Nowadays, the market share of the film and television market environment is compressed, for some Mesozoic actors, this is actually a crisis and embarrassment, with the rise of the new generation of actors, about to become the mainstream of the market, they will undoubtedly divide the market share occupied by Mesozoic actors in the past, compressing their living space. The content orientation of the film and television industry in recent years has increased sharply, and the demand for "male color" roles has increased sharply, making a large number of male actors have to "dress up" to compete with small fresh meat for the market.
Looking at the Mesozoic generation of actors, actors with film box office appeal such as Sun Honglei, Huang Bo, Deng Chao, etc., have long been the box office bearers of the film market and have been rooted for many years. Since 2018, the acting path of Mesozoic actresses has attracted much attention, and it is interesting that it is not only Mesozoic actresses who are facing transformation, but also Mesozoic male actors.
In the face of the rapid rise of young actors and the constantly squeezed market space, mesozoic male actors have transformed and made breakthroughs with a more positive attitude, thus breaking the "flowering dilemma", and Wang Zirui is such an excellent actor who tries to get out of the "new bright spots".
Compared with the decent, handsome characters he liked when he first came out of school, Wang Zirui is no longer obsessed with the perfect character design of the role, but instead he is more and more obsessed with the more real, even less attractive characters. He laughed and said: Acting is not a character, but a character, and the more characteristic the character, the more exciting I am.
Under the great wheel of the times, each of us is bravely moving forward
Slender and bright eyes and bright teeth of Wang Zirui, as soon as he debuted, he was loved by the audience with his handsome and sunny appearance, from the Hunan Liyuan family, he has the unique bluntness and persistence of Hunan people, and he graduated from the Beijing Film Academy with a wide and explosive path.
The wind direction of the times can sometimes not be speculated by us, as an actor Wang Zirui did not know this truth when he first debuted, when he was taught by his predecessors to "study well, don't rush to success, sink your heart to take a good class, do your duty, and accumulate works." ”
In the following years, Wang Zirui always maintained his own rhythm, not blindly pursuing traffic and quantity, but in the acting and word of mouth, he worked hard, hoping that he could be 100% satisfied with the performance within the scope of being good at and familiar, which was his sense of responsibility for a crew and the greatest respect for his actor identity.
In terms of performance, Wang Zirui is "slowly going uphill", and he is always able to polish the role to make a personal mark. The cool and handsome sniper Xiao Wu in "Wolf Smoke Everywhere" presents a tough and mature side to the audience; in "Arrow on the String", he incarnates as the second young master of the Rong family of the rich and prestigious rong family, and the young man with the name of "Chengde Gao Ya Nei" has become a handsome hero to eliminate violence and anliang; in "Sharp Arrows", he played the taciturn sharpshooter Tiger for the first time, composing a bloody legend of "a hundred steps through Yang" and wisdom.
Stills from "Wolf Smoke Everywhere"
Stills from "Iron Blood"
Challenged the era drama of the hot-blooded boy for the country, he also starred in the costume drama, in the costume debut of "Beautiful Rivers and Mountains Long Song Line", Wang Zirui played the domineering tiger general, the sword eye star eyebrow heroic handsome man, a suit of armor and battle suits, causing countless fans to shout "walking hormones".
Stills from "Beautiful Rivers and Mountains Long Song Line"
At the beginning of the online drama boom, Wang Zirui starred in works such as "If I Have SuperPowers" and "Mr. Courier and Miss Guifei". In the high-quality web drama "If I Have Superpowers", Wang Zirui also won the recognition of many audiences with the high popularity of the play, and performed a vivid and vivid Yu Fei with his superb and delicate acting skills. In the play his performance is very academic style, it is said that during the filming of the play, he pushed off three TV series and a movie, just to concentrate on the role of "Yu Fei", with this momentum invested in the play, many times into the play too deep tears to the scene, but also let the director praise him, when the drama was popular, the vivid and vivid "Yu Fei" entered the audience's heart, let people fall in love with himself through the role.
Stills from "If I Had Superpowers."
Solid deductive skills and delicate demeanor make him more than comfortable in various genre works, Wang Zirui is not a person trapped by the established environment, obeying the rules but not limited to the rules, breaking and trying can happen at the same time in him.
Stills from The Hidden War
In the great wave of the times, Wang Zirui has been brave to move forward, but this era seems to be particularly strict with their generation of actors, when he seriously accumulated enough experience, he suddenly found that the film and television circle began to popular "small fresh meat" and "small flower Dan", after 85 -90 years of this generation of actors like a forgotten chess piece, quietly skipped on the chessboard of the times. The times have not left a place for Wang Zirui's generation of actors, and they will find their own suitable place on this huge chessboard.
Good actors will find frequencies that resonate with the times
Originally, the male roles in the performing arts market have a fractured aesthetic of "uncle" and "small student", which has always been a well water that does not violate the river water, but the demand for small fresh meat and traffic stars in recent years is too strong, resulting in uncle actors can only play supporting roles in most cases, which is very embarrassing for 30- and 40-year-old male actors, fighting acting skills and seniority are not comparable to predecessors, fighting age and not rivaling small fresh meat, can only seek opportunities in a narrow space.
In the face of this situation, Wang Zirui himself said: "When I was a small fresh meat, the popular uncle of that era, when I accumulated a certain amount of works and reading time, this era is already the world of small fresh meat. This phenomenon is also a joke that our generation of actors often use to ridicule themselves. ”
As an actor, it is better to bloom alone than to wait, and Wang Zirui, who has arrived at the age of standing, is now standing at a turning point, and he can play a mature and stable uncle in the future, and it is not impossible to step back a little and continue to play a 20-year-old sunshine boy. But he knew in his heart that none of this was the problem.
The most important problem he faces is how to transform, how to go from an extroverted type that is easy to be driven by the trend, explore inward to the inside, listen to his inner voice, and become an actor who walks inward throughout the performance state, grow into an actor who can grasp his own heart, and pay more attention to his inner feelings in performance.
Stills from "Go Forward and Fall in Love with You"
For the former fresh meat Mesozoic male actors, the biggest problem facing them may be to jump out of the comfort zone of the original person, find the role and persona that really fits their core, and "good acting" has become the biggest advantage regardless of age group, with strength to impress the audience. Many Mesozoic male actors take the initiative to try more diverse types of works, trying to break free from the shackles of idol dramas and romance dramas, and the transformation of the theme of this work is also a breakthrough for Mesozoic male actors to their original personalities. In "Courage to Go Forward and Fall in Love with You", Wang Zirui let the audience see a new him.
During the filming of the play, the director said to Wang Zirui, "This role, you are not allowed to rely on lines to explain, you can only rely on your attitude and eyes to express." Breaking free from the shackles of his lines and challenging Gao Leng Xueba, Wang Zirui became a proper "eye" technique with only one look.
In the play, small to the breathing rate, large to the range of action, Wang Zirui is very careful, never let himself have a little unclean action appear, so that the characters have both meaning and sense of form, in him you can see a kind of good and evil things, and then there is a little domineering, these are very valuable things in his bones, always can continue to bring surprises.
The role in the play can be described as subversive, and Wang Zirui has also successfully interpreted the unique and affectionate villain role of Xu Haoyu through immersion in honing, and at this moment, he has gradually faded the original template and has his own play path. The original "professional household of the period drama" can also jump out of the routine, which can see the efforts made by Wang Zirui in seeking transformation.
Not all transformations have to be ostentatious and gorgeous, and the achievements of mesozoic male actors may not be so eye-catching, but as long as they can continue to produce high-quality and stable works like Wang Zirui, relying on solid performance skills and free personality can also win the recognition of peers and audiences outside the play.
Follow the non-stop footsteps of the times
Wang Zirui, who finally found his own frequency, did not lose his original intention in this impetuous environment, still upholding his pure heart, not eager to pursue his dreams, doing a good job in literature and art, making his dream path steady and firm, as a simple actor who does not play slippery, there may be some places where he can be lazy, but he will never, because he always stands on the road of challenging himself and overcoming himself.
Wang Zirui, who is happy to live without losing measure, sometimes ridicules himself, and when talking about the embarrassing situation that their generation of actors is now facing, he laughed and said, "When I first entered this circle, there were originally seniors who told us that men can stay up, it doesn't matter if they stay up for a few more years, slowly it is your world, or mature actors are more popular, isn't there a joke, you have more pleats on your face, the price can double." ”
Indeed, it is gratifying that in the past year, the audience has become more and more patient and strict with a film and television work, and since the box office waterloo of the works of a number of traffic stars, the acting path of the Mesozoic actors compared with it has also begun to attract much attention, and some people say: "The spring of good actors has finally come." ”
Why are older actors in the mainland able to have solid professional skills? Why is the artistic life of a powerful actor so long? Do you win by the number of works alone? I am afraid that this is not the case, taking Huang Bo as an example, before he became famous, he was also unknown for many years, and truly experienced the various states of life.
Of course, not all actors have to go through such ups and downs to finally become a big instrument, some actors have also gone smoother along the way, and the Mesozoic Generation, especially the post-85 male actors represented by Wang Zirui, have just begun to emerge, and they have just begun to interact and link with the market and the audience and value orientation to achieve common drive. Everyone must become the carrier of the times in order to transcend the times, which is the process of value reshaping and fate.
Undoubtedly, Wang Zirui is rational, since his debut, from the beginning of the youth to today's maturity, he has printed into the hearts of the people with his role, both positive and negative, suitable for the past and the present, the actor Wang Zirui practices his duty, not arrogant and impatient, looking forward to his follow-up "flower road".