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When the name Deluva is mentioned, some viewers may need to react for a while before a ghost horse elf face comes to mind. But if you talk about Huang Chengcheng in "People Are Not Tough Teenagers", or Chu Ge in "Crossfire", a cute girl with long hair and a boy's spirited sprinter, maybe it will be immediately clear.
If you are more familiar with her, you may also think of the strange girl Ke Sugar in the "Star Detective" derivative interactive micro-drama "Target Person", Wu Yaoguang, who has super combat effectiveness in "The Great Song Dipper Division", and even the "first love face" Zhang Weiwei in "Sand Sea".
All kinds of faces, are Deluva.
Now, she has appeared in two sweet dramas "Please Please Class Leader" and "Perfect Him" at the same time, while transforming into Yuan Caixi, the second class leader of the third year of Morinaga High School with a simple face, and playing Jiang Kele, a "Whispering Social Person" who is addicted to virtual love games, can even allow viewers to enter two completely different spiritual worlds from her perspective, without any confusion and violation, which shows her ability to shape heterogeneous roles.
Deluwa has a cute name, the title of "doll" seems to be destined to be more favored in the theme of youth, and the bright and beautiful image also gives her the right to continue to be a young girl, but like Huang Chengcheng's delicate appearance can also accommodate Chu Ge's strong soul, Deluva herself is a somewhat contradictory person. "I may look like a little girl, but I'm still a pretty boy in personality." She likes to watch dramas and exhibitions, but she also loves concerts and music festivals, and the song she likes to listen to recently is "The Only One" for the five people, but there are also songs by Teresa Teng in the song list. Her outfit can be a JK-style small skirt, and the boyish big pants are not resistant, and the style is elusive.
Today, the biggest problem encountered by the dynamic and quiet post-95s new generation actress is how to let the audience know her in person, not just Huang Chengcheng, Chu Ge or Jiang Kele. After achieving the "Drama Throw face" achievement, she unlocks the next level on the condition that everyone remembers Deluva.
Yuan Caixi, a student bully, and Jiang Coke, a star-chasing girl
Yuan Caixi in "Please, Please, The Class Leader", and Jiang Coke in "Perfect Him", Deluwa feels that the latter is more like herself.
Yuan Caixi is a typical bully, lectured, responsible, but also a bit cold, as the second grade, her goal is to be admitted to a good university. If the type is divided, Yuan Caixi can be classified as "someone else's child". And Jiang Coke is obviously more grounded, after being broken up by her boyfriend, she accidentally plunged into the world of the virtual love game "Love boys" and talked about love with lu Xiao, one of the virtual boyfriends.
"At that time, after I read the script of "Perfect Him", I would feel that Jiang Coke has always been in a high-frequency state, she is a jumping character compared with her career-type girlfriend, and she talks the most every day." But what attracted Deluva to Ginger Coke was precisely her little sun-like personality: nothing would go to her heart, and fried chicken and beer were enough to soothe all her sadness. "This cheerful personality is something I like very much, and she will warm up a lot of people around me."
The setting of "Perfect Him" is quite a bit of "Love and Producer", Deluva usually does not play this Otome game, when she was in college, it was when "Love and Producer" was all the rage, the whole dormitory was "cloud boyfriend", her feelings were more curious: Why is this game so hot? At that time, she had a more boyish personality, and at that time, "Glory of kings" had just been released, and she was more willing to play competitive battles than love business.
Although I have never played the Otome game, I still have the mood of chasing stars to learn from. In the play, Jiang Coke's feelings for Lu Xiao, both girlfriend-style attachment, but also star-chasing worship, Deluwa has especially liked a star since junior high school, this kind of like has continued until now, the little girl-like "I want to marry such a man" Mood she has also had, so it is not difficult to find empathy in Jiang Coke.
Compared with Lu Xiao, who needs to put on two faces in the virtual world and the real world, Deluwa feels that the process of shaping her own character is quite easy, "I just need to enter this role from the perspective of a player as a gamer and experience this role." ”
However, this relaxed scale is not easy to grasp, whether it is "Please Ask the Class Leader" or "Perfect Him", the genre is mainly light and sweet, aiming to give the audience a comfortable viewing experience and facilitate their substitution. The "Crossfire" that Deluva has filmed before is more inclined to the actor's self-challenge, requiring her to release the character's various emotions of perseverance, or entanglement, or pain.
Although the latter looks more like the actor's acting skills prove itself, in Deluva's view, the relaxed genre of "Perfect Her" is actually difficult to shoot. "If some of your bridges make people feel completely unsmiling, it is the most failed place of this kind of drama, and if it is not performed well, it is a large-scale social death scene." So I think different dramas have different challenges, you have to act very relaxed, very relaxed, very delicious, but also let the audience get the laugh point. ”
Deluva brings this kind of thinking into the play, so the audience can see different faces of Jiang Coke, but the sense of reality is the same. When she misses her father, she is the most ordinary child in the general public; when facing her girlfriend, she can freely release the little jokes and "little scoundrels" between girls; when she accidentally bumps into Lu Xiao in the real world, her words and deeds have more children's moods, and the majority of star-chasing girls see it, and their nerves are vibrating, and even Deluva herself feels a little blushing in many bridge sections.
"In fact, when I was shooting, I didn't think about how sweet it was, or it was mainly based on life-like interpretation, but now after watching a few clips, it seems to be sweeter than when I shoot it (to be sweeter), and when I watch it myself, the goosebumps look like it."
Resilient girl, great adventurer
"Perfect Him" tells more than just sweetness, but through the love process between the two heroines and virtual idols, calling on everyone to return to reality, cherish reality, and not be blinded by the virtual world.
Two years ago, Deluva found herself holding her phone twenty-four hours a day, and the phone quickly ran out of battery. When filming "People Are Not Tough Teenagers", she said to herself: This does not seem to be quite good. "So I will ask myself every day (restraint), first of all, to throw away my charging treasure, and the second is to keep the phone power at more than 80% every day." So in the past two years, Dai Luwa rarely looks at her mobile phone when she is idle, and some people always say that she has forgotten her Weibo password and forgotten Douyin, in fact, she does not browse these social software very much.
Deluva has a similar growth path to many girls, such as more sadomasochism than sweet love, and when she was in junior high school, she especially liked to watch "Flowers and Bones", and cried with the novel. In the third year of high school, there was no concept of acting, and like some art students, the lower score of the cultural class was one of the incentives. So she began to take the road of art examination, and finally was lucky to be admitted to the Central Academy of Drama.
"I thought at the time, if I can get the best entrance examination, if I can't pass the exam, I will go to the army, or the third way," Deluva laughed, "my parents said at that time, we can only sell the house, let you study abroad for a year, the rest of the living expenses you have to earn yourself." I choose these three paths myself. ”
Whether it is the idea of becoming a soldier and going abroad, or going to many cities alone to take the art exam, it can be seen that Deluva is not a person who is willing to settle down. She doesn't like to be in a safe zone and craves a life of adventure rather than comfort. When she was a child, her dream was to explore around like Beiye, rather than staying in one place.
This adventurous spirit and vague tenacity were also brought into the university campus by Deluva, and as a blank piece of paper, she stepped into the Chinese opera, and once she entered the school, she was stupid. "Because I was in a school of one hundred and twenty pounds, I didn't think I was fat, but as soon as I entered the class and saw my classmates, I said, 'Wow, who are they?'" These students, like Yuan Caixi, are "other people's children."
Image and achievements are not dominant for the time being, and Deluva's sense of crisis and resilience have emerged together, "No, I have to study hard." She insisted on doing her morning work every day, did not miss a class, and won a professional scholarship the following year. She always remembered what the teacher said at that time, and the teacher hoped that they would try to learn as much as possible when they were studying, and come into the classroom without any famous brands or big names, and be the most simple student. "So for four years, when our classmates were in acting class, they all carried canvas bags, sweatpants and black T-shirts, or wore Chinese opera school uniforms, and none of them wore particularly exaggerated."
College is the place to "qualify" Deluva, the final exam of the first semester, and the teacher may have asked for two or three performance clips, but she handed in seven. "I'm willing to try more, I'm willing to rehearse in the classroom myself." Xingfan asked about the moment when Dai Luwa realized that she had opened her mind, which also happened one day during rehearsal, and she suddenly had an "epiphany" feeling halfway out of the house.
"It was before I didn't think about how to play this role, I felt her psychology, and when I turned in my homework the next day, the teacher said that you were in the right direction." But Deluva is unaware of her opportunity to enlighten herself, preferring to believe that this is the result of long-term accumulation rather than deliberate pursuit. "You don't know how to open up yourself, you can only go to the classroom repeatedly to practice, to immerse yourself in the atmosphere you want, so that day by day to grind down." 」
This may not seem like a story of a smart person, but there are not so many ones in this world.
"I don't care about it later"
Today's Deluva is facing a problem and a breakthrough.
The problem is that she has played a lot of roles with distinct images and personalities, allowing the audience to see That Yuan Caixi is Yuan Caixi and that Jiang Coke is Jiang Cola, but the impression of Deluwa herself is still relatively vague. "It's like saying 'Perfect Him', many people watch it and say, 'She is actually Huang Chengcheng', or 'She is actually Chu Ge'. What I'm struggling with now is how to make people think she's Deluva, rather than 'who she is.'" ”
Deluva is happy that the audience can like her character, and the next step is that she hopes that the audience will remember what kind of person she is by liking her character.
In addition to the identification of others with herself, the place where Deluva also wants to break through is the performance style. When each actor reads the script, she will have a preliminary impression or presentation of the role in her head, and Deluva used to show the role according to the way she presented it in her head, and now she wants to "disobey" her first impression and subconscious reaction to the role, adding a little difficulty to herself. "It's how to make everyone look comfortable and have a sense of substitution, and at the same time feel like 'I can remember her.'"
Since 2018, Dai Luwa has been in a state of continuous output of works, and when filming "Da Song Hokutoji", she has performed a retrospective and really noticed her youth in the first work. She said bluntly, "Sometimes it hurts me. ”
So starting from "People Are Not Tough Teenagers", which is her official second work, she developed the habit of taking notes and doing character analysis, and she at least finished the notebook before entering the group every time. Deluva has a keen sense of her own performance style and level, and from time to time she has to dial it to a more accurate position.
She knows her strengths, knows that her current self may be more favored by youth themes, if she is now allowed to play an urban woman, such as the domineering female president of Jiang Coke's girlfriend Guan Qianya in "Perfect Him", due to age and image, she may not be able to control. "I'm still a little younger, or the campus works are more suitable for me now."
Deluva also does not prescribe any route for herself, but plays the right role at the right stage, and if in a few years a certain type is no longer suitable for her, she will "transform" to seek a new path. Age, image, temperament, in the end, will not really become a condition that restricts her.
But this does not mean that Deluva has no ambitions for non-adolescent themes, and recently she has been particularly eager to challenge the gloomy characters in the "Mist Theater". She often plays script killing, and only plays horror books, so she is very interested in suspense and horror themes. Last year, because of the time relationship, she could not become a "mist theater" play, this year her wish is to play a "fog theater" play to make up for this regret.
Thinking back to that time, Dai Luwa fought for the role of Chu Ge in "Crossfire" for half a year, she persuaded the team, persuaded the boss, and resolutely cut the long hair that had grown to the butt, and even shaved off the sideburns on both sides, completely without considering how to "save" the image in the next play. At that time, Deluva said, "I don't care about the future, I will take care of the present." ”
Not only did she meet the role she loved, she had the courage to fight hard, standing at the starting point of the actor Deluva and looking forward, this determination that seemed to be a "strong man with a broken wrist" may have been buried since she packed her bags and embarked on this road.