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"Why are all the characters you play so mournful?"
Hearing this question, Ren Suxi himself couldn't help but laugh out loud, "I do, I have lost quite a few (movies). But "Looking for Han Ji" is fine, it has a lot of comedic elements, and it is not to reflect the personal mourning, life is really like this, the story can poke some people, but also warm some people. ”
This May, Ren Suxi had two movies released, one was "Looking for Han Ji" and the other was "A Little Moving". In recent years, her work density has increased, and her work has always been very tight, which has forced her to think about some mentality and performance problems, even if the audience always stays on her screen image on "older young women", but she believes that she can do a type of role to the extreme.
In her own words, it is quite "natural", and the past two years have been even more sinking: "Now I, if I don't have good works to find, there really is no output (laughs)." But if I encounter someone I want to shoot, it will be more intensive. In the past, I wanted to experience any role by myself, and my consumption of myself was indeed a bit 'digging' and not moving, but some roles came, you can't manage so much, because you love 'her' too much, which is probably my selfishness and ambition at work. [Laughs]"
Character photography / Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing
Each time a character is completed, it leaves some imprints
Ren Suxi or know better than anyone that the movie "Looking for Han Ji" is in this May Day file. She said that in more than a dozen films, this small film is almost in a "invisible" state, with few films and difficult to have gimmick blessings, but these do not seem to be important to her.
She looks at her work quite objectively, because she knows what is good and what is not good, "After watching the fixed cut of "Looking for Han", I seem to be a little confused, just like the early Soviet films, and its realism has reached there. Usually we turn on the TV to watch realist works, and when we go out, you will find that it is not like that, not everyone lives in a palatial five-star hotel. But this movie has the ability to let you see things in the movie as soon as you go out, and director Tang Danian grasps the aesthetic and judgment to death. ”
The reason why Ren Suxi took over the role of the heroine Wang Zhao in "Looking for Han Ji" is because she is the opposite of Momo in "Half a Comedy" - this is an extremely traditional and unassertive young woman, she is cowardly in her heart, everything is good to discuss, and she is full of "mournful" obedience to life, very provocative, and very cowardly. After being abandoned by her ex-husband, she found herself pregnant, and if she was not born, she was afraid that it would be difficult to get pregnant again, so it became her obsession to give the child a household registration, and thus began a journey of "looking for a Man" between her and her grandfather. "Wang Zhao is too unique, she is a very ordinary person, she can't do anything right, she is abandoned, she is fired, it seems that everywhere is superfluous." The literary foundation of the script is very strong, so strong that I don't have to do too much desk work, I don't have to go to the rehearsal hall to tear myself up, and it is too rare to be willing to use space and movies to explain such an inconspicuous character, and such a real and inconspicuous person also gives me a great creative impulse. ”
Stills from the movie "Looking for Han"
After playing Wang Zhao, Ren Suxi has changed a lot, and she found that she will also have an inexplicable smile on her face, "because Wang Zhao sees that everyone wants to laugh, although she doesn't really want to laugh, but she just thinks that if she laughs at others, others will not be nicer to her." After the performance, that kind of smile stayed on my face for a long time. The role of her changes, Ren Suxi is not without, just like after acting in "The Unknown Generation", she is already more active because of the role needs to often practice sitting in a place "not moving", and gradually she does not like to move.
In "The Unknown Generation", Ren Suxi played a high paraplegic girl.
For her, the relationship with the role is never a cross-relationship, but a relationship, and after playing a role, it will leave some imprints on her, which she feels valuable and worthwhile.
The most valuable thing for an actor is to come up with a different self
In fact, Wang Zhao and Ren Suxi are not like each other at all, and it is precisely because of this incompatibility that she is inspired to dig out another side of herself.
"There is only a little element of my personality that is similar to Wang Zhao, but this part is very small, and I need to slowly peel off the other personalities, and then enlarge the place where I am close to her, and this process of enlargement and searching makes me very cool." 」 She excitedly said that this shooting experience gave her a sense of accomplishment: "Friends who know me, always feel that I can no longer climb the slope at a certain stage, and have been 'digging' the original things, because my life experience, life experience is so much, the performance will naturally have difficulties, but they are very surprised after watching this movie, I seem to live in the movie, everything is natural, the heart flows out of things, I think it is very precious." 」 ”
However, it is not easy to play a person who is not like myself: "Why do I always think that I am in the bottleneck period, because my personality and vitality are limited." The reason why this creation is very rewarding is because I dug up something that I didn't use before, and I was very happy to make it. It's not something that everyone can face, and this time I have the courage to face the way I don't like it. She thought about it and said sincerely: "For example, I don't like to please the personality, but inevitably I also have this side, you need to take this side out to perform, as an actor, the most valuable thing is not to take out these things?" ”
Don't take yourself too seriously
Perhaps influenced by the "ancestral" art cells, Ren Suxi liked literature and art since he was a child. When other children are busy learning mathematics, physics and chemistry, only she carries the sheet music to the piano all day long, others think that this is art, entertainment, "waste of money", but her parents are very supportive, always said, since you like, then do it.
At that time, Ren Suxi did not expect that a lot of his courage when he grew up was derived from this sentence.
She also always believes that every role she has played so far has "grown" from her own body. Actors are also limited, looking for her, and the roles she plays always have a hint of "black humor", the audience always likes to classify the roles of actors into one category, whether it is "Donkey Got Water", "Half a Comedy", "Unknown Generation", small people, older young women, have become her label.
Stills from the movie Donkey Got Water
Ren Suxi said that she had long discovered this problem, and she was also distressed by it, because the appeal of these scripts just happened to reflect the range of roles that actresses can choose, she smiled and asked, she also wants to evolve into a murderous maniac, but this kind of role seems to always find male actors, without this condition, can not only play older young women? "It's also appropriate for me to play this kind of role at my age, no matter how old or small, do I have to play a girl?" That's not appropriate. ”
The distress mentioned by Ren Suxi seems to have disappeared with the perennial attempt to acting- seeking change in a limited space is regarded by her as a personal business pursuit. But she found that it is not so safe to change: "In fact, it is a big loss to me, and change means that your quality is not so easy to be guaranteed." Of course, I want to ensure the quality of the play, and if I judge it in this way, I hope that every role I play, really, is the first. As for me changing, put it in second place first, because I am not important. She lamented that the actors themselves weren't that important, so don't take yourself too seriously.
In the past two years, Ren Suxi's frequency of surfing the Internet has decreased sharply, and he has not surfed the Internet much, nor has he "exposed" much, so he wants to spend as much time as possible on creation, rather than thinking about other things. "I'm a little disappointed in the online environment, and I'm very angry, so I don't look at it very much, but if there's a new work on it, I'll go and read the reviews." In the Internet era, network reviews are complex, for Ren Suxi, this seems to be a "double-edged sword", there will be contradictions, there will be entanglements, but now she seems to be very calm about the matter of public opinion: "Engaging in creation, not 'exposed', no one knows that you are engaged in creation." You have to pay for your choices. But this time is very surprised, the release of "Looking for Han Ji", there are still many people looking forward to, although I hid, but the heart is still warm. Now I seem to have transitioned to another stage, you recognize me, I am very happy, you don't know or care, I don't care. ”
Ren Suxi: My career plan has long since lost its fame and fortune
Beijing News: Your chemistry with your opponents in different movies is very good, why do you cooperate with anyone "OK"?
Ren Suxi: I also wonder about this matter (laughs), before I discussed this issue with the team, saying that how to be very good with anyone, not only in the play, but also outside the play to get along better, every actor who has cooperated has become a close friend. In fact, I think acting can accelerate the trust of two people as soon as possible, which is a shortcut as an opponent actor, you can only trust him, such as some emotional entanglements, you need to find a shining place in the other party, the advantages are infinitely magnified, how can you not like this person? There must be a preference for him, in order to act the play really, the cooperation process needs to be sincere, do not play their own small calculations, careful thinking, it will be very harmonious.
Beijing News: Before you participated in several movies were regarded by many people as "dark horses", will you care about the box office feedback of movies?
Ren Suxi: The box office has little to do with the actors, and the work that the actors should do is done before the shooting. But there is no way in this era, everyone does not want the film to lose money, so it needs to be publicized. But now, I've given up those in my career plans (box office, fame and fortune), and I know I can make money, but I'm not so comfortable doing it. I want to do something comfortable, which is not very happy.
Beijing News: It is said that "Ren Suxi can act", how do you determine it in your heart?
Ren Suxi: I'm not too young, so I'm not too overwhelmed by praise, you say I act well, not much better; you say I act too badly, I certainly am not bad (laughs), I know very well in my heart. I was concerned about this kind of evaluation before. I saw it, and I felt that this man was not right, that he had his own prejudices, and that I would care very much about wanting to argue. But now I really don't care much about this, because I always think that people live for themselves, I try my best to take out the real thing, not ashamed of myself, you feel it, then we have a relationship, you can feel my sincerity, can use my role to warm you, then I am very happy; as for what is not warmed, you can ignore, because I believe that there must be other people who warm him. The world is so big, it's all a little wider, although I don't feel like I understand or want to understand, but at present, I do think so.
Beijing News: So we are currently in the best creative period without distraction?
Ren Suxi: I don't know, I just think I don't turn over the comments now. When "Donkey Got Water" was released, I flipped through the comments every day, and there was one who said it badly, just thinking about why he thought so, and now I think about it.
Beijing News: What other types of characters do you want to try?
Ren Suxi: In fact, I don't want any role now, the mentality will go with the flow, (the script) comes to me, I feel that I will act, and must be able to act well, acting badly, inappropriate (script), I will rest. You see "Sister-in-law Cohen" (Francis McDormand) has a good work this year, she doesn't care about wrinkles and other baggage, which is a particularly good benchmark in my life. I think it's time to grow old naturally, to do what you should do at your age, and to live at the right time.
Zhou Huixiaowan, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
Chief Photographer Guo Yanbing
Chief Editor Wu Dongni Proofreader Zhao Lin
Source: Beijing News