Interview with Huang Xiaoming： The only thing I am unwilling to do is to shoot better works.

Special feature of 1905 film network When it comes to Huang Xiaoming, there are always many topics, especially performances.

Every time there are different possibilities, controversies and approvals. Although the audience often has stereotypes about him, in recent years, these impressions are gradually being replaced. The more core word in him is "volume" — — For the sake of the work, I lost 30 pounds; In order to perform, I recite lines day and night, turning technical terms into muscle memory … …

Hard work always pays off. In the past few months alone, Huang Xiaoming has made great achievements in film and television, and all kinds of famous scenes are not perfect, but they are enough to piece together the present and efforts of "Huang Xiaoming".

The film "The Last Truth" is particularly prominent. He participated in it as a "producer", and the lawyer Ding Yifeng he played was not perfect, but kind and pure enough.

Huang Xiaoming would say that if he met this role before the age of 40, he might not be able to play it well. I just experienced all kinds of ups and downs in my life. Facing the lens of the 1905 movie network, he bluntly said, "I am particularly aware of his desire to get up."

"Ding Yifeng" is like a jigsaw puzzle, and we follow this role, trying to piece together a complete "present Huang Xiaoming". Maybe he’s still the popular person, but he’s just a man. Why should he be perfect?

Enter the "truth"

For the works and characters, Huang Xiaoming is eager to get feedback from the public, and he doesn’t want to be touted. "I think the most important thing about movies is that they are better than expected after the cinema."This is exactly what he felt after reading the script of The Last Truth.

At that time, the producer found Huang Xiaoming with the script. It was not a mass-produced film, and both the screenwriter and the director were newcomers, and the creative process was not easy. Huang Xiaoming read the script and was moved by the story and cried. "I like this story very much."

There is a line in the movie trailer, "black and white, all villains."It seems that there is no distinction between good people and bad people in the whole film, but after every reversal, the story will eventually have an answer, and "reversal and kindness of human nature" is just the key to impress Huang Xiaoming.

But he is very clear that such a story will inevitably have many problems in the face of the market. If he plays it himself, he must support the story. Huang Xiaoming reasoned, "I’ll just help to the end and be a producer." For this reason, he set up a cast and invited NI YAN and Tumen to play the most special relationship in the film, and the story began with them.

He joked that after reading the script, he once envied Jin Ximei from the actor’s point of view. "This role is particularly likely to win the film." Compared with Ding Yifeng, Jin Ximei will be more extreme. "But I like Ding Yifeng very much, the struggle of the little people’s content and the glory of finally choosing human nature."

In order to play Ding Yifeng well, Huang Xiaoming continued the thinnest figure at that time, and even grew a moustache. "I also wore a long vacation hair, which made the character look more decadent."

Performance state

For Huang Xiaoming, The Last Truth was very enjoyable, but it was also very tiring.The film has three important court scenes, directed by the director.LitaigeAlmost all require a mirror to shoot in the end.

This requires a lot of actors’ lines, and the output of long lines is far more than just memorizing them. "You can’t memorize lines silently, because you have to have feelings to take into account the shooting position." Huang Xiaoming asked himself to achieve muscle memory for this passage. For this reason, he recited the words in advance and almost went wherever he went. "I started doing my homework long in advance and took the script with me wherever I went."

More than once, Huang Xiaoming used this most stupid way to complete each role.

Prepare for Japanese study three months in advance for Wind; I read biographies and reports many months in advance for "Chinese Partner" and have been practicing oral English. At least in these films, the final result is good.

Although due to the consideration of the dramatic effect, the scenes of the final trial were edited. Huang Xiaoming watched the finished film, "It was quite touching, and the director shot it very well." Out of the actor’s identity, he saw the scene of his confrontation with NI YAN in court, and they were both deeply immersed in the role atmosphere. The purely subconscious reaction was "really enjoyable".

It’s only now that he talks about the performance state. Instead, he gives himself more immersive relaxation. "Now I especially don’t like to design little tricks for the characters." When I first started performing, in order to impress the audience, he always wanted to design an iconic thing for himself. "Later, I found that it was a superficial thing. Not everyone would have these occasional little tricks. Sometimes it was too deliberate, but it would make many people jump into the theater."

Let yourself into the role to feel, is the only rule of Huang Xiaoming at present.

Ding Yifeng is the third lawyer role he has played in recent years, including the movie The Man in the Wig and the drama The Battle of the Roses. "I won’t let the audience see the same shadow in different roles because I am interpreting it in different ways."

Ups and downs

In Ding Yifeng, there is too much helplessness and resentment. "If I am 40 years old, I may not be able to play this role well."

The role itself has a sense of contradiction. Because of justice, he chose to be an enemy of the law firm, but in order to win, he once gave up justice. "I especially understand his discomfort and helplessness, his inner pursuit and desire for dreams, and finally hope that he will choose kindness and give himself a gift in life."

Perhaps people can only understand when they reach a certain age and have experienced the ups and downs of life. "I am very clear about his struggle for life and his desire to fall and get up."

Looking back at Huang Xiaoming himself, it’s hard to ignore the controversy and the audience’s criticism of his performance. For his part, blx said, "Sometimes I can’t face myself."

In the past, people often teased him and acted in a good film, always rewarding themselves with an overbearing president.Now when it comes to relevance, he just smiles. "It may be largely controlled by his own desires and unwillingness. For example, he feels that he has never filmed an idol drama and has to take it occasionally, but he may not know himself or what others think. Maybe it’s really only after I finish it that I find that some things really don’t suit me. "

"It can make me feel richer and experience more deeply when I shape my role later." Huang Xiaoming seems to have become more transparent, because only after that experience can he have himself now. "It is not easy for me to return to my original position, and it will take a long time to work hard."

A hundred years old

"The director under the stage, please look at me. As an actor, I want to be a century-old shop." In 2020, Huang Xiaoming won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor for "Fire Hero", and he still remembered Amway himself on the stage. At that time, he had become the first actor to win the award twice in China film history.

This is Huang Xiaoming’s "volume". Perhaps, as he said, it has been lost, and the process of going back is even more difficult.

He has never changed. In "Chinese Partner", he recommended himself to director Chen Kexin because he felt that Cheng Dongqing was the real reflection of his heart. "At that time, it was the most cruel time for me to be said. At first, Director Kexin didn’t agree with me to play this role." In the end, it took him a month to convince everyone that he was Cheng Dongqing.

In the movie, there is a scene where three brothers get drunk. In director Chen Kexin’s mind, Cheng Dongqing should have a crying scene, but it is not stated in the script. At the shooting stage, Huang Xiaoming cried so hard that everyone couldn’t stop. From the outside, Cheng Dongqing, who was born at the grassroots level, may find it difficult to empathize with the star Huang Xiaoming, but in Huang Xiaoming’s heart, "I totally empathized with him at that moment and broke out all the grievances in my heart."

Even director Chen Kexin recalls that he has been filming for so many years. "This is the most unexpected play, a stroke of genius."

All the "volumes" seem to please, but on the contrary, as Huang Xiaoming said, "For me, we are also in internal friction in life, which is also an effort."

It’s just that today’s Huang Xiaoming seems to have been polished. "Desire and unwillingness have been polished. The only thing that may be unwilling now is that I hope to shoot more and better things."