Recently, Shanghai girl Huang Shengyi and her mother Deng Chuanli appeared together in the "Ding Naizhu's Drawing Room", starring Huang Shengyi, which will open at the Shanghai Theater in June and start a national tour of the drama "Let Me Hold Your Hand ...". The area where the theater is located is the radius of activities where Huang Shengyi grew up as a child and lived with his mother, as if "going home", they have something to say.
Come to the upper theater and return to the next to home
Huang Shengyi's mother is a senior editor of Xinmin Evening News, his father is a professor at Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, and his cousin is Wu Jinglian, a famous economist. Huang Shengyi starred in the TV series "Red Apple Paradise" when he was a student, and soon became famous through Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu". Huang Shengyi walked out of Shanghai and became popular throughout the country. In 2022, "Let Me Hold Your Hand...", produced by Shanghai Theater, not only brought Huang Shengyi back to the drama stage, but also brought her back to the radius of her childhood life in Shanghai. Huang Shengyi can accurately say that there used to be a famous "Daqian Food Forest" downstairs where the upper theater is located, and the aroma of milk has been wafting from the milk shed near Gao'an Road... Huang Shengyi's alma mater, Xuhui Middle School, is a five-minute walk from the upper theater, and on weekends when she was a student, she liked to shop for clothes in the underground mall of Xujiahui subway station, using the pocket money she usually did housework.
Childhood Huang Shengyi
This brings us to the educational philosophy that Huang Shengyi's mother is proud of. Huang Shengyi's parents are the "old third", but later they both made up for the knowledge diploma, went abroad very early, came into contact with the educational ideology of different cultural backgrounds, they encouraged their children to choose their hobbies and interests, so Huang Shengyi learned swimming, piano, music, dance, painting when he was a child... Among them, the longest insistence is painting. Although he did not cultivate in these directions in the end, these hobbies nourished the current Huang Shengyi.
At that time, Huang Shengyi's mother's request to Huang Shengyi was: "You can't get pocket money without paying." So Huang Shengyi has always been self-reliant and earns pocket money by doing housework, and later she went to Beijing to study at a film school and also made her own advertisements to earn tuition. Her mother, Deng Chuanli, encouraged Huang Shengyi to continue to work hard and keep learning, and she herself led by example, even after retirement, and published two books, "Years Can Be Songs" and "Good Times on Earth".
Huang Shengyi and her mother in girls' generation
Film and television turn drama, and the actor test is great
Speaking of Huang Shengyi's performance in dramas, mother Deng Chuanli sighed: "Dramas are different from film and television dramas, and they are a great test for actors. "Especially Huang Shengyi's mother's generation knows Russian literature very well, and Huang Shengyi performed famous plays related to Chekhov." There are too many lessons to make up. Deng Chuanli said, "They go to film school, the more natural the performance, the better, but drama has a special language." ”
Huang Shengyi participated in the stage play "Let Me Hold Your Hand..." produced by Shanghai Theater
Performing "Let Me Hold Your Hand...", Huang Shengyi herself found it difficult at first, because this was her first formal contact with drama after her career. Looking back on last year's rehearsal and performance process, there are many twists and turns. Now the tour has a new beginning, starting from the first stop of the theater from June 9 to 11, Huang Shengyi will embark on a national tour with Chekhov's famous play, and her role as Oujia in the play. In "Let Me Hold Your Hand...", Huang Shengyi and the male protagonist Zhao Xiaosu freely switch between many roles such as "She and Him", "Olga and Chekhov" and Chekhov's classic plays "Seagull", "Cherry Orchard" and "Uncle Vanya", turning into letter readers after a while, and entering the depths of the soul of this lover. In the play, Ou Jia and Chekhov convey their attachment to drama and love through letters after letter, and Huang Shengyi also expresses his love for the stage through drama performances.
Huang Shengyi said: "After I graduated, especially in the past ten years, I have not really returned to Shanghai, it seems that the drama I acted in was not filmed in Shanghai, this time I can enter the creation of drama, which is particularly cordial, can trigger a lot of creativity, can mobilize a lot of my previous experience, and show it in this creation..."
This is what they say about love and marriage...
"The Living Room Scene", a 25-year-old female friend asks three women of different ages, identities and personalities on the stage about the topic of "love and marriage". They also gave different perspectives from their respective perspectives.
Ding Naizhu: "I am probably one of the very few mothers who will tell her daughter 'you don't have to get married', because marriage is not suitable for everyone, and happiness really depends on you." The most important thing is that you don't rely on another person, start with yourself. If you yourself are at a loss and you have another partner, you may still be at a loss. You first quiet yourself down and get to know yourself. If you don't get along well with yourself, it's hard for you to get along well with another person. ”
Deng Chuanli: "This 25-year-old female friend, I think your life has just begun. That's how I think about a relationship, it's very important to find a friend who is both your friend, your lover, and your comrade. If everyone is not in agreement, then such a marriage is like death, and you are advised not to step in; But don't think of marriage so difficult, there are still many good people in the world. ”
Huang Shengyi: "I think the relationship in marriage must be to make you better. If you feel in your heart that he is that person, you can step in. To borrow from my role, Chekhov and his wife Ojia, the two of them are not actually husband and wife in the traditional sense, but they do love each other very much and support each other in their careers. Without Chekhov, Olga would not have known to the world about her artistic talent. The 3 people who make each other better are my interpretation of a good view of marriage and love. ”
Author: Gan Peng ("Shanghai TV" original article, please contact the editorial office for reprinting)