Lei Kesheng, graduated from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama in 1960, is a performing artist and a national first-class actor, enjoying special government allowances issued by the State Council. He won the Special Honorary Award of the 16th Golden Phoenix Award of the Chinese Academy of Film Performing Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 3rd "International Festival", the 7th Golden Lion Award of Chinese Drama, the 4th China TV Film Lily Award for Outstanding Actor, the 1st Chinese Drama Award and Plum Blossom Performance Award for Best Actor and other awards.
Lei Kesheng sat there, reading Mr. Lao She's essay "Thinking of Beiping": "... Flowers and grass are expensive things, but the 'grass and flowers' here are very cheap, and the family has a yard, you can spend less money and plant a yard of flowers... As for greens, cabbage, lentils, edamame carob, cucumbers, spinach, etc., most of them are delivered directly from outside the city to the doorstep. After the rain, the leek leaves often carry mud spots that splash when they rain... Many of the fruits came from the West Mountain and the North Mountain, the sand fruits of the West Mountain, the begonias, the black dates of the North Mountain, and the persimmons, and they entered the city with a layer of white frost..."
You close your eyes and listen, first you feel that it is an old man from Beijing and you are pulling a family routine, just in the depths of Beijing's summer hutongs, in the shade of the big locust tree, shaking the fan, shaking out of the past days, the Beijing of the last century.
"A poor person like me, or only in Peiping can enjoy a little blessing... Well, don't say it again; it's time to cry..."
Listening to it, I felt that it was Mr. Lao She who was talking, in 1936, in Jinan, in the chaos of the war, he thought of Beiping, where he was born and left at the age of 27, and he burst into tears.
You listen, and you get sore nose wings.
Open your eyes, an old wooden chair on the stage, an old man, a black cloth coat, a cloth shoe with a thousand layers, two hands clutching the arm of the rattan chair, tears flashing in the eyes behind the round glasses...
The tail note of the three strings fell, the applause sounded, and only then did I return to God, which was just a recitation program.
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Beijing dialect is so authentic, in fact, he is a Shandong native.
At the age of 9, Japan had just surrendered to Dalian. School was closed, did not learn, watched the stall with his father during the day, listened to the play with his father at night, anyway, the children in the theater garden did not want tickets, they sneaked to watch for two years. The front desk looked at the backstage, and the play may not be fully understood, but I fell in love with acting.
In the New Year, Chinese New Year's Eve worship the gods and Buddhas, and when he first worshipped his ancestors, he prostrated his head while secretly praying to his ancestors in his heart: "Grow up, let me go on stage and act, I will definitely fight for your face." ”
Later, he went to Tianjin and later to Beijing. All along, the desire to act on stage is in my heart. When I went to middle school, there was a drama club in the school, and when I went, I applied for the exam, and people didn't want him. Say he doesn't pass Mandarin, full of Jiaodong accent.
Unconvinced, desperately practicing, in order to change the accent, let the mouth be clean, and even learned crosstalk. As a result, the cross-talk was quite good, and the middle school performance cross-talk won the award, and also got a letter from Mr. Hou Baolin, which read: Talent!
"Talent" was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama at the age of 20, and graduated in 1960 and was assigned to the Central Experimental Drama Theatre. Ancestors blessed, the wish to act on stage was fulfilled, but for many years, the stage was run by dragon sets.
Without the favorite character, this sword was polished for 20 years, until 1981's "A Q Zheng biography".
Although the 53-year-old began to enter the public eye because he starred in the sketch "Lazy Man Blind Date" with Song Dandan, he has not stopped acting in recent years. Many people remember his film and television roles, Han Laoshi, Lu Dake, Lu Gui, Wang Xikui... Not many may have called him by his own name.
Sketch "Lazy Blind Date"
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He loves acting, and now in his 80s, he is still acting and active. Drama "Lao She Five Rules", 8 years, he starred in hundreds of times, "a night to play several roles, which is a test for actors, but also very down-to-earth and enjoyable, I am good at this mouth, can interact with the audience, more than fun!" ”
"Actors are passive, and if they don't look for you, they can't act." He has always felt that because he is passive, he has won the role, especially the role of his choice, and he cherishes the opportunity to exert his initiative.
Ah Q, he still brings it up, is still his most satisfactory role.
In "Lao She Five Rules", Lei Kesheng played the "human trafficker" Li Yonghe
At that time, the theater gave 500 yuan to experience life. He went to Shaoxing, went to Keqiao Town, the streets and alleys to find feelings, A Q has been to the place, he has gone to experience, Xianheng Hotel's old wine he also drank; reading, reading Lu Xun's, also read the evaluation of Ah Q's; eating thoughts, walking also think, sleep in dreams are thinking, how to make the characters come alive? Go to the art museum, see the painter Jiang Zhaohe's work "A Gui Self-Portrait", stunned, stand in front of the painting, a look for two hours, until the museum closed, the staff invited him out. All the Ah Q who had seen, thought, experienced, and felt before, because of the image on the painting, penetrated, all came to him, and the acting was called a pleasure! After the drama "A Q Zheng Biography" was performed, the screenwriter Chen Baichen said to him: "You are Lu Xun's Ah Q." ”
In the middle of the play, the teacher said that "the actor's belly is the grocery store", he remembered for decades, "life and practice is the wealth of the actor, to experience and absorb like a sponge to absorb water, to put these into their stomachs."
He has all experienced the life of workers, peasants, and soldiers, and he has done all of them, and he is familiar with the countryside, the factories, and the troops. Create a role, because of the rich life experience to lay the foundation, play what he has stock. He was not satisfied with this, playing the village chief in "Qiu Ju Fights the Lawsuit", he still went to the countryside of northern Shaanxi to experience life like everyone else, and ate and lived and worked with farmers. Although they are all peasants, how the peasants in northern Shaanxi speak and what living habits they have to observe and learn, so that the grocery store can be enriched.
Group photo of the cast and crew of "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit"
The peasants acted too well, were labeled, and became rural professional households. Suddenly, there was an opportunity, there was an actor schedule can not be adjusted, looking for him to play Lu Gui in the TV series "Thunderstorm". Similar to the change of jiaodong accent in that year, people in their 60s have made great efforts to memorize the lines early with a lot of effort, and how the characters speak and how to move are thoroughly considered. The play has not yet been filmed, and the words alone have "calmed" the opponent actors - the script has not been opened at all, and the words of the six major plays are how to have them. As soon as the play was broadcast, his role received countless praise, and "going to the city" entered beautifully. Later, he entered "The Gate of the Mansion" and entered the Forbidden City ("Sunset Forbidden City"), and each role was impressive.
In 2011, at the National Opera Festival, the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to him, who had acted in dramas for more than 50 years, "This award you won, is it a stop? Is it a comma? I think it should be an exclamation point, this award is for life, but it is not the end. I take it as a starting point, and I will play more roles in the future."
Stills from "The Gate of the Mansion"
"Actors, they must have a life, but also more acting, more practice." No matter how small the characters are, they must be pondered, one must be different from the other, so that the characters created have roots, foundations, grounding gas, and do not float, that is worthy of the audience. Up to now, he has acted in "Lao She Five Rules" in his eighties, and his own lines are still copied by hand. After a hundred performances, multiple versions of the final draft, each revision, the addition or subtraction of the lines, the experience of the performance are also carefully written down: which audience should not laugh when they should laugh, which audience should not react when they have a reaction, where is the problem? Re-acting, which piece of rhythm can be faster, where the line can be added...
"The film has been performed in less than 60 films, so it can only be regarded as a half-pull filmmaker." I still like the stage, the drama is often performed, I can interact with the audience, jointly shape the role, each scene is different..." He took a sip of his own brewed wine, smacked and touched, infinite satisfaction: "Happiness! ”
Wen 丨 Zhou Xiaohua
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