Sohu Entertainment Special Article (Lin Zhenxin/Text) After a long time of 12 years, Wang Baoqiang finally returned to the small screen.

The realistic life stream crime drama "Chess Warrior" has become the fastest drama on the video platform to break 24000 in terms of popularity in 0 years.

The play tells the story of an ordinary Go teacher Cui Ye who was involved in a crime due to an accident in a southern city at the beginning of the century, and gradually became a crime.

After the broadcast, the number of discussions around the quality of the series, the acting skills of the actors and other word-of-mouth related to the drama continued to soar.

Especially the praise about Wang Baoqiang's performances and selections continues to emerge.

It has been 12 years since his last TV series "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" was broadcast. Over the years, Wang Baoqiang has acted in the comedy "Detective Chinatown" series, directed "In the Octagon Cage" as a director, and even appeared in the social news because of the divorce turmoil, but the audience's love for him has never diminished.

Why can this grassroots actor who is not from a professional class and has a mediocre appearance continue to win the popularity of the audience and become popular in the entertainment industry? The answer may lie in his experience and character.

First of all, Wang Baoqiang's screen image always has a sense of grassroots. Whether it is the simple and almost naïve "stupid root" in "No Thieves in the World", or the stubborn "Xu Sanduo" in "Soldier Assault", his role always makes people feel that "this person is by our side".

At a time when "exquisite egoism" is prevalent in the entertainment industry, Wang Baoqiang's "clumsiness" has become an advantage. He has no idol baggage, and he doesn't mind playing a small person or even a "harlequin".

What's more, his personal experience can also be called an inspirational film: born in rural Hebei, he learned martial arts at the age of 8, lived in the basement in the north, and became famous overnight with "Blind Well". The audience sees in him the hope that "ordinary people can succeed", and this emotional projection makes his character more convincing.

Of course, the role is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and his excellent business ability is inseparable.

Many people think that Wang Baoqiang is a true actor who "relies on luck", but if you look at his works, it is not difficult to find that he polishes the role. In "Thai Embarrassment", he practiced Henan dialect hard, "In the Octagonal Cage" gained muscle and 20 pounds to play the fighting coach, and played "Chess Warrior" and also spent a lot of effort to learn Go.

The little people he plays are always hilarious and moving. The performance of "laughter with tears" hit the audience.

In addition, Wang Baoqiang's sincerity is also an important source of audience popularity.

Wang Baoqiang may be one of the few celebrities who has been caught in negative news a few times but has not lost fans. In the divorce turmoil of 2016 years, netizens almost overwhelmingly supported him, and even gave birth to the stalk of "Baoqiang doesn't cry".

On the one hand, this is because whether he fought to the fracture in the variety show "Real Man", or mentioned "worthy of the audience" many times in interviews, or was photographed back to his hometown to collect wheat in private, his external image has always been unified: hard work, gratitude, sincerity, and honesty, which are also the traditional virtues that every Chinese person has been taught since childhood.

Wang Baoqiang's audience popularity is essentially a long-term operation about "trust".

In "Chess Warrior", Lin Mo, a Go player played by Wang Baoqiang, faced a career trough, and finally returned to the top with perseverance. In a way, it's also a metaphor for himself.

returned to the TV drama market with a crime theme, challenged his comfort zone, and gradually grasped the creative initiative from "being selected" to "picking the script", and served as the producer in "Chessman".

This is Wang Baoqiang's halftime battle.

And the audience obviously doesn't want such a good actor with acting skills, attitude, not shrewdness, and sincerity to lose.

After cooperating with "Chess Player", Li Naiwen described Wang Baoqiang on the set as follows: "This time Baoqiang is also a producer, and his work in the crew is something I didn't expect, serious and responsible." After each shot, he would discuss with the director the language and tone of the shot, including the proportions of each actor's performance. At this time, I was watching him from the side, and it was really 'familiar and strange'. When a man is focused on doing something he likes, he is most attractive. ”

He may not have Tony Leung's profundity and Wu Jing's enthusiasm, but he has proved one thing in decades: in the entertainment industry, sincerity is also one of the most advanced skills.