Stephen Chow has a classic line in [The King of Comedy].
"Actually, I'm an actor."
There is such an actor who inadvertently made a cameo in the "Wumao Network Drama" and went out of the circle.
It is Kong Lianshun, who was once called "Kong Goddess" by netizens.
Last night, Kong Lianshun was a guest in the thirteenth issue of the "Movie FUN Screening" column.
In the pre-screening exchange, he talked about his performance experience of moving from behind the scenes to the front of the stage and constantly breaking through himself.
In private, he is very close to the house, and from time to time he comes up with some joking jokes.
There was a very "comedic" episode during the live broadcast.
Kong Lianshun's company suddenly lost power, and he chatted with the audience for a few minutes on the black screen, and then re-launched on the mobile phone of "company-wide crowdfunding".
Like Yin Tianqiu, played by Stephen Chow in "The King of Comedy", Kong Lianshun has the same belief in the profession of actor.
He did not want to be confined to a certain role or type, breaking the shell of his body step by step and swimming into the wider and wider sea.
01
Break yourself and become an actor
Kong Lianshun was not originally an actor, but a special effects artist.
The familiar wumao special effect of "Never Expected" is his masterpiece in the small black room.
The company Wanhe Tianyi not only has no money to do special effects, but even the actors are out of their own homes.
When The Beast Yi Xiaoxing found Kong Lianshun to star, the other colleagues had almost taken turns.
Kong Lianshun thought it was funny, and agreed without even thinking about it.
The next day on set, he saw the makeup artist pull out a pink half-sleeved shirt and wig, and he was confused on the spot.
Kong Lianshun made up for his height of 183 in women's clothes.
Compared with the beast who had dressed up as a woman, he felt that no matter how ugly it was, he would not be uglier than him.
Kong Lianshun's one women's clothing style in "Ten Thousand Thousand"
After a cameo, he went into the small dark room to do the post-production.
Unexpectedly, after a week or two, his colleagues told him that it was "on fire" later.
Kong Lianshun's anti-string role was unexpectedly welcomed by netizens, and he also had the title of "Kong Goddess".
He happily accepted, but he did not dare to tell his parents, for fear that they would not be able to bear it.
As a result, one day my sister brushed his video and shared it with my mother, who transferred it to my father.
The family went into the pit and asked from time to time when "Never Expected" to be updated, and wanted to see him inside.
Netizens are also calling for the "Goddess kong" to appear in the new episode.
Kong Lianshun developed a feeling of being needed, filmed more and more, and slowly liked the performance.
She almost became the first supporting actress in the "Ten Thousand" series.
From Wang Sledgehammer's mother, lover, sister flower, to kill Matt heroine, the shape is varied.
He also laughed: when you are encouraged by the audience's love and really feel the hairline crisis caused by doing special effects, why not try to become a full-time actor.
In the second season of "Ten Thousand Thousand", he will play the little dragon girl and have a lot of intimate interaction with Wang Sledgehammer's version of Yang Guo.
The beast felt that he was not enough to enter the play, and told him that "you are a girl, and you especially like the king sledgehammer".
Kong Lianshun felt that he was particularly divided and was about to go crazy.
That was the first time he realized how important acting was to an actor.
He takes the first step of being an actor – breaking his shell and liberating his nature.
So Kong Lianshun let go of all his worries and played a charming version of the little dragon girl that could not be replaced.
At the moment when the little dragon girl fell off the cliff, some netizens really looked at it and cried.
Kong Lianshun was quite surprised.
He also began to understand how different it was to just dress up to make people laugh and actually infect the audience with performance.
02
Break the label and get recognized
Kong Lianshun decided not to make a "bad vase" anymore and to create a fuller character.
With the self-consciousness and ambition of the actor, he was imprisoned by the label.
Kong Lianshun is actually not short of opportunities.
The popularity of "Never Expected" has made him receive a lot of drama.
But the requirements of these scenes are very similar:
I just want him to show his face in women's clothes and make everyone laugh in the shortest possible time.
There are even commercial performances that find Kong Lianshun and tell him that as long as he wears women's clothes, he can get a very considerable amount of money.
For a special effects artist who once earned only a few thousand dollars a month, this condition is very tempting.
Kong Lianshun was very hesitant and sober in his heart.
He knew that once he agreed, his comedy career would only stop at women's clothing, so he rejected them.
But reality soon poured down like a basin of cold water.
For a long time, no crew looked for Kong Lianshun to shoot.
He went to the director to audition, and because of his previous established impressions, he could not find a suitable role.
"They seem to think that as long as they don't wear women's clothes, Kong Lianshun is useless."
Kong Lianshun fell silent, and the bullet screen began to ask "where is the goddess Kong", and some people in the comment area concluded that he was a "past Internet celebrity".
In addition to the pain, Kong Lianshun soberly realized why this was the case:
After taking off his women's clothes, he was a big gap with a professional comedian.
So he studied comedy hard, learned the form of acting, and read a wide variety of textbooks.
I want to tell others in the future that this actor doesn't just play women's clothing.
The opportunity was left to those who were prepared, and Kong Lianshun finally got a role -
Dumb brother in [Later Forever].
The second from the left is the dumb brother played by Kong Lianshun
This role has no women's clothing, very few scenes, not even lines.
The agent was worried about him, and after the performance, the audience would not remember him completely.
But Kong Lianshun cherished this role, and he thought that this might be the last opportunity in his life to act in comedy, and he could not miss it.
The first time he was on the big screen, he didn't want to follow the script, so he found a sign language teacher to study the lines.
He discovered the space for the word "king eight eggs" and replaced the gesture of the "O-shaped" egg with the posture of the hen laying the egg.
This does not affect the expression of the original meaning, but also more vivid image.
After the release, Kong Lianshun's friend called him and said that the "Wang Baegg" was too surprised.
"You're a comedian," the friend said.
For the approval of this sentence of the Eight Classics, Kong Lianshun waited too long.
03
Break the limits and keep moving forward
The more scenes were filmed outside the company, the more Kong Lianshun felt his limitations.
When filming [Mermaid], director Stephen Chow asked him to eat chicken wings over and over again until he ate his mouth sour and could no longer perform new feelings.
Kong Lianshun's appearance in [Mermaid].
"I want to know what else you can come up with in your extreme state," Stephen Chow told him.
This is a very different experience for the "Ten Thousand" crew like the "Anime World".
Kong Lianshun gradually realized that acting is a difficult and serious thing.
He felt like he was swimming in the sea, and the farther offshore he went, the smaller he was.
The requirements for themselves are also unconsciously raised.
For a while, he became very anxious and dazed.
On the set of [Peerless Master], as long as he hears sporadic dry laughs after the performance, he will immediately become anxious and quickly think about how to make everyone laugh about the next one.
Kong Lianshun in [Peerless Master].
He sometimes even wonders if he is not suitable for being an actor and just stops there?
Later, he slowly adjusted his mentality, just starting out, and only more efforts could balance things out.
He went to brush up on his videos and see what was being said in the comments and bullet screens.
"If you think I'm not funny, I'll continue to look for the reason, how funny I'll learn again."
Kong Lianshun described himself as the kind of person who "eats watermelon from the side to eat it", and always thinks of the worst result when doing things.
This point is used to hone acting skills, but it has become an advantage.
In his own words, it is actually "doing one's duty and obeying one's destiny."
Kong Lianshun is very fond of Wu Mengda and Fan Wei, both comedians who are good at creating grounded roles, even supporting roles, with plain performances.
Fan Wei
"Everyone has the dream of the protagonist, but I think if you want to play the main role, you may as well do a good job in the supporting role."
So far, Kong Lianshun has created many brilliant but unproductive characters.
They are vivid and vivid, and they don't look like robots.
For example, in the recent new drama "Amazing Girl", Lao Huang, Kong Lianshun likes this lifelike role.
Old Yellow wears cool clothes, will enjoy life, and is very open to people and things, like an outlier among programmers.
Kong Lianshun felt that he was a "lively person", like a fat friend around everyone who lived without heart and lungs.
Lao Huang appears in the middle of the play, and Kong Lianshun will deliberately avoid the information on the script and sort out a complete timeline for Lao Huang.
What Lao Huang was doing when he didn't appear, what he would talk to his friends about in different scenes, what he would do, what his mood would be...
Kong Lianshun repeatedly deduced the details in his mind, as if Lao Huang was possessed.
From Kong Lianshun's performance, the audience felt that the role of Lao Huang was dynamic, continuous, and real.
Kong Lianshun, whose dedication is performance, once planned three stages for himself:
Comedians, actors who play comedic roles in the play, actors who can play any role.
He still remembers what one of the actor's predecessors had said.
"Actors have to be like water, able to change into different roles and put them in different containers."