"This back view is Wang Xiao ."
Wang Xiao's appearance in "City Within a City" is from his back. The camera followed him as he moved around, and finally turned back after nearly 30 seconds. There was a familiar sigh in the barrage: "You can recognize it just by listening to the voice."
In the past two years, the audience can see him many times a year in different works, and each time they have a different impression. Last year, it was Yang Jian who made one wrong step in "Hurry Up", it was the cunning and ruthless Qu Zhenxiang in "13 Years of Ashes", and it was the impulsive Ma Zhenkun in "The Three Brigades"; this year, " Article 20 " The popularity of Deputy Inspector Tian has not yet dissipated, and Miao Che from CCTV One and iQiyi's hit "City Within a City" has taken over again.
No matter the size of the role or the number of roles, the audience can always see him at a glance, and even feel a sense of security: he is stable and does not look like an actor.
Not only the audience, but also the collaborators may have this feeling: the characters he plays, whether they are good or evil, have their own sense of relaxation. The crew of "City Within a City" recalled such a detail to us: On the set, Wang Xiao's level of concentration was extraordinary. He would quietly stay in his own world before the reprise of the scene, and he might not be able to react for a long time when someone greeted him. .
"This is really not the style of an artist." During the conversation, Wang Xiao intercepted possible compliments in advance: "I don't want to cause difficulties in filming because of me, so this matter will keep thinking about it. This is also an actor's fault. In preparation for the performance, what are the next steps I have? These all require you to go to the scene and add new ideas and new sounds according to the environment. When it's over, I'll apologize and explain. "
There are many more honest truths in Wang Xiao's conversations with us. He recalled the filming experience in a leisurely manner, and also shared his current performance status - he felt tired, but not anxious; he should seize the roles he could get. As for the various comments about "not acting like one", he simply admitted that he could not consider the problem from this perspective, "Thank you everyone for commenting on a character or an actor like this, but how to achieve this state, I really can't think about it. If I want to If you understand, it's wrong! "
"Bankers are also human beings, and they have ambitions and weaknesses."
In the first episode of "City Within a City", Miao Che, played by Wang Xiao, gave a prophetic line. .
In this work focusing on the ecology and group portraits of the financial industry, ambitions and weaknesses will determine the fate of different characters. Zhao Hui, Su Jianren, Xie Zhiyuan... all kinds of financial people are on the stage. Some have all their traps, some are being attacked from both sides, and they are gradually covered with thick dust. And Miao Che is the one with the most stable background as the hotly discussed "Financial F4" in the drama. His insistence on the bottom line and yearning for the light are from beginning to end.
"He has always been a messenger of justice. It is difficult to act, so it is a challenge." Wang Xiao said frankly that when he took on this role, he not only felt Miao Che's integrity, but also his loneliness. This auditor, who always observes calmly and always speaks with advice, has witnessed the collapse and collapse of the financial industry overseas due to neglect of risk prevention and control and crazy expansion. He firmly chose to return to China, hoping to nip problems in the bud, but unexpectedly his former classmate Still drifting away, swallowed up by greed and ambition.
But thinking about it from another angle, this is also a character with "power". Wang Xiao specifically asked a youngster who worked in a bank to describe the characteristics of an auditor in the eyes of bankers in one sentence. The other person's reply was: he looks kind on the surface, but he does a job that everyone "hates".
Wang Xiao said that this sentence immediately made him understand the difficulty of the work of auditors. He even hoped that every time Miao Che appeared, he could "cold the atmosphere." "Just like the attitude of other people towards the audit department in the play, there is a sense of vigilance implicitly. Because Miao Che is such a person. He seems to smile at everyone, but in fact he may have launched an investigation against you."
What's interesting is that Wang Xiao, who has always been able to move between good and bad characters with ease, is now somewhat "both good and evil" in the eyes of the public. After the premiere of "City Within a City", many viewers speculated that "Financial F4" I wonder if Miao Che will be the "big boss" who has a reversal. Even when he went to a friend's house for dinner, his friend jokingly asked the kid who just went to kindergarten: Do you think Uncle Wang Xiao looks better? Like a good guy, or more like a bad guy?
"Neither!" "This innocent answer stayed in Wang Xiao's heart.
"Perhaps when the crew was selecting actors, they also saw something else behind my serious look. Maybe there was such a contrast. "Of course, he also hopes to add some interesting layers to Miao Che. For example, the small actions of chewing gum, such as the cold humor that makes Tao Wuji "laugh", details are accumulated one after another, making this "messenger of justice" both upright and upright. Without losing the "human touch". "I hope to break the 'serious' feeling a little bit. For example, he likes to see Tao Wuji embarrassed, and he likes to tease his little apprentice, and even some of the jokes are relatively cold. "
"City Within the City" is a "high-end game" of financial executives, and off-screen is a big gathering of powerful actors in the entertainment industry. It is interpreted by Yu Hewei , Wang Xiao, Feng Jiayi , Tu Songyan "Financial Executive F4" has already been talked about by the outside world, especially the scene where the four people have a dinner together, and there are words in the words, which makes the audience hooked.
Looking back now, Wang Xiao is also interested in it. This scene left a deep impression on me. It was the first time that the four actors came together on the set, and it was the first time that they collided with each other's acting styles. However, they performed another important scene with an average of 800 minds per character, so, There is a subtle sense of atmosphere in and out of the play, "both between the actors and between the characters."
"The actors must cooperate with each other, but at the same time, there is also confrontation, and everyone has to work together." I went back and forth to create this drama. I remember that before the filming started, we all chatted for a few words and then started walking around. At that stage, we were actually 'testing' each other. This kind of 'testing' was exactly in line with the testing between the characters in the play - it was a pretty big scene. , some characters are talking, some are not, and those who are not may be thinking more. That subtle atmosphere is actually created in such an environment. "
Yes, it is not so much a "drama", but rather, he really enjoys the excitement brought by this kind of rival actor.
Wang Xiao remembers that when he was young, when he was filming, he would often "finish the scene" in his mind before filming. . How to schedule, how the opponent takes over, all aspects, fully imagined. However, when we get to the scene, things are completely different from what we imagined: the scene is different, the rhythm is different, and even the opponent's moves are different. What should I do?
"I just know that the performance is different. You shouldn't be fixed by your own imagination from the beginning. There must be some space left for everyone to work together on the spot. "He realized that many wonderful performances come from instant instincts, which are the actors' intuitive physiological reactions under specific situations and stimuli. They cannot be copied or even repeated.
"What you and the audience feel may be different. , and sometimes your ability may only reach this level - if I go back in a time machine now, I may not be able to change anything. Many good performances are the reaction of a moment on the spot. No matter how good it is, it cannot be copied. If you want to copy it, then what you give must be something deliberate and artificial, and it will become unnatural. "
In addition to the promotion brought by the "Uncle Circle", Wang Xiao also enjoyed the cooperation with the young actor Bai Yufan. He described the two of them as "i people", and the cooperation went from slow to successful. Process. "He is very, very smart. He will absorb things from his opponent's actors instantly on the scene and then use them on himself naturally. As an antagonist, I can totally relate to that, and to see him make it his own, you know this is a smart, focused actor."
From a non-scientific "interloper" who wanted to devote himself to acting, to a mature actor who has continuously cooperated with gold medal creative teams and is classified as "quality assurance" by the audience, Wang Xiao's achievements in recent years are obvious to all. But when our topic changes When asked how to evaluate the current state, the answer he gave was unexpected and quite sincere: "It's when I'm tired. "
" This is a normal psychological state after working in the industry for a long time. Playing so many roles and living so many lives every year, it’s impossible to completely separate all the roles, so what kind of division would it be? "He said with a smile that being an actor is a divisive job, and you have to try to make the characters fresh. "You have to be distant from yourself, and you will inevitably add your own inner things, so after a long time, you will definitely feel tired. "
Fortunately, he doesn't feel anxious. Instead, he regards it as a normal work routine, constantly reminding himself to be more cautious in choosing roles and to consider his job choices - When reading the script, were you attracted? What is in front of him? Isn’t it graphic?
“This is very important to me, not to distinguish the characters based on their career, life background, and growth history, but to feel the color of the characters. "Wang Xiao said that on the basis of the attractiveness of the characters, he will also choose the characters based on his age, status, and ability. To be honest, when reading "City Within a City", the one he was most interested in was actually Zhou Lin , but there are differences between men and women. If you can't play it, you can't play it. "There are also some roles that are really well written, but if you think I can't achieve it, then you have to give up, or I'll wait and see if I can do it in the future. Fate.
Would such a conservative attitude in accepting roles appear to be conservative?
Wang Xiao calmly accepted this question: "Sometimes career path cannot be separated from personality. Some people like to choose roles with great contrast. This is not the case." The problem is that everyone’s abilities are different. I definitely have to know where my abilities are. Maybe I can play in the future, but it may not be suitable at this moment. Don’t let a good role go to waste if it’s not the right fit. "
In other words, it is not that he has never sighed, "It would be great if I could play this role." But Wang Xiao clearly knows that it is useless to think too much, "You just take the role that is given to you. , sort it out, do it better, don’t think about anything else."
"It is extremely happy and calm for an actor to play the role he loves, because you will be willing to invest a lot of energy and thoughts into him. Active creation. Therefore, of course I also hope to encounter better characters, all kinds of characters with different types of work and different personalities, and I hope to present them well within the scope of my ability. "
