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Extreme Challenge 9 is coming, but someone is gone.
After the official broadcast of the show, Ah Liang found several new faces such as Huang Xiaoming, Da Zhang Wei, and Yan Haoxiang, and Wang Xun, who had been resident for 8 seasons, was replaced.
Wang Xun's absence from "Extreme Challenge 9" made many old fans sigh, after all, he was the last insistence of the Extreme Man Gang. But reality is ultimately not worth feelings, and the choice to stay or leave is never determined by the will of the individual.
【1】
In recent years, around the two identities of variety show cafes and actors, the audience has discussed extremely hotly.
Some people think that frequent appearance on variety shows will cause harm to actors, although many powerful actors ushered in the second spring of their careers through variety shows, at the same time, the background of actors was gradually forgotten, Deng Chao, Huang Lei, Sun Honglei, etc. were deeply troubled. Another part of the people believe that in this market environment, if the actor lacks the exposure of variety shows, it means that it is easy to be forgotten by the audience and faces the danger of no filming.
As Wang Xun, who has been stationed in "Extreme Challenge" for eight seasons, he has a lot of say on this issue, and in an interview with Wang Xun who revealed that he gave up the 100-episode column protagonist column for playing the small role of "Crazy Stone", he bluntly said that successful actors have the ability to balance a good sense of variety shows.
In his opinion, variety shows will cause the identity of the actor to be "blurred" and make it difficult for the audience to enter the play, which is under the condition of having a very, very impressive screen image, causing the audience to think that the actor is such a person, and then suddenly show a very different state in the variety show, and the character is easy to collapse.
And a successful actor has 2 channels of "variety show" and "performance", just like there is a switch, when you need to enter what scene, just toggle the switch to which channel.
It's like, in a variety show, he will reveal seven points of truth and three points of falsehood, or three points of truth and seven points of falsehood. When it comes to the performance environment, pull up the things that you present in your daily life or in variety shows before entering a role, so that the impact will be much smaller.
So what is the difference between Wang Xun's performance in actors and variety shows? Ah Liang still uses his performance in "Extreme Challenge" as an example.
The fourth issue of "Extreme Challenge 2", in the game of counting money on a jet ski.
Huang Bo, who grew up by the sea, was confident and took the lead in the battle. However, as the jet ski continued to accelerate, in the turbulence of the wind and waves, only Huang Bo was heard shouting furiously "Oh, how to count this, I can't open my eyes", and finally only ended up with the result of failing the challenge.
Wang Xun boarded the motorcycle under heavy pressure just in case, and simply took off his glasses.
Luo Zhixiang couldn't help but worry about him: "How can you count without glasses?" ”
But Wang Xun replied confidently: "You don't need to wear glasses to count money, you can know how much it is when you touch your hands." ”
Then, the motorcycle accelerated to the sea level, only to hear Wang Xun's screams from a distance, and when the motorcycle rushed back to the shore, Wang Xun, who was unstable after getting off the car, firmly reported a number "308", and the answer was completely correct.
This "money-loving" character suddenly stood up.
In the third issue of "Extreme Challenge 1", Wang Xun experienced the profession of "trapeze man", cleaning glass in a 282-meter-tall building. Faced with this terrifying height, Wang Xun stood on the elevator and said that his legs were shaking, and as soon as the elevator shook, he was very uneasy, and kept asking the master who followed him if it was safe.
After a while, he overcame his fears and began to think about how to stand safely on the elevator and clean the glass with the master.
Just when we were moved by Wang Xun's attitude of "working seriously and not afraid of hardship", we would finally bargain with the "boss" because of 7 yuan of meal money, showing his "door-picking" character.
In the eighth issue of "Extreme Challenge 2", Wang Xun took the last box to Baiyun Mountain, but saw a bungee jump challenge that he had never tried.
In the setting of the program group, choosing a gold bar can win the game, but choosing a brother has to accept bungee jumping.
In the night, after shouting the names of his brothers, Wang Xun bravely jumped down and completed his first bungee jumping challenge. This move not only allowed the audience to see the shining point of "heavy love" on Wang Xun, but also felt the brotherhood between these men.
【2】
And when it comes to this side as an actor, what does Wang Xun look like?
Many audiences will know Wang Xun, probably like Ah Liang, all because of the movie "Crazy Stone", a sentence of "don't touch me", which has become synonymous with his popularity.
But in fact, Wang Xun is not a professional actor, he first learned comedy from Mr. Shen Va, and then studied crosstalk creation with Mr. Yang Ziyang, Hou Baolin's apprentice.
Coupled with several years of training in the literary troupe, Wang Xun formed his own humorous performance style, which can drive the atmosphere of the scene, and won the title of "Bashu Top Ten Laughing Stars" with only one double reed, becoming a well-known comedian in Sichuan and Chongqing, and also laid a solid foundation for him to enter the film and television industry in the future.
In 2005, Wang Xun, who received an invitation to the movie "Crazy Stone", did not quite believe it and felt that the other party was a liar.
First, Ma Long, the film's assistant director, said that Andy Lau was involved in the investment. But for Wang Xun, Andy Lau is too far away a big star, how can he participate in such small-cost works for no reason.
Second, he has been talking crosstalk and acting in sketches in the army for a long time, and movies are a new field, not his strong point.
Thirdly, at that time, a column drama from Chengdu TV came to him, a 100-episode production, and asked him to be the protagonist.
Fourth, after reading the script sent for the first time, I found that I couldn't understand it at all, and I was confused and not funny.
So he declined the invitation to "Crazy Stone". But Ma Long once insisted and specially invited him to Chongqing to interview director Ning Hao, which finally settled on the role of "four-eyed secretary".
To everyone's surprise, this small-cost film, which only cost 3 million yuan of project funds, leveraged a high box office of 23 million and achieved a miracle with a small broad.
For Wang Xun personally, the success of "Crazy Stone" is that he has been dragged from the stage to the screen and his popularity has expanded; The second is to meet a group of like-minded friends and cooperate so far, especially the "black-skinned" Huang Bo.
In August 2011, Huang Bo announced the establishment of a personal studio, and the first artist he signed was Wang Xun.
How good is Huang Bo to Wang Xun?
That is where to go, where there is Huang Bo, there will basically be Wang Xun's figure, film and television drama resources are a lot of push.
From the "My Regiment Leader My Regiment" who a Sichuan sound of "hammer oh", the convenience store passerby who is on the line and has to be a straw in "Nightclub", to the "righteous" Lao Zhang and Peng Blind's "research and research", Wang Xun can always create character mantras that impress the audience.
In "Red", he is the "old glass" Lu Baorong, who speaks fluent Shanghainese and is charming and shy; In "Militia Ge Eregg", Zhang Yaozu and Ge Erdan of "Eight Classics of Zheng'er" are a good show as long as they are together;
In "The Cook Plays the Riffraff", he is the detective captain with grinning teeth, crooked tones, climbing trees and climbing high; In "Killing", he is a painter who is afraid of things and extremely lacks manhood; In "Ten Thousand Miles Home", he is an overseas Chinese compatriot who swallowed cinder curry rice in order to survive...
During the interview with Tencent News' "Q&A" column, Wang Xun said that "Crazy Stone" provided him with a good opportunity to enter the film and television industry, but because he was a relatively negative and villain role at the beginning, it created a fixed sense for the audience that he was only suitable for playing this type of role.
He believes that actors are easy to be positioned by the audience, especially when a character is played well, the audience will feel that he is a certain type of character, and the better this kind of role is played, the deeper this pit will fall. And there will be directors who continue to find you to play similar roles, the director's understanding of an actor is also an audience mentality, when writing a script or studying the script, you will substitute the successful character image.
But Wang Xun is not afraid of this phenomenon and has no big concerns. He feels that the audience will not have any disgust for him because he played a bad character, but he will have hatred when watching the drama/movie, and when he meets offstage, it will be more applause and recognition.
In this regard, he has a standard for taking on the role, "I can play the villain, but I don't want to play the villain of the face".
It is based on this that Ah Liang is separated from Wang Xun's two himself in performance and variety shows, which is also an excellent embodiment of him as a successful actor.
【3】
Throughout Wang Xun's role, most of them are mainly small characters, but he has never played it because this role is a negative small role.
Any film and television work, it has both positive and negative forces, if it wants to have conflict, it must have positive and negative forces. He pays more attention to whether this character has a story and tension.
In the face of Tencent News' "Q&A" column interview, Wang Xun said that after he became famous, he would still go to eat roadside stalls, crowd buses, and take the subway, and he was a little person with fireworks.
It is impossible for an actor to fully enter a role.
What's the best?
"I'm closer to the character, the character is closer to me, which side of myself is given to this character."
So in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and other places, if there is no announcement, the subway is his preferred way of travel.
He believes that when an actor must learn character observation and practice, he needs to understand what people are thinking, doing, and what they see the most in the subway, which is more conducive to creation and close to the character.
If you have the opportunity to play a big person in the future, you will also play it with the mentality of a small person. In this way, this big man has feet, not floating in the air. He is particularly afraid of having a sense of distance from the audience, and once the distance occurs, it means that his performance is routine.
【4】
For many years since his debut, Wang Xun has been walking between various small characters and supporting roles, and his steadfastness makes Ah Liang particularly admired, and his seriousness towards characters is even more praised.
On the road of acting, Wang Xun has always put his posture very low, and even a little less confident, he classifies himself as an "endurance player", although he does not have the characteristics of overnight popularity, but he never dares to slack off his awe of the lens focus area, cherishes every opportunity to shape the character, and believes in accumulation.