January (1): Li Bingbing
In the past two years, Li Bingbing has made many new attempts outside of her identity as an actor, and has also gained some new feelings in familiar acting work.
For her, "freshness" is not an end in itself, but importantly, she wants to use these explorations as a medium to expand the breadth of life and meet a better self.
Before the invitation to "Can Draw the Sky of a Teenager", Li Bingbing always felt that he would not be a decisive person. The reason for this turning point is that she wants to gain new knowledge in the "world" that she has not been exposed to in the past.
"I just made one request, which was not to present me as someone who seemed to understand very well on the show, because I didn't know very well in the first place. Other than that, I don't have any pressure. ”
Spring is warming up, and clothes are fluttering. When Li Bingbing gets along with her nephew and niece, she occasionally uses the method of observing performances to interpret their behavior, and after calmly watching from the sidelines, she is more likely to be moved by such sincerity, hoping that she can also have the simple state of mind of children. "In the world of working with children, I often reflect on the purity and original intention of acting."
Photo by Feng Zhikai
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January (2): Time Boys
The existence and growth of the 7 teenagers of the Times Youth Group seems to be fighting the uncertainty of the outside world in a stable and realistic way. In a complex world, how do young people face their true selves?
Times Youth Team Leaders Ma Jiaqi, Ding Chengxin, Song Yaxuan, Liu Yaowen, Zhang Zhenyuan, Yan Haoxiang, He Junlin. Each member used his own small but full personal feelings to hand over his own answers.
This group of teenagers named "Times", the Times Youth Group, have experienced an era full of uncertainty and rapid change with the public.
Photo by Liu Song
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February (1): Li Yuchun
As a singer-songwriter, Li Yuchun no longer wants to write such a heavy and grand proposition as "Paradise on Earth", but is more willing to reshape music with the contrast of tragedy and joy.
She bluntly said it was probably the craziest thing she'd ever done. "But what I write now is like this, the surface is a candy, after taking it apart, you will taste the melancholy, the cruelty of reality, happiness, brightness, there will be a different taste."
After three long spring days, Li Yuchun became softer. She said it was a change from within, life was impermanent, and meeting was precious, so she "cherished the opportunity to meet each other even more."
Two or three years ago, due to the epidemic, the concert was repeatedly postponed, and her mood gradually changed, she overturned the original concert theme and plan and replaced it with "Happy Weekend".
With the passage of time, the four words "happy weekend" were injected with more metaphors and footnotes by Li Yuchun, who accelerated her thinking, she said: "We face the uncertainty brought about by the birth of the desert every day, and you and I need to get a small respite."
The 'happy' I finally want to say is a small respite under the huge squeeze of life, and in the face of the uncertainty of tomorrow, perhaps all we can do is seize the present moment. ”
Photo by Xu Chuang
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February (2): Zheng Xiuwen
At the age of 50, Cheng Xiuwen will sing for the eleventh time at the Hung Hom Stadium. In her acting career of more than thirty years, she has experienced the so-called golden age, as well as lost and low.
The goal is Cheng's approach to fate, and in the process of accumulating wisdom in life, she also constantly explores the boundaries of love. This time, standing on the stage of the Red Hall, she wants to give an affirmative answer to love that was not defined more than twenty years ago
Zheng Xiuwen said that being recognized is a common human desire. Is the chase for awards an obsession? Faced with this problem, Zheng Xiuwen thought about it and gave a more accurate expression that she felt: I hope that my efforts will be seen more than really winning the award. "I hope to think outside the box of comedy and let everyone see my ability to act."
Photo: Zeng Wu
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March (1): Liu Yifei
Spring is late, pine shadows are mossy, flowers are full of paths, and rivers flow freely. The seasons change, and everything starts all over again. Liu Yifei cares about those things that flow, and flow often contains an unshakable new force.
"The water seems soft, clean, clear, but the impact is strong, it's the force of flow, and wherever you concentrate your direction, it goes," she said. Sometimes, this is a powerful ability, just like you don't have to express yourself, the more capable the person may be more stable, just because he has the power of inclusion, the power of love. ”
During the interview, there was a sudden pause, and Liu Yifei looked a little out of his mind. She was trying to recall, trying to discern the boundaries between inside and outside the play for a moment.
"Suddenly I thought about this question for a long time. You see, I sometimes get confused, I don't remember filming in Hengdian, Xiangshan or Dali, and the first thing I remember is the time and space where the characters lived. ”
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March (2): Xiaowen
This year is the 14th year that Xiaowen has entered the modeling industry, but she is still curious about the modeling industry: "The industry has changed a lot, and I have been adjusting myself to keep up with the rhythm. ”
It takes courage to keep up with the times, and when courage falls on work, it will bring awakening. Now Xiaowen is more active at work because she understands better what she and others want.
As long as the picture is formed in her mind, she communicates and expresses it. When ambiguity and immaturity are replaced by clarity and sophistication, the connotation of fashion is transmitted, the boundaries of the self are broadened, and all pleasures are the joys of getting along with the self.
At a certain point during the shooting, a sense of happiness suddenly surged in Yan Xiaowen's heart, which also reminded her of a dream before.
In her dream, she stepped into a garden, surrounded by colorful and fragrant flowers, and finally, she herself slowly turned into a flower.
Photo by Liu Song
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April: He Cong
This group of subjects photographed by He Cong is related to painting and sculpture. Each set of makeup, hair and set corresponds to a classic work of art.
In the reference list, there are masterpieces of Impressionism, such as Claude Monet's "The Woman with the Parasol"; There is also the Pre-Raphaelite Johann Everett Millais's Ophelia, based on Shakespeare's classic play.
More classic, He Cong saw the original "Venus of Milos" at the Louvre in Paris. The inspiration for riding a white horse may have come from John Currier's masterpiece "Lady Godeva on Horseback".
Even for He Cong, who has been in the "battle formation" for a long time, such a shooting is a novel experience. It is a pleasure to experience the sacredness in the theme of art and to work with the team to present the connection between painting and video.
Under the spotlight, He Cong rode a white horse, his expression was agile, the white horse was quiet and calm, occasionally fluttering his eyes, and his nose was breathing softly.
With the sound of the camera's shutter, she looked at the photographer from time to time, as if seeking confirmation: How about this? Wouldn't that be better?
He Cong had ridden a horse before, and shooting on horseback was not so restrained, "so it is still useful to learn one more skill, otherwise I may be very afraid."
This feeling is like a microcosm of her daily state: simple, relaxed, focused and enjoying every moment. The world flows with water, the clouds in the world are swirling, and she only faces it in the most comfortable way - the clouds are in the blue sky and the water is in the bottle, and I am me.
Photo by Zhang Jiacheng
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May: Yi Yangqianxi
In the season when all things grow, Yi Yangqianxi extracted some emotions from "trash talk" and hummed them into songs one by one. The prelude begins, and the night begins.
In the song, neon flashes, passers-by are bustling, people linger in the night, pushing cups and changing lamps, greedy for a while. With the music, Yi Yangqianxi sang softly, as if in an old dream. The notes flowed, and Yi Yangqianxi traveled on the road of music, never seemed to intend to stop.
For the three sets of concept covers and blockbusters, Jiaren invited photographers Xiaowei, Yan Ming and Liu Song to shoot and create: "A Gaze": Xiao Xiaowei, "Sheet Music, Flowing Notes": Yan Ming, "He and TA": Liu Song.
Yi Yangqianxi was as silent as the season in which he was born—speaking in a low pitch and muffled when he did things. He likes the feeling of stuffy works, studying sculpture, choosing acting, making music and releasing albums.
Months of stuffing it into one thing, sculpting it into shape—"I like to make a work, and I feel like I want to leave something behind." ”
Perhaps it is such a trait that Yin Yao, the collaborator of this album, feels that three tenses can be seen in him at the same time - past, present and future.
When photographing Yi Yangqianxi, photographer Yan Ming paid tribute to Harold Feinstein's work Boardwalk Sheet-music Montage, which composed Yi Yangqianxi and the black railing on the side of the road to create a sound picture.
In the eyes of collaborators, Yi Yangqianxi's body seems to have a switch, connecting the old and the new. Asked Yi Yangqianxi if he felt that he was a more nostalgic person, he nodded: "I am, I like that old thing very much." ”
He is like a young man from the old times, except that he does not keep walking on the old road, but constantly breaks through his former appearance.
Photography: Xiaowei Xiao, Yan Ming, Liu Song
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June (1): Zhou Xun
"Time is the substance that makes me up," Borges said. For Zhou Xun, who moves with her heart, she constantly shuttles between time and space, real images and emotions of the heart, and also travels in the beautiful and open world, this natural actor is often self-deprecating, and a photo, a melody, a smell, and some fragments of memory in the folds of time have become the moments when she perceives the world scene, becoming tiny fragments that make up her.
She laughed and said that she has entered a new stage of life, she is still hot for acting, and she still chooses to believe, love, and hope forever in life, which is important energy for her. So, she began to play an emotional game related to love with herself.
Many people see in Zhou Xun a kind of innocence from belief, and what matters is that she has always been interested in the world after the world, which is a unique characteristic that permeates her.
Regarding acting, she confessed that her most important acting method is to find the reason for the character's existence, and then, to believe; When working with a partner actor, "when you meet a good opponent, you will believe him, and his eyes will give you something." You see, two people begin."
For Zhou Xun, the wonderful sparks between people are all generated by believing and walking, "The trust established between people will solve many, many emotional problems in life... Once trust is established, the person's magnetic field is very gentle and comfortable."
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June (2): Zhang Junning
"It's okay to try an experience that you haven't had before." This sentence seems to have become a footnote in Zhang Junning's life.
Zhang Junning is mature enough, how not to be "chaotic and charming eyes", she has a set of methodology, now, this person has shared his experience with newcomers, "Actor is a job in the film industry, but life depends on yourself to live to understand, first have yourself, then have a job." Don't change your values in this industry in order to pursue a certain part."
At this stage, Zhang Junning said that he is full of curiosity about complex human nature, and those unpredictable things are full of mystery.
"People are complex animals, with a lot of emotions, a lot of experiences, a lot of choices, and the choice between a single thought can have very different consequences. No one is perfect, someone makes mistakes, someone grows, whether it's big or small, I will be interested in drama that focuses on these feelings of the characters. ”
Photo by Liu Song
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June (3): Xin Zhilei
There is a line in the script of the drama "Preliminary Evidence" that Xin Zhilei particularly likes: There has always been such a person in my heart, a girl who struggles hard for success.
Look to your left, look to your right, who will be eliminated? This girl is brave and fearless, and if I cower and do nothing, I think I will lose her.
"If it weren't for the fact that I didn't like the script, not because I didn't like the stage, but just because I was afraid to refuse this thing, I might have looked down on myself, so I gritted my teeth and took it."
She has an increasingly clear consciousness of the plays and roles she wants to take. Acting is creative work, and if you always stay in your comfort zone, mechanical, boring, and repetitive, it may lose its meaning.
Xin Zhilei will face her past: "There was a time in the past, I felt like I was stuck in a certain box, and there was no particularly big progress. Those years were painful for me, firstly, because I regretted that I had not grown, and secondly, I seemed to unconsciously make my work very patterned. ”
When the anxiety of lack of meaning strikes, change and challenge are imperative. Acting on a one-man show on stage is the answer she gave herself.
"I was very happy to meet 'Preliminary Evidence', as excited as the first time I fell in love. I can convey meaning in a way that interests me again, and I haven't had the shuddering feeling of 'I'm alive' in years, which could redefine my acting career. ”
PHOTO BY NICKYANG
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