Hu Lianxin: Learn from her mother for the filming of “The World”
2022-02-28 11:50:08Source: Beijing Youth Daily
At the beginning of the new year, the TV series “The World” produced by Xinli Media was first broadcast on CCTV and iQIYI. The play was adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous writer Liang Xiaosheng. History, with its bright and three-dimensional characters, exciting stories, and positive mainstream values, aroused emotional resonance and heated discussions among the audience as soon as it was broadcast. Recently, Hu Lianxin, a young actor who plays Feng Yue in the play, accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily and shared her behind-the-scenes story of filming “The World“.
In the early stage, she starred as a junior high school student
Looking for a sense of age from my mother
Hu Lianxin, born in 2000, is currently a student in the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama. In “The World“, the 22-year-old starred as a junior high school student, and her youthful face was accused of “no sense of disobedience”. She also revealed that in the early stage, in order to be more in line with the character’s age, she appeared without makeup. The texture of the age and the age of the characters, there is almost no makeup at the beginning, almost no makeup, and even the skin has a black background, which is darker than my own skin.”
In the original work, the character of Feng Yue has a wide age range, which is bound to increase the difficulty of character shaping. When talking about character modeling, Hu Lianxin said with a smile: “There is no challenge to me. The one who may challenge is the makeup teacher of the crew. This role has a wide age range. After all, it is from junior high school students to office workers in their thirties.” In order to be more in line with the character’s age in the middle and later stages of the play, Hu Lianxin made a lot of preparations, “It’s more about character observation, I will use those photos of my mother when she was young, or some living habits and temperament of the people around me, to play the role. The shaping of the mature female part of it.”
The most difficult part of playing Feng Yue is that the character Feng Yue in the play was born in the 1970s, and the actor Hu Lianxin, who is a post-00s generation, is too far apart from each other. Fortunately, her mother happened to be born in 1973, and Hu Lianxin started from her mother’s story and experience, trying to find out the living conditions of young people at that time, “As for the span of that era, and the future work in Shenzhen, I have everything. I asked my mother for advice, because my mother happened to be working in Shenzhen, and I would always ask her for advice about my life experience in that era.” She specifically looked for the photos and videos that her mother took before, and read it over and over, “And she and her When I describe my stories and experiences when I was young, I would feel her age and her thinking, or what she was after was different from ours, and then I figured out how to do it.”
It’s too shocking for the seniors to enter the play in one second
Crying scenes rely on immersive performances
As a big drama of the era broadcast on CCTV, “The World” gathered a group of old, middle-aged and young powerful actors such as Sarina, Ding Yongdai, Lei Jiayin, Xin Baiqing, Yin Tao, Song Jia, etc. The superb acting skills of all of them made the audience unanimously praised. As a junior, Hu Lianxin’s performance is also not lacking in bright spots. Some netizens said that “although his acting skills cannot be compared with those of his predecessors, the completion of the whole role is very high, especially in the scene of arguing with his aunt in the face of emotional problems, emotional expression. Very layered.”
As a newcomer in film and television, this is the first time to cooperate with so many actors that I have admired very much before. Hu Lianxin said that the seniors have helped me a lot, “The biggest experience is that the seniors are all in the play in a second, and when their emotions are over, they are very helpful. , the whole person can complete their role without distractions, especially when it comes to major emotional dramas, it is easy to take me into the drama together.” Just facing the old drama bones in the minds of all the people, as a junior, she Sometimes I still get nervous. “Looking at them in the eyes and finding out that they are already in the play, sometimes I’m really shocked and dumbfounded, and then I don’t know how to act.” Especially in the emotional connection between the two scenes There are certain difficulties and challenges, but fortunately, on the whole, “it is still very smooth”.
What made Hu Lianxin most memorable was filming a mother-daughter quarrel with Song Jia. The two were too involved in the drama and quarreled, “I was so anxious that I rushed into my room and slammed the door shut, and I didn’t know how to monitor it. What was the device like, when I went out later, I saw that she was also wiping her tears weakly.”
In the play, Feng Yue’s several crying scenes were well received by the audience. Some netizens said, “In only 37 episodes, Hu Lianxin contributed 100 ways to perform crying scenes.” Hu Lianxin expressed this. , There is no skill in crying scenes, “I prefer to be immersed in the emotions of my character, thinking about nothing, trusting the opponent’s actors, trusting myself, trusting the lines, in an extremely relaxed atmosphere, maybe I can express the role very freely Emotions”.
In life is a house girl who loves to paint
Hope for more possibilities in the future
Unlike Feng Yue, who is selfish and rebellious in the play, Hu Lianxin in life is a girl who cares about the feelings of her family very much, and she is more housebound. She also likes to draw, and once donated her paintings to public welfare activities, she especially likes to draw small animals, although she has not studied it systematically, she thinks that “small animals are not bad”, “Maybe because I like small animals very much, That way you can draw them well.”
Although it is a post-00s generation, “The World” is not the first drama that Hu Lianxin starred in. She has previously appeared in the online drama “Detective Chinatown” and the TV series “The Ideal Life of Love”, as well as the movie “1921”. Hu Lianxin also played an important role in the dramas “Our Southwest Associated University”, “Yin Niang”, “Basic Law of Genius” and “Kunlun Silk Road Treasure”. What is less well-known is that she also became the national “Female No. 1 Scholar” of the Central Academy of Drama in 2018 by virtue of her excellent admission results.
Taking part in “The World” this time, Hu Lianxin not only won the attention and favor of the audience, but also made her think more about life and feelings, and gained a lot of experience in professional learning, “After filming this drama, I went back to school. When I went to rehearse the graduation drama, I knew that I had learned a lot invisibly. I would recall the way my seniors handled the drama, and the state of the filming. It may be muscle memory. After watching it, I will have the desire to imitate. In my own graduation drama.”
For the future, Hu Lianxin hopes to open up new drama paths beyond previous roles, and constantly challenge new roles and new themes, “As long as the script is good, the production team is good, and everyone is working hard on this drama, I will definitely accept it, because a movie No matter good or bad, drama has its advantages and disadvantages.” She believes that she is still in the stage of learning and growth, and hopes to express some acting skills as much as possible, and also hopes to learn more things from her predecessors. “I’m not very picky about roles, because I allow myself all possibilities. And as long as the production team finds me, there must be their reasons. If they want me to play a role, as long as the script logic is fine Questions, if I like them, I will take them, no matter if they are suitable or not, I hope there will be more attempts and possibilities in the performance.”
Text/Reporter Wang Lei Coordinator/Man Yi