The Beijing International Film Festival ended, and 49-year-old Xin Baiqing won the Temple of Heaven Award for Best Actor for "The Light of the White Tower".
For the trophy to hand, Xin Baiqing called out surprise in his speech, he did not expect that this calm work could be favored by the judges.
At the age of 49, he finally got the "Best Actor", Xin Baiqing did not have the kind of excitement that the outside world thought, but the usual joy of accidentally winning the trophy as an actor.
Such indifference is more scarce than a trophy, but it is the norm for Xin Baiqing, who has long had the capital to become popular, but he chose the low-key actor path twenty years ago.
The stealth life of the "drama maniac"
When Xin Baiqing won the trophy of the Temple of Heaven Award, Guan Jinpeng and Mo Wenwei, who presented him with the award, showed enough appreciation for this result.
In the actor circle, Xin Baiqing's fame is much greater than in the entertainment industry.
Graduated from the 93rd grade acting department of Chinese opera, known as the "drama bone class", Xin Baiqing has been recognized as the most suitable seedling for male number one since his college days. He is indeed worthy of this expectation, and as soon as he walked out of school, he was invited by Lin Zhaohua and other famous drama directors to become the male protagonist on the stage.
In 2001, Xin Baiqing was selected by director Tian Zhuangzhuang to star in the movie "Spring in a Small Town" and won the San Marco Award at the 59th Venice International Film Festival, 22 years ago, he had every opportunity to make a name for himself, but he left more time for the drama stage.
Burly and strong in lines, even if he is considered a good seedling for the male protagonist, Xin Baiqing does not only accept the male protagonist. As long as it is his favorite role, he will plunge into it and be ridiculed as a "drama maniac".
When Chen Kaige was planning to film "The Legend of the Demon Cat", he once didn't know who to find to play the role of Li Bai, this role is only 4 minutes long, but it is full of tension, once the performance is insufficient, it will lead to a reduction in the whole play. But objectively speaking, there are not many scenes in this role, and many big names are not willing to match.
But Xin Baiqing immediately agreed to star after seeing this character, and he did not set limits for himself after winning the Plum Blossom Award and other professional awards in the drama circle, and for the role of Li Bai, he began to study Li Bai's poetry collection as early as a few months before the start of the film, studying Li Bai's various materials.
While waiting for the shooting, Xin Baiqing was already able to memorize many of Li Bai's poems backwards, and he really experienced the unruly style of "poetry fairy". In the four minutes of "The Legend of the Demon Cat", Xin Baiqing made the audience think that this was the real Li Bai in a trance, and even the harsh Chen Kaige couldn't help but clap his hands behind the monitor, bluntly saying that many of Xin Baiqing's designs are indeed worthy of the title of "drama bone".
But when this work was released, Xin Baiqing had long retired, he did not follow the crew to frequent road shows, and after the role, he had quietly disappeared.
Such things are all over Xin Baiqing's acting road, and in 2022, "The World" has become a well-deserved hit drama, and Xin Baiqing, who starred in the eldest brother of the Zhou family, Zhou Bingyi, made the outside world marvel at his line skills once again when the light word film was demolished.
Compared with many actors, Xin Baiqing rarely appeared on the red carpet of events, and even when he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor trophy, the crew accepted the award on his behalf. He prefers to stay in the role and simply enter life when he walks off the set.
Such "madness" is very alternative.
This time won the Temple of Heaven Award for Best Actor trophy with "The Light of the White Tower", Xin Baiqing decided that he didn't expect it, but there was no picture of crying with joy, for him, winning the award was far less enjoyable than when shaping the character.
In this calm movie, Gu Wentong, played by Xin Baiqing, gradually untied his heart with his father Gu Yunlai with the help of his wife, and a quiet process of getting along between father and son has also become a life-oriented and delicate expression. In the movie, it was Tian Zhuangzhuang who starred in Gu Yun, 22 years ago, he directed "Spring in a Small Town" that made Xin Baiqing's work go to the International Film Festival, and they played father and son in this play, but witnessed the middle-aged Xin Baiqing finally win the award.
This is also the growth process of an actor.
Giving up being a star is also an option
Xin Baiqing won the award, which can be regarded as a victory for low-key powerful actors.
After walking out of school in 1997, Xin Baiqing had the opportunity to become a star. In "Happiness Like a Flower", Lin Bin, who he starred in, is the first love of Du Juan (played by Sun Li), and the emotional involvement of the two runs through the beginning and end. But after this work was broadcast, the outside world only remembered Sun Li and Deng Chao because of the drama, but Xin Baiqing had already turned around and entered the next role.
In the drama "Green Snake" starring Qin Hailu and Yuan Quan, Xin Baiqing is also a male protagonist, but outside the play, he chose "stealth".
In the 26 years since graduation, Xin Baiqing has been prolific in film, television and drama, and the roles he left behind are remembered by many people, but the story about Xin Baiqing is rarely well known, which is that he consciously hid himself behind the role, only making himself an actor, not a star.
Xin Baiqing's marriage is also a good story in the entertainment industry, but he rarely talks about it to the outside world.
He and his wife Zhu Yuanyuan are college classmates, but the couple rarely talk about their love story to the outside world, and in the 17 years of marriage, the two have never had a scandal, and they have rarely even entered the public eye.
This is the life that Xin Baiqing and Zhu Yuanyuan want. Zhu Yuanyuan became famous earlier than Xin Baiqing, and a "Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin" made her quickly become a "good daughter-in-law" in the hearts of a generation of audiences, but Zhu Yuanyuan did not plow film and television while the iron was hot, but devoted a lot of time to the drama stage.
The stage is always the best fertile soil to nourish actors, and after entering middle age, Zhu Yuanyuan participated in "Send You a Little Red Flower" and "My Sister", whether she played Yi Yangqianxi's mother or Zhang Zifeng's aunt, she can quickly grasp the subtle characteristics of the characters, and won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress trophy.
She and her husband Xin Baiqing do not value the positions and scenes that stars like today, and Xin Baiqing, who has long been the male lead, has never resisted playing a supporting actor, and won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Long Confession".
Zhu Yuanyuan once ridiculed that Xin Baiqing did not look like an actor at all in private, always slovenly, and every time he participated in an event, she was responsible for helping to control the styling. There is not only sweetness in these words, but also reflects that they only regard acting as a profession, and never for being stars.
Now 49 years old, he has changed from Best Supporting Actor to Best Actor, although he has a story, but for Xin Baiqing, these are not what he values, if he has the intention to be a star, he has become popular more than twenty years ago, and he has never lacked topics.
The victory of the actors
Xin Baiqing won the Temple of Heaven Award for Best Actor trophy, which can be regarded as another victory of long-term in the actor's circle.
Nowadays, it is always said that it is necessary to become popular early, but actors originally need to accumulate life, and the only way is to experience transformation in one work after another.
When Xin Baiqing won the Best Actor trophy this time, Zhang Songwen, as one of the judges, was also offstage, and the two actors who will shine in 2023 showed that it is not necessary to act well early and solidly.
Whether it is the stirring "Crazy" that made Zhang Songwen, or the calm "Light of the White Tower" that allowed Xin Baiqing to win the best actor, they have long passed the year of not confused on the road of actor is indeed not confused, and they finally exchange the role for a real breakthrough, and they habitually put themselves behind the role.
Zhang Songwen became a judge of the film festival and Xin Baiqing won the award, both of which are victories for male actors, showing the life pattern that male actors in the film and television industry should have.