The audience's long-awaited TV series "The Hunting Ground" starring Hu Ge finally aired at the end of the year. Although many viewers criticized the emotional drama in it as too bloody, Zhao Jianfei, the bank president who was hunted by Hu Ge, with the twists and turns of the plot, pulled out a poignant love story, or touched everyone. This forty-year-old still single gold collar turned out to be an infatuated boy, but also a big filial piety, even in helpless, academic qualifications are fake, or was forgiven by the male protagonist Zheng Qiudong played by Hu Ge, and finally joined Naruhito, and became a partner with the male protagonist to help the company go public smoothly. Many viewers believe that Zhao Jianfei is the favorite character in the play, his handsome appearance, straight figure, superb acting skills, are comparable to Lao Hu, watching them play very much. So who is this actor? In fact, when it comes to the roles he has played, it is not strange at all. Remember the handsome officer Liao Sanmin, who heroically sacrificed himself to protect Yu Zecheng in the hit TV series "Lurking" made by Jiang Wei, the director of "The Hunting Ground", nine years ago? They are all the same actor Wang Xiaoyi.
In 2009, the TV series "Latent" was a hit in China, and Liao Sanmin, a small supporting character with only five episodes in the play, defeated many main supporting characters and won the first place in the online voting for women's favorite roles, known as the "number one handsome guy in "Latent". In a long-form TV series with many characters, the most popular role is not the protagonist, but a small role in soy sauce, which is really unexpected by many people. His actor Wang Xiaoyi also stood out for this. Now that several years have passed, Wang Xiaoyi has once again detonated the Internet with his excellent acting skills and distinctive personality. He is usually relatively low-key, there is not much information about him on the Internet, many viewers do not know anything about him, and the author also took advantage of the popularity of "The Hunting Ground" to do an in-depth interview for him.
One. The starting point is not low in the north drift
Wang Xiaoyi, from Zhengzhou, Henan Province, had the ideal of becoming a policeman when he was a child. To this end, he deliberately applied for the Public Security University during the college entrance examination. However, on the eve of the college entrance examination, his father died of cancer, and he failed to rush to the examination hall on time, which affected the performance of the scene. When the policeman failed, he began to pursue another of his dreams - to be an actor.
He came to Beijing to study acting at a film and television academy. There are often some crews and agencies that come here to find actors. Just two weeks into school, there was an advertising agency to choose models. With outstanding appearance and a tall body, he was quickly photographed by the advertising agency and began his career as an advertising model. At that time, most of the advertisements came from well-known international brands, and the audition was very strict, and thousands of model data were given to merchants, who selected the models that best reflected their brand style. With a tall figure of one meter and eight meters and a handsome appearance, Wang Xiaoyi has become the darling of advertisers, and he can always beat tens of thousands of competitors and become the final winner. During that time, he shot more than three hundred advertisements, from print media to television and audio-visuals, sweeping major international brands, such as the Nestlé series, including coffee, milk powder and so on. He was also the first Asian face enabled by Nokia. They had been using European and American models before.
At the same time, he was very uncomfortable with indoctrinating education in schools, and he felt unable to think independently and create freely. After three months of study, he resolutely dropped out. He believes that learning by doing is more rewarding.
In the process of shooting commercials, there are also film and television crews who constantly invite him to act. He has often been the male number one in advertising, and he is naturally strictly selected. In the first TV series "The Story of the Criminal Police", he played the main character in a unit, zhang Xiaoqi, a migrant worker. The director at that time was Professor Wang Rui, a well-known professor of North Film. Probably the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers? Wang Xiaoyi actually proposed to revise the script and combine the seven scenes into one. Unexpectedly, the director actually agreed. He said he was fortunate that from the time he started dabbling in acting, he had his own ideas about acting, and in most cases, the director could accept his ideas.
Next, Li Shaohong, a well-known female director who has directed "Daming Palace Words" and "Orange Red", also chose him to play the male number one in the movie "Man in Beijing". During the interview, he put forward different views on Director Lee's artistic treatment, and he thought that the director would be unhappy and would not use him. Unexpectedly, this famous female director had raced a man in her heart, and she didn't care at all, but still chose him.
His first feature-length TV series "Migrant Workers of Survival" was also male number one, and the co-director was Guan Hu, a well-known director who became popular in North America with "Old Cannon". Director Guan Hu is a director who is very good at shooting real life. He was willing to choose new people because he could see in them the simplicity of the academy, which was very rare. In order to make this film well, the director requires all actors to eat and live with migrant workers, so that outsiders can't see that they are actors. When filming, except for a few main actors, the rest are all real migrant workers. The shooting was also shot on the spot with a shoulder camera, which was very realistic. Some people describe it as a TV series like a documentary. This TV series depicting migrant workers begging for wages was only broadcast on a small range of local television stations that year, but it caused a strong response in society, and netizens praised it one-sidedly. After 8 years of editing, this TV series re-met with the audience, which still caused a lot of repercussions. Wang Xiaoyi still thinks that this is his best work, because this drama is too deep into the drama, he can't get out, and he hasn't taken on other films for a whole year.
In order to make up for the lack of being a policeman, he played a policeman in four or five film and television dramas in succession, and he had enough addiction to being a policeman. Although he started from a very high starting point as soon as he debuted, working with a famous director, either male one or male number two, he was not yet well known to the general audience until he met "Latent".
Two. In 2008, he became popular with a small supporting role, he just finished filming a play, rested at home, and watched the American drama "Prison Break" day and night every day. Late one night, he suddenly received a phone call from the assistant director, saying that there was a role, the original candidate could not come, he could not take over the role. As is customary, he asked what roles it was, and the other person replied, "No number." He didn't want to pick it up when he heard it. The other party insisted: "You look at the book and then decide, don't miss it, otherwise you will regret it." He read the book half-heartedly, and after only two episodes, he decided that it was indeed a very good TV series, and even a humble little supporting role was worth filming. The next day, he rushed to the location of Hengdian. Although he has been a film and television actor for so many years, he has not been to Hengdian once, and this is the first time. After he went, he was not satisfied, he had a high fever, vomited up and down, his face was puffy, and he was about to die. Before shooting, he had to take ice cubes to coldly apply to his eyes and face before he could be photographed. But once he faces the camera, he feels like a changed person.
The spy drama "Latent" cuts from a very novel perspective, based on human nature, and is a very different TV series from the past. Liao Sanmin, an underground party member played by Wang Xiaoyi, is the last contact of the male protagonist Yu Zecheng, who is a small role in transition, the content provided by the script is very limited, the scene is small and simple, the scene is single, and it is difficult to shine. Wang Xiaoyi has been thinking about how to re-present the content of the script, and he has given the characters a richer connotation. For example, from the name point of view, perhaps the father's generation believes in the Three People's Principles, he should be born into a family and have a good education, so the external performance is elegant and domineering. The character is young and youthful, and while waiting for yu ze to send out tasks, he impatiently kicks a few trees next to him, and so on. These small actions made the flat character in the script come alive with flesh and blood. In the scene where he finally sacrifices to protect the male protagonist, he always has a calm smile on Miller in "Prison Break" in his mind. So he also borrowed this expression in his performance. When the muzzles of several black holes were aimed at him, he smiled calmly and calmly, and then generously died. This scene moved the audience. He has thus become a very dazzling role in the whole play. When shaping the role, he changed the way his lines were expressed, and he was worried that a big name like Sun Honglei would be unhappy. Unexpectedly, the old drama bone Sun Honglei felt very enjoyable, not only used his own car to take the initiative to pick him up on the set, but also said that he should find such an actor.
The successful shaping of Liao Sanmin made Wang Xiaoyi taste popular for the first time. This role has also sparked a big discussion on the Internet, and even the North American Chinese Forum has a new discussion post for him. People are amazed at such a good actor, how did they not know it before? In fact, if you open his resume, you will understand that it is no accident that he can have today's achievements.
Three. A model student of hard work in the entertainment industry
Wang Xiaoyi has maintained a clean image since his debut. No smoking, no drinking, no nightclubs, no social dinners, no games. With the motto of "The Rise of China", he has always had a sense of social responsibility since he was a child, and often does things that are brave and courageous.
You won't see smoking shots in any of his characters on screen. This is because not only has he never smoked himself, but he is also reluctant to spread the image of smoking. Every time he encounters a scene where the character needs to smoke, he will discuss with the director whether he can replace it in other ways, and must not let his character smoke on the screen. Every time you can find an alternative to smoking, you can also make the director accept it satisfactorily.
When he first came to Beijing, his mother kept telling him not to be nosy, but he still didn't listen. He is probably the most played 110 of the actors. At one point he saw a group of people beating up a sanitation worker. Without saying a word, he jumped out of the car and went to stop it. Another time, he missed his plane and needed to take a train to the location. Passing by the carriage, he noticed that something was not quite right, and he had a premonition that something was going to happen. Turning back, he found that there was really a gang of people beating up a big mother. He alertly informed the police and subdued the gang. Things like this are not rarely done in life. No wonder he himself said that if he really became a policeman, he would surely have died in the line of duty very early by virtue of his temper.
He is also keen on public welfare activities, once as a love ambassador for public welfare activities, going to the rehabilitation center to visit children with cerebral palsy, and bringing carefully selected books to accompany children to play games and tell stories. He has taken photographs of public welfare activities, appealed to the public to pay attention to issues such as smog and environmental pollution, supported the "Blue Sky Action", advocated the concept of low-carbon and environmentally friendly life, and conveyed a healthy and positive attitude towards life to the public.
Although he has an idol's face and can easily become popular by idol dramas, he prefers to play some roles that are not very glamorous to hone his acting skills. He plays a wide variety of roles, costume plays, period plays, modern plays. The roles played range from migrant workers to businessmen, soldiers, white-collar workers, students, etc., there is no repetition, and people only see vivid roles, not the actors themselves. Just as no one can recognize how the unkempt migrant worker and the personable soldier can play the same person? He also sometimes worries that the drama red people are not red. But isn't that the highest state of being an actor?
In the years since his debut, he has always relied on strength to win opportunities and never hyped himself. Although it is sometimes inevitable that the paparazzi Zhang Guanli Dai will make mistakes and spread some false news, he is too lazy to explain and respond. Usually, when there is no drama, he stays at home to read books, watch CDs, and recharge himself. He was very dedicated on set. When filming migrant workers, there was a fight scene, the other party was a taekwondo master, and he was a novice filming artist, and he did not know the measure in front of the camera. When the shooting began, the other party actually hit him hard, and the corners of his mouth were immediately hit with blood and his nose was injured, but the shooting continued, and he could not stop. So the bleeding injuries on the screen are real. During the filming of the play, he fainted and was injured several times, and was also taken to the hospital for surgery. In another military-themed drama, "The Sound of Sunflowers Blooming", he has a scene of jumping into the river to rescue children who have fallen into the water. Just after entering the water, his foot was scratched by a large hole in the glass, and the blood flowed, but he still insisted on staying in the cold water for an hour to complete the shooting work. In the movie "Life and Death Partner", he played Liu Chong, a criminal police officer who had just graduated from the police academy. There is a scene of hunting down fugitives that requires jumping into the Yangtze River. It was a harsh winter, and he jumped desperately. The cotton coat went into the water, it was so heavy that he was almost sinking, and the water was so cold that his toenails were frozen. When filming the TV series "That's a Spring", the male protagonist Li Chuang, who he played, had a scene where his legs were injured, and before filming began, Wang Xiaoyi just happened to really accidentally fall, and he humorously said that he did not have to deliberately act this time, and really appeared on camera with his crutches. In the horror film "The Wraith of the Deserted Village", a Xiangxi cliff medicine collection scene, Wang Xiaoyi, who plays the male number one, is not afraid of danger, and every action is personally battled, hanging on the pressure to climb on the cliff of tens of meters high, becoming a real Miao family medicine picker. In the filming of "The Rise of the Great Qin Empire", he played Su Qin by relying on outstanding eloquence to lobby the monarchs of various countries, which has a large number of lines, which he describes as getting up every day before dawn to memorize lines, and the lines are all rotten, and the dense notes inside are dense. A scene of a car cracking was filmed extremely hard, lying in the muddy water for two consecutive days. He was really tied on all fours, five horses, and the cold rain poured all over his body, and at that moment he felt that his soul was out of his mind. Almost everyone who plays with him has been seriously "tortured" by him, even the big names are no exception.
Make every character real and alive. That's how he fought with his life to create the character. Often, sometimes, the director is already satisfied, and he insists on shooting a few more in different performance methods, and picks out the most satisfactory one. Before filming began, he did his homework, familiarized himself with his opponent's work, completed the run-in period with the actors who played the opponent's plays as soon as possible, and entered the role as soon as possible.
He has always had his own pursuit of the performing arts. When Liao Sanmin was successfully portrayed, he received many invitations to spy dramas, but he declined. A few years later, he reappeared in spy dramas, but he was a double-sided spy and traitor in "The Gunshots of the Madier Hotel". That's how he keeps challenging complex roles and constantly improving his acting skills. In addition to "Lurking" and "The Gunshots of the Madier Hotel", we can also see his interpretation of different roles from his TV series "Gone with the Wind", "Who Fights with the Front", "Looking for You to the End of the World", "The Soul of the Female Army", "The Way of Love" and so on.
In 2015, he took over the experimental art film "The Great Wall of wilds", which later won several awards at international film festivals. It's a single-scene movie. He played the male protagonist in the film, a migrant worker who longed for love. There are only two actors in the whole film, and there is only one scene, which is extremely difficult for the actors to perform. Wang Xiaoyi spent a lot of effort to figure out this character, in order to maintain a slightly drunk state in the film, he never drank alcohol and even drank a lot of wine every day, until he had stomach pain, making the performance look very real. He said that because he had experienced it himself, he could tell at a glance who was really drunk and who was acting out in the film. Because some states cannot be performed, they can only be shown if they really drink to that extent. Kung Fu pays off. The film has won several awards internationally, and he himself won the Best Actor Award at the 3rd San Francisco New Concept International Film Festival for his outstanding performance.
At the beginning of this year, the high-profile TV series "The Rise of the Great Qin Empire 3" finally met with the audience after three years of dust. Without pre-warming, the ratings climbed all the way up and became a hit drama. Even Douban, which has always had a harsh score, was once as high as 9 points, which is rare. The most popular character in this drama is Su Qin, a Warring States cross-country stray who lobbied and laid out in various countries with excellent eloquence. The personality with high emotional intelligence, handsome appearance, and resolute eyes, even if there is no publicity at all, also allows Su Qin's actor Wang Xiaoyi to capture a large number of fans, triggering a heated discussion on the bullet screen website such as b station. Everyone said that Su Qin is the most attractive role in this drama, and his acting skills are also the best. So far, Wang Xiaoyi's three classic works have a score of about 9 points in Douban. ("Migrant Workers of Survival" 9.4, "Latent" 9.2, "The Rise of the Great Qin Empire" 8.5), which is very rare.
And just finished by Hu Ge and others, as well as Zhang Jiayi, Sun Honglei, Hu Bing, Chen Long and many other well-known actors in the film and television circle to participate in the workplace TV series "Hunting Ground" once again ushered in the ratings champion, in LeTV, Mango TV, Youku, Tencent, iQiyi and other video websites the whole network playback is 13 billion, this data is very amazing. Wang Xiaoyi played zhao Jianfei, a returnee financial elite who studied and worked in the United States, with his excellent interpretation, once again made this role rare, but quite charismatic character shine brightly, becoming the most impressive artistic image of the whole play.
Recently, he tried to write and direct his own films. The road comedy film he's working on, Five Days and Six Nights, which took less than a year from writing the script to preparing for filming, said it was a very different film that would surely surprise the audience.
From the beginning of his debut to the present, his works are not very many, but he has left one classic after another, there is no other trick, that is, step by step, down-to-earth, hard work. I believe that God will always care for hard-working people, and I hope that his talent will be more recognized.