Interview/Author: Hirsch Tong
Image: Courtesy of respondents
Because of the popularity of the TV series "An Jia", Yang Haoyu, the actor of the old fritter Xie Tingfeng, has attracted people's attention with his excellent acting skills. He played a professional veteran who loved to swing qualifications, get by, and did not enter the oil and salt, and at the same time used humorous comedy performances to make this role win the love of the audience.
The audience and the media who like Yang Haoyu pull him out from behind the role and examine the actor with admiration and curiosity. If such a process is realized face-to-face, I am afraid it will be a unique conversation. Your old fritters are really good, what else have you acted? Look at your age, you have been acting for many years, right?
However, digging deeper into the story behind it, people will be surprised to find that he is not as old as people think. Feng Shaofeng, Tong Dawei, and Yan Yikuan were all his classmates in the play, and Yang Haoyu was at most five years older than them.
In the face of such a misunderstanding, Yang Haoyu was very calm, laughing and taking the example of Guo Degang and Lin Zhiying, who looked like poor generations of similar age, who were a few months younger than Guo Degang, and said: "If I stand with Teacher Guo Degang, I am older than him." ”
The "old" thing he recognized since "Dragon Gate Dart Game". Without struggling, in his words: "Why can't you live with the years?" ”
Throughout the interview, he has always been so gentle, humble, not impatient, decades of ups and downs, what kind of things, he just uses a bland tone to tell the story. Only occasionally when talking about the performance, he will talk more and more excitedly, and it is rare to feel his fierce emotions.
A good actor will not lack keen observation and perception of life. Yang Haoyu loaded these into his memory, and someone asked him to answer. He remembered many details, remembered the date when he took the boat to Shanghai, remembered the No. 20 tram, remembered the small objects that had special significance for him.
From the mountains of Chongqing to the bustling City of Shanghai, from workers to actors, from obscurity to winning the best supporting actor of Magnolia, from Uncle Gong to Xie Tingfeng, we talked about many of his unknown experiences.
It was dusk and it happened to be raining. Yang Haoyu sat in his living room, mentioning the old things, quite a kind of sad and happy clutch always ruthless feeling. He said: "I still want to be like a child, with a curious eye, to see all the problems in the world." ”
The child who was running wild in the mountains already had a pattern of time on his forehead. Some say he was forty years old and had a sixty-year-old face. In fact, what is the saying that there is such a thing as being born old? It is nothing more than a wind and dust servant all the way, and only then do we have the wind and frost and vicissitudes on the face. Actor Yang Haoyu, a child with a tattoo on his forehead.
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Wonder Show no.037
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An electrician's acting dream
Many years ago, after Yang Haoyu's father's army was transferred to the army, he entered the exploration team of Sinopec, went up and down the mountain and the sea to find oil fields all over the country, and lived in the mountains most of the time.
No TV, no radio, Yang Haoyu grew up in that environment. Laughing and playing in the mountains all day, people feel strange: "Why don't you go to school?" The father was stunned: "Where to go to school?" ”
Eight-year-old Yang Haoyu finally walked into the school and was invited to parents the next day. The teacher said to his father, "You take the child with you, I can't teach it." "He doesn't know anything, he's introverted and naughty.
Later, when it was almost time to finish that semester, the teacher said, "This child will stay in the first grade and read for another year." "Yang Haoyu's student days began in that kind of situation that didn't go well.
He knew almost nothing about the outside world. In the mountains of Chongqing, there is only one shop. His mother was a Shanghai Zhiqing, and he took him to Shanghai after taking him to Shanghai.
Sitting on the tram, he was suddenly surprised to find that there were so many shops? He counted one by one, and the numbers he learned were not enough. Because I was counting with my fingers outstretched, I was beaten by my mother.
In Shanghai, everything is different from the mountains. Not long after, he went to Shanghai to study, and he still felt strange. Although many of his grandmother, uncles, and aunts were there, it was difficult for him to adapt to a very different new environment at first.
What used to be a vast mountain field suddenly became a lane in the city. Shanghainese are exquisite, and their meals are small plates and small bowls. Yang Haoyu finished eating bowl after bowl, and he could detect the eyes of others looking at him. The bustling metropolis, the cramped stairwells, and the completely different living habits have become the troubles of his growth.
His academic performance was not satisfactory, and he only got an acceptance letter for mechanical and electrical maintenance. After graduating from the technical school, Yang Haoyu was assigned to the tunnel company and became an electrician.
At that time, Shanghai had just built Line 1, and he was responsible for the mechanical and electrical maintenance of the subway from the new passenger station to People's Square. The machine is not often broken, the work intensity is not large, and the treatment is also very good. In that era, a monthly salary bonus added up to three or four thousand yuan, and you could live very moistly. However, he was not happy.
Yang Haoyu looked at the teacher in the unit who was about to retire, as if he saw himself many years later. He said: "That kind of life is a life that can be seen at a glance, but I think life should be quite novel every day, it should be full of vitality." ”
He wasn't saying that the workers were bad, or that the comfortable way of life was bad, but that was really not what he wanted, and he felt lonely inside. He signed up for an acting class, initially just wanted to make friends, but quickly fell in love with the line. He still remembers the feeling of walking on stage for the first time, nervous, excited, countless pairs of eyes looking at him.
At that time, the rehearsal drama "Shang Martingale", Yang Haoyu played a soldier. The performance teacher pointed at him and said, "Look at this soldier, this soldier is the one who stands most like him." A word of praise made Yang Haoyu gain a great sense of satisfaction, which changed the trajectory of his life.
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No, no, no, no, no
Yang Haoyu was ready to change careers, resign, and then enter professional colleges. The father was furious when he heard it, "Are you crazy? "Parents always want their children to live a safe life, and certainly don't support his risky moves." But Yang Haoyu insisted, he said: "I must break through." ”
At the Shanghai Theater Academy, he took the exam for three years. Every time he fell off the list, he was not discouraged and continued in the coming year. Examinations became a fixed activity for him. Every year look at the days, when it arrives, it will go.
Yang Haoyu enjoyed the process, "Every exam, go to the stage and sing to the teacher. You can also meet some friends and then talk together. Where did you get in? Didn't get in? How. Go out for a walk and take a look, it's like a spring tour, it's actually quite good. ”
He felt that he was like an ancient person who had entered Beijing to catch the exam, and he could not pass the exam, and it was no longer important to go to the back. Failure is nothing, he thinks failure is a part of life.
The important thing is that he brings out his talents and therefore makes some friends. Yang Haoyu called it "test friend", and he took the exam together every year and fell on the list together, and came back together the next year. One after another, everyone is familiar.
One year in Hangzhou exams, catching heavy rain, his wallet was stolen. The thief was also considered to have a good conscience, and left him ten dollars. He carried the ten dollars and braved the rain to walk by the West Lake. Fortunately, I met a test friend, borrowed money to let him buy a ticket back to Shanghai, and then returned the money to others.
Cang Tian did not live up to the hard heart, at the age of 22, Yang Haoyu was finally admitted. That was his last chance, and if he didn't pass the exam that year, he would have been overaged.
Strange to say, Yang Haoyu's opportunities seem to have come not so easily, but no matter what, he can always seize them in the end. Many times, it is almost a little bit, and it bears another fruit.
In the first year of playing, Yang Haoyu had a particularly difficult time. He loves acting too much and cherishes it too much, so every time he goes on stage, he is always particularly nervous, and even feels that he can't even say anything, and how to act is not right.
The most heard voice in your ear is, "No." "No, no, no, no... Spells in general. He suddenly felt that he had suddenly returned to the state he had when he first arrived in Shanghai, inferior, closed, introverted, lonely, helpless, and pessimistic.
The pressure came like a tidal wave because he was on the "screening" list. If he is screened, then he will leave. Seven judges, three wanted him to go, four asked him to stay. Again, almost, he stayed.
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I didn't dare look up
Yang Haoyu probably didn't understand how to perform until his junior year. But his love of acting began at the beginning. At that time, he had not yet been admitted to the theater, and was in the stage of catching up with the examination every year. Look around for opportunities and run the dragon suit.
The first filming was on Nanjing Road, next to the old Shanghai TV station. There was a phone booth on the overpass of the crew, and the lead actor Zhang Fengyi stood there to make a phone call, and a passerby walked behind him, and Yang Haoyu was the passerby.
No lines, no names, but enough to excite him. After many years, he was still a little excited about that experience: "I walked in those few steps sweating and my blood boiling. Teacher Zhang Fengyi called next to me, and I couldn't help but want to glance at him. ”
He filmed for a day and earned 20 bucks, not as much as he did as a worker, but he was particularly happy. Since then, he remains in the same state as he was then.
The staff never heard him complain, was bitter and tired, and he wouldn't say anything. He said: "Since I have been acting, every day has been my ideal life. "There is drama everything, red or not red, more money and less money or even no money, he has encountered, but as long as there is a play, he is happy."
As a professional actor, he has always had a sense of crisis. "Like this industry, if you can't survive on it, it will be quite miserable." Since you like it, you have to let yourself live, you have to work hard. "Yang Haoyu believes in a simple truth: heaven rewards diligence. There is always a reward for paying, and opportunities are given to him one by one.
Many people know Yang Haoyu from the beginning of Uncle Wen Lianggong in "Dragon Gate Dart Bureau". But in fact, his fate with "Dragon Gate Dart Bureau" originated from the drama "Deer DingJi".
He played Chen Jinnan in the play, and the screenwriter Ning Caishen saw his performance and told him: "Chen Jinnan acted so well, you are our gentle and gentle." Also because of "Deer Ding", co-actor Bao Bell saw Yang Haoyu's performance and invited him to play "Joyful Secret Agent".
Sometimes, it's just a small opportunity. But Yang Haoyu will always inject all the energy, no matter how big or small the role, can always emit a sparkling brilliance.
In the TV series "The Great Qing Salt Merchant" directed by the famous director Zhang Li, Yang Haoyu did not play much. But after the play was performed, two people noticed him, director Zhang Li and lead actor Zhang Jiayi.
Soon after, Zhang Jiayi asked him to play Mr. Leng in "White Deer Plain", and Zhang Li asked him to play Master Yan in "Wudong Qiankun". Similarly, because he played "Mr. Leng", the "Birth of an Actor" program team asked him to help perform the duel version of "White Deer Plain" by Ling Xiaosu and Zhai Tianlin.
Director Lu Chuan sat on the stage, and Yang Haoyu's attentive and undistracted state on the stage attracted him. Lu Chuan asked for Yang Haoyu's contact information and proposed, "Let's cooperate." ”
Lu Chuan's film "749 Bureau" began filming, and he asked him: "Are you coming?" This role is a play. ”
"No problem." Yang Haoyu did not have two words, almost to the shooting site, the crew informed him again, "Since you came, there are too few scenes, and the director said to change your role." But then he said, "If you don't change it, you still have to set makeup."
When he finished his makeup, he had a new message, saying: "I still want to change your role and get two or three scenes." For these changes, Yang Haoyu always said: "Good, OK, yes." ”
In the end, he was given a role to shoot for more than ten days, and he appeared in the list of leading actors in "749 Bureau".
Step by step, it's all cause and effect. He said: "Which role is not played well, there may not be a chance to come later." If you take a wrong step, you don't know how many detours to take. So don't dare to look up, really don't dare to look up. ”
He cherishes every role, so he doesn't waste any opportunity to try and make mistakes. When the opportunity was given, he was like a life-saving straw, desperately trying to hold it to death. He didn't dare to relax, bowed his head, and only hoped to do what he had to do.
The year he won the Magnolia Award for Best Supporting Actor for his play "I Love Peach Blossom", he looked up. When I opened the popularity with the Dragon Gate Dart Game, I looked up. Counting the past eight years, this time it is because of "An Jia".
Before the broadcast, he was very nervous, worried that he was acting too exaggerated, worried that the audience would not like it. Although before that, he had done a lot of homework. He went to the real estate agent's store to experience life, to visit the "old fritters" in the store, xie Tingfeng's role as usual, he hollowed out his mind to think about how to perform.
Many viewers remember that rap, and sun li was confused when they were talking to each other. Yang Haoyu said: "I am hip hop. Wang Zijian teased him, "Don't face, you can shout Mai at most." Director An Jian gave him enough creative space, and Director An said: "If you feel comfortable, you will act like this."
The audience's love for Xie Tingfeng made Yang Haoyu feel very pleased. He said solemnly: "Thank you for me to those audiences who like old fritters." He said that fame and fortune are appreciated by the audience. Support is his greatest motivation.
"I looked up, and there was nothing in front of me. When I look down, I also think, what am I doing? When you look up, you can see some of the friendlier, warmer words of everyone. Some people liked me and encouraged me, and I felt particularly good and satisfied. Some people like it, indicating that everything done before is fine, then... Go ahead. ”
Actor Yang Haoyu bowed his head and set off again.