The March 2023 issue of "World Fashion Garden ELLE"
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The March 2023 issue of "World Fashion Garden ELLE"
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Wang Junkai, who was watched by the audience grow up, defined growth as "a momentary thing". He is still growing, and he can't tell which specific turning point he has to wait for to feel truly mature, and for him, every step he takes now is an accumulation.
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"I knew I would never be stuck with everything again."
This is the last sentence in writer Zheng Zhi's short story "Immortal Disease", which unfolds in the first person and tells the spiritual identity of a teenager and his uncle who "forgot to make a new year". In the movie "Hedgehog" adapted from the novel, the young man is played by Wang Junkai, and in the play, he has to grow from a state of being regarded as a "weirdo" by his family to finally have the calmness of "everyone in the world is drunk and I wake up alone".
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For many people in real life, this may be a metamorphosis that takes decades to achieve, but Wang Junkai, who plays this role, has to complete such an "epiphany" transformation in just a few months of creative cycle: he must strive to make himself the person who understands Zhou Zheng the most, and then through performance, let the audience see the character, and then know him and understand him. If in past film and television works, Wang Junkai mostly only showed a certain slice of each character's life, then this "Hedgehog" is more like a long narrative, everything slowly unfolds, and finally points to Zhou Zheng's decades-long life journey.
"He is influenced by his original family, a little stuttering, and unwilling to communicate with others, but he is very healthy psychologically. He is either autistic or unconfident. "The film has been completed for more than a year, and occasionally mentioning it, Wang Junkai can still immediately remember the various feelings during the shooting, and can outline the clear image of the character in a few words. In order to deal with Xie Zhou Zheng from the bottom of his heart, he had to perceive a completely different life in various ways, layer by layer, and let these unpleasant thoughts stay in his heart.
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The character prototype of the novel is Zheng Zhi's uncle, which also gives the performer an additional window to understand the character directly. "This character written by Mr. Zheng Zhi, some fragments are somewhat similar to his own experience, Mr. Zheng Zhi will know Zhou Zheng better, so I will also talk to the teacher more to feel the arc of this character." In addition, we will also discuss with the director during the break on the set, and we talked a lot about that scene, from the start to the end, and exchanged details and feelings every day.
In the months of the crew, Wang Junkai felt Zhou Zheng's existence more and more, as if he really knew such a friend who was in deep trouble. "The play "Hedgehog", because the character transformation spans a large range, which also requires me to invest in a deeper and more real understanding and feeling."
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It has been a long time since he played Zhou Zheng, and thinking back on what this role brought him, Wang Junkai will choose the word "feeling" very rigorously, rather than summarizing it with the seemingly more powerful "feeling". But even in such a rational and detached situation, he can still feel the unique mark left on him by Zhou Zheng, a child who is not well understood: "He will sow a seed in your heart, he is a friend you have accompanied for such a period of time." ”
Not pretentious, not sensational, and not deliberately exaggerating the influence of the characters, just let yourself know that there is a little secret connection between them.
Every experience of "becoming" another person through performance is like a small signpost that Wang Junkai passed through in his life, maybe each signpost is not far apart, but step by step down, is the meaning of accumulation. From "Broken Bridge", "Ten Thousand Miles Home", "The Gate of Rebirth", to "The Hedgehog" that has not yet met the public, and even trace back to earlier works, while perceiving one role after another, we also see actor Wang Junkai grow little by little.
"When you go back to watch those films, you can still think of some scenes that were filmed at that time - such as the process of this character getting along with you, the process of walking through the scene with the director and rival actors over and over again, and the difficulties and challenges faced with the crew."
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In the past 2022, Wang Junkai's achievements as an actor can be regarded as eye-catching, including the movie "Broken · Bridge", there is also the movie "Ten Thousand Miles Home" that sublimates the feelings of home and country through personal experience, and the brain-burning online drama "The Gate of Rebirth" with a tight rhythm... Put them together, you will find that these characters are not common characters in life, and they are completely different from each other. How to make each performance reflect reality is the proposition that Wang Junkai challenges every time.
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"I learned some lessons from the director and co-actors, and the seniors will also tell me some ways to get into the role and watch some documentaries." Many people will say that acting is a passive profession, but Wang Junkai does not want to be trapped in this uncertainty, and every time he creates, he hopes to make the performance have some definite fulcrum through some efforts within his ability. Supported by these pivots, he strives to build a solid environment for the characters so that they can gradually appear as they really are in the fictional story.
For example, in the accent, from "Broken · The Chongqing dialect he has been familiar with since he was a child, to the Mandarin with a bit of northeastern flavor in "Hedgehog", relying on accents to shape temperament, has become a performance method he has tried. Movements and expressions also need to be carefully designed, in "Thousands of Miles Home", his role has appeared from the beginning of the movie, but for nearly ten minutes he has no lines, four people squeeze into a car that is not spacious, how to gradually reveal the character in this kind of scene, is the problem that the director asked him to solve.
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There are always people who say that in the process of growing up, they will gradually understand that everyone has their own dilemma, and since no one is easier than anyone, then learn to relax - this method is put on Wang Junkai, perhaps to slightly change the way, rather than find out which "others" let him have this cognition, but rather to attribute these roles to the interpretation. From Meng Chao, Cheng Lang, Zhuang Wenjie, who have already met everyone, to Zhou Zheng, who has not yet appeared, they are all like different mirrors, so that Wang Junkai found that there is only one standard answer to any question after seeing himself and the world. "If I have a problem at work, I will go to the director or partners to think of a way to do some training together. You also have to let yourself sink, the more urgent the less you can. ”
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Since his debut in 2013, Wang Junkai's acting career has lasted for nearly ten years. Even if he already has such a wealth of experience, entering a new crew or about to perform on stage will still bring him some mood swings, but after gradually realizing that this is the norm that must be faced, although tension and anxiety are still inevitable, he finds the courage to face them head-on. He learned to tell himself in that moment that he was accepting emotions, but not subjectively amplifying them, "Just get used to it, it's such a process." ”
Wang Junkai is not the kind of person who will beautify difficulties into challenges, he is more willing to make himself better accept and cope with unexpected situations. "Anxiety will make your whole person more tense, it will not have any good or bad effects, I think anxiety is not necessary for me." Although he does not yet feel that he has grown up enough, at least this mentality is mature, and when he considers things through this perspective, it is like having an out-of-the-box perspective, which is a prerequisite for calming and objectivity.
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"I think people should learn about all kinds of things, such as boxing, horseback riding, all kinds of things, and I want to experience them. It's not that you have to learn, but it's always good to experience more, maybe you will find that I like this thing after you experience, then there is one more fun, like I have experienced frisbee, but I find that I really don't like it..." When not facing the camera, Wang Junkai seems to be indifferent to everything, there will be no sudden emotional ups and downs, this is not to say that he is blind to external stimuli, in fact, this is like a deeper understanding: he is not eager to judge, but wants to give various possibilities opportunities, Also be inclusive and allow yourself to give a final conclusion about whether you like or dislike. In short, everything is in no hurry.