Jiang Baixuan
Jiang Baixuan, born in Shanghai in 1967, Chinese mainland actor, actor of The Yangtze River People's Art Theatre, and a national second-class actor. In 1995, he participated in the criminal investigation anti-corruption drama "Heroes Have No Regrets", and thus became famous in one fell swoop. In 2005, he played huang Xuchu, a communist party member, in the anti-war drama "Blade 1937"; in 2014, he played the communist Han Qinren in the legendary drama "BraveHeart", Yu Xiaoyang, a Go master in "Chess Soul", and Mr. Wei, a business tycoon in "Thirty Only"; in 2020, Qiu Dongyang, played in the criminal investigation suspense drama "Rebirth", sacrificed and cried to the audience to save his colleagues, which caused netizens to shout "Qiu stayed". Teacher Jiang used superb acting skills to create one unforgettable role after another.
This time, I had the honor to invite Mr. Jiang to be a guest of our "Art Café Dialogue" interview. Speaking of opportunities, I recently noticed the teacher's personal Douyin account. On the screen, Teacher Jiang is an excellent actor with superb acting skills, in reality, he is low-key and loves life, drinking tea, reciting, jogging, copying the Heart Sutra, going to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and cook, and seriously feeling the fireworks in the world. Teacher Jiang used short videos to express his enthusiasm for his hometown, insight into the entire performing arts industry with a sharp and unique perspective, and talked about the current social hot phenomena with fans and friends during the live broadcast... The most valuable thing is that Teacher Jiang has been trying to pass on the energy outside the drama to the audience with his own strength, which also makes me very eager to know Teacher Jiang outside the actors.
Work tirelessly and be the spokesperson for your hometown
At the beginning of the interview, Teacher Jiang revealed that although he was born in Shanghai, he had different feelings for Wuhan. Due to the needs of his parents' work, Teacher Jiang followed his parents to Hubei at a very young age, however, this "foreign" Hubei person has unusual feelings for Wuhan, and his relationship with Wuhan is more than this. In the early years, Mr. Jiang not only played Mr. Xiong Bingkun, who fired the first shot of the Xinhai Revolution, in the revolutionary historical drama "Wuchang Shouyi" starring Li Chengru, but also participated in the production of a documentary about the Xinhai Revolution on the 100th anniversary of the "Xinhai Revolution", and gradually gained a deeper understanding of Wuhan after learning a large number of historical materials and gradually understanding Wuhan during the filming process, and thus developed a deeper feeling. Once, the content in the documentary has also become the material in the short video of Teacher Jiang in Douyin, and he has been committed to the publicity and promotion of wuhan city, tirelessly acting as a spokesman for his hometown.
By chance, he embarked on the road of acting
When talking about why he chose to be an actor, Teacher Jiang actually laughed to himself: "I used to be a football player!" Teacher Jiang Baixuan told us that he used to be a football practice project, until the third year of high school, Hubei Provincial Repertory Theatre to Xiangfan enrollment, originally to accompany his sister to register him, but in the application site was a drama teacher at a glance, at that time, he did not even know what is drama, after the recruitment of teachers to fight and persuade, just like this yin and yang mistake, mistakenly hit the wrong collision, Teacher Jiang embarked on the road of acting, and this performance is more than twenty years, and later in this industry is indeed because he likes, it is like a fish, He became an actor.
Art without end, the art of regret
When asked which of his works, Mr. Jiang Baixuan, was most satisfied with, he said bluntly: "There is no work that makes me most satisfied." After each scene is filmed, when I see the finished film, I feel that I can act better, so we often say that film and television dramas are the art of regret. ”
Teacher Jiang, who strives for excellence and has high standards and high requirements for himself, is actually a drama actor, so he enjoys the drama stage more. He said: "Most of the current film and television dramas have limited production time, so the actors usually have to start performing without fully digesting the role, which will greatly affect the quality of the work to a certain extent." The presentation of the drama is completely different, repeated polishing of a work, will make the actor's heart more and more bottomed, the months before the performance of the stage will completely melt the character into their own bone marrow, truly understand the character's heart, in order to accurately convey emotions to the audience, create a successful role, and finally present this work, which is itself a very interesting process. ”
Responsibility, "morality" and "art" blossom
When talking about the works that impressed him the most, Teacher Jiang frankly said: "After so many years in the industry, it is precisely the scenes that have been filming in the arduous process that have impressed me the most, and the memory of the scenes of the wind and snow moon is vague. ”
Teacher Jiang recalled the experience of filming "Xiangxi Past" in the hot summer environment of Xiangxi that year, this drama tells the story of the bandits in Xiangxi during the Liberation War, in the filming he played the People's Liberation Army soldier Quan Mushan, who was wearing leggings, carrying armed bags, carrying dozens of pounds of weapons, running in the deep mountains and old forests for a whole day, every day on the edge of heat stroke, those days were very bitter but unforgettable. There is also the filming of "Snowy Sky Road" in 2008, Teacher Jiang Baixuan played three generations of "He Wenbo" in the play, playing three roles is a great breakthrough and challenge, coupled with the filming process is very arduous, Gao Haidi filmed on the ground for more than six months, performing a high-emotional performance on the plateau of four or five kilometers, which is not only a challenge to acting skills but also a challenge to the limit of the body.
Although these two dramas did not receive too much attention and pursuit, they were precisely the most impressive, when six plays were invited at the same time, and they also refused many of the roles that later became popular in Sun Honglei's spy dramas "Latent" and "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes", but Teacher Jiang Baixuan insisted that he still did not regret it. He said: "People have to pay, although it has been foreseen that the shooting conditions will be very difficult, and when I really shoot, I find that it is more bitter than imagined, and some people always ask me, so I will regret rejecting a good script." I said, 'Oh my God, how can I regret this!' Actors can not only pursue fame and profit, the most important thing for actors is to understand responsibility and responsibility. ”
Stick to my original intentions, I'm just an actor
Deep in the vanity fair of the show business circle, teacher Jiang Baixuan has always adhered to her original intention, deeply cultivated her acting career, and always defined herself as an ordinary "actor" rather than a big-name "star". He believes that actors are a profession, and it is impossible to play only one role, which is a "mask" performance wearing a role. When an actor keeps appearing in front of the audience, there will be two situations: "acting everything is the same" and "acting like what", an actor to try to pursue the latter, may be for a certain period of time the audience will forget you, but when you play a new role, the audience will be surprised: "Oh. This actor can also play such a role. ”
"If you've always been a star, you've only had the role of star. Then the identity of the star will be "typed", but the actor cannot be "typed". Therefore, let the audience remember that you have played different roles, and try not to let the audience pay too much attention to the actor himself.
The audience is supreme, and the performance is broken only when it is standing
Teacher Jiang Baixuan believes that performance is not only to maintain a state, but to "stand" and "break": to set up a new height, in order to break through the self. This is also why in recent years he has been trying different themes of dramas, constantly changing character types, from period dramas to costume dramas to criminal investigation dramas, trying different roles while also thinking about different performance forms, always thinking that the audience can have a refreshing feeling, which is exactly what the audience recognizes most.
When talking about whether there is an actor he admires the most, he said: "There are too many actors that I admire, such as Liu Peiqi, he can not be very popular, but when he appears on the screen, the audience will have an inexplicable sense of trust and security for him, as well as an expectation of what kind of role he will give the audience." ”
Life is full of changes, and only those who have seen it are qualified to present
Regarding the interpretation of the role, teacher Jiang Baixuan mentioned a thought-provoking concept: "the insight of the actor". Actors must have "insight" and "not only look up, but also look down". Looking at the grassroots, looking at the small people in society, opening the latitude of insight, the amount of information will become full. Wait until the interpretation of the role, in order to fully feel the character, interpret the character well. He always believes that only by seeing all kinds of life in life can we perform all kinds of sentient beings on the stage.
Educational significance, the work should have a sense of responsibility
Zhang Hongrun, founder of the film workshop, said: "A good movie must be planed out of entertainment, but also has educational significance and social responsibility." Teacher Jiang Baixuan earnestly said that he also agreed with this sentence. He uses the example of costume dramas and historical dramas, which target entertainment and commercial gains, while historical dramas meticulously respect and restore history. He confessed: "Often the real history will be more vivid and full than our closed-door plot, and modern audiences need the authenticity of the story, not the protagonist with high appearance." More exquisite productions and the deliberate rendering of historical facts for the bottomless falsification of historical facts for ratings, in addition to entertaining the public, often abandon the sense of social responsibility. ”
In addition, Teacher Jiang also commented on the major revolutionary historical theme TV series "The Age of Awakening" of this year's fire, "This drama uses a relatively objective and relatively romantic form to tell the revolutionaries, which makes me very moved, romance is not necessarily soft, romance can also be bloody and pure, the romantic color of "exchanging my life for the awakening of the people" in the play presents us with an excellent drama that can withstand scrutiny, leading us into history and perceiving the times. He said: "I have recently paid attention to Korean dramas, and found that in recent years, Korean dramas have shown a trend of dramatization and diversity, and there is no blind shooting of idol dramas, such as "Squid Game", "Black Sun", "In My Name", and the proportion of idol dramas in South Korea has been compressed to 20%, which makes the focus of film and television dramas can be focused on other genres." Another example is the change in the casting of Korean dramas, in recent years, the protagonists of Korean dramas are no longer the appearance of the public aesthetic sense, abandoning the "only appearance theory" to ignore the appearance of actors, but on the contrary, we still blindly pin down on traffic stars, for the eyeball effect, the roles are concentrated on the star starring, and the roles of important supporting roles are often cut, and the familiar drama is precisely composed of group dramas. ”
A strong physique is the foundation of everything
In addition to acting, teacher Jiang Baixuan is also a fitness expert. Perhaps because of practicing sports since childhood, Teacher Jiang has repeatedly mentioned the importance of sports to people on social media, and there are also habits of adhering to fitness in daily life, he said earnestly: "The benefits of sports are too many!" "Take myself as an example, all the sports I would do are self-taught, and when I saw javelin competitions on TV, I tied a nail to a bamboo pole at home and practiced bidding guns in the field, and later I took a school first place at the school sports meeting."
"The benefits of exercise will not only lead to a stronger physique, but more importantly, to a stronger willpower." I found that people who changed their careers in sports, who later became successful in all walks of life, insisted that the Games gave people extraordinary tenacity, willpower, optimism and the ability to adjust their psychology at any time; sports can bring people self-confidence, and this confidence can make people overcome many difficulties. ”
Teacher Jiang also recalled that he and Sun Honglei once filmed the anti-war TV series "Blade 1937". At that time, the plot required two people to sit on the ground in the cold winter and talk about the hot blood topic of the revolution, teacher Jiang Baixuan in order to present a state of hot blood and excitement, proposed that the two people should first do outdoor sports, wait until the cerebral cortex is extremely excited, and then use the real physical state to perform the blood that the plot wants. In the end, this has a great effect in the real performance, and the effect presented far exceeds the original expectations.
Actors live a "mask life"
In the more than one hour of talking with Teacher Jiang Baixuan, my impression of him is not only the high standard of professional actors, but also the higher standards for social roles other than actors. While being alone, he can consider the whole industry, consciously undertake the mission and responsibility that a public figure should have, and has been committed to using his words and deeds to bring positive energy to the society with his every move.
At the end of the interview, Teacher Jiang also revealed to us that a number of works to be broadcast will be met with you. In the first criminal and double-detective TV series "A Thought without a Thought", the fierce criminal police captain; the father who came from the reform and opening up in the contemporary urban drama "Falling Flowers"; as well as the costume martial arts romance drama "And Try the World", the suspense drama "The Gate of Rebirth", etc., and also look forward to Teacher Jiang Baixuan in the future to bring us more wonderful dramas and brilliant roles.
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