In the period drama "Departure: When the Wind Rises", actor Mao Xiaohui plays Xiao Chuang's girlfriend Xie Hang, a well-behaved woman who has encountered her ex-boyfriend PUA (referring to the use of the object of communication as a symbol and prey to attack, and the technique is not limited to verbal strikes, cold violence, etc.), and the protagonist Xiao Chuang, played by Wu Lei, rides the wind and waves together and sets sail forward.
Mao Xiaohui plays Xie Hang
Although most of the leading actors are post-95s or even post-00s, after full preparation in the early stage and a thorough grasp of the script, the stories of their parents are particularly moving. They present the people and things in the process of China's information technology from backwardness to progress for the audience, so that more young people can understand the hard work of their predecessors, and also let people from that era get emotional resonance.
The biggest feeling of the reporter chatting with Mao Xiaohui is that Mao Xiaohui is herself, but once she enters the play, she can become anyone. This post-95 girl is as cheerful and lively as many little girls now, but in the play she can make people think that she is a person of that era - long hair fluttering, hands and feet reveal gentleness, and the joy of interviewing reporters is completely different.
Gentle Xie Hang
In the play, Xie Hang and Xiao Chuang met in the video hall because of the movie "Casablanca", she likes love movies, while the real Mao Xiaohui likes to watch "Across the Sea" and will also watch Iwai Shunji's love literary films. "Because I originally liked that old-fashioned style, when you were filming, you thought that you were a soft and gentle girl, and you didn't realize it." 」 Mao Xiaohui does not limit her viewing to a certain style, she can even talk to reporters about anime dramas such as "Ghost Blade" and "Time Agent". These things outside the script have given her accumulation and can make her better become Xie Hang.
Before being with Xiao Chuang, Xie Hang made many viewers look at the chest tightness. Because she is too only promised in love, she always looks down and does not dare to look directly when facing her boyfriend Lei Min. Because the bank's work was given to lei min, even if he was wronged, he did not dare to easily return it. Coupled with his parents' expectations for a decent job, these have lowered Xie Hang to the dust. "Your job is not because of me" "Have you ever found that the president actually likes you (hinting at Xie Hang's dedication)"... In the gradually increasing PUA, Xie Hang became suspicious of herself, she swallowed sleeping pills to commit suicide, and only Xiao Chuang went to see her those days.
Xie Hang was PUA by his ex-boyfriend.
"I can never be PUA," Mao Xiaohui said firmly in front of the reporter. Mao Xiaohui's father was a soldier and raised her as a boy since she was a child, "For example, I can't cry, my parents rarely praise me for being good-looking, so I also grew up under the blows of my parents, but I am not afraid of their blows. ”
This is the strong side of Mao Xiaohui, and it is also the driving force for Xie Hang to get out of the haze and start again in the play. When Xie Hang raised his head and said to Lei Min, "I just informed you, I have a paid vacation", the barrage was greeted with applause from the audience, and Xie Hang finally broke through his own south wall. In a recent episode, Xie Hang, who stood side by side with Xiao Chuang, still held her head high when she threw the paper plane into the air, with pride and confidence. Xiao Chuang, an independent, free, and free man, gradually entered her heart, allowing her to see what it was like to work hard for her dreams. She wanted to be the same person as Xiao Chuang, and the two of them fought side by side. Not like the climbing flower, but as the image of the tree standing with him. "I think like Xie Hang, I know very well what I want, including what she wants to do, and I will discuss it with people, but I always think that when she goes to discuss, she has already thought about it."
Fly the paper plane, and the two will move forward towards the future
Xie Hang's growth is also reflected in the relationship with his parents. In the play, her parents are furious when they find out that she is with Xiao Chuang, because in that era, doing sales was not regarded as a serious job. In the face of the wall of awards, Xie Hang smashed the "good girl" in his parents' minds and chose to take his own path, "Mom, I am 25 years old, I am not just your daughter, I am Xie Hang, I am myself." This sentence is loud and loud, and it also turns the past self.
Mao Xiaohui believes that this moment is a very big growth and transformation for Xie Hang, "I think that falling in love is always a common progress, it must be he who takes me away, I take him with me, and the two of us hold hands with each other, whether it is in their own feelings or in their careers." So Xie Hang will say that Xiao Chuang is a good person, he is my object, I am myself. Xie Hang had gotten rid of those negative effects that her parents and Lei Min had given her.
Xie Hang, who lived his own life, gradually became cheerful
The reason why the script of "Departure: When the Wind Rises" attracted Mao Xiaohui was because she saw in the script that she had not played a role, and the growth of the protagonist fascinated her. "When I first read the outline, I already liked it, Xie Hang is very strong and brave, and her growth history is very detailed, whether it is a love line or a career line, the span is very large." And the love of the elders in the family also made her want to enter the era of "cars, horses, and mail are slow".
Although it is a bit far from the 90s, she can feel the strong emotion of traveling through time when she looks at old photos. "For example, in the general group photo, the child may be in the middle, but in the group photo of Grandma and Grandpa, they hold hands and then hold me." Mao Xiaohui's grandfather graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and intellectuals often expressed their emotions into letters, "My grandfather's writing is quite high-level. This also made Mao Xiaohui's Xie Hang break his guard when he faced a letter from Xiao Chuang on his birthday.
Xie Hang's birthday came to tears when he saw Xiao Chuang's letter
Xie Hang sat by the cake on his birthday, it was Xiao Chuang's letter that opened the knot in her heart, and those sadness that had accumulated in her heart seemed to be humiliated by Lei Min, who had once been a relative, and when she received a call from home, she saw Lei Min's strong smile when she took her female colleague out to dinner, all washed away on this rainy night. "The directors said they had to give me a fresh feel, so they didn't let me see it when they set up the scene." When Mao Xiaohui entered the set, she was immediately moved by the layout of the scene, and as Xie Hang, she couldn't help but shed tears when she read the first letter.
The director told Mao Xiaohui not to cry in the play, because Xie Hang is a strong independent woman, and the drama side wants to show everyone a female image that has suffered setbacks but is still very tenacious to live. So we see the final presentation with tears and a determined look after wiping away the tears.
Xie Hang, who had figured everything out, returned to Beijing
Xie Hang, who quit her job in Shanghai, returned to Beijing and began to look for a job again, she refused the help of her family, and also refused her boyfriend Xiao Chuang to help her go through the back door, and in the next plot, we will see xie Hang, who has been transformed and reborn, start his pilot life.
Q&A
Beijing News: Is there a more memorable plot when filming?
Mao Xiaohui: In fact, my most memorable scene is the scene where Xie Hang calls his parents, I don't talk to my parents very much, but now it has changed. When filming that scene, the original treatment was not like that, I found that when my mother said "you are fine, today is your birthday", I said very good, at that moment the whole brain was like swelling blood, and the tears were in the eye sockets. Instead of Xie Hang, I watched him go out to dinner with the female colleague, and then I told my mother that we were both fine, in fact, adults could not withstand the sudden greeting.
Beijing News: What is the scene that you think is more difficult?
Mao Xiaohui: There was a case where Lei Min scolded me, when I just entered the group not long ago, and then when we were talking about words, I said to Lei Min, "You are really bad", I said that I didn't feel anything at all, and when I didn't feel it, I was really anxious. Finally, it was pierced by his sentence, "Have you found that the president actually likes you", so this sentence is very critical, and there will be later eyes and performances after that.
Xie Hang's eyes were moving
Beijing News: Did you and Wu Lei play each other's plays?
Mao Xiaohui: I have a very good tacit understanding with Lei Lei, and it may be that he is more experienced, such as the two of us shooting a breakup scene, and we absolutely do not speak until we finish this scene. I would think at first if he was in a bad mood or whatever, but every time we finished a scene, it would become, "What are you going to eat?" "Are you still going back to Tianjin today?" Because you have to maintain that mood, otherwise you have to go in and out again, and you may need to spend time, delaying both hundreds of staff and yourself. When filming happy scenes, he always made me laugh at the scene, much like Xiao Chuang's personality, and then he would coldly ask "Dude handsome?" ”
Beijing News: In the play, Xie Hang and Xiao Chuang are related to the movie, will you discuss the movie on the set?
Mao Xiaohui: I originally thought that Lei Lei was a post-00s generation, so I asked you at the beginning whether you hadn't watched the "xx" movie when you were a child? Later he said that Little Margo's movies had been watched. We had a lot of vintage tapes on set, and we both had them back. The props on the scene are real, and they are all paid by the crew at a high price, including those posters and the like, many of which are made, but they are also made very similar. Then when I was filmed, the two of us stood together and were still discussing whether we had seen this or that.
Xie Hang and Xiao Chuang looked at each other and smiled
Beijing News: Do you personally like Xiao Chuang's type of boy?
Mao Xiaohui: I will. Because Xiao Chuang is interesting, very brave, and dares to rush.
Beijing News: Many viewers reflect that there are a lot of love words between the two in the play, but they don't feel greasy, why do you think it is?
Mao Xiaohui: I think our play presents that era very well. If you and your love partner are in a different place, you can video call, and if you can't, you can take a plane or a train, and it will be here in a few hours. But in those days, none of this was or difficult, they only had letters, platforms, and could only make calls within a minute (the phone bill was very expensive). There were stamps back then, and they would say, "Can I put two stamps faster?" ”
Both Xie Hang and Xiao Chuang hope that each other can quickly feel their love for each other, even if we can only shout twice on the platform in the end. I think it was the purest love of that era, so when I was shooting, I didn't feel that those words were very greasy. In that era, everyone had no way and had to express their love quickly. Now you can send a WeChat message at any time to say that I love you very much, and I miss you again, but at that time there was none, so I think the love between the two of them in this play is the platform, the phone, and the letter.
Xie Hang at the station
Beijing News: Do you feel uncomfortable when you see the barrage of criticism?
Mao Xiaohui: No, get used to it. Everyone will definitely be criticized when they are alive, I am not a perfect person originally, but I may be acting in more and more plays now, and I have watched a lot of excellent works, and when I look back at the works of my youth, I will accept the criticism inside.
Beijing News: What do you think is the biggest gain from filming this drama?
Mao Xiaohui: I know that Mao Xiaohui can make a sound when she cries. I've lived for 24 years before, and maybe except for the fact that I cried when my mom gave birth to me, I couldn't cry that kind of heart-wrenching heart-wrenching when I was filming. It may be related to my own personality, I am more reclusive. After going through my grandfather's walk last year, I will bring these emotions into the performance. There was a scene in "Set Sail: When the Wind Rises" where I cried so hard that I couldn't really do it, it was very ugly, and then the director said that ugly was right, that's the most real, and this is the most real reaction of a person when he faces these things.
Mao Xiaohui
Beijing News: Now that this drama has started, will you discuss it with other actors?
Mao Xiaohui: I had a discussion with Xiang Hanzhi yesterday. We also have a hot pot shop in the barbecue restaurant, and the beef can't be chewed, but everyone really eats it. In fact, our props are very clean, that is, in November and February, the filming is cold, there is no heating in the house, we have to wear short sleeves, drink Arctic Ocean and wine.
Beijing News: When you perform this play, how do your family evaluate your performance?
Mao Xiaohui: Dad was traveling, and Mom must have watched it, but she wouldn't tell me. My mother will think that I am very strange when she sees that I have become very gentle, and I am still a little far from the life, and I have a number in my heart (laughs).
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