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"Abstinence is a clear stream" Wang Kai, why can he always draw "Wang Fried"? Awake enough

Before "Crazy", "Walking to the Wind" can be said to be one of the most popular works, and it also has a bit of a sense of opening low and going high, and it has indeed created a new trend of workplace + romance works.

Among them, the hero is naturally Wang Kai, who plays the male protagonist Gu Nanting - he uses solid acting skills, lines, and still able to fight to restore a uniformed male god.

and Cheng Xiao, played by the heroine Tan Songyun, also has a magical contrast, especially the kiss scene between the two in the second half of the plot, which set a new high in the ratings of the syndicated drama.

Since his emergence in 2013 with "No War in Beiping", Wang Kai seems to be able to come up with "explosive" works every year, and what kind of secret is hidden behind this?

1. Tear off the label

"The character has to be able to impress me."

This year is 41-year-old Wang Kai, his 17th year in the industry.

Compared with the initial when there was no drama to film, he would rather play the "sissy" Chen Jiaming, and now he has become a first-line male star, and he has enough confidence to explain the principle of taking the play by himself.

"Abstinence is a clear stream" Wang Kai, why can he always draw "Wang Fried"? Awake enough

And perhaps only he knows best that the hard-won behind this is hard to come by - after all, he has been working silently for nearly 10 years before becoming popular.

Wang Kai was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1982 to ordinary working-class parents who never thought that his children would work in the arts in the future, and even opposed it.

But when he was a child, Wang Kai was very assertive, and when he was in junior high school, he longed to become an actor.

At the age of 18, under the arrangement of his parents, he had to give up his studies and enter Xinhua Bookstore to take over his father's job.

In this regard, Wang Kai was not happy, but there was nothing he could do.

By chance, he got the opportunity to go to Beijing to shoot an advertisement, and in the process, the director saw that he had a good appearance and suggested that he go to the Beiying or Chinese opera.

Wang Kai immediately came to the spirit when he learned about it, and then sent part of the advertising money home, and used the rest of the money to rent a small house near the school to prepare for the exam.

In the end, it was his father who saw that he had made up his mind, or gave financial support, so that Wang Kai was admitted to Chinese opera the following year and became classmates with Song Yi, Zhang Han, Ma Li and others.

Although Wang Kai is very prominent, whether it is lines or appearance, his popularity is not smooth.

In 2006, Wang Kai, a junior in college, starred in his first TV series "Cold Autumn" by the director, so he met actress Wang Ziwen.

Although he debuted earlier than Zhang Han and other classmates, he did not become popular overnight with the idol drama "Let's Watch the Meteor Shower" as smoothly as the other party.

It is said that Wang Kai also went to this crew for an interview, but the final selection was classmate Zhang Han.

And after he graduated, although he signed a contract with Huayi, he didn't receive any drama contracts for a long time, and when he was "so poor that he couldn't even afford to eat", Wang Kai met "Ugly Woman Invincible".

This work is adapted from the American comedy "Ugly Betty", although the plot is relatively nonsensical, but it was really popular that year.

But Wang Kai got the role of the male N number "Chen Jiaming", which is a very feminine sissy image - initially, he was very repulsive to starring.

However, in the end, Wang Kai still very responsibly interpreted the role of Chen Jiaming perfectly, especially the details such as orchid fingers designed for the role, which were particularly brilliant.

It is precisely because he acted so well that he was once labeled as a "sissy professional" in the industry, and the books he received next were basically the same type of roles.

Wang Kai refused them all, on the grounds that he was afraid of being solidified because of this, so he began to hone his acting skills more humbly, while looking for different types of roles that were suitable for him.

In 2010, he was appreciated by director Zhang Xinjian and challenged the corps intellectual youth Qi Yong in the period drama "Knowing", and the following year he played the role of the cannon wizard wearing a knife in the tribute drama "Gun Marquis".

It can be said that in order to erase the public's impression of his "sissy", Wang Kai has tried to complete many different images.

In 2012, he revealed on the show that he had a 4-year relationship, but later broke up with regret due to less gatherings and more separations.

The following year, he got the role of the young and promising police chief Fang Mengwei in the historical drama "No War in Beiping".

In fact, a similar role, he also tried for "The Pretender" in the future, but it completely gave people two completely different feelings.

"Abstinence is a clear stream" Wang Kai, why can he always draw "Wang Fried"? Awake enough

Fang Mengwei in "No War in Beiping" is like a clear, upright, kind and warm little poplar - he is open-hearted, sober and firm, and at the same time knows how to protect his family like Bai Yueguang.

More importantly, when the audience sees Wang Kai again in this play, they have completely forgotten the Chen Jiaming who cocked his orchid fingers and spoke a few years ago.

2. A thousand people and a thousand faces

"No War in Beiping" not only made him nominated for the Golden Eagle Award for the audience's favorite actor award that year, but also seemed to open Wang Kai's road to popularity.

The following year, he starred in the "Langya List" as the resolute and forgiving heroic prince Xiao Jingyan, who is still a rare classic image in the hearts of many audiences.

In the above-mentioned "Pretender", Wang Kai is also a low-key and forgiving hot-blooded young man, but he has a different temperament from Fang Mengwei.

The "Ming Cheng" here is cunning and alert, with thousands of faces, and is always convincing in the face of great right and wrong, especially the crying scene that interprets the death of the eldest sister.

"Abstinence is a clear stream" Wang Kai, why can he always draw "Wang Fried"? Awake enough

His teary eyes give people a sense of vicissitudes, and at a glance, they can feel that this is an extraordinary agent who has served the country for many years and endured for many years.

And the year of the explosion of "The Pretender" was also the year of Wang Kai's popularity.

Then he brought out "Please Close Your Eyes When He Comes" and "Ode to Joy".

If the former is only a glimpse as a supporting role, then Wang Kai in "Ode to Joy" is more relaxed and simply like a fish in water.

The young doctor he plays, Zhao Qiping, is smart and capable, dashing, and looks quite compatible with Wang Ziwen'er.

In addition to his own tall and handsome, Zhao Qiping is more valuable in that he has both arrogance and understanding of the bottom line, and his connotation and temperament are more valuable.

What is even more bizarre is that in his low-key and calm temperament, there is also a sense of so-called "abstinence" - this is another aesthetic born out of nowhere.

"Abstinence is a clear stream" Wang Kai, why can he always draw "Wang Fried"? Awake enough

Among the previous actors, the only ones who can give people a similar feeling may be Jin Chengwu and Zhang Zhen, but Wang Kai is obviously more grounded than them.

Of course, after becoming popular, Wang Kai was also "targeted" by idol dramas, and in the next two years, he starred in works such as "If Snails Have Love" and "Give Me Up, Hold Me", with good and bad reviews, but the popularity is always not low.

It belongs to the stage of the peak of his career, but Wang Kai has encountered tests in life.

In 2017, the movie "The Dedication of Suspect X" starring him broke the box office record for mainland crime-themed films.

But on the other hand, my father suddenly became seriously ill and died in less than a month.

This incident hit Wang Kai quite hard, and he began to stop and reflect on the meaning of life and work.

So, he reported to fans on social platforms, saying that he would take a break, and indeed after that, he seemed to have become a "missing person" for a while.

Wang Kai began to consciously reduce his workload, no longer appearing at various events, even some award galas were consciously absent, and sometimes even fans did not know what he was doing.

But in terms of acting skills and receiving scripts, Wang Kai is still very serious, so there is "Great River" in 2018.

It can be said that "Great River" is indeed a rare high-quality work, whether it is the production team, the actor's plot, the degree of restoration, and even the style scene, service, etc. are almost impeccable.

But what makes the public even more happy is the person of Song Yunhui created by Wang Kai, which is an extremely rare image on the TV series.

From the time he appeared, he started as a simple rural teenager, bringing a fresh, sunny youthful feeling; When his sister lost the opportunity to go to school due to family composition and other issues, he was burdened with a heavy burden...

"Abstinence is a clear stream" Wang Kai, why can he always draw "Wang Fried"? Awake enough

Wang Kai almost perfectly interprets every change in this character, and there is always a kind of "wooden" given because he reads too much, even from a small movement, he can quietly show the characteristics of Song Yunhui.

This is Wang Kai's acting skills, and it can also be said that he has eaten this character thoroughly, so when watching "Great Rivers", you can't imagine him as any of the previous characters:

It is not Chen Jiaming who is pretentious, not Fang Mengwei, who is sober and straightforward, Xiao Jingyan, who is not dignified and elegant, not Ming Cheng, who is cunning and loyal, nor Zhao Qiping, who is warm and proud...

Perhaps, the audience's biggest praise for an actor is "what to act like what", and I believe that Wang Kai really did it.

3. Comparable to clear streams

In fact, the public has only seen that Wang Kai's "Song Yunhui" is so attractive, or so real, but few people know that in order to adapt to the needs of the character and get close to the character state of his student days, he deliberately lost ten pounds of meat when he was already thin.

By the time of the second part, Song Yunhui had become the director of the factory, his living conditions had improved, and he was working hard to eat fat a little at the start of filming.

"Abstinence is a clear stream" Wang Kai, why can he always draw "Wang Fried"? Awake enough

For the growth of the role, Wang Kai also adjusted the performance details:

"When Song Yunhui became more and more stable, I stopped arching my glasses with my nose and using my hands to support them."

After this play, Wang Kai's entire 2019 did not have any works, and it was not until the next year that he returned to the public's vision due to the popularity of works such as "Qingping Le" and "Fox Hunting".

"Abstinence is a clear stream" Wang Kai, why can he always draw "Wang Fried"? Awake enough

In this regard, when asked in an interview about "whether he is worried about the decline in the popularity of children who take over the play", he said that he also has different pursuits for performance at different stages:

"When I first started in the industry, I wanted to have filming; After that, it becomes a good film; And then later, it became the hope to shoot the scene he wanted to shoot. ”

Wang Kai bluntly said that he was not worried at all: "Receiving a play will lose popularity, but will feel that constantly filming and hollowing out yourself will make people less popular." ”

That is to say, in Wang Kai's view, as an actor, you don't necessarily have to present the state of "dominating the screen" one play after another, and occasionally let go and rest, but you can enrich yourself.

So he stopped for a while in 2021, and there were no works that picked up the beams.

Until the end of last year, the civil aviation workplace drama "Walking to the Wind" starring him was a hit.

Although this work is based on the workplace story of the deputy director of the aviation passenger flight department and the female pilot, it is inevitable that elements such as growth and love will be the mainstream in the progress of the plot.

That is to say, once the shooting is not good, it will be another romance drama that interprets brainless love under the banner of the workplace - after all, "workplace" and "love" are always two labels that are difficult to successfully blend.

But fortunately, the screenwriter did not disappoint, and indeed managed to carry the growth of the heroine Cheng Xiao throughout the play, and finally really grew from a reckless and arbitrary newcomer in the workplace to a calm and restrained female pilot.

In terms of the handling of love, she also uses the way of "women chasing men" and constantly attacks, giving people a bright sense of freshness.

In the end, the audience can feel that the male and female protagonists are growing: at least Gu Nanting has become more humane; Cheng Xiao is also more mature and stable.

"Abstinence is a clear stream" Wang Kai, why can he always draw "Wang Fried"? Awake enough

Therefore, this work can stand out in similar works such as "You Are My Glory" and "Police Honor".

Looking at Wang Kai's persistence and choice along the way, it is not difficult to find out why he can always shoot "Wang Fried Drama" - do not forget the original intention, do not set limits, and are sober enough...

It is precisely because of this that Wang Kai easily becomes a clear stream among male actors, which is really rare.

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