"As long as I am short of money, I will go to China to make money, and every time as long as the production fee is tight, I will invite Han to go to China, and then wait for the money to come back to consume."
In a 2009 Han variety show, Zhang Nala, a Korean star with a thriving career, said such a sentence with a smile, although it seemed to have achieved a certain program effect at the time, but it inadvertently cut off her acting career in China.
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Now that 13 years have passed since Zhang Nala withdrew from the Chinese market, what kind of life is she living that has long been forgotten?
In fact, it is not as tragic as the public thinks, on the contrary, it is quite moist.
"Overnight popularity"
How popular was Zhang Nala before "disaster comes out of the mouth"?
She had just participated in the recording of the song "Welcome to Beijing" the year before, and in order to let her record smoothly, she watched the Korean singing Chinese, and then remade it later, which was quite troublesome.
However, considering her mass base in the hearts of Chinese audiences, "Welcome to Beijing", a song that gathers many stars, still chose her, which shows that her popularity and reputation at that time were particularly good.
Zhang Nala officially entered the show business circle with her debut album "First Story" at the age of 20, and the following year she successfully became popular because she starred in two TV series, "Bright Girl Success Story" and "Red Bean Girl Love".
At that time, she caught up with the heat of the wave of Sino-South Korean exchanges, which made her quickly gain popularity in China, and then became an ambassador for Sino-Korean exchanges.
Because Zhang Nala looks quite sweet, smiles like a soft and cute girl, and is very smart to deal with the media, and is keen to do charity, the exposure rate has been high, so the speed of popularity is very amazing.
In addition to the "Success of the Bright Girl", she successfully interpreted the role of the strong and brave girl "Che Yangshun", and she also launched her second album "Sweet Dream" at the same time, which was also a great success.
Subsequently, Zhang Nala starred in "Naughty Girl Courtship", and added the nomination of Best Newcomer and Best Actress of the Golden Bell Awards, and then was invited to China to participate in the MTV Music Awards Ceremony held by CCTV.
After coming to China to develop, Zhang Nala's career continued to be smooth, and then broadcast with Su Youpeng's "Princess Diao Man", the role of "Crayfish" Situ Jing, who played a smart and cute role, and acted heroically, very good,but also her most impressive role in the hearts of Chinese audiences.
It is said that during the filming of "Diao Man Princess", Zhang Nala's crew just happened to be filmed in the same place as the "Chu Liuxiang" crew that actor He Rundong was filming, so the two officially met.
At that time, He Rundong had been in the circle for nearly 10 years, and he gained attention because he participated in the martial arts drama "Wind and Cloud", and then became a rising star because he starred in Mao Jie in "Jade Guanyin".
In the following years, the scandal between Zhang Nala and He Rundong was constantly reported, and there was even news that the two secretly got married.
2006 was the most fierce stage of the two scandals, and Zhang Nala was fortunate to focus her career on China and joinEdu Records, so she was able to participate in the recording of "Welcome to Beijing".
At one stage, Zhang Nala was stationed in Hengdian, known as the "Little Princess of Hengdian" by the outside world, and frequently sang songs on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, which was no less popular than any popular "little flower" today.
However, despite having a super high mass base in the country, the "Waterloo" of her career soon came.
"Evil comes out of the mouth"
In 2009, on the South Korean talk show "Strong Heart", Zhang Nala talked about her budget for filming was not enough, so she made up for her own advertising in China into this "hole".
Looking at it now, at that time, she did not say the sentence "Every time the production cost is tight, I will go to China to perform", but what she said did have the meaning of "China's advertising revenue is good".
As soon as this remark came out, Zhang Nala's image in China completely "collapsed", and the audience here certainly felt that they were offended.
Once fans have "turned the road", or even "the road turned black", the public began to boycott her works, advertisements and variety shows, and even her posters could no longer appear in public.
In addition to her popularity and wallet, major investors and producers have also begun to ask for the replacement of actors, because the ratings of the works she starred in are indeed dismal.
After that, Zhang Nala and her father came out many times to explain, saying that the reason for such a thing was that someone deliberately dug a pit, but netizens could not calm the anger.
Even later, the father and daughter came to China together again in anticipation of finding a platform to explain the matter, but they found nothing.
In desperation, they had to return to South Korea to continue their careers.
In fact, in Zhang Nala's acting career, her father Zhu Husheng (formerly known as Zhang Ranjiao) contributed to it.
Zhu Husheng is also an actor, but since Zhang Nala discovered her desire and talent as an actor when she was studying, she gave up her career and devoted herself to raising her daughter.
Zhang Nala also has an older brother named Zhang Chengyuan, who is also an actor, but whether it is fame or achievement, it is not as good as her sister's development.
It is said that Zhang Father attaches great importance to the influence of the Chinese market on his daughter, and when she became popular in Asia with her first TV series "The Success of a Cheerful Girl", it was also Zhu Hu who took her to China for development.
Later, Zhu Husheng told the media:
"50 million people in South Korea like Nala Zhang, while 1.3 billion people in China like Nala Zhang."
Indeed, the father and daughter were eventually fanatically liked by Chinese audiences.
It is said that in the early days, when Jang Na-la was in high school, she took the advertising endorsement under her father's arrangement, and then entered the drama department of Seoul University under his suggestion.
Then they came to China together to develop, and the first drama they received was "Silver Years" made with Liu Yifei.
Immediately after, she filmed "The Cruel Princess" that made herself popular overnight, and then, there was no more...
This show that makes Zhang Nala's Chinese acting career ruined, "Strong Heart", is a PK-type program, each episode will give a topic, and the guests will choose the winner in two pairs.
Therefore, in order to present a better program effect, Zhang Nala must have questions and answers in it, and eventually led her to fall into the "circle of money door" and could not extricate herself.
"Continuous effort"
The year after the "Circle Money Gate" incident, Zhang Nala still came back to shoot the sister article of "Diao Man Princess", "Diao Man Pretty Imperial Doctor".
This work is a routine of "Diao Man Princess", but I don't know whether it is because of aesthetic fatigue, or whether she really broke the hearts of Chinese audiences, in short, the response of the play was flat.
In 2011, Zhang Nala and Lin Zhiying cooperated in a love fashion light comedy "FlyIng Together", which still did not improve.
In desperation, she returned to South Korea and "started over."
However, after returning to China, Zhang Nala is actually not as miserable as everyone thinks, and the resources are also available, and the works she comes up with are also qualified.
For example, in 2014, she participated in "Fate Loves You Like You" cooperated with Zhang He, and "Mr. Back" cooperated with Shen Hejun has been broadcast.
Subsequently, she appeared in the WTUF China Night, one of the series of activities celebrating the 23rd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, although the response was indeed not as good as before, but the cause was not a "cliff-like decline".
However, with the increase of age and the emergence of a new generation of Actresses in South Korea, Zhang Nala's career has indeed been threatened at a certain stage.
However, she is still quite down-to-earth with her hard work, because in 2018, she starred in a love drama "The Character of the Queen", in which she picked the beam again and starred in the "National Cinderella" Wu Shanni.
This role not only made her a success, but also won the 14th Seoul International Television Drama Women's Acting Award.
"I will become an actor who struggles desperately" - on the podium, Zhang Nala cried a lot.
After that, she played the heroine in the TV series "VIP" and the deputy director of the DEPARTMENT STORE VIP customer group, Luo Zhengshan, who is a female character who is ostensibly a "winner in life", but has an unknown pain in her heart.
It is also worth mentioning that in 2020, Zhang Nala participated in "Oh My Baby", challenging the complex role from a young girl to a single mother, and her acting skills can indeed withstand the test.
In addition to the continuous progress in her career, An important point of Zhang Nala, who has passed the age of 40, has been paid attention to again, that is, she has always been "beautiful and skilled".
Indeed, from the photos she has been constantly exposed, we can see that she still maintains the beauty of a 20-year-old girl between the years and the confusion.
In an interview, Zhang Nala said that her father would often urge her to marry, but she was not moved, on the grounds that "there is no suitable for herself, and she will never settle for marriage."
Perhaps, today's Zhang Nala is more than 40 years old, has experienced the pleasure of debuting at the age of 20, that is, the peak, and has also endured the sadness of falling to the bottom because of a sentence, and can understand the magic and brilliance of life's situation.