Playing a lead role

“To be honest, I have never felt so nervous when facing the camera. After all, this was the first time I played a leading role,” Hu Xianxu told Jiemian news.
“老实说，面对镜头，我从未感到如此紧张。毕竟，这是我第一次演主角，”胡先煦在接受界面新闻采访时表示。

The 20-year-old is talking about his performance in the online series Hikaru No Go, which ended on Nov 27. It achieved a score of 8.4 out of 10 on Douban.
这位20岁的年轻人所说的是他在网剧《棋魂》中的表现，该剧于11月27日收官，豆瓣评分高达8.4分（满分10分）。

The series is a live-action adaptation of a classic 1990s Japanese comic. Hu plays a Chinese boy named Shi Guang who discovers a Go board in which the spirit of an ancient master player named Chu Ying is imprisoned. Influenced by Chu, the boy gradually finds his passion and dedicates himself to becoming a master player.
这部真人版网剧改编自上世纪九十年代的一部经典日漫。胡先煦扮演的中国男孩时光发现了一个棋盘，棋盘里沉睡着古代围棋大师褚嬴的灵魂。受褚嬴影响，时光也逐渐找到自己的梦想，立志成为一名围棋高手。

Hu and the character share a similar experience, though their fields are different. The young actor is now a senior at the Central Academy of Drama.
胡先煦和这一角色尽管身处不同领域，但都有着类似的经历。这位年轻演员现在是中央戏剧学院的一名大四学生。

“I liked acting at first because it made me get out of classes in school. I found my passion as an actor at 12 when I played a young boy Lan Yu in the film Song of the Phoenix,” he told Nandu Entertainment. The film’s director taught Hu to realize the meaning of being an actor.
“一开始，我喜欢表演是因为可以不用去学校上课。我发现我自己对于表演的热爱是在12岁，那时候我在《百鸟朝凤》里饰演小男孩蓝玉，”胡先煦在接受《南都娱乐周刊》采访时说。这部电影的导演让胡先煦认识到了作为一名演员的意义。

Hu won the chance to play the protagonist of Hikaru No Go after an eight-year acting endeavor. “It’s challenging to portray the subtle emotional changes of Shi Guang because I didn’t have any experience of it,” Hu told Tencent Entertainment. He tried to understand the psychological activities by learning to play Go.
经过八年的演技打磨，胡先煦最终获得了出演《棋魂》主角的机会。“要演出时光微妙的情感变化，很有挑战性，因为我没有这方面的经验，”胡先煦在接受腾讯娱乐采访时表示。他学习下围棋，努力理解人物的内心活动。

Hu has been motivated by the unyielding spirit of Shi Guang. “I hope I can possess such a personality like him to pursue my acting career in the future,” he said.
时光永不服输的精神一直激励着胡先熙。“我希望我能拥有像他这样的性格，并以此来追求我未来的演艺事业，”他表示。

以上文章内容选自《21世纪学生英文报高中版》，详情请见《21世纪学生英文报高中版》高一815期