China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Shen Jiequn trainee reporter Li Danping
How to become a good actor is a question that 22-year-old actor Lee Randy has been thinking about since he entered the industry. In an exclusive interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network, Li Randi said that she has always hoped that fans will become their "mirrors", one side is straight and objective, so that she can see her mirror more clearly and "shine out the problems on my body." In her understanding, fans should be the driving force to help the actor grow.
In 2009, at the age of 10, Randy Lee starred in his first film" "Love You Lose to Whom", thus entering the film and television circle. In 2017, with the role of "Yu Zhou Zhou" in the youth campus drama "Hello, Old Time", Lee Randy won extremely high popularity and gained many fans. Nowadays, her resume has more film and television works such as "Secret Fruit", "Love", "Ideal Shines on China", "Don't Want to Disturb My Study" and so on.
Lee Randy said she wanted to be an actor who was "designed in the performance and able to interpret naturally." In the early days, because most of the roles played were students, and they were close to the personal state at that time, Lee Randy could behave naturally. "But after entering the university, I took on many roles that were very different from myself, and I could no longer use my own personality background and way of thinking to play." Lee Randi believes that when playing roles that are very different from the state of the self, it is necessary to combine rationality and sensibility, and experience is the best teacher. Interpreting a mature role requires life experience to pave the way for the heavy feeling of the role.
After shaping many student images, the two dramas "Don't Want to Disturb My Study" and "Who Am I To Give Up" are the beginning of Randy Lee's challenge to workplace roles. She has watched many film and television works showing women in the workplace, and actively consulted professional women around her to figure out their daily style and way of thinking.
In the recently broadcast TV series "Who Gives Me Up" with the theme of Go culture, Li Randi played a newcomer in the workplace and a video journalist "Cheng".
In order to interpret the role of a good reporter, Lee Randi pondered and referred to the state of the usual reporter interviewing her. "Some reporters are accustomed to looking at the interview outline when interviewing, and when you have answered, you continue to read the next question, and you will not interact and communicate with you." Lee Randi feels that although this interview method is more "stereotypical", it is quite applicable to this character of Cheng. "She started out as a choreographer and director, she didn't know anything about journalistic work, and her interviews were like quick questions and answers, and indeed like some of the reporters who interviewed me."
On weekdays, Randy Lee enjoys her time on campus and likes to record her life. On Weibo, her Vlog delicately and vividly recorded the study life at the Central Academy of Drama: classes, rehearsals, fitness, strolls... Lee Randy likes to observe others, "You yourself present a few life states at most, and you have a variety of people around you, their way of thinking, doing things is very different." 」 Lee Randy hopes to integrate the personality characteristics of the people around him into the role and present different levels when performing.
In the school, as long as Randy Lee has time, he will go to the school theater to watch the performances of his brothers and sisters. She and her classmates often rehearse domestic classic plays, and everyone works together to study how to restore the characters and prepare props suitable for the scene. "We repeatedly pinched the characters in the play, such as walking a few steps, when to turn around... Exactly to every action point. I think this rigor is to accumulate experience for us to have better performances in the future."
Li Randi, who is about to graduate from Chinese opera in another year, has the biggest wish at present: to complete a graduation drama with his classmates. Li Randi said that in the future, he would like to try to act in drama, "that kind of experience is different from acting in film and television dramas, and acting in dramas is very enjoyable."
Source: China Youth Daily client