In 2020, the suspense drama "The Hidden Corner" will be popular all over the Internet, and Shi Pengyuan, who plays Yan Liang in the play, still looks like a young teenager.
Four years have passed, and audiences have begun to see him in more film and television works.
Zhang Xiaoshan, the 616th warrior in "Changjin Lake", the sensible and filial adopted son Wang Bei in "The Long Season", and the indomitable Su Mu in "In the Octagonal Cage".
Now, at the age of nineteen, he has faded away from the ignorance and impetuousness of adolescence, but the introverted edge of a young man still remains.
In the popular "Catching the Doll", he opened the comedy track again, playing the son of Shen Teng and Ma Li in the movie, the young Ma Jiye.
This time, the Star Talk Club talked to Shi Pengyuan, and saw that he was different from the label of "little actor".
In 2013, 8-year-old Shi Pengyuan starred in his first movie "One Life".
He was born in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, because he was too naughty when he was a child, his family simply sent him to a martial arts school, and he trained in a boarding martial arts school in Changping, Beijing at a young age, and could only return home once every two weeks.
Before becoming an actor, he always felt that he would become an athlete.
Source: The movie "One Life"
A crew casting changed the direction of his life.
At that time, the crew of "One Life" was looking for a child who could play Nicholas Tse when he was a child, and went around and found Shi Pengyuan, who was still practicing.
When he saw the photo, Nicholas Tse couldn't help but sigh that this child was indeed like him when he was a child.
As a result, Shi Pengyuan, who was still ignorant, had his first "electrocution".
However, at that time, the children who could cry, laugh and act on the big screen were more of a role that was pushed away. "The director tells you to do what you do", and the feeling on the set is almost zero.
It wasn't until "The Hidden Corner" that he had a deeper experience of "acting".
It was 2019, and Shi Pengyuan participated in the casting of "The Hidden Corner". But he failed in the first two rounds of interviews, and it wasn't until the third time that he was invited to try it out in a good outfit.
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: The Hidden Corner
It was also in this trial that director Xin Shuang saw his temperament similar to Yan Liang, so he asked him to play another show, and finally chose him.
Talking about the reason for choosing Shi Pengyuan in the end, Xin Shuang mentioned one word: wildness.
"Yan Liang is naturally wild, this thing is difficult to perform, I have seen many young actors, they can all play Yan Liang, but they all lack a unique atmosphere. Shi Pengyuan has a characteristic that no other child can replace, that natural, wild, untamable thing. ”
Yan Liang's role is undoubtedly complex.
On the one hand, he is simple-minded, only thinking about protecting his sister, and only instinctively desires to live; On the other hand, he is also wild and untamable, with the stubbornness and ferocity of a beast.
There is a plot in the play, which he often mentioned in interviews later.
When Lao Chen, who had been helping Yan Liang, was stabbed, Shi Pengyuan couldn't cry at all, and the director thought about using tear gas, but Wang Jingchun, who played Lao Chen, said: "You have to believe in yourself." ”
Then, Shi Pengyuan cried out for some reason.
This "belief" was also carried through in his later works. When it comes to his past acting life, the word that Shi Pengyuan mentions the most is to believe.
"I believe in the script, I believe in the director, I believe in the actors."
Some people say that the reason why child stars are more likely to shine is because "children are more likely than adults to believe that 'the moment of acting is real'". Shi Pengyuan looked back at the renditions of his childhood and agreed with this statement.
"Children are more likely to believe, and children are real, sincere, and will try to get closer to the truth."
In this belief in himself and the role, Shi Pengyuan arrived at the vast world of actors.
After "The Hidden Corner", Shi Pengyuan also ushered in more opportunities.
Last year, Shi Pengyuan appeared in three works in a row, and handed in a brilliant answer sheet in each of them.
At the beginning of the year, in "Going to a Windy Place", he broke away from the "child" character and played a 22-year-old rural youth Xie Xiaoxia.
In the play, Xie Xiaoxia is a native of Yunmiao Village who grew up in a simple and pure environment. After meeting the Internet celebrity singer Nana, he fell in love for the first time, and wanted to go out to prove himself, but he was deceived by killing pigs, and his crush on Nana ended in nothing, but in the end, he still gained new growth.
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Source: "To a Windy Place"
In him, there is not only the simplicity and sincerity of the son of nature, but also the strength of young people who dare to fight, and it is also through this drama that more people have discovered more aspects of him.
During the time when the drama was on the air, someone was pleasantly surprised to find Shi Pengyuan's multi-faceted performance on social platforms, praising him as an old actor who had debuted for ten years, and Shi Pengyuan reposted and responded: "I'm not an old actor, I'm a young actor." ”
For Shi Pengyuan, every interpretation is a new attempt, and the rest is left to the audience to evaluate.
In April, "The Long Season", he played Wang Xiang's adopted son Wang Bei.
The book is angry, wears glasses, works by himself to earn money, and worries about his father's health, and loves and cares for his adoptive father as if he were his own father.
This role requires him to restrain the wildness on his body and show more of his gentle and beautiful side. Shi Pengyuan also admitted frankly when recalling: "This role is quite difficult to play. ”
"He's relatively not that plump (in the plot line), so he needs to give a lot of color to the character himself."
In the end, the effect is that Wang Bei has become the only warm and bright color in that "long season", which is not only the hope and sustenance of his father Wang Xiang to live, but also the imagery embodiment of the entire era of "go forward and don't look back".
And in the summer, a "In the Octagon Cage" made him realize his dream of being a martial arts athlete when he was a child.
In this movie, Shi Pengyuan profoundly released the wild factor in him. The character Su Mu is very similar to Shi Pengyuan in reality, he is also silent, equally serious and mature, and also has the courage to persist for love.
In order to be able to better play Su Mu, Shi Pengyuan trained for four hours a day, insisted on eating fat loss meals, and practiced really for a scene, and hit his brain until his brain was buzzing.
And the young actors in this movie also let Shi Pengyuan see his past self.
In the past, he was also ignorant of the original ecology and acted on instinct, but now, he has grown more and found a direction that is more suitable for him.
"Take every step, take every step steadily, make progress little by little, and then continue to bring good works to everyone."
This is Shi Pengyuan's expectation for the future.
The new film "Catching the Doll" is Shi Pengyuan's first film to challenge the comedy genre.
In the film, the character he plays is called Ma Jiye, who grew up in a dilapidated yard and lived a life of "no oil in the soup and no children in his pocket" with his family.
Source: "Catching the Doll"
In fact, in order to hone him, his parents pretended that his family had no money, took him to live in an old house, let him run to school, and even arranged various bridges for him to hone his self-growth.
Ma Jiye, who grew up in this environment, ignorantly felt that he was being controlled and powerless to escape, and finally, declared war on his father's self-righteous education with an "outburst".
Therefore, in the movie, he not only has to adapt to the comedy style and play the middle two and innocence of the teenager, but also add a certain serious narrative to present tragic emotions in various emotional points.
However, in Shi Pengyuan's understanding, Ma Jiye is a kind and logical person, although he has been fooled a lot, he still has the ability to think independently, and he can also sense that something is wrong with the world around him.
Talking about Ma Jiye's emotional outburst in the movie, Shi Pengyuan also expressed empathy.
"He has deceived him for 18 years with a group of people who love him so much and trust him so much, and I will be sad if I substitute it."
Although he already knew the setting and ending of the characters when he got the script, Shi Pengyuan still felt that Ma Jiye's awakening was gradual.
The scene that finally broke out was filmed many times, and at the beginning, Shi Pengyuan was worried that this outbreak scene would affect the comedy rhythm of the whole movie.
But under the guidance of the director, he can better understand the direction and emotional curve of Ma Jiye's character, and he also firmly grasped the core that the director wants to express.
"Put yourself into the situation, trust the actors, and believe in the director."
And Shen Teng Ma Li, who played his parents in the movie, also gave Shi Pengyuan a lot of acting help this time.
Shi Pengyuan himself loves to watch comedy, and he has a lot of works by the director, Shen Teng and Ma Li, and he likes "Charlotte's Troubles" the most.
This time he walked into the comedy set, and he felt that he benefited a lot.
As a veteran comedian, Shen Teng Ma Li has a natural sense of control over creation, which guides Shi Pengyuan's interpretation well.
"Their creative state is very solid, and it gives me a big shock."
Today, Shi Pengyuan's requirement for himself is to become a professional actor.
At the age of nineteen, he has already stepped into the adult world, and the outside world's evaluation of him is completely from the perspective of a mature actor, which urges Shi Pengyuan to continue to improve and learn, and explore more tracks beyond "wildness".
He rarely looks back at the plays he has acted, and he also mentioned a sentence that teacher Qin Hao once said: "When an actor looks at his own works, every time he looks at it, it is a regret." ”
But perhaps, it is in this regret that we can go further.
In the future, he hopes to meet more profound and twisted scripts.
"Practice well and bring better works to everyone." is the answer sheet handed over to the audience by actor Shi Pengyuan.