That year, 61-year-old Zhang Mei'e was doing farm work in the field with a hoe, and her husband hurriedly ran over: "Mei'e, tell you a good news, Zhou Xingchi is going to choose four strange and ugly old ladies to act in movies, and the film remuneration is 150 yuan a day, and your opportunity has come."
This opportunity made Zhang Mei'e change her fate from then on!
Many viewers hear this name, perhaps not much impression, but when it comes to the clown aunt in Stephen Chow's movie, almost no one knows, although not a professional actor, there are only a few lines or two in the film, but the humorous performance style and appearance characteristics are too prominent, so that just a few tens of seconds of appearance shots, let her cover up the light of many famous actors.
It is said that although Zhang Mei'e was born in Hengdian, in the first 60 years of her life, she had almost no contact with performance, and at most she only ran a group performance in Hengdian Film and Television City, playing the role of "passerby A".
Until 2011, Zhou Xingchi took the "Journey to the West" crew to Hengdian, many of the protagonists and supporting roles have been finalized, only the role of four old ladies made him difficult, in the huge group of actors, older actresses are easy to find, but there are very few ugly characteristics, helpless, he had to give up the selection of professional actors, and set his sights on the Hengdian group performance.
Later he posted a message: Recruit four actors, don't be young and pretty, just ugly, and the uglier the better.
However, usually when the recruitment notice comes out, the people who apply to be a group performance are crowded, but this time it is different, the applicants are pitiful, and they can't recruit people, after all, no one is willing to admit that they are ugly.
There was no way for Zhou Xingchi to increase his efforts and raise the film remuneration to 150 yuan a day, which was twice as high as the group remuneration at that time, in order to attract people.
After Zhang Mei'e's husband saw this news, he couldn't help but be happy, the yellow-faced woman in the family definitely met this standard, and the most important thing is that she has always had an actor dream, which may be an opportunity.
On that day, Zhang Mei'e was doing farm work in the field, and her husband rushed over to her and said: Mei'e, tell you a good news, Zhou Xingchi recruited four beautiful women, the film remuneration is 150 yuan a day, very suitable for you, you can go to the interview.
Hearing this, Zhang Mei'e couldn't help but blush and said with disgust: I know that in your heart I am the most beautiful, but I really don't have the courage to go to the interview.
His husband couldn't help but be stunned, and quickly interrupted her and said: What do you look like, you don't count in your heart, Zhou Xingchi is looking for four strange and ugly old ladies, I think you are very suitable.
Hearing her husband say that she was ugly, Zhang Mei'e was angry and ignored him directly. However, her husband was very patient and said to her: Do you have an actor dream, this is an opportunity, and you will definitely regret missing it.
Zhang Mei'e thought that this is also the truth, she certainly did not have the courage to apply for a role in a beautiful woman, but she was not afraid to apply for a clown role than ugly.
So Zhang Mei'e followed her husband all the way to the set, squeezed left and right, and managed to get into the crowd, only to see one person wearing a vest and stepping on flip-flops and watching other old ladies improvise carelessly.
At that time, Zhang Mei'e had never filmed a scene, and she did not know Zhou Xingchi, and she only felt that the person in front of her was dressed in a, and it was a material that was underwhelming at first glance.
Inadvertently, Zhou Xingchi saw Zhang Mei'e, who was squinting at him, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he stood up with a "whimper" and said: "The big aunt who squinted at me, you come out!" ”
Zhang Mei'e was stunned, and her husband behind her pushed her: "The director told you to go quickly." ”
Before he could react, Zhou Xingchi came to her side and said, "Now you start scolding me, the more fierce the better!" ”
Zhang Mei'e listened, thinking that this person is not brain problematic, the first time she encountered this request, it would have been unpleasant to see, so she played her strengths, and zhou Xingchi was a furious scolding of splitting her head and covering her face, and her scolding made Zhou Xingchi laugh, very satisfied with her performance, and immediately invited Zhang Mei'e to play the "four beautiful women".
The other three old ladies were also recruited in this way, but Zhang Mei'e performed better, so Xingye gave her the dialogue lines between the kidney xu prince and her.
In the film, Shi Xingyu asked the kidney Xu Gongzi: Wow, where did you pluck these 4 old onions?
Piglet: Wild Mountains, it's a good luck to find these four. Zhou Xingchi looked at the camera and was stunned to smile.
"Keep a low profile and don't throw words around." Zhang Mei'e: "Boss, didn't you tell me to throw it?" But what does that mean? Is it to throw or not to throw? "Don't throw." "If you don't throw it away, you'll have to pay for it."
A line said down, Zhang Mei'e's performance made Xingye overjoyed, this nonsense effect can be said to make him very satisfied, shooting and "like a flower" has a comparison.
Later, when "Journey to the West" was released, it directly got more than 1.2 billion box office records, and the fire of this movie also made Zhang Mei'e fire.
With "Journey to the West to Descend the Devil", Zhang Mei'e became popular, thus entering the entertainment circle and becoming the royal "ugly" star of Zhou Xingchi.
In 2015, Zhang Mei'e played the ugly exploding mermaid aunt in "The Mermaid", with sharp shapes and spoof lines, which once again conquered countless audiences.
Since then, Zhang Mei'e has been constantly playing, and her personality can be seen in movies such as "Journey to the West: Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences", "Comedy King", "Journey to the West • Fu Demon" and so on.
As a "star girl", Zhang Mei'e has always felt that Zhou Xingchi is her Bole and her benefactor. She felt that without Zhou Xingchi's promotion of her, she would not have been able to have today.
Xiaobian believes that Zhang Mei'e is lucky, her efforts have finally got the opportunity, from the group performance of 50 yuan a day that year, to the value of tens of millions, only need a "Zhou Xingchi" to give the opportunity.
Today's Zhang Mei'e is 72 years old, still active in the entertainment industry, when there is no drama, playing soy sauce in Hengdian, no matter the size of the role, she accepts it all.
But she is extremely principled, never shoot cosmetics advertisements, do not do image endorsements, and has not had any scandals since the film for many years, which can be called a clear stream in the entertainment industry.
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