As a dancer, his subsequent career as an actor was beyond Lin Yi's imagination. When the agent of Tangren Film and Television approached Lin Yi and handed him a hydrangea, his first reaction was, "Don't be a liar." He felt that he had never shown his acting ability and had no experience. It wasn't until he visited the company and saw Hu Ge's photo posted on the wall that he believed he had really been spotted.
"I really liked watching 'Sword and Sword' at the time, and I liked Teacher Hu Ge very much. It can be said that I actually did it to chase stars..." Lin Yi said in an exclusive interview with The Paper. "Of course, I just went to college at that time, and I also wanted to do something. New attempts and challenges.”
"Derailed" character poster, Lin Yi plays Qilian
Lin Yi is not a proactive person in conversations, but he can accept all questions and give feedback seriously. Just like in his own life, fate always seems to choose him. He is always the recipient, but he is always the recipient. Will be implemented seriously. Acting is "favoured", and so is learning to dance.
“When I was young, the admissions teacher suddenly met me on the road and told me that I was very suitable for learning dance. After contacting my family, I found out that I could live on campus and thought it was pretty good, so I went. I didn’t even know what kind of dance I wanted to learn. ." After studying the national standard for a year, Lin Yicai felt that he also liked dancing because he "can find a different version of himself" and was no longer so introverted.
As soon as he accepted his identity as an actor and took his first acting class, he felt something in common between acting and dancing. After the first class, the teacher gave him a question to perform an angry scene. He suddenly realized the charm of the performance. "After the performance, I felt numb all over. It was the first time for me to vent my emotions like this, because I wasn’t very good at expressing my emotions and thoughts before.”
He has nothing in common with Qilian
After many acting classes, Lin Yi was finally able to better express such outgoing emotions as anger in his plays. For example, in last year's niche science fiction drama "Derailment", he and Liu Haocun partnered up to play an impressive pair of companions entangled in love and hate.
The beginning of "Derailed" has a bit of a crazy feeling. The heroine Jiang Xiaoyuan suddenly traveled through time and space from a rich family and returned to 5 years ago. At the same time, Qilian in the current time and space also used a magical mobile phone to communicate with his former first love Jiang Xiaoyuan/ They got in touch with Jiang Xiaoyuan, a daughter of a wealthy family. This kind of setting is very difficult to implement in an idol drama. The emotions and characters are almost floating in the air. However, as the plot progresses, the two young actors just make the characters come true. Jiang Xiaoyuan is stubborn and independent, while Qi Lian looks irritable. In fact, he is soft-hearted and warm, and the couple gradually develops a chemical reaction. At the end, the audience shed tears for the relationship between the two. This relationship not only includes love, but also a friendship of growing up and having adventures together along the way.
A still from "Derailment", Liu Haocun (right) as Jiang Xiaoyuan
During the interview, not long after the ending of "Derailment", Lin Yi admitted that before playing Qilian, he had never been exposed to this kind of script. Suspense and science fiction are very attractive to him. The important thing is that he likes the concept conveyed by this story. "Our lives may occasionally deviate from the track, but they will eventually get back on the right track. This track may go in different directions, find different tracks, and may have different trains, just like the parallel world in our setting Same."
Qi Lian's most outstanding and obvious characteristic in the drama is that he always wears a suit. Lin Yi seldom wears a suit in his daily life. Once he puts it on, he immediately enters a more formal state and "will unconsciously avoid posing in a too slouching posture." It took him a while to adapt to this discomfort.
Stills from "Derailment"
When Lin read the script, he felt that Qilian was far away from him in terms of lifestyle and personality. Many of the things Qilian did were things he had never tried before. He felt that his personality was relatively gentle and he had no experience of quarreling. , but Qilian is a very strong person, and he has a lot of quarreling and angry scenes in the play. "Whether it's his attitude towards some people or when he fights against evil forces, you can feel his strength."
This means that Lin Yi needs to abandon his original self to the greatest extent to become Qilian.
"I will do a lot of psychological construction, telling myself that I am very strong, or I am very angry now, and I will constantly comb through his biography, thinking about where he is at this point, where his story has happened, and his attitude towards these people. What is it like, what kind of pressure is it on, and find out how this character feels at the moment.”
Lin Yi and "Brother Yi"
In order to play Qilian, Lin Yi also learned to ride a motorcycle. "I feel very happy and exciting when riding. It is a completely different experience from driving. It is very free. It will be scary at first, but after you slowly master the entire body and control the speed, you will feel a sense of freedom. The feeling of breaking through oneself is just like the feeling when skiing. It is the stimulation brought by speed. Only when you reach that speed can you feel the stimulation that is actually difficult to experience in daily life."
Stills from "Derailment"
In addition, he grew his hair longer and also deliberately changed his voice. "I didn't plan to change my voice at first, but the producer and director felt that the character should be deeper, so when the filming started, I temporarily I changed my voice to deliberately lower it and get closer to the person’s character, although sometimes it would affect the expression of some emotions.”
The director also always called Lin Yi "Brother No. 1" on the scene, subtly cultivating his domineering and self-confidence.
In Lin Yi's understanding, these external changes help him shape his characters, and for the audience, they also create a contrast between Qilian's two life stages.
"It's not too obvious in the main film. Maybe the boyhood scenes are relatively late. In fact, the original design was to focus on a contrast. There is a scene in our movie where Jiang Xiaoyuan sees Qi Lian and thinks of Qi Lian in his boyhood. , from the boy’s body to his face, and then gradually further away, he became Qilian in his adult stage. The very big change in appearance shows that this person has experienced a lot.”
Stills from "Derailment"
Lin Yi watched the drama with the audience. He also felt that in the final presentation of the film, Qi Lian's characters appeared in fragments, and the story lines and emotions were fragmented. But the reason why he liked this character was because Judging from the script, Qilian is a character with a full personality, rich life experience, and a sense of hierarchy.
"He is not a tyrant either. He was a bit awkward at first. He has a sense of decadence and has always lived in a different dimension from the people around him. His views and memories of the world are completely different from others. He I can feel the strange looks from everyone, but he has never given in or doubted himself. He has always been alone against the whole world. Instead, he seems to be a person who has traveled through this world. Regarding the disappearance of his friends, he has been searching for the truth for so many years. , he is also looking for himself. To him, he actually seems to not belong to this world. When Jiang Xiaoyuan suddenly appears, or in the physical form of the Jiang Xiaoyuan he knew before, he will definitely not be able to accept it, and there will be a gap. feel."
Stills from "Derailment"
Regardless of the story direction of "Derailed", the several scenes between Qi Lian and Jiang Xiaoyuan are quite impressive, and the tension between the actors is rare in modern movies. For example, in one scene, when Qi Lian learned that Jiang Xiaoyuan was not his first love, but had "occupied" his first love's body, he sent porridge to the sick Jiang Xiaoyuan and forced him to take good care of himself. The two faced off in anger. Lin Yi recalled that in the version he saw now, Qilian didn't react much, but he was very emotional during the filming. "Originally, I had some lines and arrangements that were very emotional, but I don't know why I removed them, leaving only Force her to eat."
"When I watched it, I felt it was weird. It seemed different from what I had done before. In fact, I also photographed the table. We walked for a long time during that scene. On set, we mostly followed the director. Everyone has their own understanding of the role, and there will be gaps in mutual understanding. We are constantly colliding with each other to see how we can overlap this scene with each other, and achieve the emotions and behaviors required for this scene step by step. .”
This is Liu Haocun's first TV drama. Lin Yi feels that Liu Haocun is indeed a worthy partner to work with.
"Her understanding of this character impressed me deeply because it was very different from what I interpreted from the script. She gave Jiang Xiaoyuan a different feeling. In fact, in the script, this is a pretty crazy character, Qi Lian is also crazy, and they are sympathetic to each other. But at the shooting scene, you can see her performing another kind of feeling. She integrated that thing into her own, performing a unique kind of pure, It makes people want to protect, and it feels very broken. Her understanding and interpretation of this character was something I didn't expect when I read the script. When she showed her understanding, it also gave me a lot of new feelings. She The reinterpretation of a scene allowed me to start sorting out the relationship between their characters again."
Stills from "Derailment"
The life of an amateur turning into a star
When he played Qilian, Lin Yi was not very relaxed. This is also an important issue in his current acting. "When I first started acting, I was really nervous. Now I can enjoy acting a little bit. Sometimes I feel This scene was very comfortable to perform, and everyone thought it was very good. I think I am enjoying this job."
This sense of relief is hard-won. Although from all aspects, Lin Yi belongs to the group that is close to a "winner" in life, but from the beginning, he was not confident.
"I am not a gifted person. I can recognize that I have some shortcomings and encounter different difficulties and different predicaments. I think gifted people should not be like this.
The turning point came last year. Lin Yi felt that he had a new understanding and change about work, and he would face work and life with a more calm attitude.
"Don't Touch Me" Poster
"During the filming of "Don't Touch Me", I completely broke my previous acting habits and views on acting. It was a completely different way of acting. It is actually a comedy, and we ourselves didn't know it. What kind of feeling will it show in the end, but it is a very positive working state, and I think the whole person's state in that state is very good, and there will be shining points."
"Later, when I was feeling down, or when I encountered some difficulties, I would watch some short videos. I like some short video bloggers very much, and many of their words inspired me, and I gained a new perspective on life. Cognition and understanding, as well as a new mentality, I am not too entangled in the past or future things, focus more on the present, and lose some of the shackles I have on myself. After throwing them away, I will find that there is nothing I can't do."
"Not only in work, but also in life. Do you care about the use? Is it necessary? You may not be able to control the good or the bad, so you must not be able to do this? You must do it this way. ? In fact, you can do whatever you want, and live your life however you want. Of course, this is just talking about a free mentality. Looking at the current world with an out-of-the-box mentality will give you a new understanding and state of mind. , when we face many things again, the whole world will be different."
After this expression, he was asked another question about acting, and his answer became clearer, "Every moment when I am immersed in the role is the moment when I love acting the most. It's hard to describe that feeling, it seems to be The sense of accomplishment, really getting into the character's sense of accomplishment, and experiencing the character's emotions and emotions, the feeling brought about by this process is the moment I enjoy performing."
Stills from "The Little Hours That Give Us Warmth"
These feelings belong to Lin Yi, but in any case, as a non-scientific student, Lin Yi was an ordinary person, was spotted by a "talent scout", and became popular when he debuted. Not long after, he became the leading actor in the drama "Give Us Warmth" "Warm Little Time" also received recognition, won awards, gained many, many fans, and immediately took on several leading roles... This is the "enviable life of an amateur turning into a star." But it also makes people curious. After gaining so much, is he worried about losing anything?
"Life is full of gains and losses. I think I will eventually have to face the regret of loss, the things I can no longer feel. I have a bad memory, and I will selectively forget many things, such as lost things and giving up obsessions. Accept this loss calmly. Moreover, I feel that I am not an ordinary person. I also regret that I did not cherish the time with my family, although I have worked hard. But when you lose these things, you will find that , but if you don’t cherish your time, you can actually do better.”
