Huang Lixing: I don’t need anyone to tell me what is best.

In addition to the label of "sexy handsome man", Huang Lixing also has many unknown characteristics.

The outside world says that he is a sexy and stylish man, but he says that he is homely and boring; he is modest and low-key, but there is an "arrogance" that cannot be ignored in his bones; he demands perfection at work, but is willful and carefree in life. Because, once you feel unhappy, change your lifestyle to a way that makes you happy.

Text/Luo Yu

"The most important thing about being an actor is to be similar." Huang Lixing emphasized, "No matter how good you are at acting, if you are skinny and have no muscles, you will not be able to compete with others." It seems fake.” To a certain extent, Huang Lixing is a typical Virgo: he spares no effort in pursuing perfection. "If you ask the director, she will definitely tell you that I am very verbose."

"I am simply a maniac with questions." Xu Jinglei, who made her first attempt at directing a crime-themed film, commented on Huang Lixing. Since reading the script of "Kidnapper" in 2014, Huang Lixing has participated in almost every revision of the script for several years. "I don't want to worry so much." It's just that Virgo can't see any flaws or illogical logic in the plot connection.

For example, there was a scene in the early script - the convenience store clerk felt that the suspect played by Huang Lixing looked strange, so he said a line to "explain the plot": "This person has been looking in the mirror. I It seems like he doesn't know who he is."

Huang Lixing couldn't understand this design. "This should be my best scene, but I arranged for the convenience store clerk to explain everything with lines." He felt that it had to be changed. "If other people think I'm wrong, they have to convince me and convince me with logic."

After many rounds of verbal sparring, no one, including director Xu Jinglei, could say he could win. "No one should understand the role you play better than you." Huang Lixing believes that if an actor cannot reach this level, he should simply not act.

Huang Lixian, a Virgo, trained hard in the gym for 8 months to play the role in the movie.

This kind of understanding is due to the homework done before shooting.

How to play someone who suddenly loses his memory? "The most important thing is that you can't make people with amnesia into fools." Huang Lixing thought of the elderly suffering from Alzheimer's disease. "When they start to experience memory loss, they forget things and cannot recognize people. They feel embarrassed and are afraid of offending someone because they don't remember them, so they will act: 'Hey! Long time no see!'" Huang Lixing draws lessons from this. The state of the amnesiac old man, "because they are real enough".

Huang Lixing values ??truth. "In a movie, even the bad guys must be so bad that they make sense." But in fact, he does not believe that there is absolute good or bad in this world. "People are all gray, and there is no such thing as black and white."

During the filming, a staff member once suggested to "Problem Maniac": "Don't be so serious." "I understand what he means. He wants to express it, but many times the audience can't actually see it." But that For a moment, Huang Lixing was still furious. "Because I hate people saying: 'It's just a movie.'"

"Maybe it's because I have too many opinions that I haven't made a movie for so long." The movie "Du Lala's Promotion" (below) After "Du Lala" for short), Huang Lixing starred in the movie "Close Enemies" with Xu Jinglei for the second time in 2011. After that, he disappeared for a long time, during which he only made a cameo in another film directed by Xu Jinglei, "There is a Place Only We Know" a role.

The movie "There is a Place Only We Know" directed by Xu Jinglei.

It’s not that no director came to him. After "Du Lala", Huang Lixing received at least ten scripts, all of which were Cinderella stories, and he had to play roles similar to domineering presidents. The other party told him that the filming of the movie would start in two or three weeks. He asked: "What should I do if the protagonist can't be found in such a short period of time?" The other party replied: "Then we won't shoot." Huang Lixing couldn't accept this answer. "I can spend one or two years, or even longer, on a movie. If I only spend a month, I will feel that I am just here to make money."

If the entertainment industry is a vanity fair that requires physical combat , Huang Lixing seems to have been away from home. "I don't like to do things for the sake of fame and exposure." When he entered this circle, he hoped to achieve this state of "doing whatever he wants." "But I had to do some things before because I wasn't famous enough."

It is Huang Lixing's nature not to be restrained.

Before the movie "Du Lala", as a musician, he was famous for his low production: five songs per year and one album every two years. His idea is very stubborn: "It takes longer to observe more, which can easily stimulate new ideas and new feelings. If you like my old songs, just buy the old album."

Huang Lixing, who was born in Los Angeles, USA, is a typical ABC (Chinese-American). As a singer-songwriter, he is not good at writing lyrics in Chinese. Sometimes when he encounters something he cannot express, he asks his friends for help. Spending two to three months composing a song is an extremely "luxury" thing in the eyes of other musicians, but to him it is ordinary.

Poster for the movie "Kidnapper".

However, if the output is too low, he will definitely not be liked by the record company. Huang Lixing was always asked by his boss: "Where is the album?" After listening, he would give the example of Michelangelo - the latter spent all day He stared at a stone and completed the world-famous "David" in four years.

"I was often in a daze at that time, but there was no "David", only confusion." In 2008, Huang Lixing took more than two years to complete the album "Finally Had to Lie Down". He wrote in the lyrics: Give me a minute of happiness/Give me a way to vent/Give me freedom/Let my life no longer be meaningless... After that, he did not release another album, but only contributed to the movie "Du Lala" "Created and sang the ending song GO.

"As a singer, I have retired." Huang Lixing said that he does not like singing and performing. "I would rather die than hold a concert. I really have no dream of singing to 100,000 people. I don't find it fun." "Huang Lixing doesn't go to KTV in private. "I just like writing songs and the process of creation. I think it's cool." He remembers that in order to promote the album, he spent a year constantly traveling around the country, changing places almost every three days. "I carried my suitcases to different hotels, and when I arrived, I just waited in the room in a daze, and when the time came, I went to perform." 42-year-old Huang Lixing could not imagine that he would still repeat this kind of life when he was 50 years old. "Thanks to singing for leaving me without money. Pressure, no need to work for the sake of work, no need to force myself. I am almost halfway through my life, and I just want to do something fun and happy."

This is not the first time that Huang Lixing started from music, or in other words, from his own nature. To withdraw from the living conditions.

In the early 1990s, Huang Lixing, his brother Huang Licheng, and his cousin Lin Zhiwen were discovered by Taiwanese agents and formed the group L.A. BOYZ. They officially debuted in Taiwan in 1992.

L.A.BOYZ was once popular in Taiwan, but Huang Lixing, as ABC, did not understand Taiwan’s idol culture at that time. He did not understand that other boy groups participating in variety shows with them had to put on makeup before going on stage. , "Make it up like a doll." When watching the opponent's performance, he would have a fighting mentality: "Is this their dance? If they compare with us, they will be ruined."

"Young people are all bad at it." Huang Lixing when he was a teenager I often feel invincible. But this good feeling about myself didn't last long. To promote the album, he continued to appear on various variety shows, saying the same words, singing the same songs, and dancing the same dances, which Huang Lixing began to feel was a kind of torture. More importantly, he found that he did not agree with the record company's music philosophy. "The decision-making power is not in our hands. There is no freedom."

As a singer, Huang Lixing.

In 1997, L.A. BOYZ announced its disbandment. The reason Huang Lixing gave was simple: "It's not fun anymore." He returned to the United States to continue studying. His dislike of being bound by rules is also reflected in his choice of major in college. Initially, he studied biology, then moved on to sociology, psychology, economics, and drama.

Three years later, Huang Lixing returned to the Taiwanese music scene, continuing his best rap style, and quickly became one of Taiwan's top male singers. In 2005, he won the Taiwan Golden Melody Award for Best Male Singer for his album "Black Thoughts". For this most important music award in Taiwan, Huang Lixing doesn't seem to care much: "I don't need this recognition, but of course I am happy to win the award."

People often say that Huang Lixing is rebellious, and he was even voted as "Taiwan's No. 1 Bad Guy". "Maybe I am a difficult artist. My personality may not be suitable for this industry."

Over the years, Huang Lixing has been wandering on the fringes of the entertainment industry.

He runs many side businesses, and his investment areas include nightclubs, bars, record production, film companies, etc., but none of the stores is run by himself. They are all jointly opened with friends. He said that even if a friend took his money, packed up and left, "I can only say that I am really grateful to him. I got to know his character before he hurt me more."

Xu Jinglei said that Huang Lixing was the happiest person she had ever seen. "When he gets tired of being a singer, he always wants to do something else. Whatever makes him happy, he will do it. He is a person who is never unhappy."

Like most people, Huang Lixing used to call Xu Jinglei "Lao Xu."

Starting from "Du Lala's Promotion", Huang Lixing has appeared in every movie directed by Xu Jinglei without exception.

After "Du Lala" was released, he and her *** participated in "A Date with Luyu". When asked on the show if they were willing to cooperate again, Huang Lixing nodded fiercely.

Before participating in "Du Lala", although Huang Lixing also appeared in several movies such as "Taipei 9 to 5", his impact was not great. It was his role as Wang Wei that made him become a movie star. A rising star.

When he first got the script of "Du Lala", Huang Lixing didn't know who Xu Jinglei was. After contacting her, he evaluated her as: smart and brave. "Many people were not optimistic about her at that time, saying how could she, an art film director, make a good commercial love story, which is why there were so many advertisements." Xu Jinglei also had memories of this. "Du Lala" was her first commercial film with a relatively large investment scale. It was very difficult to find funds. No one believed she had the ability at the time. For those investors who were finally willing to provide money, she tried her best to negotiate advertisements with almost no hope of repaying them. To this day, she blushes at many places in the film.

"She has very good communication skills. Unlike some directors, who act like I am the big brother and you don't want to talk." During the filming of "Du Lala", Huang Lixing would ask Xu Jinglei no matter what questions he had. . "My Chinese is not very good, so she will help me modify my lines to make it easier for me to act." In his opinion, having her around is like having a teacher sitting next to you who can tell you the answers during an exam. You can rest assured that you feel safe.” During the one and a half month filming of "Du Lala", Xu Jinglei often said that everyone just came together to have fun. "She said that my brother is welcome to visit the class." This made Huang Lixing feel warm.

Xu Jinglei is an actor, and Huang Lixing said that this way their working methods will be more in sync. He is afraid that some directors who cannot act will guide actors. "For example, you are clearly acting an argument with someone, but he asks you to stand up and look out the window and continue to argue with your back to the other person. It is not realistic at all. The director just thinks that this is the case. The picture is beautiful."

Huang Lixing feels that he and "Old Xu" are very similar in their approach to acting: "Some people act purely by feeling, and we have to do a lot of homework beforehand." "Du Lala", Xu Jinglei led the crew to interview the CEOs or HRDs of 13 Fortune 500 companies in China, including Google, Coca-Cola, and IBM. Zhaopin Recruitment also held an employee forum for them to talk about workplace stories.

Starting from "Du Lala", Huang Lixing has appeared in every movie directed by Xu Jinglei without exception. The relationship between the two is also in a state of "not being revealed". They have been secretly photographed and "married", but the two parties have never responded positively.

Huang Lixing and Xu Jinglei co-starred in the movie "Close Enemies".

Huang Lixing doesn’t like to disclose his private feelings. "It would be very miserable if it was made public. You might be questioned when you go out with your cousin." Huang Lixing also doesn't like to talk about love in public. "I was interviewed when I was 20 years old, but every time I look back, I think that this is an idiot. Because every time you are in a relationship, you will think that you are right."

The outside world views Huang Lixing The labels he has been given are: Sexy Man, Walking Hormone. It is said that many female artists who have collaborated with him are fascinated by his charm. Xiao S said that Huang Lixing is the kind of singer who can make people fall into meditation after listening to a song with his CD. But Huang Lixing's evaluation of himself was that he was an otaku and boring. He didn't even understand why he gave flowers to girls. "Put flowers in a water bottle and throw them away soon. Is it necessary? If you say the TV is broken, I will find a way to help you find a TV."

Huang Lixing's personality is indeed full of contradictions. For example, his hobbies are collecting second-hand bicycles and raising parrots.

In an era of advanced information, he does not have Weibo or Instagram. "My life is not rich to begin with. If I have to share it, I can only share one thing - eating at home." He didn't even understand why he wanted to share his private life, because being scolded by others would make him unhappy all day long. Receiving compliments from others is like eating candy, you will become addicted. "I don't need others to tell me what I do is good. Just be yourself."

Perhaps Huang Lixing has never changed. Although there have been fewer and fewer scandals about him over the years, and he has become more and more low-key, he still has the shadow of the unruly boy in L.A. BOYZ. He acts spontaneously, always looks like he loves someone, and dreams of bringing Hip-Hop to the world. Bring freedom, shouting, and criticism back to Taiwan.

This article first appeared in issue 488 of "New Weekly"