After the broadcast of "The Second Time is Also Beautiful", many viewers remembered Xie Shuai's name.
Since the show was broadcast, not only has the topic gone all the way up, but the ratings have soared. Because lei Yuhao, who successfully interpreted the combination of humor and romance in the play, and Qiu Tian, played by Xia Zitong, formed a sweet "rainy day CP", Xie Shuai was loved by many audiences. Especially recently, his Weibo has poured into a large number of fans, and many fans are even more outspoken, calling him the "perfect boyfriend".
"Lei Yuhao's boyfriend, please give me a bunch!"
"I like them both so much, this pair of CP please lock up!"
"Call for Teacher Xie Shuai!"
The audience's pursuit surprised Xie Shuai, who has always been low-key, and also made him a little embarrassed.
Many netizens and friends contacted me on Weibo and WeChat and expressed their views on Lei Yuhao. I can see from everyone's words that they really like this character, and as the creator of the character, they naturally feel very happy. ”
A few days ago, "The Second Time is Also Beautiful" ushered in the finale, Xie Shuai posted a Weibo, and said goodbye to his role: "I didn't expect Qiu Tian to take the initiative to confess tonight, Uncle Lei secretly laughed ~ the finale, reluctant to say goodbye to my day."
"Reluctant to say goodbye" is Xie Shuai's biggest feeling of bidding farewell to Lei Yuhao, recalling the details of the shooting process, Xie Shuai sighed a lot.
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Lei Yuhao's "Acquired Cultivation"
In "The Second Time is Also Beautiful", Lei Yuhao, an elite lawyer played by Xie Shuai, is the hair of An An, played by Wang Ziwen, and also the boyfriend of Qiu Tian, An An's good girlfriend. As the "laughing point" in the play, Lei Yuhao often speaks wittily, fights with Qiu Tian, from looking at each other unfavorably to the two hearts slowly approaching, the sweet details are heartwarming, which can be called the most infectious "joyful enemy" in the play.
With the two opposing temperaments of incomprehensible style and meticulous consideration, Lei Yuhao took the lead and successfully "enveloped" the hearts of the audience. However, what is surprising is that the character of this character is not naturally pleasing, but the result of Xie Shuai's co-creation with the director.
"The role of Lei Yuhao was a bit positive in the original script, not so 'comedic'. The director's idea is to make a few male characters feel a little different, so we thought of adjusting Lei Yuhao's overall temperament and letting him take on more humorous and funny bridges. ”
However, trying to master a role with comedic elements has never been an easy task for an actor. In Xie Shuai's own words, "humor" is a profound thing, and sometimes you think you are very humorous and funny, but the performance is not like that at all. In this process, he did not less discuss and polish the role with the opponent actors and directors.
Fortunately, Xie Shuai, who has been in the battlefield for a long time, has a lot of experience, and he knows how to catch the audience's attention in a quiet way. While firmly grasping the character setting, he interpreted the two characteristics of Lei Yuhao's warm man and straight man to the fullest through delicate and non-sharp performance, and contracted more than half of the laughter points of the whole play.
In the interview, we ridiculed Xie Shuai for being extremely malleable and being able to interpret the character so inconspicuously that he "fits" himself into the character's container. But he denied it, and he didn't think he was very good at all. In his opinion, the reason why this role can be recognized by the audience is not because he "erased himself". On the contrary, it is the result of his "merging the two into one" according to his own characteristics and combining his understanding of the role.
"I didn't think that I had to make Lei Yuhao look completely different from me, and my acting habits started from myself. Lei Yuhao came back from studying in the UK, but my English is not good, so I will not emphasize his sense of elitism and identity as an international student. Instead, I want him to feel grounded and approachable. ”
After telling the director what he thought, Xie Shuai got the director's approval.
"The director also felt that if the role was too 'foreign', it might overlap with other characters, so he accepted my design."
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Maxima and Bó Lè
There is an interesting point behind the scenes of "The Second Time is Also Beautiful", like Xie Shuai, several of the main actors in the play, Wang Ziwen, Zhang Luyi, Yu Xiaowei, Yu Mingjia, including his own "CP" Xia Zitong are from the Central Academy of Drama. Such a coincidence makes several actors work together with a particularly tacit understanding.
Xie Shuai laughed and said that the atmosphere of the whole crew was particularly professional, which also allowed him to be more relaxed and devoted to creation. Similarly, during the filming process, his old friend, director Chen Mingzhang, also gave him a lot of help.
I don't know, "The Second Time is Also Beautiful" is already the 5th cooperation between Xie Shuai and Chen Mingzhang. Prior to this, they had collaborated on many word-of-mouth masterpieces such as "Crossing the Ocean to See You", "The Taste of the World is Qing Huan", "Mr. Lee Who Met Love" and so on.
Having cooperated so many times, Xie Shuai has already established a deep "fighting" friendship with Chen Mingzhang. However, after becoming familiar, Chen Mingzhang's requirements for Xie Shuai not only did not relax in the slightest, but also became more stringent, which also urged Xie Shuai to demand himself more strictly in his new creations and strive to go to a higher level.
"Director Chen is very professional at the scene and has a high work efficiency. But whenever something happens on the spot that affects the work efficiency, his temper will be very big. So although we are very familiar, we dare not relax or slacken off. Our working state on the spot is basically to think about how to shoot when the scene comes, and we are very serious about preparation. ”
Talking about Chen Mingzhang, Xie Shuai seemed to open the conversation box, and he couldn't help but sigh that Chen Mingzhang was like Bole to himself. There are many stories about Xie Shuai and Chen Mingzhang, including many interesting vignettes.
10 years ago, when Xie Shuai was rehearsing "Deer Ding" at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, he happened to meet Chen Mingzhang, who came to watch. Because Chen Mingzhang was also from a stage drama background before becoming a TV series director, the two established a connection at first sight
"At that time, I played Wei Xiaobao, and he thought the actor was not bad after he saw it. We have a lot of mutual friends, and later we become familiar with each other in the exchange. ”
At that time, Chen Mingzhang was preparing to shoot a drama and launched an invitation to Xie Shuai on Weibo. After Xie Shuai agreed, he did not contact him, he thought that this matter was yellow, and did not dare to ask, until another play came to the door, he remembered to take the initiative to "ask".
"I said Director Chen, is that scene still filmed?" Did he end up saying there was no assistant director looking for you? I said no, no one was looking for it. Now that I think about it, there may be something wrong with the communication, a bunch of misunderstandings, in short, in the end, I didn't go up, and I let Chen Dao a pigeon. ”
Although the first time did not succeed in cooperation, the two also became acquainted, until later cooperating in many plays, Xie Shuai's gratitude to Chen Mingzhang overflowed with words.
"Thank you very much, without him, there would be no me now."
03
Acting steadily, being honest
Nowadays, we see Xie Shuai's skilled acting skills and easy access to the role, you think he was born to be an actor, but this is not the case.
Unlike many actors, Xie Shuai when he was a child did not have much concept of the profession of "actor". Because of his poor study, Xie Shuai's mother hoped that he would learn an art body, and after trying a few talents, he finally chose to perform.
"At that time, the acting teacher gave me a few questions and asked me to do it on the spot. I had never been exposed to acting, but the teacher thought I was quite talented, and I felt that his encouragement gave me a lot of motivation. Later, I thought, that's still learning to act, in fact, it is also lazy (laughs). ”
However, even after stepping into the door of performance, Xie Shuai is still in a state of ignorance for "actors", he does not even know whether there is Chinese opera, Nortel, or the brothers and sisters of the division and sisters who come back from the exam to talk about the details of the exam, he suddenly realized - there is such a school!
This state of ignorance lasted until before the middle drama, and in the process, the drama gave him a lot of strength. Xie Shuai still remembered the first drama he watched, although the name was no longer clear, but he still remembered that excitement.
"I was very excited, it was a play in Mandarin, although I don't remember the name, but I was particularly impressed by the plot and the characters. The scene was played by five actors, two women and three men, and it opened with a couple of actors playing a small snare drum and walking from the audience to the stage. At that time, I thought how could this be! Can any actors pass by from the side of the audience? That play is actually about a confrontation between a teacher and a student, in fact, it is quite sharp, I think there is a direct blow to the depths of my heart, that kind of power is very powerful. ”
Perhaps it was from then on that Xie Shuai fell in love with acting. In the Chinese drama, Xie Shuai is in a mixed class of directors, and the dual identity of actor and director broadens the dimension of his thinking and allows him to see the world from two perspectives. During his time at the school, he also participated in many drama performances organized by the school, and starred in dramas such as "Falling in Love with My Ex-Wife" and "The Fan of the Young Grandmother".
"After going to the Chinese opera, I began to contact the performance more. At that time, we had classmates with a very good concept of acting, which was equivalent to opening up, including the fact that we saw a lot of mature actors' works in Beijing, and slowly paid attention to some mature performance status of movies and TV series. Only then did I find out that good performances, or charismatic performances, were like this. ”
After graduating from college, because some of my classmates' parents worked at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, the classmate asked Xie Shuai if he wanted to come to the conversation to try, and this northeastern man came to this southern city in this way. After watching several scenes of He Nian, Xie Shuai was impressed by the open creative atmosphere and finally decided to take root in Shanghai. At that time, he was unaccompanied in Shanghai, and the unfamiliar environment and the huge theater forced him to grow up rapidly. Recalling this experience, Xie Shuai lamented that time flew by.
"Sometimes, people need to throw themselves into an unfamiliar environment, which will stimulate some of your energy, and the subconscious mind will force you to grow up quickly, which I think is quite good." 」
Today, Xie Shuai is still fighting in the field of drama, freely changing identities between actors and directors.
As a director, Xie Shuai has his own artistic pursuits and his own sense of social responsibility. This year, he directed the depression-themed drama "Every Wonderful Little Thing", which takes the protagonist who is troubled by depression as the first perspective, carefully interprets the story of the protagonist and his depressed mother and the people around him, and truly reproduces the living conditions of depressed patients. He hopes that through this drama, he will bring positive energy to more people.
In Xie Shuai's view, good literary works and works of art must reflect human nature, and the reason why people fall into a state of "self-confrontation" is also to investigate the essence of human nature. Things like "Who am I?" Such abstract but complex questions often appear in his mind, and he is happy to discuss them with the audience on stage.
Taking off the mask of the actor, Xie Shuai advocated a plain and simple life, and he was more willing to be a leader in the world. Unlike some people's eagerness for fame and fortune, he rarely participates in propaganda, and he is quite Buddhist for the popularity. Looking at his Weibo, "simple and unpretentious" is the biggest feeling, he lamented that today's Weibo has long been infected by the commercial atmosphere, he does not want to fall behind, so he will seriously reply to every netizen's message.
Xie Shuai has a gentle and elegant temperament, not much to say, but often gives people a feeling of humility. For him, doing it in a down-to-earth manner is more important than anything else.
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"It's unlikely to say I don't want to be red at all, but are you saying you're in that much of a hurry?" I don't think so, because I'm not the kind of personality that is particularly contentious and particularly aggressive. From the first day I went to play, my teacher told us that actors should 'act in a down-to-earth manner and be honest', and I am probably in such a state now. Of course, it is good that the opportunity has come, but if it does not come, don't think about such a thing, just do your job well. ”
Such a lack of sharpness is Xie Shuai's greatest charm as an actor.