In the pouring rain, the streets and crowds have become dim and blurry, only a dark red figure is running in a panic, and finally collides with the speeding truck... In the latest plot of "Eye of the Storm", the beautiful female spy Zhou Lian went to a tragic ending.
Recently, the contemporary national security urban counter-espionage drama "Storm Eye" is being broadcast, and the national security personnel who seek the truth and the highly intelligent transnational spy organization are engaged in a tense layout game.
The "Eye of the Storm" seems to be calm, but it can instantly involve the people around it in a dangerous situation that cannot be escaped, on the one hand, the hot-blooded group portrait of the national security warriors who dare to face the danger, and on the other hand, the behind-the-scenes spy organization that is gradually moving towards destruction for the sake of profit.
Zhou Lian is the key figure in the villain camp's mission ring, and she connects the good and evil sides in the relationship between the characters. Removing this "pivot", the national security fighters will further approach the truth, and the reconnaissance operation will begin a new process. Some viewers said that she was a "plastic girlfriend", and some described her as a "snake and scorpion beauty", and now, the bullet screen has left messages that she is reluctant to go offline.
Stepping into the commercial jungle, Zhou Lian is like a leopard with a fatal attraction to people, warm and elegant and extremely dangerous. This role is another breakthrough for actor Ning Xin, she was once the eccentric Dong Lin in "Mang Huang Ji", and also the heroic Hua Jiuqing in "Bloody Companion", the screen image is complex and changeable, and Ning Xin never spins around in the comfort zone.
Recently, the film and television monologue interviewed Ning Xin through the role of Zhou Lian in "Storm Eye", and she shared with us the "previous history" of Zhou Lian outside the camera, as well as the performance experience as an actor for many years.
Walk into Zhou Love
"As a professional spy, she has super execution and will not turn against her feelings, which initially attracted me." Ning Xin once played the "double-sided spy" Tian Ji (Yue Yin) in the costume drama "Si Meiren", and this time the contemporary spy needs to have a completely different interpretation for her.
Unlike the spy hiding behind the scenes, Zhou Lian is a spy who needs to deal with counter-espionage personnel frequently. Therefore, although Zhou Lian converges on the sharp edge, she does not shy away from the light, the restaurant owner is her disguised identity, she is enthusiastic and understanding, releasing the charm that makes people willing to get closer, and the personality background is "warm red" at this time.
In the play, she has a characteristic that she likes handsome men, which is the result of Ning Xin's communication with the director. In her opinion, Zhou Lian needs to cover her identity by releasing "smoke bombs". That is to say, Zhou Lian confuses the other party by aiming at the prey, and avoiding himself is also the prey itself that needs to be hidden.
The props team added a lot of details to the character of Zhou Lian as a support, in addition to the fully armed props such as sunglasses, masks, hats and other fully armed props required by the spy, they also prepared a lot of relatively bright clothes for her, and the makeup, hairstyle, heel, etc. were also matured in order to be close to the character.
"I also started to practice smiling, my appearance would be very cold if I didn't smile, and the lady of the restaurant should be a beautiful person, and she had to be kind." Ning Xin smiled and said, "Practicing smiling is sometimes really tiring."
Before shooting, Ning Xin also deliberately gained weight, "First of all, in terms of appearance, I think Zhou Lian should not be a very bone feeling, she should be more sexy, I have made myself a little fatter, the feeling of 'han' comes out a little, so it looks more trustworthy." ”
In addition, Ning Xin also kept his own recording of the same period, "I would take my mobile phone to record it myself before shooting, and found a 'delicate' feeling." In some places, if you supplement it, you may be more mature and professional, but it will also give people a feeling of being too shrewd. ”
Of course, Zhou Lian's most important identity is still a spy who betrays the interests of the country, and if the bright colors are enough, it is necessary to add something more tragic to the characters, so that the warm red becomes dark red. Therefore, Ning Xin dug deep into Zhou Lian in the form of a character biography, and tried to restore her "past life and this life".
"What the character doesn't have in the script, I have to enrich her, I will pull out the different lines separately, and then fill in the details according to the idea." For example, she has become a spy as soon as she appears, so why did she go down such a path? If I can't find a support point, I can't convince myself. ”
In Ning Xin's eyes, Zhou Lian was about a wandering orphan. She didn't get much education or love as a child, so she would be insecure. Thus seeking this sense of security from the material, and at the same time, she has the intelligence brought by her genes, coupled with the beauty in her bones, she will be selected to become a member of the spy organization...
Finding this psychological basis, Ning Xin's final portrayal of Zhou Liancai provides the audience with imagination outside the script in a limited space.
Trapped in the "Eye of the Storm"
The lack of heart coupled with the particularity of the profession, Zhou Lian is full of vigilance for anyone, and eventually slides into the abyss of crime driven by both interests and emotions. But at the same time, Zhou Lian also has the seven passions and six desires of ordinary people.
How to let the audience understand the rationality of the existence of this role on the basis of not giving too many humanized portrayals to treasonous criminals is a difficult point in Ning Xin's performance. Ning Xin made a clear division in the handling of the character's emotions: all those involved in the task were goals, and outside the tasks, they were all true feelings.
The first scene presented to the audience by Zhou Lian and Miao Fei (played by Daisy) is that Miao Fei asks Zhou Lian to accompany her to try on the wedding dress, so she comes to Zhou Lian's restaurant, when the two people hug from behind to the eye contact, plus the information given by the lines, all of which reflect the extraordinary intimacy between each other. And the scene turns, it is the plot of Zhou Lian's phone threatening Miao Fei's boyfriend, and the girlfriend changes love enemies in seconds, which has a lot of impact on the audience.
"I think it is necessary to let Miao Fei and the audience feel the sincerity of Zhou Lian, as long as I am not performing the task, I will treat Miao Fei as a real girlfriend to play, even more exaggerated than I usually treat friends." When the task is issued, it may be possible to change the eyes after turning around, so that the audience can perceive that I have a purpose. ”
Although Zhou Lian and Miao Fei are mutually exploitative in the later stage, Zhou Lian's incubation period as a restaurant owner is very long, and it is impractical to have no girlfriend love at all, but it is mixed with too many purposes and interests. Ning Xin did not lazily play Zhou Lian's attitude toward Miao Fei unchanged, but added human thoughts.
Zhou Lian's relationship with Qiao Xichuan (Wang Dong) is more complicated. They belong to the superior-subordinate relationship between issuing orders and executing orders, and they are similar to the relationship between the outlaws. "No matter what, I will protect you", Qiao Xichuan's words touched Zhou Lian, allowing the lonely soul floating like duckweed to find a place to rest for a moment.
"Both of them (Wang Dong and Daisy) have very good personalities, all three of us are Leos, and the filming atmosphere is particularly comfortable. Teacher Wang Dong feels very serious, in fact, a very enthusiastic person, he will come to share with me some of the excellent actors and acting experiences he has seen. I'm especially similar to Dais in many places, and there is no pressure to play a girlfriend, and it feels very relaxed. ”
What impressed Ning Xin the most during the filming of "Eye of the Storm" was the plot of "Zhou Love Offline", which will be updated tonight. The whole scene was filmed for 12 hours, and Ning Xin also stood in the rain for 12 hours, and there was no change of clothes to rest in the middle, a total of seven or eight dry towels were wet, "so that I had a fear of rain during the time behind me, and I felt the rain ticking inside my head when I lay on the bed." ”
"The hardest part is running in the rain in high heels, the emotions in the scene are terrified, and the scene of falling down the stairs and then running barefoot on a tiled downhill road. I think about it now with some trepidation. She smiled and said, "In case of slipping, it is not impossible to break the tail bone." ”
Meet the actor Ning Xin
"I didn't plan to be an actor, but I always wanted to be a lawyer or a police officer when I was a kid."
Ning Xin has a strong sense of justice in his bones, and I don't know if it comes from Leo's innate heroism. "Friend" has also become a high-frequency word in interviews. Far from sexy and delicate, and will also use her friend's Zhou love, she feels closer to herself in the inner world, is the "Blood Walk" in the heavy love, can afford to put down, but the treatment of feelings is very passive Hua Jiuqing.
"I gradually fell in love with the acting thing in the process of practice. I find it particularly interesting to have the opportunity to listen to the character's story and to study her past and present lives thoroughly. In my life, I have collected many friends' stories as performance material. ”
When Ning Xin plays a role that is very different from her own life, she needs to mobilize her observation and do some homework in advance, and those accumulated character stories can also provide her with a lot of help.
At the same time, in order to get close to the inner world of each character, Ning Xin will find a lot of psychological and philosophical books to read, "I found that many excellent actors are very mature in their thinking." To understand a world that is different from yours is either to read more books or to experience more. I had to mobilize my sense of authenticity to impress the audience. ”
Treating the role, Ning Xin has always maintained the mentality of seeking a scholar. Every time she got a new role, she thought of herself as a new actor. Sometimes I encounter some performance confusion, and I will ask my former brothers and sisters for advice, even if some of them may no longer be engaged in the performance industry.
The theme work "Ideal Shines on China", which was planned and produced by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, was directed by Fu Dongyu and Liang Zhenhua was the chief screenwriter. In the play, Ning Xin and Wang Kai jointly performed the theme unit of "The Next 100 Years", which will excavate the beauty and historical value behind the cultural relics, so that the cultural relics can be better passed on to the next hundred years.
Last year's Greyhound series movie "The Strange Adventure of the Greyhound", in which Ning Xin played the blind masseuse Ah Hui. "At first, I didn't see the story of this blind girl and guide dog, but the director told me that your sense of weakness and more recognizable eyes are very suitable for this role." I think the director can see what I don't see, and I'm willing to try. ”
Ning Xin does not want to be confined to the box, wants to spend time experiencing different lives, life does not like to twist and turn, but it is extremely true in the face of the role. When she was alone, she often re-performed the clips she had played and recorded them on her mobile phone to analyze the subtle psychological changes.
"Live seriously, don't act in life." Ning Xin said.
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