Hugh's plays are like a bone, which can never be chewed clean (Part 1).

-In July 2003, Southern People Weekly, issue 2065 438+350.

30 minutes before the opening of the second half of Dream, Patient No.5 was already "asleep" on the stage. In his dream, the first audience came in, followed by the second and third ... Soon, the audience was almost full. Hugh said, "Then, my dream ended and the audience's dream began ..."-In that play, he was "Patient Five".

During the intermission, patient number five was interviewed backstage. From the person to the chin, the two distinct strokes must match the vicissitudes of the play. In a blink of an eye, Li Xiaoyao, a teenager who came out of the game, became uncle "khufu". However, when the photographer guided him to be "brighter", the disguised uncle habitually blinked and made a juvenile face in an online game.

Lai Shengchuan's nearly eight-hour drama "Like a Dream" has a huge and complicated story and many actors, especially two post-80s stars. Before and after the performance, there are always two fans waiting near the small door where the backstage cast members come in and out. The mighty group is the "corn" after 00; The quieter cluster is the "pepper" after 90.

At the beginning of the interview, Hugh expressed his love for this state: although he spends more than four hours a day, he won't be bored, because it is a rare virtuous circle in the circle. In an interview a year ago, he said, "I have never been back to the stage since graduation, and my heart to play a stage play is getting stronger and stronger ..." Soon, many stage workers came to him, and he chose two of them, Bai Xianyong's "Yin Xue Forever"

Returning to the stage, Hugh said: "A stage play is like a piece of meat and bones, which can never be chewed cleanly. Every time it is chewed, it will have a different taste."

Primary school is 600 meters away from middle school, and middle school is 4.4 kilometers away from university. In this metropolis, which takes at least two hours by subway from one end to the other, the schools and daily haunts in Huli are accurately scattered in a circle with a diameter of 5 kilometers from home, which is a typical life of a good boy in Shanghai. In the introduction of my friend's teacher, his label was "filial piety", so that I couldn't help asking him: Is there a rebellious period?

The answer is: of course. The performance of rebellion is "rebelling against parents", especially in middle school. Then, Zhu, who was in the same class with him in Shanghai No.2 Middle School (also Yao Ming's alma mater) for two years and in the same school for five years, commented that this classmate was "excellent in character and learning"-good in science and Chinese, and his teachers and classmates liked him very much.

"Rebellion" did not affect the performance of this classmate. At the end of last semester in senior three, his grade was eighth, "it should have hit Fudan". When I reported for duty next semester, I saw that the teacher's office posted the enrollment brochure of art colleges, so I ran to try it, and then it got out of hand. "I saw the shortcut, my heart was crazy, and I was confident."

When I took the drama exam, the topic of the vocal music exam was "Motherland, Mother", and I followed the lyrics. The invigilator asked, why are you so careless? He replied that I was too busy studying to remember the lyrics.

That year, Hugh got two admission notices, the Chinese Opera Director Department and the Shanghai Opera Performance Department. He chose the latter. There is a saying that his mother wants him to stay in Shanghai, but this time, he said with a flat mouth: The main reason for applying for acting is "showing off in an ostentatious manner"-at that time, he had got the admission notice from the director department and wanted to see if he could be admitted to the acting department.

It's not a bad thing for a good boy to enter an art school. The performance teacher felt that "this young man's cultural lessons were good, especially his literary skills were outstanding among his classmates at that time", and the most prominent and real advantage of this young man at that time was his good image.

Can you be an actor with a good image? Obviously not. Another teacher, Wang Su, thinks that there are many people in a crew. For young actors who have just made their debut, good personality and relaxed cooperation are indispensable ... It is said that before deciding to sign a break, the Tang people asked Wang Su about the situation of the class teacher in the break and got a sentence "Hugh, good boy", and then everyone was relieved.

In his sophomore year, Hugh tried on makeup for The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man, and was taken by Yao Zhuangxian, the "father of the game". Because, "handsome, optimistic, lively, a little oily, a little sincere", he became Li Xiaoyao. After 38 episodes of TV series, the young man's costume image became popular all the way.

The photographer led Hugh to the mirror in the dressing room and asked him to look at the man in the mirror. Hugh is a little curious about this shooting technique, but he is no stranger to mirrors. His mother is a Shanghai woman who loves cleanliness and pays attention to appearance. From an early age, she warned him to look in the mirror and dress neatly before going out to see people. On his blog, he wrote Look in the Mirror, which recorded the most painful communication with the mirror in his life. "The mirror threw a confused and scared person in front of me. He was covered with scars and blood. The stranger struggled to open his eyes and stared at me. His face is covered with needle and thread, as if he had just come out of the tailor's shop ... "

The car accident on the summer night of 2006 was the biggest turning point and experience of his acting career. While filming The Legend of the Condor Heroes, on the way back to Shanghai from the studio, Hugh's business car collided with an oncoming truck. The female colleague around him was seriously injured and died, but although his eyes were innocent, he had to face his "broken face". It took him a year to recover and re-participate in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, which was suspended midway.

After the car accident, he published a book, in which he wrote: "The car accident knocked me off the original track and let me find new motivation and direction in the most authentic state."

Today, seven years later, when we tried to talk to him about the car accident, he ducked. The staff explained: Memories are more painful and I don't want to talk about it any more.

Asked what kind of influence Fan's car accident had on the student, he didn't know, but he felt that the student had matured a lot in recent years.

And Wang Su remembers such a detail: after the accident, considering that the original assistant was the driver at the time of the accident, the company was prepared to replace Hugh's assistant, but Hugh insisted on keeping him-if this change, it would have a bad impact on the young assistant's career.

Regarding the "Patient No.5" he created, Hugh commented: "Everything he faced was negative. The child died, my wife disappeared, and I was terminally ill. He went to find the answer to this personal tragedy. In his dream, he saw his past life. " Then I summarized and sublimated the story of the character, probably in combination with my own life experience. "When you face something, it is painful."

Hugh, calm down? The accompanying photographer said that at least in front of the camera, he was calm and did not avoid the camera.

On the Internet, I turned to an interview two years ago. When talking about the car accident, Hugh said, "I think it will be negative for me if people still talk about the car accident after many years, which shows that I have never achieved anything else to distract everyone." That interview was distilled into a resounding title: "I don't rely on my face to eat, and mentioning a car accident is a denial of me."