Hugo was thinking about Jesse. Although this was the character he created, what was coming to mind at this time was not himself, but a completely different figure.

Jesse should be twenty-seven years old this year, and was born in 1967 like him, but not long after he graduated from college, he has no job for the time being, or he just resigned not long ago and fired his boss, and he was full of confusion about life. He decided to travel to Europe with his girlfriend for a period of time, which is a gap year. Maybe it was not a gap year, but a few months, just a journey, at least he needed a little time.

However, after Jesse and his girlfriend came to Madrid, they found that in fact, his girlfriend seemed to be unwilling to follow him at all. Because she had a "new friend", Jesse bought a plane ticket to return from Vienna. However, since he had a while before departure, he bought another European train pass and started his trip to Europe. He had no purpose, direction and no end. He wandered around the European continent casually. I don’t know how long it took, two or three weeks, and his ticket to return home would expire tomorrow, which forced him to leave Budapest and board the train to Vienna: the plane he would take off in Vienna tomorrow.

Jesse has an imperfect but stable family. His parents are union due to an unexpected pregnancy. They are not as love or happiness. They just live a life. Jesse also has an older sister who unexpectedly learned that he is actually unpopular because his father does not want the child, but with his mother's insistence, he was still born.

This cognition changed his outlook on life, values ​​and worldview. He began to learn to look at the world in an outsider way, because he was an uninvited guest who came to this world. He was like a time traveler who was parading in the world, watching others' lives being bored, exciting or sad, trying to find out the meaning and purpose of his continued life.

Jesse is a little confused like this, just like most young people or most normal people, without a clear goal, just living simply. Birth, school, work, marriage, and having children... everything goes step by step, without special meaning, but the whole society operates like this, and they live like this. They are busy making a living every day, but apart from making money and living, they cannot find any meaning that stimulates the heart.

However, Jesse is different from others. He wants to find a meaning, he wants to find the meaning of his appearance in this world. Maybe this is too philosophical, but he wants to inquire, even if he doesn't know how to find it himself, how to find it.

Therefore, Jesse is a little casual and unruly. He is positive and optimistic. He always has a casual smile on his face, a little bit of a sly cunning, but full of childhood innocence. He can always see a child-like smile in his clear eyes. But if you look carefully, you can see the traces of time between the eyebrows that are in deep thought, which is different from the maturity and wisdom of age.

He was a boy and a man. This mixed temperament was revealed in his words and attracted Selena, which led to the birth of this night.

Is Jesse like this ordinary? He is very ordinary. In the hippie era, you can see countless young people like this. Perhaps Jesse's thoughts also carry the hippie style. He likes rock, but he may not be crazy about it. He likes literature, but he may not only read serious novels.

But Jesse is extraordinary. He can look at his background and family optimistically. He can unruly abandon everything wandering in Europe and follow the circumstances. He can think about many life problems philosophically, but he can look at the world purely. His courage to break the shackles of reality in his heart is not sharp or ostentatious, but he has a kind of stubbornness hidden deep in his heart.

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

Jesse's family is more like a collection of two families before and after Hugo travels through time. There are not so many waves, but it is not that simple. Jesse's parents finally chose to divorce and break up peacefully, which made both children feel relieved, but they still keep in touch with each other now. The family is special for Jesse. Good memories still occupy the majority, but it makes him question love.

Jesse is casual and free. He has no clear goal. He may not know what he wants, but he clearly knows what he wants. Hugo is different. Rock has always been his dream. He is like a stupid Icarus, running tirelessly 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 approaching the sun, he still runs wildly. Therefore, Hugo is confused, but he will not lose his direction.

Jesse is interested in philosophy and literature, but Hugo has more hobbies about psychology. Jesse will recklessly chat with strange women, and after only a dozen minutes of conversation, she boldly invites the other party to get off in Vienna together, but this is something Hugo can't do.

So, how should such a character be presented?

Maybe he should be wearing a casual T-shirt with jeans. It is very likely that the T-shirt is a little worn. Then he holds a plaid shirt or work jacket in his hand, and he just walks around with a bag with a few clothes in it. Maybe he has an untrimmed beard and looks a little sloppy and casual, and his messy hair is not taken care of carefully. Maybe, when he speaks, his eyes are shining with sincerity, and every sentence comes from the heart; maybe, when he listens to others, he always looks straight at the other person, and his dedication and concentration can be clearly seen in his clear eyes; maybe, he will inadvertently reveal confusion or fragility, and the empty eyes of his eyes are filled with uncertainty about the future...

In fact, a character like Jesse should have more temperaments from the inside out. His views, his thoughts, and his soul are his most charming parts. Although he has a handsome face, which makes Selena willing to talk to him at the first time, what really attracted Selena was the soul under his skin.

Therefore, during the performance, Hugo obviously should not pay too much attention to details or think too much about acting. Instead, he should fully understand the light of thought reflected by the lines, express this view in his way, and the role will naturally be shaped.

This is also the most difficult part of playing such an ordinary role. Maybe others can't see that you are exerting force at all, but in fact, you are already devoted to the role.

Hugo clearly remembers that no matter whether it was Judy Denge's eyes in "Philomena", even if he didn't say a word and just looked at the camera quietly, the thousands of words could be felt between his eyebrows; or the stubborn back of Bruce Dunn in "Nebraska", the lonely, desolate but unwilling to give up, and the vague words, the image of his father was outlined.

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

Hugo decided to give it a try, throw away the crutches, and use his own way to interpret this ordinary but extraordinary Jesse.

"I remember childhood... it was like a magical time," Jesse sat on a chair and said seriously, as if accompanied by words, he returned to his childhood years, his eyes full of depth, "Really." Jesse whispered, strengthening his determination, and then he turned his eyes away from Selena and looked into the distance outside the window. Looking at the backward scenery, he slowly said, "I remember the first time my mother told me about death, my old eyes passed away, and our whole family went to Florida to attend the funeral. I was only three or a half years old..."

Jesse's recollections were not very coherent. He was sketching out the situation at that time bit by bit with his own memories. "Anyway, when I was playing in the backyard, my sister taught me how to get the water pipe for watering flowers..." Jesse slowed down, looked at Selena seriously, and then gestured with his hands, as if there was really a water pipe in his hand, "It was just pinching like this..."

Jesse paused, as if waiting for the water pipe to spray out, then he raised his eyebrows slightly and said to Selena excitedly, "The mist sprayed will form a rainbow in the sun," he also used his right hand to draw the appearance of the rainbow, and the clean smile at the corner of his mouth was outlined, and then he twisted his body excitedly and shook his hands, as if he was a three-year-old child at this time, using the water pipe to create a rainbow, "So I did this," he kept shaking his hands, but suddenly paused, and the smile retained a trace of sunshine on his mouth, "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, but with a slight smile, simply happy and happy like a child. "She stood there and smiled at me," and then the smile surged into her eyes from the bottom of her heart, and it was as if the flowers of spring were blooming proudly. This childlike smile was so simple and clean, as if it illuminated the sky in an instant, making all viewers smile involuntarily, "I was stunned for a long time, and looked at her, and finally, I let go of the nozzle, you know?"

Jesse's hands also loosened with the sound, and the smile on his face faded, "Then throw the water pipe, she disappeared like this..." Then, his speech speed increased again, the real exciting part had ended, and the next part was just irrelevant, "So I ran back to the house and told my parents that they asked me to sit down, and then scolded me. You will never see them again after the person dies. It was just my hallucination..." He also had an impatient speechless expression on his face, clearly expressing his true feelings for these words.
Chapter completed!