Many people will have a "sense of oppression" when they see Chen Jin.
Because she has made too many impressions of her characters, she has created many "harsh" mother images.
Another actor, Chen Daoming, is very similar to her, and both naturally exude an "intellectual" aura of "full of poetry and books".
Therefore, many people mistakenly think that they are brothers and sisters, and Chen Jin is also known as the "female version of Chen Daoming".
In fact, Chen Jin's life is very similar to her image on the screen, full of poetry and books, and very strict with herself.
Even harsh enough to be called "human outlier".
Not married, not fertile, not eating rice.
Why did she do this? It has become a puzzle in the hearts of many viewers.
In fact, all this has a lot to do with her experience.
01
Chen Jin's "intellectual" aura largely comes from her father.
Chen Jin was born in Jinan in 1964.
Dad was a university professor and belonged to the few intellectuals of that era.
Mom and Dad have different professions and are a drama actor.
The same thing is that Mom and Dad used to be in the military.
Chen Jin was the second oldest in the family, and there was also an older brother Chen Zhun above.
As can be seen from the names of the brothers and sisters, their parents have a very strict personality and must try their best to be accurate in everything.
Chen Jin and her brother grew up in the army compound.
But I didn't play with the children in the compound.
The children in the compound are more lively and like to get together to play group games.
Kick shuttlecocks, throw sandbags, jump leather bands, play marbles, and more.
Chen Jin and his brother were not interested in these at all.
They like to go to quiet places and discover new things.
Most of Chen Jin is also entertaining herself, getting along with herself and never going to get together.
At that time, the country was still in a period of solving the problem of food and clothing, and avant-garde and fashionable ideas were not yet fashionable.
Chen Jin and her brother had already shown fashion, avant-garde and distinctive ideas at that time.
Chen Jin likes to wear ripped clothes, and the new cotton jacket should also be patched and worn.
It is also this "maverick" personality that makes Chen Jin and her brother become distinctive artists in the future.
It also made Chen Jin and his brother become people who relied on each other for the rest of their lives.
As the name suggests, Chen Zhun and Chen Jin have a clear and accurate plan for the future of life just like their parents got their names.
Influenced by her mother, Chen Jin has developed a strong interest in drama and performance since childhood.
Chen Zhun also became infinitely curious about the camera machine under the stage of his mother's drama.
Therefore, the brothers and sisters are inspired to develop their future career direction towards childhood preferences.
After growing up, Chen Jin was admitted to shandong art college and did not hesitate to choose the department of theater performance.
His brother Chen Zhun also learned photography as a major.
In those years of school, Chen Jin lived very relaxedly, eating her favorite snacks in her spare time.
She loves peanuts the most, and sometimes eats half a bag without paying attention.
While appetite is satisfied, so does fat.
Although she loves to eat, it does not delay her eagerness to learn.
Everyone's impression of her during college is: fat, love to eat pasta, love to eat peanuts and rice, and learn more really.
Chen Jin, like her name, is very rigorous and serious in both doing things and doing homework.
Teacher Lan Ying, head of the university department, commented on Chen Jin:
If only she had delved into a role
She would rather not sleep at two or three o'clock
I didn't sleep the next day when I turned in my homework
02
In 1987, Chen Jin graduated from university at the age of 24.
At the suggestion of her father, Chen Jin entered the Air Politics Repertory Theatre.
Chen Jin, who has always been independent and planned, had a place in the unit not long after she joined the work.
Soon got the opportunity to play the main role, in the drama "Snow Peak Love" stage she played 5 roles, acting skills are at ease, switch at will, no mistakes.
Later, this work also won the "Fifth All-Army Literary and Art Performance Award".
This award also allowed Chen Jin to emerge in the drama industry and gradually be seen by people in the industry.
Director Fan Akihito also noticed her.
She was then invited to appear in the film The Devoured Woman.
This is Chen Jin's first film and television work.
It also represents Chen Jin's official entry into the show business circle.
Because of her good acting skills and serious treatment of the role, the director and staff have a high opinion of her.
Soon after, Chen Jin received an invitation to a TV series directed by Shi Xuehai.
This time, Chen Jin was more lucky and got the heroine color.
Chen Jin also did not live up to the expectations of director Shi Xuehai, repeatedly breaking himself and taking on the role of the character.
After the drama was broadcast, it won the second "May Day Project Award" and "Feitian Award".
It has become a particularly influential work in the history of television dramas.
This drama is "Mountains Don't Turn Water", and the heroine Changer is played by Chen Jin.
In the same year, partner Li Youbin and Chen Baoguo's wife Zhao Kui'e and Chu Zhibo starred in the TV series "Tide Rise and Fall".
This drama is also the first TV series in China to depict the theme of naval life.
After the broadcast of "Tide Rise and Fall", it also won the "Flying Award".
Chen Jin's reputation in the circle rose.
For newcomers who have just debuted, Chen Jin's starting point is very high.
If she continues to develop like this, she will definitely have a boundless star.
03
At that time, Chen Jin was still very confident in herself, and felt that as long as she honed her acting skills, she could go on in this industry effortlessly.
It's just that luck doesn't always take care of her.
Maybe the debut went too smoothly, so it later encountered obstacles.
Chen Jin, who had been unimpeded all the way, ate the director's closed door soup one after another in the future.
Not because Chen Jin's acting skills are not good enough, but because she is not good enough.
Many directors said to her: You are not very pretty, you are also a little fat, you are not suitable for this line, go not far, change careers as soon as possible.
Some people even said: Chen Jin, you can't take the role of a nanny in this form.
These words deeply pierced Chen Jin's heart, she did not speak, she was also very sad.
Chen Jin, who has always been strong, has become a habit of acting independently, and she feels that no matter how learned people can't enlighten her, she can still save herself.
Therefore, when she encounters any difficulty, she will not tell others, endure it herself, and endure until the matter is resolved.
Chen Jin, who was hit, did not complain about the world, thought rationally, and found a solution when he encountered a problem.
She realized that she had always had a misunderstanding in her thinking, and she had always believed that the powerful faction did not need to pay attention to the external image.
But now she has woken up to the fact that being an actor not only requires basic skills, but also pays attention to her own manners.
Not paying attention to manners is irresponsible to the audience, so she is determined to prepare to lose weight.
Teacher Cai Ming said: If you want to eat this bowl of rice, don't eat that bowl of rice.
This sentence was not only approved by Chen Jin, but also by Teacher Ni Ping.
Ni Ping was the "dream lover" of thousands of men in the early days, and later slowly gained weight, and her hosting career also encountered a low point.
At one point, she lost confidence in her career, when she saw the words of Teacher Cai Ming.
"If you want to eat this bowl of rice, don't eat that bowl of rice."
She was immediately inspired and made up her mind to start losing weight.
He also laughed and said: "Cai Ming has never said anything right in his life, and this sentence is very correct." ”
Teacher Cai Ming has always spoken sharply, in one sentence.
Many people in the circle also maintain the habit of dieting.
Since then, Teacher Chen Jin has also begun the road of dieting.
First, I quit pasta and rice.
Then there's his favorite peanut rice.
In order to be worthy of this bowl of rice, worthy of the audience.
She insisted on nearly three hours of hot yoga every day to make her sweat profusely.
Not only that, but also maintain the habit of swimming 1000 meters a day.
Such a high-intensity amount of exercise made her lose weight quickly.
But she wasn't satisfied with seeing this work.
In order to maintain a slim body shape all year round, she decided to make changes in her daily eating habits.
One peach a day is the source of all her food intake.
Or just drink a cup of coffee and have no other energy intake.
Such a harsh diet can only be adhered to by someone with a strict personality.
In fact, many actors in the circle lose weight quickly before entering the group, and they can usually open a little meat.
But Chen Jin is also this kind of eating habit when she usually does not shoot scenes, and she does not open any meat at all.
And I haven't touched rice since I lost weight.
This habit has also been maintained for 20 years.
20 years later, Chu Zhibo, the old partner of "Tide Rise and Fall", was also surprised by Chen Jin's eating habits.
When she first met Chen Jin, she was still a little chubby girl, and she became thinner and thinner in the past few years.
Chu Zhibo was shocked to hear that she only ate one peach a day.
He asked incredulously, "Can you eat a peach a day?" ”
Chen Jin said, "Don't you see that monkeys also eat peaches, and they live well?" ”
Teacher Chu was very confused at that time.
Now that Chen Jin is 57 years old, she has gradually relaxed her eating habits in the past two years.
However, after many years of rigor, she has not had much appetite for food.
So now even if you tell yourself that you can eat something, you don't have any desire to eat.
(Don't follow suit for weight loss, after all, actors have professional nutritionists, and health is the most important.) ）
04
After slimming down, Chen Jin had no role restrictions.
In addition, she originally had good acting skills, so she slowly received an invitation from the director.
In 1996, she starred in the movie "Campus Pioneer", and after the film was broadcast, Chen Jin won the Feitian Award for "Queen of Film".
Careers are rapidly rejuvenating.
Since then, Chen Jin's acting career has been "opened" all the way.
In 1999, Chen Jin partnered with Li Youbin, Li Xuejian, Liu Lin, Gao Ming and others to star in the movie "Born out of nowhere".
Like the name of the film, the film received an unprecedented response at the time.
The crew went up and down, from the director to the art to the recording to the photography to the script, all of which won awards.
The protagonist Li Youbin won the "Shadow Emperor".
Chen Jin has won three major awards: "Golden Rooster", "Huabiao Award" and "Changchun Film Festival".
The career is in full swing, red through half of the film and television circle, becoming a hot heroine.
A year later, he partnered with Gao Ming again to shoot the TV series "Relying on Each Other Year".
Not surprisingly, Chen Jin won the "Magnolia Queen" of that year.
Later, he partnered with Chen Baoguo to shoot the TV series "Flowers Not Flowers".
The villain image played by Chen Jin in the play is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, resulting in her inevitably being scolded by passers-by in her life.
The taxi drivers didn't dare to look at her.
What is more interesting is that Chen Jin did not have his own house until 2000.
I have been living in the dormitory of the unit before.
Collective dormitories are bathed in public baths.
The girl who grew up in Shandong was originally accustomed to this.
But when she won consecutive awards, she has gradually become familiar with the audience.
Once, when taking a bath in the bathhouse, he was recognized by the audience.
Teacher Chen Jin was very embarrassed at that time.
I thought I would have to have my own bathroom in the future.
It was not until after 2000 that the unit was divided into houses, and Chen Jin moved out to live on her own and had a single guard.
Friends who pay attention to her can find that Chen Jin has hardly taken over the role of "beauty" who needs to pay attention to the image at all times.
Most of them are intellectuals who do not apply fat powder, or there are even some more "calculating" women in the countryside.
Because since she was told that she was ugly in the early days, she completely gave up the pursuit of the image of "beauty".
She found that she had hooked her eyelashes and eyeliner in front of the mirror, so she simply gave up and rarely put on makeup.
In the crew, she rarely let the makeup artist make up her makeup, and she didn't care about her facial image anymore.
She only cares about her body shape and clothing in line with the character.
Because of this, she put more energy into improving her acting skills.
05
In fact, Chen Jin is not ugly, and it may be that the actor industry is relatively high.
So she also thinks that no matter how she dresses, she is beautiful.
However, for actors, appearance is only the shallowest level.
If you want to create a role with more depth and soul, you still have to return to the acting itself.
When many directors set roles for actors, they are determined according to the temperament of the actors themselves.
For example, the emperor's professional household "Zhang Tielin", his aura has given people an inherent "emperor" image.
Therefore, many directors with emperor and monarch roles will look for him.
Chen Jin also gave people an inherent image of "intellectuals".
Chen Jin also laughed at this: "Later, as soon as I lost weight, I became an intellectual. ”
Humbly say that intellectuals are starving themselves.
After slimming down, Chen Jin played many scientific research figures and elites.
She stood there with an image of "meticulousness", "no sand in her eyes" and "no access".
In recent years, most of Chen Jin's roles have been supporting roles or cameos.
As she grew older, Chen Jin seemed to have become a "mother professional household".
Many actresses will face the situation of only taking on the role of "mother" after entering middle age.
Therefore, many actresses gave up acting, felt that the role was too single, and even fell into a state of self-doubt.
After Ni Hongjie said on the stage of "The Birth of an Actor" that she is no longer young, she rarely receives the role of the protagonist again, and she is the mother who let her play the protagonist.
Lin Xinru said: If she is allowed to play the mother of the heroine, then she will not act again.
Xu Xiyuan also said that after her comeback, she was looking for her to act in roles such as "mother", the biggest of which was to play Wang Mainland's mother.
These are difficult for the heroines of the past to accept.
After all, they used to be popular female protagonists, and no one can accept this gap.
Maybe male actors don't have age problems.
Wu Qilong also said about this phenomenon.
He bluntly said that the actress may have played his sister before, played his wife in a few years, and then played his mother later.
Chen Jin has not encountered this phenomenon.
Her current status quo is "mom professional household".
Of the 8 film and television works that Chen Jin has acted in the past three years, there are 6 "mother" roles.
However, Chen Jin was very calm about this and did not feel confused because of this.
She believes that living in the moment is the most important thing, and any role can be enriched.
In the program, Chen Jin expressed the following views on this situation:
"Actors compete in the end or fight for culture and strength, and when they are old, everyone will be old and decayed, depending on what kind of way you stand." I live in the present, my age, of course, I just play some mothers like this, some roles like this, such people, I think it is also very rich. ”
In the end, the actors fight for culture and strength.
Although she is now a lot of the role of "mom", she plays whose mother is like whose mother.
For example, in "Ode to Joy", Chen Jin played the mother of "Zhao Qiping" played by Wang Kai.
As soon as she appeared, she did not need to introduce her profession at all, and she knew that she was an intellectual woman with high intelligence and high culture.
The mother of "Su Mingyu", who played Yao Chen in the TV series "All Is Good", is also the wife of "Su Daqiang" played by Ni Dahong.
Just the scene where the family sits and eats together can feel the oppression of her as the "head of the family".
To be strong, stubborn, mean, strong, and paranoid is almost all reflected in "Zhao Meilan".
Therefore, she also set off an uproar among netizens on the Internet, resulting in the audience's impression of her once again cast a "harsh" filter.
In 2011, the China Television Drama Industry Heroes Ceremony awarded the "Outstanding Contribution Award" to Chen Jin.
This award is extremely gold-bearing and is sponsored by the four major associations of domestic directors, producers, screenwriters and actors.
The "Outstanding Contribution Award" is also the highest affirmation of Chen Jin's acting skills by peers.
Chen Jin has made a non-negligible contribution to the development of domestic film and television dramas.
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Chen Jin is also an unmarried person.
The flower season of actors is very limited, so many artists are reluctant to give up their careers to get married when they are young.
Chen Jin is not, she will not get married whether she acts or not.
Since entering the industry for 33 years, Chen Jin has never passed on a love scandal.
It's not that there are no people she likes, it's that she never thought about being in love, and she didn't think about getting married.
Even if she is married or whatever, she is unlikely to pin her happiness and the rest of her life on the hands of others.
Chen Jin felt that people were always lonely.
She believes that even if you have a family and children, people will always get along with themselves and themselves throughout their lives.
After figuring this out, she lived a freer and more independent life.
In her view, "freedom is standing alone." ”
Also unmarried with her was her brother Chen Zhun.
Chen Zhun was the chief photographer of the magazine "Men's Clothing" and is very famous in the industry.
Chen Zhun and Chen Jin both have their own achievements in their respective artistic fields.
Perhaps from a young age, they are "alternative brothers and sisters" in the eyes of others, so that the two brothers and sisters can achieve the achievements that others cannot achieve today.
Brother Chen Zhun also does not believe that people's happiness needs to be reflected by marriage, and people's value does not need to be judged by whether they are married or not.
The brothers and sisters have now entered the "twilight years" stage and planned to retire and enjoy life.
But Chen Jin has a very "money-burning" hobby, that is, he loves to buy jewelry.
So considering the economic factors, there will be a few more years of struggle.
Chen Zhun said to his sister:
"Respectfully, I wish I was the one who lived the longest, and I lived long because I could take care of you until I was old."
Although there is a "brotherly" brother by his side.
But Chen Jin still has a fear of aging and death.
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and dream that I am dead.
She is more afraid of death, and she loves to think about these things.
Chen Jin is a very independent person, she is afraid of her old age and dementia, she hopes that after 20 years, she can still stay awake and take care of herself.
For her, it is very uncomfortable to let others take care of her, and she wants everything to be solved by herself, not relying on anyone.
Although she didn't want others to take care of her, she was very good at taking care of others.
Chen Jin's father is more than 80 years old, and Chen Jin spends most of his time taking good care of his elderly father.
At this age, Dad does not require his children to get married, but only hopes that they will live freely and happily.
It's just that Chen Jin occasionally thinks that now that her father has her and her brother to take care of, what to do when they are old in the future.
But this kind of thinking always flashes by.
She cared more about standing alone than that.
"Asagiri do not know obscurity, cockroaches do not know spring and autumn"
Chen Jin lived very clearly, she knew what she cared about more.
At work, she is a national first-class actor, and in life, she loves jewelry, personally participates in the design of jewelry, and is rich in both spirit and material.
Her incomplete life no longer needs to be married to reflect it.
Have a career, have hobbies, and have an older brother who is always around to accompany him.
Her life is already very complete.