In the film and television circle in 2021, the main theme drama dominates the screen. No, the upcoming period drama "Set Sail: When the Wind Rises" is a good work that makes people shine.
Set Sail: When the Wind Rises, set against the backdrop of the development of the domestic information industry, "Set Sail: When the Wind Rises" tells the entrepreneurial story of a group of young people led by Xiao Chuang, Pei Qinghua, Xie Hang and Tan Yuan in the early 1990s, and records the history of China's rapid development at the end of the 20th century.
Whether it is the inspirational life of grassroots transformation into a business wizard, or the subtle and beautiful sweet and sadistic love story, the show is worth watching. In particular, Mao Xiaohui, who plays the heroine "Xie Hang", completely subverts the audience's established impression of her.
"Xie Hang" who grew up in contrast
Xie Hang in "Departure: When the Wind Rises" is a growing heroine, from a naïve girl who has just emerged, growing up step by step in the grinding, and gradually becoming a new era of workplace women who can stand alone, this transformation is very in line with the tone of the play's "youth inspiration", which makes people very enjoyable.
"The character I play is called Xie Hang, she is a very thoughtful, very intelligent, very intellectual, very gentle and very independent, very brave girl." 」 Mao Xiaohui used many beautiful keywords to describe "Xie Hang", and she laughed that this role was completely different from her own personality:
"Xie Hang is a relatively gentle person, in my opinion, the contrast with my personality is relatively large, I will change my performance mode from the tone, speech, laughter."
The difference between Mao Xiaohui and Xie Hang not only exists in personality, but also spans decades of time and space between them, and the contrast of the era is also a difficult point in deduction, so Mao Xiaohui did her homework in advance:
"The biggest difference between modern dramas and period dramas is that one is in the rhythm, and the other is in the handling of feelings, and the people of that era are very subtle. I would go to some previous movies and flip through my parents' pictures to get a feel for the subtlety of my parents taking pictures. ”
The contrast does not only exist between the characters and the actors, "Xie Hang" itself is a character with a particularly large difference between the front and the late stage.
At the beginning, under the PUA of her boyfriend Lei Min, Xie Hang felt that she was worthless, she trembled, was hurt and brainwashed, and finally even chose to commit suicide for this man - such a person can be difficult for Mao Xiaohui, because her relationship with Xie Hang is the opposite: "When she is PUA, she will cry, she will shed tears, she will still go to this man, I absolutely cannot do this kind of thing." ”
Mao Xiaohui also launched the topic of "encouraging Xie Hang to stay away from PUA" on Weibo, saying that if she met Xie Hang, she would help her tear up the scumbag:
"I'm going to tear it up very hard, and I can't accept that kind of thing."
Whether it is comparing the concept of feelings or the personality of the actor, playing such a role is a great challenge for Mao Xiaohui. Therefore, after carefully considering the character of "Xie Hang", she designed many small details on the body:
"When playing against Lei Min, I basically don't look up at him or look at him squarely, I always bow my head, which makes me look more humble."
"After I am with Xiao Chuang and become an independent career woman, I will face each other and talk, and I will look up a little bit."
Some people say that Mao Xiaohui is suitable for being a Qingyi, because she has a face full of story, and she easily changes her emotions between her brows and raises her eyes - when she is accused by her ex-boyfriend Lei Min, she lowers her eyebrows and tears:
Her heart was dead, desperate and painful, and her lips were trembling slightly:
When I received a call from my sweetheart Xiao Chuang, that face was full of peach blossoms, delicate and lovely:
It is no exaggeration to say that "the whole body is drama". Mao Xiaohui is good at changing the state of the characters from subtleties, naturally without showing traces, and she also proposes a unique trick that she has figured out for many years:
"People say that the eyes are the windows of the soul, and I have acted in the past few years, and I think it is the mouth. I am with Lei Min, there are many times the mouth is squeezed, I think it is a kind of lack of confidence, just like people dare not face the eyes of others is the same, I will combine these two points. ”
Due to the ups and downs of the emotional line, the "Xie Hang" in this drama is a small crying bag, the early stage is a small stream trickling, the later stage is a big river, and the crying drama is so many that Mao Xiaohui has fallen into a "migraine" sequelae.
"I didn't have migraines before, I didn't feel like I had this disease, and once I cried until my brain was deprived of oxygen, I started migraines and then I took medicine. The first time I felt the migraine so uncomfortable, but I think it's all right, because you're an actor. ”
It is precisely with the actor's dedicated performance and careful interpretation that we have seen such a vivid and three-dimensional, heart-wrenching Xie Hang.
Xie Hang and Xiao Chuang"-style love
"The sun used to be slow; the cars, the horses, the mail were slow; there was only enough to love one person in a lifetime."
This small poem is a true portrayal of Xie Hang and Xiao Chuang. Although in the early plot, Xie Hang did not meet a good person, but the entanglement between the later stage and Xiao Chuang is very sweet, and the two also have a lot of scenes of mutual love words, pure love and heartwarming.
"The lover's eyes out of the West" is a famous scene in the play, and it is also Mao Xiaohui's favorite love sentence:
"Xiao Chuang asked her, so how to say Xi Shi's English in the eyes of the lover, she said another word to confess Xiao Chuang, I think this is a particularly romantic scene."
Mao Xiaohui used "waves" to describe their love, "because there will still be some small waves when there is calm", which reminds her of her grandmother and grandfather:
"My grandfather was a college student who graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he wrote letters, he could also write poetry, and he was a very cultured person. We have a lot of letter-writing plots in our play, the words are subtle but very connotative, in fact, they were like this, they would write letters, take good pictures, and then hold a small hand together. ”
Although he was full of longing for such love, when the real knife and real gun came into battle, Mao Xiaohui was rarely shy:
"There was a scene where Xiao Chuang was going to the northeast for business, and then we both ate hot pot, and when we walked the scene, both of us were about to laugh, and I said to him, "I have begun to miss you", this sentence is very sweet, but it is a little unspeakable, making me a little crazy. ”
Such "madness" may come from the over-familiarity with Wu Lei. Although it was the first time they were partners, the two got along very happily:
"Lei Lei is a particularly funny person, I originally laughed very low, by his whole appeared that I laughed a special point of the second middle school, the scene everyone is very happy."
Mao Xiaohui recalled the funny things during the shooting process, and her voice was full of laughter:
"There was a scene in the hot pot restaurant, the meat we prepared in the props group was very fresh, but nai couldn't help but say the words long, cooked for a long time, it was old, it really couldn't bite, it couldn't swallow, just like chewing gum, now go back to watch that scene, you can find that both people's mouths are bulging, because we both put beef into the cheeks on both sides." 」
Although they have experienced quarrels, misunderstandings and breakups, Xie Hangxiao and Xiao Chuang have also grown up in love, and such a two-way love has touched many audiences, and cp's great success is of course inseparable from the tacit understanding of the two lead actors:
"We have a very strong tacit understanding, such as I went to Guangzhou to ask him for peace with that scene, until the scene was filmed, neither of us said a word in private."
"This tacit understanding is actually quite good, and I think it will give the actors a sense of security."
An unusual "hardcore" girl
"When will the next work meet you?"
Oops, you asked me, I really don't know.
"What have you been up to lately?"
Rest. I don't think actors can grow old enough to consume their emotions, otherwise I'm in the crew every day, and I'm not very good at it. To have a life, we call it "grounded gas" in Ningbo dialect, you have to have some new experiences, new feelings, otherwise your nerves have always been tense, and I will be particularly insecure.
"You're a funny girl."
I am a romantic girl, a gentle girl.
In private, Mao Xiaohui is full of witty words, delicate and cute, straightforward and sincere, and the same style of painting on her Weibo. As a post-95s flower in the eyes of the audience, Mao Xiaohui's Weibo is more like a "5G surfer", she is keen to share her life, send some playful content with the promotion of the show, and also reply to the comments of netizens.
In the templated Weibo business sent by a number of stars by publicity, Mao Xiaohui appears to be skeletal, she does not have a little so-called "star" shelf, simply treats Weibo as a circle of friends to play, but also spits on her laughter in the "Set Sail: When the Wind Rises" tidbits, and posted the chat records that were ridiculed by the team's friends:
"As soon as I heard the laughter, I was full of anger, maybe I usually laughed like this, but I couldn't stand someone recording it for you, and then my mother saw it, and my mother called me and said, she thinks it's not good, saying that you laugh at home, even if you laugh at home, how can you laugh like this when you go out to work?" 」
Mao Xiaohui continued to "blacken herself" without idol baggage:
"I told my mom that the atmosphere was very relaxed at the scene, and then my mom said oh, I can't understand you, and hung up for me." I suddenly understood what my staff were saying to me. ”
"You've got a good girl with a mouth."
It can be seen that "truth" is a slogan engraved in Mao Xiaohui's DNA, and in contrast, she naturally resents the matter of "liren design":
"There is no need to set up a person, I think this kind of person should be given by the audience, not the company to set up one for you today, tomorrow to publicize, set up another one for you, no interest." 」
Some people once said that Mao Xiaohui is a "growing qingyi", and she is so special that she may become the only "hardcore" Qingyi. At a time when celebrities are keen to play tai chi in the face of controversial issues, Mao Xiaohui is not shy about it.
In fact, most of the audience's cognition of Mao Xiaohui comes from a makeup photo of a little dragon girl in the new version of "Condor Heroes" in 2018, and as soon as the makeup photo came out, the girl faced such a grand attention and controversy for the first time in more than twenty years.
"I remember very clearly, on the day the poster was posted, I was shopping in Sanlitun and my agent called me and asked me where I was and what I was doing. Maybe the first time I was paid attention to like that, it was quite sudden, and I don't know why, I just think it's a picture, how everyone started. ”
Along with the controversy came an overwhelming number of personal attacks, at this time, this soft and introverted girl showed her strong psychological qualities, and even laughed at herself:
"I may feel bad about saying I'm not good at playing or anything, but saying I'm "wearing a plastic surgery face" doesn't feel too much. I can't do that photo, the person who repaired it is not me, the person who took the picture is not me, the person who sent it is not me, my mother can't recognize me anymore. ”
In 2018, the ice and snow smart and courageous flowers and hibiscus in "Long Shou" made Mao Xiaohui officially embark on the ladder of pursuing her dream showbiz:
In the same year, Mao Xiaohui starred in the new version of "Divine Eagle Hero", a little dragon girl who came out of the dust and did not eat human fireworks:
In 2020, Mao Xiaohui played Lu Jie, the nurse who rushed to Wuhan, in the "Square Cabin" unit of "Together", and was awarded the title of "New Generation of Youth Performing Arts" actor by the National Opera Festival.
In 2021, she partnered With Jin Dong to star in the poverty alleviation drama "Warm Taste", Xu, who has a naïve and romantic personality, straightforward and simple, is the only one who makes people laugh.
In 2021, "Set Sail: When the Wind Rises" was a hit, and the growing heroine Xie Hang made many viewers look at Mao Xiaohui with astonishment.
This girl began to "set sail".
"Last night, the director sent me a WeChat message, telling me that after watching this play, it was quite a big change for me, saying that you can also play such a gentle role."
The charm of the actor's profession may lie in collecting the souls of different characters and reshaping themselves in this way - talking about the biggest gain of starring in "Departure: When the Wind Rises", Mao Xiaohui opened her mouth:
"I found that I also had a gentle side, and the biggest gain from acting in this drama was to dig out a new me."
Digging up the scattered fragments in the depths of the soul is what Mao Xiaohui has been doing. Since entering the industry, she has tried a variety of roles, and these characters are not the same as her own personality, which is enough to see its strong plasticity. Influenced by her father, who was a former soldier, Mao Xiaohui wants to play a heroic female soldier in the future, and in addition, she most wants to challenge the complete opposite of the "villain role", because "she has not acted".
"I don't want to play a genre all the time, and it's important to be able to keep shooting different things, and the actors need new experiments."
Finally, Mao Xiaohui summed up her acting path with a simple but philosophical sentence:
"I don't have a position, my only position is an actor who doesn't have a retirement period."
In her world, acting is a lifelong career that can be fought for, and everything else is a floating cloud:
"Look down at the road and walk slowly. I will not stop filming because I will get married and have children in the future, I will always shoot. ”
"I'll shoot until I can't move."
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