"Guan Hu's director's play, war theme", Li Jiuxiao only knew these two points and entered the crew of the movie "King Kong Chuan".
Out of the tacit understanding and trust of the previous cooperation with director Guan Hu, although Li Jiuxiao did not know what role was waiting for him, as soon as Guan Hu shouted, he immediately arrived, "In the first half of this year, because of the epidemic, I have been rubbing my fists at home for a long time." ”
In the hit movie "King Kong Chuan", Li Jiuxiao played Liu Hao.
Li Jiuxiao, who plays Liu Hao, a volunteer soldier in the movie "King Kong Chuan", is a rare post-90s actor in the starring role, and most of the audience's understanding of him comes from the "Eight Precepts" in the movie "Hotpot Hero" released in 2016, the "Mao Yu" in the movie "Send Me to Qingyun" released in the summer of last year, and the "knife" in this year's hit "Eight Hundred".
"King Kong Chuan", the production cycle is short, the task is heavy, before the shooting of the industry thought that this film is difficult to complete, Li Jiuxiao from beginning to end believe that it will be successful: "When shooting, I always have a belief - this is fighting, I am Liu Hao. The reason why it can be achieved is because everyone on this team has a belief that it must be done, and it must be done to the extreme. I believe that this is also the case when there is a real war, and there is no one in the team who can say that it is not decided as soon as it comes up. ”
The hardest part is "going back in time."
In the view of Lu Yang, one of the three directors of "King Kong Chuan", Liu Hao is simple and at the same time has multipleness. He is not old, has experienced a lot of life and death, is accustomed to the battlefield, is already very mature, but has a youthful spirit, and it is not easy to find the right actor. But Li Jiuxiao did a good job, "He will perform in the Sichuan Liangshan dialect, sometimes even forgetting that he is an actor who can set off the atmosphere really and comfortably." ”
Liu Hao's motives were pure, and he had always remembered the last wishes of his dead comrades-in-arms, eager to rush to the front line to kill the enemy, just to tell the dead fighters that "we have won."
Li Jiuxiao, who had never played a soldier, returned himself to zero, conducted devil's military training, trained queues, and practiced military postures, such as the Bobosha submachine gun that had been following him, how to hold the gun, fire, and change the magazine, he had to practice, and he had to reach a certain professional level in a short period of time. In addition, it is necessary to master the unique gestures, lying postures, crouching postures in the volunteer troops, and how to crawl forward, ambush and hide in the grass.
Before the filming of "King Kong Chuan" began, Li Jiuxiao received military training.
But the hardest thing is how, as a contemporary youth, how to return to that era, become a soldier of that era, and let yourself also make the audience believe in the stories of those "loveliest people". To this end, Li Jiuxiao found many deeds of heroes in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea on the Internet, and he especially hoped that contemporary young people could experience the spirit of the heroes of that era with their hearts.
Every day's shooting is "stealing the teacher"
Liu Hao's highlight is always on the Kongo Bridge, he has always crossed the bridge to complete the task, get a medal to pay tribute to the deceased comrades, but he found that no matter how anxious to go to the other side, the bridge will always be blown up by the enemy. Eventually he carried the bridge stake, roared with rage, and died in the war.
Li Jiuxiao said that the director gave this role two words, that is, madness. When the time-lapse bomb exploded, he went around the world looking for company commander Gao Fulai (Deng Chao), but what he saw was a comrade-in-arms who had been blown up half of his body, and left him only one sentence before dying, "repair the bridge". He was almost mad, and he understood that war was not only about victory, but more about the sacrificial, cruel side. "At first, I was always thinking about what state I should be in, and then when I was shooting, I was more about feeling the scene, the director, the lead actor, the group performance, in that environment I couldn't think of anything else, looking at The look in Teacher Deng Chao's eyes, I could feel the collapse from the inside, the whole scene was almost hoarse, because the expression of such a fierce emotion was really desperate in that situation."
In "King Kong Chuan", Li Jiuxiao and Deng Chao.
As a young actor in the group, Li Jiuxiao regards every day's shooting as "stealing teachers". Zhang Yi once said to him that "filming, talent is part, diligence and hard work, to ponder, to study is a more important part", "Zhang Yi always takes out his only little rest time to help me better shape the role." He told me how to express mental activity and emotions when the telescope blocks the eyes, there is anxiety, there is excitement, there is searching, there is uncertainty, there is perseverance, I could not imagine that a telescope can have so many 'drama' and emotional expression, I really feel long insight," Li Jiuxiao said.
"Eight Hundred" almost became a regret not to wear makeup
"In fact, I have worked with director Guan Hu on three films, and one of them has not been on." Li Jiuxiao said that the cooperation between him and director Guan Hu was also thanks to the producer Liang Jing. When Liang Jing first saw Li Jiuxiao's photo, she was deeply impressed by his long hair style.
He remembers the first time he met Guan Hu, "Many people look at my appearance and think that I am a very hard, temper will be very explosive image." But when Director Guan Hu saw me for the first time, he said that he could see the soft side of my heart. Through later cooperation, Li Jiuxiao admired director Guan Hu's aesthetic more and more, "He knows what is handsome and cool in real men, not the superficial ones, and he is good at amplifying these characteristics." ”
Many people are deeply impressed by the "knife" in the movie "Eight Hundred", especially the clip where he volunteered to rush the bridge alone at the end. Li Jiuxiao said that this is thanks to director Guan Hu and director of photography Cao Yu. "The hairstyle and dress of the 'knife' are all set by the director, which is completely his aesthetic, and the scene that rushed to the bridge was filmed by Teacher Cao Yu himself, which made me so handsome."
In the movie "Eight Hundred", the last scene of the "knife" on the bridge impressed the audience.
Of course, Li Jiuxiao also has regrets, "Don't we all say that movies are the art of regret?" "But sometimes regret can turn into the best outcome over time." For example, in the movie "Eight Hundred", Li Jiuxiao once regretted that he did not wear makeup, in fact, not wearing makeup was also required by Li Jiuxiao himself at that time, he said that he liked himself without makeup, but later he was a little worried about it. After the film was released, Li Jiuxiao felt that this happened to be the difference between "knives", and it seemed to be a good presentation. "I don't actually think about the deep level of my performance now, but at least the creation is happy, when I meet a good role, I want to do my best to pay, finish shooting, it's cool, it's OK." 」
Thirty and standing, it is considered to be "standing"
He first met Li Jiuxiao five years ago, when he played one of four robbers in the movie "Hotpot Hero", the Eight Commandments, who wore the mask of the Eight Commandments of pigs when robbing. At that time, Li Jiuxiao had long hair, was cool when he didn't speak, and liked to brush his hair from time to time.
In the movie "Hotpot Hero", Zhang Yichi, Yin Fang, Wang Yanlin and Li Jiuxiao (from left) play the robbers.
Li Jiuxiao was born in 1990 in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Region of Sichuan Province, the son of a choreographer in the Cultural and Labor Troupe and a dancer in his mother. When he was five years old, Li Jiuxiao settled in Beijing with his family, and his mother became a full-time mother to take care of him. At that time, he talked about his uninhibited past when he was young, and also talked about the sweat and tears that his mother shed for his growth.
Five years later, Li Jiuxiao's "Eight Hundred" and "King Kong Chuan" were released successively, which also coincided with his thirty years old. After watching the movie, the mother said that for the first time, she felt that the rice bowl in her son's hand was "held" steadily, "She said, you are thirty and standing, it is really 'standing'." ”
Li Jiuxiao
"For me, there are no big characters or small characters or decent people, villains. I think it's like falling in love between the actor and the character. It could be love at first sight, and you meet someone and think, 'Wow, he's so attracted to me!' But which attraction, how to attract, in fact, I can't tell. I come across characters who attract me, and that's how I feel. ”
From graduation to now, the most difficult period has long passed for him, when he did not shoot for two years. After the release of "Hotpot Hero", he has been filming for at least the past five years. He rarely planned anything, and he felt that something was bound to die and became boring, "And what is the use of planning?" Now the change is too fast, take it one step at a time. He described each of his characters as like upgrading monsters, "Fighting a monster can only be upgraded, and a play is a monster." He also never compares with others, "every day to shoot, there is no time to compare." ”
He didn't even pay much attention to when his signature long hair was cut short, "I really can't remember, my hair must have followed the character, I never deliberately thought about it." 」 ”
As for whether this year is a turnaround year for his career, Li Jiuxiao smiled: "Whether it is a turnaround, it is not something I can decide, if there is a turnaround, I will welcome the turnaround, if not, I will continue to shoot." ”
Beijing News reporter Zhang Kunyu Zhou Hui Xiaowan
Edited by Wu Dongni Proofreader Zhao Lin
Source: Beijing News