"Second Hug"Poster
The stories of four mothers all originate from real materials
Four years ago, Yin Lichuan's twin children entered the first grade of elementary school, and she was joined to 4 huge WeChat groups. "When I became close to these mothers, I found that we could comfort each other and understand each other's dilemma more clearly." Yin Lichuan suddenly had an idea that she wanted to write a work for women who became mothers. She once bluntly named "The Desperate and Strong Mom" (later renamed "The Second Hug"), "because I feel that we need to be inspirational and want to comfort more people." In the play
, the stories of Fang Yuan, Jin Lu, You Xiaozhu and Ding Mumu are all based on friends around the screenwriter team. That year, Yin Lichuan witnessed a full-time mother holding a nearly perfect birthday party for her child. Yin Lichuan looked at her elegant figure, it was hard to imagine that she would be so perfect in her trivial life? Have you ever had a crash? What would she do if her life was hit? What was she like before she became a mother? These thoughts gathered together to create the original character setting of "Fang Yuan", a full-time mother.
You Xiaozhu and Fang Yuan in the play.
The curator Jin Lu, who is free and free in the play, is also partly based on a curator friend next to Yin Lichuan. In the play, Jin Lu became pregnant unexpectedly. When she shared with her female friends that her eldest son was three months old, her father suddenly found out that he had been taking care of the child for three hours. "I'm not an exaggeration at all. In the middle of winter, I walked out and walked for more than an hour. Because I was so happy, I walked home crying." Details of similar lines also come from the real experience of friends. "She told me at that time that she just wanted to stay freely for a while."
Zhang Xinyi played the role of curator Jin Lu.
After Yin Lichuan had a child, she was constantly squeezed by the function of "mother". The script of "The Second Hug" has been revised for nearly three years. Sometimes she often modifys the script in the bathroom to "avoid" her children. "The more independent aware women are, the more they will have conflicts with their 'motherhood'. Including Fang Yuan and Jin Lu, as well as the characters' attitudes towards life and marriage in the play, we also have our shadow."
"The Second Hug"'s workplace setting is also slightly different from other works, from media people, music producers, screenwriters to curators, painters, engineers, etc. It is reported that many workplace scenes come from Yin Lichuan's observations in the social circle, and even " family violence men" is based on stories from friends. "Instead of writing about industries that I don't know at all and require a lot of interviews, such as investment banking elites, I would rather choose the most realistic material from the stories of my friends around me."
"Suspense Line" is actually the expression of the fifth woman
"Second Hug" When choosing an actor, the first consideration was given to its adaptability to the role. In Yin Lichuan's view, Fang Yuan was a former cultural journalist who focused on details of life, pursued perfection in everything, and had strong work ability. Chen Shu in life is synonymous with elegance, and everything will be arranged in an orderly manner. Including at the shooting scene, she would always sit aside and drink tea. It was obvious that she was very particular about the quality of life. "Audiences would believe that she was Fang Yuan at the sight." Yin Lichuan admitted frankly.
Fang Yuan, played by Chen Shu, returned to the workplace.
Jin Lu, played by Zhang Xinyi, is also quite "acted in true form".Zhang Xinyi and Jin Lu are similar in life, with an extravagant, cute and humorous personality. As a mother, Zhang Xinyi has also experienced the pain and anxiety of giving birth, and she is more realistic when expressing some attitudes. Yu Xiaozhu, played by Ma Su, is a lawyer, but her life is messy. In Yin Lichuan's opinion, Ma Su is a very "fireworks-like" actor, and it is very lively wherever she is.
, and Zhou Fang and Ding Mumu do not fit as well in character as other actresses. Ding Mumu is gentle and cautious, and Zhou Fang's personality is even more careless. The role of Ding Mumu comes from a pianist tutor that Yin Lichuan has come into contact with. Once the tutor was late, she apologized repeatedly and said that it was because the electric car broke down halfway. So Yin Lichuan thought of such a piano teacher who raised her daughter alone. "There is something heartbreaking in Zhou Fang's eyes, like a deer."
Zhou Fang plays Ding Mumu.
But in fact, "The Second Hug" doesn't tell only the story of four women. In the opening chapter, Cheng Ruying, the rich wife of Zhao Ziqi, played by , committed suicide in a performance by her daughter, surprised her four female friends. The truth about his suicide has been used as a clue to the ending of the play. Yin Lichuan said that in recent years, many female-themed film and television works have appeared, and the expression seems to coincide. "So I want to add some special colors. Especially in the past two years, I have heard many stories of this type of female. They seem to have a perfect life on the outside, but the core of their actual life is broken, so I designed this fifth woman."
The "thrilling" of secular life is the fragmented
In the drama, the scene that Yin Lichuan impressed the most was the scene where You Xiaozhu and her husband Liu Feng ( Li Naiwen decoration) quarreled fiercely over buying a house and working. In Yin Lichuan's opinion, only the four couples in the play did not have "big events" happening to You Xiaozhu's family. They are trivial matters, but this is the most common marriage life. "Everyone likes to watch fierce conflicts, but the thrillingness of secular life is just fragmented."
is different from other female-themed dramas. In the drama, the four women each manage their own lives. The few people don't have many scenes in the intersection, and they are more of helping each other as friends when they suffer heavy blows in their lives. Yin Lichuan admitted that during the script stage, some people also suggested that there must be conflicts between the four women. But she did feel the kindness of many women in life, "I don't want them to 'tear'. Life is so difficult, I still want to show my warm side."
For more and more female-themed works, in Yin Lichuan's opinion, this is just too little told, "I still have to tell them. Especially creators like us who do have personal experiences and experiences and desire to express themselves should still do such works, such as a mother's dilemma and workplace fairness, which are all the processes of women's all-round self-effort, self-growth, and self-digestion. They do require attention from all parties and society."
Beijing News reporter Zhang He
Editor Tong Na
Proofreading Wang Xin
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