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Liu Xueyi: I always want to be an actor, not a star
2025-04-10 15:29 Source: Southern Metropolis Daily
Published in: Guangdong Province
With a number of distinctive roles, Liu Xueyi is out of the circle, and "welding ancient costumes on his body" has become a special "expectation" of the current audience for him. In the face of praise, Liu Xueyi thanked the audience, but at the same time kept his own sobriety, "This may mean that I have finally broken into a certain track, but I can't stop, I still have to broaden my possibilities." ”

In "Nian Wushuang", Liu Xueyi let the audience see this new possibility, and he reshaped the role with a "zero mentality", making Yuan Zhong's inner struggle a highlight moment of his acting skills. In the wave of traffic, Liu Xueyi is rational and restrained, "I always want to be an actor, not a star," he said.

Decode the role
"Yuan Zhong can make me empathize."
When taking on the role now, Liu Xueyi attaches great importance to "whether he can empathize with him", and he believes that when an actor truly understands the role and moves it first, he can create a more vibrant character.
When I first saw "Nian Wushuang", Liu Xueyi felt that he had encountered such a "good book", "It is a story with a high degree of completion, not only focusing on the emotional line of the male and female protagonists, but also building a new Xianxia world view, which I like very much." Different from the previous Xianxia-themed stories, "Nian Wushuang" is particularly "anti-traditional", and the landing point of the whole story does not fall on the "confrontation between immortals and demons", and the human race can no longer only rely on it "Rescue", the human race can still achieve flight through craftsman skills, and even be able to change its own destiny, which is enough to compete with the "immortals and demons", this kind of "."Man will conquer the sky" is echoing the pursuit of self-worth in modern society.
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Liu Xueyi also loves Yuan Zhong. In the story, Gen Zhong is the Great Silence Division of the Fox Clan, because he can control the "left hand of the gods", and has a powerful power comparable to the gods, he has the common people, but because of his kindness, he has been repeatedly exploited and betrayed by the clan, and has been imprisoned for several years, suffering pain and torture, and his heart began to be lost, but finally because of Ji Tanyin's warmth, he regained hope and then found himself. The complexity of this character also provides a lot of room for performance.

On the day of the broadcast of "Nian Wushuang", Yuan Zhong's "one person plays the six corners" scene was regarded by the audience as the highlight moment of acting in the series, Yuan Zhong, who had been mentally depressed for a long time, struggled in his dreams and faced the five-fold personality with his own body, each of which originated from a certain emotional outburst in Yuan Zhong's heart. In order to achieve accurate performance, Liu Xueyi faced a lot of challenges. "There is only a fixed time for each state, and when it comes to one second and you have to switch to the next person, all the rhythms have to be very precise, which is very difficult. As for the radical differences in each personality, I also hope to make a distinction in terms of performance and voice, including emotions, some of which must be magnified to the extreme, while others must be contracted to the extreme, and some dramatic language rhythm and techniques must be used. After this clip was broadcast, topics related to Liu Xueyi's acting skills immediately sparked widespread discussions on social platforms, and also won praise from the audience.
In Liu Xueyi's view, Yuan Zhong's background is kind, righteous and sunny, when interpreting this character, it is also necessary to find this "core", therefore, even if Yuan Zhong is confused between "good and evil", The audience can also see the contradictions in Yuan Zhong through Liu Xueyi's interpretation, and this "grayscale" makes the characters more three-dimensional. Behind his "fall into the devil" is the "collapse of faith" caused by long-term repression, and he uses extreme methods to prove whether his goodness is meaninglessThe performance method of "inward-adducting" is in stark contrast to the outward blackening of traditional Xianxia dramas, breaking through the conventional character building ideas to make the audience in the barrage area feel - "more empathetic to Yuan Zhong's inner world".
Focus on the "original intention".
"If you break into the track, you have to keep forging ahead".
From "Qingyunzhi", "The Legend of the White Snake", "Liuli" to "Nian Wushuang", as an actor who has starred in the theme of Xianxia many times, Liu Xueyi's experience in interpreting a good role is "rejecting empiricism", and he admitted that he has never deliberately looked for a "gripper" on the same theme. Instead, he prefers to put aside the framework of the past, "I don't think about previous works, and I don't deliberately make distinctions, each character is an independent individual, and if I perform with experience, the audience may see the shadow of other characters in this role, which I don't want." In his opinion, the reason why every good script can glow is whether the story can give the characters a unique spiritual core, and instead of dwelling on the degree of distinction, it is better to concentrate on digging the texture of the characters themselves.
Due to the outstanding performance in recent works, the audience often expressed to Liu Xueyi on social platforms that they "hope to weld ancient costumes on their bodies" and "hope to play more 'crazy criticism' and 'sick Jiao'". Regarding the voices of the outside world, Liu Xueyi has his own sobriety: "Everyone likes a certain trait, which is a recognition of the role, and it may also mean that I have broken into a certain track." He said with a smile, "Maybe a radish and a pit, I temporarily occupy this pit, but it doesn't mean that I can always be unenterprising, just in this pit forever, people may be eliminated at any time, occupy a pit, and at the same time to keep trying, of course, it does not mean that you must be aggressive, suddenly transformed, but to broaden more possibilities for yourself." ”
Looking back on the changes since his debut, Liu Xueyi feels that "maturity" is his most significant growth: "When I was young, I may be eager for quick success, but now I can see the essence of many problems and know how to focus on the present." After many years of acting, he always remembers his original intention of "wanting to act well all the time" in the Chinese opera class, and has also learned to keep an appropriate distance from public opinion: "Sometimes what the outside world thinks of you is not so important, the important thing is to be able to introspect yourself." - Did you live up to your role today, did you make a little progress compared to yesterday? Today's Liu Xueyi puts more energy on "improving himself", even if he has recently become a fan of his personality because of his appearance in variety shows, but when faced with the call of netizens to "go on more variety shows"., he still chooses to exercise restraint: "Actors need to retain a sense of mystery for their roles, and frequently exposing their personal characteristics in variety shows may make the audience play while watching the play." Liu Xueyi's goal is very simple but very clear, "I always want to be an 'actor', not a 'star'." 。 Therefore, it doesn't matter whether it's popular or not, the important thing is that when I receive a good script, I can have the confidence to say 'I can'. ”
Nandu Entertainment × Liu Xueyi
"I've never had internal friction
The voice of the outside world is not so important".

Nandu Entertainment: How do you understand the emotional line between Yuan Zhong and Ji Tanyin? Is there anything you really like about it?
Liu Xueyi: I personally like their emotional line, they can be said to know nothing about emotions, two very ignorant people, Ji Tanyin's behavior made Yuan Zhong start "self-strategy" is also very interesting and funny, and they also "repeatedly jumped" for various reasons , After confirming the mind, it is very happy, even if there are abuse and tears in the process, but this relationship is still very happy.
Nandu Entertainment: What do you hope to convey to the public through the story of Yuan Zhong and "Nian Wushuang" this time?
Liu Xueyi: First of all, people must be kind and positive, and do a good job of balancing between small love and big love, great love is important, but you must also love yourself, never give up on yourself, you must know how to be good to the people around you, good to the people who love you.
Nandu Entertainment: Several recent out-of-the-circle works have made the audience especially want you to stay in the "crazy criticism" track, what do you think of yourself?
Liu Xueyi: What I value more is whether the characters in the script can make me empathize, only if I truly understand the inner world of the characters, can I bring good works to the audience, and as for the so-called track, when the audience puts it forward like this, I am very grateful, breaking into the track represents that some characters have been recognized, but I can't help but forge ahead, and I still have to try more possibilities.

Nandu Entertainment: When you are recognized and your popularity continues to increase, how do you "not expand"?
Liu Xueyi: I came from a hard life, I know what it should be like and what it shouldn't be, and when I was living a hard life, I saw some people (inflated) looks, so now that I am in this position, I can choose not to be that kind of person.
Nandu Entertainment: Do you usually search for the public's evaluation of yourself? Will you dive in the comment section?
Liu Xueyi: I may watch the barrage a lot, including searching for the name of the character, because I want to see everyone's intuitive feelings.
Nandu Entertainment: Will this external feedback affect you?
Liu Xueyi: I never have internal friction, in fact, I don't think it is so important what others think of you, what matters is how you see yourself, what kind of problems you have, and how you should improve yourself, rather than always paying too much attention to all kinds of voices on the Internet.
Nandu Entertainment: How did you achieve this state of mind?
Liu Xueyi: I also had anxiety attacks, but suddenly one day I felt that I had to cut off anxiety from the root, especially because it was meaningless to be anxious about the comments from the outside world, and I still had to do my own thing, so I am in a very comfortable state now.
Nandu Entertainment: You once said that Chinese opera makes you always remember the "original intention", what does this "original intention" refer to?
Liu Xueyi: It's very direct, act well.

Nandu Entertainment: Now many netizens will also discuss that "Liu Xueyi should explode", what do you think of it?
Liu Xueyi: Maybe it's everyone's recognition of the role I interpret, everyone is starting to have expectations for me, I think it's better to keep a normal heart, I always want to be an actor, what I don't want to be a star is, so whether it's popular or not, whether it's popular or not, it's not that important, the happiest thing may be that when you have a certain popularity, you have the opportunity to choose, and you can have more opportunities to get in touch with good scripts and good roles, but after having these opportunities, what I want to do is still to play my own play。
Nandu Entertainment: Do you have any goals for yourself at the moment?
Liu Xueyi: I won't set too high goals for myself, I still focus on the things in front of me, and I will join the group at the end of April, so I will continue to complete the role well and achieve good results, so that's fine.
Written by: Nandu reporter Fu Yuanyuan
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Tang Yan and Liu Xueyi at the Promo Event for Drama ‘A Moment But Forever’

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Cute Highlights of ‘A Moment But Forever’ Leads Tang Yan & Liu Xueyi at the Promo Event [Eng Sub]
https://youtu.be/a1YB_SJffcg?si=u-NvpE9cTNlmcYxA