Leng Junxiao, who has a bit of "Han Fan" in his tough and resolute face, and his skin is tightly wrapped with a near-perfect muscle texture, Liu Junxiao, who plays a team leader Yan Zhong in "SWAT Team", makes people shine when he appears. Before that, he was the private plane boss Tony in "Rushing into the Clouds", the snow in "Kyushu Sky City", The Qi Jimei in "Kou DangFengyun", and the Yu ren Yu Dang fengxiao in "The Legend of the Fish Ball"... Just as he spent eight years forging an armor, as an actor, Liu Junxiao has also been cultivating calmly. He believes that by sneaking thousands of miles, he can finally spread his wings.
Liu Junxiao
Behind SWAT Team
"You take off your clothes first."
Hearing the words of director Ding Sheng, Liu Junxiao, who had just rushed to the interview on an early flight after filming all night, looked at a room of staff, felt a little embarrassed, and carefully asked: "What kind of movie is this going to be made?" Ding Dao said: "First look at your physical condition." After trying the play, there was no news, and Liu Junxiao thought that it was another stone sinking into the sea.
Two months later, he suddenly received a phone call asking him to come to the SWAT team for closed training the next day with a covered roll.
"I can't go home, I can't see my family and friends, and I can't even confiscate my mobile phone." As soon as we put down our luggage, we began to run against the big sun of Changping, both men and women. "Before the filming of 'SWAT Team', Liu Junxiao and the same group of actors conducted 15 days of special training." On the first day, he ran 5 kilometers, and then increased to 10 kilometers a day, and even had the experience of carrying 30 kilograms to pull 30 kilometers and eat only two compressed biscuits a day. ”
Director Ding asked the instructors to train the actors as recruits, the training projects to be completed by the recruits in two months, and several starring actors to learn within half a month, including physical fitness, shooting, climbing, downhill... All swat police will be something they have to learn. Liu Junxiao said: "The director's requirement for us is that the training projects can be completed and done well within a certain range. ”
For the training results, Ding Dao was quite satisfied: "It is precisely because they have carried down this half a month of arduous special training, our next shooting is relatively easy." In fact, half of the scenes are real SWAT officers, and the performance of the actors in the movie is not worse than that of real SWAT officers, right? ”
Talking about this training time, Liu Junxiao is very nostalgic, "There are many unforgettable places, everyone has to train every day, me and Xiao Suge and Yunlong are like going back to college, living in the same dormitory, eating together and bathing together every day." When people are suffering, it is easier to enhance their feelings and become friends. ”
The movie "SWAT Team" is based on the story of the real ELITE SWAT team "Blue Sword Commando", and before taking over "SWAT Team", Liu Junxiao's concept of SWAT is actually vague, "I will think that SWAT looks cool, but I can't tell the difference between SWAT and film police." ”
He played a team leader Yan Zhong in "SWAT Team", which is a character of perseverance and courage, wisdom and courage, kindness and righteousness, "Really to the training will find that the life of the SWAT officers is actually very boring, in addition to training every day is training, but their thousands of training, because in the real critical moment can not make mistakes, the slightest mistake may cause danger to the people, the loss of national property." I feel that this training is a responsibility, and it is also training your muscle memory and professional instincts over and over again. ”
The Path to Fitness
It was in 2012 that Liu Junxiao had just finished filming a war-themed period drama. "At that time, filming in Hengdian, the weather was 40 degrees high, wearing heavy armor, and working continuously for more than 50 hours. One day I suddenly suffered from heat stroke, wanted to speak but could not make a sound, back to the hotel to blow the air conditioning for a long time, the whole person eased up, at this time I realized that if I continue like this, my body may collapse. ”
After the killing, Liu Junxiao returned home, looked at himself in the mirror with a height of 185cm, but weighed only more than 120 pounds, and had a thought in his heart: "I can't go on like this anymore, I want to change my lifestyle." Since then, he has been on his path to fitness.
When there is work, Liu Junxiao will get up in the morning to run and do some aerobic exercise; after work in the evening, if he is not particularly tired, he will practice for an hour.
When not filming, the training intensity increases. "In fact, when I'm not filming, I'm busier than filming, because I have to buy my own vegetables and cook, there is no assistant in life, and everything has to come by myself." During the training period before filming, I would practice aerobics three times a day, about an hour each time. It's intense, but I'll break it up so that my body gets plenty of rest. ”
"I'm going to have a training plan that separates the muscles and goes to practice. For example, practice your arms and shoulders in the morning, and practice your chest in the afternoon... In this way, the muscles in each area can be fully rested after the exercise, so that the cycle is repeated. "I'll also ask for a personal trainer, after all, I also need someone to protect me." Talking about the topic of personal training, Liu Junxiao smiled: "And everyone has their own set of methods and things worth learning." ”
"In addition, I will also watch a lot of fitness videos of foreign gods on the Internet to see what is different from my training model." I'll go find a template that I like, and the person's body type and proportions are my ideal type, and I'll see how people can train their body to this state. ”
"When I train, I'm more focused on muscle functionality than on the surface." When Liu Junxiao read "A Brief History of Mankind", he learned that ancient humans were actually very strong, with very full muscles, and each muscle was functional: it would make you run faster and avoid wild beasts; it would make you more powerful, and throwing javelins could go farther... Modern fitness tends to ignore this functionality, only to pursue a better appearance and greater strength, which is also a misunderstanding of his own fitness. "Now, I will pursue more multi-faceted functionality of muscles, such as how to jump higher and farther..."
Become a frontline
Becoming a front-line is the biggest goal of Liu Junxiao's career as an actor.
"I want people to remember me and my role. If I had to choose one of the two, I would like to be a character, and if one day I was asked to play a tree, I want people to remember that tree, even if they didn't know that I played it. ”
He is someone who is willing to sacrifice for the role. Javier Baden, the best actor at the Cannes Film Festival, once for the filming of "Beauty And Wrong", in five months, the whole person's chest muscles collapsed and walked on his shoulders. Liu Junxiao said: "I think any actor, as long as he is a professional actor, he can do it. As long as the work is worth it, I will do my best to present the best state of the character. The sacrifice of image, in my opinion superficial and superficial, may not be worth mentioning. ”
The profession of actor, for Liu Junxiao, the biggest attraction is to be able to experience different lives, feel different states of life, and what he wants to convey to the audience most through his works is love and hope. He has also experienced the troughs of his life, and "The Shawshank Redemption" has brought him a lot of power, and he hopes to pass this power on to more people in the future through his own works.