Congratulations to Ma Li for becoming China's first 10 billion box office actress!
Since "Shy Iron Fist", there has always been a voice saying, "Ma Li is not funny when she leaves Shen Teng." Even, because he has taken over too many ultra-low-rated movies, he has been named the king of bad films.
With that, many people used to want to laugh when they heard her talk, and now they are embarrassed when they see her name. Watching Uncle Shen rub and take off, Ma Li slid down, and fans were heartbroken.
Many people don't understand what's wrong with her. "This Killer Is Not Too Calm" saved her, not only at the box office, but also in confidence. In an interview with CCTV last year, she admitted that she was depressed at one point. Ma Li, who wears the queen of comedy hat, usually does not perform comedy. Comedy for her is a performance, but also a mask.
Many people know that "the core of comedy is often tragedy". Many comedians are not laughable people in private, and they don't even talk much. Often how crazy the stage is, how dull it is offstage. The same goes for Mary.
01 From drama actress to actress
Ma Li's acting road is still relatively smooth.
She attended the Liaoning Academy of Culture and Arts in junior high school and then passed three rounds of tests to enter the Central Academy of Drama. After graduation, she did not directly participate in the work, but was admitted to the Lin Zhaohua Drama Training Class of the Drama Department of Peking University and continued to study.
She was a good student by standards, with good grades in professional courses, and always worked as a class president. However, when filming the graduation drama, she did not have the opportunity to be the big heroine, and the teacher told her, "You can straighten out the first three teeth, or don't be an actor." ”
Ma Li, who was not confident in her appearance, was even more inferior. The "harsh" reality made her think that she might only be a stage actor. Because, painting a lot of heavy makeup, and far away, the audience can't see clearly anyway. Therefore, after graduating in 2005, he signed a contract with Happy Twist.
As a female comedian, the pressure is much greater than that of men.
One stems from the public stereotype that a woman's humor is almost equivalent to a female nerve. Even today, it's still the case. There are many male cross-talk actors, but few women. A few, but facing the embarrassing situation of no drama to shoot.
And the origin of the harmonic star often means to play ugly. As talk show actor Yang Kasa joked, "Female comedians can't be too good-looking, and it's not funny to look good." "Too heavy an image burden to become a comedian." To be a comedian, you have to give up the image.
Despite this, The talented and very popular Ma Li still killed her own blood path in the comedy circle.
At the 2010 Hunan Satellite TV Lantern Festival, her collaboration with He Jiong on the sketch "Super Happiness Insoles" was well received and was rated as the "female version of Guo Degang" by the media.
At the 2013 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, she cooperated with Shen Teng in the sketch "Today's Happiness 2", which made more people know the comedian Ma Li. Shen Ma Group also once became a new "comedy" endorsement, and for a while it was in the limelight and began to shine in many variety shows.
Especially the performance in "The Ever-Changing Cafe Show" is breathtaking. Many years of experience in drama performance is her confidence in navigating the stage. Coupled with the special open-mindedness, no suspense, she is getting redder and redder.
However, the paradox of reality is that sometimes what you are good at is not what you like. Wearing a comedian hat, she is not a comedian in her bones. Her boldness, humor, and melody belong only to the stage. Especially after cooperating with Shen Teng in recent years, she has made many other attempts.
For example, he starred in the life drama "You Against the Current", partner Pan Yueming, playing a modern woman struggling with the dilemma of career and family.
The topic is very representative, and the performance is natural, but it does not make much splash.
These experiences made her feel so frustrated that she suffered from depression. She has always wanted to prove that she is not just a comedian, but also wants to prove that she can actually be beautiful.
Looking at her photo album, you can find that she intentionally or unintentionally shows her beautiful and enchanting side to the greatest extent. After starring in "Charlotte Annoyance", she reversed the image of the earth in the play, cut a handsome short hair, and surprised everyone.
At that time, almost all the media were saying, "It turns out that Mary is so beautiful." However, Ma Li, who was noticed to be beautiful, also became less funny.
The label of "comedian" has been attached to her for too long, leaving a deep imprint. Eventually, she began to act in comedy again and became a billion actress.
In a recent interview, she said that "in life, it is not as delicate as Milan. I'm just an actress, not a female star. It's too tiring to live like that. ”
From a drama actor, to a comedian, and then to today's "actor", Ma Li stumbled out of her own path. In this process, she screwed, tangled, struggled, and lost, but finally found her own position. The same is true on the outside. I once desperately wanted to prove that I was a beautiful woman, and even went to shoot men in costumes. Now accept your size L figure and reject the anxiety of appearance.
This process is "self-acceptance", and it is becoming more and more flavorful.
02 Love saved her
Ma Li's transformation is inseparable from one person, that is, her current husband Xu Wenhe. He is 11 years younger than her and is also a happy actor.
In 2016, when she officially announced her marriage, many people were surprised. I never thought that Ma Li, who had always been grinning a lot, was actually a small woman in her bones.
Speaking of Xu Wenhe, she said: "Although he is younger than me, his mind is very mature. Many times, he was the one who guided me forward. When I first met, he would be blunt about my shortcomings. No one has ever done that before. I was very unhappy at first, but when I went back, I thought it made sense. He gave me a strong sense of security. ”
Marriages where women are strong and men are weak will inevitably be talked about. And Ma Lili is a very sensitive person in his bones, so he resolutely retreated into the background.
Ma Li has always been unsure of her appearance, especially when playing a clown, and is very reluctant to be seen by him. He then comforted her, "I think it's very nice and real that you don't wear makeup." ”
The affirmation and acceptance of the lover allows Mary to begin to accept herself.
What is even more precious is that Xu Wenhe understands the girlish side of her heart.
In an interview, Ma Li mentioned that one winter, Xu Wenhe bought her a pair of furry socks, which was particularly touching.
In the impression of everyone, she seems to have been the kind of Northeastern big girl who drank beer and drank it in a box since she was a child. After work, I am also used to taking care of others. Only in front of Xu Wenhe can she be a little girl again.
What woman doesn't want to be hurt? Many people, on the surface are full of thorns, but on the inside they are unusually soft. Mary is one such person. It has to do with the environment in which she grew up.
When I was a child, my mother divorced and remarried, and I always had a pimple in my heart. When I grew up, I have always suffered from gains and losses for my feelings.
At the age of 20, she vowed to marry herself off. But every love affair is like a deserter. Ellen once teased her as "like a hedgehog, looking full of thorns, but in fact very soft inside." ”
She herself once said on the show, "I am a person who values my feelings as my life and longs to have my own family." ”
In her bones, she is traditional and loveless. She has also played such a role countless times in TV movies. For example, Ma Dongmei, who made her a hit.
She has been waiting for someone who can cherish her purity and stubbornness.
From a psychological point of view, she is longing for a stable container to catch her emotional anxiety. The lover's continuity and stability is definitely the source of her inner sense of security.
Fortunately, Xu Wenhe is such a person, and Ma Li has become more and more calm and determined.
03 She is not a great heroine, but a powerful and self-aware woman
Ma Li, who is 168 tall and has cool and short hair, looks very tiger, but her bones are very soft. Even, sometimes it seems a little delicate. She is not like Jia Ling, who has no image baggage at all, and has been plugging and miscellaneous on and off the stage. She is also not born crazy like the new comedy Xiaohua Jinjing or Spicy Yoko. In her heart, she prefers to define herself as an actress rather than a comedian.
That's why she earned the box office as a comedian while actively experimenting with other images. As a happy twist comedian, Ma Li has more tragic colors than Shen Teng. It's also doomed that she's not just a funny person.
When she didn't become clearly aware of these entanglements within herself, she was depressed, broken, tangled, struggling, and even self-doubting. After she finally reconciled with herself, she proved her strength with tens of billions of box office.
As many netizens said.
"Sister, you have finally picked up the right book." Finally played the big heroine again. ”
For actors, the role and themselves are often mutually accomplished. The deeper you learn about the characters, the deeper you interpret them. Similarly, the more layered the acting, the easier it is to impress people. This requires serendipity, but also adequate preparation.
In fact, why shouldn't we?
Everyone has their own beliefs and persistence, and they will face various choices and tests along the way. Not everyone, every time, can make the right choice.
In the beginning, it is often pushed onto a track in the blink of an eye, and instinctively try to survive. When there is space for reflection, it will be tempting to do some other experiments. These attempts, too, are not always right.
But what does it matter? Whose life is smooth sailing?
Admittedly, people who know exactly what they want right in the first place are lucky.
However, living a life of struggle, entanglement, and twists and turns does not mean failure or weakness. To be able to withstand such a lot of pressure, how can it not be a kind of strength?
Many times, too much praise for positivity can give people a lot of pressure. Ma Li was under such pressure.
People always say "Mary is not funny". Yes, she doesn't have the energy to be humorous because she needs to deal with a lot of emotions inward. But she didn't give up running forward, which was more important than "funny".
Comedian depression is ironic and a wake-up call.
Back to reality, too.
Laughter, of course, is good. Crying, it doesn't matter. Success is naturally good, and failure doesn't matter. Laughter or sadness, success or failure are nothing but the norm of life.
Only by accepting everything can we live to become a real heroine.