Mention Liu Lin, everyone may not have much impression of this actor, but when it comes to 'Jiang Dehua', the popularity has greatly increased.
Liu Lin is the actor of "good aunt" and "good daughter-in-law" Jiang Dehua in the TV series "Parental Love" that began to explode on the Internet in 2014.
When the original director Kong Sheng was choosing a role for "Parental Love", Mei Ting read the script and volunteered to play the role of 'Jiang Dehua', she mainly wanted to challenge herself and try different roles.
Mei Ting's request was rejected by director Kong Sheng, who believed that the temperament of the little girl in Nanjing on Mei Ting was more in line with the character setting of 'female number one' Anjie in the play, so Kong Sheng set Mei Ting as the 'female number one' in the play.
Subsequently, director Kong Sheng found Liu Lin and hoped that she would play Jiang Dehua in the play, after Liu Lin briefly understood, she did not want to play the rural woman Jiang Dehua, she preferred to play the role of 'An Xin' in the play.
Mei Ting and Liu Lin are privately very good girlfriends, she told Liu Lin that she read the script first and then made a decision, she wanted to play this role very much at the beginning and could not get it, Liu Lin listened to Mei Ting's careful reading of the script, and was attracted by the role of Jiang Dehua.
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In 2014, "Parental Love" premiered, and it has been almost ten years now, and the TV series with a Douban score of 9.4 points has become a "ceiling" level of domestic TV dramas for more than a decade.
Some people even commented that this is the best TV series ever seen, there is no one; every time I watch TV and see "Parental Love", I will not change the station; this TV series has been brushed no less than 10 times... These comments are a true expression of the emotions of many viewers.
The great success of "Parental Love" is inseparable from the efforts of all the people in the play and outside the play, although the actors in the play portray their roles into three points, there are still a small number of picky audiences who will compare the actors.
Would it be better if so-and-so starred in Jiang Defu? If so-and-so plays Anjie may be more in place..... In all these cases, excellent movies and TV series will have similar actor comparisons, which is also normal.
In "Parental Love", there is one starring role that has been unanimously recognized by all audiences, that is, Jiang Dehua in the play, Jiang Dehua is the main character in the play, and the least controversial one.
In fact, the original character of Jiang Dehua did not exist in the original work of "Parental Love", director Kong Sheng temporarily added this role in order to make the plot more full, and it turned out that it was director Kong Sheng's persistence that created the classic.
It can be said that the existence of Jiang Dehua is the 'finishing touch' of the whole play. Her original image of a rural woman was a funny person in the play, and later she became Mrs. Ding, which made us cry three times and twice.
Jiang Dehua's transformation let us know that the original fireworks in the human world are the origin of all beauty. Countless people have seen their own shadow in her, which may be the most real life. This is also the reason why the character of Jiang Dehua is so popular with us.
Liu Lin, with her superb acting skills, made the image of a 'good aunt' and 'the most beautiful stepmother' jump on the screen, and she played the 'female number two' character in this play', and the limelight even overshadowed the 'female number one' Anjie.
So, how did Liu Lin hold the character of 'Jiang Dehua' in such a good position?
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Liu Lin, born in Beijing in 1974, is an out-and-out 'city person'.
Her parents are aerospace researchers, so Liu Lin grew up in a relatively superior environment. It is said that her parents are scientific researchers, and Liu Lin should be influenced by her parents and should aspire to become a 'scientist' or 'astronaut' from an early age.
Liu Lin 'did not take the usual road since childhood', loved to sing and dance since childhood, and gradually understood things after her family asked her what she wanted to do when she grew up? She said in a childish voice, 'I'm going to be on TV,' and her parents were very open-minded and supportive of their daughter's choices.
Since going to school, Liu Lin has almost always been a member of the literary and art committee in the class, and the teachers all know that this child loves to sing and dance, and the parents have specially enrolled her in the course of learning acting in order to support their daughter's choice.
In 1993, Liu Lin was admitted to the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy as she wished, and became a classmate with Xu Jinglei and Liu Zi, and after entering the university, Liu Lin found that the classmates around her were all handsome men and beautiful women.
At this time, she realized that actors often have to 'look at the face to eat', but her appearance is not outstanding, which makes her experience a short period of depression, although depressed but still have to face reality.
Appearance is the father and mother to change, then consolidate their acting skills, she began to pay two hundred percent of the effort to learn acting, learning at the same time she also tried to figure out the heart of each character, and strive to show the inner emotions of the character through body language.
In her sophomore year, Liu Lin, who was only 20 years old, got a chance to play with Zhang Guorong, which made Liu Lin flattered, such a high starting point for acting, Liu Lin became the envy of many students, and many people were optimistic about Liu Lin's future acting road.
The ideal is very full, the reality is very bone.
After graduating from college and entering the society, Liu Lin found a truth, a good actor not only has to 'look at his face' but also looks at his own communication ability. Liu Lin grew up in a superior family environment and was not very good at complex interpersonal communication in society.
This also led to Liu Lin's unemployment after graduation, her acting career was high and low, and at the most difficult time, she was a graduate of the North Film, and she could not even catch a role in running a dragon set.
In 1997, by chance, Liu Lin was favored by director Zhang Yuan and invited her to play the role of "Tao Lan" in "New Year's Homecoming", for which Liu Lin won the Best Actress Award at the 13th Singapore Film Festival.
After winning this award, many people believe that Liu Lin will bid farewell to the role of 'dragon set' and 'supporting role' and transform into 'female number one'. Because at the same time, Xu Jinglei, Mei Ting, and Li Bingbing have all ranked among the first-line actresses in China.
This award is another 'short-lived' for Liu Lin, this award has not become a 'new starting point' for Liu Lin's acting career, but has become a 'mountain' for her acting career, and in the years that followed, she could no longer 'surpass' this award.
In 2012, Liu Lin, who has run the 'dragon set' for many years and has been a 'supporting role' for many years, is about to usher in the most 'highlight moment' of her acting career. What everyone doesn't know is that Liu Lin almost missed this opportunity.
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In 2012, director Kong Sheng began to prepare for the filming of "Parental Love", and soon began to choose roles for the characters in the play, director Kong Sheng first determined the candidate mei Ting, the 'female number one' in the play.
Kong Sheng then asked everyone in the crew to recommend an actor who can play 'Jiang Dehua', which has higher requirements, not only to interpret the side of rural women's spicy 'small citizens', but also to transform into the image of 'virtuous wife and mother' in the later stage.
Mei Ting felt that this role was very challenging, so she told director Kong Sheng that she wanted to challenge herself and play the role of Jiang Dehua, but Kong Sheng refused and advised her to play the role of 'Anjie' in the play.
As we all know, almost all of the TV drama works directed by director Kong Sheng are fine, which is related to his personality of doing things and pursuing excellence, and the TV series he directs requires a high degree of matching with the role.
In the play, the character of Jiang Dehua, because the character 'span' is large, has not been able to find a suitable actor, well-known actresses are not willing to play the role of a 'rural woman', and unknown actors can't 'pinch' this character.
When the whole group was worried about the role of Jiang Dehua, Mei Ting thought of her good girlfriend Liu Lin, and she called Liu Lin to tell the other party that there was a 'female number two' role and asked her if she was interested.
When Liu Lin heard that she wanted to play an illiterate rural 'shrew', she directly refused, and she felt that she could not 'control' this role. Mei Ting did not persuade her again, but gave her a script and let her read it before making a decision.
After Reading this script, Liu Lin was deeply attracted by the role of Jiang Dehua in the play, and in order to better conform to the character image in the play, she did not say a word, and cut her beloved long hair directly into short hair.
Director Kong Sheng saw Liu Lin's execution, directly decided that Jiang Dehua was on her, at that time, director Kong Sheng and Liu Lin did not expect that this drama could allow them to achieve each other.
The role is won, how to act?
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Liu Lin, as a girl who grew up in the city, has no life experience in the countryside at all, and she is really bottomless in her heart for the role of 'Jiang Dehua' at the beginning, and she is afraid that she will not be able to play well.
In order to play this role well, she decided to experience life in the countryside, experience rural life during the day, and watch various film and television drama videos at night to learn how other actors portrayed the image of 'rural women'.
With months of continuous study and practice, she was sure that she realized the 'real situation' of Jiang Dehua in the play, which also made her very confident when facing the camera, and her confidence came from the hard work behind her.
During the recording stage, her performance won unanimous praise from the director and the actor, and at that time, everyone felt that Liu Lin was not acting, but playing 'herself', and her acting skills had exceeded the director's expectations for Jiang Dehua's role.
In one place in the play, Jiang Weiguo went on a hunger strike with his parents in order to go to the Sino-Soviet border as a soldier, and Jiang Dehua, as an aunt, could not bear to see his children hungry, and specially made the poached eggs that Jiang Weiguo liked to eat the most.
After making the poached egg Jiang Dehua specially dropped a few drops of sesame oil, after dripping sesame oil, Jiang Dehua sipped the bottle mouth with his finger, and then 'sniffed' a mouthful of sesame oil on his finger, and the action details of this 'boo' bite were full of details, which Liu Lin realized by herself.
Liu Lin's action instantly reminds us of the old people in our own family, and the frugal days of the older generation are not all lived like this? A small action has resonated with many viewers, which is one of the reasons why this drama can burst into flames.
And later, to the children to divide the peach crisp, Jiang Dehua carefully took the residue of the peach crisp with his hand, and distributed the peach crisp to the children, and only ate the residue on his hand, is not this the case for our elders?
Liu Lin is relying on these full of details to make us feel the image of a good aunt with flesh and blood who is diligent and thrifty. For Liu Lin's performance in the play, I have to say that 'life is like a drama, drama is like life, all rely on acting skills'.
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In 2014, after the premiere of "Parental Love", the ratings soared, and Liu Lin also won various awards with the role of 'Jiang Dehua' in the play.
Subsequently, Liu Lin played Mrs. Laiyang in "Langya List" and Wang Da Niangzi in "Know It or Not", these roles have left a deep impression on us, and she has gained the title of 'powerful actor' with her superb acting skills.
Liu Lin's acting career can be described as 'high open and low walk', from the university period with Zhang Guorong to the middle age of no drama to shoot. Her experience tells us that compared with young fame, late success is more valuable.
Life is sometimes like this, we need to find the light in adversity, this light can always calibrate our forward goals, so that we do not lose ourselves in the predicament.
Liu Lin met 'Jiang Dehua' not sooner or later, at the best time when acting skills and experience precipitation fit, Liu Lin met 'Jiang Dehua', she successfully 'mastered' this role with superb acting skills, and she also got everything she deserved with this role.
Friends, how do you think Liu Lin's 'Jiang Dehua' performed?