You never know what kind of story is hidden behind a well-behaved, independent child.
The "second brother" Li Sheng, played by Zheng Wei in "What to Do When the Second Brother Comes", is such a male classmate with a story. When Yang Tingfeng, played by Hu Xianxi, and Yang Tingyu, played by Deng Enxi, are still noisy for which takeaway is delicious, he can silently make a table that is more powerful than his father.
When the "wind and rain" brothers and sisters were still playing like children who had not grown up, and even came up with a "trick" to take away the "second brother" who fell from the sky, he silently took out musical instruments such as oh, harmonica, electronic organ and so on from his luggage, and the degree of versatility could be called "someone else's child".
At the moment when his father took the whole family on a trip and carelessly forgot him, the loss clearly crawled all over his face, but he did not say a word. When his father was reminded to finally find that there was no one in the car, he ran home and urged him to go out. His reaction was not to complain, but to immediately jump out the door with elation. At that moment, Naran felt that the role was painfully sensible.
In the face of Yang Tingfeng and Yang Tingyu's intentional or unintentional exclusion, how could he actually not understand? But he would still silently cover the brothers and sisters in the sleeping living room with blankets to prevent them from getting cold, and make noodles for the brothers and sisters in the middle of the night.
All of this stems only from his simplest wishes: to have a brother who can stand up for him, a sister who can be cherished by him, a family that can make him feel warm and affectionate, so that he can wake up in the middle of the night without feeling lonely, so that he no longer needs to fantasize about being friends with aliens.
Through his own intentions and feelings, Zheng Wei portrayed the repression and grievances endured by the role of "second brother" touching people's hearts. Whether it is the momentary loss when he discovers that his father does not even know that he can play, the sourness of being questioned by Yang Tingyu in person why he has the intention to deceive, every detail impacts the tears of the audience.
Li Sheng, the "second brother" played by Zheng Wei, showed restraint, calmness, and even indifference far beyond his age throughout the whole process, and he could hardly see the sunshine and restlessness that he should have at this age. This state of indifference and even some shyness, this silent and unspoken state interpretation, is actually a kind of performance power that brings the audience into the same frequency resonance. The more sensible this character is, the more distressing it is; the more restrained and restrained his performance is, the more tragic the audience character is. Compared with Hu Xianxi and Deng Enxi, two characters who need emotional release, Zheng Wei needs more expression in emotional introversion and refinement, and this big boy who is still studying in Nanyi can be said to have achieved the soul of the character in his own way.
It is worth mentioning that Zheng Wei's own family experience also has similarities with the role itself, allowing him to empathize with the role: he grew up in a single-parent family, he was raised by his mother since he was a child, and he did not have much concept of the family role of the father. At the age of seven, he participated in the TV series "Laughing and Living" and began to get involved in the show business circle, and then as a child star, he participated in film and television dramas according to the frequency of almost one per year, and the crew accompanied him to shoot the film.
What's even more wonderful is that Zheng Wei's mother also revealed at the Beijing premiere of "What to Do When the Second Brother Comes" on May 31 that she had just recently been with her college classmates, formed a restructured family, and re-gave Zheng Wei a complete family, while also allowing him to have a younger brother. Such a life experience has a wonderful connection with "What to Do When the Second Brother Comes", a movie that tells the noisy and extraordinarily warm story of the reorganized family.
It is the wonderful connection between so many realities and movies that makes Zheng Wei have a particularly vivid understanding of this role, which is externalized into performance and expression that moves the audience, and finally makes the audience believe and recognize the existence of the role in the moving.
In recent years, Zheng Wei has not less than appeared in hot dramas: in the popular "Great Song Youth Chronicles" in 2018, he played Xue Ying, a taciturn, inferior and sensitive military disciple;
In the 2019 phenomenon-level web drama "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", he played the undercover agent that Zhang Xiaojing installed next to Ge Lao, and the scene where he generously died was moving.
In this special year of celebrating the centenary of the founding of the party, Zheng Wei also starred in a number of red tribute dramas: in "The Ideal Shines on China" in "Your Eyes", he played Zhong Lin, who stood in the nature reserve with Long Yongcheng and risked his life to protect the endangered animal Yunnan Golden Snub-nosed Monkey; in "Armageddon", he played the little warrior Liang Shiying, who has both the unique vitality of young people and the slight recklessness of disregarding his own safety for the sake of charging and fighting. Although the shots are not many, his interpretation of the characters, and the promotion of the whole play by the spirit and will of the characters, are not inferior to other major characters;
In "Hundred Refining into Steel", he plays Ma Sheng, who has been fighting on the battlefield at the age of sixteen, and is not afraid of the battlefield full of gunfire, gunplay, explosion drama, and hand-to-hand combat Zheng Wei can be described as a scene without pulling. In addition to the physical test, including the interpretation of the emotional drama when he loses his comrades again and again, it is a test of the young actor's mental strength, and he also shows the revolutionary's tenacious heart vividly through his own understanding and performance.
Young people can expect, naturally inseparable from personal talent and hard work. Zheng Wei, who debuted as a child star, interprets the role carefully regardless of size, strives to change himself from a "small actor" to an "actor", and is also trying to gradually move closer to the center of the stage with his acting skills.