From "Crossing the Yalu River" at the beginning of the year to #yyds# "The Age of Awakening", the main theme drama has blossomed in both ratings and word-of-mouth this year. "Crossing the Yalu River" set a CCTV rating record, douban scored 8.8 points, and the "Middle Stream Hitting the Water", which had just ended in the central golden file, ranked first in the ratings of the same period for two consecutive weeks. The main theme drama continues to gain market recognition, especially the love of young audiences, it seems that domestic dramas have "returned" to the era when content is king, and for filmmakers and actors, good works are the only benchmark.
After successively participating in "Crossing the Yalu River" and "Hitting the Water in the Middle Stream", two major historical theme works produced by the general station, the actor Xi Wang is very familiar with the perspective of revolutionary women in the war years, and outside the play, she is a post-90s actress who has a cat and "wants to play the role of a killer". Occasionally you can see the shadow of many "old actors" in her, waiting for the role, cherishing the script, not talking hard, step by step, and enriching her career as an "actor".
Three "innocent" souls, with the heart to experience the temperature of the revolution
Xi Wang played the field medical staff twice in "Amnesty 1959" and "Crossing the Yalu River", and played the prototype role of Yang Kaihui for the first time in "Middle Stream Hitting water". Talking about the difference between the three characters, Xi Wang said with great interest that "the three of them are completely different." In "Amnesty 1959", she is Liang Dongfang, a nurse who takes care of war criminals, in her words, "that is a ray of sunshine in gray", so when performing, Xi Wang often hangs a signature smile to show the simplicity and warmth of the role, and she is also nominated for the 26th Huading Award for Best Actress in Chinese Modern and Contemporary Tv Dramas, and won the Most Favorite TV Actor Award of the National Audience.
In "Crossing the Yalu River", she is The War Doctor Jin Junou, who faces life and death, which is an extremely cold female military doctor role, and this time she is "as direct as possible, speaks very concisely, does not laugh often, and rarely has mood swings."
Interestingly, these two characters are both field medical workers, and in the tug of "doctors and soldiers, patients and enemies", Xi Wang experienced the "awe" of the profession. "They are soldiers, and soldiers obey orders and fight against the enemy; but they are doctors, and it is their duty to save people." In "Crossing the Yalu River", Jin Jun'ou has a line "Chinese People's Volunteers do not kill prisoners of war", Xi Wang was impressed, "She will not allow a prisoner of war who surrendered without being executed to be killed in front of her own eyes, that is her faith in her profession." ”
The role of Yang Kaihui in "Hit the Water in the Middle Stream" is even more challenging, which is a well-known revolutionary martyr and also a very maternal character. In order to grasp the role, she read a large number of extant yang kaihui's life memories, as well as Yang Kaihui's letters to Mao Zedong, "I want to kiss you a hundred times" such a strong love, which shocked her. "She's actually a particularly thoughtful New Wave woman who didn't think she'd get married, but just happened to meet the man she loved and had the ideal love." This is actually the same idea that many girls think today."
"Love" has become the core of Xi Wang's interpretation of Yang Kaihui. Countless times in the play, when looking up, staring, laughing and crying in support of Mao Zedong's revolutionary ideals, after a long wait, when she saw her husband, she threw herself into her arms with joy, and wrote to Mao Zedong that "NianZi is far away, and the waves are suddenly undulating", unconsciously burst into tears, "There are stars in her eyes." Through the eyes, you can see her love, her admiration, and she and Mao Zedong are confidants of the same heart. As long as she can grasp this love, all her actions can be naturally performed."
It is said that after the actor performs a play, a part of the role remains in the actor's body, playing so many women who "dare to love and dare to hate, dare to pursue", and these courage and strength are also left on Xi Wang. "Those ill-fated women, never give up on themselves, they all live strongly. It makes me feel like I'm already happy, and if I'm still dissatisfied, I'm not going to complain, I'll try a little harder." After acting in so many period dramas, although she could not experience those years, she was a "person with feelings", and her empathy as an actor made her realize the difficulties of the war years. "To be able to have the honor of interpreting these stories and letting today's young people know that a happy life is not easy to come by is my sense of responsibility as a young actor."
Only "serious" can see professionalism
Born in an actor's family, Xi Wang has been exposed to the industry since he was a child, "Before the age of 16, he didn't think about becoming an actor at all. Because of work, her mother Ru Ping spent less time with her, and xi wang in her childhood did not hate the actor profession, but felt that it was a job that made people often "not home". Until the age of 16, "I want to thank the late Teacher Xie Yuan," she said. At her mother's birthday party that year, Xie Yuan told her friends about the scene she was rehearsing at the time. "For the first time, I got a taste of what it meant to be emotional. It turns out that a person's storytelling can be so interesting, so vivid, and the original personality charm of a person can really make people's blood boil. That was the first time I had a yearning for the profession of actor. ”
Perhaps because of this beginning, as an actor, Xi Xi never set his sights on places other than "acting". "Eighty or ninety percent of her life is acting." In order to act, she has ridden horses in the desert at 40 degrees Celsius, on a plateau at an altitude of 4800 meters, and danced in a red dress in the snow at minus 30 degrees. When filming the new drama "Tang Dynasty Mysteries", she was in Hengdian at minus 5 degrees Celsius, and she was drenched in rain for six or seven consecutive days. "Every day from the inside out, I haven't done it." In one of the scenes, there was a scene where the character was affected by an accident, collapsed and cried, and at the end, Xi Wang said, "I know that I actually jumped out of the character." I felt the cold rain of Hengdian hit my face, and I knew that the collapse of that moment was not the collapse of the character, but the collapse of hope." Even so bitter, Xi Wang still called "Tang Dynasty Mysteries" the happiest scene she made, and she told herself that "because I love this profession, I can overcome any pain."
Xi Wang's interpretation of the characters is often very natural, and there are not too many exaggerated expressions. But when it comes to the scene of emotional explosion, the appeal is extremely strong, as if it enters the heart of the character. For Xi Wang, the best way to understand the character is to delve into the script. "The script gives a character a soul". She has great respect for the director and screenwriter, and she does not like to change the script and lines, because "I can only understand from my point of view, but they are from the perspective of the whole play, a more macroscopic point of view to see the problem, all my secondary creations are based on respect for the script as the premise, the actor is on the basis of the script, to enrich the multi-faceted, possibilities of the role." ”
In addition, it is necessary to constantly get close to and observe the career and life of the characters. Even if you can't experience it directly, Xi Wang will deepen his understanding of the character by talking to the witnesses. In her first modern urban drama "The Fifth Façade", Xi Wang played a professional female architect Wang Xi, who often observed the lives of real architects when filming in the design institute. "Very few people leave work on time, they can only rest if they have completed a project, and the veto is always in the process of being revised. And women are very rare in the architect profession, she has to feel too much loneliness, and the cycle of becoming an architect is also very long, so it is very difficult for professional women to be in my opinion." There are more plays in different eras, and she will also have some of her own experience. For example, "When acting in a period play, the atmosphere is particularly important, because the previous people were very cheerful and direct, and they were not very good at twisting and turning, while modern dramas such as workplace competition will have some interesting small bridges when dealing with interpersonal relationships." And in costume plays, etiquette is very important. ”
You can appreciate the professionalism of xi as an actor from all over the place, because everything invested in her view is what an actor should do. Including punctuality, memorizing lines, the so-called "hardship", etc., "I don't think this is a thing worthy of being praised, which can only show that you are a qualified worker, and there is still a distance from a good actor." To say that it is hard, the staff is much harder."
"True love" has no limits, and career has just begun
When it comes to planning for the future, Xi Wang said the most, "I don't want to set limits, I can always have drama."
She admits that acting is a profession that is destined to be "chosen", and what she can do is "seize every opportunity, try different roles, let more people see me as an actor, play every role to do their best, and seize it when the next opportunity comes." ”
In the two major revolutionary historical dramas "Crossing the Yalu River" and "Middle Stream Hitting the Water", the audience may pay attention to many male characters, and for the female characters who are regarded as "green leaves", Xi Hope believes that "each role has a different function in each play", and women also play a very important role in the war, and it is a great honor to be able to participate in such a subject. At the same time, she also agrees that there must be "green leaves" in a play to make the drama more full. Yang Kaihui, played by her, shows the warmth of great people and different aspects of life, while Jin Junou shows the military-civilian friendship and humane side of the time outside the grand and magnificent battlefield.
Speaking of the market's harshness on actresses, especially 30+ actresses, in Xi Wang's view, the market environment has been much better, not only actresses, 30+ women are also paying more and more attention, age may be more conducive to her understanding of the character, so she does not have too much anxiety. "I'm going to act for the rest of my life, I'll never change my career, and I won't stop this career until the moment I can't remember my lines anymore." So thirty for me was just the beginning of my career as an actor. ”
After ten years of acting, trying many types of roles, they are sunny, cheerful, kind, this time in the "Tang Dynasty Mysteries", Xi Wang played a somewhat spicy girl, and the role that most resembles herself so far is Wang Xi in "The Fifth Facade" - "Very coincidental, and my name is exactly the opposite." Wang Xi is a stubborn, direct, non-willing person who will get a lot of energy through work," and xi wang is the same. In the future, if she can, she also wants to try to play a "pure villain", such as a real "killer who takes pleasure in killing". There will not be only smooth sailing in the world, bright, selfless good people, but also have a dark side, "some imperfect characters, if you can have a certain educational significance, let people know that it is not good after watching it, it is worth it." 」
Talk to Xi Wang, you will not feel that she is a "star", but you can feel that she is a down-to-earth actor. She defines it herself, "When the audience sees me, he may not know who I am, but will call out the names of the characters I have played, and as an actor, that is the happiest moment." 」 ”
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