September 12, 2022 | Total Issue 2992
The reason why Chen Fang wants to "sink" is because of the burden on his shoulders. For a middle-aged man like Chen Fang, old and young, the responsibility on his shoulders must be above everything else.
Chen Fang's relationship with Nan Fei is actually a reflection of real life. It raises a very difficult question: Do people with marriage experience and family pressure have the right to find their true love?
is a little embarrassed to say that I have no ambitions. When I first became famous, people around me said that my gentle temperament was not suitable for development in this circle. However, it is precisely because of this character that my mentality has never been ups and downs, and I have never had a moment of confusion and frustration.
has a moustache, and his eyes are stunned, but he is persistently looking in a certain direction; although he is tall and straight, his shoulders are sloping, and there seems to be a burden on his shoulders that cannot be lifted...
This is directed by director Liu Jiang In "Warm and Sweet", Chen Fang, a middle-aged man played by Lu Yi and . He, who loves Nan Fei ( Song Qian ) deeply, can't make a promise because of the hidden divorce, so he is involved in a tortuous relationship that can't be easily decided.
Recently, we met Lu Yi at the finale of "Warm and Sweet". When talking with Lu Yi, his eyes were calm, his speech was not hasty or slow, and his answer was gentle but powerful.
In the early years, Lu Yi's performances were more extroverted and even passionate. From Xiao Tong , a law student in " Never Resting Eyes " in 1999, to Bao Zheng of "Youth Bao Qingtian 2", to Qiu Shi of " Men's Talents and Women's Appearance "... The young man is full of ambition and high-spirited.
It wasn't until recent years that his sense of composure and strength was released in the main theme drama. The firm prosecutor Hou Liangping in " People's Name ", the seniority group of the action team leader in " Seamless ", the undercover anti-drug police Wei Bangrui in " Hunter "...
Lu Yi and director Liu Jiang In the finalization scene
time knows the taste, and the years are fragrant. He has passed many turning points in his acting career, and has become more stable and practical. Now, he has become the kind and forbearing Chen Fang in "Warm and Sweet". He dropped something and gained more. Below
, is Lu Yi's self-report.
Chen Fang, who is in a dilemma between love and responsibility
When I received the script of "Warm and Sweet" for the first time at the beginning of this year, I felt deep helplessness from the character Chen Fang .
hides the fact of middle-aged divorce from his family, and takes care of his son while working hard on his career; he has known his true love Nan Fei for four years. With the appearance of pain and past friendship, he threatens the child with his parents, putting him in the dilemma of responsibility and emotion.
At that time, I hadn't acted in an urban emotional drama for three years, and I have been filming theme dramas such as "Together", " Ideal Shine China ", " People's Police " and so on. And I have never played such a role before, and I am a little uncertain about the mentality and state of a divorced man.
Director Liu Jiang has many successful masterpieces of urban emotional dramas, such as "'s Wife's Beautiful Times ", " Let's Get Married ", etc. The production team makes me very relieved. He also always encouraged me, "This role will be your breakthrough." So I grew a beard and became Chen Fang, who endured the vicissitudes of life.
Director Liu Jiang told Lu Yi about the drama The background of the story of
is set in Shanghai. I myself live in Shanghai. I joined the group 10 days before filming started, and discussed with director Liu Jiang the temperament and feeling that the character Chen Fang should have, as well as his state after experiencing various life accidents.
I'm not too different in age from Chen Fang in the play, and I don't need to make too many changes in the external image. But because Chen Fang's life is much more helpless than mine, Director Liu Jiang gave me very useful advice, "Be sure to restrain the sharpness in your eyes and let the whole character sink."
Director Liu Jiang is very knowledgeable and serious about drama. Not only did he give me sincere advice on the handling of the characters, but also gave me a very positive influence on the mentality of the whole team. During the two full months of shutdown due to the epidemic, the director sorted out the script and the actors kept their figure in shape. After the resumption of work, we did not disrupt the rhythm in order to catch up with the schedule, and we finished filming in a down-to-earth manner.
The reason why Chen Fang wants to "sink" is because of the burden on his shoulders. For a middle-aged man like Chen Fang, old and young, the responsibility on his shoulders must be above everything else.
Nan Fei has been under the pressure of family urging marriage, Chen Fang also planned to marry her, and was about to go home to showdown with his parents, but the family was affected by this incident and became chaotic. Everything I had feared had happened, and it was worse than expected.
The ex-wife who insisted on divorce came back with pain and wanted to come back to Chen Fang's side, and also got the support of Chen Fang's relatives. Relatives hope that he will reconcile with his ex-wife for the sake of the healthy growth of the child. She is the biggest obstacle to Chen Fang's responsibility and free choice, and it is also the tie that Chen Fang can't give up.
At first, I thought that my ex-wife was coming to "fight the mandarin ducks", should I act tougher, but the director said, "she is the mother of the child after all", I caught Chen Fang's psychology as soon as I heard it, he should be Complex and soft.
The house was a mess, and the original bright future of Chen Fang and Nanfei was blocked. He is no longer qualified to let Nan Fei continue to wait for him.
The relationship can be broken, but the heart cannot be taken back immediately. After breaking up with Nan Fei, he didn't dare to reveal his feelings for Nan Fei, but he hoped to be able to guard Nan Fei well and hope she had a good life. During this period, many spoilers appeared, and he didn't want Nanfei to waste time when he met the wrong person, even if he was not qualified to give advice. On the other end of
is the son that Chen Fang wants to take care of and the ex-wife he faces. There is a heavy burden both physically and mentally, and he can't express it with tears like Nan Fei, so he struggles every day. The breakup of
is definitely unfair to Nanfei. It's just that in essence, Nan Fei, like Chen Fang, is a person with strong empathy and persistence. She loves Chen Fang's maturity and sense of responsibility, and can understand Chen Fang's helplessness, otherwise she would not have been with Chen Fang who was divorced for four years.
Chen Fang and Nan Fei had a parting scene on a rainy night, which touched me very much.
Song Qian and I did not choose a heartbreaking performance, but finished the performance in a calm and depressed state. The two didn't even embrace. After reaching a painful agreement, they sat together quietly listening to the rain all night, and all secret impulses disappeared with the rain. After saying goodbye early the next morning, they hugged each other and cried. I think the is more powerful than the inseparable part.
Chen Fang's relationship with Nan Fei is actually a reflection of real life. Now the divorce rate is not low, there are many people like Chen Fang who are divorced and have children. It raises a very difficult question: Do people with marriage experience and family pressure have the right to find their true love?
This seems to be an unsolved problem. Especially if the other party has no marriage experience, then first of all, most of the reactions of the other party's parents may be, "My daughter is so good, why should I marry a person who is divorced and has children?"
In this drama, we are just Shows the resistance of parents, children, ex-wife, real lifeThere may be more troublesome or even more bloody stumbling blocks in life.
For this question, I think everyone still has to ask themselves what they really pursue in their hearts. When the audience sees the tortuous love story between Chen Fang and Nan Fei, they will definitely have some insights. In my years of acting career, there have been many turning points. The people I met and the works I took at every turning point made me who I am now.
I have been filming since I was a child. In 1990, I entered the children's drama class of the Shanghai Opera School. After four years of practice in singing, reciting, acting, and playing, I also developed the basic skills of voice, stage, shape and appearance. After graduation, he was assigned to Shanghai Children's Art Theater and has been acting.
I remember the teacher told us at that time, "Actors are engineers of the soul." At that time, I was too young to understand, I just thought it was fun to perform, and when I was in school, I made money while filming, and I felt a sense of pride.
During my internship in Shanghai Children's Art, I followed director Yang Yazhou to Russia to shoot " Bloody Innocent ", and I stayed for half a year. After filming, director Yang Yazhou asked me, why didn't you go to university?
Why don't I go to college? I also asked myself. I've never asked myself this question before. But I am a very persuasive person. Will it open up a new world from secondary school to university? So I resigned from Eryi and was admitted to Shanghai Theater Academy . This ignorant "obedient", became the first turning point in my life.
The second turning point occurred in the third year of college. Director Zhao Baogang took my stills in "Scarlet Innocent" and found me, hoping that I would appear in "Never Rest Your Eyes". I struggled to lose 22 pounds in three weeks to meet my role.
I'm so enthusiastic about this precious opportunity, and I'm staring at this character with all my might. In this drama, I found the feeling of being a real actor.
After "Never Rest Your Eyes" aired in 1999, I received a lot of attention for playing Xiao Tong. At that time, I felt very good, and I felt that I didn't have to worry about acting anymore. Later, I also starred in many dramas such as "Youth Bao Qingtian 2", "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind".
But as I got longer and longer, I felt a kind of burden that became heavier and heavier, and I became more and more aware of the meaning of the teacher's advice at that time that "actors are engineers of the soul".
Acting is not just about playing a role, the thoughts and three views of the characters will be conveyed when you perform. So what am I trying to convey? Playing a positive character should guide the audience with positive values, and playing a negative character should warn the audience with life lessons. The third turning point in
's acting career was when he played Zhuge Liang in "Three Kingdoms" in 2008. I was in my thirties and could play some mature characters. I think the interpretation of historical figures in the famous novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is more important than change. I put a lot of effort into the old Zhuge Liang's play and learned a lot.
After a few more years, he collaborated with director Li Lu on "In the Name of the People". In fact, it is not easy to enter the role of Hou Liangping, because in my impression, there is no similar role that can be compared before, and the only similar theme may be Hong Kong's " Independent Commission Against Corruption ".
Hou Liangping is a lone hero and a clue character in the whole play, linking up events big and small. Mr. Zhou Meisen wrote a lot of lines, and I took a lot of effort to get the lines. The villain does not undertake missionary tasks, and the words of these value outputs can only be spoken by me. I am honored to be part of an iconic work of this era. After
"In the Name of the People", I took on a lot of dramas with the main theme. In 2019, he played an undercover anti-drug police officer in "Hunting Owl". Last year, I collaborated with director Tianyi on "People's Police". This show isn't about solving crimes.Instead, it tells about the police reform of the public security network department in the context of 2009, when Weibo was just born.
These turning points have had a great impact on my acting direction. I have a continuous process of summarizing and accumulating my performance.
The birth of a film and television work is a long-term process. It takes at least two years from the initial formation of the script, the revision of the script, to the director's preparation for finding actors, forming a team, starting shooting, editing, post-production, and finally broadcasting. Sometimes when I go to watch a drama filmed a few years ago, I will inevitably feel a little "shy": How could I act like this at the time?
This kind of introspection adds up, and I have corresponding improvements in the next performances. Every tiny improvement in the may not be noticed by others, but I am still accumulating it.
Times are changing, and the audience's aesthetics are also changing. Maybe the performance method you were familiar with before suddenly became outdated. So I also have to keep up with the times as an actor.
Fortunately, my mentality has been relatively peaceful and stable. A little embarrassed to say, I have no ambitions. When I first became famous, people around me said that my gentle temperament was not suitable for development in this circle. However, it is precisely because of this character that my mentality has never been ups and downs, and I have never had a moment of confusion and frustration. For the next works of
, I will still choose some more socially meaningful characters, convey positive three views, and be a soul "engineer".
【Dialogue/Writing by Li Xingwen/Time One】
