The youth suspense drama "Coward" is being broadcast, and Hou Wenyuan plays Wang Wei in it. Adapted from Zheng Zhi's original novel "Raw Swallow", the series runs through two murder cases at different times but with similar methods, opening up the once firm friendship and betrayal of qin li (ou hao), Wang Wei, Feng Xuejiao (zhou still) and Huang Shu (wang yuwen) in the face of temptation.
Hou Wenyuan said in an interview with the Beijing News reporter that he particularly liked this novel, and when he saw the script, he thought that Wang Wei would be scolded by the audience, but since he liked it, he had to accept everything about Wang Wei, "I do have a lot of places very similar to Wang Wei, but when I read, I value friendship very seriously, Wang Wei's behavior has a lot of involuntariness, but there are indeed places that are very sorry for friends." ”
Hou Wenyuan plays Wang Wei.
What impressed him most in the original work was the ending "Look at the Stars"
Hou Wenyuan liked the novel "Raw Swallow", he bought two original books, the first time was in Beijing, after watching half of it, he traveled on a business trip, and then he couldn't help it, he bought another copy when he was in Shenzhen, and read the novel twice in its entirety. Hou Wenyuan was born and raised in the northeast, and many details in the story are very similar to his growth trajectory, so he is particularly touched. When reading novels, he is often brought into the role, and sometimes he cries when he looks at it. He not only likes the protagonists Qin Li and Wang Wei, but even some small characters who do not have too many plots he likes very much.
What impressed Hou Wenyuan the most in the novel was the ending, where Wang Wei and Feng Xuejiao watched the stars together in the air raid shelter when they grew up. When he was a child, his friend Qin Li once told Wang Wei that he could see the stars here, but Wang Wei did not believe it. After the passage of time, when Wang Wei really saw the stars here, he suddenly understood Qin Li's mood at that time, recalling his betrayal of his best friend, he cried loudly, and whenever he saw here, Hou Wenyuan would cry with him.
Therefore, when Hou Wenyuan learned that the project for the adaptation of "Raw Swallow" was in preparation, he quickly asked his agent to help him fight for the opportunity to audition, and finally determined that he would play Wang Wei, he was particularly excited and excited. After getting the script, he couldn't wait to read it again, of course, this time he had to look at it from Wang Wei's point of view.
Wang Wei is very literate, and the picture shows him reciting poetry in the canteen.
Up to now, it will be called Ou Hao "Qin Li"
After reading the original book and the script, Hou Wenyuan found that the brotherhood of Qin Li and Wang Wei was written more heavily in the script. In the original work, Wang Wei will still have a special feeling for Huang Shu, but these are weakened in the episode, which is to highlight the feelings of Wang Wei and Qin Li. The two of them were born together and grew up together, Qin Li's brother went to the south with his mother from childhood, his father was shot for killing people, his grandfather was paralyzed at home because of cerebral hemorrhage, for a long time, Qin Li rubbed rice at Wang's house every day; When Qin Li's grandfather was hospitalized, it was also Wang Ping's mother who sent food to take care of; Qin Li lied out all his savings to buy Wang Wei a basketball that he couldn't afford at all... The two families have already broken through the relationship between the neighbors, and Wang Wei and Qin Li's feelings are like brothers, more like family.
Wang Wei and Qin Li were front and back tables at school.
Hou Wenyuan himself especially likes the opening of "Coward", "The director found a lot of children, from a few months to one year old, three years old, five years old, seven years old, changed several batches, just to highlight these two people, born in the same month of the same year, how thick and heavy this emotion of growing up together." Hou Wenyuan said.
Hou Wenyuan remembers the first meeting on the first day of joining the group, he and Ou Hao organized to play ball and skate together, "We are together very much like the feeling in the play, in the process of playing together, we have been brought into the role of the play." 」 At that time, the director told Hou Wenyuan that you are now Wang Wei, and you have to live like Wang Wei, "I don't seem to have called Ou Hao, I have always called him Qin Li, including now that we are chatting, I will also call him Qin Li." Hou Wenyuan said.
The betrayal of Qin Li was influenced by the original family
In Hou Wenyuan's view, the rift in the relationship between Wang Wei and Qin Li first stemmed from Wang Wei's meeting with a new friend, Gao Lei. Gao Lei is a sports committee member of other classes, and he does not know Wang Wei, who loves to play basketball. Gao Lei's family is very rich, and after the two became acquainted, Gao Lei often took Wang Wei home to play on the computer and showed him his collection of star cards, which made Wang Wei, whose family was very ordinary, yearn for it. Gao Lei also always invited Wang Wei to drink Coke, which made Wang Wei feel a little overwhelmed, and finally even if he felt sorry for Qin Li, he still gave Huang Shu's phone to Gao Lei.
On the other side, Qin Li and Huang Shu got closer and closer. Wang Wei gave Huang Shu's phone to Gao Lei, making Qin Li feel betrayed, while on the other hand, Wang Wei also felt that he was no longer Qin Li's only dependence. "Wang Wei said a word to Huang Shu, and I was particularly impressed, he said: When Qin Li was a child, I could protect him, but now that I am older, I can also make other friends, and for Qin Li, you are already more important than me." Hou Wenyuan recalled, "In Wang Wei's heart, he felt that Qin Li and Huang Shu had gotten closer and farther away from him, but in fact he did not realize that it was because of his relationship with Gao Lei that he had caused such an outcome. ”
Wang Was forced to write down a proof against Qin Li.
Referring to Wang Wei's final betrayal of Qin Li in the play, Hou Wenyuan also gritted his teeth and felt that Wang Wei was too hateful. When wang wei signed a certificate at school and led to Qin Li's expulsion, Hou Wenyuan said that at that time, he was also particularly distressed in his heart, "It was too tangled, it was a particularly painful decision, from Wang Wei's point of view, he was still a child, and he definitely cared about his own gains and losses." "In the play, Wang's parents make a living by running fried skewers in the night market, and the two have always placed high hopes on Wang Wei, hoping that he can make achievements in his studies." If he loses his studies, everything his parents have done to himself is in vain, so he finally chooses his parents and himself. In Hou Wenyuan's view, Qin Li and Wang Wei's concept of friendship is probably different.
Wang often helps out at his parents' fried skewer stall after class.
The biggest challenge is playing a teenager
Hou Wenyuan, who was born in 1990, was exactly 30 years old when he played Wang Wei, "I had never acted in a youth campus drama before, and when I was 30 years old, I went to play seventeen or eighteen years old, and at the beginning I was still a little bottomless." But when Hou Wenyuan entered the scene of the campus, looking at the desks, chairs, tablecloths, classrooms, and school canteens, it was exactly the same as when he was in school, such an environment and the actors who played against him gave him great courage at once. Hou Wenyuan said that after the drama was broadcast, he saw some bullet screens saying that he was an "old man pretending to be tender", "I felt very shy when I saw it." ”
Of course, there are more audiences who are very recognized by the state of Wang Wei's interpretation of the decade or so, in addition to the help of modeling, the actor's interpretation of the state of the role when he goes to school and after entering the society is very different, Hou Wenyuan frankly said that this is thanks to the guidance of the director and the screenwriter, "They will let you enter the role too much, and then follow the role." ”
Wang Wei in adulthood.
Hou Wenyuan's favorite scene is the scene where he and Qin Li ride a bicycle with Feng Xuejiao and Huang Shu on the street, "We rode together, shouting poetry, I think it is particularly beautiful, that picture is very touching, I think that is a beautiful memory of youth, when we were filming, we were also particularly excited." Hou Wenyuan said.
Hou Wenyuan thought that after the episode was broadcast, Wang Wei would definitely be scolded by the audience, "He is really quite indebted." But because he likes this book, likes this script, and likes this team, he still hopes to play Wang Wei well, and he does not live up to the expectations of the director, screenwriter and everyone.
Beijing News reporter Zhang Kunyu
Edited by Tong Na
Proofread by Wu Xingfa