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In 2015, a piece of news about changing corners pushed Zhang Jiayi to the cusp of public opinion.
The TV series "White Deer Plain" has been filming for 3 months, but Zhang Jiayi temporarily replaced the actress who played the role of "Bai Ling" as an art producer, and the newcomer actor on the top had a lot to do with him.
However, it took 6 years for the truth to be exposed.
The actress who was replaced is Li Meng, who has been debuting for 12 years, and she has experienced many times in the situation of being deleted.
Tragically returned in the middle of filming, what did Li Meng do wrong?
What kind of sharp comments did Li Chengru make to her? What is the root cause of Li Meng's public anger?
Like many stars, Li Meng also accidentally hit and crashed into the road of acting.
In the third year of high school, because I watched a movie starring Vivien Leigh, I longed for the actor industry, and secretly applied for the Beijing Film Academy without my parents.
Li Meng is very talented in acting, and finally successfully got the admission letter of the North Film Performance Department, and Yang Zi, who debuted as a child star, became a neighbor classmate.
Unlike Yang Zi's young fame, Li Meng started his acting career after going to college.
And her resources are too good to say, just in her freshman year of college, she was discovered by the producers and went to the screen.
It was 2010, and the famous writer Chen Zhongzhong's novel "White Deer Plain" was adapted into a script and was about to be put on the screen.
When the cast of the "White Deer Plain" crew, director Wang Quan'an picked Li Meng, who was full of aura and clear eyes, to play the role of "White Spirit" at a glance.
Moreover, after watching the "Bai Ling" played by Li Meng, Chen Zhongzhong was also very satisfied, praising Li Meng's youth and bravery in performing this role.
For 18-year-old Li Meng, who just got such a good script and was highly praised by the original author, her starting point has been higher than many peers.
Following this trajectory, she is likely to make her debut and reach the top.
However, what everyone did not expect was that after the film was released, the scene of "Bai Ling" was almost deleted, and even the love line of the film became a family line.
Moreover, after 6 years, when Li Meng starred in the drama version of "White Deer Plain", he was returned tragically in the middle of filming.
Years later, Li Meng once said with choking that he would never appear in "White Deer Plain" again in his life.
"White Deer Plain", a novel that has won many awards such as the Mao Dun Literature Award, has an extraordinary position in the literary world, and the author Chen Zhongzhong also attaches great importance to this work.
At that time, the film of the same name deleted all the scenes of "Bai Ling", which made Chen Zhongzhong regret it.
Later, in order to fully show the historical changes of the 50-year span of "White Deer Plain", he pinned his hopes on the TV series version of "White Deer Plain", but the filming of this drama also experienced ups and downs.
The production team of the drama version of "White Deer Plain" is very sophisticated, since the official establishment of the project in 2010, it began to polish the script, and finally spent 2 years to adapt more than 500,000 words of the novel into a script of more than 1 million words and as many as 85 episodes.
In order to interpret this national epic, the production team did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of 220 million yuan to build, invited more than 90 main roles and nearly 40,000 extras, and there were more than 400 behind-the-scenes workers, but with more actors, funding has become a big problem.
At that time, director Liu Jin had great trust in Zhang Jiayi, a native of Xi'an, and in addition to making him a leading actor, he also gave him an artistic supervisor position to participate in the entire filming process.
Later, Zhang Jiayi did not hesitate to personally invite many old drama bones and powerful actors in the show business to appear in this drama at a discount, and the reason why everyone would buy it was inseparable from the touching words he said.
"There are many opportunities to make money, but there is only one chance to star in 'White Deer Plain.'"
At the end of April 2015, after the actors personally went to the countryside to experience for three months, the crew of the drama version of "White Deer Plain" was officially formed.
From setting up a film and television base in Bailuyuan for 8 months, to transferring to Shanxi, Beijing, Shanghai and other places to shoot, it took more than 220 days and nights to shoot more than 2,000 scenes, and after more than a year of post-production, in mid-April 2017, the drama officially met with the audience.
The drama finally received a Douban score of 9.0 points, with rave reviews, and the only slot point is that the actress Sun Iridium, who plays "Bai Ling", has empty eyes and no soul in acting.
In fact, the actress originally found by the crew was not Sun Iridium, but Li Meng, who had previously starred in the role of "Bai Ling" in the film "White Deer Plain", and on weekdays, she often shared her filming daily life on the Internet.
However, in 2015, when the filming of "White Deer Plain" began 3 months ago, Zhang Jiayi, who served as art producer and star, directly asked the crew to replace Li Meng.
Three days later, a newcomer actor who had just graduated from college, Sun Iridium, parachuted into the crew, Sun Iridium was no one else, it was Zhang Jiayi's student.
Because of the close relationship with Sun Iridium, this corner change storm has plunged Zhang Jiayi into the whirlpool of public opinion.
Because Zhang Jiayi always ignored the speculation and doubts of the outside world, the matter became confusing, and it was not until 6 years later that the truth of the matter was exposed.
In 2021, Li Meng, who has been silent for many years, stood on the stage of "I Am an Actor 3" as a contestant.
At that time, Zhang Jizhong and Li Chengru on the jury table both mentioned the same old things and asked in public the reason why Li Meng was returned by the "White Deer Plain" crew halfway.
Li Meng was obviously unwilling to answer this question, and he couldn't say why he didn't come for half a day.
Seeing the situation, Zhang Jizhong directly and sharply pointed out that Li Meng was difficult to engage in the crew, and Li Chengru immediately gave a sharp comment, if she had not provoked the crew, she would not have been replaced.
Seeing that his fig leaf was torn off on the spot by the two big men, Li Meng had to admit in public that his personality was flawed, and Zhang Jiayi finally unloaded the "black pot" for 6 years.
So, what did Li Meng do wrong?
It is reported that Li Meng often plays big cards when filming, completely according to his own wishes to "add drama", "reduce drama", and cancel the performance, and one person delays the shooting progress of the entire crew.
Not only that, she also had no respect for her predecessors, and often pointed fingers at powerful actors such as He Bing, Qin Hailu, and Li Qin, accusing the other party of acting dull and pretentious, which made Zhang Jiayi look anxious in his eyes.
Until one day, Li Meng hated the unpalatable food of the crew, Zhang Jiayi couldn't bear it, and fried Li Meng's squid in public.
In addition to being returned and deleted, Li Meng's reputation in the industry is not good, and the producer of "Old Style" publicly accused her of frequent unprovoked disappearance at the press conference, and the director exposed himself to be angry with her.
Zhang Songwen, an actor who has worked with her, revealed that during the filming of "The Hidden Corner", a scene where she said lines while peeling apples made the director very satisfied.
The director wanted to shoot again from a different angle, but she had to shoot with the exact same apple, so that the prop team was still buying apples outside at 12 o'clock at night.
Zhang Yuqi couldn't help but say that Li Meng was completely serious about the wrong place, everyone knew that there were no two identical apples in the world, and this pile of piles showed that Li Meng's personality was too stubborn.
Why? Li Meng is an authentic Xiang girl, born in 1992 in Changsha, Hunan Province, an ordinary family, because her parents are busy with work, she grew up with her grandparents to live.
The more generations apart, the more proximate, the grandparents are very doting on Li Meng and are never willing to scold. Later, Li Meng went to Canada alone to study, and did not return to his parents until he was 12 years old.
Perhaps it was this kind of growing environment that made her develop a pampered personality, self-centered, completely self-centered, and did not care about the feelings of others.
If it is not a small card trick, just one "White Deer Plain" can make Li Meng gain fame and profit.
I don't know what everyone's views are on Li Meng's behavior of playing a big card? What do you think of her acting skills? Feel free to leave a comment in the comments section.