The Hong Kong drama "Desire for The Golden Branch", which premiered in 2004, triggered a boom in the shooting of similar genre works due to its super popularity and topicality after broadcasting. In the play, Niu Cobalt Lu Ru yue (hereinafter referred to as Ru Fei), who has mature thoughts and outstanding appearances, has shocked everyone with a powerful aura from the first appearance. The most profound impression of the actor Deng Cuiwen on Rufei's performance is probably the incisive but extremely difficult lines in the play, and she really feels the difficulty of achieving classics. "The dialogue in the play is quite well written, but it is difficult to interpret, and it is all esoteric language that everyone usually never says." I really tried my best when I acted. ”
In "The Desire of the Golden Branch", Deng Cuiwen played the role of a fierce and fierce concubine.
"The Desire of the Golden Branches"
Niu Cobalt Lu Ruyue - the concubine of the Jiaqing Emperor, mature and cool, brilliant, and far-sighted. On the surface, she is fierce and fierce, but in fact she is emotionally fragile and loyal to the emperor. She was once the most favored concubine in the harem, and the limelight reached the empress.
Co-actors: Li Zi, She Shiman, Norma Lin
Broadcast platform: TVB
Premiere: August 2004
Synopsis: Set in the harem of Qing Jiaqing for fifteen years, it tells the story between concubines such as Yue, Yuying, and Erchun.
Classic Dialogue:
Ru Yue never rarely does any peacock, because the only one who can be reborn in the world is the phoenix.
However, it is precisely because Rufei is too good at calculating people's hearts, although it is very cool when playing this role, the audience looks very cool, but Deng Cuiwen is not happy at all, "Through Rufei can feel the cruelty of reality, but also think about human nature is like this?" ”
I am not a concubine, and I have questioned whether I chose the wrong person
Rufei is a fierce character in "The Desire of the Golden Branch". The most proud favorite concubine in the harem, domineering and fierce, this is not a pleasing role in the eyes of many people. But when she was placed in front of Deng Cuiwen, she did not think of refusing. "In TVB, it is rare to see a complete character before filming, most of them give you only a story, and the actors do not know the direction of each scene, just listen to the producers and screenwriters to go through the plot." 」 Deng Cuiwen recalled that at the beginning of the performance of "Golden Branch Desire", she did not even see the script, and she did not know the terrible part of Rufei: "After listening to the story and determining who to play, I was still a little worried. At that time, I asked the producer a sentence of 'Will you choose the wrong person'? Because I am not the kind of person who is sharp in words and always likes to scold people, if I am angry in life, most of my performance is to cry and be unhappy, unlike Rufei, if you want me to be very fierce and swear, I will not move. As a result, the producer asked rhetorically, 'Then will you be sarcastic', just like I said you are 'pretty', but whether this sentence is praising you or satirizing you, you don't know. He asked me again, 'Would you say a meaningful word', and I thought about it, which should be okay, 'That's okay, you can act', he said. ”
Deng Cuiwen said that in life, she is not as vicious as a concubine, and she will not even curse when she is angry.
Years later, Deng Cuiwen always put her thanks on her lips, thanking the producer for her unique vision and digging out this part of her acting skills.
After "The Desire of the Golden Branch", many works of the same theme were pushed away
After the broadcast of "Desire for The Golden Branch", it became the hit of the year, and the villain Rufei was full of popularity, and even the shops selling crabs on the street named it "Rufei Crab". The degree of the explosion completely exceeded Deng Cuiwen's expectations. She remembers that it had become a social phenomenon at that time, and it seemed that it was impossible to go to work without chasing dramas, because it was not fashionable enough without plot talk, "Schools and offices are full of 'golden branches', and every day everyone is asking 'do you see the golden branches'." We already knew in the process of acting that this was a good drama, but we didn't expect the audience to love it to this point. ”
Although Rufei became the focus, Deng Cuiwen said that she did not enjoy the so-called pleasure of "fighting in the forbidden courtyard of the deep palace", and for a time many scripts of the same genre found her, and even "The Biography of Zhen Huan", she pushed it away because she did not want to repeat: "I myself do not like to fight at all, nor do I like to be so fierce to calculate the results." I don't like this type of drama, for example, some children will regard Rufei as an idol, I don't quite understand. ”
TVB's first heroine, Lian zhuang, has long looked down on everything
In 2009, Deng Cuiwen waited for another classic of TVB, "The Gangster", and won the best actress of TVB's 42nd anniversary with the role of Kang Baoqi, the fourth grandmother of ice and snow in the play; A year later, in the sequel "The Pride of the Righteous Sea", she won the best actress in Taiqing again with the role of nine girls, becoming the first best actress winner in the history of TVB Lianzhuang. But in Deng Cuiwen's heart, these two roles still have a lot of room for improvement: "Looking back, I will feel that there are still some flaws, such as the nine girls, when I played a third, I didn't have much confidence, because I had played similar roles before, and I knew very well that I had more things to expose, and I could collect some more." ”
"But these two roles are sought after by a lot of people, and so much appreciation hasn't given you a change?" The reporter asked. Deng Cuiwen thought for a moment, "No": "I think that at any stage, you must balance your mentality, if you love to listen to good and praiseful voices too much, you will drift." If you care too much about the good (comments), it means that you will also care about the bad. I can't just be good, not bad. In the face of praise, I am calm, because these are all things that are too much and illusory. This mentality allows bad things to come to me without much pressure. I started acting when I was very young, the most important thing is the process of acting, I enjoy all this, all the results are not my control, it is the right time and place, it is given by others. ”
For things other than performance, praise, negative reviews, ratings, etc., Deng Cuiwen has long been looking down. Courtesy of respondents
Deng Cuiwen continued to talk about her views on the mentality of filming: "At the moment, some scenes that are not very good to see are very hot when they come out. But sometimes we feel like we've made a great work, but the ratings aren't good. For praise and negative evaluation, this kind of thing I have seen relatively lightly, relatively clearly, and I can deal with it calmly. ”
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
Chief Editor Wu Dongni
Proofreading Li Lijun