Huang Wenxing put on sunglasses and wore an all-black look, playing the role of the "black glove" of the Huang family in "Needle and Thread". (Provided by Sanli)
[Reporter Li Shaoling/Report from Taipei] Huang Wenxing played the role of "Huang Junjie", the second young master of the Huang family, in Sanli's 8 o'clock episode of "A Needle". He had a dark aura about him. Instead of being scared away, the audience was not scared away. Instead, they collectively banged their bowls and frantically asked "when is he going to turn bad?", and even encouraged him to act quickly and rescue Qiu Zixin who was in deep emotional trouble. Unexpectedly, he became the most anticipated "black character" in the whole drama.
Huang Wenxing cleans up the dirty things for his family in "A Thread of Needle" but gets no love. (Provided by Sanli)
Huang Wenxing admitted that what he was most worried about before filming started was not the challenge of the role, but the fear that the audience would have already forgotten him. Unexpectedly, as soon as "Huang Junjie" appeared, the community comment area was immediately flooded with "Huang Wenxing finally appeared" and "I've been waiting for you for a long time". Even senior drama fans pointed out his past classic roles like countless treasures, which made him surprised and happy. He was moved and said: "At that moment, I really felt that everyone still remembers me in the past few years, which is a great encouragement to actors."
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Huang Wenxing plays the second young master of the Huang family, "Huang Junjie" in "A Needle". (Provided by Sanli)
Others always worry about being scolded when they play a villain, but Huang Wenxing was asked by the whole network "when will he turn black", which made him dumbfounded. He laughed and said that maybe the audience is used to watching him interpret characters with distinctive personalities and full of tension, so as soon as they see Huang Junjie, they are looking forward to when he will make a big move. However, he also defended the character, emphasizing that Junjie was not born a bad person. Rather than simply caring about whether the character was bad enough, he hoped that everyone could understand Junjie's helplessness as he was forced into a desperate situation step by step. "As for where we will end up in the end, I don't know myself, so I invite everyone to watch it together."
Huang Wenxing (right) and Chen Guanlin (left) faced off face to face in "Needle and Thread". The intense tension made the air freeze instantly. (Provided by Sanli)
In the play, Huang Junjie has lived under the aura of his brother Huang Ka-shing (played by Chen Guanlin) since childhood. No matter how hard he works, he will never be as good as his brother in the eyes of his father Huang Jianlong (played by Ni Qimin), and even becomes a "black glove" who cleans up the family's dirty things. Huang Wenxing heartbrokenly revealed that the saddest thing about Junjie is that he even doubts the meaning of his existence, "Did I come into this world just to donate blood to save my brother and then do bad things for the family?" He seems to be gloomy and cruel, but in his heart he is actually a love-starved child who is extremely lacking in family warmth. His grievances have been buried deep for a long time, and he has become an unexploded bomb that can be detonated at any time. Huang Wenxing admitted that he felt "sympathetic, distressed, and dangerous" to him, because a person who has been suppressed for too long will often have unimaginable counterattacks after an explosion.
Huang Wenxing (left) becomes a dirty black glove in the hands of his father Ni Qimin (middle) in "A Needle". (Provided by Sanli)
Faced with the suffocating father-son relationship in the play, Huang Wenxing confessed that in reality, he was often kidnapped by family ties in the past. "I used to think that forget it, we are a family anyway, it doesn't matter if I do more." However, as his experience increased, he learned to draw clear responsibilities and boundaries, and he deeply felt that imposing guilt "in the name of love" would only hurt both sides. Nowadays, if he encounters a conflict, he chooses a direct confrontation. "Speak out what you have to say and discuss it carefully. Don't keep it in your heart."
Huang Wenxing (right) confronts Chen Guanlin (left), who plays the brother in "Stitch", in the office, and the knot between the brothers is on the verge of breaking out. (Provided by Sanli)
In the play, Huang Wenxing and Chen Guanlin's brothers were at odds with each other, but off-screen the two had a great understanding. Huang Wenxing praised Chen Guanlin for his professionalism and often invited him to ponder the details of his lines, pauses and eyes. Now the two of them can understand everything with just one look. What's interesting is that when the two people were at war with each other in front of the camera, the director broke it off instantly and joked with each other as soon as the director called out the call. It showed a huge contrast of "brothers fighting in the scene and brothers talking outside the scene", which also made the drama tension more natural and smooth.
Faced with netizens praising his increasingly sophisticated acting skills in recent years and his ability to switch between good and evil characters, Huang Wenxing believes that the biggest transformation lies in learning to "contain and leave blank space". He recalled that when he was young, he always used to act to the fullest emotion at once. Now, after years of experience, he has deeply realized that "a look or a pause is sometimes more powerful than letting all the emotions out." He has used more restrained and profound acting skills to firmly grasp the hearts of drama fans.
