Pindao Chen Baoguo ｜ Acting ceiling, 20 years later, he will play the big screen male lead.

Special feature of 1905 film network It was released in the past Mid-Autumn Festival. In it, he plays the leading actor Du Sihan, an old man who came to the grassland to find his relatives in his sixties.

Compared with his screen image — — Domineering, majestic, and full of gas fields, this character is "plain" to some strangers. However, under this gentle watchcase, Chen Baoguo, as always, injected a choppy emotion and sentiment into the character.

From the end of the sea to the depths of the grassland, this poetic journey brought the salvation of Du Sihan’s soul. The two-hour performance is just an ordinary and short-lived node on this track when viewed in the coordinates of Chen Baoguo’s decades-long performance career.

Acting "ceiling" and "textbook" … … Behind countless classic characters and the glory of winning prizes is the youthful idol’s "arrogance", the courage to subvert the image and boldly transform, the confusion on the film road for 10 years, and the awe that will always be maintained in the face of performance.

"The difficulty of performance is not in the play, but in your drama life."Chen Baoguo, who has always had a movie dream, finally stood in the center of the screen again after more than 20 years. Since he entered the business, he has never stopped thinking and longing for acting for a moment.

He always reminds himself that actors should learn to wait for opportunities, be able to endure loneliness and strive to overcome inertia.

"Do you have any roles that you particularly want to wait for now?" We threw out this curiosity at the end of the interview.

"Too many." Chen Baoguo wanted to think, "or wait! Wait, wait, wait! "

Prairie is a poetic journey of redemption.

At first, the communication between Chen Baoguo and the director around The End of the Sea is Grassland was quite simple. "He didn’t describe much to me, so he said, Look at the script and see if you feel anything."

At this age, "feeling is very important."Therefore, although "Du Sihan" is far from his usual performance style, Chen Baoguo still settled down and gradually found this kind of "feeling" which can only be understood but cannot be described.

"It’s poetic." This is Chen Baoguo’s clearest and most appreciated feeling about the work "The Grassland at the End of the Sea". Du Sihan, on the other hand, is far from being as calm and casual as he seems on the surface. He takes everything in stride: "I understand him very well, and in grounded words, (he) is a bit awkward." There is no "strong output" scene in the whole film, but the emotion of this character is always full of tension.

From the script stage, Chen Baoguo is looking forward to the highlight of the reunion with his sister at the end of the film.

At that moment, the secret of the "sea" was finally revealed in the grassland, and the complexity of the characters reached full load at that moment. But more than half a century later, people of this age have already experienced too many joys and sorrows, sickness and death. "People with stories are (on the contrary) such a peaceful state."

He said, "it’s not just a trip to find relatives, but also a redemption of himself."

Recognized as the "acting ceiling", this play means a lot to him?

In the premiere of The End of the Sea is the Grassland, director Tung shing Yee commented that Chen Baoguo was the "anchor of the sea" of the whole work.In addition to the recognition of professional awards, his classic fragments in many works have also been labeled as "acting ceiling" and "performance textbook" because of the constant archaeology of audiences and fans.

Although he doesn’t know "surfing", Chen Baoguo occasionally meets fans who come to visit the class during filming. "I don’t really know what these audiences who like me now are thinking. I have seen a lot of them and will talk to them every time, (for example) which movie do you like best."

Many viewers remember Chen Baoguo because of Bai Jingqi, the handsome but decent master of The Big House. Others think that his Liu Che in Hanwu Emperor can be regarded as a "deity". After many years of broadcasting, The Ming Dynasty 1566 has rekindled its popularity, and Jiajing Emperor, an alternative legend played by Chen Baoguo, has become an indispensable protagonist for many fans.

The drama "Big House Gate"

As a play bone with many honors, there are countless classic images created by Chen Baoguo.However, in his mind, the most significant role of the road to performance is still the blind and lame gangster glass flower with "unbearable" appearance.

The martial arts film "The Whip of God" was released in 1986. At the age of 30, Chen Baoguo ushered in the beginning of his acting career with "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple", and was honored as the best actor in the first Golden Eagle Award, which made him a high-quality representative of "the first generation of youth idols in new China".

The martial arts film "The Whip of God"

The prime of life is the precious "capital" unique to young actors. After "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple", Chen Baoguo received a large number of scripts with similar characters in a short period of time. "This makes me a little scared. If I go like this, there will be no problem for three or five years, but what should I do in the future? What will you do when you reach the age of 35? What will you do when you reach 40? "

Just then, he met "The Whip of God".

Although he has auditioned and signed a good work with the same cast, Chen Baoguo still resolutely spent several months in Tianjin, found a former "glass flower", followed him to walk the rivers and lakes and experience life.In the movie, his image not only has nothing to do with handsome, but is even quite ugly. "I want to completely change my image."

In order to show the state of "blindness", he even put a button directly in his eye, which caused irreversible influence on his vision. He gave up a lot, but Chen Baoguo firmly believed that his choice was right: "That role made an actor establish a working method for the first time and generated confidence. This is the most important thing. "

The difficulty of the performance is not in the play, "I’m still waiting for the role."

In 2020, Chen Baoguo won the "Magnolia Award" for Best Actor again for his drama "Old Pub", which not only made him one of the actors who won the most awards in previous "Magnolia", but also achieved the second round of grand slam in the field of TV drama.

Compared with the small screen, Chen Baoguo has also experienced a low point in the film field — — He once finished 22 works in 10 years, but he laughed at himself for "bringing the industry into a bit of a slump and being somewhat responsible". After winning countless auras elsewhere, this love for movies has not changed. "Learning to act and doing this business, in fact, I just have a movie dream."

Chen Baoguo has benefited a lot from the orthodox drama education of "gentlemen".

He admits that although he didn’t have the current concepts of market and capital when he was young, he had fledgling self-confidence and even "arrogance": "I thought at that time, what kind of actor I wanted to be, I wanted to be a’ character actor’."

Since then, Chen Baoguo has had a "twist". He tries his best not to repeat others or himself in limited choices: "I hope I can play for a few more years, otherwise, the’ little student’ will be gone before the old student!"

Therefore, Chen Baoguo, who was once thought by the teacher to be only a "gentle and gentle intellectual", became the one who walked the widest road among the students of that session, domineering, feminine, dignified and unruly … … Creating countless classic characters, he is still not bound by "labels".

"It is no exaggeration to say that I have played every role on thin ice." When asked how to keep the "freshness" in front of himself and the audience throughout his decades as an actor, Chen Baoguo bluntly said that he relied on "awe". "Just now, many people, including you, also asked" Is the role difficult? "I didn’t answer."

"The difficulty of performance is not in the play, but in your drama life."

From a "youth idol" to a "high-quality" actor in the eyes of the audience, Chen Baoguo’s pressure has come not only from the performance itself, but also from his own standards and the trust of the audience.

Up to now, he still occasionally suffers from not meeting his favorite role. "Actors have to wait for opportunities and be able to withstand loneliness." However, Chen Baoguo also knows that he should be "satisfied". "I still have some opportunities. In this industry, my peers have more skills than you."

He still attributes his "luck" when he met "The Big House Gate", and always reminds himself that he should never take himself seriously because of his "success" this time.

More than 20 years later, the film "The End of the Sea is the Grassland", which played the leading role, also made Chen Baoguo willing to continue to look forward to the opportunity of film performance. In addition, he also has "too many" and "especially wanting to wait" roles, which is the biggest driving force in his career as an actor now.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait!"