The entertainment industry is Vanity Fair for the public, and the degree of sensation that each star's name can cause in the crowd is called "fame", and there is no doubt that Ni Hongjie is at the end of this ranking.
Participated in more than 36 movies and more than 50 TV series, standing in the second decade of entering the entertainment industry, Ni Hongjie, who has become accustomed to playing the mother of actresses of the same age, finally admitted that she was a mother.
On January 17, the public name "GQ Lab" published an article interviewing actor Ni Hongjie. The 43-year-old actress, who has just become popular for the second time with the movie "Love Myth", told the outside world for the first time in detail and frankly about the first half of her life, including her slightly restrained childhood, as well as her first failed marriage, and her son.
Divorced and stable, it will become Ni Hongjie's label for a long time after that.
At the age of 18, Ni Hongjie entered the show business circle because of her "beauty", and at the most careless and unimpressed age of the profession of an actor, she became a little red in a confused way.
However, by the time she really developed a self-motivated ambition for her career and hoped to achieve something, the "wind" that belonged to her had already passed.
Going around and around, when she thought that the years were gone, it was blown to a high place by coincidence, and for Ni Hongjie, it did not bloom at the most beautiful time, which was a regret deliberately left to her by fate.
But fate may have arranged it to make her understand that every moment that can bloom will be her most beautiful time.
One
In 1978, Ni Hongjie was born in Changshu City, Jiangsu Province, her parents are Zhiqing, after she was born, her parents who were busy working did not have time to take care of Ni Hongjie, so they sent her to her grandmother's house in Shanghai, followed by her grandmother and aunt, and now Ni Hongjie can speak fluent Shanghainese, because of the childhood experience when she was a child.
Unlike many celebrities who are inspired to enter the show business circle, Ni Hongjie did not have any interest in the entertainment industry at the beginning, and her personality was not cheerful, because she left her parents to live in her grandmother's house since she was a child, and the rules of her grandparents at home were many and strict, and Ni Hongjie not only did not feel any family affection when she was a child, but gradually gave birth to a bit of inferiority under the fence.
According to Ni Hongjie herself, living with her aunt for many years, away from her parents, so that she was always tight with a string in her childhood, although her aunt treated herself well, but in the end she was not her own parents, Ni Hongjie was always worried about causing trouble to adults.
From a very young age, Ni Hongjie learned to temper desires, for example, if there is a delicious dish on the dinner table, she will only clip an appropriate chopstick, and will not eat more, because she is afraid of eating too much, resulting in adults not eating enough, and she is afraid of being said to be ignorant;
In addition, Ni Hongjie in her childhood never slept a lazy night' sleep, always following her aunt who was used to getting up early after she got up.
"Don't cause trouble to others" became Ni Hongjie's early life creed.
It is reasonable to say that such a girl cannot take the initiative to sign up for any showy performance, let alone become an actor, but the fate of the arrangement is always unexpected.
In 1997, 18-year-old Ni Hongjie accompanied Xuexue to an audition for a mineral water advertisement, when she was pulled in as a temporary group performance, and Ni Hongjie, who was quiet by nature, shrank in the corner as usual.
However, the gold will always shine, and the makeup artist who put makeup on her classmates noticed her sitting in the corner and exaggerated, "This girl looks so beautiful, so spirited."
The family has never praised her beauty, and Ni Hongjie, who has never found confidence in appearance, was surprised after hearing it, and what arose with the accident was a confidence that she had not had for many years.
On that day, Ni Hongjie wore a thin spring dress and shot in the cold wind for 14 hours, and got a reward of 400 yuan.
The makeup artist who praised her beautiful secretly told her that her personal remuneration was originally 200 yuan, and the extra 200 yuan given to her was because there was a private job that took a fancy to her, so that Ni Hongjie would not answer other activities these days and quietly wait for the phone.
This little makeup artist became a guide for Ni Hongjie to enter the show business circle, and under her introduction, 18-year-old Ni Hongjie filmed her first advertisement - many and health capsules.
It should have been a good thing to greatly enhance her self-confidence, but this advertisement brought the first setback in Ni Hongjie's life, because many advertisements would use post-dubbing in that year, so the image of Ni Hongjie in the advertisement did not match the final voice.
Coupled with the fact that Ni Hongjie tied a silk scarf around her neck in the advertisement, somehow, the rumors inexplicably began to spread that Ni Hongjie, who filmed this advertisement, was a transgender person.
This outrageous-sounding gossip may soon dissipate in today's developed network, and almost no one will believe this rumor that insults people's intelligence.
But in that era, the network was not developed, the parties wanted to clarify there was no place to clarify, the real is "rumors a mouth, rumors run and break legs", Liu Yifei, who debuted in 2004, was rumored to be transgender people in that year and many people still believe in it, not to mention Ni Hongjie, who was earlier.
This rumor hurt Ni Hongjie a lot, when the makeup artist learned that she was only in high school, he suggested that she could try to apply for the Shanghai Theater Academy, and maybe become a big star.
But after going home and telling her grandmother her ideas, her conservative grandmother reprimanded her, and her grandmother thought that now that the family conditions are not bad, girls should go to college safely and steadily, and then have a stable job and live a down-to-earth life.
Grandma's proposition is also the proposition of Ni Hongjie's parents, most of the previous generation is conservative and stubborn, and there is instinctive resistance to the profession of actors that have not been exposed.
Later, Ni Hongjie, who had a good academic performance, was admitted to Shanghai Tongji University majoring in economics and also made a boyfriend with a stable relationship, which is Ni Hongjie's first and only husband.
In fact, Ni Hongjie's love experience is very simple, the reason for choosing marriage is also very simple, at the age of 21, her parents knew that she had a boyfriend, and because of the dispute between relatives in the family, she chose to live in each other's home.
Her mother, who was conservative about cohabitation, told her that it was okay to talk about friends, but it was not possible to live together before marriage, and if you wanted to live in the past, you could either get married.
As a result, Ni Hongjie got married.
Two
In 1999, 21-year-old Ni Hongjie got married. In the wedding dress city next to the Suzhou bus station, they spent 200 yuan to buy two sets of wedding dresses, one set of red and one set of white.
For Ni Hongjie, there is no special happiness in the days after marriage, and there is no unhappiness, it is a plain life.
Her husband is seven years older than her, hardworking, hard-working but at the same time macho, often hanging on the lips of the words is to hope that Ni Hongjie can stay at home and become a leisurely wife, do not go to hard work.
During this period, Ni Hongjie had already made a small name in the advertising industry with the advertisements she had filmed before, and the advertisement that made her a "mainland underwear goddess" was filmed shortly before she got married.
At that time, because of filming this advertisement, Ni Hongjie also made a lot of jokes. Because of her young age and did not know how to read the contract at first, Ni Hongjie thought that this shooting was an ordinary advertisement like before, and when she learned that she was going to take off her clothes and wear underwear to shoot, she was scared to cry.
But the contracts were signed, it was impossible not to shoot at this time, and after the awkward shooting, Ni Hongjie quickly got dressed and went home, and she prayed that her family would not see the advertisement.
But at that time, the advertisement was so red that it was impossible not to let the family see it, although most people did not remember Ni Hongjie's name at that time, but only remembered the advertisement.
But as Ni Hongjie's family, her parents are still deeply uncomfortable, angry but unable to communicate, they are angry and hold their hearts.
At that time, every time the family watched TV and put this advertisement of Ni Ni Hongjie, the original lively atmosphere would be instantly reduced to the freezing point, no one spoke, the air was dead silent, and after the advertisement passed, everyone began to speak again.
Such a cold treatment destroyed Ni Hongjie's last bit of self-confidence, and she reflected in frustration that maybe she really shouldn't have any hope for the acting show, and she really humiliated her family.
Before she could reflect on it a few times, the opportunity that belonged to her still came.
In 2002, the crew of the TV series "The Ultimate Unsolved Case" found Ni Hongjie and let her play one of the roles, and Ni Hongjie, who pushed herself out that she could not act, was finally impressed by the generous remuneration for her at that time.
Starred in a lingerie model Cheng Mengmeng in the play, this role is only a supporting role, the role is not much "leading the box lunch", the story has since unfolded.
From this time, Ni Hongjie has stepped into the show business circle. Going around, she thought she had no fate with the show business circle, but finally came to this circle.
In the first three years, Ni Hongjie was no different from running the dragon set, at that time, in her heart, she had no concept of the actor's work, not from a science class, and she knew nothing about the actor's liberating nature and sense of lens, but with the polishing and exercise in the crew, Ni Hongjie completed each of her performances steadily.
But in the final analysis, at that time, in Ni Hongjie's heart, the actor was just a show job, and she did not have any ambition and sense of achievement in this industry, nor did she have any lofty goals, just a job to make ends meet.
What really made Ni Hongjie start to taste the sweetness was the "Wulin Wai Biao" received in 2005, when she saw the script, no one would have expected it to become a classic that is still loved by the audience more than a decade later.
Therefore, during the filming, Ni Hongjie did not have any waves in her heart, but even so, she still played the role of Zhu Wushuang with a high degree of completion, and the phrase "let me go" became a classic line imitated by countless primary school students in that year.
After the show aired, she really felt that she seemed to be a little famous, but her enthusiasm for acting career was still not very strong.
In life, although Ni Hongjie does not have any love for her husband, it will still make her feel at ease that someone can make decisions for herself.
In this way, the days passed day by day, during which Ni Hongjie, in order to support her husband's shipping business, also sold the house that her mother bought for her in Shanghai in the early years and collected three million for her husband.
Unexpectedly, this became a major turning point in her future life.
The husband's shipping business was poorly run, and soon there was a deficit and a lot of money was needed to make up for it.
Ni Hongjie's husband pulled her to the major banks to borrow money, although embarrassed, but the bank staff looked at this face that had appeared countless times in the TV series, and said with a good temper: "We have seen the TV series you played, come and lend it to you." ”
In this way, Ni Hongjie lent out one sum after another of money for her husband. However, the husband's deficit is like tearing down the dominoes, there is a second time with the first time, and soon, Ni Hongjie and her husband are in debt.
Standing at the crossroads of life, 30-year-old Ni Hongjie originally had a chance to choose again, but Ni Hongjie, who was born with a good nature, did not give up her husband, in order to maintain that marriage, she chose to have a child.
Although they were very poor at the time, although the husband's performance was not a qualified husband at all.
When she was pregnant, there was almost no money in the family, she wore discounted pants for 50 yuan every day, but her husband lost more than 10,000 yuan a night at the card table, and they often quarreled over money.
In 2009, the birth of her son made Ni Hongjie a mother, and the marriage continued briefly. However, a wrong relationship, no matter how to redeem it, will eventually come to an end.
According to GQ Lab, the year after giving birth to a child, Ni Hongjie went to shoot the film version of "The Legend of Wulin", and director Shang Jing said to her, "You have become wooden, and you have no previous aura." Ni Hongjie did not refute it, giggling and coping with the past, but after the play, she cried alone in the hotel for a long time.
Because of the birth of the child, she has not faced so many people for a long time, and after the director said "ready to start", she could only hear her own heartbeat, and the reaction was always half a beat slower.
Career progress is not smooth, and marriage is also coming to an end. It was the evening of the second day of the Chinese New Year, and Ni Hongjie asked him in front of her husband's sister and brother-in-law how much he owed.
After returning home, her husband became angry and embarrassed, and the two had a big fight, and Ni Hongjie's husband said angrily: "If you can't get by, get a divorce." ”
This time, Ni Hongjie agreed. At the moment when she agreed, Ni Hongjie felt that she might have the power to start over, and at that moment, she felt relieved.
After the divorce, Ni Hongjie did not start a new life immediately, and the bank sent a text message informing her that she owed 10 million yuan, which her husband owed.
Bank cards were frozen, houses and cars were frozen, and Ni Hongjie was on the list of the untrustworthy. Fortunately, the husband did not pick a son, he sold the house, borrowed money, and tried every means to pay off the debt together, but it was still a long process.
The unhappiness of life made her start to examine her life again, and it also made her start to think about the meaning of acting for her again.
One of the shoots that really made her "enlightened" was the film "Blue Bones" with Cui Jian, in which she played the female number one, and with this role, Ni Hongjie was nominated for best actress at the Rome Film Festival.
It was also from this time that Ni Hongjie found that in fact, acting well is very respected, and it has nothing to do with whether an actor looks good or not, and hard work is rewarded.
That year, Ni Hongjie was 36 years old, and it was also this year that she truly realized that as an actor, after filming well, she could truly experience a sense of accomplishment and happiness.
Three
From Ni Hongjie's resume, the audience can see that in the twenty years since her debut, there has been almost no work, and it can be said that Ni Hongjie has worked hard every year.
But to this day, when the audience sees Ni Hongjie, the first reaction is still Zhu Wushuang in "The Legend of Wulin", cruelly saying that for the audience, Ni Hongjie seems to have been in the same place for twenty years.
But this is not the case for Ni Hongjie, she has tried many roles over the years, from the beginning of the small dragon set, to slowly take on the role of thickness, and even in the TV series "Niangdao", Ni Hongjie has also played a foolish and stupid clown, but even so, every performance, Ni Hongjie has worked hard to give the role her own understanding.
By the time Ni Hongjie participated in "Actors Please Take Place", she was in her early forties, and there were many actresses in her forties who did not shoot like her, such as Huang Yi, Hu Xing'er, Ma Su, etc., but at least people had been popular when they were young, and they could be counted out of three or five masterpieces, but Ni Hongjie was a rare middle-aged actress who did not red to not red.
For her own positioning, Ni Hongjie seems to be a lot of free, so many years, she has already accepted the fact that she is not popular, her own positioning in the circle is "showbiz marginal person", but even so, Ni Hongjie said that she also enjoys the identity of the marginal person, as long as she is still acting, as long as there is a role in her hand, she will definitely play her well.
On the way to slowly pursue her dreams, Ni Hongjie also encountered love again. This time, she met someone who could make her blush and really feel the emotional exchange.
Ni Hongjie and her current boyfriend met because of cats. They were in the same crew at the time, and my boyfriend was the executive director of the play, and when he was not working, he teased stray cats, and they started talking from cats, and then there was new progress.
Ni Hongjie said that her boyfriend was not rich, and when she was the poorest, she only had 9,000 yuan, but once, Ni Hongjie wanted to go to Lanzhou to shoot a play, the wind and sand were particularly large, he took her to visit the outlets, and spent three thousand yuan to buy her a storm jacket.
For this matter, Ni Hongjie still remembers it vividly, she feels that men have ten thousand pieces willing to give you nine thousand and one million are willing to give you one hundred thousand, which are two different concepts.
In her own rhythm, Ni Hongjie lives her life calmly and leisurely.
Today's audiences always like to use "inner volume" to describe the situation that occurs in a certain group, such as the body volume that appears in the female artist group today.
For body management, many actresses over forty or even over fifty years old still maintain super high self-discipline, not long ago the Internet popular for a period of time "lightsaber transformation" small video, Ni Hongjie also followed the trend to record a, the result did not expect to be red, was seen by many big V casually forwarded, have exaggerated "sister is really good", then many netizens remembered that ni Hongjie when she was young was once the "underwear goddess" in the mainland.
For the appearance anxiety of her youth, Ni Hongjie has long been reconciled with herself, and she no longer feels anxious in the face of the endless new generation of post-95 actresses.
For Ni Hongjie, she began to face up to the things she had in her life, she knew that when she was young, she had been good-looking, and she had been as bright as they were, but with the increase of age, she also had the feeling of life that today's young people do not necessarily have, and now Ni Hongjie, even if she is a mother who plays an actress of the same age as herself, no longer feels embarrassed, but instead has a calm.
In the era when celebrities are following the trend of live broadcasting, Ni Hongjie has also broadcast live with goods, selling underwear, selling underwear, and shouting seriously and generously in the live broadcast room, male assistants are a little embarrassed, but Ni Hong's clean face does not change color.
For her, the job is to do a good job, to do live broadcast is to tell the audience about the quality and details of the goods, this calm, without a little life experience, it is difficult to practice.
epilogue:
In December 2021, Ni Hongjie, Ma Yili and Wu Yue co-starred in a movie "Love Myth" was released, and at the moment when the current big heroine theme film and television works emerged in an endless stream, they expounded their views on life and feelings as middle-aged women from the perspective of the right age, and received a wave of praise on the Internet.
It is said that "fame should be early", but for people who regard a lifetime as a stage of hard work, opportunities can bloom with the same beautiful colors at any node.
Famous for this thing, missed Ni Hongjie's youth, but fortunately, hard work, let her harvest a different scenery at a mature age, from "Zhu Matchless" to return to the audience again, Ni Hongjie is still the hopeful "girl".
The flowing water does not compete for the first, the contention is endless, perhaps, the future that belongs to Ni Hongjie is still on the way to come.
Author: Black Cat