many more to us. "I first wanted to be an actor because being an actor allowed me to experience more different lives." Reporter, teacher, café master, photographer, Huang Yao began to break her finger to give us a number of careers she longed for, counting to the end she smiled to herself, and then said that these are actually actors can do.
We then asked her what types of performances she wouldn't pick up, like a horror movie? Huang Yao groaned for a moment and said that she couldn't make up her mind, she would have physiological resistance to horror movies, but if the book was suitable enough, she might be able to try it. She went on to share with us recently the books and movies she had seen, from the Italian writer Elena Ferrante's "My Genius Girlfriend", she had first seen the play and was touched by the vivid portrayal of female friendship, so she bought the original novel to read, and she would involuntarily substitute herself into the plot, imagining herself walking on the streets of Naples, holding the cold hand of her friend. She watched "Chance and Imagination" by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, a big hit at this year's Oscars, twice, and even quietly fantasized that if it were herself, which of the three short stories would be more suitable?
Inside and outside the play, Huang Yao is always experiencing the joy of being an actor,
Many people will talk about the plight of Huang Yao's generation of actors, because they may be affected by various streaming media, but Huang Yao feels that it is not so much a dilemma as it is also an opportunity. This generation of young actors actually has more opportunities than their predecessors, and young directors and creators are also keen to open up a variety of genres, and there are many platforms for broadcasting and watching, and the only thing that needs to be vigilant is the greedy greed that is impetuous in the face of great changes.
"Actors of our time are prone to shortcuts. I think we need to be wary of this. ”
Sink your heart and wait while creating. Huang Yao sometimes uses the astrolabe to interpret her decisions, and her astrolabe is surrounded by multiple earth signs, which symbolize calmness and thickness, nature and patience, and may be repeatedly projected inside and outside her body through the stars. Make a core note for her acting career over the past few years. She has a nostalgic atmosphere, but it seems sincere and fresh compared to this era.
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A few summers before 2014, the girl Huang Miyi left her hometown of Changsha, Hunan, came to Beijing alone, planning to spend a year or two to prepare for the art exam, not like the same people have a clear goal, at that time Huang Miyi has not yet thought clearly about her next direction, her voice conditions are good, from childhood sense of music is also very good, it should be on the direction of vocal music, but strong curiosity makes her decide to think again, she has become accustomed to life in Beijing, like here for many years to blow people want to walk the wind, when the wind rises and falls, many thoughts arise from the bottom of the heart, She vaguely felt as if she had something special, and it was hard to say what such an uncertain thing as The TD was. All kinds of possibilities are still brewing, seeing that it is about to usher in the 20th birthday, one night, a young friend invites Huang Miyi to go all the way to see a musical. It was Huang Miyi's first time watching a musical, and the performance of the day was the classic "Romeo and Juliet", which she was familiar with from a young age. After the performance, her heart beat like a deer, and the actors who sang and danced on the stage suddenly satisfied the impulses she had been holding on for a long time, and on the wide road outside the theater gate, she said goodbye to her friends and made up her mind to study musical theater.
"The next day I went to inquire about the musical theatre exam."
Recalling the past of studying eight years ago, Huang Miyi said. The changes and expectations of adolescence are now far gone, she is now an active young actor on the big screen, because of a popular variety show "The Character of actors" in the multi-layered, rich type of performance challenges and popular, this performance-based variety show, Huang Miyi from the first period has been accustomed to challenging different performance styles and role types, her face at first glance is a bit bland, like a blank paper that can be updated at any time, sometimes obedient, sometimes flexible, sometimes concrete, sometimes abstract. In the past, the public used to criticize and misunderstand the single form of performance of young actors, which was changed by the young and energetic Huang Miyi. She quickly became familiar to the public and was recognized by the industry.
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After stepping off the variety show, the film contracts came pouring in, and she had to temporarily divide her energy and re-plan her time. So far in 2019, she has participated in a total of eight large and small film and television drama works. She said that the film is more like a world opened up for her halfway to her, although she is not unfamiliar, only because the understanding of performance is a habit of Huang Miyi for a long time, but when it comes to understanding or being good at it, she is not sure that her praiseworthy moments of inspiration on variety shows are not so much performances as more accurately an expression.
She describes herself as the kind of person who is passionate about expression, a highly concentrated concept that has no boundaries, like breathing, and can be carried out at any time in a variety of concrete worlds. Acting out a play, singing a play, taking a photo, a social media expression, a book, or a painting, Huang Miyi feels that they are all essentially connected. This is also the reason why she originally chose musical theater as the end of the art examination, which was the carrier that satisfied Huang Miyi's expression to the greatest extent at that time.
"I've been writing songs lately."
Before the shoot, we greeted Miyi Huang, who was waiting, and asked her what she had been busy with lately, and she told us lightly. She then added that the composer was a friend, and she was responsible for writing lyrics and participating in some of the arrangements, but as in her own vague and uncertain state, she was still not accustomed to giving a specific and detailed definition of the difference between the creation, even if writing songs was only one of her hobbies. It is another channel and carrier for her young heart that cannot stop expressing.
Her penchant for music is as mixed as the genre she performs on variety shows, from pop to indie rock, where music follows mood, like another footnote to life. Huang Miyi easily makes people think that she is the kind of person who is happy to discover different colors of life, she told us that she likes to see the intelligent summary made by the common music APP at the end of each year, which will make her fall into memory, that song that she listened to 110 times one day, what exactly represents the memory of the day. She didn't necessarily think about it all, but she thought it was funny.
In addition to music, Huang Miyi also likes to take pictures, mobile phones or cameras. Photographing the interesting things she sees, the photos are at least not as musical as the music, in the end, they only come down to emotions, they have pictures, there are stories, and Huang Miyi always captures some Yoshimitsu Kataba that satisfies her, which is exclusive to her own emotional accumulation.
"I feel that these daily records will become something that I can export over time."
Huang Miyi told us that in daily life, her expression does not look as multi-layered as in front of the camera, with a little sense of distance, but does not deliberately create distance, her expression is short, but every emotion is clearly distinguished, so as not to make the people who talk to her misunderstand. Speaking of the experience of acting for the first time in my life, I actually participated in the school's film club in middle school, when the members of the club raised funds to rent a DV, rehearsed a ghost movie in the school's empty classroom, simulated a Korean zombie movie, lay on the floor to make a pompous performance, and laughed after each NG.
The film initially attracted Huang Miyi seems to be a kind of collective creative joy, whether it is the humble DV work originally shot in the lecture hall, or later in the university to personally perform those classic masterpieces, and friends without distraction to polish the script, set the plot, each person can provide a little bit of her own experience, to make this collective activity more interesting. Huang Miyi told us that she seemed to be able to easily and keenly discover some of the details, and by capturing and reinforcing these details, even if it was only a rehearsal, even if it was only for a few minutes, she was able to interpret some of the other and very convincing roles in her own way.
This talent, which stems from a passion for expression, has become the most enjoyable and anticipated part of Huang Miyi's acting career today. The creators she works with always exude praise when she mentions Huang Miyi, using words such as "aura" and "steadfastness" to summarize the moments of her short career that make people exclaim and want to protect.
Perhaps in this era of fast and easy shortcuts, the actors and their party seem to have a faint crisis of green and yellow, and it is difficult to see some possibilities, and everyone in it without exception wants to pay something for it. Huang Miyi thus ushered in the good fortune of being a young actor dazzling enough. Her most recent work is "There is Her in the World" directed by Zhang Aijia, Chen Chong and Li Shaohua, in which she will collaborate with Zhou Xun and Zheng Xiuwen to interpret a female perspective based on different identities and eras at present.
During this time, she also participated in Wei Shujun's "Yong'an Town Story Collection", a stylized art film that tells the story of a crew who went to Yong'an Town, Guizhou to make a film. Huang Miyi served as the heroine of the first story, playing a hotel lady, and by chance she learned that she would play a supporting role in the movie, but after the arrival of the real star, the hostess was replaced.
"The story is about an ordinary person's acting dream that she thought would change her life, but it didn't. One of the most memorable plots is that at the end of the story she sits on the side to kill the fish, and I shot that one nine times. ”
Director Wei Shujun did not tell Huang Miyi why she had to shoot another one, and Huang Miyi continued to execute without responding, and by the time of the sixth article, she found herself numb, to this matter, to this town, to the present moment, the blue fog that lingered over the town, and the faces of those around her who were both familiar and strange. She later understood that this was a tacit understanding between her and the director, and what he wanted was such a numbness and inertia.
"Acting can always give me a very unique experience, and acting sometimes makes me realize the truth of life."
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Because of the rich performance level in a variety show, Huang Miyi's path as an actor has a unique entertainment color of this generation, but Huang Miyi himself does not shy away from this seemingly "unorthodox" debut. She likes to emphasize that although it is a variety show, it has a very careful and meticulous design by the creators, and there is professionalism in it, and it will not be lost because it is an entertainment program. To this day, she still feels that "The Character of an Actor" has brought her a lot of industry experience, which may not be as important as the performance itself, but it still requires other actors to shoot eight or nine plays to understand.
"I think it's a big bonus."
We asked her if she had any roles she wanted to play next? Huang Miyi first showed a moment of hesitation, and then as if sorting out the various thoughts that suddenly came up in her mind at the same time, she began to describe it intermittently: "I have recently been more interested, the different experiences of a person at different times. I thought, I should want to play a role that spans a longer time span and has a heavier experience. ”
Some of her most impressive works are mainly genre films, from "Frozen Mystery" to "The Hidden Corner", the role she plays is more of a test of the actor's concentration, the character's characteristics are framed in an established form, we can feel Huang Miyi's desire to try more. A kind of complexity, pluralism after a single. When we tried to confirm this with her, she quickly threw out new answers to us.
"Also, I'm also quite curious about the form, and I want to try something innovative, like a combination of technology, do you know the metaverse?"
Her gaze flickered left and right, making people feel a little confused about her expression, and at the same time very strongly feel what the desire she wanted to convey was. At this moment, Huang Miyi in front of us seems to have crossed to a certain moment in the future, she is witnessing a new form of performance, the digital radio waves created by AI holographic motion capture technology begin to decode the emotions in her mind, her body movements, and the future audience slowly sits down, waiting for a new attempt at performance.
We have absolute reason to believe that if one day, the concept of the metacosm begins to cover and touch on movies. Huang Miyi will definitely be one of the young people who will try first. It is not so much that she loves performance, but rather that what she loves is expression, a kind of expression that does not easily set limits and is free. In an era that emphasizes personality to almost repetition and boredom, Huang Miyi takes the initiative to dissolve her personality, she can become any form at any time, be opened at any time, and may be closed at any time. Perhaps a more accurate description is that the actor she aspires to be is the kind of person who will remain unresolved and uncivilized for a long time. Expression for Huang Miyi is like a kind of tense, welcoming new stories at any time, entering the old past at any time, and expression is always a motivation full of possibilities.
Huang Miyi told us that the origin of her name actually contains her father's simple blessings for her, hoping that she will have enough food and clothing and someone to rely on. But under Huang Miyi's stubborn expression, we may get the interpretation that is completely different from her father's heart, she is like a rainy season plant, full of vitality. She carries a kind of casual encounter, making people forget the geographical boundaries and time dimensions, may her life not be rich? Does she need to rely on someone else? Perhaps what she wants to do most is the person who makes others rely on, and she can really represent a form of young performers of this generation: three-dimensional, free, unrestrained, full of possibilities, and people look forward to it.
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Actor Li Jiuxiao now lives in the suburbs more than 30 kilometers away from downtown Beijing, compared with the dry and busy urban area, there is the humid air created by the Chaobai River and Wenyu River all year round, the urban construction planning is leisurely, maintaining a thriving emptiness, often making Li Jiuxiao feel comfortable and calm. If there is no need for work or social interaction, he is unlikely to leave here in most cases, it is difficult to say when he decided to go to life, these years Li Jiuxiao's life is quite regular, intentionally maintain adequate sleep, regular exercise, self-cooking, watching movies, reading, in these life must programs, leisure time, he also likes to ride on the beloved blackbird motorcycle, headphones stuffed with new pants band or Houhai shark music, outside for a ride. Sometimes in the afternoon, sometimes in the evening, sometimes along the lake, sometimes all the way to the intersection where the shallow mountains can be clearly seen, not pursuing speed, but pursuing the ease with which the wind brushes in the ear. If there is a play preparation, he will carry the script in his backpack, occasionally find a place to rest, and then go into the café and silently find a corner to start doing his homework.
Like a rope that is gradually tightening, the pursuit is not a kind of pressure or progress in an attempt to get something, but a kind of benign growth that makes the thing itself more powerful and satisfying the self. The serious and serious Li Jiuxiao himself is not much like most of the roles he has played, and those roles have a nervousness about life from time to time, or there is an uneasiness that may abandon something at any time. The creators seem to be often inspired by Li Jiuxiao's cold, hard-lined, colorful face, and always like to give him some "different" characters.
Li Jiuxiao does have the kind of temperament that makes people want to tell something, although after leaving the camera, at this moment, he in front of us, strong and tough but not too aggressive body, stretched and slow-paced expression and language, with as if life has not encountered any major trouble frankness and relaxation, it is difficult to smoothly associate, how he entered the eyes of others is very easy for him, very appropriate interpretation of those characters, whether it is the outlaw who has a trouble in the alleys of the mountain city, the gloomy young man with a sharp knife opposite the four-line warehouse, Or a journalist with a two-sided personality trapped in the dilemma of financial righteousness. . . . .
"But they all have my personal color, otherwise the directors and screenwriters would not have chosen me, and they always had their reasons for choosing." I'm not going to lose myself all in order to get the role done. Interpreting a character that doesn't look like yourself at all means that you're interpreting a character that anyone can interpret. ”
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During the shooting on this day, we talked to Li Jiuxiao about the types of his past roles, and when he expected future performances, he said so, the tone was plain and confident, and just a few words outlined the surprise and extraordinary. Before becoming an actor, Li Jiuxiao was an acting student at the Beijing Film Academy. A few years of college practice naturally consolidated his methodology of character manipulation, but the methodology did not affect his experience and insight into the personality of the performance, although more than a decade later, he still looked shy when it came to the physical performance in class, he did not say, but revealed a hint to others - performance should be a natural and talking realization, not a fixed paradigm imagination.
Perhaps this is the key to Making Li Jiuxiao an actor in the end, at the same time, outside of nature, plasticity is a rare and valuable talent that is difficult to be discovered by the parties themselves, but Li Jiuxiao is the exception that can see his own talent a little. While understanding his true self, he also knows the external self of an actor, and he has seen himself one step ahead of others before others see Li Jiuxiao himself. Knowing what part of the thing inspires the imagination of others is a rare kind of sobriety for an actor.
But whether it's learning to act or really becoming an actor. For Li Jiuxiao, it was not a thing that had been planned clearly for a long time. In high school, the results of the cultural class were not ideal, so I entered the army of art candidates, influenced by my father, at first planned to apply for photography, but after a few rounds, I finally chose to perform. Today's love may seem like the result of acquired development, but it's no accident. Born in Xichang City, Liangshan District, Sichuan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, but growing up as the president of the Haidian District Military Region in Beijing, Li Jiuxiao talked about his impressive courtyard life, and the first thing he mentioned was to go to the cinema of the Cultural and Labor Troupe with his friends at that time to watch free movies. At the end of the last century, in the Wanshou Road area of Beijing, as all the descriptions of the Beijing compound life at that time, the dry air was scattered with boundless curiosity, the echoes of the streets and the whispers of the night, the young people broke away from their busy schoolwork, left the evening cram school, followed each other, came to the door of the cinema, through the crowd of eyes, waiting for the next two hours of irrelevant stimulation and quiet.
This is the enthusiasm that has been gradually lost in the era of streaming media, and the assembly line of the big cinema line has gradually lost. This enthusiasm sowed the seeds for Li Jiuxiao's life after that. The corresponding memory is that after growing up a little, he was immersed in an examination atmosphere in Haidian District, and the tension and urgency also made Li Jiuxiao unforgettable.
"Haidian smells of rolls. The memory is full of shadows of various school uniforms. Three years of simulated five-year college entrance examination is like a slogan that will be blurted out at any time, Zhongguancun is like a 24-hour continuous printing photocopier, English, physics, mathematics, chemistry, test papers and answer cards jump out of this machine at any time. ”
Li Jiuxiao did not make a connection between the two, but it was easy for others to compare them. The reporter who has interviewed Li Jiuxiao before summed up that he is a person who is good at expression, likes metaphors, and has his own set of observations on the environment and the outside world. We confirm this again, and as he describes his youthful memories of the Haidian period, he begins to imagine how he would interpret the atmosphere of the photocopier he would one day interpret if he participated in a film set in Zhongguancun.
He is the kind of person whose senses are open at any time, always paying attention to the changes in the world around him, whether it is the real environment or the imaginary situation, so the preparation before the performance will always make Li Jiuxiao excited compared to actually starting the performance. "Hotpot Hero" was an inflection point in his acting career, when he had not filmed for two years, and his short hair was also long, and he agreed to the sudden arrival of the invitation without thinking. Even if you want to play a robber who only has ten minutes of scenes and wears a mask. He flew to Chongqing a month in advance, and with several partners in the play, he was familiar with the hot mountain city atmosphere of early summer, in the undulating city like a cake, using Chongqing dialect dialogue for a long time every day, nostalgic for the night market, walking along the river at night to the mountains, moving from this bridge to that building, letting the humid air enter himself and let himself enter the role.
Even if it's only ten minutes.
When collaborating with Yao Chen on "Send Me to the Clouds", the other party told Li Jiuxiao to prepare the role like carving a stone. To be structured in advance, those things outside the lens need to be understood, in depth. The character's occupation, preferences, his family, his parents, his lover. Whether he likes to get up early or stay up late, his strengths and weaknesses, his vices and habits, these things that are not on the script, good actors will check the vacancies one by one, and then fill them. When these parts are filled, try to inject a little bit of your own into it.
"Actually, if I had a choice, I liked that a character could be prepared for a little longer."
Li Jiuxiao said. He firmly believes that acting is a profession of "becoming", and it takes time to become, and he envies that some actors can spend a long time entering and deliberating when they receive complex roles, and the preparation for performance carries unusual excitement in the eyes of young Li Jiuxiao. He hasn't had an opportunity like that yet, but it's clear that he would love to be fully committed to a role like this, giving him time to think through a non-existent person.
"Not long ago I watched 'The Power of Dogs', and there was a scene in Whicho Fu that excited me for a long time, and he handled it too delicately, and he must have spent a lot of time figuring out those details."
Li Jiuxiao recommended to us the movie he recently watched, "The Power of dogs", in which a scene played by Benedict Cumberbatch and his brother chasing cattle, Li Jiuxiao described as having a seemingly ordinary but surprising design. In that scene, the younger brother rides a gentle horse in front of the camera, intending to express his quiet and civilized personality, while the older brother played by Cumberbatch intentionally or unintentionally pulls the reins, ordering the horse to move back and forth, like a novice who has just ridden a horse, creating a vulgarity that makes people feel irritable unintentionally. Li Jiuxiao raised his hands and tried to reproduce that vulgarity with simple movements, "Roll Fu did not say a dirty line, the expression was even very wooden, but the few actions of leading the horse, it is easy to attract your attention, feel that he is not stable, feel that he is going to do something unexpected at any time, this is a kind of vulgarity that is difficult to express, and Roll Fu explains the unreasonableness of this veteran cowboy through such a design." ”
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He talked about the performance details of the actors in the movie, how the actors cooperated with the scheduling of the camera, delicately showing their own characteristics, that is the secret of the performance, thorough and inward, outsiders need a certain foundation to understand, but Li Jiuxiao talked about these details, just like he himself has walked into the set of the relevant movie, personally performed, in addition to believing that the young man in front of him has a performing motor ready to move at any time, we also feel a long-lost passion. It had nothing to do with fame and achievement, it was an almost instinctive pleasure, and we couldn't help but ask:
"Do you have any ideals as an actor?"
"I hope to leave a few important characters in the history of Chinese cinema that people will remember."
Li Jiuxiao said that he admired oscar-winning actors because they could be both performers and stars, which was a great balance, and for many actors, most people were often limited to the obsession with performance and the interference of reputation.
He said that he was a person who was very sensitive to regrets, and in the plays he had acted in over the years, there were many moments when he felt that he could do it again afterwards, but as in life, he gradually began to accept the regrets in his early performances, and the immature moments began to accept that acting was a process of continuous progress. Growing up in regret, perhaps may also stop in regret, Li Jiuxiao feels that at this moment he is in a very benign state, this year is his own performance year, he said slightly satisfied, while breaking his finger to recall the roles he has played, large and small, different types, different styles, full of addiction, but also buried new expectations.
"What would you do if you didn't do an actor?"
At the end of the interview, we asked him, and he thought about it for a long time before telling us that maybe he would be a cook, preferably in a small workshop, because he would be relatively free. We asked him if he could accept a nine-to-five wage-earner life, and he opened his eyes and told us that in fact, he himself has always been like this, the law has nothing to do with your profession, and many people may think that the life of an actor is relatively free, in fact, freedom has never been related to the profession.
"So what do you think is affecting your career as an actor?"
"Love."
In the second year of entering the film school, his father told Li Jiuxiao that since he chose to love, no matter how difficult or how much feedback, do not easily forget his love. Li Jiuxiao behaved carelessly at that time, but actually executed this sentence so far, and now the film has become the most important part of Li Jiuxiao's life, becoming an actor for more than ten years, he admits that he loves this more and more, every day is more loving than the previous day, this love comes from the heart, perhaps more accurately, it is an emotion similar to love. Love, pure and warm, mention the movie Li Jiuxiao will occasionally think of the details of his parents' life when he was a child, and when Li Jiuxiao occasionally thinks of it as an adult, he will feel the power of pure love, mutual understanding, mutual achievement, and mutual tolerance. And in adolescence, like many people, he also had some simple and innocent moments of love, irrelevant to the distractions of the world, only in some romantic impulses.
Perhaps because of the beautiful experience of love in the early days of life, after adulthood, witnessing the complexity and narrowness of love, the original beautiful cognition of love has not been weakened or disappeared because of this, but has changed its form and quietly entered Li Jiuxiao's actor career, every time he spends time with the role, he loves them as he loves himself. He borrows his role to learn life, he uses life to review roles, and gradually becomes accustomed to it, and does not deliberately elevate the value of this behavior. He has a more comprehensive and fresh posture of the new actors of this generation, not pretentious at all, love is like a habit, thinking because of love, love because of thinking, here in Li Jiuxiao, they are like a gently growing green mountain, lush grass, fresh air, in which Li Jiuxiao, with undetermined ignorance and very determined persistence, waiting for the next year of their own performance, they are as difficult as mountain climbing, and as sweet as love. He's something to look forward to.
Editing/Cinny
Photographer/Hugaring
Written by /Xiao Qin
Makeup and Hair / Ya Fei (Huang Yao), Binbin (Huang Miyi, Li Jiuxiao)
Styling/ Yang Kaiqin (Huang Yao), Shaoqing (Huang Miyi, Li Jiuxiao)
Assistant/Mengling Tan, VIVI
Venue acknowledgements/Sisi small fish