Two months ago, Hong Yang updated a Weibo post and shared his mood of making hand-brewed coffee. Unlike many actors, his comments section does not have a uniform line of comments and praise from fans, and there are few responses, and this Weibo is more like a private circle of friends.
Under this 2019 Weibo, several February 2020 replies are very conspicuous. They are fans of "New World" and are speculating about who the serial killer known as Little Red Jacket, who has been hidden in the film for dozens of episodes, is.
Later, "New World" finally revealed the mystery: The little red jacket is the seventeen played by Hong Yang. In the following days, the related content of "Little Red Jacket" was on the hot search several times.
Within hours, thousands of likes and comments poured in, and Hong Yang's Weibo became lively.
Such a gaze finally came.
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The art of "disappearing"
Everyone wants to play a wonderful role, or try to play an ordinary role to the best. But for Hong Yang, his task is to make the character "disappear".
"New World" tells the story of three different classes of brothers in the context of the big era, and what strings together the whole story is the mystery of the true identity of the serial killer Xiao Hongjiao. As the core puzzle, Hong Yang naturally can't "explode" too quickly, and in more than forty episodes since the update, he has been living in the identity of the prison guard seventeen.
The people's hearts in Beiping City are floating, the prison is also like a small society, the prison guards are just a small minions, everything is in order, no offense and no strong head. He did not show some abnormal expressions from time to time, as in many American dramas about dual personalities, but as always, showed his sincerity, and his eyes were innocent, like an honest child who commuted to work according to the rules.
No one in the play doubted him, and so did the audience outside the play.
When Xu Tian saw the button that was missing from Seventeen's body, the true identity of Xiao Hongyuan was exposed. From a nameless little jailer to a murderer, the extreme identity shift is only in an instant. Hong Yang still maintained the usual manners and expressions of the previous dozens of episodes, his eyes were innocent, his speech was smooth, and he revealed the terrible truth. A sentence "If it weren't for Tian Dan, you wouldn't be able to reach me in this life", the tone was still low, dismissive, and with some indifference, which surprised the audience at the same time, and couldn't help but sigh: This performance is handled very well.
When he first got the script, Hong Yang also struggled with how to play such a person with a dual identity. He read many psychology books, listened to relevant lectures, and carefully watched crime films involving dual personality, such as "The Silence of the Lambs" and "First Degree Fear". But after finally consulting with the director, he decided to give up the too dramatic performance and return to reality.
In life, there are not many so-called psychopaths, and many criminals have been good sons and good husbands. In Hong Yang's understanding, Seventeen is an inferior person, lacking father's love as a child, and his mother is bedridden, and he feels that it is difficult for him to get the attention and love of others. The pressure brings trauma, and such an inconspicuous person decides to "send" every woman he likes but thinks he can't get.
Seventeen is actually a very cowardly person, even a little timid. He was too inferior and his emotions could not be vented. Peiping was cold, he was lonely, and no one told him the right way to get rid of his emotions, so he took the wrong path.
The more you want to give the audience an impact, the more ordinary the early shaping of seventeen will be. When Hong Yang went to the crew for an interview, the director team and the production team were in a meeting, and when they saw him enter the door, no one aborted the meeting, but let him sit in the crowd.
The director and the producer had a heated discussion, and Hong Yang did not make any noise. He glanced silently at the prop costume designs posted on the wall, and as he sped through the scenes in his head, imagining how he would act in the interview later.
The meeting ends. An hour passed, and the role belonged to him.
"I sit among strangers, quietly waiting, and maybe they think I'm an easy type and not 'lethal.'"
That's what the director wants seventeen. During the audition, Hong Yang "hid" in the conference room, and after the boot, he hid in the new world. His performance is not sharp, but it is just right.
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The other is the K who walks towards the castle
Kafka wrote a very well-known story called "The Castle", the protagonist K was ordered to go to the castle to take office, people met on the road said that the castle was good, told him that the castle was in front of him, but K went back and forth through many things, but somehow could not get to the castle.
For artists, the so-called "fame" is to reach the castle. Hong Yang was still on the road and experienced the same confusion as K.
Hong Yang grew up in the head of the Literary and Industrial Regiment, and his uncles and aunts around him were either actors, or photographers, lighting engineers and other behind-the-scenes staff. He also clearly remembers that 2002's "The Story of the Cooking Class" was filmed in the courtyard of the literary troupe, and he often went to the set with his father, Hong Jiantao.
"Our yard was small. At that time, filming was like going to work, everyone went to the set at noon, and at nine o'clock in the evening, a large group of people went home from work together. ”
Going to work, which was his initial impression of the acting industry, was on time and on time, and everything was in order. But when I grew up, I entered the industry myself and found some discrepancies with my childhood ideas.
Hong Yang graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, listened to his father's advice to "lay a good foundation" in the past four years, never went out to shoot a play, many classmates became popular before graduation, he was not in a hurry, in his words, "I know how hard they work in school, so I am happy in my heart."
After four years of college, he, like any recent graduate in a major, faces a brutal workplace. In the first two years of graduation, he played everything, many roles only 30 scenes, he entered the group with the same joy, shivering in the winter huairou, or running around the mountains in the clothes of Japanese soldiers, and the old fabric was covered with sweat.
He stayed in Hengdian for nearly four years, like going to college again. Only this time, there was no teacher staring, and there was not much time for him to rest and have fun with his friends. He stood by at all times for a few less important scenes. Such an alternative "university" gave him an experience different from the ivory tower, so that he knew not to be arrogant and impatient, to calm down, but also a way forward.
The young actors have no right to speak, although there are only about thirty scenes, but they also need to stay in the crew and the whole play. Staying on the set for a long time, there is no work to do, idle for a long time, life is becoming more and more irregular, unconsciously he began to gain weight.
Changes in body shape often make people feel out of control of themselves, which in turn leads to anxious emotions. He continued to work tirelessly on the group until one day when he tried a role he liked, the casting director said to him, "You... Slightly fat. ”
"Others say it very euphemistically, saying that they are slightly fat, but they are actually very fat." I started asking myself, what am I doing? Although I am also acting, I find that the role I play does not seem to be so important..."
That time was his low point, and he, like thousands of young people, began to wonder, does this "castle" not exist at all?
The external environment is difficult to change, but you can change yourself first. During the trough, he was determined to start losing weight. During this period, his father also gave him a lot of encouragement.
"He told me not to be in a hurry, not to rush to play important roles, because even if I got lucky, I might not be able to play well." He told me that any small role is wealth, not in vain. ”
His father was right. After calming down, Hong Yang realized that although he played a role that many audiences may not remember the face, but not remembered by others, at least to be remembered by himself - the hardships suffered in this play have become the experience of the next play, what run bomb point, gun play, Weia play, etc., take advantage of the young to learn more, and then act more smoothly?
During the time when he was "rebuilding" his mentality, he took on a modern play and played a policeman named "Three Fat". It was also during that time that his fitness worked out, and after three months of filming, he was visibly thin. Later, the director joked, saying: "You are too thin to take the play, how can you call you 'three fat'?" ”
Later, he met such an important role as Little Red Jacket, met "New World", and it was like entering a new world.
In Castle, Kafka doesn't give K a clear ending. Books are books, life is life, and there are many K's in the real world who rush to their destinations, and their endings are different. The castle was not so easy to reach, but at least, Hong Yang had been advancing.
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Can you taste the fruity aroma in coffee?
After the broadcast of "New World", Hong Yang's popularity increased a lot, and Weibo fans rose from a few hundred to 120,000. Many people began to pay attention to the down-to-earth actor, and some people would go to Weibo to ask him when he would have a new role to meet with everyone.
He's also looking forward to the new role, but his mentality is much better than before. He knew that some things had to wait, and waiting was not a waste of time. When he was free, he fell in love with making coffee. At first, I took my friends to "explore the shop", and then I had friends in the coffee circle, and several people often studied beans and coffee making tools, hand-brewed coffee methods, and flower pulling techniques.
"Once upon a time I drank coffee as TuKuai, and it was a tool for me, like Red Bull, for me. But now I have studied some doorways, and you will find that different coffee beans with different production methods can taste a richer taste, what cherries, oranges... I told people that they didn't believe it. But coffee really has a fruity taste! ”
It was the joy of life he found.
In his spare time, he also watches movies. In Hong Yang's understanding, actors need to accumulate. There are more ordinary people in the world, there is no opportunity to experience too many exciting things, movies are the best window to experience different lives and absorb the living habits of different people.
"Whether a play is good or bad, it will always stand out, sometimes the performance of the actors, sometimes the photography, the sound effects, sometimes the director's philosophy." For an actor, it is always right to look more, I can absorb a lot of nutrients. ”
Privately, he often watches hit dramas with friends, and several people stare at the screen while eating, teasing which role he can play.
"It's hypothetical, it's very interesting, everyone will think, you can play this role, maybe I can also play it - the degree to which young actors are eager to make a scene is so urgent (laughs)."
They will also analyze the way the actors in these plays perform together and look for places to learn from. He never wasted every free time, learning from the senior actors while waiting on the set, learning from the people in the hit dramas and movies outside the scene... In other words, even if Hong Yang is not on the set, he is still doing what an actor should do.
Showbiz is fiercely competitive, and it is normal for young actors not to be able to shoot the highlights for a while, and what is important is how to hone their hearts and improve themselves in these waiting days. Some things that seem to be a waste of time in the eyes of others, when carefully done, are actually silent growth.
You know, coffee is not only bitter.