Chinese mainland actress and singer, graduated from the directing department of ** Drama Academy.
2023 Entertainer of the Year Ren Suxi.
Reasons for the award. She is recognized as a talented and talented woman, and has portrayed many classic roles on the drama stage and in film and television dramas. She is also an amazing singer, with outstanding singing skills and natural creation. Her performance is natural and accurate, her ** is simple and smart, she has become a quality assurance of a work, bringing people confidence and expectations.
At the end of the interview, I obviously felt that Ren Suxi was relieved, and the whole day of busy chattering and being crowded with schedules was finally over, and she could get off work. A few friends are still waiting for her to have dinner, and if she really eats, it will definitely be after 8 o'clock. But like all migrant workers, being busy makes her feel grounded.
Approaching the end of 2023, the drama "Hometown, Don't Come to Harm" starring Ren Suxi was first broadcast exclusively on Tencent, and won the top 1 on Tencent's ** hot search list, hit list, and urban drama list, and then appeared on Beijing Satellite TV's quality theater, with a Douban score of 82. It has become the highest-rated domestic urban drama in the same period. The songs "Years Sui" and "Big Children's Song" she wrote for the TV series have also appeared on the hot list of new songs on many ** apps.
From spring to autumn, she also has three movies released, "Wasteland", "Cloister Pavilion", "Unexpected Life", "Survival in the Wilderness" adventure films, suspense films, romance films, ......is different, coupled with the "Outstanding Actress" of the 18th Huabiao Award in May this year, this is undoubtedly a bumper year.
Obviously, the speed at which she produces her work has increased significantly. Of course, there is the fermentation of word-of-mouth, but it is more that she changed her mind. "For a while, I was very picky, and I had to make the script good and suitable for me. Until she stayed at home for more than half a year, there was no filming, and one day, she woke up suddenly: "It's bad, what if my hand is raw and I can't act?"”
Actors must stand up, go out, and act, even if they are not so sure that they can do it well, sitting on the sofa cannot complete changes and progress. Ren Suxi told China News Weekly, "I used to screw it, but now I can't." ”
As I get older, I also have the courage to not be afraid of mistakes and failures. She threw away all those thoughts that were tangled up with things like "I can't go" and "I can't do this". "Even if any (work) doesn't work well in the end, I have to accept it, and if I want to admit it, I'll be self-consistent. "After being self-consistent, a lot of things become easier.
I am most afraid of others mentioning acting skills.
Ren Suxi's last hot search was because of "quarrel". In "Hometown, Don't Come to Harm", Zhang Pei, played by Ren Suxi, saw the little Gou Dandan (played by Shi Ce) like a relative, pregnant and suffering from her boyfriend's cheating alone, and suffering a loss of 500,000 yuan, but she kept hiding that she didn't ask for help, distressed and angry, and the two good sisters quarreled. After the rehearsal footage of this quarrel scene was uploaded to the Internet, it quickly formed an exclusive topic - "Ren Suxi Shi Ce's quarrel is not like acting". It's really not like it, the two of them are tense, hysterical, and unstoppable posture that frightened the actors and staff on the side, and no one dared to say anything. Netizens said: "It should be really noisy, how to learn this, ask for a tutorial." ”
Ren Suxi himself will not quarrel in life, he belongs to the kind of person who does not play well every time he encounters a dispute, and when he thinks about how to refute it, it has been several hours. The "fight" with Shi Ce was of course acting, but she was really angry, and in that situation, she believed in that incident, so what she gave was her real emotions and true self. In terms of performance, Ren Suxi has never paid attention to any methods and techniques, and is most afraid of mentioning acting skills. Every time someone asks her about her performance experience in which drama or scene, she doesn't know what to say, because she hasn't thought about it at all, and it's too complicated for her. Although, as an acting professional, she has learned those methods and knows that the methods are easy to use, but for her, it is better for her to really believe that than to use skills.
Wang Zhao in "Looking for Han" is only submissive, and she is cowardly when she sees anyone, which is too far from her in life. Whether it is imitation or imagination, it always seems to be empty, and once there is no grip, she will not know what she is playing. Ren Suxi's working method is to pull out the part of his personality that pleases his personality, enlarge it, and put away all the other parts of his personality. Although this side is just a small seed in her character, with a seed comes a strength.
Putting oneself completely into one of the different stories is a huge drain. Take last year's "Dear Child", which was accompanied by huge controversy from the beginning to the end, this drama adaptation of Wang Xiaoshuai's film "Left and Right" tells the story of a divorced couple who find out that their child has leukemia, and the process of saving lives leaves several families facing difficult choices. Ren Suxi, who has never given birth, completely performed the role of a mother on the small screen, from the pregnant belly covered with stretch marks during pregnancy, the severe pain of childbirth, the physical embarrassment after pregnancy to the anxiety and panic in the face of newborns, many "mother" viewers said that looking at her, it seems that they have returned to the period when they first became mothers.
Ren Suxi's Fang Yinuo has shortcomings, he is more serious, reasonable, and sets up a bunch of rules for his family, and there is no time to relax, but this is one of her favorite roles over the years, because it is real. "Her suffering is really suffering, but she is really good enough, and it is more refreshing to create such a character, because this is a real person. But it was also this character who almost "stripped her" of a layer of skin.
Ren Suxi still can't forget the scene where the "child" was diagnosed with leukemia, and she dedicated a wonderful performance with stumbling, trembling voices and silent collapses, behind which is the heartache brought by "really believing what is going on". The crying scene is not painful, crying out is also a release, and the real pain is the situation of the characters who still can't be withdrawn after the director shouts "card".
After "Dear Child" was completed, it took several days for Ren Suxi to recover. There are many such plays, and sometimes she feels that she is cut into pieces by the "experience" in the play. Will one day be hurt and scared?Ren Suxi asked herself, but at least until this moment, her answer was: "Now I still have the ability and courage to try not to be afraid of being hurt." ”
The way to slow yourself down is to deliberately take on some happy roles, such as Zhang Pei in "Hometown, Don't Come to Harm", finally there are not so many ups and downs of fate, and you can drink wine with friends and talk about love in ordinary small days. has played so many characters, this is her favorite, because she is most like herself, and finally has a role that gives Ren Suxi the opportunity to give her her her own personality and appearance in real life. Even Zhang Pei'an, who is an insurance broker, is in the middle of the sixth place in terms of performance, and he has commonalities with Ren Suxi. In terms of performance, Ren Suxi has never been so eager for the so-called "breakthrough", and chose a suitable role. The so-called suitability is basically that she must be able to believe in this character and empathize, once it is a character that she can't believe herself, she feels that no matter how she acts, there is a high probability that she will not be able to make the audience believe it.
There is no other place to nourish the actors more than the theater".
In many of Ren Suxi's introductions, it is written that she is studying directing. In fact, in her year, the Chinese Opera Director Department recruited a mixed class of directors, and directing and acting were her majors. In school, she prefers to be a director, "taking something from nothing and getting it out of nowhere, it's more hilarious." But her classmates were older than her, and no one listened to a child. When she was admitted to Chinese opera in 2005, Ren Suxi was only 17 years old, the youngest student in the class, and she followed behind to help, help, take a hand, play a small role, and slowly became an actor.
She has been honing in small theaters for many years, the first is "Santuoqi", which is the first theater troupe in China to clarify the direction of physical drama creation, and has been touring around the world for many years before the epidemic. "One Light Year", "Journey to the East", "Love Impotence" ......In those years, Ren Suxi participated in most of the drama performances of Santuoqi. Now in the information introduction of the portal ** Santuoqi Troupe, you can also find Ren Suxi's name, which reads: The performance style is humorous, plastic, and the role is very affinity. In Santuoqi's play, each actor needs to play more than 10 roles in the same play, not only must be expressive, but also have to be particularly abundant, and must be able to jump in and out of various roles at any time.
In 2011, Li Guoxiu, a well-known Taiwanese dramatist, came to Beijing to find actors for his classic comedy "Threesome", which has five segments and three actors, two men and one woman, who play 30 roles. Li Guoxiu picked Ren Suxi, this is her first time on the Grand Theater, this drama not only has a large number of lines and requires speed, but also needs to use quyi, ** dialect, at that time, some viewers counted the frequency of Ren Suxi's lines at the highest speed - 15 20 words per second.
Since then, she has had her own place on the drama stage, and she has found more plays, and when she is the busiest in her memory, 300 days out of 365 days a year, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. And what really made her start to establish the "status of the rivers and lakes" was "Donkey Gets Water" that began in 2012. She doesn't want to say too much about this famous work, because she has talked about it n times in the early years, and she will still repeat it if she talks about it again.
drama after movie, she has acted in Zhang Yiman for 5 years, it is enough, she said: "It turns out that a play also has a normal lifespan, and there is no way to give it better." "It's time to get up and move forward and get into more characters.
However, many audiences who have watched the theatrical version of "Donkey Gets Water" still can't forget Zhang Yiman, this female image that can be recorded in the history of Chinese theater is too special and too glorious, innocent and reckless, and full of amorous feelings. The audience still remembers that at the Beijing Pioneer Theater that year, the actors came out for a curtain call, and people were trapped in emotions and couldn't get out, and the applause lasted for a long, long time, and everyone shouted Ren Suxi's name over and over again.
She used her own blood to shape Zhang Yiman, and her own whole way of working seems to have been completely dredged during the rehearsal of this play. Later, I couldn't figure out whether it was the report of ** or the spontaneous fans of the drama, Ren Suxi was called the "Queen of Small Theater".
The movie "Donkey Gets Water" was able to hit 8 by more than 1.7 million people on Douban3 high scores, it is precisely because of the tempering on the stage hundreds of times. This is where Ren Suxi is particularly fascinated by drama: "The theater is a good place, honing the will of the actors, forcing people to continue to be creative, without the 10 years of drama, I would not be able to become an actor now." ”
The way it works in the theater is usually that the director gives the outline, and with the skeleton, all the actors fill in the flesh together in the rehearsal hall. In this process, everyone's brain keeps turning, constantly taking out good and fresh things, sifting out the old ones over and over again, leaving the essence. Sometimes, whoever has a good idea, everyone is happy, and when they finish the arrangement, they sleep the next day, and they feel that it is not good, and the joy of the previous day is all gone, and they start again. Day after day like this, Ren Suxi felt that he had creativity and discernment, "You know how to make a good thing, and you also know what a good thing is." ”
And in the theater, the feedback is direct. Whether an actor's play is good or not, whether the plot of a play is credible or not, the audience knows it, and the actor who directly faces the audience also knows it. "Sometimes the audience's reaction to a scene is not good, and it is immediately revised in the afternoon of the next day, and the audience is seen again in the evening, repeated trials, and countless times to overthrow themselves, this creative mode is unlikely to appear in film and television dramas. Ren Suxi said, "There is no other place to nourish actors better than theater." ”
If the audience likes it, it must be because of sincerity."
Until shortly before the epidemic, Ren Suxi had to arrange at least one drama every year, but it really couldn't be like when he just graduated, "with a breath of fairy spirit", as long as he had a place to live and didn't starve, he would happily soak in the theater every day.
With a solid theatrical foundation, the storytelling of the film will be presented better. To date, Ren Suxi's two most well-known screen roles are from dramas, one is Zhang Yiman and the other is Ma Jiaqi.
Directors Rao Xiaozhi and Ren Suxi met on the theater stage, and they collaborated on "Hello, Maniac" and "Stupid" long before the 2018 movie "Nobody". Ma Jiaqi is from "Stupid", before he appeared on the big screen, he had already performed "dozens of big shows" in the theater, whether it was the characters or the story, it had already been smoothed. A physically disabled but fierce woman with a poisonous tongue, a pair of "incompetent" robbers, staged an absurd but touching story together, and some people said after watching the movie that Ren Suxi can play a trick while sitting.
But she always said that she didn't act so well, but she was obsessed with the "truth", so she was more inclined to realism when picking the script, because it was easier for her to believe that this was a real thing, and then it was enough to see if the logic of life and the logic of emotions were compatible, and if they were all comprehensible, it would be enough. She is also an audience member and knows how sensitive an audience is to the "truth". She saw that some viewers said that even if they were chopping vegetables in the kitchen, they heard that there was a person on TV who was not "acting" in a good tone, but like ordinary people in life, they would stop what they were doing and tilt their heads to see, "This is the power of reality."
The same goes for songwriting. That year, the ending song of "The Nameless" was given to her to sing, after all, when she starred in "Donkey Gets Water", she sang "I Want You" popular. As a result, she not only sang the ending song, but also created "Hu Guangsheng" in Ma Jiaqi's world, "What do I owe you?"I owe you nothing ......This song sings into the hearts of many people. After that, those songs that were written because they were touched by the characters became the "singer-songwriter" Ren Suxi.
filmed the movie "Looking for Han" to create "Wang Zhaojun", wrote the theme song of the same name for the movie "Wasteland", and recently ** "Hometown, Don't Come to Harm", she wrote "Years Sui" and "Big Children's Song". There are always people who say that she is a singer who has been delayed by acting, but in fact, every time she releases a new song, she is very uneasy: "I'm such an amateur, do I have to be laughed at again?".But then I thought that this is also my expression, jokes are jokes. Fortunately, the song was published together with the film and television works, and she felt that she was very happy to be able to protect herself. She never felt that her songs had any technical skills to speak of, after all, "there are only so many chords that she can do", and "her voice is still trembling and unstable". But one thing she can guarantee is that it is still "true". "Every sentence is what I want to say, I don't accept reservations, and I can't write proposition essays, I can only write songs when I am in love. If the audience likes it, it must be because of sincerity, Ren Suxi said: "I only have this, nothing else." ”
Ren Suxi in *, sang in the ending song "Wait a Minute" of "The Nameless": "What am I waiting for, am I waiting for winter to go to spring, or waiting for a tree to bloom .......""Ren Suxi in reality, and other good characters. In her eyes, there is no difference between dramas, movies, and TV series, as long as the outlet of the expression is convincing, she is willing to do it, and she doesn't care about the carrier. There are a lot of roles she wants to play, and she can't give a specific answer for a while, so when she was asked tightly, she simply joked that "The Smurfs" and "Strange Tales from the Sky" ......When I asked her why, she was so happy that she said, "Because she looks alike."
Actors, they always have to play all kinds of people in this world, she feels that there is always "grow up to be a person like me, then just play this lump", the lump that she can't reach, if she doesn't participate, she won't get it. She has to do it all her life to create characters, so the most important thing is definitely not the appearance. Ren Suxi is a person who can only focus on the character in his hand, but also look far away, so he is not easy to be anxious. In today's film and television industry, the roles given to actresses are not diverse, but there are always others, since there is, play the current one well, and the rest of what can be done is to live as long as possible, wait quietly for changes, and wait for the day when the characters on the screen spectrum are more complex and meaningful, she believes that she is an actor who can take these roles.
Issued in 20241.1. The 1123rd issue of China News Weekly.
Magazine title: Ren Suxi: I only have sincerity, nothing else.
Reporter: Li Jing.
Editor: Yang Shiyang.
Operations Editor: Xiao Ran.