撰写1905 movie network feature For the creator, finding the fulcrum of the characters and ta is a matter of special luck. The relationship between Xiao Yin and Wen Shan in "It’s Worth It" is the same as that between Wu Lei and director Liu Jiayin.
In the movie, Xiao Yin’s character function is "light weight", he wants to be "special spirit", and at the same time has obvious complexity. Many of these parts beyond ordinary people require Wu Lei to rely on his own understanding to deepen and complete outside the text.
In an exclusive interview with 1905 Film Network, Wu Lei revealed that at the beginning of receiving the script of "It’s Worth It", he also felt hesitant and worried about this character who was relatively different from himself.
In the end, he and Hu Ge became the most natural and tacit "mirror image" in the director’s lens. Speaking of the "three matches" on the screen, "I hope everyone will see not only Hu Ge and Wu Lei, but also Wen Shan and Xiao Yin," Wu Lei said.
At the end of the film, Wen Shan tells his character Xiao Yin: This time you can be the protagonist. But for actor Wu Lei, how to be a good protagonist is the creative "second act" that he needs to face more time now.
In the eyes of director Liu Jiayin, this young man is in the most emotional and enviable years. As for the young man himself, his thoughts are: "No matter what the scene is, I just want to do my best before the curtain is pulled."
Movie "Act One"
After watching the movie "It’s Worth It", it is not difficult to understand why the special atmosphere and character relationship between Wen Shan and Xiao Yin must be realized by Hu Ge and Wu Lei.
"You need to find a very tacit partner who can form a natural mirror relationship when they are together." In the director Liu Jiayin’s plan, only such two actors can make the audience feel "convinced" when they see them.
Actor Wu Lei and director Liu Jiayin were interviewed by 1905 Film Network
Wu Lei’s first impression when he saw the script was "both practical and not practical": "Practical is that I believe that Lao Hu is a very good actor, and I also know that the past screen images of the two of us may help us in this drama, but this is actually a spur for us."
The combination is all too familiar to both of them and to the audience. "We prefer to perform with different characters from the past, which is more stressful for me," Wu Lei said. "I hope everyone will not only see Hu Ge and Wu Lei on the big screen, but also Wen Shan and Xiao Yin."
When Hu Ge recalled the three collaborations between the two, he said with considerable emotion that when he first filmed, he happened to be the same age as Wu Lei. After 17 years, Wu Lei couldn’t help but "re-examine" the changes between the two in this roadshow of "It’s a worthwhile trip": "I thought he was like a brother before, but now he has the feeling of being a’colleague ‘."
In Wu Lei’s opinion, this change is not a cliff-like, but more like "everyone is constantly moving forward on each other’s path". "I think it is happier for me. We are not only friends, but also work together, and we have achieved a good result."
The feeling of "men and men working together" described by Wu Lei made director Liu Jiayin recall the state of Hu Ge and Wu Lei when the script of "It’s Worth a Trip" was read around. Because of the particularity and complexity of the role of Xiao Yin, Wu Lei has been constantly adjusting his state and voice in the process to cooperate with the search for what the director needs, the feeling of this pair of partners.
Until hundreds of times later in the film, Liu Jiayin would still be shocked by the state of "Little Yin" in the movie: "I like the scene where Little Yin interrogates and even tortures Wen Shan the most. He is very stable and firmly said that line." At that moment, she saw light in Wu Lei’s eyes: "There is an energy emanating from his eyes, and at that moment my heart was moved."
Actor "Act II"
In a previous interview, Wu Lei once talked about his understanding of filming in a rare and slightly "emo" way: Every time I feel that acting is like being sick, I try my best to achieve the effect the director wants, like cooperating with the doctor for treatment. But every time I finish, I don’t want this serious illness to get better at all.
Once again being "publicly executed" by his own perception, Wu Lei rarely showed the state of "I person" and "refused" to face it. Director Liu Jiayin was instead deeply touched by this: "There is something very deep in this sentence, and I can understand it." After watching Xiao Yin in "It’s Worth It", it is not surprising that Wu Lei would give such an answer.
After "embarrassing", he admitted that young people may be staged, and he has different creative methods and experiences for each work and character. "Some characters will go very deep, and some characters will not say that it is not profound, but that you will relax to forget that you are performing."
Whether it is as profound as "having a serious illness" or as if "a small cold for two or three days will be fine after sneezing", Wu Lei will regard them as a beautiful and good experience in life. Compared with Wen Shan and Xiao Yin who are deeply torn in the creation, he himself does not have the trouble of when he can "become the protagonist".
But this doesn’t mean that Wu Lei doesn’t need to face the "second act" of his life – in "It’s Worth a Trip", the director Liu Jiayin also set up a discussion on this topic.
"I think people are basically in different first acts and second acts all the time. We are the second act of this matter and the third act of another matter, because we just can’t live it particularly clearly." In her mind, the second act is like the process of achieving a thing or a goal, and this process is often long and even torturous.
Because of "Little Yin", Wu Lei finally had the opportunity to rethink the meaning of performing the "second act" for himself. He always considered himself a relatively stable person. On the one hand, he could always get the values and energy shared by the people around him, and on the other hand, the characters and works had become the absolute confidence for an actor to stand on.
"I will do my best to keep myself in this state, I am lucky [to have these roles] at the moment, and I hope I can always have that luck and try to be worthy of my luck."
Recently, in addition to the new film, Wu Lei’s cycling Vlog has also been discussed and paid attention to again. Looking at the young man running freely between the great rivers and mountains, many people sigh: he seems to have turned his life into a movie. In the process, Wu Lei also gained a different experience of "natural and unnatural", and even "reacquainted" with a different self.
On the day of the interview, he had just finished watching the 20th draft. Wu Lei liked his riding state very much, relaxed, and did whatever he wanted, but he also knew clearly that this was not the whole of himself: "What my future looks like, I will still tell everyone."
After the interview, Mr. Wu rethought his answer to "Act Two," saying that as an actor, he thought he was walking into Act Two, but wherever he was, "I just wanted to do my best before the curtain came on."
Note: i person, the concept is derived from the MBTI personality test, multi-referential introvert (introvert)