“The life she experienced in the role told Ni Ni a truth: as a woman, beauty is of course a lucky plus, but it is her own choices that determine the script of fate. In the past two years, she has made a lot of choices, some of which have pushed her to the point where she has no way out and can only go forward with her head; some have pulled her into a dark cloud of drama, and she has survived night after night with her eyes open; some have taken her to a new stage, where she has met wise mentors and friendships beyond her imagination. There are no moments of epiphany, only a play and a life within a play, and the silent subtle changes they leave in Ni Ni.”
A Hole in the Wall
On Christmas Eve 2020, in Shanghai, after a day of rehearsals, during dinner, Ni Ni told Lai Shengchuan something: during the afternoon rehearsal, she was inexplicably moved by the lines that were deleted during the first round of performances last year and added back this year.
In the stage play "Missy Hole Eight", Ni Ni as Shu Tong sees a lot of holes in the wall in the big factory room in 2019 and asks, "What are these holes about?" Lao Zhuang said, "It's a new style called repairing the old like the old." In another scene, Ni Ni was backstage and saw the live performance footage on stage transmitted from the screen. One day in 1943, Japanese soldiers killed all the people in this factory building, matching the lighting and machine gunning a circle, and that's how these holes came about.
In the same space, it was as if Ni Ni in 2020 had experienced this scene in 1943 herself. When she stood in that big factory as Shu Tong in 2019, gazing at the holes in the wall, there was an unspeakable hardness and emotion in her heart.
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Because of the epidemic, the second tour of "Missy Hole Eight" was postponed until the end of 2020. At the same time, the male lead actor was replaced, the script was adjusted, and director Lai Shengchuan wanted the female lead actress Ni Ni to speed up the whole show a little bit. It had been a year since the first tour, and Ni Ni had been shooting non-stop. When she thought that the play had been lost for a year, plus these new requirements, she was a bit anxious, "I have to go to Shanghai, I have to go to rehearsals", and she managed to get a week's time to fly to Shanghai and rehearse with her friends who had been separated for more than a year. Kid Girl Dress for sale
In the year of "Missy Hole Eight", one night, Ni Ni dreamed of a certain detail in the play - Anna in 1943 talking about the piano and her own life. When she woke up, she suddenly had a new idea: next time I can try to say the lines in a different voice. Another time, she had no reason to think that when Shu Tong said "the tree in front of the house, the traffic policeman at the intersection, the worker moving, the aunt with the stall", the picture in her head could be more realistic.
Before the second round of performances, she sent a circle of friends: still very nervous, maybe I still play less, did not reach the realm of enjoyment of the stage. In fact, she has been much better, the first round performance of Ni Ni is called really nervous.
Driven to the brink of extinction
After filming "Chen Shi Yuan", Ni Ni had a feeling: I can't do it anymore, I'm going to waste.
During those two years, she filmed "The Long Song of Heaven" and "Chen Shi Yuan" one after another, the workload of costume dramas is huge and long, Ni Ni felt that all her energy and ability were exhausted in the process, leaving an empty and deprived Ni Ni, not knowing what kind of way she can still perform, not knowing what kind of different roles she can still try, she suspected that she can't act anymore, stuck in a bottleneck. Baby Girl Clothes for sale
In the midst of her confusion and struggle, Ni Ni told herself that you have to break yourself and start with the rhythm first. At this time, she received an invitation to act in the movie "Missy Hole Eight". Go! There is no reason not to take it, which actor can refuse director Lai Shengchuan?
Before that, Ni Ni always said she wanted to try stage plays, her mouth was trying to be brave, but both legs were backing up. She was really afraid that actors from acting classes would start practicing their lines and forms from the time they enrolled in school, and after four years of staging on stage, they would be scheduled for their graduation play. She is not an acting major and has never performed on stage, so she doesn't know what it's like to face the audience directly.
This time really can no longer hesitate, she put her heart across, in that 0.01 seconds to make a decision, forcing themselves to a dead end.
The "Missy Hole Eight" brought Ni Ni a back to school-like days, every day to the rehearsal field, the teacher took her from the pinyin to practice vocalization, memorization of Japanese, the actors sat together around reading the script, discussion, rehearsal, help each other come up with ideas. A month and a half of rehearsals, Ni Ni always enough, "Missy hole eight" is not good, the amount of lines, the role is also a lot, the four main actors each play two roles, basically from the beginning to the end are not down, she is a newcomer to the stage, everything from scratch, no bottom in mind.
There is always a day when the play opens. Missy hole eight" a opening, Shu Tong stood fixed on the stage, left and right sides of the black curtain only left her the width of one person, there is a curtain in front of the whole stage. When the opening time came, the curtain slowly rose in front of her, a beam of chasing light hit Shu Tong's body, the audience saw her feet, her legs, her upper body, her shoulders, her face.
Before the first performance of the first round, Ni Ni stood there, holding Shu Tong's vellum notebook and pen, waiting for the curtain to be pulled back. There was a small dark light, and she could hear the noise of the audience sitting on the stage. When the radio announced that the show was about to begin, the lights on the stage and in the audience went out, and the dark light was turned off, so in the darkness, she could only see the fluorescent marker at her feet. The audience quieted down, Ni Ni clearly heard her heartbeat, and her palms began to sweat, soaking the cover of her vellum notebook. It was time to adjust her breathing, she took a deep breath and slowly exhaled as the curtain went up.
Blood groove full
In January 2021, the second round of the tour of "Missy Hole Eight" ended in Shanghai and Hangzhou, and Ni Ni looked back on the rehearsals and felt a bit funny, wondering why she had so much worry at that time. During the rehearsals, she didn't expect the performance to be so smooth, she didn't expect the actors to build such a pure friendship with each other, and she didn't expect everyone to be so reluctant when the tour ended.
"You're always going to worry about things that you might have enjoyed." She attributes this mindset to the fact that she has not yet reached a state of fluency in stage theater, so she is looking forward to the next round of the tour sooner rather than later, wanting to see what new understandings and changes she will have made by then, and to see this group of friends again soon. We haven't spent much time together, but the stage show has a kind of magic that makes everyone give 100% sincerity during this time, trusting each other from the stage to offstage, and giving themselves to each other with confidence, Ni Ni even feels that it's hard to find such an emotional relationship in other scenes now.
In the documentary "The Youngest Hole Eight - Ni Xing", at the end of each performance, director Lai Shengchuan led all the actors to gather around to give thanks for a smooth performance, and then happily close up and go home.
During the initial rehearsals, Lai Shengchuan saw Ni Ni's nervousness and told her that she should stand on stage with the mentality of "I am the master here today", treating the stage as her home and the audience as invited guests. Recently, Lai Shengchuan said to her: "Now you can feel that sometimes you are the master on stage, and sometimes you are a little bit absent, but it's okay, it's good.
After finally taking the step of the stage play, what kind of feeling did you have after acting? Ni Ni doesn't answer this question first, she wants to know what other actors are saying. There are two most common descriptions of stage plays, one is "movies are for directors, dramas are for scriptwriters, only stage plays are for actors", and a more intuitive expression is "when I play a movie or TV drama, my blood tank is emptied little by little, when I play a stage play, my blood tank I'm not sure how to do it.
Hearing this, Ni Ni's eyes instantly lit up: "I especially agree!" After "The Youngest Hole Eight", she found that her concentration had improved, and she needed a quiet environment when preparing her emotions before, but now she could block out most of the outside distractions. After the intense training of two performances a day, the pressure of playing heavy emotional scenes was also magically dissolved, because the play started as soon as the time was up, and there was no way to wait for the emotions to brew before going on stage, she found in this rhythm, as long as she let go of the thought of "I'm going to start playing heavy scenes" and quietly followed the feelings with the characters, everything would happen naturally. Everything will happen naturally.
Love and hate
The first time I saw the movie, I was in front of Chen Daoming, and I confessed my love to the boss. Every young actor and Chen Daoming will inevitably be nervous to play opposite each other, and this scene has been modified on the spot, Ni Ni was not in a state at first, Chen Daoming continued the scene as Ye Zhongyan while observing her state, seeing that she was in the right state, and slowly said in a very soft voice: "Okay, let's start from the beginning now." Ni Ni's emotions were not interrupted and she finished the scene smoothly.
Ye Zunyan was originally a symbolic character, Ni Ni observed, and Chen Daoming incorporated his own understanding of the company's boss on the basis of the script, adding personal charm and a richer layer to the role. The role of Xie Hongzu is also relatively facial, the script sets him as a rich young man wearing big gold chains, full of brand names, particularly flashy, Dong Zijian took the initiative to discuss with the director, the rich young man is also diverse, we do not have to follow the stereotypes to play. So there was such a rich kid wearing a T-shirt, sneakers, big pants, a little, a little useless, but also a little cute, to play a person originally unpleasant to many viewers like.
The scene where Jiang Nansun's father jumps from a building, Ni Ni is not in the show, but she made a special mark on the notice sheet to go to the sidelines at that time. Nansun's father is a character who will be scolded by the audience for losing the family fortune and finally choosing not to take the consequences. In the previous scenes, Ni Ni found that Zhang Chenguang, who played Jiang's father, was particularly good at playing on the spot, adding many vivid details to his role. In one scene, he said to Zhu Locklock, "Help me, ask Ye Junyan if you can reveal a little bit of the stock market".
On the day of the jumping scene, Ni Ni watched Jiang's father on the set holding his mother's hand in repentance and saying his last goodbye. She saw how good actors in the persona does not dominate the situation, but still play the role to the heart of the audience, from Xie Hongzu to Jiang father, after the interpretation of Dong Zijian and Zhang Chenguang, become two vivid people with a story, so that the audience love and hate them both, one second spiteful, the next heartache.
January 15, the "golden years" finale, many viewers left a message "heartbroken Zhu lock lock", they saw the love of money also love rich people Zhu lock lock, but also see the love and righteousness, know the kindness of Zhu lock lock. As for the open road to the workplace, Ni Ni really struggled during the shooting process, she added a lot of details to Zhu Locklock, so that everyone can see that this girl is working hard with beauty as a weapon.
In the rivalry scenes with Tian Yu as Fan Jingang and Wang Snap as Yang Ke, Ni Ni also learned a trick - to use comedy to deal with those parts that are not realistic enough, not realistic anyway, so let's give the audience a good time. Although she thinks she is not good at comedic acting, and her character is not as sunny and open as Zhu Lock Lock, she did her best to immerse herself in Zhu Lock Lock's life, and now she can safely say goodbye to her.
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