Text | Wang Ruoye
Bai Lu has publicly mentioned more than once that she is a typical BE enthusiast.
The hit of "Long Moon Ember Ming" once again brought a love story destined to BE and a white deer who has been able to master BE to the audience. One person playing the triangle is a surprise that Bai Lu gave back to the screen, and it is also a challenge she promised herself. The audience's recognition of this did not stop Bailu from learning. When chasing the drama at the same time, she will still speculate about her performance as a bystander, recording where the performance is wonderful and where there is still something missing.
Bai Lu told Bone Duo, "There are a few scenes that I don't think is satisfactory, and they should be better." Although both data and word of mouth refute this "unsatisfactory" statement, she still carefully examines, judges and desires to improve the shortcomings of the performance. She agrees that acting is the art of regret.
"Learn to live with regrets, and then make objective efforts to bridge the regrets of the previous time." It is not only under the BE background of "Long Moon Ember Ming", Li Susu uses the past mirror to change the HE attitude of the apocalyptic crisis, but also the original driving force for Bai Lu to constantly put forward higher performance requirements for the characters he plays.
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admire
Although the drama "Long Moon Ember Ming" is simply difficult to refuse for Bai Lu, who is keen on BE. But at the beginning of the contact with the script, the first thing that attracted her was the characteristics of Li Susu: brave, intelligent and self-consistent.
When the demon god came to the world, resulting in the demon rampant, the life in ruins, and the destruction of the immortal world, Li Susu resolutely chose to carry the mission of saving Cangsheng and travel back to five hundred years ago, to extract the evil bones from the body of the demon god Tangtai Ember in his youth. Bai Lu said, "Li Susu returned to the past alone with this task, and no one shared this unimaginable pressure with her. So much so that when she portrayed Li Susu, she once felt distressed for this character.
Some viewers left a message saying that Li Susu, who has been committed to persuading a demon god to go to goodness and justice, was a lone brave man in that era, and Bai Lu also thought it was true after seeing the message.
Li Susu's bravery is not only reflected in the fact that she is not afraid when everyone is afraid of the evil power of Tangtai Ember, but also reflected in the fact that every time she is caught by Tangtai Ember, she can skillfully escape with wit and courage and seek a turnaround. "She's smart, or smart." Bai Lu did not hesitate to praise Li Susu.
On the other hand, although in the plot setting, once the Tangtai Ember dies, it will become extremely powerful, and Li Susu's way of revenge must not be to kill the enemy. But many viewers still can't understand why Li Susu sympathizes with Tangtai Ember and even shows less grief after just losing his loved ones. How to break the entanglement is also what Bai Lu gradually realized after carefully reading the script and carefully figuring out Li Susu's psychology.
He is the mortal Tangtai Ember who has not done evil 500 years ago, not the demon god 500 years later, Li Susu loves the world as a goddess, and it is relatively reasonable to sympathize with the mistreated Tangtai Ember out of kindness.
And after restarting the game as Ye Xiwu, the reason why he did not show the grief of losing his loved ones again, Bai Lu understood it this way: "Because of the intervention of the past mirror, the death of relatives after five hundred years is not the final end. As long as Li Susu works hard enough to turn things around, then her father and other relatives and friends can be reborn. "Li Susu's strength, positivity and optimism are also proof that she can be chosen to save her life.
A few days ago, Bai Lu published a self-report Weibo to explain Li Susu's inner thoughts, and after Weibo was issued, more viewers understood Li Susu under different times because of her confession. Li Susu is to the white deer, is a character to appreciate, love and cherish; The white deer is to Li Susu and is the actor closest to soul resonance.
In addition to Li Susu, the other two characters played in "Long Moon Ember Ming", Ye Xiwu and Sang Jiu, more or less made Bai Lu a little "regretful". First, when she was filming Ye Xiwu's original fog, Bai Lu had just entered the group, and she now looks back at Ye Xiwu's flashback clips, and always feels that she can act more profoundly; The second is the blackening of the later stage of Sangjiu, which made her begin to look forward to playing a pure blackened role.
"I really want to play a 'bad' woman again." Bai Lu said, "The blackening of a character must have various reasons. "The mood changes and twists and turns of the performance characters are exactly the tempering that actor Bai Lu is eager to get.
Actors who are based on acting skills, their regrets always include wanting to challenge a role that has never been challenged. The same is true for White Deer.
Whether she is as kind as Li Susu, as arrogant as Ye Xiwu, or as blackened as Sang Jiu, she appreciates and respects the entire personality of the characters she plays, and wants to get close to the heart of each character while appreciating, interpreting, expressing, and presenting.
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immerse
Bai Lu told Bone Duo that she is an absolute experiencer, including now she has been acting in an experiential way. And approaching the hearts of the characters is the moment when the happiness and pain of countless experiential actors are intertwined.
Happiness lies in the fact that entering the character in an experiential way and placing oneself in the world in which the character is located is a wonderful feeling that is like parallel time and space, but better than parallel time and space. The pain lies in the fact that the emotional effort of substitution, immersion, and re-substitution again and again is a kind of "harm" to the actor himself.
Especially in the middle and late stages of the plot of "Long Moon Ember Ming", it is full of many emotional dramas of great tragedy and joy. These scenes, which require the actors to give their full dedication and open and close to perform, not only test the actors' acting skills, but also consume the actors' mental strength.
"Three lives in the play are equivalent to three lives and deaths." Bai Lu said that in the same scene, hanging coercion is accompanied by a parting of life and death. The most "torturous" one, she had to immerse herself in sadness for a whole day. When the audience watches the BE plot, their heartache is beyond control, not to mention the actors who transmit the perception of "heartache" to the audience through the screen. In the huge mood swings, Bai Lu was naturally tired and tired, but she said that she also experienced a different kind of refreshment and happiness.
"I enjoyed the abuse. Often when the camera is still in the far or medium view, and I can't capture our faces, I start crying. Bai Lu said that being able to present the ultimate and advanced abuse may be one of the reasons why she loves BE.
Another problem that "Long Moon Ember Ming" gave to the experience actor Bai Lu was how to switch between three completely different roles in a short period of time with one click. Film and television drama shooting is usually not carried out in a step-by-step manner in real chronological order, this sentence is changed in the context of "Long Moon Ember Ming", maybe the last scene is five hundred years ago, and the next scene will be five hundred years later.
Therefore, although Li Susu, Ye Xiwu, and Sang Jiu belong to different periods in the play, during a certain filming process, Bai Lu had to concentrate on them to "shout out and act" within a day. Not only did she not have a second of trance about who she was playing, but she could settle all three of them properly.
Character headgear, costumes, on-set props, and rival actors are all helping Bai Lu clarify whether he is playing Li Susu, Ye Xiwu or Sang Jiu. Correspondingly, she can quickly adjust her state and transform into a different "she". "It's just that it will be more troublesome when changing costumes, and it is not difficult to enter the play." Bailu is confident and indeed confident.
In addition, in order for the audience to better distinguish the three roles she played, Bai Lu also put a lot of effort into designing the details of the characters. Li Susu's eyes will be more firm, and Ye Xiwu in the human space will act more life-like, and there are quite a lot of sweet scenes between the mulberry wine and the night when it is like a floating life. "In the early days, Sangjiu's eyes looked into the night, just like the heat of the fan sister seeing the male god." Bai Lu said that when everyone chases the drama and catches up with the Wanruo floating chapter, they will definitely can't help but laugh at their aunt.
Speaking of whether the ending of "Long Moon Ember Ming" is BE or HE, Bai Lu said that it also depends on everyone's definition of the ending. "After I filmed this play, I thought that this story had a relatively happy ending. But as we all know, I like BE very much, and I think that the two of them will stay in my heart for a little longer. ”
It is difficult to deny that Bai Lu, who was immersed in the play, interpreted "Long Moon Ember Ming" thoroughly and profoundly. The love story of Li Susu and Tangtai Ember has caused regret due to the opposing identities, and at the same time created another soul-stirring aesthetic.
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Attribution
2023 is the seventh year of Bai Lu's debut as an actor. It is often said that love has a seven-year itch, and later this view was extended to careers. However, Bai Lu, who has been acting for seven years, is still playing steadily, and there is no hint of "itching".
In an interview at the beginning of his debut, Bai Lu compared himself to a brand new piece of white paper. She said, "If you draw on it, I will become richer, and the white paper will bring you more surprises." "Seven years later, among the 17 plays that Bailu has broadcast and are to be broadcast, there are both costume sadomasochism such as "Zhou Shengru" and light comedies such as "Yuchunlou"; There are both modern group portraits like "Police Honor" and pure love dramas like "Half Honey and Half Hurt"... In early March 2023, she just finished filming another modern drama.
At present, Bai Lu still has no idea of setting limits for his own theater. Before taking over "Long Moon Ember Ming", she still thought that it was time for a fairy tale drama.
The unrestricted drama path and undefined acting skills make Bai Lu's career dimension wider and broader. Because if you don't want to go in any direction, you can go in either direction. After that, Bai Lu also wanted to try the period drama in the context of big history.
At the same time, she is also trying to maintain her freshness as an actress, "sadomasochism, can't have often, one a year is enough." She even saw someone ask her on the Internet, is she usually laughing too much in life, so she specifically picks up the role of sadism?
Bai Lu told Bone Duo that if she could make the audience cry, it would indeed make her feel more accomplished, because it was undoubtedly a praise for her acting skills. Although the nearly thirty crying scenes in "Zhou Shengru" also made her collapse to the point of asking the director to put the crying scenes on the last scene of the day to shoot, so that she could finish and leave after crying. She cried all the way back to adjust her mood without affecting the progress of the next scene.
This time's "Long Moon Ember Ming" is such a sadomasochistic love affair that accounts for a large proportion of crying scenes, but the difference is that this time Bai Lu is more calm and calm in the face of a large number of crying scenes. She said that crying has no skills and tricks, and empathy and substitution are the best way.
Compared with the first few years when he became an actor, Bai Lu is now not only more familiar with the film and television industry, but also understands a lot of studio knowledge and learns to better use empathy ability to enter the play. Today, this blank piece of paper is depicted in a lot of color.
The white deer is also occasionally regretting that there is less time to truly experience life. "I often use the sixth sense in acting to empathize with the character, that is, according to my own life experience, I can experience the action, expression, and emotion of the character in a certain tense." But such experiences will run out one day, and Bai Lu said that she needs time to slow herself down, absorb the elements that the actor needs in her daily life, and really listen and see the real feeling.
It is true that "regret" is a word that does not sound HE enough, but in Bailu, it becomes a vision of the character, a release of BE, and a desire for progress. Perception of regret is the starting point of the next time without regret, and Bailu allows some regrets to exist.