Author: Wu Jingjing Editor: Jia Fangfang
Source: Journal of Marriage and Family
Directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Song Jia and Wang Yang, the TV series "Echo" is on the air.
In "Echo", Song Jia and Wang Yang re-enact husband and wife, the ups and downs of marriage emotions are heart-wrenching, and the ending is touching.
Song Jia and Wang Yang, the "glory CP" of "The World", are combined again in the play, playing a couple who are in a marriage crisis because of lies.
Different from regular family emotional dramas, their emotional lines and case lines advance each other, and they experience more cruel and deep spiritual torture with each other, revealing the more secret human side of family life.
In this play, Song Jia not only contributed excellent acting skills, but also starred in the whole process without makeup, which was praised.
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"Literary" young women's pyrotechnics
In the eyes of many people, including Song Jia herself, she felt that her previous self was "literary and artistic", and the works she liked to star in were mostly "literary and artistic".
But in recent years, Song Jia has also performed a lot of works about the shortness of parents and marriage problems such as "Xiaoshede" and "White Moonlight", and has also received a lot of praise.
Song Jia laughed and said: "At the beginning, I refused to act", and she felt that she was "incompatible" with this type of work. But the director is very persistent and feels that she is the right choice for the role. So, this literary and artistic young woman took a handful of breath and tasted some bittersweet and bitter from life.
Compared with "literature and art", life dramas are not easy to perform. It is also the experience of acting in life dramas that makes Song Jia have a different experience of life, "What life brings us, we need to feel, reflect, and understand." Who do you say has an easy life? No one's life is easy, sometimes life is a chicken feather. This is the life of an adult, and you have to experience it yourself."
In "Echo", Song Jia is the first time to play a female criminal policeman, half a month before the start of the film, she deliberately went to the police station to experience life, this is actually Song Jia's creative habits, once she takes this character, she will move closer to her wholeheartedly, from appearance to heart, she has to perform the different temperaments of the characters.
In the play, she was naked throughout the process, and Song Jia said: "Plain face is not the point, what the role should be, what the actor wants, I have not seen a female criminal police officer wear makeup in her life." ”
In fact, when filming Lou Ye's "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind", she was also naked throughout the process, and the spots on her face were all aggravated, "That is the texture of the character, what the role should be, you have to be like her."
Speaking of this, Song Jia also said and laughed: "I look much better without makeup than makeup, so is it a bit 'Versailles'?" ”
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Abandon yourself and become the wife, mother and daughter in the character
The director who has worked with said that Song Jia is a very emotional actor, but in addition to talent, she is also a hard-working and attentive actor.
Whether it is a female criminal police officer who fell into a marriage crisis because of a lie, a mother who broke her heart for her children, or a strong woman who is overbearing in the workplace, she is far from Song Jia's life, and her way is to observe, consult, integrate, and then lose herself.
I remember that when performing "Dressed Up", Song Jia specifically asked friends in the fashion industry to discuss some work details: the feet in high heels are full of band-aids, and when they get to the workstation, they change their slippers... These also add credibility to her characterization.
During the period when Song Jia became a character in the play, her brain was immersed in the things experienced by the characters all day long, feeling the emotions of the characters - as she said, it takes effort to become an actor who is respected by others.
As an actor, Song Jia confessed that she is lucky, she has been very smooth since she entered the industry, every step is steady, and her works and abilities have given her confidence in this circle. Her introductory acting teacher helped her build her self-confidence and aesthetics, telling her what an actor is, what counts as a "good show", and more importantly, how to become a real actor.
After more than 20 years in the industry, her original intention to be a good actor has not changed, "My requirement for myself is to become a person respected by others", which is what her teacher said, to become a truly respected actor, not just an actor who is liked and sought after by others.
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The sense of security given by her family taught her excellent definitions
Today's Song Jia is an actor who is confident in his performance and can be "proud", and all this is also thanks to the sense of security given by his parents since childhood.
She once said: "My parents cared more about whether I was happy, they made me feel safe and made me a confident child." Looking back, I am really grateful to be born in such a family. ”
Song Jia was born in Harbin and began learning liuqin at the age of 8, "thanks to my mother, who did not blindly suppress me who did not know anything about mathematics, but discovered some of my talents in art."
She said that she used to be a "bad student" in everyone's perception. But fortunately, she never felt a lack in her heart, because "my mom would always stand behind me and support me, telling me that the definition of 'good' is not just about achievements".
Song Jia remembers that when she did not do well in mathematics in school, the teacher would leave her in the class to wait for her parents to pick her up. But when her mother went to pick her up, she did not stand with the teacher to accuse her, but saw her daughter nervous, scared, and gave her a lot of encouragement and confidence, "always gave me courage, that moment was very secure."
It was also with the encouragement and support of her family that Song Jia learned the liuqin and cultivated aesthetics and cognition of art in music learning. When she was 20 years old, she was admitted to the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, and by chance she applied for the acting department of the Shanghai Theater Academy and was admitted, and since then she has embarked on the road of acting, so now she will say "I am very grateful to my mother, because of her, I became who I am today".
In life, Song Jia and her mother also have nothing to talk about. She laughed and said that she always treated her mother as a child. Jiang Xin revealed in an interview that she once went to Song Jia's house as a guest and saw her parents "showing off Song Jia in the community, and said that the one who played Nanli in "Xiaoshede" was her girlfriend", which is also very cute.
"The older our parents get, the more we should treat them as children, and we should lead them to life as they did to us when we were children." Song Jia said.
While playing various mothers in film and television works, Song Jia has a deeper understanding of her mother. How much does a woman have to grow and sacrifice in her workplace and life to become a mother? And how much does it take to raise a child? Therefore, now she will be proud to play the role of mother, and she will also sigh that "mother is really the greatest person in the whole world".
Sometimes Song Jia thinks, if she becomes a mother in the future, will she be like her mother? Her answer is yes. Mom told her that a person, confidence and happiness are the most important, and Mom hopes that she has her own dreams and can have the courage to face the world in the future.
Therefore, for the future child, she also has the same expectations, "I hope that he (she) is a happy and confident child, has the courage to face the future life, his (her) life dream has himself, does not need me."
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No matter how "literary and artistic" it is, we cannot lose our sensitivity to life
For many years since her debut, Song Jia has won major performance awards such as the Golden Rooster Award, the Golden Eagle Award, and the Magnolia Award, and there are many representative works such as "Curiosity Kills Cats", "Crossing the Guandong", "Cliff", "Xiao Hong", "The World", "Xiaoshede" and so on. But she hasn't slowed down and is still exploring ways to unlock new characters — she's a sober masochist.
When she first entered the industry, Song Jia knew that she did not want to be a "repeated" actor. Over the years, she has also tried her best not to repeat the themes and roles of her works, and has always maintained a heart that wants to break through and improve.
"I've never been in my comfort zone, I've always been passionate about acting, and the more I fight, the more I feel empowered." Speaking of this, she feels very happy, because the work must be born of love, "do your love to the extreme, you can go further".
Song Jia is a workaholic and a well-known "model worker" in the circle. She said that she likes to work, she looks good when she works, and she is a little overwhelmed when she rests.
However, after each film, she would take a break and regularly give herself a month or two off to travel. "As an actor, I have to be vigilant, I still have to be sensitive to life, I have to be deeply rooted in life, live well, and be able to act well."
Whether in the play or in life, impetuosity and anxiety seem to be hot topics at present. But Song Jia is a person with a "bigger heart and more open thinking", because she feels that anxiety cannot solve the problem, but will increase a lot of troubles for no reason, "I am less anxious, and there will be nothing to sleep about."
In her opinion, this is all a personal choice, "If you choose a busy job, life will be relatively less, which is normal." She is not good at analysis or balance, but she clearly understands what she wants, and uses this as the goal to do a good career plan, and adjust the rhythm, "at least the current rhythm of life, work rhythm, I am OK, I will not let myself feel tired."
Song Jia knows that in this life he wants to be an actor and a good actor. Occupation! She always emphasizes career, "Career means that you have to go for a lifetime, not that you run after playing for two days, and you don't do it after grabbing a ticket." Going far in an industry is a profession, so you have to protect some of your things."
For example, after filming a play, you should rest longer when you are physically and mentally exhausted; For example, don't let yourself be exhausted for work; For example, if you want to understand whether you want to be an actor or a star, if you choose to be an actor, you must endure loneliness and polish yourself steadily. In addition to literature and art, it is actually the accumulation and continuous thinking of life bit by bit.
Now Song Jia's films are continuing, in this regard, she only has sweetness and no troubles, "You play well, naturally more good characters will find you." So, I've always been very happy to act."
As for the future, she hopes that each character will improve and learn more each time, "It's good that you are not wasting your life, you are not wasting your youth".
This article is excerpted from Marriage and Family magazine
Original title "Song Jia: The Fireworks of a Young Literary and Art Woman"