The annual Chinese film awards ceremony is often occupied by two hot words alternately.
The first word is called big hot inverted stove;
At the just-concluded 40th Hong Kong Film Awards, the movie "Turbid Water Rafting" starring Wu Zhenyu flipped over under a good look.
Awards were presented that night, and "Turbid Water Rafting", which held 11 nominations, did not receive any results in the end, and had no choice but to accompany the run in 11 shots.
Coupled with Wu Zhenyu's 6th consecutive impact on the Golden Statue Film Emperor, "Turbid Water Drifting" became the biggest surprise of the night.
The second word is the complete opposite, it is called: overnight fame;
While countless people are upset about "Turbid Water Rafting", there are also some "new names" that have won the applause of the public.
Also at this Academy Awards, actress Liu Yaser, who is not from a science class, pressed Gong Li and Wu Junru to take the crown of film queen, becoming the ninth mainland film queen in the history of the Academy Awards.
As this relatively "raw face" frantically appeared on the page, Liu Yaser's three words were "hot and hot" in the past period of time.
In fact, in order to achieve today's "overnight fame" in the film industry, Liu Yaser waited for 18 years.
Since she entered the industry in 2004, her career has experienced great ups and downs, and she was on CCTV at the age of 18, but in the following years, she moved her home 10 times in 8 years.
Until now, after turning to the Hong Kong circle to be crowned a film, this 33-year-old Hengyang girl has a wonderful experience that may not be filmed in movies...
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Underage drafts entered the circle and became the representative of the first generation of neutral artists
People familiar with the draft know that Liu Yaser actually has two stage names.
The first is the current name "Liu Yaser" who is now competing in the film industry, and the other is the real name "Liu Xin" who first participated in the industry.
In 2004, when she was under the age of 16, she participated in the Hunan local tv talent show "Star Academy" as her real name Liu Xin.
With a neutral temperament of the fake boy appearance, the rebellious Liu Xin attracted many young fans and won the popularity of the show in one fell swoop.
And 3 years later, Liu Xin, who is still completely rebellious, participated in another popular talent show "I Type My Show".
In the program, she and three other contestants, Ma Haisheng, Wu Bin and Gao Yang, participated in the group in the form of a draft combination.
With the tacit cooperation of the four people, they named the OP group will win the national championship all the way and harvest popularity madly.
Driven by the high exposure of "My Type I Show", Liu Xin, who has short hair and is full of cool non-mainstream clothing, swept the screen with the image of a "tomboy" and was regarded as the representative of the first generation of neutral talent artists like Li Yuchun.
In November 2007, Liu Xin, who was only 18 years old at the time, was invited to appear on CCTV's "The Same Song" and stood on the peak of honor.
However, in order to support the "bright and beautiful" in front of this camera, Liu Xin is saddled with huge economic pressure.
As early as during the draft, she once borrowed tens of thousands of yuan from friends for renting a house in Shanghai, and the standard "borrowing money to raise dreams" state.
But after opening up her popularity because of "My Type I Show", Liu Xin did not really become popular.
With the end of the show, with the emergence of one stubble after another homogenized "neutral players", the popularity of Liu Xin, who was briefly highlighted, slowly fell silent.
In 2009, the unwilling Liu Xin tried to enter the palace three times to return to the pot draft, and once entered the top 20 of "Happy Girl" in the same year.
However, in the context of the continuous gushing out of new talents in the draft, Liu Xin was not able to turn popular for the second time after all, and failed to change her situation of "scenery in front of people and bitterness after people".
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In his early twenties, he was helpless to drift north, and once "made breakfast" with a dog.
The dream of becoming famous in the draft is good-looking, but behind this layer of dream bubble, people always have to eat...
After years of groping and fighting, Liu Xin also understood this simple truth.
Around 2010, she directly gave up her dream of drafting and chose to come to Beijing to develop.
In order to make a living, she began to have a ride to work, and once worked as a book model.
But the lack of acting experience and the slightly more offbeat neutral style at the time made her have few opportunities and her financial situation has not improved.
According to her later recollections, she repeatedly went to a friend's house to borrow because she could not afford to pay the rent, and moved 10 times during the eight years of North Drift.
In some extremely poor months, she even drank a bowl of porridge with her dog, but she couldn't hold on and gave the dog away with tears.
Such an embarrassing dilemma also made her fall into the entanglement of "insisting or giving up" at that time.
On the one hand, while talking to her mother on the phone, Liu Yaser had to tearfully lie to her mother:
I'm doing exceptionally well, rest assured.
On the other hand, she is frequently hindered in reality, but she has thought about changing her career many times.
And this negative emotion also surrounds the early stage of Liu Xin's north drift life: depressed and tangled.
But just when she was about to be hit by life to change her career, a phone call changed her fate...
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Because of the graceful turn of "To Youth", Liu Xin "evolved" into Liu Yaser
In 2012, a disheartened Liu Xin unexpectedly received a phone call from the crew of "To Youth".
Because the tomboy temperament on her body was favored by the casting director, she was invited to play the role of Zhu Xiaobei in the film.
Although he had some half-understanding of acting at that time, with a high degree of fit with the temperament of the role, Liu Xin finally brilliantly played the neutral girl Zhu Xiaobei.
With "To Youth" with a youth gout to win a full 700 million box office, at this time has changed her name to Liu Yaser, she took a new name in the film industry to change her way of life.
Zhu Xiaobei's "out of the circle" made her start to receive non-dragon set contracts, and also let her heart that wanted to go stay.
Since then, Liu Yaser has been bubbling in the circle as a newcomer to the show.
First brushed his face in some popular movies;
This includes appearing in popular films such as "The Year of Hurry" and "Lost Alone", and cooperating with big names such as Andy Lau.
Then she signed a contract with the brokerage company Tang Ren, and also extended her tentacles to domestic dramas;
In the costume drama "The Legend of the Green Hill Fox", she played the male fox Su Xi in reverse.
At this time, she has obviously increased her acting skills, and she can easily switch the male and female costumes of the role, and perform the aura of "male and female indistinguishable".
Then, she ran to "Actors Please Take Place" and other acting variety shows to test herself.
In these variety shows, she bravely jumped out of the old "neutral drama road", tied up a ponytail to play the urban migrant girl, and also changed into morbid makeup to play a sad patient.
This gesture of striving to change oneself was also evaluated by director Chen Kaige:
You are a fool, and you will have achievements in the future.
After experiencing the difficult time of North Drift, Liu Yaser, who recaptured the opportunity, washed away the frivolity of "Liu Xin" and restarted his career with the humility of "Liu Yaser"...
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With "Wisdom Teeth" to knock off the Hong Kong circle, cooperate with Hua Tsai Xueyou
Sometimes, a certain amount of understanding plus the necessary effort can make people enlighten people in an instant at certain moments...
In the past few years, Liu Yaser has proved this with his brilliant performance in two Hong Kong films, and has made his career achieve qualitative changes.
First of all, he participated in Zheng Baorui's film "Mai Luren", in which he played a tear-jerking single mother;
In the plot, her character is driven away by the evil mother-in-law after the death of her husband and forced to wander around with her daughter.
Faced with the huge blow brought by life, she did not have time to express her indignation, but had to squeeze out a smile for her daughter to run around.
In the end, the exhausted and toiling mother "left indifferently" in a sleep at McDonald's...
After a full week of observing all kinds of passers-by at mcDonald's restaurants, Liu Yaser played this sad mother in a hurry. She was also nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress with this film...
In the movie "Wisdom Teeth", Liu Yaser's "experiential" spirit played more thoroughly.
In order to play the female tramp Wang Tao in "Wisdom Teeth", she "frantically" ran to the slums of the tramps, and "hidden" for a month to observe the form of marginal people...
In the actual performance, Liu Yaser not only integrated his own feelings into it, but also made a lot of efforts.
Not only did she have to say a large cantonese line, but she was also immersed in the shadow of the character for half a year because of the large-scale "beating and abuse" of the plot.
But all the efforts were not in vain, and the realistic homeless appearance and quite tense interpretation made Liu Yaser play the devastated but survival instinct of the female tramp Wang Tao very vividly.
She conquered the Academy Awards jury with her fake and real "masochistic performance" and won the title of film queen in one fell swoop.
It is worth mentioning that after acting in the two Hong Kong films of "Mai Luren" and "Wisdom Teeth", Liu Yaser, who accepted two "acting skills", was signed by the well-known brokerage company Emperor.
Backed by the emperor's Hong Kong circle resources, but also under the addition of the Academy Awards, Liu Yaser is also expected to get more opportunities in the future.
In Jacky Cheung's comeback partner Tse Ting-feng's crime film "Customs Frontline", Liu Yaser won a high role as a female second.
In "Stealth", co-starring Andy Lau, Lin Jiadong and Peng Yuyan, in the main background of the man's play, Liu Yaser is the female character with the most drama.
It is conceivable that the Academy Award is a new starting point for Liu Yaser, and his acting career still has unlimited possibilities.
Looking back on Liu Yaser's 18-year acting career, from jumping into the entertainment industry as a tomboy in 2004 to now being crowned with "Wisdom Teeth", in the past 18 years, Liu Yaser has spent the equivalent of a youth to explore a better self.
Compared with the young and crazy Liu Xin in the past, Liu Yaser today has chosen to "grow selectively".
On the one hand, she is no longer as brazen as she was during the draft, but maintains a humble attitude towards acting.
Faced with the shortcomings of her acting skills, she dared to admit it in public and learned from her predecessors with an open attitude.
At the same time, she also exerts a diligent professional attitude, and has repeatedly experienced life in places such as homeless people's residences to understand the role.
Biting the "spelling trick" is also the reason why Liu Yaser, who became a monk of Yeluzi, can be recognized by directors such as Chen Kaige.
On the other hand, Liu Yaser still retains the desirable side of the "Liu Xin period".
Over the past few years, her authenticity has still touched us.
In the show, when her own promotion clip encountered the devil clip and failed to appear in the main film, although the expression was relatively convergent, she still "shook back".
In the filming stage of the crew, she also dared to publicly complain about the indecency of the male star who cooperated.
Although the attitude is not as direct as in the "non-mainstream period", Liu Yaser's true temperament is also impressive.
From the age of 15 for the "draft fame and fortune" to the 33-year-old now crowned golden statue, Liu Xin's transformation to Liu Yaser is full of sad past, which can also make people cry.
And despite all the hardships she has experienced in the past 18 years, she has finally worked hard and reaped fame and fortune to live as she was originally expected.
10 years ago's "draft back to the pot meat", to 10 years ago's "Academy Awards Film Queen", Liu Yaser used her efforts to modify the ending for herself.
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