Chinese New Year's Eve night, a familiar figure once again appeared in front of the audience' eyes, she has been participating in sketches for five consecutive years, and she is a regular guest on the Stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
At the 34th Golden Rooster Awards ceremony of Chinese Film a month ago, she also attracted countless attention.
When the announcer announced the name of the best actress award, she lifted the hem of the long white dress with both hands, behaved elegantly and generously, and the sparkling appearance of the audience when she walked to the podium attracted the audience's eyes.
She is Zhang Xiaofei, who won the crown after winning the film with the role of Li Huanying in the movie "Hello, Li Huanying".
Zhang Xiaofei defeated the other three powerful actors in this competition, which is both unexpected and reasonable.
In fact, in the show business circle, her appearance is not outstanding, her fame is also average, she has not been interested for many years, but she has struggled unremittingly with a serious spirit until she calmly stands on the highest podium.
Afterwards, in an interview, she said: "I was finally seen. ”
Along the way, she has experienced too many bitterness and twists and turns, but whether it is acting in comedy or acting in movies, whether it is playing a leading role or a supporting role, she is using a serious and dedicated attitude to let the audience see the qualities that a good actor should have.
Her growth process tells us that if you do things seriously, you will be seen.
In 1986, Zhang Xiaofei was born into a working family in Anshan, Liaoning Province.
Because of her artistic talent from an early age, her mother had high hopes for her and sent her to learn dance.
Every time they went to class, the mother and daughter had to take a two-hour car ride. For more than ten years, they have never stopped.
Catching up with the layoff boom in the northeast, the family life is not rich. There is no possibility of succession, and like thousands of families, her parents can only devote themselves to cultivating her.
Sensible, she knows the minds of her parents, studies more seriously, and hopes to repay her parents with hard work through excellent results.
In addition to the advantages of long hands and long legs, Zhang Xiaofei's innate conditions are general, the body plate is not soft enough, and some movements are very difficult to practice.
But she never cried bitterly, practiced over and over again, and never stopped if she didn't meet the standards.
Because of the day-to-day training and year after year of refinement, Zhang Xiaofei has practiced a solid basic skill.
At the age of 11, she was sent by her mother to study dance at the Minzu University of China in Beijing. At the age when she should have been spoiled in the arms of her parents, she embarked on a long and arduous road to pursue her dreams alone.
In school, the movements that should be practiced, the homework that should be done, she did not fall.
At that time, according to the regulations, she had to run 10 laps a day around the school's 400-meter playground. Because she was too young, she had a hard time running, but every time she cried, she had to finish running.
No matter how tired she was, no matter how much pain, she never complained. Occasionally contact with the family, she is also reporting good news and not worry.
In this way, she gritted her teeth and persevered for four years. This difficult period of time has undoubtedly tempered her extraordinary patience and tenacity.
Fortunately, the luck of serious people is not too bad, and 15-year-old Zhang Xiaofei successfully passed the exam of the Chinese Armed Police Cultural and Labor Corps for the first time and became an official dancer.
This means that she has since served an iron rice bowl.
Her mother was relieved that the long watch had finally come to a happy end.
Looking back at the bumpy and lightless study career, the cold wind that pierced into the bone marrow, the cold rain that pierced the skin, the loneliness of wandering in a foreign land, and the helplessness of the cold lamp alone, have also become distant memories.
However, history is strikingly similar, like the declining economy of the northeast, and the cultural and industrial troupe has not escaped the sad luck of declining.
For her future development, she had to find another way. Without the company of her family and the dependence of her unit, she had to fight against the ups and downs of life alone.
Someone said: "Life never treats a person who pays seriously." ”
Therefore, she was also lucky, and those who had suffered, sin, and tears that had been shed had also turned into light, illuminating her way forward.
With excellent dance skills, she was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy and lived in the same dormitory as Yang Mi, who was already sitting firmly in the new "Four Little Flower Dan" in the mainland at that time.
When she was studying, she was particularly diligent, and her professional grades were in the forefront, and she was a well-known academic bully.
But in front of Yang Mi, whose films are constantly and burst into popularity, she looks like a small transparent person who has no drama to shoot.
In her sophomore year, she received an anti-Japanese film "Beacon Years", and before graduation, she participated in other films with rural themes.
As usual, her performances are very grounded.
In the era when costume dramas and xianxia dramas were popular, she was not outstanding with a simple temperament, so that she had no money to earn for several years after graduation, and even had no food.
In order to find more opportunities, she got up at five o'clock, rushed to the subway, ran the crew, and had to deal with all kinds of pickiness and ridicule.
She once met a producer who said ruthlessly, "Do you think there's something wrong with your face?" ”
In the face of all these malicious difficulties and insults, she did not say a word.
Because she knows that only good enough can block the mouths of the yo-yo.
Soon, she succumbed to reality and was admitted to the China Broadcasting Art Troupe as a host. There, she became acquainted with Feng Gong and Jia Ling.
And Jia Ling has become a little famous, as a person who has come over, she especially understands Zhang Xiaofei's suffering, often gives assistance, and the two people have become good friends who talk about everything.
Gradually, she was pushed to the comedy stage by Jia Ling. For a long time, she made cameo sketches while serving as a host.
Even if the assistant actor is tired and tired, even if the remuneration is extremely low, zhang Xiaofei will never hesitate for half a minute when he hears the need for help.
Moreover, every time, she starred extremely seriously, as if she were a staff member of the Eight Classics.
If the story is not understood thoroughly, it is repeatedly learned; if the role positioning is not accurate, it is repeatedly practiced.
In order to make her performance more in place, she only slept for three or four hours when filming.
It is precisely because of this spirit of death that her acting skills have obviously climbed, from giving Feng Gong and Jia Ling an indispensable assistant to becoming a pivotal starring role.
In 2015, she and Feng Gong appeared on the Spring Festival Gala together, leaving the audience full of laughter. Since then, she has gradually become familiar with the public and officially began her own comedy path.
As the book "Kazuo Inamori's Analects" writes, "The content of the scripts of the muddy and the serious people is very different. ”
Life is not easy, and different attitudes determine different outcomes.
Zhang Xiaofei walked slowly with each step, but walked steadily. Her dedication to earnestness has won herself a chance.
The following year, Jia Ling established "Big Name Entertainment", and the first artist to sign was Zhang Xiaofei.
Every hard work will not be disappointed, and every persistence will be rewarded. For comedy, Zhang Xiaofei put all his enthusiasm into it, and soon had a place in the circle.
Industry insiders commented on her that no one who looked good was as good as she acted, and no one who acted well was as beautiful as her.
After decades of dormancy, all the glory came as expected, and she was finally seen.
After his acting skills were recognized, Zhang Xiaofei participated in many sketches, but his fame did not improve much.
She and others create happiness on stage, but there is a bitterness in her heart, because the long-hidden movie dream has no possibility of being realized.
Even so, she still put her dreams in her heart as always, and put hard work behind people.
And Jia Ling just wanted to make a movie to commemorate her mother. After much deliberation, she decided to use Zhang Xiaofei, who was not famous.
Obviously, for Zhang Xiaofei, this is an encouragement and an affirmation.
When filming "Hello, Li Huanying", her performance was even more admirable.
In the play, there is a bridge section that falls into the water, her thigh is cut by a foreign object in the water, a long and deep hole, the group suggested that she slow down and shoot again, but she smiled and said: "It's okay." ”
In the monitor, her facial expression was the same as before, unaffected.
But when the scene was finished and someone was treating the wound, the blood couldn't stop flowing out, and she covered her face with tears in pain for a while.
Jia Ling, who was beside her, looked at it and painfully advised her to rest well first.
She did not dry, and when the pain of the wound passed, she immediately returned to the shooting.
Later, the film became a hit.
I have to say that Zhang Xiaofei's affectionate interpretation adds a lot to the film, and she herself has won the reputation of "National Mother".
More than ten years of acting road, too much tiredness, cold eyes and grievances, she received one by one. And her struggle in each comedy has only become a wonderful actor after gathering.
At this point, walking in the show business circle, she has the best armor and the hardest bottom.
Qin Hailu said a sentence when participating in "Strange Story", "What people live is not appearances, but inner brilliance." ”
Many times, when a person has an excellent inner being, he has the power of excellence.
In the industry, Zhang Xiaofei's seriousness is recognized. And it is precisely because of this spirit that she ushered in the highlight moment of her life.
She once said, "I don't have the talent to be remembered at a glance, so I put in the effort to slowly grind the drama." ”
That's what she said and that's what she did.
From an obscure sketch actress to a screen-full of praise, from an unknown dancer to a 5.4 billion box office heroine, she fearlessly stepped through the mud on the ground, crossed countless thorns, and finally achieved a leap in her life.
Without a cute face and a rich background, she has never given up the dream in her heart and has always firmly pursued the word "serious".
There is a line in the movie "The Big Winner", "Everything, I am afraid of being serious." ”
Because one person, once serious, wins.
In fact, the real big winners are those who stick to the end.
How serious it was before, how successful it is now. Zhang Xiaofei has also transformed from an inconspicuous small role into a well-known big winner.
I know that there is a high praise reply:
"In this world, many things have thresholds, and seriousness does not.
Everyone has different advantages, has its own unique and charming places, but not everyone is born with their own highlights, many people and ordinary you and me, rely on persistent efforts and simple seriousness, to go to a position that we think is great. ”
There are no same people in the world, but there are similar things.
All sentient beings, no matter who they are, serious to the end, there will eventually be an echo.
Whether it is studying, working as a comedian or a film and television actor, Zhang Xiaofei is as serious as ever.
With a love and dedication to acting, she used diligence and hard work as a footnote, breaking through the haze and darkness in her life path, ushering in a bright and brilliant.
In this sense, serious people will get the best reward.
Because when her earnestness becomes a benign habit, a valuable ability, a real advantage, her dream is also quietly twisting forward until it shines into reality.
And in the end, she was also seen by the world.
Author | Bu Yi, roaming between clouds and waters, idly remembering the red dust.
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