On the afternoon of March 12, Shane updated a personal Microblog, "Although it has nothing to do with the epidemic, we need spiritual comfort after all." This day is the day when the new drama "Hawthorn Tree in the Distance" in which she participated was broadcast on CCTV 8.
Peng Bifei, played by Shane, is really not a pleasing character, arrogant and paranoid in the early stage, the pursuit of love does not stop until the goal is reached, and in the later stage, it becomes morbid and twisted, even if it is destroyed by the revenge of the beloved, it is still bent on perfection and chooses forgiveness.
As early as filming, Shane anticipated the reaction of the audience after the character was launched, "How many people scolded peng Bifei after the role was broadcast!" Nowadays, not to mention the spitting sound on the barrage, even Shane himself was angry with Peng Bifei when he chased the drama.
But after switching from a bystander to a performer, Shane has a little more understanding and compassion for Peng Bifei, "Her character shortcomings are caused by her original family, and the early death of her biological father makes her insecure, so although she acts extremely, there are reasons for it." This is why Shane chose to take on this role in the first place, "Whether it is a positive role or a negative role, I hope that the characters I play are real, complete and three-dimensional." 」
The background of the story in the 1970s is really far from Shane's real life, so after getting the script, Shane immediately went home and snatched out the photos and clothes of her grandmother and mother before, and pestered them to tell herself what she saw and heard in that era.
With the presentation of movies and documentaries, as well as the explanation of the family, it is not difficult to find the chronological characteristics of the story, the difficulty is that Peng Bifei in the play is a Peking Opera actor, so Shane also has to master the new skill of singing in advance.
Under the guidance of the Peking Opera teacher and his own day and night practice, Xia En also learned this skill in a similar way, and the Li Tiemei singing section of "Red Lantern" in the play was praised by many audiences, both in terms of singing voice and gestures.
"Hawthorn Tree in the Distance" is undoubtedly the most painstaking work Shane has ever starred in, which is not only due to the age span from flower season to middle age during the performance, the noisy and lively audience reputation after broadcasting, but also the test of her own skills and emotions by the complexity of the role.
Until now, Shane remembers the highlight of Peng Bifei's later confession in the detention center. The large lines, the one-shot shooting, and the hysterical emotional catharsis made her finally lose the strength to move. After the work, she and the actor sat in the same place, neither of them talking to each other, and after ten minutes, they looked at each other's swollen walnut eyes, and then they looked at each other and smiled, dragging their dehydrated bodies back to rest.
Casually searched the netizens who chased the drama to evaluate the role of Peng Bifei, and the answers they got were almost all "Peng Bifei is indeed very angry, but the little sister who plays her has a good appearance and good acting skills, which is really hateful."
Shane did play this role, and when she first appeared in the play, she set up Peng Bifei's arrogant character and told the audience every move, "This girl is not easy to mess with, and it is going to set off a big storm in the later stage."
But in the face of luo Yongze, the sweetheart in the play, Xia En showed the other side of Peng Bifei's shyness and sensitivity, after all, no matter how wayward and domineering the girl encounters love, she will become innocent and messy.
Remarkable acting skills will weaken the flaws of the character itself, which is why the audience will love and hate Peng Bifei when chasing the drama.
Before the interview, my understanding of Xia En was thin, I just knew in fragments that she was Jingjing, a bully girl in "Qinghe Male High"; Yuan Xiu, who had a tough personality and experienced ups and downs in "Shan Yue Doesn't Know the Bottom of my Heart"; Zhou Li, a crisp and neat criminal police officer in "Desperate and Dangerous"; and the mysterious falling teeth in "Jueji, Critical World"...
The dramattosis made me remember every role That Shane presented in front of the camera, but I didn't know much about her. This time, through the opportunity of a deep conversation with her, I finally met a girl next door who was as real and three-dimensional as the character she played.
As a child, Shane had no concept of the word actor, but she liked to talk to herself in the mirror, and every time she put on the sheets, she fantasized that she had opened any door and her soul had penetrated into the fairy tale world, where she was sometimes a beautiful princess and sometimes a vicious queen.
After school, Shane likes to pull her classmates together to arrange the stories in the textbook, and she always plays the hardest sketch at the class party.
Shane is obsessed with experiencing other people's lives, but he doesn't know what a performance is. It wasn't until she was accidentally introduced to the crew by a friend in high school that she truly understood for the first time what the profession of an actor was all about. The suggestion that the seniors of the crew let her try to enter the film school also allowed her to set her own goals and directions in life.
Shane couldn't tell what kind of character she really was, she was optimistic and strong and independent overall, but occasionally Lin Daiyu's upper body became sentimental.
She had a lot of wild ideas in her head, and often woke up one morning to suddenly feel hot and full of positive energy, and then she drew up many annual plans for herself to be implemented, but these plans were always ruthlessly stranded after a few days.
Shane attributed the failure of the execution plan to her personality shortcomings in three minutes of heat, but she obviously liked to perform for many years.
On the last day of 2019, Shane gave his New Year's Eve copywriting a picture that said "Next year must be a good year", but the sudden outbreak made everyone feel the "difficulty" of the beginning of 2020, including Shane who suspended work and stayed at home.
However, perhaps it is the peculiarity of the actor's profession that makes Shane have long been accustomed to an "unstable" life, and he can always quickly self-regulate to find balance. So even if she can't enter the group to shoot, she still has a taste for her small life at home. She picked up the plan to learn English, and also learned a few small dishes, "After all, the whole life is in her own control, instead of sighing every day, it is better to use this time period to enrich yourself and enrich yourself." 」
The honing of acting skills makes Shane have more calm and calm in her heart, and the performance is the beacon of her life, so that she is no longer afraid of the occasional darkness along the way.
Cass Interview
Super Cass: How do you understand the character of Pembidge?
Shane: When I read the whole script, I thought that the role of Peng Bifei was very three-dimensional, this person has many faces, in fact, she is quite interesting. First of all, she is very real, in that era, she can dare to love and hate and dare to pursue love, very persistent, and do not give up until the goal is reached. Although there is a lot of uncertainty about the future, she is still fully committed to it, but because of her arrogant personality, it also makes the people around her very stressful, causing these men around her to betray her and deceive her. Secondly, I think Peng Bifei is very clever, she knows what kind of people to meet and what kind of words, she is smart and flexible, but she is very squeamish and willful. I think all her personality problems are caused by her original family, the early death of her biological father makes her insecure, and she was madly retaliated by Luo Yongze in the later stage, but she still chose to forgive, this time is already a sick and twisted psychology. At that time, I couldn't see her youthful prowess at all, and I thought she was still quite pitiful. I think The whole character of Peng Bifei is very complete, although the behavior is very extreme, but there are reasons for it, and you can find an outlet for her to explain why she did it.
Super Cass: The character is still quite controversial, how do you digest the audience's spit?
Shane: I was at home watching and complaining about her, including when I was filming on the spot, I also joked: "She is so angry, how many people scolded peng Bifei after the character was broadcast!" "But a drama is the need for a variety of characters to promote the development of the plot, if the role is controversial, it means that the audience remembers the role, everyone to discuss this role, I think it is also a good thing, ha ha ~."
Super Cass: The story of this show is set a little far from our lives now, so what did you do before filming?
Shane: When I knew it was a period drama, I quickly went back and scoured the photos and clothes of my grandmother and my mother's previous era, and then asked them to tell me more about that era, and I also watched a lot of documentaries and movies from that era. At the same time, because Peng Bifei is a Peking Opera actor in the play, I also found a Peking Opera teacher to learn Peking Opera and insisted on practicing every day. And this role is actually divided into several stages, there are some spans of age, so in the grasp of the role, I need to constantly speculate, including how to deal with each of her games, it is necessary to do homework in the early stage.
Super Cass: What was the scene that impressed you the most?
Shane: Actually, there were a lot of scenes that impressed me, and looking back now, there are a lot of scenes that seem to have happened yesterday. One of the scenes I remember was me and Ze Ge in the detention center, and that scene was when Peng Bifei finally confessed that he had done so many crazy actions in the past, constantly apologizing, and Peng Bifei finally said why he loved Luo Yongze so much. This scene is basically a shot to the end, the lines are also very many, when filming, I and Ze Ge really cried to the point of no return, feeling that the character's heartache and inner backlog of things have all poured out. At the end of the work, I remember that we didn't even have the strength to move, and sat in the same place for ten minutes, no one speaking. Then the eyes of the two people were swollen like astringent walnuts, and they really cried until everyone was dehydrated and weak. I feel that I am very fortunate that in this drama, my senior teachers and my opponents are very helpful to me, like Lin Jiachuan, who plays Luo Yongze in the play, when filming the two of us, even if he is not given a shot, he is really kneeling and crying and really beating himself, and his stimulation of the opponent's performance can make me act better and more real.
Super Cass: What are the gains and feelings of working with director Lin Heping this time?
Shane: Mr. Lin is an extremely talented screenwriter and director, very conscientious and responsible, and he is personally directed in every scene. In the northeast March, the weather is very cold, and in the countryside, the temperature is exceptionally low, but he often teaches us one line at a time. In the same sense, the lines written by Teacher Lin are both concise and vivid, hitting the heart. And Mr. Lin is very approachable, also very humorous, I am especially willing to listen to him tell stories, he always makes everyone laugh, the whole atmosphere of filming is very harmonious, everyone gets along like a family, every day on the scene is very happy.
Super Cass: This kind of period drama Zhiqing drama is regarded as an unpopular theme in the eyes of the audience, how do you think about this issue?
Shane: I think the mission as an actor is to convey to the audience different dimensions of culture, whether modern, modern, or ancient, and most importantly, the core values it conveys to the audience.
Super Cass: What are the types of characters you want to challenge next?
Shane: I want to have the opportunity to try all kinds of roles, and I recently I especially wanted to be able to play some roles in uniform, because when I was young, I had a lot of ideals, I wanted to be a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, a teacher, a flight attendant... I feel that being an actor will allow me to realize all these ideals. But in fact, no matter what type of role, I hope that she can be real, has seven passions and six desires, and whether the positive role is a negative role or a negative role, she must have her own richness.
Super Cass: Why did you choose the path of acting in the first place?
Shane: When I was a child, I was shy, and in order to exercise my temperament and cultivate the temperament of girls, my mother let me learn dance, piano, and host these interest classes. At that time, I did not think of becoming an actor, and I was particularly unfamiliar with this profession. But when I was young, I would put on a sheet and play all kinds of beautiful princesses, vicious queens, talking to myself in the mirror. After school, he pulled his classmates together to make up the stories in the textbook, and at the party, he brought his classmates to perform sketches together. At that time, I felt that I liked it very much, and when I arrived at high school, a chance, a friend introduced me to the local crew to string a scene, and I learned that being an actor is such a thing. At that time, the seniors who were filming suggested that I could try to enter the film school, and I made it clear that I could go in the direction of acting and take my own life path.
Super Cass: What are you doing during your stay-at-home epidemic prevention?
Shane: It's the Spring Festival home, and it's also a rare opportunity to spend time with my family, I really haven't been at home for such a long time for a long time, and the more I grow up, the more I feel that this opportunity is too rare. In fact, I think this is a good adjustment of my own state, to give myself a golden period of gilding, learning English at home every day, reading books, watching movies, doing sports, and because at home, I also learned a few dishes, so this time is still quite meaningful.
Super Cass: What kind of personality do you have in life?
Shane: I am often asked what kind of character girl I am, in fact, I am a little unsure of this question, because it is indeed a bit changeable haha ~ but I think my more personality is still introverted and slow, but after getting acquainted, the words begin to be more. And my laughing point is very low, there are a lot of things in my head every day, and occasionally Lin Daiyu is on her body, a little sentimental, but on the whole I feel that I am still a relatively strong and independent girl.
Super Cass: You said on Weibo that you like crayon Shin very much, can you tell you why?
Shane: Actually, I don't just like crayons, little pills, Doraemon, Tom and Jerry, Shuk and Beta, these are all childhood memories of my childhood. When I was a child, watching cartoons was to have fun, and when I grew up, I knew the story behind the crayon xiaoxin, and I hit my heart in an instant and poked at the tears. It turned out that Xiaoxin was no longer there, and this was the story his mother wrote to commemorate him, so she had a lot of different emotions superimposed on this animation. I am a very childlike person, and I still like to watch cartoons.
Super Cass: What other works are going to be met with you next?
Shane: The next work will be sold first, and then I will talk to you during the promotional period, and I hope that everyone will pay more attention to it when the time comes.
Super Cass: You once wrote a year-end summary of 2019 by hand, mentioning that you had unfinished goals and lazy past plans in the past year, so what are the goals and plans?
Shane: I often wake up one morning, I feel that my blood is very positive, and I start to make many, many plans for myself, but sometimes I am really not a long-term person, and I give up after a few days, and I start to be lazy and procrastinating. Like last year, there was a plan to insist on writing film reviews every day, and then maybe because the movies were watched a lot, slowly from writing a full page to writing two sentences, and then not writing later. I think these things still have to stick to, can't be three minutes of heat, including I said to pay attention to observe life, to often give yourself more time, sit there quietly, look at the traffic outside the pedestrians, feel meaningful things to take the camera and mobile phone to record. I haven't done it before, and I hope that I can stick to it in the rest of my life.
Super Cass: On New Year's Eve, you put a picture on Weibo saying that "next year must be a good year", but in fact, this year is quite difficult for everyone, especially as an actor to suspend work and stay at home, do you feel pressured?
Shane: I don't feel any pressure at home because of unemployment, I think this kind of period must respond to the call of the state, do not add trouble to the country. I think as an actor, the profession itself has to withstand some pressure, in the gap period of not filming, to learn to adjust themselves, reasonably arrange their own gap period, do not sigh every day, enrich themselves, after all, the whole life is under their control, make good use of this time period, happy and meaningful to live every day is the most important.
Super Cass: Do you have any expectations for your future acting career?
Shane: I hope that each of my works will be carefully and painstakingly completed, and will be presented to everyone without regrets. I hope that every role I play has her meaning, and the audience will smile happily because of a certain role I play, and have some small inspirations for life. Of course, I also hope that my performance can be recognized by more people, so that I can have the opportunity to appear in more works.