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"Nanyin won't hate her mother, there is no hatred between her and her mother."
On April 30, the family ethics drama "Dragon City" welcomed members on iQiyi. The play tells the story of the three cousins of the Zheng family who gradually understand the true meaning of family love after experiencing various betrayals and setbacks. Starring Li Tingting, Nanyin, as the younger sister of the three siblings of the Zheng family, clearly interprets the girl's sensitive rebellion and love and hate, which has attracted the attention of many audiences.
So, we met with Li Tingting one evening and talked to her about her views on the role of Nanyin and her future as a young artist. The whole interview process is full of relaxed and active atmosphere, we marvel at her rich perception and whimsy of life, no matter how many topics diverge, will eventually stop at the keyword "love", like entering a warm world built by a treasure girl.
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For Nanyin, love is everything
"Zheng Nanyin, shall we talk seriously? As a heroine, you're about to me off. This is the exclamation made by Di An, the original author of "Dragon City", when he created the character of Nanyin. What is the magic of Nanyin? So that the author is crazy about it?
"To be honest, when I first came into contact with this character, I also felt that Nanyin was quite willful. Maybe she has been accustomed to being praised by the stars since she was a child, so she does things a little ignorantly, whether it is flash marriage boyfriend Xiaozhi or openly provoking the school is crazy. But as I got to know more, I found more and more cute points on her, far more than those perverse appearances. ”
"Dragon City", as a family ethics drama, is relatively complex in the setting of character relationships. Although the older brothers and sisters in the play and Nanyin grew up under the same roof and shared the care of the third uncle and three aunts, only Nanyin is the biological flesh and blood of the third uncle and three aunts. This determines that no matter how the parents treat the three children equally in terms of educational philosophy, there will always be some subtle differences in actual actions, and this difference not only brings Nanyin the superiority of being pampered by everyone, but also brings her inevitable scratches and losses in her growth.
When I was a child, the three children liked to eat ice cream, and when the brothers and sisters wanted to eat it, they only needed to circle around the refrigerator a few times, and the third aunt would pass the food they wanted, but when it came to Nanyin, perhaps out of the mother's instinctive protection, worried that Nanyin's more raw and cold food would affect the body, or wanted to further show concern for the brothers and sisters of the broken family of origin, Nanyin was not allowed to eat more. So many times, Nanyin can only watch her brother and sister taste the food, crying on the side.
Regarding the injustice from the level of her original family, Li Tingting said: "Of course, Nanyin has an imbalance in her heart, but the more she grows up, the more she can understand this embarrassment, because she knows that while she is envious of her brothers and sisters, in fact, her brothers and sisters are also envious of her,"
For brothers and sisters is understanding, but for mothers? Isn't there hatred in those hysterical rants of rebellion?
"No, I don't think she hates her mother. Maybe at the emotional moment she also thought it was hate, but in fact she was just angry, angry that as the closest person in the world, she couldn't understand her, but she could support the decision made by her brother and sister. This is somewhat hurtful for children who want to explore themselves in adolescence.
So I prefer to describe her perception as a childlike expression, because Nanyin is essentially a girl full of love, a small flower that is watered with love by her relatives, you let her hate, she will not. On the contrary, Nanyin's subconscious reaction to her mother was love, and when her mother had an accident, the first thought in her mind was what she could do to save the situation, so she did some things that were particularly childish to others, such as kneeling in the hospital and praying to the gods to protect her mother through the difficulties. ”
In Li Tingting's view, many people in life are actually in a similar state to Nanyin, and only in front of the closest people dare to expose their claws and claws, because the subconscious level feels safe enough. Including her love for her boyfriend Su Yuanzhi, although it is progressing rapidly, it is also the true appearance of love in adolescence. "It's just looking right and wanting to be with that person forever." Getting married was the most landed way she could think of at her age. And this kind of reckless disregard is precisely the rarest part of Nanyin's body in her eyes.
"No one knows what tomorrow will bring, so doing whatever you want should be a natural thing to do, and I don't understand why anyone has so many concerns." Also encountered setbacks, but you will find that Nanyin is different from many people in that she belongs to the type who dares to get up and continue while crying, and her positioning is very clear. If you have someone you like, you will boldly confess, confirm the relationship after confessing, if you feel that the feelings are cold, go abroad to study for further study, in short, you must firmly grasp the initiative of all relationships in your own hands, isn't this the core of the big heroine?
Modern people just listen to too much chicken soup and watch too many emotional short videos before they are afraid. Men, women and children in love should not actually look at this kind of thing, because this piece of knowledge cannot be taught, each relationship and everyone's state together is different, only personal experience can understand. ”
When Li Tingting talks about her confusion about the emotional concept of modern people, we seem to understand why she plays this role. Because her confusion point is too similar to Nanyin, these words are almost the sentences that Nanyin herself will blurt out, a pure, self-directed, courageous expression.
There is a classic line in the script where Nanyin confesses to Ash: "Then do you miss me? Not talking is a default, is it okay to be my boyfriend? Then he took out his hotel room card and stuffed it in Ash's hand: "I'm going back to Dragon City tomorrow morning, so you can see for yourself." ”
For Nanyin, love is action, if you don't love, you will turn around, only love is the greatest, and Li Tingting is an actor who knows how to empathize with Nanyin's part of the character, although these actions sometimes seem too naïve to the outside world, but it doesn't matter.
"When I started the audition, it was the part where Nanyin and Ash ate ice cream, and I thought it was quite smooth after acting, but for nearly a month after the audition, there was no news from the crew, and it wasn't until a month passed that I told me that the casting passed. On this issue, the director also talked to me very bluntly, in terms of external image, I am not the most suitable person in her heart, but she is on the inner part, she thinks I can play a certain paranoid energy of Nanyin, maybe because I am a standard Scorpio. ”
When two similar souls come together, it's hard not to collide and grow. "The most tacit understanding between me and Nanyin is that we will both express ourselves bravely, but I may not be as impulsive as Nanyin, and I will still think a little more than Nanyin before making a choice. But this extra part of her sometimes requires me to persist and learn. Including her perception of love, it will bring me a lot of energy. ”
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I want to be honest against the truth of all evil
There is a major scene in "Dragon City" that impressed Li Tingting quite deeply, making her toss for a long time to understand.
When Nanyin's mother was diagnosed with cancer, the whole family never wanted Nanyin to know in order to protect Nanyin, but they couldn't hide it, and Nanyin knew her mother's true condition better than anyone. So when she first led Ash to visit her parents, she was full of smiling faces the whole time, hoping that her family could feel at ease with her life. "She pretended to be very good, and as before, she was responsible for the atmosphere at the dinner table, twitter to please everyone. It wasn't until she saw off Ash and saw her brother silently waiting for her behind her back that her emotions began to disintegrate. ”
For this scene, director Lin Yan hopes that Li Tingting can suddenly burst into tears like a child when a certain fixed node comes. Because the accumulated pressure in the early stage has made Nanyin's mood close to the peak, and she urgently needs a window to release it, but for Li Tingting herself, this is not a familiar way of acting, but she still trusts what the director said, and step by step enters the specific situation under the plot setting. "The director was very patient and kept telling me about the play. When she mentioned her relationship with her mother, she cried as she talked about it. ”
Li Tingting, who was brought into a specific situation by the director, began to be more integrated with the character. When turning around and walking towards her brother in the play, Nanyin, played by her, looks like a warrior who has won a battle, and her first reaction is not to cry but to laugh, and she tilts her head to seek praise from her brother: "Am I acting okay?" Perhaps her brother did not have enough time to respond to support her emotions on the verge of collapse, and she was like a mighty warrior in a second, and she instantly transformed into a teary-eyed little girl, burying her head in her brother's arms and crying.
When her emotions were calmed by her brother, Li Tingting began to tell Nanyin's regret: "If I wasn't with Su Yuanzhi, wouldn't my mother be angry with me?" It was this sentence that the key node that the director needed was brought out by Li Tingting. She began to cry up to the sky, completely disregarding her image as an adult, and breathlessly shouted all her fear of losing her loved ones. The whole performance is very layered, almost mobilizing all of Li Tingting's true feelings. Later, when she described this feeling of being in the play again, it was like a documentary she had watched.
"Because I often watch some documentaries, I think the state of the characters in the documentary is the most real, which is very enlightening for my performance." You have to ask the actor and an ordinary person who will perform better in the documentary, and the actor will basically lose. An ordinary person who does this every day, and an actor who tries to do it for the first time, you can clearly see the traces of the actor's performance. Because people are built by time, the kind of real excision in the body is no other way to polish with a concrete life. ”
Li Tingting's Weibo top dynamic is also a life documentary, called "We All Dress Up for Bill". She liked Bill's view of life in the documentary, so she edited a separate paragraph of Bill's confession in the documentary to encourage herself.
"I think the passage in the clip touched me very much, he said that whether in New York or anywhere, it's hard to be honest, but he still wants to do what he loves in a simple and straightforward manner. Although he is a top photographer in the industry, he does not care about those glamorous titles, he is used to always being simple in life, always riding a bicycle, wearing that blue coat, and the happiest thing every day is to go out on the street to photograph passers-by, which is probably how he has lived his life. This outlook on life is actually an attitude towards life. So seeing that there are similar people like Bill in the world, I feel a little relieved and inspired. ”
Li Tingting also accompanied the video with copywriting, "People should always believe something." So we asked, what would she believe in her current life? She said it was "one sincerity against all evil."
"Because I think sincerity is the most important thing in the world. Otherwise, why do people put the truth, goodness and beauty in the first place? Because there is no premise of truth, the so-called goodness and beauty may actually be a kind of hypocrisy and false beauty. ”
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Warm color girl
Like Bill in the documentary, Li Tingting is also a very rich and free person who decorates her life. From her daily social dynamics, watching photography exhibitions, visiting vintage shops, learning to draw, going to the streets to shoot... Anything is possible. Last month, she was accustomed to listening to the night radio to fall asleep, and she opened a night chatter about the character Nanyin on her Weibo during the hit of "Dragon City", hoping to take this opportunity to communicate with the audience and friends, which is also surprising.
"I think it's inevitable that people will encounter some distress moments in their lives, and if there is a person who is willing to accept those negative emotions, I feel comforted. You don't even need to say anything more from that person, just being a patient listener is enough. Although there are not many comments collected, I think many people are replying with a very serious attitude. ”
Perhaps sincere people will always attract friends with similar frequencies to her, and when replying to the night chatter, there is a netizen's story that Li Tingting is still unforgettable.
It was the fourth issue of Nightly Talk, and Li Tingting's choice of question was: "What if one day you know that your favorite loved one is sick and want to know what everyone will do?" It corresponds to an episode in "Dragon City" in which Nanyin's mother was diagnosed with cancer.
The topic that was just sent, after a while, received a comment, the netizens who replied to the question were accompanying their father in the hospital to check their body, and happened to see the night news posted by Li Tingting, so they commented in the night talk: "I will accompany my father to review in a while, I hope it is a good result." ”
The moment she saw the news, Li Tingting suddenly remembered the clip of Nanyin praying for her mother in the hospital, and couldn't help but sweat for netizens who were far away. But soon, the netizen's father's test results came out, and he replied to Li Tingting again in the comment area, saying that his father's body was generally fine. Hearing the good news, the stone in Li Tingting's heart finally fell, and she felt very happy.
Some netizens mentioned the story of the documentary "The World on Earth" in the comment area of this night talk, lamenting the impermanence of the world. For the helplessness of this objective reality, Li Tingting agrees and understands very much, but still hopes that she can exert her subjective will and feel the warmth and beauty of the world with a warm touch.
"I saw an exhibition of Central Beauty before, and I think it's done very well. The curatorial theme is about plus-size girls, and the flesh of female models is all spilled, not hidden at all, but especially cute. I saw something written above the exhibition hall saying that you can touch her belly. The meaning behind it is so warm, that is, I don't want everyone to have senseless body anxiety, and I can show my body bravely and generously at any time, which is a great feeling! Li Tingting recalled the experience of visiting the exhibition, and her mood was still excited.
Maybe they see too much of others, and people always think that they can have their own in the future. For Li Tingting, the same is true. In her future vision, if she doesn't film one day, she will choose to open a small shop, which can hold photography exhibitions or sell vintage clothes, choose warm colors for the decoration style, and choose a design that makes people feel relaxed when they walk in. The walls are covered with various pictures of girls that he has taken, showing the beauty of women in various ways, and you can also display your own paintings.
"If you were to describe yourself in a painting, what would it be?" Lamenting some romantic thoughts about this girl, we threw the topic at her.
"I wanted the picture to have a lot of animals, grass, musical notes, and the weather was really good, and most importantly, there must be fish!"
Why fish?
"Because the fish's memory is only 7 seconds! Like my own memory, but I think it's a good thing. Because no matter what happens to me right now, I know it's going to pass, and the fish is good. ”
Although Li Tingting is a Scorpio girl, when it comes to imagining about the future, she shows some Pisces characteristics from time to time, such as fantasizing about the existence of parallel time and space, and the characters she has played can have a happier life. At the same time, I also imagined that as an actor, I could try more alternative and dreamy roles in the future.
"I posted a tweet the other day, hoping that the next character will be the kind of girl who can only dream. Every day she wakes up, her job is to tell her neighbors about her dreams, and then she continues to dream after work. ”
Then we wish this girl who works for her dreams come true as soon as possible.