Non-stop footsteps on the road to chasing dreams

A recent photo of Cai Zifen.

"Zhanjiang can be said to be my second hometown and the starting point for embarking on the road of acting." Looking back 17 years ago, in 2000, when the first Miss Nanzhu Contest was held in Zhanjiang, Cai Zifen, a shanwei girl who was studying in Zhanjiang at the time, stood out from many contestants and finally won the second place, when she was only 17 years old.

After winning this award, Cai Zifen did not stop the pace of pursuing her dreams, she went to Guangzhou, and participated in the "Beauty in Flower City" Advertising Rising Star Competition in October 2001 and won the runner-up, thus starting to enter the film and television showbiz circle. Over the years, she has starred in a number of film and television dramas and hosted a number of variety shows, and Cai Zifen's active figure can be seen in household names such as tv series "Gaodi Street" and food variety show "I Love to Return to Taste". In late May this year, Cai Zifen also returned to Zhanjiang, and Fu Jin recounted her Zhanjiang complex in the past.

On June 11, the reporter interviewed Cai Zifen.

Memory: Zhanjiang, the starting point and the first stop of the road of performing arts career

Zhanjiang is the starting point and first stop for Cai Zifen to embark on the road of acting. After winning the first Miss Nanzhu runner-up, she embarked on a difficult road to acting.

Cai Zifen still remembers her mood of standing on the stage for the first time, "At that time, I was going to host a variety show "Everyday Entertainment", and I remember that I was particularly dazed and nervous to the point of blankness. In order to hide his inner uneasiness, even the expression of speaking was very exaggerated. And now, she is already an experienced host, hosting the audience's favorite food show "I Love To Find Taste" and the variety show "Who is the King of Drag" and "Super Consumption King".

Cai Zifen has also starred in a number of film and television dramas. In 2005, she starred in the TV series "Dragon Rider Strange Son-in-Law", she was well known to the audience as the role of mink cicada, and since then, she played Lin Jiazhen in the TV series "Gaodi Street", and in the TV series "Sister Boy Is Bigger Than the Master", she played Hu Nijing. At the same time, she played Beauty in the movie "Non-Fox", and she played Wu Zifen in the movie "Happiness Lost"...

Cai Zifen, who is not from a science class, did not have a specific concept of acting at the beginning, she recalled her first acting state, similar to the state when she first stepped into the hosting industry, "At that time, I did not understand real performance, body language could not keep up with the lines, and at the beginning I would also enter the misunderstanding of exaggerated performance, and I did not know how to walk the heart." With her continuous learning and the accumulation of performance experience, Cai Zifen in front of the camera has become more and more relaxed.

Struggle: Be an actor, host, write books, and constantly try new challenges

Cai Zifen is a native of Shanwei, Guangdong, she almost didn't speak a word of Cantonese when she debuted, and when she first started hosting, she encountered a lot of setbacks and criticisms. In order to overcome the language barrier, she began to learn Cantonese by herself, watching TV, listening to the radio, reading newspapers every day, trying to learn Cantonese through various channels, consulting her predecessors when she did not understand, and even sometimes reading in vernacular when she saw what she saw on the road. With diligent study and hard work, her Cantonese pronunciation slowly became more standardized, and the programs she hosted became more and more popular.

Cai Zifen feels that the identity of the host makes her dare not stop, and the identity of the actor allows her to experience different role states, and in the different lives of interpreting various characters, she constantly breaks through herself. Having experienced too many identities, she feels that "life can have the opportunity to try different roles, but also a kind of happiness, to know how to be grateful." 」 ”

In her spare time, Cai Zifen wrote her first book, "Walking Light and Shadow", which is a caprice collection. She said: "When I wrote the book, I felt that everything was outside of me, and this state of emptiness made me feel very good. ”

Wish: To live a simple life and contribute more to public welfare and charity

Cai Zifen in life prefers a simple life, after work, than lively parties, Cai Zifen enjoys the time alone, "In my leisure time, I like to hide at home and watch a few of my favorite movies, read some of my favorite books, and accompany my family, which is the state of life that I enjoy very much now." ”

Next, Cai Zifen will start a new acting trip, including filming the third season of the TV series "Gaudi Street", and she also revealed that she will have a next movie to start shooting.

As the love ambassador of the "Spring Rain Action" charity and public welfare project of the China Children's Charity Relief Foundation, a national public foundation under the supervision of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Cai Zifen sincerely expressed her hope that she can continue to contribute to public welfare and charity in the future.