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On the day of the interview with Sun Xuening, the contrast between her we saw was very different from Chu Cherry in "Tang Dynasty Legends".
Cherry is cold and cool, most of the time she is wearing a red and black "cherry-colored" power suit, but Sun Xuening is sweet and safe, and she happened to be wearing a white dress that matches her name that day. At first glance, they are two people who are completely different.
Of course, a name is just a symbol, and appearance can only make a first impression. In the dialogue, the parts that Sun Xuening and Cherry are similar to are gradually unfolding, and she even told us that part of her true self is Cherry herself.
The popularity of "Tang Dynasty Legends: Westward Journey" has exceeded 10,000 on iQiyi, and the current Douban score is 8.3, which is better than the first "Tang Dynasty Legends". For actor Sun Xuening, it is the luck of her career to be able to play an indispensable main role in a hit drama with a high reputation, and stripped of her identity as an actor, Chu Cherry also resonates with her true self, giving her more space to know herself.
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The ruthless Chu cherry has become cute
In the Tang Wei team, Cherry was the last to join. She appeared later in the first season in The Case of the Dragon. On a stormy night, in the dark and terrifying temple of the god of dragons, an unidentified woman suddenly appeared from behind the statue, the sword in her hand flashed with cold light, pointing directly at Su Wuming, full of oppression.
Mysterious and beautiful, strong in martial arts, and not much cruel talk, this is the impression of Cherry when she first appeared, after the truth of "The Case of the Dragon" was revealed, the mystery of Cherry's body was also solved, she joined the protagonist group, and became another force in the team after Lu Lingfeng, and also became Su Wuming's CP.
Overall, the first season has very little space left for Cherry, and the characters have not yet been fully laid out. And in the second season, Cherry has clearly upgraded. In addition to force, the skills she has learned over the years have been released one by one: she understands dumb language, can understand the gestures of mute little girls, lives in a hacker stack, she will use Yong'an Dan to test drugs, and she even acts as the audience's mouth, frequently issuing golden sentences, such as breaking Lu Lingfeng and Su Wuming's "Tang Conan" physique, and complaining about the place where the two of them appear, which is particularly prone to accidents. "She's a versatile auxiliary assassin." Sun Xuening summarized the character positioning of Cherry in the second season.
In terms of personality, compared with the first season, Sun Xuening feels that this season's cherries are softer, the cold female assassin is no longer enough to describe her character attributes, and some arrogant and cute elements in the cherry's personality are also being shown.
Sun Xuening is very happy that this kind of growth and change can be received by the audience. "In the first season, there will be comments that it is really annoying to see Cherry come out, I think this character is very abrupt and useless, and I can't stand the relationship between her and Su Wuming, but in the second season, I saw that some viewers said that they liked Cherry and became fond of her, and then they also began to snort Cherry and Su Wuming's CP, and no longer said that she was useless. I'm really happy for the audience to see the growth and change of Cherry. ”
She also swallowed Cherry and Su Wuming's CP, Sun Xuening felt that Cherry was an intellectual lover, and Su Wuming was the person she wanted to be with for the rest of her life. "In the second season, the two of them have a more tacit understanding. In the "Demon Transformation" unit, when Su Wuming wanted Cherry to help investigate the matter on the street next to Mrs. Ma, he only needed to say 'Cherry', and Cherry understood what he wanted to do. Of course, there will be some small twists and turns between the two of them in the second season, but I think these events can become a point to enhance the relationship between the two of them, and it also makes the relationship line a lot fuller. ”
The life experience of Cherry revealed in the first season is extremely miserable, her mother died early, her father committed suicide, she was cold at that time, and after joining the protagonist group, she is no longer alone, she is surrounded by multiple emotions in this team, and she feels much safer. "Su Wuming is a person who has a heart-to-heart with her, Lu Lingfeng is a comrade-in-arms who goes to fight people and monsters together, Xijun is a very cute, well-behaved and smart sister, and Fei Jishi is a very close uncle."
She described Su Wuming as a smart and cunning fox, Lu Lingfeng, who is upright and well-born, as a police dog with a formation, Xijun as a cute little rabbit, and Uncle Fei as a cow with people who can't be saved every day. Everyone on the team is lovely in her eyes, and she has found a sense of belonging here. Because of love and a sense of belonging, Cherries in the second season is a more vivid image.
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Love to play, but Buddhist
Softness is only relative. As the force value in the team, it is also the temper responsibility, and when she encounters someone who is disrespectful or unpleasant during the journey, Cherry definitely can't bear it, either angrily reprimanded, or draws a knife against each other, and every time she needs Su Wuming to play a round; For those who really admire, even if the other party is a former thief, she can call him a "hero" from the bottom of her heart. Compared with Lu Lingfeng, Pei Xijun, who was born in a famous family, and Su Wuming, who is full of poetry and books, Cherry retains the most simple and pure chivalrous spirit, and she is also very close to Lao Fei, who is at the bottom of the market
Sun Xuening used "energetic" to describe the feeling that cherries brought her. "The energy on her body can be regarded as ruthless, it can be said to be impulsive, it can also be understood as the kind of energy that is very charlatan, she has so many kinds of energy mixed together, which is a point that Cherry particularly attracts me, and this is also part of the reason why Cherry is more difficult to perform, that degree is difficult to grasp. In the second season, Cherry received a lot of positive feedback, and I felt that I might have found this energy, so in the follow-up shooting, I will continue to research and maintain this state. ”
Playing is one of the externalizations of this energy. Sun Xuening has no foundation in martial arts, nor does he have a foundation in dance, and at the beginning of his contact with drama, he received half a year of martial arts training when he first entered the industry to shoot "Machine Spirit". "It was from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, and I could have only one day off a week, or even no rest at all. I remember waking up every day and going to training, and then going to sleep after training, and my nose and face were swollen every day. ”
But that experience benefited her a lot, Sun Xuening since then knows that martial arts is to rely on hard practice, to use her muscle memory to play those moves, and then when she shoots the scene, it seems to have opened up the second pulse of Ren Du, before the filming of "Tang Dynasty Strange Tales: Westward Journey", she and Lu Lingfeng have conducted a lot of fighting training, and the final effect is quite neat, smooth and silky.
The most important thing is that she realizes that she actually loves to play. "In fact, my dad used to be the runner-up in the boxing competition in Liaoning Province, but then he didn't go professional for the sake of his family, but he is now almost 60 years old, and he still does some boxing exercises, I may have inherited some genes, I usually love to fight boxing and fitness, every time I think of burning my fat, exercising my muscles, and enhancing my strength, I will be inexplicably very happy.
Although she likes to "fight and kill", Sun Xuening actually belongs to the more Buddhist type. "As long as people don't have a problem with me, I don't have any problems. I rarely have negative emotions, and when I do, they quickly disappear, and I quickly forget what I'm not happy about every time. ”
She is also quite Buddhist in her career, and now she rarely has the idea of quick success for her own development. When I'm free, I stay at home and watch TV dramas, study characters, play games, and occasionally have dinner with three or five friends, and life is very simple.
She wasn't without anxiety. In 2015, her partner Wu Lei performed "Sword and Fairy Inn" was her debut work, and in 2016 and 2017, she also released two heroine works "Machine Spirit" and "Meet the Palace Master". But then he couldn't get the play.
"I didn't receive a play for about 9 months at the most, no play came to me, and then in the past 9 months, I also went to audition one after another, it is not an exaggeration to say that there were at least more than 100 groups, but none of them received a response. During that time, I was really anxious, reflecting on myself, doubting myself. ”
Later, she read many psychology books about inner rebuilding and building a strong self. "Many people may think these books are very ridiculous and outrageous, but after I finished reading them, I did relax a lot, and when my aura changed, I felt that everything was working out and things started to go well." Since then, she has had jobs one after another, met her current agent, and met Tang Wei.
"When the heart is not quiet, you choose a way to calm yourself, and then the rest will be fine."
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Speak of logic and emphasize feelings
Before "Tales of the Tang Dynasty", many people knew Sun Xuening through the werewolf killing variety show "Beijing Masters".
Sun Xuening's agent told us that she is a person who pays attention to organization and logic in her daily life, and in the process of talking to Sun Xuening, we also noticed that she will correct some details very carefully, and the organization is quite clear, so she enjoys games like werewolf killing. She enjoys the feeling of logical reasoning, and the werewolf killing game is a logical feast for her.
In order to play this game well, Sun Xuening even read a lot of criminological psychology books, trying to help herself judge whether the player is lying or not through physical methods such as micro-expressions mentioned in the book, and the final result is "useless." It may also be that I am not good at learning and have not thoroughly mastered the skills of others. But playing this to the end still depends on rigorous logic. ”
Many viewers feel that the form and style of "The Mojiadian Case" in the second season of Tang Weili are a bit close to werewolf killing, Sun Xuening said that during the filming, each of them had to sit on the vat one by one to speak, that piece did evoke her memory of playing werewolf killing.
Werewolf killing can exercise logic and words, which is good for actors to analyze the internal logic of the character and their ability to speak lines, but Sun Xuening takes it more as a hobby and does not think too much about the benefits to the actor's career. "Compared with logic, acting is more emotional, we have to resonate with the character, and then we have to use emotion to resonate with the audience and establish some emotional connection."
Playing a cherry is such a process of emotional resonance. At first, she didn't find out what she had in common with the character of Cherry and was a little suspicious of herself. "Because I feel that the roles I have played before are far from cherries, but after communicating with the director and Brother Gang (Yang Zhigang) repeatedly, in the end, I suddenly felt as if I had opened the door to a new world."
"Cherry is not like the role I played before, but she resonates with me in reality, because in fact, in reality, I also have the side of daring to love and hate, and to speak up."
She likes plots and interpretations that relate to her. Among the cases that have been broadcast in the second season, Sun Xuening's favorite is "The Death of a Fool". "Although I rarely appear in this unit, there is basically nothing wrong with me. But I was crying from reading the script, and when I arrived at the scene to shoot this scene, I saw that Mr. Xi Wang also cried when he read "The Book of Releasing Wife", I cried when I came to the company to watch the rough cut, and I cried again when it was broadcast. ”
She also likes to experience different lives in the play. In "Little Couple", which was broadcast on iQiyi and Yangba in prime time today, she played a modern woman who worked hard step by step from a small assistant, and she was a role and experience that she had never tried.
"When I first became an actor, I was curious, interesting, and fun, but I didn't plan to do it as a lifelong career, I just wanted to try more while I was still young, but after persevering until now, I have discovered more and more the charm of the profession of actor. I thought about what I would do if I wasn't an actor. It may be a screenwriter or self-media blogger, or it may be a game anchor. But now, the profession of being an actor is what I am truly passionate about, and I am willing to stick to it forever. ”