September 25, 2022 | Total Issue 3005
I have a habit of finding feelings. I will use the "quasi-object" method to try my best to extract the animality of the characters, so as to quickly feel the pulse of the characters.
Actors can't just look at superficial phenomena, and don't help characters to explain without authorization, they must go back to the source and find motives behind the characters. Otherwise, not only will the audience be stunned, but I will also be stunned.
I never hide my ambitions, I dare to put my desires on the table, I want to act well, I want to play a leading role, I want to be the best actress and the best actress. But these are not what I want, I'm just an actor, and I can't control anything other than my own performance.
is different from the previous year's "bad woman" Liang Anni and last year's "social animal" Wu Hongmei, 's high-yield Gao Ye this year, has come up with four more recognizable and discussed characters .
She is the cool and lovely Li Xiaotian in " Our Marriage ", Chu Yingzi, the "femme beauty" in " Hunting Guide ", and the sober and decisive Tang Chu in "Outside Court: The Fallen Overboard", Is " are you safe ? "The "fake lady" Xia Yan.
These four dramas were all filmed last year. Although the proportion of each role in the drama is slightly different, for Gao Ye, there is no difference in the size of the role. Regardless of the number of scenes, actors need to be fully prepared in advance to understand and become characters, and then accurately grasp every expression and every action of the characters during the shooting.
talked about last year's shooting experience, while Gao Ye talked eloquently, she also admitted that she did feel "emptied" , "As soon as I left this group, I entered the next group. It's basically a state of continuous rotation." So this year, Gao Ye took a rare vacation for herself and recharged her life in order to discharge more thoroughly in the future. Playing old routines is not her creative state.
Gao Ye dared to put "ambition" on the table, but she also knew that the opportunity would not come without a word. What she has to do now is to perform every role of herself, so that the audience can recognize from the heart that only Gao Ye can play this role.
She is very clear about her advantages in acting, and she also understands that "biting the old ones" is not advisable. In her opinion, mastering "techniques" proficiently is just a step into the door of performance. How to interpret the details vividly and naturally is a higher-level skill, and performance is never a superficial job. Below
, is the narration of actor Gao Ye.
expressed his "feminine view" in the performance
"Our Marriage" was the director who came to me directly. They had seen " I am Yu Huanshui " before, and they had a good impression on me, so they sent me the script .
After reading the script, I fell in love with the character Li Xiaotian. She is an independent woman who is arrogant in the workplace, and at the same time maintains her longing for love like a girl. This contrast is very interesting. And I can feel that I can output some of my own opinions through Li Xiaotian.
Maybe everyone thinks that older single women like Li Xiaotian have a miserable life haha, but this is not the case, single women can also have a good life. We welcome love at any time, but we are still wonderful without it.
is like Li Xiaotian in the play. She can watch movies, cook, and paint by herself. It makes her very comfortable to live in her own world. This is also the life I long for.
Today we are always talking about "independent women". How does a woman count as independent? Is there a sufficient economic basis? Have an impeccable appearance? Neither, women's independence is to accept and love themselves from the bottom of their hearts, and accept themselves frankly.One's own strengths and weaknesses, this is independence.
If a person is verbally independent, but always racks his brains for appearance anxiety and to please others, it is easy to trap himself.
Women can't get distracted by outside rhetoric. Why I like the drama "Our Marriage" very much, because it dares to talk about this phenomenon on the table, and dare to use Li Xiaotian to wake up the girls who have not yet come out of prison, which is too rare.
The audience can see that Li Xiaotian always has a feeling of "floating". She has her own rhythm whether she speaks or works. This is something I discussed with the director in advance. Li Xiaotian is highly self-consistent in thought, and can keep calm at all times, she will not live with a tight string. Regarding the relationship between
and Huo Liankai, Wang Xiao and I drew the line and set the tone of the performance when we were reading the script. In the original script, Li Xiaotian and Huo Liankai were representatives of the type of marriage between children and we both felt that this trend did not match the tonality of the characters. Audiences who have watched the show must know how much these two despised marriage and having children before. How could they happily decide to get married when they have children?
So my brother Xiao and I felt that since the other lines have already expressed various marital statuses thoroughly, it is better for us to talk about adult love in this line. The love of adults is not passionate, it must happen to the same kind of people, and the process is gradual and mutual testing.
Li Xiaotian and Huo Liankai are actually the same kind of people, but they were on opposite sides because of their work. Their spiritual world is very full and they enjoy their lives.
For example, Li Xiaotian likes to draw, and Huo Liankai is very interested in red wine, and both have their own areas of interest. For example, Huo Liankai felt that Li Xiaotian took a fancy to him as soon as he came up. Tell me how confident he is.
The love between Li Xiaotian and Huo Liankai gradually grew between push and pull. Take the two meals at home as an example. The first time Huo Liankai went to Li Xiaotian's house, he took the initiative to eat, the second time Li Xiaotian invited him there, and the third time Huo Liankai came to the house with something to cook for Xiaotian. For the fourth time, the two of them voiced their hearts out to each other and clarified their relationship while drinking.
I believe that as long as two people can sit and eat together, they can eat more and more. There must be a subtext on the relationship level. Most people rarely eat with people who are not interested, let alone being proud like Li Xiaotian?
Including Li Xiaotian was pregnant later, although she would be confused and hesitant, but she never thought of using the child to tie Huo Liankai. Her hesitation was because she knew that once she had a child, her life would be disrupted, and she was afraid that her life was about to get out of control, not a name or a relationship.
I admired Oda when I was acting. She was not only sober, but also very courageous, "I want this child because I want to be responsible for this life, not because I want you Huo Liankai. This is my child, I decided The power rests with me."
I hope the audience can see Li Xiaotian's pursuit of pure love, and I want to tell the girls who always believe in love through Xiaotian, you are not alone, and don't be disappointed in love. The Tang Dynasty in
"Outside Court: The Fallen" is also an independent woman. I think she is Li Xiaotian in a parallel world. She can understand everything clearly, and can always see things uniquely and thoroughly.
Tang Chu and Qiao Shaoting's marriage was also because of love, and even when they went to divorce, Tang Chu cared about Qiao Shaoting very much. The audience can see that although Tang Chu and Qiao Shaoting are going to divorce, she is still worried about his injury and is willing to discuss the child with him.
But Tang Chu knew in his heart that Qiao Shaoting's state no longer matched her needs. He had no time to take care of the children and no energy to take care of the family. Such days exhausted Tang Chu's energy. She didn't want to let herself be dragged by him. Also unwilling to accommodate Qiao Shaoting.
Although she still cares about him, she no longer wants to be with himHe lives together. Just like what Tang Chu said: "Marriage is not what protects love." For Tang Chu, although she loved Qiao Shaoting, she couldn't lose herself because of this love.
If Li Xiaotian made the audience believe in love, then I hope that the early Tang Dynasty can make the audience not "mythical" love , love is actually the secretion of dopamine , which lasts only a few years, it can really make two people go on, It must be running in, being inclusive, and needing each other.
The premise of loving others must be loving yourself. I have always believed that the way you love yourself determines the way your other half loves you. For today's women, love must be the icing on the cake, not the garden.
Seize the "animal nature" of the characters
"The Hunting Guide" and "Are You Safe?" "I made a cameo appearance. I remember that I only played Chu Yingzi for one day. The filming started in the afternoon and lasted until three o'clock in the morning.
For me, the difficulty of this character is to show her sense of danger, you think, how crazy she must be to use blood as lipstick and blood on paper. The key to playing this kind of role is to have a good sense of proportion, a little less force is not enough, and a little more is too much.
I have a habit when I'm looking for feelings. I will use the "quasi-object" method to try my best to extract the animality of the characters, so as to quickly feel the pulse of the characters. is like Chu Yingzi. As soon as I saw the script, I felt that her aggressiveness, bloodthirsty, and sinister sense determined that she must be a carnivore.
When I watched "Animal World" before, I found that the lioness's eyes and pacing are very scary, including when it is injured, it always reveals a danger signal.
So I used it on Chu Yingzi, when I imagine myself as a lioness , I can't speak kindly, and I can't make a gentle and charming demeanor, think about it, if How do you feel when a lion suddenly walks by your side? It is impossible not to be afraid.
I have seen many viewers say that Chu Yingzi is a "femme beauty", indeed, she is a dangerous and beautiful person.
"Are you safe? The same is true of Xia Yan in ", she is actually a self-proclaimed "stupid beauty", From a quasi-physical point of view, I think she is a peacock who is ready to open the screen at any time. In order to marry into a wealthy family, she went to the training class for wealthy wives, and in order to put on a high profile in front of Qin Huai, she was dragged like 25,000 to 80,000 as soon as she got up, but she was smashed twice in a row.
Whether it is a decent or a villain, an actor must not prejudge and characterize the character, but must fully understand the character, rationalize the character's motives, logic, and relationship between the characters, otherwise you will be acting awkwardly.
is like Chu Yingzi, of course I know she is a bad person, but I can't criticize her from the commanding heights of morality, and use my established impression of bad people to play her "beyond recognition", the effect must be very twisted.
The audience saw that Chu Yingzi broke the law, but why she broke the law requires me to reveal the information to the audience through the performance. As the police portrait artist Shen Yi said to Chu Yingzi: "When you mention him, your eyes are like looking at a lover in the distance." The reason why Chu Yingzi is so protective of Cao Dong is because she loves him, and she has to keep it His own life, but also to guard Cao Dong's life. The reason why she told the truth to Shen Yi was because of Shen Yi's words, "I can let you see him again, do you really want to die in prison alone like this, and never see him again?" After all, Shen Yi actually took advantage of Chu Yingzi's love.
is actually the same for Xia Yan. She tried her best to rely on tricks and lies to get close to Shi Quan. How could she easily let go? There must be a reason for her to make such a choice. Interest, status, and image are the things she values most, and she will never allow the glass cover she has worked so hard to manage for many years to be shattered in the slightest.
Actors can't just look at superficial performanceDon't help the characters to explain without authorization, you must go back to the source and find the motive behind the characters. Otherwise, not only will the audience be stunned, but I will also be stunned.
I think that as long as the core logic of the characters is grasped, other barriers will naturally be broken through. This is the same as Paoding Jie Niu, "the one who loves is the Tao, and it is the skill."
I try my best to make myself irreplaceable
I graduated from Nortel to the present, I have been acting for more than ten years, and I have to say that the character I played with the greatest contrast with myself is actually Wu Hongmei in " Ideal City ". I also saw many viewers say in the barrage, "I didn't realize that Wu Hongmei's actor is Gao Ye", I was actually very happy to see such a comment, which shows that my performance is still recognized by the audience.
In my life, I am not very "Wu Hongmei", I am bold, cheerful, funny, and a little "biased", while Wu Hongmei is more cowardly, conservative, and a bit rustic. It's not easy for me to find Wu Hongmei's feelings.
I was also curious about why the director appointed me to play Wu Hongmei. Later, the director told me that he had watched the movie " Frontier " that I acted when I just graduated, and felt that my performance was very lifelike, which was similar to Wu Hongmei's. Comparable tones.
I was a little under-confident at first, but when I heard the director's trust in me, I felt that I had to prepare well, learn from my "social animal" friends around me, understand their status at work, and refer to their reactions when they got angry at work, etc. , Just by digging out the details little by little, only Wu Hongmei can be seen by the audience. In those days of
, I was completely immersed in Wu Hongmei's state, and I also became obedient in life. I remember when I was filming in Shanghai, a photographer friend of mine happened to be there, and he said he wanted to shoot a new set of photos for me. I was very happy after hearing that, and I dressed up before meeting him.
After the filming started, he felt wrong no matter what, and kept saying to me, "Why do you have a dull feeling in your eyes?" Later, my agent also said, I always felt that I was shrinking.
Actors are people too, I can't completely separate myself from the characters. In addition, I am more sensitive, so I will be more involved in capturing details.
The audience can still see the complex human nature in Wu Hongmei. She will be jealous of Su Xiao, who is soaring, and she will break up with her poor boyfriend after making up her mind. I think these are inevitable, and I understand her very well.
"Do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from unevenness", when everyone has a thorn in their hearts, under the influence of Su Xiao and the imprisonment of her original family, her transformation is almost at the door. At this time, Zhao Xiankun appeared . She is such an inconspicuous person with no self-confidence, and she was suddenly recognized by the high-ranking chairman. For her, there was a light in her life. How could she miss it?
Wu Hongmei further opened my boundaries and gave me more confidence to face unknown challenges. In today’s society, there are not so many underappreciated talents. Everyone will encounter countless opportunities to prove themselves, but when the opportunity comes, whether we have enough confidence and excellent ability to catch it, this is the point.
is just like myself, I never hide my ambitions, I dare to put my desires on the table, I want to act well, I want to be a leader, I want to be the best actress and the best actress. But these are not what I want, I'm just an actor, and I can't control anything other than my own performance. I can only maintain my own state, do not blame others, and do my best to obey the destiny.
For me now, it is actually not difficult to play the characters in place, but the difficulty of is how to let the audience see and recognize my "irreplaceability" in the role. I hope that every time the audience sees one of my characters, they will say from the bottom of their heart: "This role is none other than Gao Ye." The audience is smart, and actors really can't think highly of themselves. can be captured by the audience.
I have two more dramas to meet with you next, one is " Hurricane ", my character is Chen Shuting, she is very tough and brave, and she feels very hearty when she acts. The other is "Obstinence is like a Shadow", in which I play Qin Hongyan, a woman who is different from the previous roles and a little cute.
In the future, I actually hope to have the opportunity to play a comedic character. I hope the audience can see more of me. Apart from cool and sexy labels, I am still a "comedian". I believe that in the soul of every woman, there lives a pure and middle-aged girl. This is the most authentic charm of women. If there is a chance, I would like to show it to everyone.
I hope that in the profession of an actor, I can see all beings and experience life in all shapes and sizes, so that my choice, my persistence, and my original intention will not be in vain.
[Text/Yichen]
