After winning the "Best Actor" in 2023 with the movie "Fudu Youth", Wu Kangren was praised by director Ang Lee backstage at the awards ceremony, "You are the kind of actor who will play the role". Wu Kangren said excitedly that he "may still make mistakes in the next play". Ang Lee responded to him: "I'd rather make mistakes than play boring (boring) plays." ”
I'd rather make mistakes than boring", is almost a footnote to Wu Kangren's career as an actor.
Wu Kangren won the Best Actor at the 17th FIRST Youth Film Festival for "Fudu Youth".
Wu Kangren, 27 years old, starred in the idol drama "Next Stop, Happiness" for the first time as an "elderly newcomer". The affectionate and mistaken male No. 2 Hua Takuya is the initial impression of many mainland audiences on him. In the behind-the-scenes footage and his many later narrations, he always made mistakes on the set at that time, and even the five-word lines had to be NG more than 20 times.
If you don't have enough talent, work hard to make it up. One of the ways to work hard is to get closer to the character by "exploding" your appearance. Wu Kangren on the screen is strong and upright for a while, round and fair-skinned for a while, and thin and rickety for a while. He broke himself up and crumpled again and again, and every time he filmed a scene, he let that character stay in the body for a period of time until he became one with the character. The result of such a lot of effort is that some characters work too hard, which makes the actor's own ambition exposed.
However, the other side of the "mistake" is the accumulation of his "don't bor" play. In the past ten years, with the transformation of Taiwanese dramas, Wu Kangren ushered in his own era. "A Handful of Green", "Narcotic Storm", "The Distance Between Us and Evil", "The Beginning of the Lights", "Imitation Criminal", "Lifetime" ......Looking back at his masterpieces over the years, the themes are diverse and the roles are contrasting, whether he is the protagonist or a special cameo, almost every work can step on the social mood or the pain points of the times, becoming a masterpiece on the road of transformation of Taiwanese dramas, and also pushing him outside the play to the throne of "the first brother of Taiwanese dramas".
In his works, Wu Kangren is like water, allowing himself to flow into the containers of different characters. The shape of the container includes thoughtful professionals such as pilots, lawyers, and prosecutors, but even more popular with the audience are those who are "bizarre" in the mainstream eye: fetishists, drag queens, murderers, sexual harassers, long-term drug addicts, ......, a non-talented actor, used an almost clumsy way to rampage without routines, until he cultivated into the "first brother of Taiwanese drama" who is now indisputable.
In 2023, Wu Kangren will go to the next city. The two films "Fudu Youth" and "I Wish People Were Long" have won several important film festivals in Asia, and he has also won a milestone trophy in his career as an actor, and the three dramas "Lifetime", "Imitation Criminal" and "At This Moment" are also the talk of the mainland social platform.
What kind of "shape" does Wu Kangren see on the screen next time?You can never predict.
Report card for 2023
Best Actor at the 17th FIRST Youth Film Festival ("Fudu Youth").
2023 Golden Rooster Chinese Film Tour Annual Looking Forward to Chinese Movies ("Fudu Youth").
Best Film (Nominated) in the Asian Future Unit at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival ("I Wish People Were Long").
The closing film of the 20th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival ("I Wish People Were Long").
starred in the drama "Lifetime", "Imitation Criminal", and the drama "At This Moment" starring in the unit, all of which are domestic and foreign popular and social platform topics.
Producer: Rong Mingchang, Liu Jiangtao
Curator: He Bei
Co-ordinator: Peng Simin
Co-ordinating editor: Liu Fang
Written by: Nandu reporter Zhong Xin
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