Shi Pengyuan talks about 《xiaocheng》: I didn’t act those famous scenes as comedy

Liu Zhengguang picked up the mop and rushed out to protect his brother. He lay down in the body bag and fell asleep again.《xiaocheng》 These scenes that made the audience laugh were handled as normal scenes by Shi Pengyuan when filming.In an exclusive interview with The Paper, he explained his acting method.

“The effect and presentation of comedy are defined by the audience. When we perform, we will not say "this is a comedy" and then perform it according to a certain comedy method.”

When the director was talking about roles with him, he used the word "bright".Shi Pengyuan understands simplicity, sincerity, kindness and righteousness.This Fucheng young man is carefree and soft-spoken. When he sees a blind masseur having a conflict with a female customer, he will step forward because he thinks it should be stopped. At KTV, he heard a customer say that her husband passed away and that he looked like her son, so he stayed and sang with her, hoping that she would feel better.

When talking about the difference from past roles, the first thing that comes to mind for Shi Pengyuan is the smile.Yan Liang from -The Secret Corner, Wang Bei from -The Long Season, Su Mu from -The Octagonal Cage, and Ma Jiye from -Catching Babies-all have different experiences.Shi Pengyuan said that in the past, some characters were very miserable and rarely smiled.This time the audience noticed that he had tiger teeth.Liu Zhengguang lost his father when he was young and his mother in his early twenties. His fate is still bumpy, but he has an optimistic personality and is always smiling.

When singing with “Sajie”, Liu Zhengguang's singing voice was not on time.Shi Pengyuan explained that the character was very tired at that time and had just woken up. After singing for a long time, his voice was dry and hoarse.In the camera, he picked up the microphone and sang without making any sound, which was to show his state of exhaustion.

Liu Zhengguang only worked at KTV for ten days before leaving.The most direct reason for leaving was that he was afraid that his mother would be driven away after seeing the talisman.Shi Pengyuan feels that this strong longing and love for his mother shows the character's simplicity and filial piety.

Selling urns, working as a KTV boy, and going to massage parlors, although the jobs came and went, each job gave him some raw materials for growth.Shi Pengyuan felt that Liu Zhengguang was confused and restless at first, but with the accumulation of work experience, he gradually settled down and matured.

In the body bag scene, Liu Zhengguang pretended to be a corpse, snored in the bag, and when he woke up, he stretched out his fingers from the zipper, scaring his colleagues so much that they jumped out of the car.But Shi Pengyuan was not afraid, knowing that it was all an act, and his partner Chen Xixu was an acquaintance who had worked together in "The Long Season". They were very close when they reunited, and the scene was very relaxed.

“But I guess Brother Xu was a little scared, because his reaction was very real.”Shi Pengyuan said.

The emotional knot between Liu Zhengguang and his brother Liu Zhengliang can only be understood from the parts of each other that cannot be seen%.The younger brother didn't know what his elder brother had experienced in the south. He only saw that he didn't shed tears when he faced his mother's body, which made him feel cold-blooded. The elder brother put his care in action and rarely said it out loud, and the younger brother couldn't notice it either.He longed for his brother's concern, was sensitive, and had a good face, so his brother kept supporting him.

In the scene where the mop protects the brother, the director asked him to rush out in a hurry.The phrase "I'll fuck whoever touches my brother" made the audience give him the nickname "the god in charge of the feeling of excrement".Shi Pengyuan explained that usually the brothers can quarrel, and the younger brother can fight against the older brother, but once the elder brother is really in danger, he must stand up.

What moved him even more was the next action: after letting go of the mop, his brother immediately turned around to protect his younger brother.Just now it was the younger brother protecting his elder brother, and then he became the older brother protecting his younger brother.This scene became a turning point for the two to break the ice, and their relationship gradually became warmer after that.

Playing a brother with Xiao Zhan, Shi Pengyuan felt that the other person's eyes, movements and emotions were fully given, which made him believe in the relationship between the characters even more.The car scene in the first episode was especially difficult because Liu Zhengguang’s attitude towards his brother had to be established at the beginning.The first two parts of the scene may not have found the feeling, but in the third part, the two naturally had a tacit understanding at a certain moment.The state of red eyes when eating also appears in this kind of cooperation.

During a quarrel at home, Xiao Zhan added a sentence - "Entrepreneurship in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou - Do you understand?"Liu Zhengguang is exactly the kind of person who watches Chenggong Xue before going to Beijing. After watching two episodes of the TV series, he feels that he can go out and make a career.The details that emerged from this scene helped Shi Pengyuan think more concretely about his brother's character.

Crying scenes are still a challenge for Shi Pengyuan. Sometimes he can't find the point that can really touch him at a certain moment.Jiang Hongbo, who plays the mother, is also like a mother outside the scene. He will give him scarves, take care of him, and help him get into mood.Seeing such a familiar and warm person lying on a cold bed, and then thinking that the character's mother will never breathe, speak or see him again, several feelings intertwined, and tears poured out like a floodgate.

Ai Chen, played by Jiang Yan, is like a brother to Liu Zhengguang.Shi Pengyuan described her as being very outgoing with her emotions and having a strong ability to empathize; when the weather was cold, she would bring beef stew and hot soup to the actors.Even when the camera isn't filming her, she keeps her responses genuine and makes her opponents believe in the situation.During the hospital phone call scene, she had already finished her work, but she took the initiative to stay with him to finish the performance.“Xiaoguang, don't cry, we're not afraid.”As soon as those words came out, he couldn't hold himself any longer.

The crew returned to Jinzhou for filming, and allowed Shi Pengyuan to regain the way of speaking in his hometown.As a native of Jinzhou, he is familiar with the local dialect, spoken language and body rhythms. Some jingles that are not in the script will appear naturally at the moment.Director Zhang Xiaobo allows the actors to perform their best, but always uses the relationship between the characters to calibrate it; once it goes off the rails, the performance is pulled back in time.

21-year-old Shi Pengyuan does not feel that he has always lived as a child star.After acting in a play at the age of 8, he returned to daily life and was already a teenager when he came back.When the audience sees the new character, they will say Brother Yan Liang has grown up, and he doesn't mind: the audience has their own perspective.“

During this filming, Shi Pengyuan remembered Brother Yanlin's ability to create characters, Jiang Yan's sincere emotions, and Xiao Zhan's help to rival actors.When choosing roles in the future, he will focus on whether they can impress people and make people empathize: ” As long as the script is good, the characters are good, and the story is moving enough, you can try it.%