Interview with Xie Miao ｜ I don’t care if I am red or not, I just want to get back to the big screen.

Special feature of 1905 film network Whenever we talk about the decline of action actors and the lack of a new generation of successors, there will always be many netizens who mention a common name:, and feel that he should be on fire and why he is not.

Xie Miao had a fire, 30 years ago.

At the age of 9, he and Pai were all over Hong Kong. Then, three action movies were made in one year, and they were labeled as "Jet Li’s successor" and "Royal Child Star" overnight.

At the height of the fire, parents told Xie Miao to give up filming and return to Beijing to continue his studies. When I grow up and return to the film industry, the action film market is no longer booming, and the name Xie Miao is even stranger to a new generation of audiences. The old aura and the present situation once frustrated him.

In the past two years, Xie Miao has made his own market in online movies, and has produced two popular series of movies and.

The blind knife-catcher he created in "Arrogant" has an angular appearance, a good temper and a courageous personality, which is a bright role suitable for his mature age.

His action in the park is hard to bridge and hard to horse, and he fights with his opponent in a toilet compartment of more than one square meter. A big step slipped on his knees, punched his fists to the flesh, and hit the ceiling of a personal action scene, which was several times more fierce than Tom cruise’s bathroom fight.

Xie Miao is already the most popular actor in online movies. Some people say, "There are two kinds of online movies, one is from Xie Miao, and the other is from others", and he has also been named "the big brother of online movies". But in the whole cinema market, Xie Miao may still be "nobody".

When asked how to look at the question of whether he is on fire or not, Xie Miao is very calm: "The fire is over, and I have never thought about when it is red or not, and I don’t want to compete with it." Now, he wants to shoot every film well and play every action scene well.

The last two action movies have made Xie Miao have some memories and connections with him 30 years ago and at the age of 9.

One is a producer and an action director. When Xie Miao returned to Hong Kong for filming for the second time, she met many old friends in their fifties and sixties on the set, and told him about the days when she was filming in Jiahe and her memories of him and his mother. Past stories poured in.

The other one will be launched on New Year’s Day. In the second story, the orphan girl is added. A blind man accidentally saves Jiang Xiaoyu who was killed, but she has no choice but to stay with her to teach her skills and wait for revenge.

The combination of blind man and orphan girl seems to pay tribute to Xie Miao’s "father-son file" films "Five Ancestors of New Shaolin" and "The Red Dragon" filmed by Jet Li. Xie Miao also said, "Every time I see Yang En again, it’s like seeing myself as a child, and now it’s my turn to take care of the baby."

However, the child who once stepped on Jet Li’s shoulder may not have thought that it would take him so long or even longer to be independent and catch up with the scenery at that time when he grew up.

01."Arrogant 2" hits and takes care of the baby.

Recalling the filming years with Jet Li.

After being launched in 2022, "Arrogant" gained the highest score of Cloud Cinema and Douban Online Movie. After reading the praise, the director said, "The martial arts films from Hong Kong have come back."

The appearance of this film, like true grit, awakened the long-lost domestic martial arts action genre film. With the love and expectation of a group of loyal audiences and the confidence of reviving martial arts films, "Arrogant 2" was upgraded in all directions and filmed as a sequel.

In Xie Miao’s view, the first one is a chic martial arts, and the second one is a romantic martial arts. "This romance is not the romance of love, but he has an emotional bond with children."

In the previous work, the blind man is like a straight sword, with no weakness, and he will be determined when something happens. This time, there was another child around him, which brought him a lot of troubles. This sword is "blunt", with a lot of hesitation and struggle, and it becomes more complicated.

"Arrogant 2" continues the forward action style, and the signature action of the blind man is wrong, and the wind knife is still there, and it is sharper.

Xie Miao revealed that the design idea of one of the action scenes borrowed from the bathroom war in the service area of Northeast Police Story 2. They set the scene on an awning boat, and three people took turns fighting weapons in the limited space.

In the last action scene of the previous work, the scene of a blind man fighting to the death with a flame knife is quite handsome. Xie Miao said that the last action scene of the second film will also be particularly prominent.

They found nearly a hundred real professional martial arts players to play against at the same time. For the first time, he slapped the play in the face of such a powerful momentum. "It was a very shocking scene, and it felt like a hundred people were beheaded. It is heavier and more fierce than the last scene of the first film, and it can hold this film better. " The play was very hard, and it took 16 or 17 hours to shoot every day, and it took nearly a week to finish.

Xie Miao not only plays with his eyes closed, but also plays with his children. The combination of him and Yang Enyou plays opera, and there is also a sense of cooperation between Jet Li and him in Five Ancestors of New Shaolin and Chizi Weilong.

"I have a knife in my right hand and a sheath in my left hand, and Yang En is holding the sheath at the back. In the process of fighting, I finished with one knife, and she grabbed the sheath and flew up to kick someone. This is the case with the Five Ancestors of New Shaolin. Teacher Jet Li and I cooperated with two guns, and so was The Red Dragon. He tied me with a rope. "

Although young, Yang En is a very professional actor in Xie Miao’s eyes. "She often shows special professional qualities. She really comes to work, not to play." Xie Miao remembered that when he was a child, he felt that he was playing when he filmed "Five Ancestors of New Shaolin", but when he arrived at "The Red Dragon", he felt that he was working and could not play around.

02.Li Hongqi and Chengxiazi.

It is my masterpiece as an adult.

Yang En was almost nine years old when he filmed "Arrogant 2". When Xie Miao looked at her, she would also recall the unforgettable time when she went to Hongkong to film at the age of 9.

Xie Miao studied martial arts at the age of 7. In 1993, he was selected by director Jing Wong to shoot Five Ancestors of New Shaolin, playing Hong Wending, the son of Hong Xiguan. When the film was released in 1994, he immediately felt the sensation of being recognized when walking on the street.

In the following year, Xie Miao signed a contract with a Hong Kong film company, and successively filmed Peter Pan, God of Gambling 2 and Red Dragon, filming with big stars such as, and Jet Li, and continued to play the father-son file.

At that time, Chow Yun Fat suggested Xie Miao’s parents to let their children go back to school. "A 10-year-old child should not always run around in the crew like this." Parents also thought that the set was not the place for children of this age, and decided to let their son continue his studies and go back to school for education.

The starlight of that year bloomed in an instant and disappeared in an instant. Xie Miao returned to Beijing, followed the pace of his peers and took exams step by step. After graduating from the Capital Institute of Physical Education, he wanted to find a counterpart career as a physical education teacher. Unexpectedly, the invitation of the "Legend of Shaolin Temple" crew once again pulled him back to the film and television circle.

After returning to the actor status, it is difficult for Xie Miao to tear off the label of dazzling child stars in the past. Action films are gradually declining, and they are no longer the mainstream films in the market. Xie Miao can endure hardships and play beautifully. Unfortunately, in the face of this environment, he has few film appointments and few opportunities.

The days after my comeback were very difficult. He said that the state of mind at that time was "you have to start from scratch, but you don’t know that you are a person who started from scratch, and there will be a feeling of twisting." Fortunately, the ability of self-adjustment is relatively strong. Since the attitude of the market is like this, he can no longer carry on and fantasize about the glory of the past.

It just happened that the rise of online movies gave Xie Miao a brand-new stage to make a big impact. Action movies are very popular on the online movie platform, and Xie Miao has more possibilities to show herself and try different actions.

In the past six or seven years, Xie Miao has made more than thirty online action movies. "Xin Qiji 1162" took the lead in breaking through, and the cumulative sub-account box office broke through 10 million. The sub-account box office of "Arrogant" exceeded 26 million, and the sub-account box office of "Northeast Police Story 2" continued to break 30 million, and both works scored 7 points on Douban.

Xie Miao thanked the online movies for giving him the opportunity. "I didn’t really study acting in the film and television academy, and I needed many opportunities to experiment with the experience of acting and action. Through the accumulation of online movies, I got Li Hongqi in Northeast never to lose and the blind man in Arrogant."

Xie Miao said that the two series "Northeast never to lose" and "Arrogant" are the meanings of "Xie Miao’s representative works after adulthood", "let me clearly understand what I should and should not do, what the audience likes about you and what they don’t like about you."

This also makes the action actors who are still struggling on the edge of film and television see hope. "If every time we shoot an action movie, everyone can have a little confidence in the action movie, this is not small."

Looking back, Xie Miao didn’t regret choosing to study at the beginning. Maybe he will be even more famous if he continues filming. He is very sober in the face of himself. "In the present state, this choice is definitely right, because I think everything is improving."

03."arrogant" will not end.

I hope I can hit the big screen.

As an actor, who doesn’t want to be on the big screen of the cinema?

Xie Miao didn’t shy away from making a cinema film, and wanted more people to see it. "Arrogant 2" originally planned to go to the cinema, and the overall production of the film also moved closer to the cinema level, but finally lost to the market and chose to return to the online platform.

The film side issued a document saying: "As a unique genre in China, martial arts movies once went to the world and enjoyed great glory, but today they show a scene of withering creation and rare market … What we have to do is to survive first. We hope to protect our hard-won small IP so that it can have a chance to continue to develop, so we will temporarily dock the ship in a safe harbor and decide to return to the place where "Arrogant" began and meet you again. "

In front of actors, regardless of stage size. Xie Miao said that he wouldn’t lower his performance and action standards just because he was an online movie. "Nobody wants to make a bad movie, we all want to make a good one. I didn’t go to the cinema this time. Of course, there will be regrets and regrets, but it doesn’t matter. I think I will do this and hope to get back to the big screen. "

Many viewers have high hopes for him, hoping that he will carry the banner of a new generation of action movies, but Xie Miao, who is nearly 40 years old, is not young.

He said that now he wants to grasp the golden period of action and shoot as much as possible when he is in the best physical condition, but he is not worried about the problem of aging: "The actor’s action is half, and the actor is the other half. With the growth of age, the golden period of this part of action will become shorter and shorter, and the golden period of that part as an actor will become longer and longer. The later the actor’s taste comes out, it will be different."

Because of the wonderful performances of Northeast never to lose and Arrogant, the filmmakers of Anger Spread took a fancy to Xie Miao and found an action actor who could really fight Nicholas Tse.

Xie Miao played the police again after Northeast never to lose, and it was 30 years later that he played the Hong Kong film again. At the launching ceremony, both Andy Lau and Nicholas Tse specifically mentioned that they expected Xie Miao, and Nicholas Tse said that he wanted to compete with Xie Miao most.

After filming the fight, Xie Miao sincerely appreciated Nicholas Tse’s hard work. "When I beat him, after all, he was a star to me, and I couldn’t do it. After finishing one, he came to me and told me not to show mercy. He would give me a few times like this, that is, tell me that you think I dare to fight you with this power, and you should use this power to give it to me. "

Two action actors, appreciate each other and Nicholas Tse, really want to make Hong Kong action movies well, and so does Xie Miao. He hopes that the works made this time can be worthy of his second visit to Hong Kong, himself and the audience who have been expecting him.

For his first film "Arrogant 2" this year, the audience may ask a question after reading the end: Is the series over? Will there be a third film?

Xie Miao clearly said, "It will definitely not end. As long as the audience likes it, the story of" Arrogant "will continue and will not end." He will continue to break through on the level of this series of works, develop new action film plans, and dig out Xie Miao’s personal style.