The period life emotional drama "Alley People" directed by Zhang Kaizhou is currently being aired on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV. The story of the play revolves around two families, Zhuang and Lin, who live together in an alley in the family area of ​​a cotton spinning factor

The period life emotional drama " Alley People " directed by Zhang Kaizhou is currently being aired on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV. The story of the play revolves around two families, Zhuang and Lin, who live together in an alley in the family area of ​​a cotton spinning factory in Suzhou in the late 1970s. Faced with the changes of the times such as the resumption of the college entrance examination, the return of educated youth to the city, and reform and opening up, the fate of the two parents and their children has undergone earth-shaking changes... Yan Ni plays the role of cotton mill worker Huang Ling in the play. She has a gentle and forbearing character. , but they will also deal with and fight against eccentric parents-in-law and foolish and filial husbands in order to protect the interests of their children and family.

Huang Ling and Song Ying ( Jiang Xin) who live in the same small courtyard are colleagues and best friends. They support each other in life and truly explain what "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors". In the play, Huang Ling's "breaking the ice" that made Song Ying burst into laughter and her "Lin Daiyu-style crying" after parting witnessed the touching friendship between the two women and were the highlight moments of the whole play. In an exclusive interview with the Beijing News, Yan Ni analyzed that Huang Ling became more smiley after meeting Song Ying, and Song Ying made her understand that she must love herself in this life. During the performance, she gradually got to know Huang Ling and felt that Huang Ling has a stable core and a strong heart. She has the charm of traditional Chinese women who overcome strength with softness, and also has the power of women beyond the times.

Yan Ni plays the role of Huang Ling, who has a gentle and tolerant personality.

Huang Ling understands the essence of the old saying "If you are not crazy or deaf, you will not be a writer"

Huang Ling is from the south, while Yan Ni is from the northwest. People in different regions have different ways of expressing emotions. Yan Ni also gradually got to know the character Huang Ling through constant discussions and rehearsals with the director. "I think Huang Ling is a woman with a stable core, a strong heart, and great wisdom in life. She has a charm that overcomes strength with softness. She can clearly distinguish what she wants and what she wants to do." Yan Ni mentioned the old saying "Don't be crazy. "If you are not deaf, you are not a writer." She felt that Huang Ling understood the essence of it and knew very well when she could not give in and when she could turn a blind eye. Her parents-in-law came to ask her nephews to live in her house, but Huang Ling would rather get divorced for Tunan's college entrance examination than give in; the banker would not let her and her daughter Zhuang Xiaoting serve the New Year's Eve dinner, so she calmly took her daughter to the stove to eat. "Because she knows that children don't really care whether they are on the table or not. As long as they are with their mother, they are the greatest happiness. And no one cares about eating at the stove. It is happier without restraints."

Huang Ling also knows when to give. Sincerely, when should you stop losses in time. She took good care of her nephew Xiang Pengfei as her own child, and Xiang Pengfei later repaid the family sincerely; her neighbor Lao Wu remarried, and the Wu Shanshan siblings left behind by her ex-wife were ignored in the reorganized family. She would marry Song Ying cared about the two children together. But when Wu Shanshan grew up, she would firmly refuse if she made ever-increasing demands: "Every family has its own life, and we cannot bear the burdens of other families." In Yan Ni's view, Huang Ling has qualities that transcend the times. , that is a kind of female power. "The reason why she can put a lot of things on the table and talk things through with her parents-in-law is because she is financially independent. Zhuang Chaoying's money is not given to Huang Ling, and their money is separate. Although Huang Ling is also envious Song Ying is a married couple, but she can accept that her husband's income is not given to her. "

As long as the interests of her children and her family are not involved, Huang Ling is gentle and tolerant most of the time. Huang Ling's first outburst in the play was when she finally queued up to buy meat, and Zhuang Chaoying told her that her parents-in-law and brother-in-law's family were coming to eat. After Zhuang Chaoying left, her expression changed and she couldn't help but curse: "You bastard, your family is all bastards!" This line was in the script, and the director also wrote another sentence in the script "Cangli Minoru" And know etiquette." Only after Yan Ni stepped into the role of Huang Ling and immersed herself in the era and environment she lived in did she truly understand the meaning of the sentence written by the director. "At that time, everyone's conditions were relatively difficult, and it was not easy to buy meat. Huang Ling really hoped that her children could eat more meat.Her parents-in-law knew that her family was cooking meat, so they brought her brother-in-law's family over for dinner. For Huang Ling, this was stealing meat from her children's mouths, which violated the interests of her family. She wasn't someone who didn't dare to speak out her thoughts, so she didn't understand etiquette and scolded her. "

Between laughter and crying, the friendship between two women lasts a lifetime.

In "Alley People", the friendship between Huang Ling and Song Ying is very touching, especially the scene where Huang Ling sends Song Ying off to Guangzhou to say goodbye. There are many The audience was in tears. Song Ying was in a daze in the empty house, and Huang Ling was wearing a beautiful dress. She walked in pretending to be relaxed and even turned around a few times, holding Song Ying's hand and shaking it gently: "Let's go, it's too late." When Song Ying left in the car, Huang Ling returned to her house. The figure is like a collapsed figure lying on the female Yan Ni thought a lot about her shoulder pain before filming this scene: "I was thinking that I (Huang Ling) didn't sleep all night, so I rushed to wear this dress to give it to her (Song Ying) because she liked it. I dress nicely. How should I walk in? She must have felt lost at that time, because she didn't know what the future would be like. I wanted to walk in easily and let her leave with ease. When I got out the door, I lowered my head because I didn't want Song Ying to see me sad. I must have been smiling when I walked out of the alley..."

After meeting Song Ying, Huang Ling became more smiley.

script says, yellow Ling cried after seeing Song Ying off. After getting the script, Yan Ni kept thinking about how Huang Ling would cry in this scene. On the day of filming, the director told her that Huang Ling should look like Lin Daiyu in this scene. also cried. "As soon as he said 'Lin Daiyu', I immediately found that feeling. I asked Xiaotong to sit on the edge and said to her, "Let mom hold your shoulders." Because Lin Daiyu is weak, she will definitely cry while supporting someone. So in this scene, I supported my daughter and cried, my posture was like Lin Daiyu, but my crying sound was like Grandma Liu. Although I was sad inside, I smiled when I said, "Xiao Ting, no one in this hospital can protect your mother anymore." " Yan Ni said that Huang Ling was actually a very sober and understanding person. At that moment, she wanted to "understand" but couldn't do it. During the filming, the director played Huang Ling's body with changes in light and shadow, and Yan Ni At that moment, I felt more clearly the precious friendship between the two women, which was particularly impressive.

In addition to crying, the laughter between Huang Ling and Song Ying was also touching. When the two met for the first time in the small courtyard, Song Ying saw her son Lin Dongzhe and Huang Ling's two children playing together, and tears flashed in her eyes. She explained: "Wu Feng (Song Ying's lover Lin Wu Feng) and I are usually busy. Before we moved here, Dongzhe usually played alone. Huang Ling asked her at this time: "Then you left your son alone at Secretary Zhang's house. Did you cry secretly when you got home?" Song Ying immediately burst into tears and laughed, and the two became good sisters from then on. This sentence was what Yan Ni wanted to add. She discussed with the director why the two became best friends because Huang Ling dared to say such true things. "She (Song Ying) must have been worried when she put her son at Secretary Zhang's house in order to divide the house. Only if I can break through her psychology at that moment and make her burst into laughter, the atmosphere of that scene will change in an instant, and the distance between us will become closer. Teacher Jiang Xin was also very nice and said let’s give it a try. We just acted it out, and I felt really good when I saw her burst into laughter at that moment. "

Huang Ling and Song Ying (first from the right) are good besties.

eating snake melon acting in a drama, showing the joy of life in a realistic way

"Little In the early plot of "Alley Family", snake melons were an important "prop". The Zhuang and Lin families planted snake melons in their yard to save money on buying vegetables. Unexpectedly, snake melons were so productive that everyone gave them away when they got tired of eating them. It couldn't be sent out. Snake melon also caused many related incidents. For example, Lin Dongzhe took snake melon to the class to scare his classmates, and finally his parents were invited.After the episode was aired, snake melon sparked discussions on social platforms, with netizens asking what kind of vegetable it was. Yan Ni didn't know what snake melon looked like before she joined the crew for filming. During the filming, she ate a lot of fried snake melon and thought it tasted a lot like zucchini . In her opinion, snake melon is very similar to the spirit that "Alley People" wants to convey - "Snake melon can be fried, pickled, made into dumplings...it can be made into a variety of dishes. You can eat it any way you like. It doesn’t need much care to grow well, it bears many snake melons, and its vitality is very strong.”

Snake melons are so prolific that they add a lot of interesting plots to the play.

Yan Ni’s performance is very accurate and very life-like. She can easily bring the audience into the drama and contribute many hilarious and famous scenes - Xiao Lin Dongzhe snatches Zhuang Xiaoting’s picture album to sell, and "threatens" that if she doesn’t give it, Tunan will not do anything in the future. Take her to play. Tunan said: "She is my sister, my biological sister." Huang Ling in the outer room added at the right time: "My biological..." The unique rhythm and rhyme made the audience laugh; later Lin Dongzhe borrowed Zhuang Xiaoting's composition to write "My Dad" "Written as Uncle Zhuang, he was jointly educated by his parents. Huang Ling, who was listening to Lin Dongzhe's cry next door, was laughing so hard that she couldn't hide her smile even when she spoke, and the audience was also happy. "Our two families are separated by a wall, and all kinds of sounds can actually be heard. Why did I act a little 'over' in that scene? This is my layout for the character Huang Ling. I hope everyone Seeing this moment and seeing Huang Ling's happiness, Huang Ling was not a person who liked to laugh before. The main change after meeting Song Ying is that she can be unrestrained. Laughed. Song Ying's family brought her too much joy, so Huang Ling will feel lonely and lonely when Song Ying and others leave."

When talking about the comedy elements in "Alley People", Yan Ni said frankly that she hopes to bring it to herself. Something humorous was brought to this play. "I think this is one of my characteristics as an actor." She mentioned that when she was acting in "Wulin Gaiden ", director Shang Jing asked the actors to be "real, accurate, changeable and expressive". "These are the four stages of performance. First, it must be true, then it must be accurate. The rhythm of the comedy is half a beat early and half a beat late, so the audience will not laugh. Then it must be changeable and expressive. These eight words are not easy to achieve. Yes, I have been groping in my performance since then. I need to constantly read the script, talk to the director, chat with the opponent actors, and constantly think about it."

Beijing News reporter Yang Lianjie

editor Tong Na

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