Young stars love to use highlighter to distinguish line paragraphs, Yan Xiaopin is different, she takes a red ballpoint pen to draw her own lines on the script of "Yan Mahjong", and writes notes with black pen, "When we first acted, there was no highlighter, and we were used to it." Highlighter color is a bit flowery. "At that time" can be traced back to "On the Side of the Water" in 1986, "Beijingers in New York" in 1993, and "Sin Debt" in 1994. Since August 20, "Foreign Mahjong" has been performed four times in a row at the Pudong Grand Theatre. Yan Xiaopin, who has been practicing art for 34 years, said, "This play has made me grow. ”
The rehearsal hall of "Foreign Mahjong" is far smaller than expected, with two benches forming a stage and three tables under the stage put together. Director Chen Liyi sat in the center, tied with a cloth strip around her waist, hanging a small hot water bottle, and her stomach discomfort did not hinder the progress of her work. Her eyes are like torches, and she sometimes points out to Guan Dongtian, another star of "Yan Mahjong", "When handing out the handkerchief, do not use the left hand, become the right hand; the handkerchief is scattered, do not be square." "Sometimes I pay attention to the two actors," the line is a little more serious, you are too serious, it has become a political drama. At the end of a play, she did not even let go of Yan Xiaopin's eye makeup, turned to the stylist and said, "Xiaopin's eyes are round, next time you can draw the eyeliner longer." ”
"Director Chen is extremely experienced and very good at details." This is the reason why Chen Xiaoyi attracted Yan Xiaopin, in 2007 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Chinese drama, Yan Xiaopin and Chen Xiaoyi had a cooperation in the large-scale symphonic poem "Wu Tian", there were not many plays, only two weeks of rehearsal, acted, "I spent more time in film and television dramas, the stage is the place I have always liked, I want to cooperate with Director Chen, learn, grow well." ”
"Yan Mahjong" tells the story of the old man Wei Le and the old lady Fencia playing a kind of playing card called "Foreign Mahjong" in the nursing home. Fourteen playing cards, each of which is a revelation of the personality and living circumstances of the two men, and the two frustrated old men reconcile to life in one conflict after another.
"The four scenes of the whole play take place in less than a month, showing a person's life, like a long scroll, the audience can imagine through their own lives. "Wild Mahjong" makes you feel the complexity, the complexity of human nature, the complexity of life, and the difficulty of a lifetime. In the TV series "Tianjiao" and "Shanghai Vicissitudes", Yan Xiaopin has played two roles with a huge age span, from his early twenties to his seventies, "Those are the roles I met when I was in my thirties." It's hard to be in your forties because it's hard to get back to twenty-two or three. ”
Yan Xiaopin likes the script of "Foreign Mahjong", "The current drama is more developed in the direction that the audience loves to watch, short and concise. And "Foreign Mahjong" reminds Yan Xiaopin of the dramas "Hungry Strait" and "Pergent" that he went to watch when he was studying at the Beijing Film Academy, "Even the use of tone words, there are characters' emotional states in it, the more you look at it, the more profound it feels." Young audiences may not see themselves so far behind time and space, but in the two hours of the theater, you will always have a moment to think about it, because everyone has an old man, everyone has parents, grandparents, grandparents. ”
This year, the "sisters" in the show business circle are busy riding the wind and waves, but Yan Xiaopin is the one who is calm and calm. Rehearsals for "Yan mahjong" were originally scheduled to start rehearsals in February and perform in March, but were postponed to August due to the epidemic. Yan Xiaopin still began a month-long online job in early February, and began to talk to his crew colleagues at 9:30 every morning, "About an hour and a half, find the role feeling." Today may be the first two scenes, tomorrow may be the third or fourth scene. ”
"Drama lines are so important that they have to be prepared in great detail." The stage is no stranger to Yan Xiaopin, from 2017 to 2019 she acted in more than 60 consecutive plays "Who Daisy Marries Tonight", which was the first drama she officially starred in, "seriously acting for three years." "There are only two actors in "Foreign Mahjong", and each person has a line volume of nearly 10,000 words, "the line processing and the use of tone are like a tool to help the actors show the characters." At the rehearsal scene, every time Chen Yi turned a page of the script and casually turned the scene, Guan Dongtian could continue the lines without stopping.
The opponent's skills are in front of him, Yan Xiaopin said, "As an actor, sometimes you have to force yourself to do difficult things. Playing Fencia, this kind of rehearsal, this degree of completion, it is a certain difficulty for me. Face-to-face rehearsals last only a dozen days, and every day from morning to night, I feel like I'm growing. What kind of harvest it is, it is not as clear as one,two, three, four, but I can perceive myself inside and master more from the professional state of the actor, so I think this time is very precious. ”
A day of rehearsals, ending with costume confirmation. Chen Asked Yan Xiaopin to go home and find a square silk scarf and replace the long cashmere scarf during rehearsals. Yan Xiaopin and the stage supervisor counted the trousers, shirts, and shoes to be worn in "Foreign Mahjong", put them one by one into a carry-on canvas bag, and carried them downstairs, which is the clothes she usually wears during rehearsals. ”
Source: Author: Zhuge Yi