Seeing Li Qiang, everyone respected him as a "teacher", since the beginning of the art, he has created a lot of deeply rooted screen roles, and in his 30s, he has been rated as a "national first-class actor".
On the day of the start of "Song of Lushan", he drove from home to the "Lushan" set, laughing and saying to us: Filming near home is convenient! His kind, simple and generous image makes the whole interview particularly easy.
"Debut" is a middle-aged, forever 50-year-old frozen-age man
Li Qiangben is a drama actor, when he graduated from the performance at the age of 19, he played a factory director in his 50s because of his mature appearance. He still vividly remembers that the audience for the graduation show was full. Because he was too nervous, he actually missed the link of guiding the "secretary" to bring tea to the stage, so that the "secretary" missed the only opportunity to perform on stage. "That's a graduation performance, how important!" Although he apologized to this classmate at that time, after more than thirty years, Li Qiang recalled that he was still full of apologies.
Young actors are often like this, with little stage experience, and the first time it is inevitable to be nervous, but "acting is a process, and no one is born to act." "For newcomers, it's normal to be nervous, anxious, and not being able to find the right role." When you act more and do more, there will naturally be directors who will think about whether you match the role, rather than you being 'chosen'." Li Qiang said this to his 19-year-old self, and also hoped to alleviate the mental infighting of young actors.
(Li Qiang plays Wang Xinfa, a poverty alleviation veteran, in the drama "Top of the Mountain")
"So be simple when acting, don't think too much." Too many distractions are not conducive to the actor's improvement of himself. Li Qiang said that he has been acting for decades, and he is still nervous before the drama performance, which is actually a problem of too many distractions. Enough applause from the audience? Did they laugh or cry? Will anyone leave halfway through? Thinking too much before the performance, I was upset. Therefore, for actors, "don't be led by the audience's nose, the audience's feedback should be listened to, but also listen to their own voices, and do their best to perform well." ”
Li Qiang played the 52-year-old vice principal in "Song of the Foothills", which is comparable to his actual age, and we joked: 19 years old playing more than 50 years old, more than 30 years later, still more than 50 years old, you are the real frozen age man.
(Li Qiang as Sheng Chuanxue's "Song of the Foothills")
In Li Qiang's view, in addition to the solid foundation of the actor, he must also have the blessing of experience and experience. In his twenties, Li Qiang got the role of a midlife crisis in the drama "Marriage Events". "I was a young man in my twenties, I didn't even have a girlfriend, and it was actually very difficult to show the crisis of a middle-aged couple, and I acted more bluntly." But in other words, the present self, "will be another way of understanding and expression." "Because I have experienced it, I have confidence.
Actors act, human nature is the vitality of the role
The first time from the drama stage battlefield screen was in 1991. Li Qiang participated in the TV series "Old Horse and Little Pony", although there are only 2 episodes, the filming is as long as 2 months. Unlike today's multi-camera, multi-camera shooting, in the past, the equipment was extremely limited, with only one camera. To make the picture more vivid, the camera needs to switch between different angles, and the actor must repeat a scene several times. From the single camera position in the past to the dazzling full equipment now, Li Qiang can be said to be one of the witnesses to the growth of Chinese film and television dramas.
What Li Qiang never forgot was a line from "Underwater Village": "We will definitely meet." The water of Foggy Creek leads to the Mediterranean Sea and to the Bering Strait." It not only has a beautiful imagination about water, but also allows the audience to return to seventeen or eighteen years old, feel the innocence and purity of the middle school school, and he loves such humane and infinitely imaginative lines. As an "old cannon" with thirty years of acting experience, Li Qiang's role is always full of humanistic feelings.
The image of Zhong Baiming's "smiling tiger" in "Hidden and Great" is outrageous. When he got the script, Zhong Baiming was a villain who was indignant and uncompromising, Li Qiang studied it over and over again, repeatedly pondered the psychology of the character, pondered how to make this role deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so he discussed with the director to add the characteristics of "great white rabbit" sugar to Zhong Baiming, which means "everything is under control, the other party becomes a small white rabbit in the palm of his hand", showing the characteristics of the fierce and spicy people who love to eat sugar. Many viewers and professional drama critics applauded this case, believing that Li Qiang's grasp of this role is very accurate.
The "Song of Lushan Mountain", which is currently being broadcast on CCTV1, is a rare big country heavy industry theme, and Sheng Chuanxue, played by Li Qiang, is the vice president of Lushan University and the former chief engineer of Lushan Heavy Industry. This is a new role that Li Qiang has never experienced before, but as he grew up at the foot of the foothills, he feels particularly kind. He is a native of Hunan, has a deep friendship for this land, and usually learns about the development of Huxiang's heavy industry through the news, this role allows him to skillfully integrate his feelings for this land into the role, pay tribute to his hometown, and pay tribute to the craftsmen of the big country.
When he got the role, Li Qiang did not deliberately think about how to act, but "naturally followed the character", using the current words to "become a role", thinking about what the role thinks, saying what the role wants to say, and doing what the role does.
His selection criteria for roles are "real and believable", which means that the characters are real, the characters are not floating, and the audience and readers have credibility, which also means that the actors themselves must absolutely believe in the role before they can let go and interpret, "Without conquering their own roles, it is impossible to perform perfectly." ”
In the play, no matter how energetic, going home is also a "child slave"
"Song of the Foothills" was filmed in Changsha, Li Qiang drove to and from work every day, no matter how late he was filming, he would go home to sleep and wanted to go home to spend more time with his children.
Li Qiang's Weibo name is @Li Xiaoding his father, which makes many fans unable to find him. On external social media, in general, he will be eager to use "actor Li Qiang" to strengthen his label, and he only wants to make the role of "father" a way for everyone to know him. As he said in the Father's Day short film, "I have played many roles, but I am most satisfied with the role of 'father'", and it is not too much to say "good father".
When he got into his car, he was a little embarrassed: "The car is a little messy, a little crowded, don't you mind." "It turned out that he was really not polite - there was a child safety seat in the car, and the space was very narrow. It can be seen that because he often takes the children out for a ride, he simply fixed the child safety seat to the car. As he drove, he smiled and introduced us to his two children, "the little one is naughty, and the two children often make the family bottom up."
He does not interfere with the naughty nature of children at all, "children are to maintain curiosity, and the way people stay young is also curiosity", he laughed, and sometimes he also "demolished the house". He admits that his hands-on ability is relatively strong, and he has to think about everything when he sees it. "I took my first phone apart and restored it, and I can continue to use it." You can't do the same thing every day, try something new so that life can be full of surprises.
(Li Qiang plays "daughter slave" Zhao Fucheng in "This is Life")
Sometimes seeing these two naughty children is like seeing Li Qiang himself. He laughed and said that when he was young, he watched "Shaolin Temple" 13 times and could even memorize the lines in the movie. At that time, he had a kung fu dream, fantasizing about becoming a worldly master. To this end, he specially bought books to learn how to become a worldly master, and also hid from his parents, every morning at 4 or 5 o'clock to get up to play sandbags, put his hands in the fried soybeans to practice iron sand palms.
When he talked about all this, Li Qiang smiled and closed his mouth, it was ignorant and fearless, ignorant and simple youth dreams, and it was because of those experiences that he really planted the seeds of showing his skills on the screen.
Whether it is an extraordinary person who is otherworldly, saving people in the world, or a small person who lives desperately in the fireworks alley, Li Qiang always uses his acting skills to resonate with many audiences, and the audience has cried, laughed, angered, feared, hurt, and saddened in the roles he played, which is the whole meaning of his efforts and the charm of film and television.