Text / Like the Blue of waves
In those years, we chased a lot of youth campus idol dramas, and we all missed a heavy rain at the best age.
Unforgettable camphor tree paths, bicycle love, sparrows outside the window, and the white shirt boy "Shi Yanfeng".
18 years ago, an "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky" made Li Zhinan famous in one fell swoop, and was rated as the most promising traffic student in the circle.
18 years later, on the stage of the second season of "Actors Please Take Place", Li Zhinan, who had dark eyes and was full of melancholy, choked up several times, which also made the audience in front of the screen red.
Remember that in 2002, once "Eighteen-year-old Sky" was broadcast, it quickly became popular and became a hot topic of discussion among generations.
And Shi Yanfeng, played by Li Zhinan, is also a well-deserved national school grass eighteen years ago.
Crossing the dimension from the screen, it has become the youthful fantasy of thousands of flower season girls.
Now, 18 years later, the cool, handsome, excellent and rebellious boy on the screen has been polished into the most humble one on the stage by the years.
His eyes were scattered and unfocused, and his face was full of melancholy and unconfidence.
Career appearances are highlight moments, but people are middle-aged but do nothing, humble and flattering.
Such a gap between cloud and mud can't help but make people sigh:
What has the star experienced over the years?
And who planted such a deep melancholy in his eyes?
Li Zhinan is an authentic Shanghainese, and since he was a child, he is a proper little handsome guy.
Because of his good looks and his birth in a big city, his parents focused on cultivating his artistic cells from an early age.
As a result, Li Zhinan began to study ballet from the age of 8.
He is very talented in dance and trains hard.
The following year, he won the men's gold medal in the "Tao Li Cup" dance competition;
At the age of 11, he won the men's silver medal of the Shanghai International Ballet Competition, which can be described as a remarkable achievement.
But premature competitions and training camps also left him with sequelae in his knees, and going to the hospital for treatment became commonplace.
Reluctantly, his mother let him end his dance career early.
But Li Zhinan was obsessed with art, and soon he was admitted to the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy and began his acting career.
In 2000, 15-year-old Li Zhinan starred in the film "We Are Afraid" directed by Cheng Yusu, playing the sunny and handsome Li Jiabei.
The film is set in Shanghai, where he grew up.
Although it was the first time to be electrocuted, he performed with ease, and thus won the recognition and favor of the industry.
Two years later, Li Zhinan partnered with Bao Jianfeng, Ni Jingyang and Jin Sha to co-star in "Eighteen-year-old Sky", which became a hit.
Compared with the domineering of the "Daoming Temple", Li Zhinan's version of the mainland's first school grass has more of a gentleness of silent protection.
Outside the play, he also became a childhood male god for many audiences.
Although the appearance is not the most handsome, but some people set up blessings, single eyelids in the eyes of the audience has become a unique feature.
I thought that the next step would be a big show in the entertainment industry and a rapid heating up, but he suddenly disappeared for several years.
Some people say that Chen Kaige, as a director, is Cheng Ye "Overlord Farewell" and defeated "Overlord Farewell".
And Li Zhinan, as an actor, is a bit into "Eighteen-year-old Sky" and loses "Eighteen-year-old Sky".
From the age of 17 in 2002 to the age of 35 in 2020, 18 years after his debut.
With the exception of Eighteen-Year-Old Sky, he doesn't seem to have any other work to come up with.
Even he himself said: "Eighteen years later, everyone still remembers Shi Yanfeng, but few people remember Li Zhinan."
"Eighteen-year-old sky" made Li Zhinan famous in one fell swoop, but his acting skills were also questioned.
At that time, many entertainment news used "playing cool eyes is not interesting" to describe the "three-plate axe" of his acting.
It is true that acting is the foundation of an actor's life.
But for Li Zhinan, who was only 17 years old at the time, whether his acting skills were outstanding or not, it should not be an obstacle to his progress.
As Bai Yansong said: "Continuous trial and error and continuous growth are the advantages of youth." ”
Even Zhao Wei, who sits in the tutor's seat today, has been influenced by the reputation of "box office poison" for many years.
The most popular small flower, "Zhao Liying", has also climbed all the way from the draft to become the representative of the acting school in the new generation of small flowers.
But at the time, Li Zhinan's brokerage company did not think so.
Li Zhinan's popularity has brought countless film contracts and almost broken through the company's threshold.
However, the brokerage company, under the banner of transforming Li Zhinan, refused to leave it all.
It was not until a few years later, when Li Zhinan was a guest in "Very Quiet Distance", that he explained the reason:
After becoming popular, the company stipulated that Li Zhinan could only take male number one, and other roles did not take over.
The film remuneration is even more expensive, and it is not accepted below the ideal value.
As director Er Dongsheng said on the show:
"There are a couple of actors in Hong Kong, his girlfriends, his wives, who refuse to let him kiss the scene. In all the dramas after that, the kissing people did not look for him. ”
Not to mention a teenager who just starred in a youth drama and his acting skills still need to be polished?
"Talking about conditions, asking for prices in the sky" is naturally a broken back road.
The company insisted on this, and Li Zhinan also naively thought that "the company will not harm me."
In addition, the contract is in place and the experience is insufficient, and the company can only arrange it.
As a result, for five years, Li Zhinan had no drama to shoot.
The company proposed to give him a music album, which was called to create an "idol singer" route for him.
To this end, he practiced vocal music, played the piano, danced, and spent a year and a half to two years recording the album.
However, after the album was recorded, the company told him that he could not send out the funds, and nearly seven years were wasted!
The gap period of six or seven years is tantamount to a critical blow to young people in any industry, and it is in the entertainment circle that is updating god-fast.
Going back ten years, "Happy Little Monk" Cao Jun is also the top traffic of TFBOYS whose popularity does not lose.
The rebellious little Nezha he played and the nine-year-old county grandfather are the childhood memories of generations.
But by the time he graduated from college, in just four or five years, the market had changed.
And Shi Xiaolong, who was known as "Jet Li Wu Jing's successor", returned to China after studying in the United States for 5 years, and then remembered by "traffic", and only left his love affair with He Jie.
Traffic artists emerge in an endless stream, the fan economy is popular, and the popular spicy chicken of the past has become an eighteen-line little star that no one cares about today.
Li Zhinan and Cao Jun, who are also young and ambitious, are now on the stage of "Actors Please Take Place", and they are also the last two, waiting for the choice of "juniors" with a humble face.
In addition to the pain, it also makes people sigh that the world is hot and cold, and the vicissitudes of the sea are sangtian.
And Li Zhinan, after being "hidden" by the company for several years, finally woke up.
After the contract expired, he quickly terminated the contract with the company and came to Beijing from Shanghai to start a long life of "North Drift".
But with the passage of time, he has long missed the golden period of his career and has been forgotten by the market.
The new career was to take over a small role that could not be smaller with the help of friends, but Li Zhinan still went.
He recalls: "In the first filming, I didn't have a shiver, but this time, facing the camera, I couldn't help but shake."
This may be the inexplicable feeling of long absence, although strange, he is secretly glad that he finally stood in front of the camera again.
He was active on the set for the next few years.
However, most of them are small roles that cannot be splashed, so that the audience feels that he has not filmed for many years.
Once the sea was shipwrecked as water.
Compared with the previous glory, the huge psychological gap made him very anxious.
He couldn't sleep almost every night and even suffered from mild neurasthenia.
He revealed on "Actors Please Take Place": "Once you are in a working state, anxiety will be alleviated. Once the work is over, another few months of anxiety begin to fall asleep, and so on endlessly loops. ”
But he did not want his career to be gone, so he desperately took over the drama.
Whether it is a starring role, or a supporting role, or a large-scale film and television drama, or a small-cost network drama, those who come do not refuse.
However, there are many scenes but not refined, and there has been no brilliant role, and it has been ridiculed by netizens as "past" and "bad film supporting actor".
In "Husband and Wife", starring Huo Siyan and Feng Shaofeng, he is Xiao Jiang, a newspaper reporter with few shots.
In "Happiness Must Be Strong" starring Ming Dao and Li Yifeng, he is an introverted and unremarkable Pan Xiaopeng.
In the New Year movie "God of Wealth", starring Tan Yonglin and Zhang Zhen, he and Jinsha played a moonlight couple, and after watching the whole film, they could hardly find any sense of existence.
It was not until 2009, when he starred in the happiness trilogy "Happiness on the Clearest Day" and "Happiness three stars", that he finally broke the situation of no name and had the identity of male number three for the first time.
At that time, Li Yifeng, who starred as the male number two in the same drama, won the Best New Actor Award at the 2011 National Opera Festival with this film.
Subsequently, with the role of Baili Tusu in "Ancient Sword Qitan", it quickly became a popular small fresh meat and ranked among the top traffic.
Until today, a selfie Weibo, a short video, can easily appear on the hot search, big name endorsements, advertising is even soft.
But Li Zhinan's lows lasted for many years, and even there were few reports about him.
The most tragic thing for an actor is this, no one cares, disappears.
Speaking of which, Li Zhinan is only two years older than Li Yifeng, who was born in 1987.
The so-called "fame should be early" is not an iron law that applies to all parts of the world.
In 2011, Li Zhinan played the second male number for the first time in "A Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow" starring Liu Kaiwei and Ying'er, playing the heroine's first love Xiaoshan.
During the filming process, in order to make a fight scene more realistic, Sheng Sheng hit his right hand until it bled.
In the end, I still don't have enough filming experience, and I don't know how to use props and borrowing technology to help me reduce my injuries.
So I could only hit hard, against a solid wooden pillar, and kept pounding.
If you don't have enough qualifications, you can only suffer losses; without skilled skills, you can only make up for it with diligence.
In the play, his first love with the heroine ended without illness, which made people feel uneasy;
But outside the play, all the topics are only the handsomeness of the domineering president Liu Kaiwei and the figure of Ying'er Fafu.
Coincidentally, in this drama, Zhao Wei's sister Wen Zhengrong also starred, playing Mu Yongfei, a neurotic woman who is arbitrary and arbitrary.
Years later, the two competed on the same stage again, and the amount of topics and acting skills were very different.
In 2012, Li Zhinan successively participated in "Gone with the Wind" starring Tang Yan and Luo Jin;
Shu Chang and Qiao Zhenyu starred in "Beacon Lady", playing Li Shaofeng, who is gentle and feminine on the outside, but has a dark belly on the inside.
Although the hateful villain's attempt is brilliant, it has not changed the embarrassing situation that the drama red people are not popular.
In the next few films, Li Zhinan retreated to the role of tepid soy sauce.
Until 2017, the costume drama "Alone in the World" was broadcast.
Li Zhinan challenged the costume drama road for the first time, playing the obsessive and dedicated tribal prince Ukya.
In it, he has good acting skills, but because of his fatness, he was directly called by netizens to ruin his childhood, and various memes were jokingly circulated on the Internet.
"Years are a pig-killing knife, the childhood male god can not recognize" Although it is ridiculed, it finally makes Li Zhinan enter the audience's field of vision again.
Later, it was exposed that when "Alone in the World" was casting, Li Zhinan was originally scheduled to play the big brother Chu Ying, but for various reasons, he was squeezed out by others.
It can be said that whether on the stage or outside the stage, Li Zhinan cannot escape the fate of being chosen.
Today, the 35-year-old Li Zhinan, with his passion for acting and his unwillingness to live, has taken the initiative to expose his "unbearable past" to the magnesium lamp.
On the stage of "Actors Please Take Place", Cao Jun is the most distressing one; and Li Zhinan is probably the least confident one.
When entering the second stage of the examination, other B-level actors were full of confidence and introduced themselves to the S-level actors with "I want to act in xxx drama".
Mengziyi introduced himself to Ren Min and starred in "Genius Gunner"; Ma Su and Tang Yifei competed to play "Dongjiu Mother" on the hot search.
When it was Li Zhinan's turn, he said:
"I want to stay more than I choose. Because only when you stay, you will be seen, and you will have more opportunities to choose. I hope you can consider me, I'm ready. ”
After speaking, he also bowed a 90-degree bow.
As soon as these words came out, Yang Zhigang shouted directly: "How can I want to cry when I hear it?" ”
Yeah, it's so humble!
Among the S-level actors, Ren Min, Shi Baiyu and Wang Zhen are all juniors, and He Changxi has never played any role, but this predecessor who debuted at the peak is still humbly asking these people for a chance to perform.
Despite his sincereness, he was still with Cao Jun, waiting for the last two on the wooden box.
Not only the competitive stage, the current situation of the film and television circle is even more cruel.
If you don't have a firm foothold, talk about what works, talk about development, and your whole life will only escape the obscure ending.
Cao Jun first chose Wuji, and Li Zhinan was finally forced to join Wang Zhi's team.
Fortunately, he met Zhao Wei, who knew how to use it well.
Seeing the fragile side of him, euphemistically suggested exchanging roles with Wang Zhi, and warmly consulted Li Zhinan's opinion first.
As a result, there was a warm scene of the "most tragic threesome" on the stage - Wang Zhi, He Kailang, and Li Zhinan all entering the group.
Their performance of "Yesterday" was well received, and the brother played by Li Zhinan touched all the directors present.
Teacher Li Chengru praised: "There is no trace of performance."
Director Er Dongsheng and Director Zhao Wei gave an invitation to the A-class card at the same time.
The moment the card came out, Li Zhinan could not hide his unexpected joy, and finally for the first time, he showed a relaxed smile on the stage.
Perhaps, as director Er Dongsheng encouraged: "If there is a melancholy role in the play I supervise, I will think of you."
In fact, for celebrities, if the acting career is not so smooth, family harmony and love are also a comfort.
But Li Zhinan's career and love were not complete.
In many years since his debut, he has never had a public girlfriend, and the only scandal is the former screen CP Jinsha.
In the play that year, the two played the school grass school flower, becoming the unique white moonlight CP in the hearts of young boys and girls at that time.
In the play, at the moment when Lan Feilin needs it most, Shi Yanfeng, who is cold and hot outside, will always appear next to her for the first time to accompany her through the difficulties.
The regrettable ending of this pair of young plum bamboo horses in the end also caused the audience to fall into an extremely uncomfortable mood.
In 2014, Li Zhinan posted a wedding photo with Jinsha with the text "Let's get married".
Although Jinsha said that it was only an MV cooperation, she debunked the rumor with "I still want to marry out, don't make trouble".
However, the CP fans of "Fenglin" (Shi Yanfeng & Lan Feilin) of that year still have expectations, hoping that the two can realize the fairy tale love of prince and princess in reality.
In 2020, Jinsha participated in "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves", and Li Zhinan participated in "Actors Please Take Place".
Li Zhinan unreservedly dedicated the vote to Jinsha for the first time in his life, and called for her as a "brother-in-law".
During the interview of the "Actors Please Take Place" program, the director gave a photo of Jinsha and asked Li Zhinan, "What do you want to say to her?" ”
Li Zhinan showed a bright smile in front of the camera: "Come on! I will always support you! ”
Seeing that the school grass school flowers of that year 18 years later, still bringing fans "super long after-sales", the post-90s have a warm current in their hearts, "Grandpa Qinghui".
Some people say that "Eighteen-year-old Sky" may have become the tear of the times, but when Jinsha and Li Zhinan interact, our hearts are still excited like the "red stone" written in the song.
But then, Jinsha Weibo personally debunked the rumors, intercepted an article about "the relationship between the two has made new progress" and made it clear:
"Even if the world becomes an island, only the two of us are left, I will not choose you, to my good brother @ Li Zhinan." 」
This wave of rather straight men's refusal operations, across the screen, can feel Li Zhinan's embarrassment.
But this "middle-aged brother" who has experienced vicissitudes, just like the heart-warming big boy at that time, responded in another interview:
"I cherish the friendship between us and hope she can find the right person as soon as possible."
In fact, "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky" has always been called a toxic drama, and almost all the main creators and actors can not escape the fate of the nameless.
But this year, both leading actors have ushered in the "second spring" of their careers.
Jinsha has changed from a pure school flower 18 years ago to a sister who sings and dances on the stage and rides the wind and waves;
Li Zhinan went from being a green school grass 18 years ago to his brother who wants to reshape his actor identity now.
It may still be difficult to get back to the top, but I believe that as Erdao said:
"No one will be unlucky for a lifetime, and if you persist, there will be hope."
In the darkest moments of life, you may wish to persevere and wait for the flowers to bloom.