In the movie "Light of the White Tower", Huang Yao found a zero-degree, natural, and quiet performance. Everything goes from complexity to simplicity and into nothingness. This method of performance is not suitable for all theatrical genres, but is especially effective in The Light of the White Tower, like writing prose. Huang Yao also opened up a new realm and saw the white tower.
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Feather tweed coat Chanel
People are complex, like prisms. The actor looks for the most suitable angle and refracts the light of the character.
"Once you find it, it's easy to do, how to act right." Actor Huang Yao described his profession as follows, "Of course, I haven't reached this realm yet, and I'm still very entangled and troubled. In late February, she was preparing for a trip to the Berlin Film Festival. After three years, I went to Berlin again, last time was the female lead of "Over Spring", this time it was the female lead of "Light of the White Tower", but she is 28 years old, no wonder others regard her as the successor of the big flower in the film and television industry.
The filming of "Light of the White Tower" was an unprecedented experience. The prose script is the same, and the director has to be alone for 15 minutes every time before filming. For most of March last year, Huang Yao followed director Zhang Lu and the crew to film on a small platform where the white tower could be seen, walking around the alley to take a walk and film. The photographer Ouyang Wenhui played by her gradually became curious about her partner Gu Wentong, looked back in the past, and then became close. Like Zhang Lu's consistent creative style, "Light of the White Tower" does not have too many dramatic conflicts, and the relationship between the characters is ambiguous and uncertain, "but uncertainty is his film, presenting a unique and charming temperament." ”
Photographed until the evening, the crowd scattered, see you tomorrow. It will soon be spring. At the shooting scene, Huang Yao wore a rainbow-colored wire hat woven by her mother, wore a striped sweater to match, and brought a book with her. With a day to go to Berlin, she wanted to take a camera and revisit the place to take some photos exactly like three years ago.
Pleated dress Valentino
Three years ago, Huang Yao played the leading role of a movie for the first time, and the role was Liu Zipei, a cross-border non-schoolboy in "Over Spring". In this excellent Chinese-language youth film, Liu Zipei wears a slightly yellowed school uniform to travel between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, with broken families on one side and school groups in this non-local area on the other. She accidentally joined the Walking Water Group, and also experienced the secret emotional opening, and finally everything ended without a problem. Liu Zipei is sensitive and energetic, but at a loss.
Huang Yao waited for Liu Zipei for half a year, she went to the streets of Hong Kong to observe female students, went to the school store to buy chocolate drinks, audition, and set up a play. But when she really wanted to play, she didn't know how to act.
She wasn't like that before. Huang Yao, who has been involved in drama performances with his parents since he was a child, was led to the theater to participate in the school drama troupe and appear in stage plays. "The kind of people who come crazy." Huang Yao laughed, "Then after I went to college, there were too many excellent people around me, I changed from a chicken head to a phoenix tail, I didn't know what to do, I didn't know what to do, I didn't dare to do it right, and I didn't dare to communicate deeply with the teacher, and I didn't dare to open my heart." Huang Yao gradually became closed and dull, labeling himself as social fear and slow heat.
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"I'm not someone who is naturally very emotional and doesn't care about anything once engaged. I'm a person with a lot of concerns. Coupled with the previous state of unconfidence, I really feel that many things will shock me when performing live, I will feel scared, and I will always lose my mind. Wonderfully, that is exactly the state of the character Liu Zipei, "apprehensive, timid, inferior, jerky." It was my luck that it was presented as something very real. ”
In October 2018, "Over Spring" won the Best Film and Best Actress awards at the 2nd Pingyao Film Festival, and at the party after the festival, "everyone hugged together excitedly and cried or something, and I was in a daze there." Huang Yao realized it later. After realizing that she is still riding and walking and listening to the theme song "Over Spring", she will think of "Over Spring" every spring after that.
Bow blazer, shirt
Skinny pencil pants are all Prada
Clip-toe sandals Miu Miu
The tense state followed her for a long time, throughout "I Met Him in Hong Kong" and "The Silent Truth", until 2020 when she played the supporting actress Bai Maimiao in "Mountain and Sea Love".
In order to fit the character's northwestern accent, during the audition, Huang Yao chose Song Dandan's version of the drama "White Deer Plain", picked up a piece of Tian Xiao'e's monologue, learned pronunciation word by word, and recorded more than 30 articles to no longer make mistakes. During filming, I found the same group of actors and locals to learn the dialect. In nearly three months, she played Bai Maimiao's thirty years, from a willful and ignorant girl in a northwest mountain village to a young female worker who went south to work. Su face the sky, but also has a strong vitality. In "Mountains and Seas", Huang Yao finally has a relaxed and comfortable feeling, "When shooting on the spot, he is more and more concentrated, more and more able to concentrate, and less and less disturbed by off-site factors." ”
Sleeveless dress, metal collar
All are Jil Sander
A year later, in June, Huang Yao was participating in director Qiu Litao's new film "Jedi Pursuit", "drenched in torrential rain every day". The night before the finale, he hung Weiya for another day, finished at dawn, flew to Shanghai, and "did not close his eyes for more than thirty hours, and received a beautiful magnolia in a dizzy manner." It is said that at the 27th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award Ceremony, Huang Yao won the best supporting actress for the role of Bai Maimiao in "Mountains and Seas". As usual, she smiled and generously stepped onto the stage and said: "It feels like the strong wind on the Gobi Desert blowing the 'white wheat seedlings' onto the stage. ”
Don't be careless, go with the flow.
That year, she returned to the Pingyao Film Festival as a young jury and became more mature and confident. One comes with external achievements, and the other is more important "self-confidence from the heart", which comes from self-understanding. "In fact, I have been exploring and thinking about what kind of person I am, I have never been clear before, it is all what others say you are, but I don't know myself. It was very different when I was a child than when I grew up, and very different in front of friends and outsiders. In the past two years, I feel that it is not so simple to be able to summarize what kind of person I am, I can be cheerful, I can also be dull, I can be social fear, I can also be social cattle, it all depends on the moment. For himself, the more Huang Yao learned, the more comfortable he became.
Later, Huang Yao played the role of the psychology teacher in "Dragon Boy", for which she read a lot of psychology primers, "I know myself a little better, and I am more able to accept the places where I couldn't accept myself before." Huang Yao's life in those hundred days of crew life was very bright when he thought about it, "Love yourself first, and then have greater energy to pour love into others." ”
Halter dress, wide-leg pants
ALL ARE FERRAGAMO
The year 2022 has just passed for her to be peaceful, contented and broad. I saw myself on the movie screen, filmed more scenes, rode around reading books in a daze, and tried running that I hated before. Every time I run, fragments of Haruki Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Run" float in my head, such as imagining myself as a never-weary machine, such as the brief vacuum like diving into the water, "Emptying the brain is the hardest." I've tried sitting alone at home, but I can't really think about anything, I think about something." Running accidents brought Huang Yao this feeling of daily inreach, when running two or three kilometers, overcoming the inertia and fatigue of the body, people enter a kind of inertia, and the brain is empty.
Then, "without limits, create as much as possible, be exposed to more different things, and explore what possibilities exist in yourself." Huang Yao mentioned the possibility more than once, and the implication was that life was determined early on to be boring, "Of course, there will be confusion, which is a good thing." I also think about what I'm going to do in the next three years, what I'm going to shoot in the next year, and whether I'm going to have any other plans in five years. If some don't, the brain can't be empty. I look forward to new questions and ideas coming out to harass me so that I am motivated to solve it. ”
Photo by Kim Jiaji
Styling: LVLU
Makeup: Xiaomin / Hairstyle: Anan
WRITTEN BY: GREEN / EDITED BY JIAWEI
DESIGN: ZHAO WEI
Producers: Conan, Tianqi
Styling assistant: small room
Photography assistant: Jiang Yuhang