Yatou Jiao can be described as "domineering" in film and television dramas, although the audience has repeatedly expressed their disgust for the actor's tenderness. However, in domestic film and television works, you can still see many middle-aged actresses playing girls quite hard, and actor Liu Xiaoqing is a typical representative of this rank.
In life, she has always been a woman with a young mentality and a very young appearance. In her social account, the audience saw that although Liu Xiaoqing was over 70 years old, her skin was fair, delicate, and she was young and beautiful, without the slightest state of an old man.
Such a vigorous Liu Xiaoqing actually brings a lot of vitality to the audience, but in her past film and television works, her dedication to girls often appears in the characters she portrays.
In 1995, 39-year-old Liu Xiaoqing had already become famous, but he still took on the challenging work "Wu Zetian". In this drama, Liu Xiaoqing relied on his delicate temperament and delicate acting skills to play the 14-year-old Wu Zetian into three points, which won a lot of praise.
Since then, Liu Xiaoqing has embarked on the road of film and television dramas.
In "Yongle Heroes", she portrayed a twenty-year-old Jinniang, in "Xu Beihong", she played nineteen-year-old Jiang Biwei, and in the TV series "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", she simply played Ashi Nayan, who was still a girl, and was called by Zheng Guolin, who was more than twenty years younger than herself, one by one.
For a long time, Liu Xiaoqing has become a recognized "immortal goddess", and the audience's evaluation of her has both praise and negation. Even now, Liu Xiaoqing is 70 years old, and the audience's definition of her is still "girl", but Liu Xiaoqing at this stage has struggled to face such a character that has not changed for ten thousand years.
In the past two years, judging from Liu Xiaoqing's performance on the screen, she has gradually given up competing with the years.
70 years old to play "old leprechaun", acting skills are quite explosive
In "Qi Men Dun Jia 2", 70-year-old Liu Xiaoqing created the villain Demon King Tianxie in a posture completely unrecognizable to the audience.
At the end of the movie, Liu Xiaoqing is full of gray hair and old age, and when the camera pushes to a close-up of her face, the audience can only see the wrinkles of the years on her face.
Especially under her eyes, the bags under her eyes are obvious, and her skin texture is rough, these age traces that were covered by foundation and post-dermabrasion in her previous film and television dramas are all shown under the high-definition lens of "Qi Men Dun Jia 2".
At this moment, the audience finally felt the old man smell on Liu Xiaoqing's body. Although she is completely unrecognizable to the audience, compared to Liu Xiaoqing, who used to rely on playing tender to create gimmicks, she now relies on acting skills to conquer the audience, but she is more eye-catching.
In "Qi Men Dun Jia 2", there are many amazing moments of Liu Xiaoqing's acting skills.
For example, in the first half of the movie, the character created by Liu Xiaoqing was still a lonely old woman when he appeared. She always speaks and does things slowly, and her body language always gives the audience a slow, steady sense of age.
When the character mentioned the child who was beaten to death, the camera gradually advanced, Liu Xiaoqing's eyes trembled inadvertently, and in less than half a second, her eyes were filled with tears.
At this moment, the audience does not care whether the character created by Liu Xiaoqing is a villain, and can only see a loving mother who misses her children.
Obviously, compared with those characters who struggled to play tender in the past, Liu Xiaoqing's "old leprechaun" played this time has more depth and allows the audience to see her acting strength.
Of course, this is not the first time Liu Xiaoqing has accepted an elderly character.
Liu Xiaoqing portrayed Grandma Jin Chen, which is very eye-catching
In the women's drama "North and South" known to Feng Xiaogang, Liu Xiaoqing created Jinghui's grandmother Dai Xiaoyu (played by Jin Chen) in the play with her short gray hair.
From the image of the character, Grandma Jinghui's makeup should show a greater sense of age, especially the forehead lines that cannot be concealed in the close-up, and the reading glasses that deliberately emphasize the taste of the elderly, are shaping the character's sense of age.
In the plot setting, the enlightened and amiable Grandma Jinghui makes the audience's eyes shine in the character image, this character breaks the common image of elders on the domestic screen, and molds Grandma Jinghui into a sober spokesperson among adults, she not only respects the choices of young people, but also is always full of enthusiasm for life and pursues the fun of life.
Such a pleasing image of the elder is destined to be a fan. And the shaping of actor Liu Xiaoqing also successfully conquered the audience.
In the play, Liu Xiaoqing's performance is gentle and natural, and in most daily scenes, she looks calm and optimistic, even if her white hair can't stop her eyes from showing the light of love for life.
And in the necessary plot, Liu Xiaoqing will also show the posture of a person and severely and clearly correct the crooked thoughts of the juniors, for example, in the plot where his son comes to the door to support the demolition money, Liu Xiaoqing is quite harsh, and he looks like he can't give in the slightest, allowing the audience to see a sober mother who resolutely does not spoil her children.
In the drama "North and South", Liu Xiaoqing's interpretation is very successful, but because the plot direction of the TV series itself is quite controversial, the drama created by Feng Xiaogang did not explode, and Liu Xiaoqing, as a supporting role, did not cause too much discussion.
However, it is certain that this is the first time that Liu Xiaoqing has accepted the role of grandma in a film and television drama in the audience's impression. And such a role is not only more in line with Liu Xiaoqing's current age state, but also pays more attention to the interpretation of emotions and the presentation of acting skills.
Compared with those young characters who set off a momentary gimmick and triggered discussion, the villains in "Qi Men Dun Jia 2" and Grandma Jinghui in "North and South" are easier to remember by the audience and more able to achieve Liu Xiaoqing's acting career on the screen in his later years.
It's just that even the leader of the Yatou Sect is aware of the limitations of the dress-up route, but there are still many actors in the domestic film and television industry who compete with age, just don't accept old age.
In "Dragon City", 46-year-old Ma Yili had to portray Zheng Dongni, who was only 26 years old in the original work.
The TV series "Our Day" 46-year-old Li Xiaoran, combing two braids, portrays a young mother in her early 20s, regardless of the gap between the characters and themselves, Ma Yili and Li Xiaoran are actually proper Mesozoic acting.
Like Liu Xiaoqing, they can obviously control more complex roles, but they make jokes in film and television dramas. Now Liu Xiaoqing has recognized his own drama style, and hopes that more actresses who are not convinced of old age can recognize the current situation and choose roles that are more suitable for themselves while maintaining a young attitude.
Finally, what do you think of Liu Xiaoqing's performance in "Qi Men Dun Jia 2" and "North and South"? Do you recognize her after the "big change"? Join the discussion in the comments section.