Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Song said
In the hit drama "The Age of Awakening", Hou Jingjian played the young Mao Zedong. This is the eighth time that Hou Jingjian has played Mao Zedong in film and television works, and he has also been evaluated by the industry as the most influential young actor among the young actors of Mao Zedong in China. Recently, Hou Jingjian was interviewed by the reporter of Qilu Evening News and Qilu Yidian and shared his creative process of "changing performances and constantly renewing".
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The story of "The Age of Awakening" begins in 1915, when the young Mao Zedong went to school in Hunan, later went to Peking University as a librarian, and under the influence of Mr. Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu and others, began to contact Marxism. This time, Hou Jingjian once again played the young Mao Zedong in "The Age of Awakening", leading the audience back to a hundred years ago and vividly reproducing the ideological growth of a generation of great people. In Hou Jingjian's understanding, Mao Zedong in his youth was a person with a very high spirit of study, with a unique personality charm and a unique spirit, full of vitality, and this extremely strong desire for knowledge formed Mao Zedong's unique personal charm. ”
In "The Age of Awakening", a scene in which the young Mao Zedong appeared left a deep and evocative impression on the audience. Hou Jingjian said that the play had only one simple sentence in the script: "The young Mao Zedong took "New Youth" and went backwards in the crowd. At the time, he was thinking that according to the conventional shooting method, the scene usually only needed to be filmed for an hour or two. But unexpectedly, this 0.1 page scene introduction, filmed in the artificial rain is a day, he wore the same wet long shirt in the rain for 10 hours, seven or eight hundred meters of the street, Hou Jingjian ran back and forth more than 40 times.
Hou Jingjian did not play much in "The Age of Awakening", and he filmed every scene as the most important scene. He was most impressed by a scene after Mao Zedong returned from a coal mine investigation, filmed in the summer, the actors were crowded in cramped huts and wearing cotton jackets around the stove, in which Mao Zedong needed to chop wood and communicate with everyone. Filmed that day, Hou Jingjian accidentally used a machete to split his hand in the process of chopping wood, and the bloody mouth was bloody. Because it was a rusty knife, the staff suggested that he stop filming and go to the hospital to break the cold, but Hou Jingjian waved a big hand for the sake of the rest of the crew and the filming progress, "It's okay, I'm fine." "Shoot consistently with a transparent spray Band-Aid, and finish the shoot in the sweat of repeated bleeding and hemostasis.
Take the aesthetic of being really close to the audience
In his youth, Mao Zedong needed actors to more accurately grasp the scale of performance and pay attention to rich emotional changes, "In fact, every creation I think should be more rich and three-dimensional." In this play, I want to play mao zedong's change from grounded to prominent temperament, hoping to reflect Mao Zedong's temperament and character through more details. ”
Hou Jingjian said that Mao Zedong was the most important stroke in "The Age of Awakening", requiring actors to have a particularly powerful collision with the characters. "These powerful collisions cannot be achieved solely by lines and storylines, but by the actors who sincerely give them with their own performances."
From focusing on performance technology to full of true feelings, playing Mao Zedong eight times has brought Hou Jingjian not a sense of burnout, but maintaining a constant and new enterprising spirit. "I'm more authentic than ever in terms of acting. There is less design inherent in the performance, and more natural subconscious performance. In the past, I would assume how I would perform this scene, but now I will put down a lot of things to really walk this scene, but I can exude a kind of personal charm. ”
I want the audience to remember my character
As the attention and reputation of "The Age of Awakening" continue to rise, many young viewers have also become fans of the show, and daily online urging. "In recent years, the excellent main theme drama has become more and more beautiful, and it has received more and more attention, and the number of times I appear in the image of Mao Zedong has also changed." Speaking of the audience's recognition of themselves, Hou Jingjian said, "The TV series will be broadcast for thirty or forty episodes, and I can dominate the screen for up to a month, which is objectively what everyone has seen." ”
Hou Jingjian also always pays attention to the feedback of the audience, takes the initiative to open the bullet screen, and listens to the feedback of the audience. "The praise is of course very happy, and I feel that my efforts have been recognized by the audience. But any role will not satisfy all the audience, but also need to give more advice, more often I still want to find some deficiencies, calmly analyze these evaluations, and improve my performance in the good opinions. When it comes to whether he is worried about being "labeled", Hou Jingjian has strong self-confidence, "Through my interpretation of Mao Zedong's film and television image nearly ten times, the industry has not stereotyped me." In fact, in the past two years, I have also had many other works, including the role of the people's procurator in modern dramas, and there are also cooperation intentions in costume dramas. So I'm not worried. ”
Hou Jingjian revealed that he is not a deliberate person in life, "The state I especially like is that I can always have drama to shoot." But after I removed my makeup, it was myself, and sometimes everyone pondered for half a day before recognizing, isn't this Hou Jingjian? I think this state is particularly good and makes me less stressful in life. I hope that everyone remembers the role, and I don't want everyone to remember Hou Jingjian. ”
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