Liu Tianqi, Chinese mainland young actor, screenwriter and director, won the "Best Drama Award" of the 7th Wuzhen Drama Festival Youth Competition Award - Town Awards for his drama work "Chicken and Rabbit in the Cage". On December 21, 2020, the official lineup of the first domestic drama talent show "Drama New Life", Huang Lei, Lai Shengchuan and Qiao Shan, three directors, gathered at wuzhen theater with eight theater people. In the program, Liu Tianqi's "The Story of the Chicken Farm" and "Brazil Brazil" have attracted attention.
In our opinion, Liu Tianqi is very lucky. Fate had given him a shorter hiatus that could have been lengthy. Even for many practitioners, warm spring is not 100% coming.
Two years ago, at the 7th Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Liu Tianqi and his partner Cai Lihao jointly won the "Best Drama Award" for youth competition. Before that, he was a nameless person who had only acted in one play, taught performances at institutions, and played small roles in Hengdian.
A "Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage" was evaluated by the judges as "calmly and calmly dialing four or two thousand pounds." A year later, he appeared on the drama variety show "Drama New Life", tense tempering, acquaintances, after the broadcast of the show, he became a "shy boy" sought after by fans in the drama circle.
But when you see his sincere, full-body dedication to creation and performance, and then see his completely different introverted and taciturn under the stage, you always feel that this temperament is rarely visible. He was so much like an aura, hesitant intruder, but he had the temperament that should have been the most in the land.
On the eve of the opening on October 15, Liu Tianqi returned to Wuzhen. After the epidemic, the 8th Wuzhen Drama Festival returned, and everything went as usual.
Last winter, "Drama New Life" was also recorded here. Several drama actors ate and lived together in Wucun for two months, rehearsing, creating, selling tickets in the town to persuade tourists to watch the performance, the cold and damp Jiangnan winter is unbearable, and Wu Pi's dormitory even often sprang out of the rats.
Liu Tianqi and Zhao Xiaosu posted a selfie on Weibo that day
A few days ago, Liu Tianqi and Zhao Xiaosu came back together, saw the buildings of Wuzhen, the bridgehead, and familiar memories all came to mind again. The two of them walked and talked, and bought a big duck leg that they had eaten before.
"When will we come to Wuzhen without rehearsing?"
"Let's eat a duck leg first," Liu Tianqi said.
From October 15th to October 17th, Liu Tianqi performed for three consecutive days in "Brazil Brazil", "The Story of the Chicken Farm", "Heart", "Reflection" and other dramas that had appeared on the show before.
Stills from Brazil Brazil
Stills from "The Chicken Farm's Tale"
We watched "Brazil Brazil" and "The Story of the Chicken Farm" on the spot, which are no different from the overall program, but after fading the tension and intensity on the show, Liu Tianqi's performance looks a lot more relaxed.
At the end of each show, Liu Tianqi bows deeply to the stage for three to five seconds, even if the same actors have begun to turn around and walk backstage.
After the last show, we stood in front of the Guole Theater for a while to see how powerful the streaming media was. I had just stepped out of the theater, and as soon as I looked up, there was already a circle of people at the entrance of the theater, holding mobile phones or ticket stubs, waiting for several actors to come out.
Liu Tianqi, Zhao Xiaosu, Liu Xiaoyi and several others came out one after another, and fans quickly gathered around and wrapped each person into a flower cluster shape.
Liu Tianqi, who is strict and introverted, is the most popular, just look at the size of the flower cluster. Liu Tianqi was surrounded and could not see himself at all, he simply sat on the steps of the door, signed the ticket stubs one by one to the excited fans, signed the name and began to welcome the fans' queue for selfies. This process lasted about half an hour, and the enthusiastic variety fans on the inside and the tourists who stopped in the fog in the outer circle were twofold world.
Our interview was about the day after the "Theatrical New Life Phenomenon" town dialogue on the 18th, when Liu Tim Kei ended all the stage itinerary.
This afternoon, in the Pillow Water Hotel diagonally opposite the Wuzhen Media Center, Liu Tianqi was about to give three non-stop media interviews. When he opened his eyes and went in, he had just finished his last group visit. For him, who is not good at chatting with people, and has to be interviewed continuously, I really feel a little sorry, Liu Tianqi immediately responded, "It's okay, everyone is for work, you ask" while sitting on the sofa, with his hands on his legs. There's a touch of clumsiness that's cute.
Reflection Stills
As if fame had nothing to do with him, Liu Tianqi tongtong regarded these as "work", including participating in competitions and going on shows, and he was only worried about whether he could do a good job. Can you catch the baton from everyone?
After graduating from Tianjin Polytechnic University majoring in acting, he always felt that he was not good enough. Even if you can see from the creation of his script, the speculation of the characters, and the enthusiasm for performance, the energy in him that far exceeds the academic label, he is still not confident, and he is often a little silent and cramped in public. It was as if he had broken into a place that did not belong to him.
Liu Tianqi sitting upright at the town dialogue (second from right)
When asked how he felt about the "lucky" statement when he was so quickly exposed to the core circle of the domestic drama industry, Liu Tianqi said, "I am very lucky, I cherish it", but the luck he understands is not in winning awards, going to variety shows, etc., but in the partners he meets in these jobs, "Sometimes my expression will hurt others, but they are really tolerant, and everyone works together." Fortunately, I understand it, I've really met really nice people."
Liu Tianqi's deeper fascination with performance creation comes from his college roommate Cai Lihao. That day they watched "The Dark Knight" together in the dormitory, and Cai Lihao told him about the form of creation, artistic processing, and talking about it while watching it, and the two did not speak and continued to turn to the screen. Liu Tianqi said that the chat had a great impact on him.
In 2019, Liu Tianqi when he competed in Wuzhen
Liu Tianqi has received numerous encouragements from Cai Lihao, including the participation in the Wuzhen Drama Festival, including the polishing of creation. Every time Liu Tianqi has no bottom in his heart, Cai Lihao will give him a reassuring pill, "You can rest assured, there is no problem at all", after winning the award, Cai Lihao said in an interview that in fact, he himself is bottomless in his heart.
Liu Tianqi always thanked these friends around him, supported him, and hugged him. In our opinion, they also protected the sincerity in Liu Tianqi's heart.
Liu Tianqi independently created two short dramas "Chicken and Rabbit in the Cage" and "Brazil Brazil", the main theme is about family relations. Delicate, soft, warm and cruel.
Liu Tianqi's understanding of family affection comes from the companionship of his mother and grandfather.
In Liu Tianqi's narration, his mother was "very strict and strict" with him, and would also say to him, "The reason why I don't praise you is because I am afraid of your pride" is a typical Oriental educational expression. But he doesn't feel that his lack of self-confidence is due to the way of education, but he is too far away from his ideal self. "When you've seen Ang Lee's work, you've seen Heath Ledger's performance, you're going to think the gap is too big."
Stills of Heath Ledger and his works
In terms of acting alone, Heath Ledger can be regarded as One of Liu Tianqi's favorite actors. From a few years ago to now, he has retweeted blog posts about Heath Ledger from time to time on Weibo, over and over again. The Australian actor, who has fallen at the age of 28, has starred in many excellent films in his short life, including "Lord of Dogtown", "Brokeback Mountain", "Batman: The Dark Knight" and other excellent films, and has won many heavyweight performance awards.
Liu Tianqi has seen a personal documentary about Heath Ledger, and Liu Tianqi described the latter as cheerful, confident, kind to friends, and "he is willing to give up himself for the characters in the story to devote himself to the role, which is the standard of a good actor in my opinion." I'm not that important."
Liu Tianqi when he first starred in a drama
On the other hand, his grandfather, who was engaged in literary and artistic work in the Wuhan army, was the place where he was inspired by his interest in performance. Grandpa likes to watch movies, and he will rent a lot of foreign movies and TV series videos to watch, so he will follow along. Liu Tianqi said that when he was a child, he watched probably more movies than cartoons.
But Liu Tianqi's grandfather was also a person who paid attention to life. He is willing to accompany the people around him and is willing to pay time for the trivial details of life. Liu Tianqi said that every time Grandpa made noodles, he would roll the noodles and cut them by hand, even if the parents were short, they would do it leisurely. Every tree, every flower, countless small things that Grandpa would tell him when he walked around.
Brazil Brazil
Liu Tianqi does not want fans to pay several times the price to buy scalper tickets, he feels that this is not at all honorable for himself, and even when friends around him mention his high ticket prices, he does not know how to reply. At the end of the town dialogue the day before, Huang Lei asked each actor to say what he wanted to say most before the end, and Liu Tianqi expressed values similar to his grandfather.
In the interview, Liu Tianqi reiterated, "I am not important, drama is important, but it is not important for everyone's own life."
Text_Zhao Ye Nan| Picture_Liu Tianqi & Wuzhen Drama Festival