When the other children were still playing in their mother's arms, Shi Xiaosong had stumbled out of a road alone in the show business circle, and when he fell, he got up on his own and smiled.
Text | Shi Liqing Edited by | Hu Wenwen
Editor's Note
In July 2017, Nandu Weekly did a set of cover reports about the post-00s, and the starting point was simple: ta are new players who are about to enter this world or even have entered the world. You may not understand, you can question, and even resent them. However, the rules of the game will eventually change because of this group of people, just as we have changed the rules of our predecessors countless times. So, are you ready to get to know them?
Shaolin disciple Shi Xiaosong's fans, already accustomed to the various riddle codes he left on Weibo, are always happy to decipher the 12-year-old "Jia Baoyu".
"Some people call me Xiaoqian, some people call me Xiaobei, and in the end it's still Xiao..." In June 2018, Shi Xiaosong had another question on Weibo. One fan left a message saying, "Little one, little one." ”
Shi Komatsu immediately replied: "Reward the fan with a piece of ice cream." "Because he was the only one who guessed. Guessing code words is almost a unique way for him to interact with his fans.
The well-known identity of 12-year-old Shi Xiaosong is that of a brother, "I have seen this sister." "Let people dream back to the scene when Bao Dai first met." Compared with the similarity of the facial features of the small actor who plays Bao Chao, as well as the appropriateness of Daiyu's personality, the role of Xiao Baoyu is the most controversial role in the play.
Baoyu, played by Shi Xiaosong, seems to have a little more heroism and less femininity at first glance. This is related to Shi Komatsu's experience.
He learned martial arts at the age of two, won an international prize at the age of three, and entered the Shaolin Temple at the age of four to worship Yongxin as a teacher and officially became a small martial monk. When he was five years old, he participated in a variety show, wearing a small monk's robe and shaving his head, like a very clever one in Japanese anime. He stood on the stage and punched a set of punches, and his focused and cute movements caused the audience to applaud one after another, and he smiled and bent his eyes, and his eyes were full of cleverness.
The childhood of the post-00 teenager Shi Xiaosong seems to have pressed the fast-forward button, and when other children are still playing in their mother's arms, he can already stumble out of a road alone, and when he falls, he also gets up and smiles.
Last year, Shi Xiaosong's first role was Guo Jing in "The Legend of the Archery Hero", and the character setting with unique martial arts has a unique appeal to boys of this age. When rehearsing the play, he was very interested, and his years of martial arts training experience came in handy at once, and he was even more relished when acting in the play.
Unfortunately, after several months of rehearsal, the scene could not continue to be filmed because of copyright problems, and after the boy learned the news, his eyes flashed for a while, did not say anything, silently packed his bags and returned home.
Receiving a call from the director group again, it was the most tense stage in the casting of "Dream of the Red Chamber of the Little Drama Bone", Jia Baoyu's role had interviewed dozens of small actors before and after, but the director team never found the right feeling. The staff of the "Shooting Eagle" crew remembered Shi Xiaosong and hurriedly contacted his mother Zhang Xiaomin: "Let Xiaosong come to the stage to try it, we really can't find the right person." ”
Shi Xiaosong was dressed in the clothes he found temporarily, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt that there was still Guo Jing's shadow in his every move, and the first audition did not make people satisfied. It wasn't until a few days later, when he didn't wear a hood for a while, the advantages of his facial features were highlighted, and the white skin and the aura between his eyebrows weakened his masculine side, that Director Pan Liping realized: "This child can, it's him." ”
The opportunity was lost and regained, but the post-00s boys were not surprised. From Guo Jing, who knows the world's best martial arts, to Jia Baoyu, who is extremely feminine, the psychological gap is so large that he is difficult to accept for a while. He had seen Jia Baoyu's feminine appearance, and even learned that he liked the habit of eating rouge, and he had always been manly, as long as he substituted himself into it, he felt awkward.
In the initial rehearsal process, Shi Xiaosong was obviously out of state, he could not understand such a character, he only felt tormented, and he was more afraid of being blamed for not playing well, he had a fight with his mother for this, and he also lost his temper.
Mother Zhang Xiaomin looked at him awkwardly and enlightened him with his favorite star: "You see Deng Chao, he will wear women's clothes when he acts, this role is also a challenge for you, let's try again." ”
A few days later, there was a scene where Miao Yu wanted to throw away the teacup that Grandma Liu had drunk, but was stopped by Jia Baoyu and said that it was better to give it to Grandma Liu and sell it for a good price. Shi Xiaosong sat there intently listening to the staff tell him a play, and his heart began to churn.
He lowered his head and held his script and pondered repeatedly, "He is not what I imagined, he has inner beauty, which is very important." ”
Filming coincided with the hottest days in June and July, when the young actors were wearing full costumes, and Shi Xiaosong's clothes were four or five layers, and the thickest ones were with raw edges.
Before the official shooting, to stay up for a long rehearsal, the small actors are isolated in the rehearsal room, every action, every sentence, every look has been practiced countless times, Shi Xiaosong spends most of his time in the rehearsal room every day, and an action repeatedly "more real", during the break, he sits quietly pondering the emotions of the characters, and the script in his hand is folded out of shape.
The director team edited all the brilliant highlights of the 87th edition of the Dream of the Red Chamber together, so that the young actors could learn over and over again. Later, in the play, Ouyang Fenqiang said the last sentence, and Shi Xiaosong blurted out the next line.
The most difficult thing is the crying scene. There is a scene where Baoyu is beaten, although the stick is not a real wooden stick, but it will still hurt after a long time of beating, the staff prepared a cotton pad for him to pad, And Shi Xiaosong refused. He felt that this drama Baoyu should cry out, and the pain would help him play more, as long as he could perform the true feelings and sacrifice himself a little, he didn't care.
Not every crying scene has "good luck", the scene where Baoyu went crazy left him with a "psychological shadow", that scene began to shoot at more than nine o'clock in the morning, and he had been brewing emotions for a long time before filming, waiting for the final outbreak. From sobbing sobbing to collapsing and crying, crying to the end the whole person seemed to collapse, pale and powerless.
At that moment he felt that he was truly integrated with this character, and that sadness and helplessness were both Precious Jade's and his own. When the camera gives him a close-up, he looks a little dazed, crying so much that he has no strength, and the subsequent performance is all based on muscle memory that goes deep into the bone marrow.
The end of the whole shooting was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, his mind was blank, his heart was blocked, but the exhaustion of his body did not allow him to think much. His mother hurriedly took him back to the hotel to rest, fortunately, he came out quickly, and it was good to slow down the momentum, always separating himself from the role very clearly, outside the play, he was a primary school student who had to cope with his studies.
On Children's Day this year, the adapted version of "Chinese Dialect" mv, which was participated by this group of small drama bones, caused a boom on the Internet. The rehearsal was approaching the beginning of Shi Komatsu's ascension, and when he arrived late due to his studies, the other young performers had already arranged the dance moves.
Shi Xiaosong had no professional training in dance and singing before, and now he lost his progress, and when the other children were crazy, he tightly grasped the lyrics and practiced. He joked with the cameraman who followed him: "I can't guarantee my own singing level." "But when it was officially recorded, he still did a good job. Another boy in the same group, Ge Yide, sometimes saw that he was too hard and too real, and would deliberately make him relax, and Shi Xiaosong was often amused and laughed, but there was nothing he could do about him.
With the broadcast of several plays in which he has participated, more and more people like him, and when he is free, he will reply to fan messages and private messages on Weibo. He and his loyal fans have a unique way of communicating, such as saying some code words on the Internet, and if a fan guesses that he can have fun for half a day.
One fan liked shi Xiaosong's biggest charm, which was positive energy and kindness, "He doesn't think there are many bad people in this world, it's quite simple and kind." "He went back to Xinjiang to make a documentary and then had to catch up with other announcements, resulting in fans not seeing him, and he will also apologize online."
Shi Xiaosong never seemed to really idle, and along the way, he gave more energy and time than ordinary children to weigh his several identities.
Ask him if it's hard? He is very transparent but seems to be unaware: "I don't think there is anything that is not hard to do." He prefers his current busy and fulfilling state, and when he is idle, he is more willing to go out and exercise than to indulge in electronic products and online games. This post-00s boy's words still exude the innocence and sunshine of children of this age, but his aura often makes people trance.
The experience of learning martial arts in his youth has made him have tenacity beyond his age, and being able to endure hardships is a deep memory of most people who have been with him, and he will not think of retreating when encountering difficulties, but thinking that as long as he works hard to persevere, he can make a breakthrough. As far as practicing martial arts is concerned, he has been insisting on it for ten years.
When he was a child, he participated in a variety show, and the host compared him with his brother Shi Xiaolong, thinking that he could reach the height of Shi Xiaolong. Now, in various settings for his future, Shi Xiaosong did not think about taking the path of his brother, he wanted to become a soldier.
The admiration for the soldiers came from an event, he was invited to visit the military base, the strict discipline and majesty of the soldiers, like a seed buried in his heart, and then slowly took root. After he returned, he also searched the National Defense Technology University on the Internet, pulled his mother and said, "The score of this school is so high." ”
The future is still too far away for him, and the boy who brushes the topic at the desk does not want to think too much about the unknown, "I can clearly feel the changes that have taken place in me." ”
"Just a word plus a stroke to read what?" I have been following this word for several years", on Weibo, Shi Xiaosong, who just graduated from elementary school, played with fans again.
There are many people who guessed this time, and the fans left a message under the morning light: "Don't just care about 'rushing forward', stop and look at the scenery, it is also good."
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Source| Nandu Weekly
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