Hugo was thinking about Jesse as a person, although this was his character, but what came to mind at this time was not himself, but a completely different figure.

Jesse should be twenty-seven years old this year, born in 1967 like him, but not long after he graduated from college, he has no job for a while, or he just quit his job not long ago and fired his boss's squid, and he is full of confusion about life. He decided to travel to Europe with his girlfriend for a while, sort of a thing. Maybe it's not a gap year, it's just a few months, it's just a trip, at least he needs a little time.

But after Jesse and his girlfriend came to Madrid, they found that in fact, his girlfriend didn't seem to want him to follow at all, because she had a "new friend", so Jesse bought a ticket back from Vienna, but because there was still some time before the takeoff, he bought another European rail pass and started his own trip in Europe, with no purpose, no direction and no destination, he wandered around the continent at random, I don't know how long it was, two weeks or three weeks, His ticket back to China was due tomorrow, so he had to leave and get on a train to Vienna: tomorrow his plane home would take off in Vienna.

Jesse has an imperfect but stable family, and his parents are united because of this, and they can't say love or happiness, they just make do with their lives. Jesse also has an older sister who unexpectedly learns that he is actually persona non grata because his father does not want the child, but at his mother's insistence, he is born anyway.

This realization changed his outlook on life, values and worldview, and he began to learn to see the world in an outsider's way, because he was an uninvited guest to this world, he was like a time traveler parading around the world, watching other people's lives either boring or exciting or sad, trying to find the meaning and purpose of his continued life.

Jesse is a little confused, like most young people—or most normal people—none of them, just that. Birth, school, work, marriage, child...... All the qiē are in order, and there is no special meaning, but the whole society works like this, and they live like this. They are running for a living every day, but they can't find any meaning to stimulate their hearts except to earn money and live.

It's just that Jesse is different from everyone else, he wants to find a meaning, he wants to find the meaning of his appearance in this world. Maybe it was too philosophical, but he wanted to inquire about it, even if he didn't know how to find it or how to find it.

Therefore, Jesse is a little casual, a little uninhibited, he is positive and optimistic, always with a casual smile on his face, with a little ruffian, but full of the innocence of childhood, and a childlike clean smile can always be seen in those clear eyes. But if you look carefully, you can see the traces of time between the pensive eyebrows, which is different from the maturity and wisdom of age.

He was a boy and a man, and this mixed temperament was revealed in his speech, which attracted Selena, and this night was born.

Is such Jesse ordinary? He was very ordinary, and there were countless such young people that could be seen in the hippie era, and perhaps Jesse's thoughts also carried the hippie style, he liked rock and roll, but he was not necessarily crazy about it, he liked literature, but he didn't necessarily just look at Yan sù.

But this Jesse is extraordinary, he can be optimistic about his origin, his family, he can abandon a qiē wandering in Europe uninhibitedly, he can be at peace with what happens, he can philosophically think about many problems of life, but he can look at the world innocently, the courage to break the shackles of reality in his heart is not sharp, not ostentatious, but there is a stubbornness hidden in the depths.

It can be said that Jesse is part of Hugo, but he is a completely different individual.

Jesse's family is more like a collection of two families before and after Hugo's crossing, there are not so many waves, but it is not so simple, Jesse's parents finally chose to divorce and break up peacefully, which made both children breathe a sigh of relief, but now they will still keep in touch with each other, family is special for Jesse, good memories still occupy most of it, but it makes him question love.

Jesse is spontaneous and free, he doesn't have and may not know what he wants, but he knows exactly what he wants. Hugo is different, rock and roll has always been his dream, he is like a stupid Icarus, tirelessly running towards the sun, even if he can't get close to the sun for the rest of his life, or if he will turn into ashes after getting close to the sun, he still doesn't give up all the way. So, Hugo is confused, but he will not lose his way.

Jesse was interested in philosophy and literature, but Hugo had more of a love for psychology. Jesse would recklessly strike up a conversation with a strange woman, and after only ten minutes of conversation, he would boldly invite the other person to get off the bus in Vienna together, but this is something Hugo would not do.

So, how should such a character be presented?

Perhaps, he should be wearing a casual T-shirt with jeans, most likely the T-shirt is still a little worn, and then with a plaid shirt or frock jacket in his hand, he will carry a bag with a few clothes in it, and walk in all directions; Perhaps, he has an untrimmed beard, looks a little sloppy and casual, and his messy hair is not carefully managed; Perhaps, when he speaks, his eyes are shining with sincerity, and every word comes from the heart; Perhaps, he always looks directly at others when he listens to them, and his dedication and concentration can be clearly seen in those clear eyes; Perhaps, he will inadvertently reveal confusion or vulnerability, and the emptiness and emptiness of his eyes are mixed with uncertainty about the future......

In fact, a character like Jesse should be more of a temperament exuding from the inside out, his views, his thoughts, and his soul are the most attractive parts of him, although he has a handsome face, which makes Selena willing to talk to him at the first time, but what really attracts him is the soul under the skin.

Therefore, in the process of acting, Hugo obviously should not pay too much attention to details, nor should he think too much about acting, but should completely understand the ideological light refracted by the lines, and express this point of view in his way, and the character will be naturally shaped.

This is also the most difficult part of playing this kind of mundane role, maybe people can't see that you are working hard, but in fact, you are already fully committed to the role.

Hugo clearly remembers that whether it is the eyes of Judizzie in "Philomena", even if she does not say a word, just looks at the camera quietly, those thousand words can be felt between the eyebrows; Or Bruce Dern's stubborn back in "Nebraska", the lonely, desolate figure that is always unwilling to give up, coupled with the vague words, the father figure is sketched like this.

Looking at such a picture, many viewers will wonder: Are you acting? But in fact, the actor has already presented the "play", and that delicate carving requires almost all the energy of the actor, because he must be completely integrated with the character.

Hugo decided to give it a go, ditch the crutches, and play this ordinary but extraordinary Jesse in his own way.

"I remember my childhood...... It's like a magical time," Jesse said earnestly, sitting in his chair, as if he had been taken back to his childhood with the words, his eyes full of depth, "really. Jesse whispered, reinforcing his certainty, and then he looked away from Selena and looked out the window into the distance, looking at the receding landscape, and he said slowly, "I remember the first time my mom told me about death, my Zeng Jing died, and we went to Florida for the funeral, and I was three years old — or three-and-a-half-year-old ......."

Jesse's recollection of words was not very coherent, he was sketching out the situation little by little along with his own memories, "Anyway, when I was playing in the backyard, and my sister taught me how to hold the water pipe for watering flowers...... Jesse slowed down his speech, looked at Selena seriously, and then gestured with his own hands, as if there was really a water pipe in his hand, "Just pinching ...... like this"

Jesse paused, as if waiting for the hose to squirt out, then he raised his eyebrows slightly, and said excitedly to Selena, "The spray of water will form a rainbow in the sun," and he also traced the rainbow with his right hand, and the clean smile on the corner of his mouth was outlined, and then he twisted his body excitedly, shaking his hands as if he were a three-year-old child at this time, making a rainbow with a hose, "So I did it," he kept shaking his hands, but suddenly stopped, The smile kept a touch of sunshine on his lips, "At this time, through the mist...... I, saw my great-grandmother. ”

Speaking of this, Jesse looked at Selena again, but there was no sadness on his face, just a shallow smile, as simple and happy as a child, "She just stood there, smiling at me," and then the smile swelled up from the bottom of her heart to her eyes, like a spring flower blooming proudly, this childlike smile was so simple and clean, as if it lit up the sky in an instant, so that all the viewers couldn't help but smile, "I was stunned there for a long time, and looked at her, finally, I let go of the nozzle, you know? ”

Jesse's hands let go along with the voice, and the smile on his face faded, "Then throw down the hose, she, just disappear......" Then, he spoke faster again, the really exciting part was over, and the rest of the part was just inconsequential, "So I ran back into the house and told my parents, they told me to sit down, and then reprimanded me, you will never see them again after people die, it is just my hallucination......" He still had that impatient speechless expression on his face, It clearly expresses his true feelings for these words.

After a quick finish, his tone changed again, and his smile showed again, "But I know what I saw, and I'm glad about it, I'll never see anything like it again, but I don't know, it kind of makes me understand that everything in the world is so unexplainable, including death." ”.