Some time ago, Zhao Liying The news of being elected as the vice chairman of Hebei Film and Television Association spread on the Internet. Her blue suit makes her stand out from the crowd.
Suddenly, I realized that the little girl with a tall meatball head and a cute mouth has become the only one in the industry.
Zhao Liying was born in an ordinary family. She had no so-called resources and background. She loved performing and almost ran naked in the entertainment industry.
Public opinion seldom treats her well. It seems that everyone can laugh at her dreams at will.
Therefore, she often expresses her feelings in front of the camera. The prudence of careful management is visible to the naked eye.
But Zhao Liying's energy is also exploding. She is like the finest strands of roots under the tree, firmly grasping any nutrients on the earth and growing desperately.
She will grow into a tree and stand there steadily.
Today, "lying flat" has gradually become the mainstream emotion of the whole era. Zhao Liying wrote another sample for the meaning of life with her efforts.
No one stipulates whether a flower should grow into a sunflower or a rose. Her savage growth is enough to impress people.
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Many important changes in life seemed a bit careless at that time.
Zhao Liying's life transformation started from a pop-up window on a website. At that time, she was less than 20 years old. After graduating from the flight attendant major, she worked as a secretary in a company.
When surfing the Internet, I was attracted by the talent show application of Yahoo. At first, Zhao Liying didn't take it seriously,
Like every girl in the workplace, she spends time from nine to five in piles of reports.
It was not until she received the notice that she was going north to participate in the competition that she realized that her life path might change.
With her own efforts, Zhao Liying won the championship of Feng Xiaogang's group and played the leading role in the advertising film "Kneeling Family" directed by Feng Xiaogang.
As for the heroine, in fact, she only has two horse riding scenes in the film, and her lines add up to less than ten sentences.
The excitement of Yahoo's search for stars soon subsided, but Zhao Liying's life was completely changed. Her counter attack on the entertainment industry has just begun.
Zhao Liying's starting point is not low. Her first work, "Golden Marriage", was directed by Zheng Xiaolong, and she partnered with Zhang Guoli, Jiang Wenli and other veteran actors. At that time, the team of this play was also "top match".
Although Zhao Liying is young, she knows how to seize opportunities. In order to get into the play better, she invited a performance teacher in advance to study the script repeatedly and practice the tone of her voice. Before joining the group, her lines were already backwards.
In the play, she plays Tong Duoduo, the third daughter of the Tong family, who is in a rebellious period and often forces adults into a mess. Director Zheng Xiaolong praised Zhao Liying after many years: acting naturally, especially true.
But at that time, Zhao Liying did not realize the thrill of filming. After she became famous, she recalled the scene at that time: let her eat when she wanted to eat, let her say what she wanted to say, and after listening to the protagonist's words, she said the words with an accent, not to mention where the camera was and how the lights were played.
"People are deceived."
This role is indeed a supporting role with the highest "content". She may not have expected that most of the roles waiting for her in her 7-year long career were servant girls, sisters and daughters. These roles had one common feature: they were cute, docile and pitiful.
Why? Because she has a round face. This face is not advanced. You can only play such a role.
Zhao Liying refused a hundred times.
Her EQ is still high or low, and her inverse quotient is extremely high. The stubborn force that she was born with constantly urged her to change, break through and be cruel to herself.
"Don't let me seize the opportunity. When I get ahead, I will make you look up to me."
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Zhao Liying opens the battle mode. As in "Happiness Comes to All Families" He Xingfu As he said, "Live hard, live well."
Since she started filming, Zhao Liying has not returned home for the Spring Festival for three consecutive years. There is only one month in a year when I am not in Hengdian.
"In those years, I worked one play after another. I wanted to shoot one thing and another. When I talked to people, I always said something very ideal. It's not life stream. I don't know why this is so."
Once, waiting for a night show in the ravine, she slept all night wrapped in cotton padded clothes and trousers on the big stone before it started. He Jiong asked her, "Don't you have an assistant?"
She burst out laughing. "No, nobody cares."
Anyone familiar with Zhao Liying knows that she has a bulge on her back. Once at a banquet, Zhao Liying stuck a blue rose on the bulge, and everyone praised its beauty.
However, it was later known that it was because of a circus where Weiya fell down and caused spinal dislocation. When it hurts most, she can't bend down to wash her face, and needs to hold her when she squats down. Because I didn't understand, I fell ill.
Zhao Liying became famous in the circle for her efforts. She doesn't fight for origin or resources. She doesn't have them. She can only fight for herself.
Later, she was lucky enough to be appreciated by Qiong Yao and played Qinger in the new Princess Huanzhu. She was so happy that she was about to fly, "I wonder if this is true? Do I really want to play it? I don't have much confidence here myself."
At the beginning of filming, she didn't even have confidence in her voice. Every day when she went back to speak her lines, she recorded her voice with her mobile phone, found a better position, and gave Qing'er a softer voice.
Although Zhao Liying worked hard, after all, she was not a professional and had never learned to act. Sometimes it was wrong to act. The director came to scold her and scolded her fiercely. Tears rolled around her eyes.
"I will never cry on the spot," said Zhao Liying, who wanted to play it well on the spot and cry in her room.
It's hard to see her cry. Tang Lijun, the producer of Flowers and Bones, praised Zhao Liying more than once for her arrogance and tenacity.
Is Zhao Liying really strong? In fact, she is just strong enough to cover up her vulnerability.
When the new "Princess Huanzhu" was filmed, it was the Spring Festival. Many people went home, and Zhao Liying was the only one left. Zhang Rui, the actor in the same group, asked her to go to dinner together.
Later, on the Express Edition, Zhao Liying talked about her gratitude to Zhang Rui, but before she could say anything, her tears rolled down. Zhang Rui forgot what to cook, but Zhao Liying said firmly that it was beef.
It turned out that when she was working outside, she could eat a New Year's Eve dinner and have her eyes filled with tears.
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After 7 years of career, a big female drama, The Legend of Lu Zhen, ushered in a turnaround.
At that time, many people did not like Zhao Liying because she was not famous and her face shape was not the popular melon shaped face.
Zhang Wei, the screenwriter of this year's "Dream of China", is also the screenwriter of "Legend of Lu Zhen". Zhang Wei took a fancy to her at that time. "Her round face is very festive."
Yu Zheng, the producer of the play, supported Zhao Liying. "I have known her for so many years. She is Lu Zhen. She is so awkward. In fact, she is not a very pitiful girl, but a hot temper."
The "Lu Zhen" in the play is calm, intelligent, resolute and tenacious. The "Yingliang" max has a high degree of fit between the character and the real person.
Facts have also proved that Zhao Liying's round face can carry a big woman. With years of studio honing, Zhao Liying gained her first sight, the Golden Eagle Goddess, by virtue of her perfect grasp of Lu Zhen's role.
Zhao Liying stood on the stage wearing a golden crown, wearing light. Since then, Zhao Liying's road of counter attack has been like an open one, with the eldest daughter leading the drama one after another.
After receiving "Flowers and Bones", Zhao Liying did nothing. She opened her eyes and read the novel. After three days, she finished reading, "I want to play."
Zhao Liying saw Hua Qiangu's closest trait to her: "tenacity"
Hua Qiangu made her nominated for the Best Actress of the Magnolia Award at the Shanghai TV Festival for the first time. The nomination was confirmed and she was one step closer to her dream.
At this moment, Zhao Liying no longer needs to prove to the outside world whether a round face can play the leading role. What she has to face is how to become an excellent actress.
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Although she worked hard, Zhao Liying, who became famous, was also criticized.
On some occasions, many artists are cautious, because they know how important it is and how to judge the situation. However, Zhao Liying doesn't know how deep she is and often speaks amazing words, which earned her a nickname of "Zhao Xiaodao" in the Jianghu.
Her every move was taken under the magnifying glass and was watched, criticized and ridiculed by the crowd.
In a drama interview, a reporter asked her, if you went to a desert island to survive alone, you could only take one thing with you. What would you take?
She thought for a while and said, "I don't want to go to a desert island. Why do I want to go to a desert island?"
The interview, which lasted less than 20 minutes, was so halting that the reporter's desire for survival could be felt across the screen. The inner subtext could only be described by Shen Teng's classic lines, "Destroy it, hurry up, and get tired."
The more this happens, the more restrained Zhao Liying is in front of the camera, and she is difficult to relax. Interviews are always reserved, and she is often labeled as "low EQ".
Zhao Liying also tried to explain before: "I just like to be more sincere and less routine. How can I understand the level of emotional intelligence with a few words?"
However, she gradually found that all the explanations were in vain.
Later, another reporter asked her, "How do you deal with these complicated situations?"
Zhao Liying blurted out, "I have eaten all of them."
Not only did she "eat", but she was even numb.
In an early variety show, other female artists were moved to tears. Only Zhao Liying did not cry. In fact, she was very jealous of their tears.
"I won't cry anymore. It's hard for me to be weak because I have been strong for too long."
But in the firefly, Zhao Liying can break the defense in a second.
At the 2017 New Year's Eve Gala of Oriental Satellite TV, Zhao Liying, who had been a star for ten years, received an unexpected confession from her fans and had a pair of crystal shoes.
This pair of crystal shoes means that Zhao Liying has transformed from a Cinderella to a princess in ten years.
The fans' actions made her restless for a long time. She always turned her back to the camera, fanned her hot eyes with her hands, and raised her head high, hoping to let the tears flow back to her eyes.
She is used to speaking rudely from the outside world, and also used to the jungle law of the jungle law of the jungle. In the face of sudden goodwill, she is out of control.
"I don't need to be praised, just understand." Fans are the people who understand her best.
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In her early years, Zhao Liying was labeled as hardworking, hardworking and dedicated, but she didn't feel much about it. She felt that she had just completed a task that needed to be completed.
She only knows that she should insist on and cherish every good role, and use her strong sense of faith, sense of responsibility for the role, and strong willpower to complete.
Xu Jizhou, the director who worked with Zhao Liying on Rouge, is very optimistic about her. "If she keeps cultivating herself in this way, her future is unlimited."
deliver the goods. Zhao Liying successfully portrayed an inspiring story of a commoner woman growing up in adversity in "Know whether or not it should be green, fat, red and thin".
This role helped her win the second Best Actress nomination of Magnolia Award.
Zhao Liying gave herself a long vacation after filming "Know It or Not". More than ten years of filming life has made her body constantly alert.
"The doctor said that my physique was particularly weak, which was particularly 'scary'. There was a blood clot in the back of my head and my heart was weak. He said that several bones on my body were injured, and he asked me to take calcium supplements. After hearing this, I didn't want to do anything. It was too exhausting for me. I was so young, but my body looked like an old lady." Zhao Liying said in an exclusive interview with a magazine that I wanted to be good to myself.
Life slowed down suddenly. Put a little tea fruit and a small pot of hot water on hand, watch the variety show while soaking in the feet, and hug the pillow to "eat" and laugh when being poked. I can stay up all night to watch the variety show I like.
"I think you can laugh all night. How can you be so happy?"
She gradually began to explore life, knowing its nature and why, full of curiosity about the details of life.
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A long time ago, Zhao Liying participated in the "Venus Show". Sister Jin told her in the program that love can still be talked about.
Zhao Liying nodded carefully.
She went through a marriage, entered another stage of life without warning, and then quickly withdrew.
Now she is an actress and a mother.
She has tasted the sweetness of life, but also tasted the bitterness.
No one can laugh out of a failed marriage. The difference is that some people carefully hide the pain.
After her comeback, Zhao Liying made a declaration of "starting again from scratch" to the world during a brand interview.
She worked hard to keep fit, quickly entered into the group filming, participated in variety show recording, and filled the energy value of her work.
During the recording of Chinese Restaurant 4, Zhao Liying couldn't relax because she couldn't adapt to the rhythm of the program. When she learned that her teammate had quit halfway, she even burst into tears.
The focus of public opinion is to doubt whether she is "postpartum depression".
Almost few people can truly understand the discomfort and panic a novice mother may face, and the challenges and anxiety of a professional woman returning to the workplace.
However, Zhao Liying as usual "ate all the voices", showing one fresh character after another.
Zhao Liying took over the film of Happiness to Ten Thousand Families directed by Zheng Xiaolong, in which she played a daughter-in-law with a stubborn character and a stubborn attitude. If she disagrees, she will be sued.
After wading through the mud of life, Zhao Liying, the "past person", has also broadened her understanding of He Xingfu. She really dissects what happiness is, just as she dissects herself.
"She always sticks to her own ideas and principles. In fact, she has a strong sense of loneliness. She needs to constantly tell everyone what she thinks is right, but people always need time to digest and accept it. For a while, there are very few people who understand her, so playing her sometimes makes me feel tired."
She also understands what happiness is, just as she understands herself.
"A person who has faith and a sense of strength in his heart never says that he is hard and does not send out negative emotions. But when you see her, can you say that she is really not tired? Is she really not tired? No, something happened in life will always leave traces."
These traces exist in He Xingfu and Zhao Liying.
There is an impressive scene in the play. He Xingfu, a migrant worker in the city, could not move her eyes for a long time after seeing her baby. She held the baby's little hand, smiled with tears, and said, "Mom must work hard and live well."
At that moment, Zhao Liying and He Xingfu were truly integrated.
Production | Entertainment FOCUS
Author | Still realize
Some references:
1. Zhao Liying: Wan Wan grows up gracefully and freely Fashion Bazaar, May 2022
2. Zhao Liying: Acting with edges and corners, living without edge. The first half of August 2018 issue of Fashion Bazaar
3. Record of Zhao Liying's speech in the starry sky
4. Zhao Liying: Live as you want Fashion COSMO, June 2021
5. Exclusive interview with Zhao Liying on the Venus Show
6. An exclusive interview with Zhao Liying from Aya Happy Men and Women
