The most beautiful little girl in the mainland entertainment industry in 2013 was Li Meng, who stood next to Jia Zhangke on the red carpet in Cannes.
Overnight, Li Meng's name made headlines in the media and entertainment at home and abroad, and she was known as the "goddess of new literature and art", with a bright star and high expectations by the industry.
The media described her as a polite girl.
However, after three years in the film "Old Cavity" press conference, Li Meng, as the heroine, was absent for no reason. When the reporter asked About Li Meng, a sentence ignited the anger in the hearts of the crew members.
It is reasonable to say that a young actor from a class will cherish every opportunity, but Li Meng has become a nightmare for directors and producers.
Ten years after her debut, she has repeatedly encountered deleted scenes, changed roles, and been accused of immoral behavior by the crew...
I can't help but wonder, what has she done all these years?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="340">01</h1>
The Internet rumors that Li Meng is a "rich second generation" identity, which she herself has never confirmed.
To be precise, she is a "Xiang girl" who has been wandering around since she was a child and sending people under the fence.
Li Meng was born in Changsha, Hunan Province in 1992, and his family moved to Shenzhen when he was learning to speak.
Later, when his parents were busy starting their own businesses, Li Meng was sent to his grandparents' house. When she was in junior high school, her parents paid for her to send her to Canada to study.
Li Meng's entire childhood was a state of tossing and turning, sending people under the fence alone, she did not like to talk, and her personality was obedient and lonely.
At the age of 11, she hid in a small room in Canada and watched the movie "Gone with the Wind".
The heroine "Scarlett" played by Vivien Leigh suddenly occupied Li Meng's entire girlhood and filled the spiritual world she had missed since childhood.
She set herself a goal: "I want to be a woman like Scarlett!" ”。 To this day, Li Meng's Weibo avatar is still a childhood photo of Vivien Leigh.
A year later, Li Mengmeng understood that her dream in life was to become a great actor.
So she resolutely withdrew from school, packed her bags and returned to China, standing in front of her family and announcing that she was going to art school.
Her parents could not persuade her, let alone time to discipline her, anyway, there was no shortage of money in the family, so it was up to her to do it.
Li Meng once said: "I think the cultivation of my personality is related to my family environment, because my parents have a free-range education for me, and I am constantly moving and drifting. ”
This child, who was "free-ranged" by his parents since childhood, was tossed by himself throughout his adolescence, and his willful and arrogant personality came from this.
In high school, she was a typical "problem girl" in the eyes of her teachers, she was rebellious, did not love to learn, and confronted the teacher.
When the teacher is angry, he will call Li Meng's parents to complain. Whenever this happens, parents think of their daughter.
Before Li Meng was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, she relied on rebellious "little tricks" to gain the attention of her parents.
In the third year of high school, Li Meng hid from his parents and ran to the Beijing Film Academy training class alone to learn acting.
Suppressed for 18 years, she packed all her stubbornness and willfulness into her luggage.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="342" >02 Li Meng was born to eat the actor's bowl of rice</h1>
Her academic performance was poor when she was studying, but when it came to acting, she showed a talent that even the trainer gave her a thumbs up.
In the summer of 2009, Li Meng, who was about to turn 18, received an acceptance letter from the Beijing Film Academy.
She became the first student in Shenzhen to be admitted to Beiying, and at that time she also made headlines in Shenzhen.
In 2010, Wang Quanan's film "White Deer Plain" selected actors, and there were 3,000 candidates competing for the role of "Bai Ling".
Li Meng stood out in this thousand-person competition and entered the crew of "White Deer Plain", when she was 18 years old.
In order to play the "white spirit" Li Menglin spent two months experiencing life in the countryside before starting the machine, and did enough homework.
As soon as they debut, they can emerge in a big-budget movie like "White Deer Plain", and how many newcomers to the show dream of the opportunity.
Li Meng enjoyed the "dividends" brought by the fame of the movie, and before the release, she became the ambassador of the 2011 Xi'an World Garden Fair, and photo posters were hung all over the city.
How to expect, after a year, when the movie "White Deer Plain" was released, there was no Li Meng's figure in the movie.
Director Wang Quanan's explanation for this is that because the length of the film is limited, he had to delete the line of Bai Ling.
After the release of the film, word of mouth showed a polarization, and many viewers said that Director Wang made "White Deer Plain" into "The Biography of Tian Xiao'e".
On the other hand, the crew publicly stated that Li Meng was deleted because of "insufficient acting skills".
The first time he acted in the movie, he was deleted, and Li Meng, like the audience, was full of question marks.
However, this "corner deletion incident" is only a beginning.
In 2017, The role of Li Meng in Bi Gan's "The Last Night on Earth" was deleted;
In the 2018 "Evil Does Not Pressure the Righteous" directed by Jiang Wen, the main character "Lanlan" played by Li Meng was finally deleted.
When "That Dearest Stranger to Me" was released in 2019, Li Meng's scenes were deleted a lot.
Some netizens have summed up that Li Meng is the actress who has deleted the most scenes and offended the crew the most.
There is only one reason - to play the big card.
03
In 2015, the TV series "White Deer Plain" found Li Meng, hoping that she would continue to play the heroine "Bai Ling", this time the original author Chen Zhongzhong hand-picked Li Meng.
In order to realize her dream, Li Meng agreed, but this time she did not go to the countryside to experience life in advance, but recorded the "Bai Ling Diary" on Weibo.
The world is unpredictable, the crew began filming two months ago came to the breaking news, "Bai Ling" actor substitution, Sun Iridium instead of Li Meng.
Afterwards, in the face of media questioning, the insiders of the crew only said that Li Meng's performance "did not have that feeling, did not perform the spirit of the white deer in the director's mind".
This news is typical of "words are few and big things", laymen look fresh, insiders look at doorways.
Until the beginning of 2021, Li Meng participated in the variety show "I Am an Actor 3", and her "role-changing incident" was pulled down by several big guys present.
Li Chengru has always commented sharply, and was called the conscience of the industry by netizens, and he first asked: "Why were you replaced at that time?" ”
Li Meng replied slowly and logically, "To be honest, I don't know." ”
Li Chengru was obviously not satisfied with the answer, and he continued to analyze: "If it weren't for the fact that the producer had been turned over and changed the female number one halfway through the shooting, it would have been a terrible thing!" ”
Li Meng did not expect that the judges and teachers present would dig deeper into this matter, and her eyes were suddenly red and a little anxious.
Embarrassed by the big guys' questions, seeing that they could not get off the stage, Li Meng really said without a clue: My personality is flawed.
Director Zhang Jizhong on the side took over the conversation box and asked Li Meng to explain this matter well in front of the national audience today.
Only to see Li Meng's eyes tearful and say something ambiguous, she said: "I don't think that answer is important." ”
Obviously, Li Meng is "stealing the concept", because the change of roles of "White Deer Plain" in the mouth of Director Li Chengru and Zhang Jizhong refers to the TV series version, and Li Meng answers the fact that the movie version has been deleted.
It can be seen that she is very reluctant to admit that she ruined the opportunity with her own hands.
When everyone was confused and the atmosphere of the scene was abnormal, Teacher Zhang Songwen came forward to break the siege, and he told an episode in "The Hidden Corner" in which he cooperated with Li Meng to shoot the opponent scene.
When filming on the spot, Li Meng cut an apple to eat in order to create a sense of real life, the director saw that it was very good, wanted to shoot a few more shots, the props teacher let Li Meng pick in a bag of apples, but this girl was different from others, she was particularly true, did not see the same as the previous apple and did not agree. This is good, it is difficult for the prop teacher to run the agricultural products market for an apple.
Originally, Zhang Songwen was trying to use a small thing to let everyone fully understand Li Meng, she was harsh on the details of acting, hoping to show the best side, but this excessive truth brought trouble to others, but she was not malicious.
A stone stirs up a thousand layers of waves.
Zhang Ziyi next to him was shocked to hear it, and his micro-expression explained everything.
Even the "International Chapter" after the film did not dare to be so arrogant, and a newcomer dared to.
Hao Lei couldn't sit still after listening, she hit the nail on the head, pointing to the point: there are no two identical apples in this world, you focus on the wrong place, serious is not to compete with apples.
Finally, Li Meng burst into tears at the scene, she admitted that her youthful willfulness had caused trouble for the crew, and said that she was now sensible.
The next day, "Li Meng played a big card" appeared on the hot search, and the people of the whole country knew her.
04
In full view of everyone, the "sorry" that has been late for many years obviously does not solve the problem.
The hot search continued to ferment, and some netizens pulled out the video of Li Meng shouting with the director and producer in the "White Deer Plain" crew that year.
The truth finally came out, and it turned out that she asked for more drama on the spot.
Some insiders broke the news: "White Deer Plain" is adapted from a famous book, the amount of work required for preparation is several times that of ordinary idol dramas, and the main actors in the play are all powerful actors, because Li Meng added drama for no reason, they did not hesitate to re-shoot related scenes, but also to change roles.
It can be seen that Li Meng has provoked the crew to what extent.
Coincidentally, a year later, Li Meng angered another crew.
At the premiere of the 2016 "Old Way" crew, the crew was in place and in a good mood, but the only thing was that I didn't see the heroine Li Meng.
At that time, a reporter asked: "Why didn't you see Li Meng?" ”
Producer Li Linhong's face instantly darkened and he said: "Female Number One is missing." ”
When this sentence was spoken, the original press conference became a "complaint meeting against Li Meng". The crew members opened the conversation box one after another and listed Li Meng's immoral behavior:
1. Late when filming the main scene, more than 100 people up and down the crew were waiting in the same place.
2. After signing the contract, the contract will be broken, the trial installation will not appear, the makeup will be late, and the boot will be missing.
Near the end of the press conference, the director was emotionally excited and "smashed" the bench on the spot to express his inner resentment.
Li Meng is really lucky, this happened in 2016, the network is not as rapid as it is now, otherwise today she will be "drowned" by the spit star.
This is not the end, in the crew of the 2019 Taiwanese movie "That Dearest Stranger", the same thing has happened again.
This time not for apples, but for a pinch of hair.
The heroine of the play, Lu Xuefeng, bluntly expressed her dissatisfaction with Li Meng: she touched her hair for 15 minutes for a pinch of hair, and let the whole group wait for her in the sun.
From the art of Lide.
The 27-year-old Li Meng did not understand what the original intention of being an actor was, and even more did not understand the weight of the word "respect".
She was only very fortunate to walk the red carpet in Cannes in 2013 with the heroine of one of the units of Jia Zhangke's "Destiny of Heaven" and went to the distant places that countless good actors in China could not reach.
05
Zhang Ziyi once asked a sentence: Is the actor industry a low threshold? Why does everyone want to get a piece of the action?
What is lacking in today's entertainment industry is not actors, but actors with "virtue".
What kind of person deserves the three words "good actor"?
I remember that there was a scene at the 2016 Golden Eagle Festival awards ceremony that was deeply moving.
The most important award of the night, the "Best Performing Arts Award", was awarded to Mr. Li Xuejian.
By the time he received the award, due to years of illness that had led to hearing deterioration, he did not realize that he had won the award and applauded with the crowd.
Later, someone reminded him that he slowly walked up to the podium, he said, it is not easy to get this award, I will continue to serve the audience well.
The junior actors sitting on the stage had tears in their eyes, and the quiet tears of the host could not stop choking:
"Every time I see my seniors still working, I don't know if I can still stick to it at this age... I often waver whether to continue to be an actor..."
The 67-year-old teacher Li Xuejian has been filming for more than 40 years, fighting cancer for 20 years, and has won 33 film emperor trophies.
When his body was tormented by illness, in order not to affect the filming progress of the crew and not to let the interests of investors be damaged, he chose conservative treatment and filmed with illness.
Dedication is a spirit that needs to be passed down, whether it is as an actor or engaged in other industries.
If you use your own fame, play a big name, disrespect your partners, and act willfully, such people will eventually be abandoned by the audience.
I sincerely hope that the entertainment industry will produce fewer artists who are not worthy of morality, and leave the opportunity to actors who are truly virtuous and artistic.