The dilemma of "middle-aged actress" cannot be crossed, and there is nowhere to escape? Song Jia Jr.: 30+ is a good time for an actress to mature.
Wen Wei Po 202 1-04-28
Recently, the hit drama Xiao Shede, see Xiao Song Jia again. This time, she plays a mother with a happy marriage, a pair of lovely children and a secret trauma. Although this is not the first time Song Jia Jr. has played the role of mother, her delicate performance in the play has been repeatedly mentioned. Many people can't believe that this beautiful actress is only in her early forties, and almost no role has been ruined.
At first, she successfully entered the public's field of vision as a shampoo girl in the movie "curiosity kills the cat", to the chivalrous "Xianer" wrapped in a rustic cotton-padded jacket in the movie "Walking to the West", to the double champion of Magnolia and Golden Eagle in the TV series "Cliff" and the golden rooster award in the movie "Xiao Hong". Little Song Jia walked solidly, beautifully and impeccably every step, although her face value was enough.
"Everything happens for a reason"-It is an actor's bounden duty to present a good performance, so it is necessary to establish a correct aesthetic view and stick to it.
"In fact, the beauty of Song Jia is much stronger than in the movie, more elegant and charming." Liao Fan, who worked with her in the film The Master, once commented on her like this. Anyone who has seen "Master" will never forget the "Teacher Niang" played by Song Jia-the literature and art are plain and the makeup is gorgeous; I can afford to be fashionable and lively, and I can also keep the world stable. The charm of Shanghai women and the ferocity of Northeast women are wonderfully integrated in her.
In the film "Our Country", in the short film "Escort" directed by Muyewen, George W. Song Jia plays the female pilot formation captain Lu Xiao Ran, who is extremely professional and afraid of being cruel to men in training. San Niang, who is so desperate, was arranged by her superiors to prepare for the military parade. From resentment to obedience, when a teammate had an accident, the opportunity came to prove her professional ability, and she finally chose to help others complete the task. It is not easy for an actor to interpret such a straightforward story in depth, but the amazing thing about Song Jia Jr. is that every point is brought to the extreme. Hard work, murderous eyes, nervous expression, really arresting people; Steady performance, flamboyant personality, can also hold your breath, but the play is done in place.
Not long ago, on the occasion of a film festival, my good friend Christina brought Sebrina, Liang Jing and George W. Bush Song Jia to the stage because of the "middle-aged crisis" of actresses, and "accused" an actress of the dilemma in the second half of her life with tears in her smile: due to the restrictions of the market and themes, the actress was isolated from some excellent works when she was old. At that time, George W. Song Jia stepped forward and stated that the above only represented Christina's personal views. This kind of directness and frankness, with the indifference of the northeast girl. Not long after, Song Jia wrote in his Weibo, "Everything happens for a reason ... Don't let other people's opinions crush you completely. In my opinion, no one can define you except yourself. "
Song Jia, who knows everything, has always been a rare presence in the entertainment circle. She is called "Little Song Jia" because she has the same name and surname as Song Jia, another famous actress in 1980s and 1990s, but she has a bigger personality than her atmospheric appearance. Actors seem to be occupations defined by others, but they are considered too difficult to define themselves. Today, only a few actresses recognize this principle.
If many people were impressed by her "sexy" in curiosity kills the cat, the word "sexy" is almost isolated from her in Song Jiazhong now.
In 2005, 25-year-old Song Jia graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy for two years. His first big-screen work was a collaboration with Zhang, Hu Jun and He. Her role in the play is not pleasing. She plays a sexy girl who washes her hair. As a third party, she intervenes in the relationship between middle-aged couple Hu Jun and Carina Lau, but her lover accidentally kills her because she is too tight.
There is an unforgettable scene in the movie where George W. Song Jia says to Hu Jun, "I want more, and this is just the beginning!" She picked up the cup, her eyes full of contempt. Perhaps even Zhang didn't expect that such a sexy vase character was endowed with a special dangerous temperament by George W. Song Jia, and the limelight of this role even overshadowed that of others. The following year, Song Jia Jr. was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress for curiosity kills the cat.
The amazing performance of the fledgling comes from her innate talent. From 65438 to 0980, Song Jia was born in an ordinary family in Harbin. When she was a child, she was like a "boy" and had no quiet time. Her parents took great pains to make her more like a girl. At the age of eight, her mother asked Song Jia to learn from Qin Liu, hoping to make her a "lady" by learning a classical musical instrument. From then on, when other children were laughing and playing, Song Jia was almost always learning and practicing the piano. Because of this, her fingers often wear and bleed. She worked hard to break the piano, and the next day, her mother got a new one in front of her.
After repeated boring practice, little Song Jia gradually got used to this life and fell in love with Qin Liu. There is such a scene in Xiao Shede: Huanhuan and Ziyou are eating at grandpa's house. At the family dinner, grandpa suggested that Huanhuan sing an award-winning song for fun, and Huanhuan suggested that she needed an accompaniment. Song Jia's mother volunteered to say "I'll come", and Qin Liu's real voice came from Song Jia.
At the age of 20, Song Jia Jr. was admitted to Shenyang Conservatory of Music. According to this script, she will naturally become a musician. Who knows that because of the advice of a senior, she knew nothing about performance and went to Shanghai Theatre Academy. At that time, she was a blank sheet of paper that had never been exposed to performance. That year, the topic of the second round exam for Shanghai Opera Performance major was "Waiting for People in the Park", so Song Jia stood still and waited ... After a long time, the examiner couldn't help asking her: Is the performance finished? Song Jia Jr. sincerely replied: You think I'm finished.
In this way, she was admitted into the play by her own "true colors". After entering the play, she found that everything was not that simple. Seeing that the classmates around her were so expressive, she once felt very inferior. Once in her class exam, she was the last one to take the stage, and the sketch she played didn't even have a name, so she said, "Please look at the sketch." She doesn't know what she played, and she will step down after the performance anyway. However, what impressed Song Jia particularly was what Teacher Li Zhiyu said to the whole class after the performance: "You should have a sense of ball when playing, and a sense of drama when acting. Song Jia in our class is a person with a strong sense of drama. " Such an encouraging word suddenly gave little Song Jia confidence and made her fall in love with acting.
During the period when he was studying drama, Song Jia Jr. didn't shoot drama and advertisements like some other students, but let himself calm down and attend every class very seriously. She seldom misses classes and is keen on thinking about acting. Many years later, after winning the Golden Rooster Award and the Magnolia Award, she also recalled the last play that the teacher told them: Some plays are very popular and have a high box office, which is also a bad performance. It is an actor's bounden duty to present a good performance. It is necessary to establish a correct aesthetic view and stick to it.
At that time, George W. Song Jia had shown rare opinions. For a newcomer who has just come into contact with the performance industry, his sense of drama and determination may be two important steps towards success, and George W. Song Jia seems to have it all. In retrospect, she always knew her own way. After the release of curiosity kills the cat, she got the attention of the circle because of her good characterization, and also came into the sight of many viewers. However, it is a pity that many viewers' first impression of her is still on the "sexy" side. But she doesn't want this. In an interview, George W. Song Jia talked about the past: "I thought sexy was a swearing word. Why doesn't everyone care about my acting skills, but instead discuss what I wear? " Because of this, she turned down many similar roles that came to you.
From that point of time, it is not difficult for Song Jia, who has a beautiful appearance and a sultry figure, to be a "vase", but she stubbornly wants to go further in her performance. There is no favorite drama, she would rather stay at home every day and be an invisible existence in the entertainment circle.
In 2006, she "waited" for "Braving the Guandong". As a drama started by CCTV in 2008, "Going East" became an instant hit, and Song Jia Jr.' s "Xianer" in the drama was also greatly recognized by the audience. Xianer's tragic life experience has become a problem for many viewers. In fact, "Braving the Guandong" found many female artists before looking for Song Jia. But every time the book was just sent out, it was rejected because it was too hard to shoot that play. The TV series was filmed near Heihe River in Heilongjiang and started in mid-September. The main actors need to stay in the ice and snow for half a year. When it's over 30 degrees below zero, sometimes even the camera can't work, so the machine should be wrapped in a thick "cotton-padded jacket". Such conditions scared off many young actresses, but little Song Jia went anyway. Xianer is a controversial figure. When she traveled to the East, she worked as a child bride, a troupe and a bandit. At that time, the beautiful fairy set by George W. Hua Dan passed by like a bullet. The immortals written by George W. Song Jia are full of wild beauty and have different personality characteristics in different periods. In a short time, Song Jia Jr. has accumulated a broad audience base. "Many people just call me Xianer." Recalling the scene of being recognized by his aunt and mother in the street and being warmly embraced, Song Jia Jr. will also smile like a sunny flower.
The moment when the actress is remembered by the audience as a role she created, that kind of pride and satisfaction is really beautiful. Talking about this role that has made her brilliant for some time, Song Jia Jr. can't hide her love. She said that Xianer's stubbornness, tenacity and seriousness are related to her own personality, but she didn't recognize Xianer either, that is, she was "too sensible and too depressed" about her feelings.
Fortunately, with the popularity of "Going East", Song Jia Jr. got rid of the label of "sexy" and made people remember an unforgettable face. She succeeded in entering thousands of households. But she wants more than that.
"Don't pick the role, just pick the play"-in a restrained and calm way, the stormy waves in the characters' hearts are presented in a controlled way.
She walked all the way to the actress.
A few years later, on 20 12, Song Jia Jr. won the 18 Best Actress Award of Magnolia in Shanghai TV Festival for her ancient corner in the spy war drama Cliff. In that hard battle, she unexpectedly defeated Zhen Xuan of Sun Li. Li, the chairman of the jury, said: "Song Jia's role in The Cliff is not pleasing, and her story is not so tortuous. She won the prize because of her precise grasp of the role. " Gu gave Song a chance to show her diversity, and was also a key figure in her official move from Hua Dan to Tsing Yi.
This year, Song Jia Jr. was 32 years old and entered the second half of her life as an actress. At this age, many actresses begin to feel anxious. Time is too cruel to actresses. Actors can only start, but actresses have only a few years of youth. In Song Jia's view, 30+ is a good time for an actress to fully mature. It was during this period that her acting skills were formed to show the inner waves of the characters in a restrained and calm way. At this point, she has become an actress who "does not choose roles but only acts", which is one of the reasons why many directors "love" her.
20 13 Song Jia Jr. played an emotional heroine in the film Xiao Hong directed by Jianqi Huo. Previously, Tang Wei played Xiao Hong in Xu Anhua's film "Golden Age", which showed the legendary woman writer to the fullest. Naturally, some people will compare Tang Wei with George W. Bush Song Jia. Under the pressure of public opinion, Song Jia Jr. focused his performance on Xiao Hong's real desire for survival as an ordinary woman. Although the theme of the film caused a lot of controversy after its release, Song Jia Jr. completed the transformation from a mature actor of her own through this film, and Xiao Hong also helped her win the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. You know, those who competed with her for this award in those years were Zhang Ziyi from The Grand Master and Yan from An Arrow Through the Heart!
At this point, Song Jia Jr. became the first post-80s actress to win both the championship and the championship trophy. What is more rare is that she knows her own characteristics so well. When some actresses are constantly worried about their age, she clearly sees that the script and the role should be the factors for her to take on the play.
In recent years, Song Jia's excellent works have continuously created a series of rich, vivid and plump female images. She won the Huading Award for Best Actress for her successful performance as a teacher's mother in Master. There is a scene in the film where the teacher's mother meets someone who catches up with her, holding hands and saying, "I'll take care of him", then untie her luggage and tie her hair. Shi Shiran's eyes are really a thousand years old. In a blink of an eye, under Jong, she became Zhang Xueliang's restrained, forbearing and generous wife, Yu Fengzhi.
The most wonderful thing is that last year, in the crime film Calm Down, which was not particularly successful, Song Jia Jr. became the most fascinating part of the film, which not only lit up the gray life of the hero "Song Hao", but also lit up the whole film. It is said that Bo Huang, the producer, initially disagreed with the casting for a simple reason: he was worried that Zhang Yu, the first hero, couldn't hold on to Song Jia. We all saw what happened later. Song Jia Jr. used living examples to prove how strong a good actor is in shaping his role. Bo Huang talked about Song Jia's performance, laughing that he was severely "slapped in the face".
The film started with a murder in the rain 15 years ago, and it was very depressing at first. Since the heroine Pan appeared, the painting style has quietly changed, and the faint bright colors have immediately neutralized the gloomy tone before. Song Jia Jr. paid for her appearance at the high-speed station, but she didn't let Zhang Yu go. Instead, I "brushed", opened my mouth, introduced myself, and caught up and asked for a phone call. After passing a car for more than a minute, from the bored toll booth staff's professional face to the incessant excitement, Song Jia Jr. completed a well-defined psychological profile of Pan in the shortest time: emotional loss, boring work, dull life, extroversion, quick talk, many experiences, tending to be rational and pragmatic, but also retaining a little girlish heart and a kind of romance. This combination of rationality and romance makes the characters on the screen instantly come alive and have the vitality to be vividly portrayed.
This is a good actor's skill: it can not only express the emotions on the surface of the characters, but also arouse the deep undercurrent. Song Jia Jr. used a spiritual performance to explore a lot of room for her role. It is reported that the action of holding an umbrella under the broken windshield, the scene of singing "Love Chen Wenjing" in a hot pot restaurant, and Zhang Yu's proposal to wipe off yogurt stained on his beard and other details in the filming process were all improvised by George W. Song Jia, but as an audience, we didn't feel any "super-outline" scenes outside these plots, which were all in line with the inner thoughts of the characters.
In this way, she has been challenging new roles. "I want to be clear about my original intention and remain pure. I want to be a good actor. " In a character interview, when Yang Lan asked about his acting skills, Song Jia Jr. said rudely, "I am a fan of my own." A few days ago, it was reported that Song Jia Jr. had decided to play the female No.1 in the realistic drama "On Earth" adapted from the novel of the same name by Mao Dun literature winner Liang. This is an interpretation of women's unique and rich connotation, pursuing poetic love and longing for the freedom to know their lover, which is rebellious and romantic in a simple picture of the times. In the poster exposed a few days ago, Song Jia Jr. leaned against his desk thoughtfully, and the image of a pioneer woman in the changing times came into being. ...
She hopes that she can constantly show more and richer female beauty to the audience in her works. For a beautiful woman like George W. Song Jia, the difficulty of being an actor has never existed from the beginning-a smiling face as beautiful as a flower at the age of 20 can melt most of the ice and cold on the road of growing up. However, the real transformation of an actress depends on her later life. When her beauty is damaged, her delicate face is out of date. The dilemma of "middle-aged actress" is indeed an examination question, which is placed in front of all female stars and cannot be crossed and escaped.
Some people choose to take a hard road, but they can accumulate along the way. Occupation, resources and connections have become catalysts for their career in the rest of their lives: the more they walk, the wider the road, the more opportunities they have, and the more they have their own style. As George W. Song Jia said in an interview, Meryl Streep is her professional benchmark as an actress. When she was young, she was destined to suffer a lot and make more plans. ...
Author: Chen Xihan
Editor: Xu
Editor in charge: Xing Xiaofang
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