The temporary adjustment plan, the interview is a special extra time after Yuan Wenkang finished a day of intense shooting. Very punctual, without the slightest drag of mud and water, began the conversation.
Yuan Wenkang has been too busy lately. Just into June, he has "Rebel", "Our New Era", "I Really Love You" three big dramas online broadcast, coupled with the centennial gift movie "1921" in the important role of Li Hanjun, Yuan Wenkang appeared on the big and small screens non-stop, showing the diversity of plasticity.
Forty is not confused, Yuan Wei Yue, the years left yuan Wenkang seems to be a sea, the audience can see the surface of the ups and downs or calm waves with the characters, and he himself also perceives the accumulated strength and the goal of exploration in a deeper depth, always persistent, and always curious.
Can't be a perfect character
The new drama "I Really Love You" starring Yuan Wenkang was launched, which is a realistic theme theme, focusing on the current contradictions such as Dink, single mothers, entrepreneurial youth, and the relationship between men and women in the workplace. Yuan Wenkang plays Qi Bin in the play, a professional lawyer. There is a scene about him doing legal advice for women, suggesting that if they encounter workplace harassment, they should still salute first and then soldier, and it is not recommended to use violence, but Yuan Wenkang later posted a response, saying that "if necessary, they can fight back."
Such a direct response stems from Yuan Wenkang's personality of not liking to drag mud and water and is accustomed to expressing ideas directly, at the same time, Yuan Wenkang does not hide the objective defects of the character, just as he firmly believes, "The end of the play is not said first, but even if Qi Bin and Xiao Yan come to the end, they are not suitable, and it is likely that they will flash marriage and escape." ”
At first glance, the role of Yuan Wenkang this time, Qi Bin, is a high-quality marriage partner in the secular sense. As a lawyer, the profession is golden, professional attributes are extra points, financial freedom, appearance, and more love words skills are full, and you can contribute romantic surprises anytime, anywhere.
But Yuan Wenkang understands the role more thoroughly.
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Qi Bin has a cunning side, just like the sentence he often says, anything can be discussed. He has humanitarian care at work, but he and Xiao Yan are both very strong, attacking and defending each other, and emotionally opposed. The first time they kissed, Qi Bin wanted to apologize, but he didn't expect Xiao Yan to accept it gladly, turning passive into active, leaving Qi Bin alone stunned. After getting acquainted with each other, Xiao Yan wanted to separate work and life for sufficient reasons, but Qi Bin was unwilling to give in, and wanted to break this "rule" that he should not exist in his opinion.
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When both are unwilling to give in, the number of times is more, and a relationship is in jeopardy.
Yuan Wenkang did not want to avoid the gray area of this role, and even he was willing to challenge the role of "scumbag" at the moment. "The actor is an observer and a narrator, like a pen, you have to describe the understanding of life, the understanding of the character. Everyone has flaws, has their own pain, and cannot be completely powerful. ”
The complexity of human nature is enough weight, and a single personality, even if perfect, will tend to be false and uninteresting. And the performance is not to judge whether the character is a good person or a bad person, but to present it vividly and reasonably, so that he can win the trust of the audience.
In order to do this, Yuan Wenkang's kung fu accumulated outside the play, but also in the years of time.
For example, the profession of lawyer, as early as the movie "Bursting Silence", Yuan Wenkang acted once. But he didn't want to reject "I Really Love You" and Qi Bin because of the repetition of the character's identity. In his view, familiarity with the lawyer's professional background, work ecology and some cases is conducive to shaping the role, and the space for play depends on the character's story line and self-acting ability, rather than a simple setting.
When performing, if it is to respond to customer inquiries, Yuan Wenkang will speak the lines more slowly and clearly, creating a situation of trying to convince the other party, while highlighting professionalism. But when he and Xiao Yan are alone and return to their personal color, his speed of speech is normal, and even because of the strength of his personality, it will be accelerated. Including walking style, body movements, etc., these are the accurate presentation of Yuan Wenkang when performing.
"I have friends from all walks of life, and I usually have a wide range of interests, and chatting with them will begin to understand their industry and profession. It's not that waiting until you take the script and then do the interview, it may not be too late. ”
On the road of actor, Yuan Wenkang is meticulous and professional enough.
Actors who are not defined
If you turn on the TV and walk into the theater last month, you may be able to harvest three images of Yuan Wenkang at the same time.
In "Rebels", Meng Annan, played by Yuan Wenkang, is covered by righteousness, the truth of the traitor, the cloth shirt looks simple, but in fact, the eyes are full of calculations; in the "1921" of the same era background, Yuan Wenkang is still a long shirt, playing the revolutionary martyr Li Hanjun, but at this moment, he is elegant and resolute, indomitable towards the ideal, and there is no dodging temperament. Coupled with "I Really Love You", in the context of modern cities, Yuan Wenkang also plays an elite lawyer in a suit and leather shoes.
Yuan Wenkang's performance is extremely malleable, the outside can be elegant and straight, it can also be good and evil, and the role fit is widespread, which can be called a person with a thousand faces. And even if it is a role in a similar era background, Yuan Wenkang can exhaust different performance dimensions in overlapping settings. For example, looking at people's eyes, Meng Annan has dodged, looked, and made small movements continuously, indicating that this person's heart is weak; even if Li Hanjun is interrogated and faces the danger of life and death, he can be calm and unhurried, which stems from his inner firmness.
"Less is better than more", these details are not deliberate design, but after a thorough understanding of the text, the natural display of the performance.
Yuan Wenkang is not surprised by the theme of the main drama, but another title he has recently gained is "The God of the Middle Doll".
In "I Really Love You", Yuan Wenkang and Liu Tao have strong emotional lines and multiple kiss scenes. More points are easy to appear greasy, less investment and can not accurately express romance, which is not easy to act.
Yuan Wenkang's treatment was much more natural. He did not deliberately show "charm", because it existed in the character's strong love, nor did he design some complicated actions or lines, CP sense is not only the understanding of his own role, but also the gaze of the other party's role. "There must be someone in the eye. I have seen many friends around me, and their love is such a direct expression, it is a love that belongs to adults. ”
Behind each highly completed role is Yuan Wenkang's integrated performance accumulation. Moreover, even though he has accumulated many masterpieces over the years, Yuan Wenkang still has a sense of urgency and is always with him. Just like habitually observing life and preparing for possible future roles in advance, Yuan Wenkang is too aware of the fast pace of the film and television industry and some inevitable industry shortcomings, and he can't convince himself to slow down.
"Do you think it's possible?"
When asked if he felt the immersion of the actors in the filming of the TV series, Yuan Wenkang replied.
It's not that he's not fully engaged, on the contrary, Yuan Wenkang's every performance and every role is trying to do his best in the current category. It's just that his definition of "immersion" is different. The shooting rhythm of modern TV dramas is fast, the shooting scene environment is complex, and when the entire crew revolves around the actors, what can be done is not only the excessive immersion of personalization, but also the effective and accurate performance ability.
To do this, in addition to the text understanding and performance skills mentioned above, Yuan Wenkang's requirements for himself also include appearance and body. Many people say that after the actor reaches a certain age and transforms into a strong faction, he pays more attention to acting skills and does not need to pay too much attention to the appearance, and he does not fully agree.
"It depends on what role you play. Strictly speaking, there is indeed no absolute standard for beauty, just like going to a museum to see works of art, the higher the level of people, the more different pursuits of beauty. However, for the body conventions of actors, no matter what age stage, most of the audience is still inclined to the aesthetics of mass culture, that is, they want to be pleasing to the eye. If you don't care, then it's okay to accept yourself. But I still hope to be able to better present the character in a limited time, in terms of senses, to become more refined. ”
On the occasion of the launch of "I Really Love You", Yuan Wenkang posted his figure on Weibo, and his body fat rate and weight control were almost perfect. He has always been a person with clear goals and deeds, and no one wants to enjoy himself, but he is more persistent and becomes a "good actor" in his self-standards.
To reason, to purity
Yuan Wenkang considers himself a person who is unwilling to compromise and unwilling to give up.
Almost every actor will have a sense of adversity and crisis in the usual sense, perhaps from age and self-state, or from the outside world. "You have to face it, and if you let time numb it, it will be more and more difficult to face later." Sometimes I have a kind of rebellious mentality, the more I say I can't do it, the more I can't lie down here. I don't allow myself to do that. ”
Doing performance homework, Yuan Wenkang will pay attention to daily accumulation and not expect temporary surprises. Body management, Yuan Wenkang has insisted for many years, whether the role is needed or not, he has developed a harsh healthy diet and long-term fitness habits. Even, when it comes to the long-term goal of being an actor, Yuan Wenkang is very calm and said that the future is too far away, instead of doing beautiful but unrealistic dreams, "It is better to start from the present, first think about what you want to do today, and what you want to accomplish this week." Ambitious goals are easy to find, and the loneliness in front of you is difficult. ”
Yuan Wenkang's harshness comes from his sober understanding of the industry. He didn't believe in luck out of thin air, and he couldn't convince himself to go with the flow, and it was the most simple but also the most reliable way to do the best step by step in the category in the face of increasingly fierce competitive pressure.
"Now many people say Buddhism, but that's actually a misunderstanding. A very important point of Buddhist thought is to persuade people to be diligent, even if they meditate, not to be in one place for too long, to face new things, to change and make progress. If you just lie flat, you are not a Buddha, you are making excuses for yourself. ”
Throughout the interview, Yuan Wenkang has a smooth and self-contained set of theories. He has a clear understanding of himself, a clear sense of purpose, and often talks about philosophy and methodology, but that is not preaching, but there is enough experience and life experience after precipitation.
But corresponding to this, Yuan Wenkang has a very simple and pure side.
In 2020, the epidemic swept the country, and the showbiz circle was not spared, all the crews stopped working and stood by, and the front and back of the stage were anxiously praying for an early resumption of work in situ. During that time, Yuan Wenkang watched the unity of the crew like a community of destiny, from the director to the scene, unconditionally and actively cooperated, and he was easily infected by this emotion. As an actor, this is his "immersion": not a brilliant battle of one person, but a professional and persistent collaboration with the whole team.
The same goes for everyday leisure. Yuan Wenkang does not feel that his spiritual world is easy to satisfy, but if he has a museum worth visiting in his travels, or reads a book with rich connotations, even if it is a cup of good quality coffee, he will be simply satisfied.
"[Man] is the contradiction. For example, loneliness is actually an independent individual from birth, but no one is truly an island, and we all need to get content and power from our side. ”
At present, Yuan Wenkang's new drama "Wife's Choice" has not been launched recently, and Sun Li, who has returned after many years of cooperation, is in the midst of intense filming. There are also dramas such as "Business Investigator" and "Unparalleled Beauty" in the inventory, and the expectation value is quite high. Non-stop shooting, exploration without boundaries.
Yuan Wenkang attributed this set of life and work principles to his curiosity. Curiosity keeps him in mind and is willing to take risks and experiment, constantly looking for new inspiration and excitement. "If curiosity is so easily satisfied, how boring life should be." So never satisfied, always in search. ”
Yuan Wenkang himself may not realize that curiosity is an important vitality for a good actor. Age cannot be reversed, and appearance can move with the character, but curiosity about the world's instincts can save them from laziness and solidification, and away from smugness and so-called greasiness.
As an actor, the sword is also sharp in the sheath.
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