"Originally, it was for Li Yifeng, but it turned out to be circled by the second male King Taki."
The TV series "Hidden and Great", which is currently being broadcast, has made many viewers notice Wang Takizheng, who plays Xia Jicheng, an underground communist party member lurking in the Kuomintang police station.
Wang Takizheng
From the criminal police captain in the web drama "Psychological Crime" to the Changfeng detachment leader Zhou Patrol in the "White Night Pursuit" that triggered heated discussions in 2016, Wang Takizheng's works are mostly criminal investigation themes, and most of the roles he plays are also somewhat hanging and cynical, and even the style is consistent with a mustache with curly hair.
Wang Takizheng, who has performed on Meng Jinghui's drama stage for ten years, has been exploring his own way of acting over the years, from making good use of skills to today's "only when you get to the scene do you know how to perform", he positioned himself as an "instant feeling" actor.
As for the roles he played and the themes of his works are too similar, although he is helpless, he is more to comply, "The market is like this." ”
Joked that "secret" Xia Jicheng can win the Academy Award
Because he had previously cooperated with director Wang Wei in "White Night Pursuit", Wang Takizheng became the first candidate for Xia Jicheng in the TV series "Hidden and Great".
Although he has filmed many film and television dramas with spy war themes, after getting the script of "Hidden and Great", Wang Takizheng felt that Xia Jicheng was a little different. "He was a performing artist during the Republic of China period, and he can win the Academy Award." He couldn't help but laugh at the character he played.
Xia Jicheng, ostensibly the chief of the Second Criminal Police Division of the Shanghai Police Bureau, is actually an underground member of the Chinese Communist Party lurking in the Kuomintang. In the police station, he nibbled on roast chicken every day, and the people in the second division of the criminal police did not want to make progress, and the most important thing was the business outside the police station. And he always inadvertently delivers a lot of effective information to the underground organization, and sometimes participates in rescue activities at risk.
Stills from Hidden and Great
The emotional richness of this role is the most attractive to Wang Takizheng, to interpret multiple identities, eight faces exquisite, to see who says what, on the one hand, emotions should be released, but also to maintain patience, which is a challenge and temptation for the actor.
When filming first began, Wang Taki was "always feeling bad." At that time, he was not under little psychological pressure, it was difficult to get such a good role, everyone gave hope, he did not want to disappoint others, "in fact, there are too many distractions."
Fortunately, the director quickly helped him find the crux of the problem, "Playing the part of the underground party, I am too serious, too serious." Wang Takizheng said that at first, he was still a little confused, he wanted to widen the distance between Xia Jicheng's two identities, "Later I wanted to understand that the director should want to break the feeling of traditional spy films, that is, he hopes to be relaxed, not so heavy." ”
Self-evaluation of "instant feeling" actors, after the performance of the forget
After graduating from the Department of Chinese Opera Performance, Wang Takizheng followed Meng Jinghui for ten years, which allowed him to develop his own performance style. "I don't think about how to act the next day on the first day, I can't think of it. Get that environment, collide with the opponent, compete, know how the other party plays, and then find something from it. ”
In "Hidden and Great", Director Xia, played by Wang Takizheng, always holds a toothpick in his mouth, because in the script, this character is always roast chicken in the police station, and the greasy two words hate cannot be written on the face, so the toothpick is designed by the director, "You don't say, as soon as the toothpick is picked up, the feeling is immediately in place." "But how about a toothpick?" Where's the spitting? These are all places where Wang Taki can play freely.
He positioned his performance as an "instant feeling type", and he can let him come to a section at any time, according to the current set, temperature, props, "even the spit stars and sweat of the opponent actors can be used as a feeling in the performance." ”
However, after the performance, he will also play immediately. Sometimes the staff member came to him and told him that he needed to make up a piece, and he would be embarrassed to tell people, "I forgot all about it." ”
In fact, this feeling of improvisation is also something that Wang Takizheng has realized over the years, "When I first started to contact performance, I always pondered and used techniques. Later, as the experience grew, it was found that this cognition was a kind of constraint and obstacle to the actor. It is better to empty yourself and leave it there very freely. ”
In Wang Takizheng's view, the actor's performance has no reputation for good or bad, everyone has their own unique style, "in fact, it is a grade, some people perform very full, giving the audience a lot of imagination, some people act dry and straightforward." ”
Ten years of stage feeling hollowed out, the early stage of the change of acting
After years in the industry, Wang Takizheng said that the person he is most grateful to is director Meng Jinghui, "He let me know what acting is."
In the ten years of acting in the drama, Wang Taki was being completely "broken", breaking the shackles of theory on him, breaking the shell of the performance, "He made me dare to put my softest place in front of everyone." ”
Sometimes watching some actors' performances, you will feel fake, why fake? Because he is performing with a shell, "a good director trains actors to constantly discover themselves, after all, all roles grow from the actor's body and mind." ”
He is grateful to himself, always encountering the right guide at a critical time, encountering Meng Jinghui when acting in dramas, meeting director Qiao Liang when he first came into contact with film and television dramas, and later filming the web drama "Psychological Crime" and "White Night Pursuit" and meeting director Wubai and Wang Wei. "What I found in common is that you find yourself."
Stills from the web drama "Psychological Crimes"
In 2012, Wang Taki suddenly had a feeling of being hollowed out, and he chose to leave the drama stage and develop in the direction of film and television drama. However, the process did not go well, he did not shoot for two years, and he worked as a host for a while.
In 2014, he starred in his first web drama "Psychological Crime", playing the criminal police captain Tai Wei. What really made him stand firm on the road of film and television dramas was the "White Night Pursuit" broadcast in 2016. "After 'White Night Pursuit', I basically became a police professional household."
Stills from the web drama "White Night Pursuit"
As he said, most of the film and television dramas that Wang Taki is playing are either police bandits or espionage themes, and he himself has some helplessness, but he also expresses understanding. "The market is like this, everyone recognizes your type, and [the film covenant] will follow." Maybe one day I acted in a love drama to get recognition, and there will be a large number of love dramas looking for me. ”
This year, Wang Taki was exactly forty years old, and when he heard the word "midlife crisis", he was stunned, and then smiled: "Not only did I not have (midlife crisis), if you don't mention this matter, I can't even think of it, and I still think that I am more than twenty (years old)." ”
Beijing News reporter Zhang Kunyu
Edited by Wu Dongni Proofreader Zhao Lin