More important than tearing off the label of success is being yourself.
Queen of Comedy
Comedy
Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger, Ma Li's spring is coming.
She and Wei Xiang starred in the New Year film "This Killer Is Not Calm", which exceeded 2.137 billion yuan in 14 days of release, and with this film, Ma Li became the first actress to break through the 10 billion box office.
Originally, the comedy was not optimistic, because before its release, the film played by Mary repeatedly hit a new career score.
The 3.8-point "Sunshine Robber", the 2.7-point "Lie Detector", the 4.7-point "Li Mao Dressed as a Prince", the audience who originally went to see Ma Li, seems to suffer from "Ma Li PTSD", as if as long as she appears, it must be a bad film, and the accident created by the movie "This Killer Is Not Calm" has broken the dilemma of "Queen of Comedy" Ma Li at the right time.
"Actually, the really bad drama has not been picked up."
In Ma Li, the audience has placed a lot of expectations, after all, it is rare for actresses to amuse everyone as soon as they open their mouths, but the two voices of "acting very well" and "the film is too bad" have also become irreconcilable contradictions in her career.
Although she was certified as the "Queen of Comedy", Ma Li obviously did not agree with this label, she set herself the label as "actor", after relying on "Charlotte Troubles" and "Shy Iron Fist" to sit in the domestic comedy sister, Ma Li changed.
"Comedy lets the audience know that there is an actress named Mary, and they think you are a comedian, as if your next work must be related to comedy, but I am an actor, and the actor himself is supposed to create different types of characters." 」
Mary did act, she was no longer simply funny.
For example, in "Caller Rhapsody", she played a strong woman who was fierce on the surface, but in fact suffered a victim of workplace sexual assault Han Xiao.
In "Northeast Tiger" released at the beginning of the year, Ma Li challenged the literary and art film for the first time, adopting the performance method of the main drama she was once good at, the real and delicate emotional processing, which was evaluated by director Geng Jun as "supporting the whole movie".
Although her acting skills are praised, compared with literary films, she is obviously more popular in comedy.
Seeing Ma Li, who was drowned in a bad film and struggling, netizens sighed: "She deserves a good script." ”
Fortunately, the killer came, and Ma Li's "comedian design" did not collapse.
In fact, Ma Li did not think at the beginning that she would one day become a comedian, in her own words: "It was comedy that chose me." “
In 1982, Ma Li was born in a small county town in Dandong, Liaoning Province, which is different from the image of today's "female hanzi", before the age of 8, she was raised as a little princess.
With her curly hair and delicate princess dress, because she was dressed like a doll, the kindergarten teacher held her all day and refused to put it down.
However, her parents divorced when she was 8 years old, and Mary followed her mother, who had been traveling for many years to do business.
After going to primary school, Ma Li, who did not study well, unexpectedly showed talent in sports, sprinting, long-distance running, javelin, basketball and other sports she practiced, once, "Ma Jiajun" to their school to select people, because they felt too bitter, Ma Li pretended to be sick to take leave to escape the disaster.
In 1996, When Ma Li was in junior high school, the Liaoning Culture and Art School came to the county to recruit acting students, and her stepfather encouraged her to try it.
At that time, the teacher came up with a "no physical performance" test question: rushing home in the rain, found that the power at home was out of power, so he lit a candle to write homework.
Ma Li has never studied acting, but she performs the movements very smoothly and naturally, and the interview teacher exclaims after reading it: "I want this girl with a lot of drama." ”
After transferring to acting, she found that almost all around her were beautiful women, and then looked at herself, her appearance was not so outstanding, and her photogenic appearance was not so good-looking, so she decided to become a drama actor.
"Anyway, it's so far away, I paint a big makeup lighting a dozen as beautiful, the audience can't see what I look like." 」
When she was admitted to college, Ma Li went to the North Shadow examination with the mentality of practicing her hands, unlike the beauty of other people's dresses, she wore a suit jacket, a turtleneck underneath, high-heeled leather shoes, and a big back, living like a "female business owner".
Although she fell off the list because of excessive force, fortunately, she passed the professional pass and finally entered the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama, and Chen Shu and Zhang Luyi were classmates of the same level.
Because of her appearance, Ma Li suffered a lot of losses.
Ma Li has been the class president for four years in college, and her professional grades are recognized as excellent, but when she rehearsed the graduation drama, she did not play the female number one, and a teacher's suggestion stabbed her heart:
"Your appearance is flawed, your upper lip and the middle of the person are high and protruding, and you look like a monkey. If you still want to be an actor in the future, it is best to knock out four of your upper teeth and hoop another hoop. ”
Although Ma Li was not convinced, when her classmates around her were running to send her resume, she flinched because she was inferior to her appearance.
After graduation, she hid in the theater to act in dramas, played husband and wife with Pu Cunxin, and partnered with Jiang Wenli, and her life was quite comfortable.
After repeated polishing of the drama, Ma Li's acting skills have been good, and finally someone took the initiative to invite her to film, and between the makeup on the day of the group, she heard someone whispering behind her back: "Who is this, who looks so ugly and can still act, is there a relationship?" “
Ma Li's self-confidence was once again beaten to the point of no return, and she never dared to accept an invitation to a film and television drama later.
Not beautiful, is Ma Li to the screen "roadblock", but also her "ticket" to the temple of comedy.
In 2005, in the drama "The City Is Full of Pyramids", Ma Li played a small role, and every time she appeared, she could make the audience laugh a lot with one mouth.
Happy Twist's choreographers Peng Damo and Ma Chi noticed her, "She is not the female number one, but the excitement of the whole play has been robbed by her." ”
So he invited her to make a cameo in Happy Twist, Ma Li was particularly excited, and on the day she went to the troupe, she also carefully put on makeup and wore a skirt, which frightened Shen Teng, "The face and neck are not a color, which scared me to death." ”
Ma Li cherishes the opportunity to perform on the Happy Twist Stage, and every time she performs, she can always be open-minded.
For the sake of comedic effect, she often dresses up ugly and fattens up, and the laughter of "wahaha
Ma Li became the "Queen of a Thousand Games" of happy twists, and was also looked at by He Jiong, who invited her to star in the sketch "Super Happiness Insoles" at the Hunan Satellite TV Lantern Party.
In 2013, director Ha Wen excavated her on the Spring Festival Gala, and for three consecutive years, she and Shen Teng became regular guests of the Spring Festival Gala, and the audience commented: "After Song Dandan, finally there are actresses who can really amuse everyone at the Spring Festival Gala." ”
Ma Li's career began to take off, but on the way to take off, because she was not beautiful, she almost lost touch with the big screen.
When Happy Twist was preparing to shoot the film version of "Charlotte Troubles", Shen Teng was set as the male number one, but Ma Li, who played "Ma Dongmei" in the drama for nearly three years, was not the first choice for the heroine in the producer's heart, because she was not beautiful enough.
The beautiful Ma Dongmei came to find, but the director was worried when trying to play, no matter how to guide, the mind is Ma Li's appearance, and Ma Li regained the opportunity.
Like the killer in the Year of the Tiger, no one was optimistic about the combination of Ma Li and Shen Teng at that time, and unexpectedly, "Charlotte Troubles" became a hit and won 1.4 billion at the box office, and Ma Li became popular from then on.
After the red, Ma Li changed again, and she was particularly screwed up on her label of "female comedian".
Ma Li does not understand where the joy in her body comes from, but the audience thinks that her "rice" is funny.
She once participated in a public welfare reality show, needed to climb a mountain at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, and climbed to the middle of the mountain and she fainted directly because of heart discomfort.
Afterwards, the program team sent a photo on the Internet, the photo of her is taking oxygen with a miserable white face, but some netizens have read it but commented: "Hahaha This is really funny." ”
"I almost lost my life, what's so funny about it?" Ma Li almost collapsed after seeing it, in order to get rid of the label, Ma Li began to pay attention to the appearance that had been abandoned by herself, lost weight madly, went out to make up, and even filmed "Man's Clothing".
But the audience did not buy her late fashion sense, but complained: Ma Li is becoming less and less funny.
During that time, Ma Li was particularly disappointed in her heart: Why can Quan Jixian be beautifully funny?
But later, after she finished her work, she accidentally fell into a coma while waiting in the cabin, and woke up in the hospital on the same day that it was her 35th birthday.
It was also this coma that made her suddenly wake up, there is no need to compete with the label of "comedian" on her body, after all, "I am very happy when I act", and most importantly, to "cherish everything you have now".
Ma Li no longer struggles with whether to transform, "When I meet a good script, a good role, I like it, I will shape her and complete her." ”
She and Zhang Yu filmed "Siberian Tiger" last June, won the Best Film Award at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Jubilee Award.
Ma Li plays a pregnant woman in the northeast who accidentally finds that her husband has an affair, and although her heart is painful, she still has to solve the family crisis with a big belly.
In one scene where she meets With Xiaosan, Ma Li says that after each film, she has to stand on the road in the early morning of Hegang and take a deep breath, "feeling that her heart is about to explode."
Fortunately, she was very happy in real life.
Although Ma Li usually has a big grin, like a man, she is a very traditional woman in her bones.
In 2017, 35-year-old Ma Li married Xu Wenhe, who was 11 years younger than herself, and although the love came late, she gained a long-lost sense of security.
After having a child, she successfully walked out of the trough of confusion and self-pity, treated everything more lightly, thought more empathetically, and became much calmer.
Yesterday's Valentine's Day, Ma Li, who has always paid attention to privacy, took a photo of the back of a family of three on the seashore for the first time, and also confessed to her husband Xu Wenhe that the sweetness after marriage is self-evident.
The voice of the outside world about beauty and ugliness, about the various "harmonic star" labels attached to her body, Ma Li has a new understanding and understanding, "If you want people all over the world to like you, it is impossible." So block out all the voices and be yourself, which is the most important state of mind I think I have now. ”
Fortunately, Ma Li braked the car in time in confusion, otherwise, in this year of the tiger, who else can make us laugh happily in the theater?
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[1] Baidu Encyclopedia: Ma Li
[2] Weibo: Sina Movies
[3] Sina Entertainment: Ma Li: The heaviest weight when pregnant is nearly 190 pounds, and there is also weight anxiety after giving birth
[4] New Weekly: Watching these comedies, I feel the most sorry for Mary
[5] Daily People: Mary, you're much better looking than you are in the movie
[6] Chinese film report: Ma Li, you are very dangerous!
[7] Most people: Shen Teng's 20 billion, Ma Li's depression