In China's film and television industry, there are very few women who can act and direct plays, and Xu Songzi is such a strange woman who combines actors and directors.
Xu Songzi, whose real name is Xu Changsong, is a native of Changchun, born in 1955, and was admitted to the Changchun Drama Theatre as a student in 1972. In 1982, she first appeared sharply for playing Li Xiaoxia, a young woman who had lost her foot in the drama "Save Her", which was very sensational at the time, not only performed in Jinjing, the performance was broadcast live on CCTV, but also by Beijing Renyi, Shanghai Renyi and many other national drama theater troupes.
After becoming famous after acting in the drama "Save Her", Xu Songzi made a surprising decision to study at the Central Academy of Drama, not to study acting, but to study directing. Some of the old actors in the theater were puzzled by this, saying: "Actors like you don't need to go to school anymore, so get out and act." Xu Songzi ignored this and walked into the Chinese opera directing department without hesitation.
Xu Songzi studied in the Department of Chinese Opera Directing for 5 years, during which time she did not direct film and television works, but played the most glorious role in her artistic career, Li Guoxiang in the movie "Furong Town".
In 1985, the famous director Xie Jin prepared the film "Furong Town", the heroine Hu Yuyin was played by Liu Xiaoqing, and the role of Li Guoxiang in the film had not yet found a suitable actor. Xu Songzi went to apply for the conscription, and Xie Jin shook his head when he saw her, thinking that she was too foreign and fashionable. Xu Songzi did not move, tied his hair short, changed into a military coat, performed two sketches in front of Xie Jin, before and after the judgment of two people, Xie Jin was impressed by Xu Songzi's acting skills, and felt that the role of Li Guoxiang was none other than her.
In the film, Li Guoxiang, a hot female cadre, is both hateful and pathetic, and she has to play from her 30s to her 50s. In order to shorten the gap with the role, Xu Songzi wore Li Guoxiang's costume all day long, spoke in Li Guoxiang's tone, and completely changed into Li Guoxiang up and down. So much so that the boyfriend At that time, Gu Rong, came to visit the class, and he couldn't believe that the "ugly" middle-aged woman in front of him was Xu Songzi.
After the release of "Furong Town", Xu Songzi's extraordinary acting skills not only shocked domestic audiences, but also won the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Performance Award, which won the grand prize on the first screen, and the industry has looked at Xu Songzi with astonishment.
After graduating from the Department of Chinese Opera Directing, Xu Songzi was transferred to the Shanghai Film Studio as a director. She had a marriage with Gu Rong, a classmate of chinese opera, and her husband directed his wife to act, and the two tacitly cooperated in films such as "Old Shop", "Red Dust" and "Red Swan". Among them, "The Old Shop" won the 1991 Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award, and the film couple once passed on the beautiful talk that year. It's just a pity that it didn't last long.
Xu Songzi has directed many film and television dramas, and the more influential one is the TV series "The Woman Who Walked Through Winter", which starred Pan Hong and Fang Qingzhuo. Fang Qingzhuo once commented on the director Xu Songzi in an interview: She has the wisdom of being a director and the feeling of being an actor, so she is very sensitive to our performance, and she can see the strengths and weaknesses of each actor very clearly. As a result, she is very accurate about the inspiration of the actors, and she is a smart director.
In recent years, Xu Songzi, who has experienced marriage changes, is still active in the film and television circle, and her temperament in life is elegant and approachable, but the director always lets her play a vixen, such as the real mother in "Let's Get Married", and Jia Xingmei in "Old And Dependent", which has become a shrew professional household. In this regard, Xu Songzi laughed and did not care, in her opinion, the actor should act like what.