1.The passage of time for the heroine in an audiovisual work.
On the stage of film and television dramas, female characters are like adventurers of time, and they will transform from vigorous girls to mature women who have gone through vicissitudes.
This kind of transformation is not only the increase in appearance and age, but also the maturity of heart and identity.
As the plot develops, the heroine needs to play different selves at different times, which poses a huge challenge to acting.
2."The Legend of Zhen Huan": Zhen Huan's transformation.
In "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the role of Zhen Huan is the most eye-catching.
The development of the storyline allows us to witness her transformation from an innocent little princess to an intelligent and flexible power operator.
At the beginning, she hadn't experienced the test of that time, and she still retained her girlish innocence and cuteness.
But after entering the harem, the harsh reality quickly destroys her beautiful illusions.
She had to gradually awaken and learn to scheming.
Yang Bingbing's performance in this process is absolutely vivid.
She used subtle expressions and voice changes to perfectly interpret Zhen Huan's intricate thoughts and feelings.
Later, she grew into a calm and wise heroine, giving people a deep and introverted impression.
This subtle performance fully interprets and highlights this colorful role transformation.
3."Golden Wedding": Wen Li's life.
In "Golden Wedding", Wen Li has experienced a perfect transformation from the inside out, idealism to realism.
At the beginning, she was simple and romantic, and had a beautiful vision of love.
But the helpless test of married life forced her to understand the truth of the dilemma.
As time passed, she became an elder full of wisdom.
Wen Li, played by Wang Jing, is lifelike, using subtle eyes and movements to interpret the rich and varied inner activities of this character.
From a flamboyant young bride to a weathered and elegant old woman, she brings the audience three-dimensional and touching characters.
This level of lifelike performance allows a colorful character silhouette to be revealed.
4.The challenge of an actor playing a young character.
For some film and television stars who were once young, playing a young role will face considerable challenges as they actually age.
Carina Lau, as an example, still insists on playing a young role despite entering the age of no confusion, and her appearance and performance cannot hide the traces of age.
On the contrary, some actors choose to change their image to show a more mature side, such as Ruby Lin, who plays a mature female role more closely after changing her image.
Actors should fully consider their own conditions when choosing roles, and cannot simply "reverse age", otherwise it may destroy the sense of realism and the audience's immersion experience.
It is necessary to take into account personal characteristics and social needs, and find a more suitable role space for yourself, which is the long-term way.
Liu Xiaoqing's "young pursuit".
In 2011, Liu Xiaoqing played a complex role spanning nearly 50 years of life in the TV series "Wu Zetian"**, successfully presenting the image of different ages from 14 to 60 years old, of which Wu Zetian, who is in his 20s, is her outstanding performance.
Despite the passage of time, Liu Xiaoqing successfully integrated the vividness and vitality of her youth into the performance, fully demonstrating the vitality of this girlhood.
This performance not only won unanimous praise from the audience, but also added more layers to her role.
Since then, Liu Xiaoqing has continued to play some young roles, such as the 27-year-old Su Zhe played in "Da Song Gong Ci" in 2014.
It can be said that the nearly 60-year-old actor seems to be unable to let go of the youthful image of the year, and has always longed to relive that period full of youthful vitality in the play.
This characteristic of "youthful pursuit" has also become an important feature of her recent acting career.
Wu Zetian: Liu Xiaoqing's classic role.
It is generally believed that one of Liu Xiaoqing's most successful and classic roles is Wu Zetian in the 2011 TV series "Wu Zetian".
In this complex role, which spans more than 40 years of important nodes in her life, Liu Xiaoqing has successfully completed the portrayal of each age from 14 to 60 years old, which can be said to be the most comprehensive and incisive embodiment of her acting skills.
Especially Wu Zetian, who is in his 20s, as one of the important nodes in his growth history, Liu Xiaoqing used his youthful, energetic and restrained performance to fully interpret the gradual growth and change of Wu Zetian in this period with the bit by bit changes in love and life.
She gradually evolved her performance from a young girl with a deep heart to a well-informed, calm and introverted female figure, carefully interpreting every detail of this transformation process, and her calm and calm performance style has been appreciated by many people.
In addition, when Liu Xiaoqing played the role of Wu Zetian, she also showed extraordinary acting skills.
She perfectly interprets Wu Zetian's wisdom and wisdom to rise from power and conspiracy, as well as his complex human understanding in the final stage of life.
These are the most remarkable aspects of Liu Xiaoqing, and her profound and comprehensive presentation of the various faces of this cross-generational historical figure at different ages can be described as a peak of her acting career.
Liu Xiaoqing's performance in the role of a young girl creates a sense of disobedience.
Although Liu Xiaoqing carefully interpreted the roles of multiple ages in "Wu Zetian", as she grew older, some of the young girl roles she later played have inevitably contradicted the age of the characters.
For example, in the 2014 TV series "Da Song Gong Ci", Liu Xiaoqing, who is close to 60 years old, plays the 27-year-old Su Zhe.
Due to the passage of time, it is difficult to find the elegance of youth, although Liu Xiaoqing tried his best to restore the age of the character in terms of clothing styling, but from the details such as action and intonation, some traces of inconsistency have begun to appear.
This shows that over time, even veteran actors find it difficult to turn back time and fully bridge the gap between age and role.
This may bring a certain sense of discomfort and disobedience to the audience.
Liu Xiaoqing's "comeback".
It is a great challenge for any post-60s actor.
It is not only necessary to restore the image of the concubine around 950, but also to perfectly integrate into the clothing and language environment of the time.
Judging from the early preview, Liu Xiaoqing still put a lot of effort into role-playing, striving to restore.
However, as she gets older, whether she can completely eliminate the difference with the age of the character in terms of detailed performance still needs to be determined by the audience in person.
This will be a new litmus test for her as a veteran actor.
Whether the audience can really accept a post-60s leading actor to play a role 950 years ago will also become a highlight of the whole drama.
Zhou Xun's performance in the Qing Palace-themed drama was frustrated.
Zhou Xun is known as the "elf of the world", and her fresh and refined style has deeply attracted the attention of the audience.
After missing "The Legend of Zhen Huan", she entered the stage of the Qing court drama again and chose to play the role of teacher Yi in "The Legend of Ruyi".
However, as time passed, Zhou Xun felt some indescribable dissonance when he played the 20-year-old Qing palace girl.
Zhou Xun has never shirked any role, but this time the choice may be a bit rushed.
The classic characters played by Zhou Xun are often introverted and affectionate mature female images, rather than fresh and lively girl images.
Now that she is no longer able to perfectly interpret the temperament required of that young character, perhaps this is the real reason why her attempt failed.
Zhang Ziyi plays a young and unnatural role.
Perhaps because of her age, Zhang Ziyi put a lot of effort into dressing up, such as braiding two braids, light makeup, etc.
But her immature voice and overly rich changes in expression did not seem natural when she spoke, but instead highlighted the maturity she could not get rid of.
Most importantly, the youthful energy that cannot be contained in her eyes is exactly the brilliance that this role needs to show.
Compared with Zhou Xun's choice of forbearance, Zhang Ziyi seems to be trying to make up for her inner shortcomings through the change of her external image.
However, this kind of pretentious performance instead exposes the substantive contradiction between the age of the star and the character, and it is difficult to really impress the audience.
Yang Junjun: Excellent interpretation of Aunt Ximen.
Unlike Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi, Yang Junjun knew that her age and appearance could not fit the role of an elderly man in her 80s, but she still resolutely chose to challenge.
When starring in "Simon Without Hate", Yang Junjun played this high-profile old aunt with his heart.
She adds more subtle movements to Aunt Simon, such as showing the calm facial expressions of girlhood and revealing a difficult look.
Yang Junjun interpreted the wisdom and experience of this old man in a delicate tone, completely showing the restraint and depth in her heart.
Although the traces of the years are difficult to hide, the audience still sees Aunt Simon's indomitable heart in her performance.
This may be the level that a seasoned actor should have.
With his brave choice and excellent acting skills, Yang Junjun redefined the concept of "age problem".
Kong Lin's acting career.
Kong Lin is different from other performers, she shows an excellent ability to play a mature woman in her work.
For example, in the Sina drama "The Red Lantern Hangs High", she vividly showed the heroine's quiet stubbornness and fragility through her introverted performance.
This made the audience start to be confused when she played an 18-year-old girl in "Gentlemen".
Despite her mature makeup, her young face still can't hide the marks of time.
When the audience sees her dignified and restrained demeanor, they will feel the inner maturity and calm, which is incompatible with the image of this young girl.
The youthfulness and liveliness that should have been there completely disappeared in her performance.
This may also make it difficult for the audience to find something to love about her.
For Kong Lin, it is better to find new works that are more suitable for herself, rather than reluctantly interpreting those characters that do not match her.
A good actor should present the characters realistically, not just the appearance.
13.Carina Lau when trying to play the role of a girl.
Carina Lau, who is nearly fifty years old, unexpectedly took over the heroine in the TV series "The Origin of Love", which caused a discussion among the audience.
In the play, she tries to show the vitality of an 18-year-old girl with a youthful and agile expression and dress, but as she grows older, her hair gradually turns gray and her face appears fine lines, which cannot hide the changes brought by the years.
Although she flexibly adjusted her tone, the vicissitudes of time were still revealed in her voice.
In the play, she is obviously supposed to be a female college student in love, and every time she laughs, the wrinkles hanging on the corners of her eyes and mouth never disappear completely, which makes people think of the passage of time.
14.Liu Tao is challenging the girl's character.
Compared with Carina Lau, Liu Tao's talented Zhou Chunyan in "Da Song Gong Ci" more directly exposes the gap between age and role setting.
The audience is accustomed to her calm and generous mature demeanor on weekdays, but now they need to present Miss Swallow who has just come out of society at the age of 16 through slightly youthful makeup and coquettish tone in the play.
However, despite her best efforts to show the liveliness and delicacy of a girl, her body and facial contours over thirty could not hide her age.
And the role of Yanzi itself has a strong precocious charm, which poses a certain challenge to Liu Tao's acting skills.
15.Ruby Lin is in an awkward position when it comes to playing the role of a girl.
As a veteran actor, Ruby Lin's recent performance in an idol drama is a little embarrassing compared to the previous two "young actresses".
As she grew older, the delicacy of her makeup and the look in her school uniform and skirt seemed to have developed a clear mismatch with the image of a 16-year-old girl.
What's even more embarrassing is that the intimate scenes required in the play make the audience feel unacceptable.
used to be an idol in the hearts of many young audiences, but now the role he plays is full of the innocence of first love, but it makes people feel the vicissitudes of their own years.
This is bound to cause a strange emotional resonance among many viewers.
16.The actor's reflection on self-perception.
The above three veteran actors inevitably show the problem of age and role inconsistency when playing young roles, which raises questions about the self-perception of actors in industry insiders.
An experienced actor said that it is natural for performers with superb acting skills to aspire to younger roles, but the wrong choice can backfire.
She suggested that when they reach a certain age, actors should know how to properly "retain their youth" and choose the type of role that is closer to their age and strength, which is not only more conducive to the interpretation of the role, but also more able to win the recognition and love of the audience.
17.Conclusion: The fit between the acting and the role is crucial.
In general, actors should keep in mind that acting is meant to serve the role, not just satisfy themselves.
The age or condition of the actor does not mean that new genres cannot be tried, but they should be recognized and respected by the audience when performing.
This attempt has exposed certain problems and deficiencies for the three veteran actors, which may bring inspiration to future performances: superb acting skills, but also need to pay attention to the matching of age and role.
Only by grasping the degree of this match can he truly win the audience's appreciation for his profound acting skills, and at the same time, it is also most in line with his professional positioning as an artist.