Recently, actress Li Meng has been on fire again, but the reason why she has caught fire this time is not because of her acting skills and works, but because of the experience of being exposed to "playing a big card" in "I am an actor 3", which made her stand on the cusp of public opinion.
Li Meng, born in Hunan in 1992, gave up his study abroad life in Canada to return to his parents when he was 12 years old. Just for a "Gone with the Wind", she gave up her senior year of the upcoming college entrance examination and applied for the Beijing Film Academy in spite of herself.
She once said that her luck was rather weird.
In 2010, Li Meng, who was only 18 years old and a freshman, was discovered by the producers and played the role of Bai Ling in the movie "White Deer Plain", which debuted and entered the public's vision.
Originally, she should have debuted with a huge aura and good resources, but why didn't she please the audience and the director?
So that when the TV drama version of "White Deer Plain" began filming again in 2015, the role of Bai Ling was originally set to be played by Li Meng at that time, but after only two months, Li Meng's role was replaced by Zhang Jiayi, changed to Sun Iridium, and all the scenes about Bai Ling were remade again.
The outside world has speculated about the matter that made a lot of noise that year, saying that Li Meng is playing a big card in the crew, and saying that Zhang Jiayi is partial to winning back his beloved apprentice Sun Iridium.
In the face of these speculations, the "White Deer Plain" crew did not explain the reason for replacing Li Meng, and Li Meng himself did not respond positively, which became a big mystery, and Li Meng has since been nailed to the pillar of playing a big name.
Until "I Am an Actor 3", Zhang Jizhong took us to solve the mystery that has been hidden from everyone for many years.
In "I Am an Actor 3", Li Meng's partner Guo Pinchao performed "A Generation of Grandmasters" created by Wong Kar-wai for ten years. The result was mediocre, Li Meng's performance was not satisfactory, there was no essence of the performance of "Gong Er", and only Zhang Ziyi retained a star for her because of her feelings.
In the mentor exchange session, director Zhang Jizhong suddenly asked the question that Li Meng had been unwilling to face for many years, the reason for the change of role of "White Deer Plain" that year.
"I heard that you are a more difficult person, so "White Deer Plain" replaced you?"
"I think I may be a character with a flawed personality."
"I wouldn't use an actor like you."
In the face of Zhang Jizhong's questioning, Li Meng did not show sorry or sad meaning, more of an understatement and helplessness, and then she cried and said a lot of words of thanks to "White Deer Plain", her tone of her words did not calm and relieved, more or evasive.
Perhaps trying to help alleviate the more embarrassing scene, Zhang Songwen, who had partnered with Li Meng, gave a not-so-appropriate example.
He said that in "The Hidden Corner", there was a scene in which Wang Yao, played by Li Meng, cooked noodles for his brother who came home, and Li Meng improvised a scene of cutting apples while saying lines, and the director felt that it was good to change the camera position and do it again.
Li Meng agreed, but her request was for the prop teacher to take an exactly identical apple, there are no two identical leaves in this world, where can there be two identical apples?
The prop teacher even changed three apples were rejected by her, and that night the prop teacher ran through the streets at 12:30 at night to find the exact same apple, of course, he couldn't find it, and the result was that the whole play was finally forced to stop work and wait for Li Meng.
Zhang Songwen may have wanted to show through this matter that Li Meng cares a lot about the details, but he did not expect to let Li Meng sit firmly in the title of "tricky" and "playing a big card".
In fact, Li Meng's personality has a lot to do with her life since childhood. According to Li Meng, she has been paid little attention to by the family since she was a girl, and her parents often quarrel, and it has always been her grandmother who has taken her, until she will call her parents and mothers, her parents are not by her side. Primary school, middle school, college, Li Meng is boarding in the school, lack of parental companionship and communication, which also makes her afraid to communicate with others, lack of a sense of security.
After debuting as an actress, she was still like this, her ability to deal with people was weak, but she always wanted to make herself better, and she once said that she wanted to get a movie queen before the age of 30. So she is so refined in everything, lacking in verbal expression, so it seems that what she does is so strange and incomprehensible, like the exact same apple.
Of course, for the "apple terrier", Li Meng also gave the answer in a recent interview, she said that she did not ask for the exact same apple, when the director was shooting the panorama, the apple used was red, and the back should be close-up, the prop apple color is different, there will be a case of wearing gangs, so Li Meng proposed to change the apple.
It is said that the truth is more discerning and clear, but not everyone has the opportunity to debate the truth, which is why three people become tigers. Can you say that Li Meng is deliberately "playing a big card"? Zhang Songwen's original intention, I think, may not be to let people understand Li Meng to play a big card, right?
In fact, this is more like a girl who is persistent or even stubborn to the extreme, working the road she pursues, because she is not good at saying, she can only do it.
I think, by analogy, Li Meng's affairs in "White Deer Plain" may have other hidden feelings, just like Zhang Jizhong vowed that Li Meng is a very difficult person, such a person he will never use, but Li Meng also said very resolutely: I will never act in "White Deer Plain" again in my life.
You see? Although we are all bystanders, if you can make an actor say such a decisive word, I believe there is also a certain amount of unspeakable secrets in it, right? But society is cruel, in the game under the rules, the dominant people like "obedient" people, to say that it is better to call "people who abide by the rules of the game", and I think Li Meng has a stubbornness, a kind of rebellion, a kind of hard beauty that is clamped down.
We will no longer explore who is right and who is wrong in "White Deer Plain", just from the performance of Li Meng in "I Am an Actor 3", she is still a young actress who deserves praise. Li Meng's version of Wang Yao in "The Hidden Corner" explains everything, her stubbornness and madness, free to release, really love and hate, isn't this a kind of success? Wasn't Li Mingqi's version of Grandma Rong the same?
Of course, Li Meng was not a god, and she eventually learned to bow her head. At the recording site of "I Am an Actor 3", in the face of a bunch of large-scale torture by the big director or the two big masters, Li Meng made a mistake to himself: "I know more now, I will work hard..." To the producers, directors and all actors who have worked with him, Li Meng apologized deeply and bowed deeply.
Isn't that sad?
Right or wrong, we don't have the right to guess, and we don't have the right to guess, because that's Li Meng's future!