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Ni Ni: Freedom of form

Ni Ni: Freedom of form
Ni Ni: Freedom of form

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Ni Ni: Freedom of form

The years before becoming an actress were an adolescence composed of countless accidents, and now when I look back on it, Ni Ni first remembers the expectations of the people around her, and one by one the specific imaginations continue to enter life, kneading all the tangible love of her parents for their daughters at that time. At first, the family hoped that she could become a gymnast, but a few days after sending her to training, the teacher told Ni Ni's mother that the girl would grow taller in the future and was not suitable for being a gymnast. Instead, the family let Ni Ni learn to dance. With the mood of turning the disadvantage here into an advantage elsewhere, Ni Ni, under the guidance of her parents, tried one by one from ballet to national standard, and also came into contact with various ball sports, table tennis, basketball, and volleyball, which was on the tide at that time. Maybe you can still be an athlete? Ni Ni's family may have thought so at that time.

"They always think I can go the sporting path, probably because I'm naturally active."

Regarding the active matter, for Ni Ni, it is almost only a happy memory: climbing the mountain, going down to the field, catching shrimp, touching fish, going up the tree to pound insects, rolling and stealing vegetables, these playful memories are mixed into the four seasons of Nanjing, accompanied by smells and sounds, little by little accumulating her cheerful and informal nature. Years later, whenever she talks about "Nanjing Girl", Ni Ni will also come up with these young years in her mind, she knows the connection, can not be described specifically, if only one word to summarize, perhaps bright. Bright nature, bright streets, bright training halls, dance classrooms, bright air and those many big and small, bright dreams, for a long time, they were both close and far, and Ni Ni was the child who was constantly being pushed on the road, from here to there.

Ni Ni: Freedom of form

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"I also learned English for painting, Go and calligraphy, and I didn't just move, but I only kept my English up."

Like all adolescent children, Ni Ni will be rebellious about this expectation, inevitably wanting to escape, wanting a little freedom, and a little choice. But what is freedom? And what to choose? Young Ni Ni didn't understand either. Life has almost become an accident, uncertain where life will be pushed, except for continuous imagination, one by one, one by one.

"There are too many voices, their own, their own, all around."

Until an interview between the communication college students, only to turn these many uncertainties into inevitability, at the same time, the imagination is more imaginative, the girl Ni Ni became an actor Ni Ni, an identity destined to be with the imagination, this line of time seems to pass faster than others, inadvertently ten years passed, Ni Ni said that she is a person who likes to think things clearly, but there are still too many places that have not been clearly thought out to this day.

Ni Ni: Freedom of form

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Ni Ni: Freedom of form

In 2021, Ni Ni still maintains the three-pronged approach of film and television dramas, and gives most of her time to the performance, but outsiders do not see any tension in it, which is not a feeling of "arrows on the string", but a bit of "fun in it".

"In the past few years, I have gradually felt that happiness is actually a very difficult thing, people will become more and more difficult to be happy with time, I am no exception, but acting can always make me happy." 」

The experience of joining Lai Shengchuan's drama "Monogatari Cave" in mid-2019 is Ni Ni's most cherished experience in recent years, and she once said to the team: "Human energy is limited, and I need to allocate more time to performance." So from the year of the initial rehearsal, Ni Ni shifted the focus of her work to the field of performance that she had never set foot in. The kind of performance form that obviously has many rules and requires a lot of repetitive practice, but it exudes immediacy all the time, which has a wonderful attraction to Ni Ni, and that year, Ni Ni described it as a period of time when she opened her eyes and thought about going to act, she would involuntarily raise the corners of her mouth.

Later, Ni Ni thought that the reason why she was so happy at that time may be because the drama performance brought her more emotional delivery. It is as if you are in a mobile home, ushering in a new group of people who have known each other for the first time but seem to be familiar for a long time, and there is a comfort of trust and unity. Spending time with a group of people over an intensive period of time has only one goal: how to do a good job of a few hours of NG-free performances. Here, like a beginner, she learns how to reuse her body, her voice, how to make sounds, how to use breath to make sounds more penetrating. Familiar habits were broken again, and the process of reorganization excited Ni Ni at every moment, and she wanted to do her best.

We asked Ni Ni how she thought the best thing today, but Ni Ni said that it was actually a very complicated matter. In the early years, when she received new plays, she would rivet her strength and hope to present the so-called "best state", but later it gradually changed, and she gradually realized that if she was too persistent about the best thing, it would damage the performance of some more precious things, and in the cooperation with director Lai Shengchuan, she also deepened her understanding of this matter.

"I don't necessarily think the best is the best, or I don't know what my best state is."

Ni Ni: Freedom of form

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Maybe at this moment, or maybe the next moment, the performance is actually an exchange, with the person at the same time with the self: the understanding of the director's design, the rhythm of the actors, the coordination of costumes and props, in different times and situations, handing over different things, that kind of just moment, is the so-called best. Performance is a three-dimensional art, and the best performance, may not be a rule above the judgment standard, not a self-restraint or requirement, Ni Ni feels that the performance must be prepared, the more full the better, but there is no need to exaggerate the meaning of preparation, that is not necessarily the best, preparation is a basic work, she will force herself to familiarize herself with new things for the new form of performance obsessive-compulsive, but this is the quality of being an actor, and if you want to become a good actor, there are many complex and delicate things, It is to continue to understand in the opportunity and coincidence, is the process of understanding and reconciliation.

"But I still hope that, no matter what, there is a lifelike background in my performance, and on top of this background, the interpretation of different roles will be more convincing."

Ni Ni said that at this time, the preparations for filming had just ended, in the makeshift makeup shed, she had the same box lunch as the staff, a few home-cooked dishes were eaten mostly, the iPad stood up flat, the screen was the pause screen of the Korean drama "Please Answer 1988", Ni Ni in a pink fleece sweatshirt, backed by a recliner, lazy and kind, easy like everyone we would see in our daily life. However, this is only temporary, and after finishing her makeup and changing her style, she immediately enters the world of others like a good clockwork.

In the old shop at the end of the last century, she walked towards the crowd, almost confused for a moment, unable to connect the interviewee with the flashing shadow of the moment, and from time to time, an occasional eyebrow raised or a light-hearted joke, the bright and cheerful details returned immediately. Her tacit understanding with the camera, no matter how moving, is natural, knows when to play and when to go off, and each set of expressions is familiar with the ideal atmosphere in everyone's heart. Acting is an exchange, the self of life and the self of the performance, alternating between turns, she seems to have found the rhythm that suits herself best, and is at ease.

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Ni Ni: Freedom of form

On social networks, ni ni's interaction with fans is often circulated, whether it is a video of a smile looking back at the early pick-up, or the communication between her and fans on various occasions afterwards, for people who like Ni Ni, she is one of the few idols who maintain a sense of distance and at the same time make people feel kind.

She is undoubtedly the kind of person who knows how to deal with affection appropriately, and this trait is passed on to those who like her accordingly. As a result, we often see something that is not biased and just right, a healthy and positive thing, appearing between Ni Ni and her fans, without the fanatical and unrestrained fan circle form, looking thin and long, not hurried, not slow, maintaining a polite and restrained distance from each other.

Ni Ni said that she does not study fans, rarely in order to meet the preferences of others deliberately do anything, because there will always be limitations between people, not to mention between actors and fans, actors use works to exchange fans' love, if on top of this, there can be some other encouragement, so that others can have a goal of self-fulfillment, which is the ideal relationship between actors and fans.

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"I've never been a person who particularly likes to be known."

The limitations between people, these years Ni Ni accepted this matter with a warm and gentle attitude, she believed more and more in the value of sincerity, but also more understanding of the meaning of relaxation, and gradually had a more peaceful attitude, facing career, family, life and herself.

She loves animals, loves nature, and when she's not filming, she sometimes spends time with friends, and more often she's happy to be alone, watch movies, read books, occasionally play games, and watch her cats play at home. Some time ago, she was keen on documentaries, she recommended fans to watch the biographical movies of Messi and Cameron, and she silently chased after "East Town Witch" when it was on fire, and the heroine Kate Winslet was particularly moving to her.

"She interpreted that character really well, very naturally very beautiful, there is something behind that beauty, not monotonous beauty, very good." 」 Ni Ni smiled and squinted.

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Referring to the life after acting in the past two years, Ni Ni said that what moved her most was to participate in "The Power of Walking", although it has been two years, but recalling those seven days, Ni Ni still remembers many details in great detail: the dry wind at high altitude, the cold of the stream and the golden light of the sky, the mud and sand nearby and the snow in the distance, she experienced for the first time a pure quiet, this silence is both visual and auditory, the original world can be so small, and at the same time so big, the whispers of fellow people, Occasional animals in the blades of grass gasped, and even the sunlight seemed to have a sound, and they brushed against Nini's ear and immediately filled her heart.

"The last yam is only about this big."

Ni Ni used her hand to compare the moment we reached the summit, about six palms away, which was the end of the trip. Crossing the pass, she sat on a bare stone and looked back at the road she had come in seven days, with some clouds falling at her feet and the other so close that she seemed to be able to reach out.

"It's hard to tell the feelings about nature, it's very abundant, and at that moment I felt very satisfied."

Ni Ni: Freedom of form

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When talking about getting along with nature, Ni Ni's eyes flash from time to time, and the real emotions are immediately revealed, making people believe once again that she in front of her at this moment has the most precious talent of an actor, that kind of immersive empathy. In her communication with people, she exudes empathy in the details, and hardly perfunctory to any question that she may have answered many times, hoping to express what cannot be conveyed behind words; and in communication with nature, her beauty is more clear and perceptible, which is not a superficial, narrow reference to the surface, but a transparent and clean spirit. Let people believe that no matter where she has been, who she has met, what experiences she has, what she has taken away, and what she has left behind, deep inside, there will always be a voice, in form and mind, free and unrestrained.

Photography by Xu Chuang

Interview, writing Xiao Qin

Styling Sherry

Fashion Editor Elva

Hairstyle Liu Xueliang

Makeup Yang Dan

Producer Ray Ray

Assistant Ren Qian, Jiang Boxuan

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