(Zhou Guirong in the TV series "Loading Stage")
The TV series "Loading The Stage" swept the country and received rave reviews after being broadcast on CCTV. Shang Luo's father and fellow villagers watched "Loading Stage", only knowing that it was based on the novel of the same name by Chen Yan, a famous writer from Shangluo and winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, but they did not know that among the many actors in the TV series "Loading Stage", there were also our fellow villagers, and she was He Miao, a Shangluo woman.
"Loading Stage" starred Zhang Jiayi and Yan Ni, and the superb acting skills of the hero and heroine were obvious to the audience, and many supporting roles also added a lot to the TV series, such as Uncle Scar, Big Sparrow and Big Sparrow's daughter-in-law Zhou Guirong.
Zhou Guirong is played by Shangluo actor He Miao.
Due to the poverty of the family and the facial burns of the baby daughter, in order to collect money for the child's surgery, the big bird worked hard to make money. In order to let the children receive the best treatment, Da Que and Zhou Guirong had to come from the countryside to the city and stay at Diao Shunzi's house. After the death of the big bird, the mother and daughter had no way out, and it seemed that they could only stay in Diao Shunzi's house. I thought that the army was paralyzed in bed, the mother and daughter duo helped take care of it while boarding, although it was a little dirty and a little tired, but after all, there was still a head, but I did not expect that the army would soon die of illness. After Ju gave birth to a child, Zhou Guirong was full of thoughts about serving the confinement, it was a day to stay one more day, but she did not expect that Ju's husband and father-in-law brought a bunch of nannies, and she did not need her at all, and she could not even squeeze in front. Desperate, Zhou Guirong understood that he had to go, but he wanted to gamble again, so he alarmed Shunzi when he took away the remains of the big sparrow. Looking at the poor mother and daughter, Diao Shunzi suddenly softened his heart and decided to keep them...
After getting the script, in the days of visiting relatives in Shangluo, He Miao visited many rural relatives and their neighbors, listened to them tell their stories, carefully observed their looks and demeanor, and found feelings for playing the role of Zhou Guirong. The role of Zhou Guirong undoubtedly touched many deep memories of He Miao's childhood and adolescence.
In the 1980s and 1990s, He Miao, who was in elementary school, heard or saw many encounters similar to Zhou Guirong in the countryside of his hometown: poverty made adults obscene, wooden, and worried, and sudden illness and unexpected car accidents made orphans and widows carry the pressure of a millstone overnight. The tenacity and open-mindedness of the women in the mountains, the kindness and simplicity of the neighbors, of course, the disappointment of the inability to rescue, the helplessness under the fence, etc., the smiles of different people, the tone of the cavity, the foot, and the hand, provide a variety of references and imaginations for her performance.
After returning to Xi'an, following the director's requirements, He Miao often used holidays to go to the tenants' homes in the urban villages, and pulled home with many migrant women, especially children and mothers of children as old as Zhou Guirong, and grasped the action details and inner emotions of the characters from their life encounters, moods and sorrows.
If so, He Miao portrayed the role of Zhou Guirong very well, and interpreted the inner world of the characters to the fullest: virtuous, kind, honest and duty, especially the complex helpless and inexplicable psychological state under the fence, she took it appropriately, brought the audience to the scene set by the script, let the audience worry about Zhou Guirong, worry about the orphans and widows, and the people watching the play breathe together and share the fate with the people in the play...
Played widow Lee in "White Deer Plain"
The TV series "White Deer Plain" is also based on the novel of the same name by Chen Zhongzhong, a famous writer in Shaanxi and winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, starring Zhang Jiayi and other Shaanxi actors.
Based on his native cultural understanding and years of performance skills rooted in Shaanxi, He Miao portrays Chen Zhongzhong's widow Li almost perfectly.
The wonderful scenes of this indispensable supporting role successfully connect the various sections of the play, and its spicy, ghostly ideas, and character qualities and life details such as "small peasants at the level of thinking but being kind in nature" are brilliantly interpreted by He Miao.
For example, widow Li brought news, the old mother listened to the scene faintly, widow Li said: "No, no!" (Bai Ling) disappeared all night, and only a rope was left on the kang..." He Miao performed in horror and exaggeration. The bandits came, and Widow Li drilled the cellar section: "Fortunately, I am a human spirit, I will go into the cellar, otherwise my body will be lost..." It can be described as funny and fierce, and the personality is prominent.
No wonder some netizens ridiculed: "Widow Li, this sister is to be funny every time she appears, the expression is very infectious, it is a drama king, which fully explains the limit and diversity of expressions." However, he has not remarried, which shows his loyalty... The scum of feudal society, ah, hurt Li widow, can't help but have to endure! ”
In fact, He Miao himself also has the humble and simple nature of Shangluo people, is kind and kind and has great acting skills, and has a good reputation in the circle. Because she is not keen on self-promotion, she did not borrow "White Deer Plain" to put gold on her face.
Portraying China's "Best Stepmother" in "Pediatrician"
In recent years, TV dramas focusing on social realities are in the ascendant, because they are closely related to the lives of ordinary people and have great practical significance, such as "emergency department doctors", "obstetricians", "young doctors" and other related topics have received general attention from the audience, and "Pediatrician", which ended perfectly on Shandong Satellite TV, has also achieved good results and a good reputation.
In the play, He Miao, who played the husband and wife with the old Hong Kong drama bone Xu Shaoxiong, left a deep impression on the audience. This is also He Miao's second cooperation with Sun Iridium after li widow in "White Deer Plain" to play Xiaohua's mother.
In "Pediatrician", Hong Kong gold medal actor Hui Shaoxiong, who played the husband and wife with He Miao, has portrayed classic characters such as Huan Xige and Huang Qi. When it comes to cooperation with Xu Shaoxiong, He Miao can hardly hide her gratitude, she said that this time she partnered with Xu Shaoxiong to play a couple (also the parents of Sun Iridium playing Xiaohua in the play), so that she learned a lot of things other than acting. Xu Shaoxiong's professionalism and easy-going attitude make the whole crew feel very ironed, and create a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere in the theater, so that their "husband and wife" have become the pistachios and spiritual conciliators of the entire crew.
The "husband and wife" of Xu Shaoxiong and He Miao left a good impression on the audience and became a "model couple" in the play.
In "White Deer Plain", the roles of Widow Li and Bai Ling sublimate the feelings of He Miao and Sun Iridium in and out of the play. In "Pediatrician", He Miao works with Sun Iridium again, this time playing the mother of Xiaohua (Sun Iridium), but is the "stepmother". Therefore, the family relationship between mother and daughter has become the "original point of contradiction" that runs through Xu Shaoxiong, He Miao, and Sun Iridium, a family of three. He Miao's role this time is very different from that in "White Deer Plain", this "stepmother" is atmospheric and reasonable, empathetic, paid a lot for the family of three, and finally touched the small flowers in the TV series, touched the audience outside the TV series, and praised He Miao on the Internet for playing the role of "China's best stepmother".
How Miao Er broke the ground
On December 8, 1981, an ordinary little girl fell to the ground in the dilapidated courtyard of the Shangzhou District Cultural and Labor Troupe. Her father, He Danmeng, was a writer, and famous writers such as Jia Pingwa, Fang Yingwen, and Sun Jianxi were regular customers in the family. Her mother, Pang Xiaoxia, is one of the heroines of the Literary troupe, the female number one who has starred in model plays such as Jiang Shuiying and Ke Xiang, and is also famous for playing Pan Jinlian in Wei Minglun's newly compiled costume drama "Pan Jinlian".
Writers and performing artists mixed with the artistic fertile soil of the family, so that the young He Miao triggered the sensitivity to the true meaning of art early, after entering the Shaanxi People's Art Theater to become a professional actor, He Miao repeatedly studied the works of Robert McKee, the "godfather of Hollywood screenwriting".
In November 2019, the book "Performance Oath", co-sponsored by CCTV Movie Channel's "Today Movie" column editor and actor Zhou Xun, was officially released, becoming a must-read homework book for He Miao before going to bed. In this book, Zhou Xun and Feng Yuanzheng, Xi Meijuan, Jiang Wenli, Wang Qingxiang and other drama bones chatted freely about the performance, Huang Bo talked about how to control the emotions of a cow in "Bullfighting", how to "match" with it, Feng Yuanzheng talked about why he particularly liked the role of An Jiahe in "Don't Talk to Strangers", Wu Junru talked about how to express the grounded beauty of the small characters in Hong Kong movies, and so on. How many times He Miao read the experience of her predecessors and masters, she herself could not tell. Her father's room full of miscellaneous books has become her "girlfriend" who gets along day and night, and must read when she has time.
The knowledge cultivation enriched He Miao's flying wings. So far, He Miao has participated in 16 TV dramas such as "Loading The Stage", "White Deer Plain", "Pediatrician", "Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat, Red and Thin", "Lantong Blossom", "Bronze Dagger", "Adopted Daughter", "Wheat Entering the City", "On the Top", "Huang Kegong Case", "The Legend of Brother", "Stone Village Fortune", "Youth Collection", "Qingjian Uprising" and other 18 films, and served as the protagonist in the drama "Red Plastic Bucket Under the Shade Tree", "Guo Xiumingsong", "Bold Bao Tian", "When Youth No Longer Misses the Butterfly's Injury", and by virtue of his role in the drama "The Bell Goes Away" Zhong's performance won the Outstanding Performance Award of the 5th China Arts Festival, and he also served as the first independent producer in Shaanxi to produce the small theater drama "I Love Peach Blossom".
A few days ago, the good news came that the film "On the Mountain" in which He Miao participated won the best film of the Highest Award of the Moscow International Film Festival, St. George's Gold Award. It is reported that in the upcoming movie "Red Hairpin", He Miao also has a wonderful performance. As the sister film of the excellent movie "A Spoon", I believe that He Miao will have a better interpretation of the role in this realistic theme movie.