The outside world said that he was a sexy man, but he said that he was very dull and boring. He is modest and low-key, but his bones reveal "arrogance" that cannot be ignored; At work, he demands perfection, but in life, he acts spontaneously. Once he is unhappy, he will change his lifestyle to make himself happy.

Text/Luo Yu

"The most important thing to be an actor is to be like." Huang Lixing stressed, "No matter how good you play, you are all skin and bones without muscles. It is fake to play with others." To some extent, Huang Lixing is a typical Virgo: she spares no effort to pursue perfection. "If you ask the director, she will tell you that I am wordy."

"It's a problem freak." Xu, who tried to direct a crime movie for the first time, made such an evaluation. Look at the kidnapper's script from 20 14. In the past few years, Huang Lixing has participated in almost every revision. "I don't want to care so much." It's just that Virgo can't see any flaws or logic in the plot connection.

For example, there is a place in the early script-the convenience store clerk thinks that the suspect played by Huang Lixing looks strange, so he said a line that "explains the plot": "This person has been looking in the mirror, and I feel that he doesn't seem to know who he is."

This design is beyond Huang Lixing's comprehension. "This should be my best scene, but I arranged for the convenience store clerk to explain everything with lines." He felt he had to change it. "If others think I am wrong, convince me and convince me with logic."

After several rounds of angry words, no one, including Director Xu, could say that he won. "No one should know your role better than you." Huang Lixing decided that if an actor can't reach this level, he shouldn't act.

Virgo Huang Lixing worked hard in the gym for eight months for the role in the movie.

This understanding is attributed to the homework done before shooting.

How to play a person with sudden amnesia? "The most important thing is that you can't play a person with amnesia as a fool." Huang Lixing and Alzheimer's Harmo's disease think of the elderly. "After they begin to experience memory loss, they forget things and can't recognize people. They will feel humiliated because they don't remember someone, and they are afraid of offending each other, so they will play:' Hey! Long time no see! "Huang Lixing refers to the state of the elderly with amnesia," because they are real enough ".

Huang Lixing values truth. "A movie, even if it is a bad guy, should be as bad as it is." But in fact, he doesn't believe that there are absolute good and bad in this world. "People are all gray, there is no distinction between black and white."

When filming, a staff member suggested to the "problem madman": "Don't be so serious." "I know what he means. What he wants to express is that many times the audience can't see it. " But at that moment, Huang Lixing was furious. "Because I hate people saying,' This is just a movie. "

"Maybe because I have too many opinions, I haven't made a movie for so long." Du Lala (hereinafter referred to as "") and Xu starred in the movie "Enemy" 20 1 1 for the second time after promotion. He disappeared for a long time and only made a guest appearance in another film directed by Xu.

The film "There is a place only we know" directed by Xu.

It's not like there's no director looking for him. After Du Lala, Huang Lixing received at least ten scripts, all of which are Cinderella stories, and he wanted to play the role of overbearing president. The other party told him that the film would start in two or three weeks. He asked, "What if the protagonist can't find it in such a short time?" The other party replied: "Then don't shoot." Huang Lixing can't accept such an answer. "I can spend a year or two or even longer on a movie. If it only takes a month, I will feel that I am just here to make money. "

If the entertainment circle is a vanity fair that needs hand-to-hand combat, Huang Lixing seems to have drifted away. "I don't like to do something for fame and exposure." He entered this circle in the hope of achieving this state of "doing whatever he wants". "But some things have to be done before, because they are not famous enough."

Unwilling to be bound is the nature in Huang Lixing's bones. Before the movie Du Lala, as a musician, he was a famous low-yield singer: five songs a year and an album every two years. His idea is stubborn: "it takes a long time to observe, so it is easy to stimulate new ideas and new feelings." If you like my old songs, buy old albums. "

Huang Lixing was born in Los Angeles and is a typical Chinese-American. As a singer, he is not good at writing lyrics in Chinese. Sometimes when he meets something he can't express, he will ask his friends for help. It is common for him to spend two or three months composing a song, which is extremely "extravagant" in the eyes of other musicians.

Poster of the movie Kidnapper.

But the output is too low, and it is definitely not liked by record companies. Huang Lixing is always asked by his boss, "Where is the album?" After listening, he will give an example of Michelangelo, who spent four years staring at a stone and finished the world-famous David.

"I was often in a daze at that time, but without David, I was only lost." In 2008, it took Huang Lixing more than two years to complete the album I finally had to lie down. He wrote in the lyrics: Give me a minute of happiness/give me an outlet/give me freedom/make my life no longer meaningless ... After that, he didn't release an album, but wrote and sang the ending song GO for the movie Du Lala.

"As a singer, I have retired." Huang Lixing said that he didn't like singing performances. "I don't want to have a concert. I really have no dream of singing to100000 people. I don't think it's fun. " Huang Lixing doesn't go to KTV privately. "I just like writing songs and the process of writing. I think it's cool." He remembers that in order to promote the album, he kept wandering around for a year, changing places almost every three days. "Carry a suitcase to different hotels. When you arrive, just wait in a daze in the room and perform when the time is up. " Huang Lixing, 42, can't imagine that she is still repeating this life at the age of 50. "Thank you for singing, I don't have to work for the sake of work, and I don't have to force myself. I have been almost half my life and just want to do something interesting. "

This is not the first time that Huang Lixing has quit music, or rather, the inherent state of life.

In the early 1990s, Huang Lixing, his brother Huang Licheng and his cousin Lin Zhiwen were discovered by agents in Taiwan Province and formed the Los Angeles Boys' Group. They made their debut in Taiwan Province province on 1992.

A.BOYZ once held up half the sky in Taiwan Province province, but Huang Lixing, as ABC, didn't know the idol culture in Taiwan Province province at that time. He didn't understand that the other boy groups who participated in the variety show with them actually had to put on makeup and "turn into dolls" before going on stage. Watching each other perform, he will have a beating mind: "is this their dance?" Compared with us, they are definitely finished. "

"Young people stink." As a teenager, Huang Lixing often felt invincible. But this good self-awareness didn't last long. In order to promote this album, Huang Lixing began to feel tortured, constantly appearing in various variety shows, saying the same words, singing the same songs and dancing the same. More importantly, he found himself out of tune with the music concept of the record company. "The decision is not in our hands. There is no freedom. "

Huang Lixing as a singer.

1997, L.A.BOYZ announced its dissolution. The reason given by Huang Lixing is simple: "It's not fun." He returned to America to continue his studies. His attitude of not being bound by rules and regulations is also reflected in his choice of university majors. I started as a student of biology, and later I switched to sociology, psychology, economics and drama performance.

Three years later, Huang Lixing returned to Taiwan Province Province, continued his best rap style, and quickly became one of the first-line male singers in Taiwan Province Province. In 2005, he won the Taiwan Golden Melody Award for Best Male Singer with his album "Black Ideas". Huang Lixing doesn't seem to care much about the most important music award in Taiwan Province: "I don't need this kind of affirmation, but of course I am very happy to win the award."

People often say that Huang Lixing is rebellious, and he was even rated as "the first bad guy in Taiwan Province Province". "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 edge of the entertainment circle. He runs many sideline businesses, including nightclubs, bars, record production, film companies and so on. , but they are not opened by themselves, they are all opened with friends. He said that even if a friend left with his money, "I can only sincerely thank him." I knew him before he hurt me more. "

Xu said she was the happiest person she had ever met. "When I am tired of being a singer, I always want to do something else. He does anything that makes him happy. He is never unhappy. "

Like most people, they are used to being called "Lao Xu".

Since his promotion, he has appeared in every film directed by Xu without exception.

After "Du Lala" was released, he and she participated in "Lu Yu You Yue" and were asked whether they would like to cooperate again. Huang Lixing nodded mercilessly.

Before Du Lala, Huang Lixing appeared in several films, such as Nine to Five, but his influence was not great. It was his role as Wang Wei that made him a new movie star.

When Huang Lixing first got the script of Du Lala, he didn't know who Xu Jinglei was. After contact, his evaluation of her is: smart and brave. "At that time, many people were not optimistic, saying that she was an art film director, how could she shoot a good business love story, so there were so many advertisements implanted." For these, Xu also had memories. Du Lala is her first commercial film with a relatively large investment scale, and the funds are very difficult. No one believed that she had the ability at that time. For those employers who are finally willing to pay, she has almost no feelings in return and talks about advertising desperately. So far, she blushed in many places in the film.

"She has good communication skills. Unlike some directors, I am the eldest brother, don't talk. " In the process of filming Du Lala, no matter what questions you have, you will ask Xu. "My Mandarin is not very good. She will help me modify my lines and make it easier for me to act. " In his view, having her is "like having a teacher sitting next to you who can tell you the answer during the exam, making you feel at ease and secure". During the month and a half of filming Du Lala, Xu often said that everyone just came to play together. "She said that my brother is welcome to visit the class." This makes Huang Lixing feel warm.

Xu is an actress, said, so their working methods will be more synchronized. He is afraid that some directors who can't act will guide the actors. "For example, when you are arguing with someone, he asks you to stand up and look out of the window, and turn your back on each other to continue the argument. It's not real at all. The director just thinks this picture looks good. "

Huang Lixing thinks that he and "Lao Xu" act in the same way: "Some people act purely by feeling, and we have to do a lot of homework beforehand." While filming "Du Lala", Xu took the crew members to interview 13 CEOs or HRD of Fortune 500 companies in China, such as Google, Coca-Cola and IBM. Zhaopin also held an employee forum for their group to talk about workplace stories.

Since Du Lala, it has appeared in every film of Xu without exception. Their feelings are also in a state of "nothing to say", they have been photographed and "married", but the two sides have never responded positively.

Co-starred with Xu in the movie Old Enemy.

Huang Lixing doesn't like public personal feelings. "The public is miserable. You may go out with your cousin and you will be questioned. " Huang Lixing also doesn't like to talk about love in public. "I was interviewed when I was twenty years old, but every time I look back, I think this is a fool. Because every time you fall in love, you will think you are right. "

Huang Lixing was labeled as a sexy man and a walking hormone. It is said that many female artists who have worked 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 by listening to a song on CD. However, Huang Lixing described himself as an otaku and boring, and he didn't even understand why he sent flowers to girls. "Put the flowers in the water bottle and throw them away at once. Is it necessary? You said the TV was broken, so I'll find a way to help you find one. "

There are indeed contradictions in Huang Lixing's personality. For example, his hobbies are collecting second-hand bicycles and keeping parrots. In the information age, he didn't have Weibo or Instagram. "My life is not rich, so I want to share it. I can only share one thing-eating at home. " He doesn't understand why he wants to share his private life, because being scolded by others will make him unhappy all day, and hearing compliments from others will be like eating candy. "I don't need others to tell me if I'm doing well. Just be yourself. "

Maybe Huang Lixing hasn't changed. Although his gossip has become less and less and more low-key in recent years, he always has the shadow of the unruly teenager in L.A.BOYZ, acting spontaneously, always loving someone, and dreaming of bringing the freedom, shouting and criticism of hip-hop back to Taiwan Province Province.

This article first appeared in the 488th issue of New Weekly.