I don't feel like I'm sacrificing
Every choice is what I want to do most at the moment
In the TV series "An Jia", Shao Yifan played Xiao Zhang, an employee of Sun Li to the company, and appeared six or seven times in the whole drama, all of which were fleeting.
But at the time of the fire, many acquaintances still found her on TV. There were even elementary school classmates who came to contact her and asked her how she gave up such a good job and went to the film and television circle.
Usually at this time, Shao Yifan will start to play haha.
Born in 1989, Shao Yifan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, a Fujian university, and before becoming an actor, he worked for two years in the strategic consulting department of the Big Four accounting firms, which gathered high-end financial elites.
But a high degree doesn't seem to be of much help to her career at this stage. Shao Yifan often said that he was a "ankle" actor, although he acted in many dramas, most of the time he was running dragon sets.
Many people asked her, from your school, easy annual salary of millions, why did you choose to run the dragon set? Some people even over-interpreted, thinking that she was just a human observer, playing tickets for a while.
Good or bad is the evaluation of the outside world. For her, the career change means that she has finally chosen what she really likes to do.
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All over Shanghai
Actors with the least clothes
Shao Yifan played a female researcher who had a crush on Yang Yang in "You Are My Glory". In the play, she took the initiative to invite Yang Yang to stargazing together, and worked hard to create dialogue opportunities, which is the little fan sister of the male protagonist.
Although she only appeared in this 32-episode hit drama for less than 3 minutes, she can already be regarded as her representative work to play with stars in such a hot drama.
TV series "You Are My Glory"
She also shows her face in the movie. In "The Crowd", she played the primary school teacher of Andy Lau's son.
Movie "The Crowd"
Although these film and television dramas all sound quite famous, but such a small role, Hengdian has many young people with ordinary academic qualifications every day have the opportunity to play.
The only time that a high education level helped a little was to pick up Lu Yi and Yuan Quan's "When the Wind Rises Again".
At that time, there was a role in the play as a German translator, and it was necessary to collect the same voice. It's not easy to find someone who speaks German in a dragon suit. Shao Yifan University had studied in Germany and just happened to have a foundation in German, and this opportunity fell to her.
TV series "When the Wind Rises Again"
There are some roles that can be played, but most of them are passers-by. The income of being a "ankle" actor is obviously not comparable to that of the original four majors.
So she sold all her suits, and cosmetics used tin sheets to buy new ones.
I wore the same clothes almost every day to go to dance class, and even went to the audition to habitually rent clothes, and friends around her joked that she was "the actor with the least clothes in Shanghai".
As a high-achieving student who graduated from a prestigious school, why would he give up the high-paying job that everyone envied and be willing to come to the theater to run a dragon set? Many friends around me don't understand.
"Some people told me that it was a pity that I had accumulated so much before and sacrificed it. I don't feel like I'm sacrificing, every choice is what I want to do most at the moment, and I don't ask for anything in return when I do it, because I feel that I have earned it when I do it. I'm an actor now, was all that wasted so many years before? No, you asked me to go through it again, and it seems that I still have to choose that, and at that stage I am going to do that thing. ”
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Even the interns
Peking University Guanghua's college entrance examination
Shao Yifan is not the kind of "other people's child". High education, she worked hard to get.
Before graduating from Tianjin Normal University, she went to Germany for a year of exchange study. Originally intended to continue studying there, the visa was processed, but I decided to return to China halfway.
Because she desperately wanted independence, especially financial independence.
After returning to China, Shao Yifan's first job was teaching English in New Oriental, and later he went to Siemens.
During this time, she realized that if she wanted to continue to promote, her academic qualifications were still not enough. The German boss at that time was very supportive of her, saying: "You go to school, and when you finish reading, you will come back, and I will give you a promotion." ”
She resolutely applied to study abroad and was soon accepted to the University of Pennsylvania.
However, study at Penn did not go well.
At that time, the American classmates around her were very good, the course was difficult, and she was almost always struggling to catch up with others for two years.
"To this day, I am under a lot of pressure, dreaming of not being able to finish my homework at Penn and the anxiety of not being able to finish my job."
After graduating and returning home, she entered the work of PetroChina and was sent to Work in Iraq for a period of time.
In Iraq, in order to ensure the physical safety of expatriate staff, they are housed in containers and have limited movement, often surrounded by body armor, bulletproof walls and bulletproof vehicles.
Nor can you take full control of your own life.
Because her freedom was restricted, she managed to get a puppy to accompany her, but was discovered after hiding for three days.
The leader asked her to send the puppy away, which was the last straw in her decision to resign.
After returning to China again, she entered the Four Universities as she wished, realizing her dream of "wearing a designer suit and working overtime in a high-end office building".
It was an environment that was rolled inward to the extreme.
Her colleagues in the strategic consulting department are either high-achieving students in the mathematics department who graduated from MIT or MBA graduated from Qingbei Fujiao, and even the interns are the college entrance examination winners of the company's guanghua recruitment from Peking University.
Everyone is running at high loads and overspending their lives at a rapid pace.
Working overtime day and night is normal. Even on days off, elite colleagues watch financial news or build mathematical models to predict the direction of the stock market.
After two years of doing it, she told herself that she needed to re-examine the nature of life.
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Probably all his life running dragon sets
But I still want to go to the show
In the days of being a "scholar bully", Shao Yifan always followed the most universal values.
She gritted her teeth to learn, spinning like a gyroscope in the industry's leading company, and gradually lost herself.
After starting to face your heart. She decided to try the actor's path.
Shao Yifan, with a new plan, soon came to Shanghai, spent 20 yuan online, bought tickets to several announcement groups, and began to look for opportunities.
For the first three months, she had been auditioning without filming.
During this period, she helped others change their resumes, taught English online, did piano sparring, and did bilingual hosting in Chinese and English... Use a variety of part-time jobs to make ends meet.
And the work that has a little touch with acting, she will pay a lot of effort.
Once, I worked as a trampoline model at sony photography exhibitions. This job requires constant jumping on the trampoline, allowing consumers to capture portraits at high altitude and experience the camera's high-speed focusing function.
Her former colleague was a retired diver, but she had no professional background. For this reason, she goes to the trampoline park to practice as soon as she has time. Exercise your strength and make yourself as high as you can jump as high and good enough.
Gradually, her reliability and seriousness gained a bit of word of mouth in the circle, and job opportunities followed.
When he first resigned, Shao Yifan was afraid that his family would be worried and had been hiding it. Only recently did she tell her parents the real point in time.
But she did not expect that her mother actually knew about this matter for a long time, and felt that there was nothing: "Anyway, it is necessary to do things in acting, it is better to do it late than to do it early, fortunately it did not waste so much time." ”
The enlightenment and respect of his parents gave Shao Yifan more confidence to insist on his choice.
"It's like climbing a mountain, some people are going to climb to the top of the mountain, but I don't want to go up when I look at the top of the mountain. I wanted to build a house halfway up the mountain to herd sheep, or climb another mountain. People's thoughts, desires, and likes are all different. Just because others admire you, you can't do things that you don't want in your heart. ”
TV series "100 Refining into Steel"
After a few years of acting, Shao Yifan felt that he was still quite suitable for being an actor. She memorizes lines quickly, has good learning ability, and never fears the stage in front of the camera.
What's more, what she's doing now is something she loves.
She had occasional struggles with all the decisions she had made in the past, but never regretted it. One of the things she slowly accepted during these experiences was that she was actually an ordinary person.
"I'm willing to pick up things I wanted to learn when I was a kid, but I didn't do it because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to learn well." I can't dance as a dancer, but I'm willing to practice. I went to be an actor, maybe I've been running dragon sets all my life, I can't be a star, I can't be a big hit, but I still want to go to perform. There are some things that I feel particularly happy when I am willing to do them without asking for anything in return, and I still want to do them, and I can still do them. ”
Web Drama "Chess Soul"
Shao Yifan is still satisfied with his current life, and his acting career has risen steadily. The situation of not being able to make ends meet for the first three years of resignation also began to improve last year.
The only surprise was the epidemic, where everything around us came to a standstill. Since March 10th, she has not lived for more than two months.
Her wish now is very simple, she hopes that the epidemic will get better and she can go out of the community.
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