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The costume fairy drama "Heavy Purple", broadcast exclusively by Tencent Video, has now been broadcast for more than half, not only achieving a popularity of more than 25,000 on the site, but also occupying the top 1 of the popularity list of bone online dramas for many consecutive days, basically including young viewers who love fairy tales and prefer master-apprentice settings.
Among them, the role of heavy purple played by Yang Chao has also entered the "mortal purple" stage of the second life, and is now working with Master Chonghua Venerable (played by Xu Zhengxi) to brush the copy of Zizhu Peak, waiting for the arrival of the enchanted storm.
In addition to the deep master-apprentice relationship of the main line of the third generation, Zhuo Hao (played by Ma Wenyuan), the master of the young palace of Qinghua Palace, Qin Ke (played by Deng Wei), the peer leader Qin Ke (played by Deng Wei) who entered the cultivation of Nanhua together, the Demon Venerable Dead Moon (played by Wang Zhuocheng) who tried to restart the Six Realms by means of purple, the hidden uncle Mu Yu (played by Li Daikun), and the Demon Venerable Wanji Chu Bufu (played by Gao Han), who once had the grace of saving his life, all have different degrees of emotional entanglement with Chongzi. This kind of arrogant temperament of "enough sugar pipes" not only makes the audience enjoy it, but also makes Yang Chao, who "likes every CP line", become the strongest "Duanshui master" in history outside the play.
In fact, in this drama, Chongzi, as the daughter of the Demon Venerable Reverse Wheel, was born with anger and achieved self-growth after three lifetimes of rotation, which left a lot of room for this role to play, and for the actor Yang Chao, it was another challenge.
Therefore, Bone Duo and Yang Chao met after the live broadcast of "Heavy Purple" sweeping the building, trying to externalize the heavy purple in her eyes and herself in this conversation.
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Heavy purple this set of experience skin,
Buy 1 Get 2 Free, it's a bit enjoyable
As a 12G surfing "Internet addict girl", public entertainment such as chasing dramas and reading novels is also a pastime she will take to relax a little in her occasional free time. Therefore, Yang Chao has seen many fairy tales one after another. As a reader, she will always be attracted by the refreshing monster fighting and upgrading bridges in the novel, and she will also have more preference for the character settings that meet at the top. It is not difficult to see that the infinite twists that seem to be hidden behind the "growth-type" stories are the existence that can always cut Yang's transcendence.
The same is true of the character of Chongzi and the story behind it. Yang Chao once told Bone Duo that the most attractive thing about Chongzi was the "setting of the third life". "Because these three lives represent three different stages of her life, from the ignorant girl at the beginning, to the mature lady show in the middle of the term, and then to the 'strong woman' state who began to engage in career after entering the devil, each side is very different." Among them, the first and last two lifetimes, which have the most extreme contrast in personalities, left the deepest impression on her.
In fact, the reason why Yang Chao is attracted by this complex, extreme and contrasting personality is because she has always been eager to challenge and explore. Whether it is a character with an extreme personality or a familiar character, how to find a new foothold for the performance is a topic that she needs to work hard to overcome.
Perhaps in the eyes of the outside world, the spirit and liveliness of Zhongzi in the first life have certain similarities with Yang Chao's past screen images such as "gentle" and "phoenix dance", but this voice will not bring too much pressure to Yang Chao, because she will still try to dig out the different places in each character.
"Although the early stage of heavy purple and gentleness are a bit similar, but still have to be re-judged according to their family lineage and birth environment, in fact, heavy purple she is a little beggar, those bad experiences in the past have made her have a 'straight and fast' side, gentle is spoiled by her family since childhood, and the body will be a little pampered by the temper of the eldest lady, and they are a fairy and a martial artist, so they will still pay attention to distinguish (these details) when acting."
In this way, after experiencing the "skin" of heavy purple, buy one get two free, what is left for Yang Transcendence is probably not just enjoyment.
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Every performance is limited to the moment
What would it be like to go from a loyal audience of fairy tales to the creator behind fairy tale dramas?
To this, Yang Chao gave the answer, "In fact, there will be some changes in mentality. For example, every time I see the special effects of Heavy Purple, I think, 'This is originally a green screen'. It is that when you participate in it yourself, you will find a lot of things that are different from the original imagination, and then you will understand the things behind each picture better, and you will no longer say 'so beautiful' as you did when you watched the drama before (laughs). ”
In fact, from his debut to the present, Yang Chao has also played some large and small roles, but under the increasingly strict evaluation system, the public's evaluation of his acting skills is still mixed. She knows this in her own heart, so she is always extra sincere when talking about acting.
"Sometimes I also go to past works to 'judge' myself to see what might not be good enough, or take out the scripts I have acted in before and look at them again and think about how I can act if I am now. Because people's aesthetics and ideas of looking at things at different stages will change, and the understanding of the same thing or the same thing is also different, the difference between people is even greater, so in fact, each performance is a limitation. This is Yang Chao's understanding under the identity of an actor.
In order to make every limited performance as best as possible, Yang Chao will also practice himself in private, such as following the teacher to the line class, collecting it and watching it repeatedly when he sees the wonderful performances of the seniors. In her view, "Sometimes in daily life, we don't have much opportunity to contact some specific scenes and emotions, such as drowning, when we need to perform, we will find that we don't have this concept in our minds, which actually requires us to collect and understand in advance." ”
This recognition is driving Yang to explore step by step, for her at this stage, "Performing this matter is like a layer of vague things gradually and slowly dissipating, although the speed of this cloud may not be particularly fast, but in the end you can see progress." So she also urged herself, "It's better to film and ponder more, because no teacher will be able to teach you the tricks that are very powerful immediately, or rely on your own accumulation and understanding." ”
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"Yang transcends this label, I have a habit in it"
As a new-generation artist in her early twenties, in private, she seems to have a shadow that is no different from ordinary girls. For example, walking will inadvertently bounce, interested in all blingbling gadgets, like to study beauty and skin care and take photos, although when the energy is exhausted, it will unconsciously become coquettish and cute, but in the face of the things they love, they will maintain twelve points of concentration...
When Yang Chao is mentioned, many people will subconsciously think of many labels, such as "internal entertainment living people", "sober in the world" and so on. In addition to accepting the "judgment" of herself and the outside world in her role, Meitu's appearance and variety show speeches are the focus of her public attention.
But Yang Chao does not seem to be lost because of this, she will frankly confide her pain when she tries and mistakes at every step and receives negative feedback, but she never hides her happiness when she receives everyone's recognition and love.
When Bone Duo really communicated with her face-to-face, she found that in this person who has been in the industry for five years and can still retain a trace of spontaneous and pure originality, the three words "Yang Transcendence" are her biggest label. In this regard, she seems to have changed from passive adaptation to active habit.
I guess that in Yang Chao's bones, there is probably a frank temperament. Whether it is self-analysis in front of the camera, the courage when "the most aware of me and loves me in the world is myself", or the freeness when saying the phrase "accept when you don't have a choice", or the slightly regretful honesty in the face of "the feeling of youth is gradually passing", this is confirmed.
Of course, at this age, backed by fierce market competition and ruthless public opinion, occasional emo and anxiety are inevitable. However, the sense of security that she reloaded after collecting her emotions again and again gave her the confidence to stand in the camera and release energy.
"In fact, sometimes you don't have to keep your mind on the far future, and you can be surprised by the small progress of the present. Because no matter what you do, it's important to get feedback, even if it's just recognized by someone, then it proves that this thing I worked on is worth it, and this becomes a motivation. ”
Perhaps, the natural strong heart and natural good skin bag did give Yang Chao the capital to take up this bowl of rice, but the state of self-immersion, self-observation and self-consistency like water can make her go further.