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Dong Siyi recently got a familiar-sounding title - Dabao, from her character nickname in "Twenty Not Confused".
Dabao's full name is Duan Jiabao, an ordinary and unusual 20-year-old girl. She has a lot of labels and highlights on her body, rich second generation, star chasers, foodies, senior graduates... There is also a kind of cuteness as the name suggests, well-behaved short hair, large double eyelids, fat and fluffy, double chin "haunted", laughing and a little sweet.
In the face of such a cute character, the audience spontaneously followed the characters in the play "Dabao, Dabao". Therefore, under Dong Siyi's Weibo, no matter whether she posts about herself or the relevant content of "Twenty Not Confused", you can see a lot of messages calling it Dabao.
Last week, another of her works, The Secret of Picking Up Light, went on air. When she herself chased the drama, she did not see bullet screens like "Isn't this a big treasure" and "Big treasure, why are you here". She felt "pretty magical" and knew it was a good thing, which showed that her role was remembered by the audience.
For her, the simultaneous broadcast of the two works is a bit like the annoyance of happiness. Happy to be happy, but in addition to the fatigue of the publicity period, it is inevitable to feel that the results of busyness are put outward one by one, which seems to be a more appropriate rhythm. Fortunately, at present, the harvest is good, and I have just started to get two report cards with a Douban score of 7+.
In the future, this happiness may be more troublesome, and it should be more. Flipping through her recent Weibo, among the few comments that directly called her real name, someone was seriously blessing her, "Dong Siyi must play a rolling deal."
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Seeing the finished film of "Twenty Not Confused" now, Dong Siyi realized that she had been misconceptions all along. The positioning of this drama is an urban inspirational growth drama with realistic themes, so she always feels that she has acted in a work with a very positive painting style, and the result is more like a comedy.
She also privately muttered to Bu Guanjin, who played Jiang Xiaoguo, and was woken up by the other party, "Teacher Bu said, 'Didn't you find out that this became like this when you acted'"
Four girls with different personalities who go to bed with different personalities face the tests and pressures of career choice, love and friendship at the threshold of college graduation. But the advancement of life events has become a joyful daily progression.
And Dabao, played by Dong Siyi, is almost the laughing point in the play. Coupled with live broadcasting, Dong Siyi has to brush the drama 4 times a day, and watch it for the last time when the bullet screen thickens at 2 a.m. She found that whenever Dabao appeared, the bullet screen changed from discussing the plot and character relationships to a full screen of "hahahahaha".
In the laughter of the audience, there must be a part to give Dabao's aggrieved strength.
In the past domestic film and television dramas, the rich second generation always flew and flew. Dabao is different, she is a standard flattering personality. For example, in the first few episodes, because she likes the same star, she is very generous to the girl she just met, but people use her as a cash machine.
Dong Siyi could not understand, "How can there be such a person, in reality, he will definitely roll his eyes and run quickly, and he will not give her a penny." In a similar situation, she is angry when she is acting, and the director will come to remind her that "[acting] is too social." This is the part of Dabao's body that exceeds Dong Siyi's true color, and the more intuitive place is the body shape.
At the beginning of the play, some viewers found that Duan Jiabao was fatter than Dong Siyi.
To be precise, it is 15 pounds fat, and the history of these 15 pounds has not yet been unfolded, and Dong Siyi's expression has restored some of the original entanglement. It is not always difficult for people to grow fat, and what is entangled is her situation at that time, fat and thin are unstable. But that emotion is also different from the psychological burden of many girls on the matter of gaining weight.
Before the start of "Twenty Not Confused", she was still filming another play, so she did not dare to be too fat, and could only silently and sneakily grow two or three pounds. When the crew in Shenzhen really began to eat wantonly, ordering takeout during the set break, and "bombarding" themselves with various foods that are easy to gain weight, such as desserts, milk tea, and fried chicken. It only took half a month, and the weight went up.
New struggles will follow, "You know, [weight] increases all at once, in fact, it is easy to float, so I am fat and thin in the play, and when I lose weight, I am afraid." Because she heard that the production company of this drama, Lemon Meng Pictures, was once dissatisfied with the actors after filming for a period of time, and changed them halfway. She was worried that if she was thin, she would not be replaced, "I just can't think, can't be replaced, and then when I lose weight, I will eat quickly."
But it's not the end of the fat, "the director will ask me very euphemistically, 'Are you a little swollen today', I just want to 'finish', I have to eat less today, I struggle."
What she didn't expect was that, like the audience's feedback today, it was really cute to be fat. Recently, many people have even told her, "How do you feel that you are not fat and good-looking", which made her a little confused, "I watched the last few interviews, it seems that it is really fatter and better-looking, I don't know why."
Ask her, or are you fat? She immediately smiled and waved her hand, "I've managed to slim down." She uses the meticulousness of the tutorial to review the weight loss experience after filming.
Strictly speaking, it is a meal a day, and I make the kind of fat reduction recipes that I collect in the lower kitchen app, and carry it up like a family treasure: chicken meatballs, zucchini chicken cakes, tofu balls... Just in time for the epidemic can not go out, she does not like to exercise, just lie at home to watch videos, "at that time just into the pit of a group, every day 800 materials chased me running", looking at it is not hungry. As a result, ten days of weight loss, I did not find it.
After hearing the reporter's exclamation, she couldn't help but ask herself once, "It's a very humble feeling, isn't it?" I work very hard every day."
During the interview, Dong Siyi used effort and humility to describe herself more than once, compared to the actors, it seems to be more like another group at the moment - social animals. If you have to trace the reason, it may be that whether it is specific to the opportunity to play Duan Jiabao, or the situation of being recognized as an actor, it is indeed not easy to come by, and there is a little lucky component, so it is particularly cherished.
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As early as when "Twenty Not Confused" first announced the group news, she had submitted information, but she had not replied. When it was almost time to boot, she heard that the role had not yet found anyone, so she hesitated to cast it again.
After meeting the director, producer and audition, the role belongs to her, and she can inject soul into this Duan Jiabao that originally only existed in the script.
But looking at it on the other hand, Duan Jiabao and everything he brings is a bit like illuminating the existence of Dong Siyi, she said that she can't see the future life in the "light that shines in."
She shared her fate with "Twenty Not Confused" on Weibo, at that time, the plot was carried out to the reconciliation of Dabao and Xiao Shuang and the love with Big Bear, and the small composition came a little early. She arrogantly believed that it was alcohol-induced pretense, but it wasn't all.
During this time, Dong Siyi occasionally saw someone on the Internet saying, "This play was cast by my father, and from childhood to adulthood, my father was arranged as a station director, director, producer, and various identities." Whether it is a misunderstanding of her or a confusion herself, she just wants to tell those who feel that "what can be done if you have money in the family", "Try to do what you want to do, everyone will have a low tide, don't give up your dreams, maybe one day good luck will come to you."
These words, which seem to be like "chicken soup for the soul", are her personal experience over the years.
Fast forward to the end of 2018, where she stayed in Beijing but hadn't worked for nearly a year. Before that, she thought, "If I don't get a job at the end of this year, I'll go home." At the end of the year, she still wanted to give herself another year. Surprisingly, the new flag was filmed just three months after it was erected.
Unexpectedly, almost seamlessly into the three crews. Since April 2019, from "Youth Genesis" and "Twenty Not Confused" to "The Secret of Picking Up the Light", it has been drifting around for nearly a year. Coupled with the fact that she returned home for the Chinese New Year and the epidemic quarantine, when she returned to Beijing, it was already March this year, 334 days later.
In July last year, because he felt that people were wasting rent in other places, he returned his house in Beijing and asked his colleagues to help move things. Some time ago, I looked for a house again, chose a few, and I liked one of them very much, and the reply I got after contacting the agent was, "Sister, this set is ok, the community just had a new crown."
With the staff to tell about this small episode, Dong Siyi unconsciously revealed Dabao's expression, "I am so difficult to choose." Compared with the inextricable emotions, a paragraph-like experience like this is the first answer that pops up when she faces many questions.
In 2016, she participated in the talent show "Come on! Beautiful Girl", the result is the national top 12. She was still a sophomore at the time, and originally signed up to be a companion with her friends, but the follow-up direction was "very unexpected". The hurriedly prepared program passed the interview, and then went to Shanghai, "every week there is an assessment, I think it should be eliminated soon, the luggage is only taken for half a month, and it was actually left until the end."
Even at the moment when the draft boom is surging and facing the cruel reality of "debut is the peak", the opportunities at that time are not very good. After standing on the starting point of development in the direction of artists, it made her have a kind of sway: to be a girl group or to be an actor?
During the competition, someone said that she was suitable for acting because she had a pleasing camera face. But she has a rebellious mentality, "I don't, I want to be a love bean."
She really likes to sing and dance, and she also dreams of being a singer. Dong Siyi is a star-chasing girl, and the boy band of SM Company chased down, and she is no stranger to the charm of the stage. The stage itself, too, is because she has been standing there since she was a child. In kindergarten, the dance teacher suggested that she go to the TV station to participate in a children's karaoke competition.
She remembered a photograph of herself wearing a small colorful skirt kneeling on the lawn of the kindergarten and posing. On the day of the competition, she tied a hard braid, singing Zhao Wei's "Rattle", "What's coming, the sky is clear, the flowers bloom, because I especially like Zhao Wei, she came to Hangzhou to hold a concert, my father held me in the first row, I shouted 'Zhao Wei sister'".
Dong Siyi ran off the topic while comparing the way it looked at that time, and then pulled it back, "Singing did not get any awards, won a best image award." But it was still very rewarding, and the TV station people were optimistic about her cuteness and asked her if she wanted to be a small host of the children's column. She went, and did it for 9 years. So strictly speaking, she is actually a child actress, at least in Hangzhou, "basically children my age have watched me grow up."
Later, because of her poor grades, she chose the former in the best vocational high school and the worst ordinary high school, majoring in preschool education, and went to kindergarten for a year of internship in her third year of high school. She said she had a bit of a so-called idol baggage at the time and wanted to be as an example as possible. Dad also thinks it's good to stay at home and be a kindergarten teacher.
From the bottom of her heart, Dong Siyi still wants to learn to sing, and she also wants to go to South Korea. But she was only 18 years old when her father let go and agreed to go to the draft, in fact, "a little big", and if she was two years earlier, she might be able to go to SM's offline draft to try her luck. After some struggle, she decided to come to Beijing to attend university and attend the Beijing Modern Music Training Institute.
After saying the name of the school, she silently raised her hand and gave a thumbs up. It seems to be understood as, after a series of retrospectives, to send oneself humble and hard work.
When talking about this, it is not too long before this year's two-show women's group draft, and there are friends who participated in the competition with her in "Youth with You 2". Seeing everyone on the stage, she was also moved. Asked to the point of "still thinking", her answer sounded more and more yearning: I would like to think, I want to.
In fact, she originally had plans to go, and made an appointment for the director team to meet in Beijing, but later went to shoot "The Secret of Picking Up light". As for whether to regret it, she replied, "If you want to say that you don't regret it, it must be a lie, there is a little, but I think since it has been decided, then don't regret it anymore." She put an accent on the word "again," so the current decision is, "Let's be an actor." At the same time, she will not give up the music, she also participated in the singing of the theme song "We" of "Twenty Not Confused".
It wasn't a second choice, but she was really starting to like acting. To become another person by detaching from oneself and living in an atmosphere different from reality can be said to be the exclusive benefit of an actor.
For Duan Jiabao in "Twenty Not Confused" to gain 15 pounds, for Xu Ranran in "The Secret of Picking Up Light" to challenge the 10-year time span, she felt quite cool after acting. Interestingly, she is currently being evaluated not only as "suitable for the camera" as suggested by others, but also as a newcomer, talking about natural and worth looking forward to acting.
Dong Siyi even thought about the roles she wanted to try in the future, the antisocial personality with a perverted temperament like Xu Ruizhi in "Although it is mentally ill but it doesn't matter", and the female forensic doctor played by Rimi Ishihara in "Unnatural Death", which she especially wanted to try.
As an actress, her ultimate goal in 2020 is to have a CP video with Yue Yunpeng at Station B.
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Recently, quite a few new scripts have been approached. Some have been pushed off, and some are ready to meet.
Although Dong Siyi does not seem to have such a cautious capital in terms of the number of works that are currently being broadcast and one to be broadcast, she still decided not to be in a hurry. Last year, I made three films "without a day", and it was time to stop and look at the acceptance results of the audience after handing in the papers, and I could also make time to continue to prepare the album.
She thought clearly and said it truthfully, "Someone asked me why I hadn't entered the group yet, and I thought it would be better to wait. People must be able to endure, anyway, I have been waiting for so many years, not worse than these months." These words seem to make people see that she has a clenched little fist in her heart, "ambition" and "yes".
Looking at the appearance alone, Dong Siyi can easily make people think of cute, sweet and other well-labeled adjectives. I can often hear such an evaluation, but she always refuses, "I hope that others think that I am strong and strong, even if you say that I am bar, it does not matter, do not say that I am a particularly weak little girl." 」
In fact, as soon as there is contact, the preconceived impression because of appearance will be immediately broken.
The interview was held in her company's conference room, because there was no camera, she decided to sit next to each other, and after taking a seat first, she waved her hand, patted the chair next to her to the reporter, and then crossed her legs and looked relaxed. Looking at her, who still has curly hair fixed on the door of her head, the reporter can immediately think of the word used to describe her first impression, which is dashing.
Then, those nagging conversations naturally unfolded round by round. In addition to topics related to her acting career, she talked a lot about home.
Parents who exist like spiritual backing are indeed accompanied by them and cannot be avoided. Even in a way, they were her initiators on the path she is on today. If it wasn't for her father taking her to watch "Huan Zhu Gege", she would not have liked Zhao Wei and would not have sung her songs in the competition.
Mom is her "guide" who chases stars and dramas. She heard from her grandfather that when her mother was in high school, and Andy Lau, who had pasted a wall full of walls, and Takuya Kimura, now liked Troye Sivan.
When she was in elementary school, the mother and daughter chased "Full House", "Love Hotel" and "Blue Life and Death Love" together. Dong Siyi still remembers the situation at that time, "On a big night, my mother dragged me, who was still a primary school student, to the 24-hour convenience store downstairs to buy a bunch of snacks, and then we sat in front of the computer and watched, my father was sleeping."
Until now, she is still receiving Amway from her mother. In 2018, my mother came to Beijing to see her, "she said, 'If you are idle, you can go and see 'A Song of Ice and Fire'.' I said , 'Too much, I don't understand,' and she said, 'It's okay, just look at it three times and you'll understand.'" She asked her mother to read it several times, and the response she got was four or five times.
But at that time, my mother came to see her real purpose, was to cheer her up, "although I would ask if I wanted to go home and find a job, but she always instilled in me the idea that if there is something you want to do, do it." 」 Because the thing she regretted most that year was that she was admitted to college, but she didn't go. So she said to me, 'If you want to rush, you can rush, anyway, home will always be here'."
Recalling this, Dong Siyi suddenly said to the reporter, "I want to cry", and brought the aura back to a brisk and pleasant rhythm, before continuing, "I still have to work hard and fight myself."
This experience is a bit like the plot of the TV series, but she is the kind of girl who grows up in an atmosphere where there is room for discussion, which also explains her personality and choices.
Later, she really rushed forward as her mother said, and according to her own insistence, all the way to the current turning point.