After the launch of "Love for You Is Beautiful", due to the plot and character setting, Chen Meiyi, as a newcomer, was also questioned. Accepting the question, Chen Meiyi experienced the process from sadness to adjustment, "In fact, I still haven't done a good job, and I hope that I can grow up as soon as possible and get everyone's recognition." ”
Actor Chen Meiyi. Courtesy of respondents
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Chen Meiyi
Date of birth: August, 9 1998
Law School: Shanghai Theater Academy
Masterpiece: TV series "Beautiful for Your Love" Movie "1921"
When I read the script, I thought that "Wang Xiaomi" would be controversial
The TV series "Beautiful for Your Love" tells the story of Wang Xiaomi, played by Chen Meiyi, who accidentally found that she had two fathers, one was Wang Dashan, the noodle shop owner played by Zhang Jiayi, and the other was Ke Lei, a talk show host played by Sha Yi. In the play, Wang Xiaomi is a girl who is loved by thousands of people, and with the development of the plot, when Wang Xiaomi constantly rejects Ke Lei's kindness, has an indifferent attitude towards Ke Lei, or is impulsive and reckless, netizens have questioned Wang Xiaomi's personality. Chen Meiyi said that in fact, she can anticipate this, "When reading the script, I think Wang Xiaomi may be controversial, she is actually a very typical 'first action and then think' girl, she does not think too much, and does not think much about the consequences." ”
The plot of the whole drama revolves around Wang Xiaomi's life, as a key character, Wang Xiaomi's many impulsive behaviors also promote the development of the plot, "so I also understand everyone's spitting." As a newcomer actor, when I first saw everyone's comments, Chen Meiyi would be a little sad, but soon she adjusted her emotions, "In fact, I still didn't do well enough to interpret the cute side of Wang Xiaomi more vividly, so I accepted everyone's criticism of me, so that I could make better progress." ”
In the TV series "Beautiful Love for You", Wang Xiaomi's character has two fathers. Courtesy of respondents
When you see Chen Meiyi, you will feel that she and Wang Xiaomi are judging each other, "My personality and Wang Xiaomi's personality are very different, and it can even be said that they are completely opposite." In order to create a good personality of "Wang Xiaomi" who acts first and thinks later, Chen Meiyi visited several friends with similar personalities to watch their speech and demeanor, and look for Wang Xiaomi's shadow. "This kind of personality is generally thinking of what to say, and the behavior is generally a big grin." In the play, Wang Xiaomi's female hanzi-like walking posture and agitated tone of speech are deliberately designed by Chen Meiyi with a little exaggeration, but for the audience's spit wang Xiaomi's clothing matching, Chen Meiyi explained with a smile, "She is not the kind of girl who particularly cares about clothing, because she has followed her father Wang Dashan since she was a child, she is actually dressed more casually, I can understand." In fact, I am very grateful to her, and Wang Xiaomi for five months, she taught me a lot of things, slowly let me open myself, and stimulated the lively side of my personality. ”
Powerful actors such as Song Dandan are very educated
The cast of this play is strong, Zhang Jiayi plays the adoptive father Wang Dashan, Liu Mintao plays the mother Luo Qing, Sha Yi plays Wang Xiaomi's biological father Ke Lei, and Wang Xiaomi's grandmother is played by Song Dandan. Facing such a strong lineup for the first time to shoot a TV series, this is an opportunity and pressure for Chen Meiyi, "Especially taught, these senior teachers are helping me how to play this role well." ”
Chen Meiyi remembers the first time she met Song Dandan, she was so nervous that she couldn't speak normally, "Teacher Song Dandan is an actor in Beijing Renyi, she has high requirements for lines, she often says to me: speak loudly, the lines should be heard by everyone." And when it comes to Zhang Jiayi, Chen Meiyi said that she is very grateful to him: "Teacher Zhang tells me about acting almost every day, including the principle of being a person. He would tell Chen Meiyi how to prepare a scene, shoot a shot, tell her that when the actor got up from the couch and walked to the table, it was not just an action, it was necessary to integrate the lines and actions, and every action in the act needed to be rationalized. Speaking of Liu Mintao, Chen Meiyi will call her "my mother" especially naturally, "I have a bit of a similar personality to my mother (Liu Mintao), so we can talk about it specially, and we are very relaxed together." ”
Stills from the TV series "Beautiful for Your Love".
Chinese opera and upper drama art examination are the first
When other children like to watch cartoons, Chen Meiyi likes TV dramas, and after watching them, she also loves to imitate and learn the lines in them, "When I was a child, I always felt that life in TV dramas was very beautiful, and I was eager to get into the TV." But life on TV is still too far from reality, and the experience of Chen Meiyi in life being closest to the art category is to learn the cello and become a special student. "Honestly, my love for cello isn't that high."
Chen Meiyi's art examination results are very outstanding, and she has won the first place in the performance major of the Central Academy of Drama and the Shanghai Theater Academy. "I owe it to the right time and place." Chen Meiyi said, "I knew that I was not particularly good-looking, so I tied a dirty braid hairstyle so that the teachers in the crowd could see me at a glance." During the exam, the line I prepared was a monologue, which was selected by my art test teacher, which could quickly show my characteristics and personality, (this monologue Chen Meiyi also reproduced the performance for everyone in the video). In the end, Chen Meiyi chose the Shanghai Theater Academy.
Chen Meiyi's acting class introduced a new school of performance methods, and she still remembers the first acting class that the foreign teacher gave to everyone, "At that time, my seat was closest to the switch of the classroom light, and the teacher pointed to the switch and said to me: Turn off the light." Then I just got up, turned off the lights, and sat down. The teacher pointed at me and said, this is the performance, at that time I didn't understand what it meant. Later, Chen Meiyi understood that in fact, the best performance is to do it realistically, and the same is true on the stage, "Don't have distractions, let you turn off the lights, you turn off the lights."
In 2019, Chen Meiyi starred in the film "Qingyu", produced and written by Kim Ki-duk, which was her first time filming and the first time she entered the crew. "Kim Ki-duk's films are all very quiet, the kind with very few lines, and our one is no exception, I really haven't said a few lines from beginning to end, it's all state, I especially like it." The director of this film is a young director of the Beijing Film Academy, and the whole team is also very young, and Chen Meiyi sees in them the strength to fight for her dreams.
Beijing News reporter Zhang Kunyu
Edited by Tian Kaini Proofreader Li Lijun