One
Zhang Ziyi's most ashamed person in this life is her classmate Zeng Li.
Zeng Li once played Mei Sanniang in "Liaozhai", and is well known for her good facial features and stunning appearance.
It's just that although she and Zhang Ziyi are the same Chinese opera students, they don't have the other side's fire.
This is because more than 20 years ago, Zhang Ziyi snatched the role that originally belonged to Zeng Li.
In 1999, a well-known director in the film industry came to Zeng Li's dormitory in an attempt to find the most beautiful girl in the legend of Chinese opera to act.
This girl is Zeng Li.
Because Zeng Li happened to be absent, a girl in her class volunteered and won the position of the director's heroine in one fell swoop.
This girl is Zhang Ziyi, and the director who chose her as the heroine is Zhang Yimou, and they cooperated to make a "My Father and Mother".
This film enjoys a high reputation in the world, and Zhang Ziyi also became popular with it, and entered the film industry with the identity of "Girl Seeker", and her career is in the sky.
Zeng Li, who missed the opportunity, is ignored and is still struggling among the second- and third-line actors.
If Zeng Li had been selected, would her and Zhang Ziyi's fate have changed?
Zeng Li was once a heavenly woman in the eyes of her classmates, and she was slightly higher than Zhang Ziyi in terms of birth, acting skills and appearance.
Classmate Liu Ye later commented: Zeng Li was recognized as the best in their class.
Unlike Zhang Ziyi, who danced a few dances, Zeng Li began to study form, vocal music, and dance at an early age, and later joined various song and dance troupes and studied Qingyi at the China Academy of Performing Arts.
When she first entered the Chinese opera, the classmates all said half-jokingly: her appearance has been produced for hundreds of years, so that the Chinese opera has long circulated the legend of Zeng Lishengshi's beautiful face.
Later, she was called the "Eight Golden Nobiles of Chinese Opera" with Zhang Ziyi, Yuan Quan, and Mei Ting, and she was one of the most stunning.
Everyone believes that Zeng Li will become popular in the future, even if he does not rely on acting skills, he can rely on his face.
Many directors have invited Zeng Li to shoot, but it is said that she missed many opportunities by refusing to make unspoken rules.
Now it is difficult to be selected by Zhang Yimou, and zhang Ziyi has cut off Hu.
Although the conditions are good, they cannot withstand the water reversal period of life.
Two
In 2019, Zhang Ziyi posted a photo of the 96th class reunion of Chinese opera on Weibo.
Although they were all once Chinese drama beauties, it seems that only Zeng Li, who is in the C position, has the most coordinated facial features.
Sure enough, she did not live up to the title of "once in 200 years of chinese drama".
At that time, many people asked: Why is Zeng Li so beautiful, but he is always not red?
In fact, Liu Ye once said that one of her evaluations was the most suitable answer: because her desire was not great.
Zeng Li once mentioned in an interview that Zhang Ziyi threatened to shoot with Zhang Yimou when he first entered the Chinese opera, because Zhang Yimou is the most powerful director in China.
Zeng Li was touched by her ambitions, but she herself did not think so.
After being robbed of the heroine by Zhang Ziyi in 1999, a friend once asked her: Why did she miss this opportunity?
Zeng Li replied: Maybe I won't be able to change it?
Later, there were also big directors who asked her to cooperate in filming, and as a result, she never took the initiative to fight for a role for herself.
Once, the producer of the movie "The Barber" saw her stills and thought she was suitable to play the heroine.
But they were also very confused, because Zeng Li did not take the initiative to contact them from beginning to end when he got such a good opportunity.
When asked why she was like this, she swore that if people couldn't look at me, it would be useless to contact me a hundred times.
Perhaps as she said: if Zhang Yimou had looked at her instead of Zhang Ziyi, she might not have been as successful as Zhang Ziyi.
Zeng Li's personality comes largely from the family environment, because her early life was too smooth.
She was very good-looking when she was first born, with a chubby face like a doll, and the people in the hospital rushed to hold her.
Zeng Li also did not want to become an actor, she initially practiced singing and dancing just to make her body look better, and later married a good family.
Later, it was also accidental that she learned that she could apply for the Chinese opera to become a professional actor; but she herself did not have much desire for an actor or fame.
Because she laid the foundation from an early age, her acting talent is higher than other students, because she is naturally beautiful, she has always been the object of the stars in the class.
For these reasons, Zeng Li developed a Buddhist personality.
This also became a key factor in her later tepidness.
Three
Jiang Wen's least favorite actress is Zeng Li.
In 2002, when Jiang Wen was filming the film "Barber" directed by the painter Chen Yifei, he pushed his sister Zhou Yun, and later Zhou Yun became Jiang Wen's wife.
But director Chen Yifei was not satisfied, and he was more keen to let Zeng Li play the role.
Although it was later replaced by Zhou Yun, there was a gap between Chen Yifei and Jiang Wen.
In 2003, the movie "The Barber" caused Chen Yifei and Jiang Wen to change their scripts to each other, causing them to fall out on the spot.
Jiang Wen left the crew in anger, Chen Yifei took the opportunity to replace Jiang Wen with Chen Kun, and Zeng Li replaced Zhou Yun.
Although Zeng Li was forced to get involved in the quarrel between the two big men, she was not welcomed by Jiang Wen because she was appreciated by Chen Yifei.
Later, Jiang Wen made a number of movies, and many actors, including Chen Kun, who later succeeded him, used it, but they ignored Zeng Li.
Perhaps he is still angry about the incident of leaving the crew that year.
Zeng Li also rarely mentioned Jiang Wen, let alone any cooperation.
Although she is not ranked among all the actresses in the mainland, she has a popular period with this "Barber" and was shortlisted for the Best Actress Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
However, Zeng Li was miserable, and Chen Yifei, who appreciated her, died suddenly in 2005.
After losing his mentor Chen Yifei, Zeng Li never found a decent resource again.
Once known as the "Chinese Opera School Flower", she actually began to play the mother of others in some urban dramas.
For example, the mother who played the actress "Crystal" in "Reading With Mother", in "July and Ansheng", she played the birth mother of the new Xiaohua Shenyue.
The most crucial point is that Mei Ting, who was listed with her as the "Eight Golden Nobiles of Chinese Opera", played the heroine in "Reading With Mother", and she was a supporting role.
Coupled with Zeng Li's personality of not accepting unspoken rules, she is afraid that it will be difficult for her to meet a mentor like Chen Yifei again.
However, Zeng Li has a good mentality, even if some people compare her with her classmates, she always has a smooth attitude.
This may be the reason why Zeng Liming is not red, but there are still many people who are obsessed with her.