Foreword: Chen Rui is a movie actor familiar and loved by the audience. In 1978, he was admitted to Zhuying Studio, and in 1983, Chen Rui played an introverted, honest rural young man Ming Han in the film "Country Sound", and his performance was simple and natural, which was well received. Later, he successively starred in film and television dramas such as "Superb Sound", "Market Pop Song", "Villagers", "Add Some Sugar to Coffee", "Ye Jianying of Xiangzhou", "Love Full of Pearl River" and other film and television dramas, Chen Rui pursues the unity of truth, goodness and beauty in his performance, and his life credo is: "Live in art, create art in life." Recently, Chen Rui told the past of his early years in the special class of Zhuying, and this issue was exclusively issued here.
In the spring of 1978, not long after the smashing of the Gang of Four, the cast of major film studios had a phenomenon of green and yellow. Through the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Zhuying asked for such an indicator and held a special class in the film to recruit young actors nationwide and supplement the troupe's cast team.
Zhuying came to Xingning County, Meixian Prefecture, to recruit actors, and Chen Rui was in his second year of high school at Xingning County Middle School. Angular, tall and handsome, he is very prominent among his friends, they encouraged him to say, let's recruit actors, you go and see, apply for the exam, see if there is hope. But in Chen Rui's impression, film actor is a very noble profession, it is unattainable, how can he become an actor? Then he refused to go, and the friends still persuaded him vigorously: "Hey, it's okay, you just go and see", Chen Rui went to take the exam in this case.
At that time, the first exam was an interview, and the interview was five or five, and Chen Rui was brought into the examination room by his father. Because he was too nervous, his brain went blank, and his legs kept trembling. The teacher in charge of recruiting the exam first takes a look, and if he thinks it is appropriate, he will ask him to stay, and then arrange some sketches and recitations, and ask the candidates to go back and prepare to come back in two or three days. Chen Rui has liked sports since he was a child, and has less contact with literature and art, the teacher asked him if he could recite and whether he could recite a sketch, Chen Rui shook his head, said no, asked what is a sketch, the teacher said simply, let him go back to prepare a sketch, and also found him a copy of the poems in the "Tiananmen Poems", let him memorize this, and then perform. Chen Rui lived in the army compound, and there were very few people engaged in literature and art, but later he found a person who was engaged in opera, helped him tutor the recitation, practiced the sketch by himself, and went to participate in the re-examination.
During the retest, Chen Rui was still nervous, singing "Return from Target Shooting", but he sang the wrong lyrics, and the teacher asked him to go back and wait for the notice. At that time, in Xingning County, this was a sensational thing, and the school teacher jokingly said: "Our class is going to produce actors." Finally, I waited for the notice and went to Guangzhou to participate in the next round of re-examination.
On behalf of Xingning County to participate in the re-examination of Zhuying, there were three people, in addition to Chen Rui, there were Wu Yiqiang and Wang Xiaowen, they belong to the eastern Guangdong region, and actors from all over the province gathered in Zhuying. In the Pearl Film Studio, Chen Rui met the old actors he had seen on the screen, such as Wang Xiaozhong, Zhang Huaizhi, Lin Lan, and Ding Tiebao, who went to Meixian to recruit actors.
Chen Rui didn't know much about literature and art at that time, and after going to the re-examination of Zhuying, he saw so many competitors with rich acting experience, including many actors from literary and art groups. Chen Rui felt that he must have no hope, but since he came, he still wanted to complete the exam as well as possible. I stayed in the Zhuying retest for about ten days, mainly because the teacher arranged sketches, tutored the candidates to rehearse, corrected deficiencies, and other things such as recitation and physical training.
After the Zhuying exam, go back and wait. Later, Chen Rui learned that their candidates from eastern and western Guangdong were the last batch to take the re-examination, in fact, in the previous year, Zhuying had recruited a group of students in Guangzhou and had already taken the re-examination. I took the re-examination in Zhuying in April and May of '78, and I faced the college entrance examination after returning home. Due to the preliminary preparation to recruit actors, a certain amount of energy was spent, and the preparation for the college entrance examination was insufficient. The days of waiting were tense, and finally the notice was issued, Chen Rui was admitted, and a stone in his heart finally landed. Let him report to Zhuying in May, so that he will miss the college entrance examination.
After coming to Zhuying, I learned that the recruitment quota for Zhuying in the province at that time was 20 people, but only 16 people were actually enrolled, except for Chen Rui, the others were Wu Yiqiang, Zhang Lei, Lang Yongmin, Pan Zhiyuan, Ping Weinian, Yu Haiyang, Tang Wen, Wei Lixin, Zhang Shen, Ling Hui, Pan Shangli, Chen Hong, Wang Xiaoning, Wang Jianqiang, Shi Haizhong, among which there were only 3 girls. Speaking of the reason for not having a full quota, Chen Rui said that it was not that actors with a good image could not be recruited in the province, and Mandarin standards were required at that time, many candidates were stuck at this point, and many girls had a very outstanding image when they participated in the Zhuying re-examination, but the language could not pass the test, and the accent was very strong, especially in the Shantou area.
As soon as I entered the secondary school class, I was sent to a border guard unit in Shenzhen very close to Luofu Bridge to stay for more than a month, which was considered military training, and the girls did not go. After returning, the formal classes began, and the teachers of Zhuying at that time were mainly Luo Ling, Zhou Min (director Wei Lian's mother), and Yu Zhen (who was the deputy director and class teacher of the Zhuying Factory Revolutionary Committee at that time), and Shen Guanglan sometimes came to class. In the two years of secondary school class, Chen Rui has lived very steadily, in addition to reading books is reading, from a person who has never been in contact with literature and art, no one at home is involved in literature and art, even singing has to go out of tune, entered the acting industry, gradually understood what it is to make movies, indeed gained a lot, very focused and serious to complete these performance subjects, and also carefully read the books recommended by the teacher. Guangzhou is at the forefront of reform and opening up, and there are still many temptations, but Chen Rui was directly admitted from school, has little social experience, and only wants to know more about film and television and enrich his performance.