Since the beginning of the Lunar New Year, Lu Yanting's mobile phone has kept popping up blessing text messages from all directions. "Nezha: The Demon Boy in the Sea" (hereinafter referred to as "Nezha 2") dubbed by her has broken hundreds of records one after another, and the latest cumulative box office has exceeded 14 billion yuan as of press time, ranking first in the global animated film box office.
"I thought there would be a better result, but I didn't expect it to be so good, everything was quite unexpected."
"Break it for me!" In the movie, Nezha gave an order and broke out with all the krakens; Outside the play, "Nezha 2" broke records, monopolies, and circles, and "killed all sides" in the global film market.
As the saying goes, if it is not broken, it will not stand. Due to the explosion of "Nezha 2", Lu Yanting's peaceful life in the past was also broken, and she began to slowly get used to this busy life at the Spring Festival Gala, Lantern Festival Gala, live broadcasts, interviews, etc.
Before the interview, Lu Yanting had just finished the recording of a program, walked back to the hotel against the biting cold wind of Beijing, and began to set up her mobile phone before she had time to rest, ready to be interviewed. In her words, it's called "being busy and happy."
Voice actor Lu Yanting (left) and Nezha. Image source: The official Weibo of the movie "Nezha's Demon Boy in the Sea".
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Waiting, so long that I forgot the lines
After recording "Nezha: The Demon Boy Descends to the World" (hereinafter referred to as "Nezha 1"), Lu Yanting waited for a long time, so long that when "Nezha 2" finally started dubbing work, she had almost forgotten the lines in the first part.
Although the wait was so long, Lu Yanting never moved the slightest "urging", she knew that all she could do was wait quietly.
About a year and a half ago, Lu Yanting finally received a notice to dub "Nezha 2", but her voice was tired and exhausted on the first day, and after a long time, she insisted on completing the dubbing work that day.
"Because of Nezha's character and the characteristics of his lines, we need to be fully committed and truly expressed. For example, when we express some emotions, we definitely don't care if our throat needs to be protected. What kind of emotion he should be is what kind of emotion. So under Nezha's mood, it is natural that there will be some damage and consumption of the vocal cords. ”
Under normal circumstances, when the state is good, you only need to dub for 7 or 8 hours a day, and it won't take long to finish the dubbing work. However, this time, "Nezha 2" Lu Yanting finished recording twice and went to rest for a while in the middle.
At that time, she could barely make a sound for a few days and needed to be treated with injections. After the injection, she rested for about a week, and began to be able to make some boundary sounds, and Lu Yanting resumed her work again.
Voice actor Lu Yanting. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
This strength to do their best seems to be the commonality of Nezha's team, and the core spiritual leader is the director Dumpling. In order to accurately shape the character image, he has played more than 70% of the scenes in the whole film of "Nezha 2".
For the protagonist Nezha, Lu Yanting knows that the dumpling director has repeatedly polished every detail. "I've seen a lot of interviews with directors and know that directors are very strict and serious people. So I'll try to understand his intentions as quickly as possible and then adjust my language. ”
In the first dubbing, many scenes are generally directed by Dumpling and dubbing director Chen Hao, telling her the entire plot, character structure, what state the character's emotions need, and so on. Sometimes it's when you're done, and then when you're paired with other actors, you have to adjust it a little, but basically this situation will be relatively rare.
In the second part, the directors came up and directly asked Lu Yanting to start dubbing, unless there is a certain scene, according to the needs of the plot, in order to enrich the external stimulation of the characters, they will talk about the play.
"Does this mean that the directors have already recognized your performance in the first part?"
"It may be that I can understand the state that the directors want, I can't say that they are very satisfied, haha, I don't dare to say this, I have to ask the director's opinion."
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Coincidentally, I will do everything I need
"I'm so scared of the thunder, and I'm so scared that I get scum all over my body. I laughed when I broke through the catastrophe, and I blew the horn against the sky...... "Before the release of "Nezha 2", a limerick rap from the movie became popular on the Internet in advance.
Image source: Screenshot of the movie "Nezha's Demon Boy in the Sea".
This time, Nezha not only "can subdue demons and compose poems", but also plays "singing and dancing"; Later, he became the "lead singer" in the promotion song "I am the Third Prince of Nezha", which is an inappropriate vocal & rap double burden.
Don't say it, "Nezha" singing is really not just "paddling", Lu Yanting said that she usually likes to sing, and she has specially found a teacher to learn to sing.
"(Singing skills) turned out to be used on Nezha, including reading rhythm, maybe when he was a child, he had some foundation in learning music, and he was more able to express the state that the director wanted. The director was also very relieved, so he directly created such a state. ”
Isn't this that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared? "Yes, I didn't expect the director to give full play to all my hobbies, and I am especially grateful to him."
Voice actor Lu Yanting. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
5 years ago, Nezha came into the world as a "magic pill", with huge dark circles and a magical "little smoke voice", which subverted everyone's imagination and gained a lot of love as soon as he appeared. Five years later, Nezha not only became a national idol, but also blew this whirlwind to the world.
However, whether it was 5 years ago or 5 years later, there are still many people who don't know that this little Nezha, who is a little rebellious and a bit of a stinky fart, is perverse and violent on the surface, but is actually affectionate and righteous, was completed by a female voice actor.
"In fact, in the stage of children, boys and girls have some similarities in timbre, such as when they scream or are emotionally high, their voices will be a little similar. Therefore, at this age, it is basically the vocal cords of female voice actors, which will be more in line with the voice expression of a little boy. ”
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Clarify, dubbing Nezha is not a "self-recommendation"
The explosion of "Nezha 2" has brought the voice actors from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and while interviews and performances have come in the spotlight, there have been more versions of the "stories" circulating on the Internet.
According to media reports, Lu Yanting was selected by the dumpling director through self-recommendation and with her unique "ugly" voice. As a result, when interviewed, Lu Yanting "cracked down on fakes" online, "It's really a very accidental situation".
It turned out that at first, the director was indeed looking for an "ugly" voice, and the dubbing director Chen Hao knew that Lu Yanting was teaching dubbing in a college, so he asked her if she had any recommended candidates.
"Ugly voice? What kind of ugliness? At that time, I wasn't particularly clear about what this description should look like, so I asked a few more questions. Later, Lu Yanting helped select a few students to accompany her to the audition.
The on-site director described several scenes and made some requests, and Lu Yanting helped explain while demonstrating to the students how to make their voices more relaxed. When the director heard it, he asked her to try it too, but she didn't expect it to be so "tried".
Voice actor Lu Yanting. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
In the past few years of becoming "Nezha's vocal cord", Lu Yanting has felt the audience's heartfelt love for "Zha", and has also received countless requests for her to say something in her "Nezha" voice.
"It's really too much, it feels a bit like when I was a kid at a family party, and I was asked to 'come and put on a show for my uncle, come and put on a show for everyone.'"
Lu Yanting knows that this is everyone's affirmation of Nezha, who she dubbed, and it is also a way to express love. "But it's hard for us to explain this, for me, I still hope to be able to protect the character more, and sometimes it's not good to use Nezha's state to do other things."
Reporter Wang Shiyao
Source: China News Network