A few days ago, there was a big uproar in the entertainment industry.
At the 57th Golden Bell Awards ceremony.
Xie Yingxuan won the post-visual crown with "Heaven on the Fourth Floor".
But something went wrong in the speech session.
As soon as she opened her mouth, she mistakenly said that the object of thanks was the screenwriter of "The Cultivation of Vulgar Women".
After reacting, he subconsciously burst into foul language.
The scene was bursting into laughter, and the whole thing was also out of the circle.
Afterwards, Xie Yingxuan herself went down to play a meme and knelt down to the director to "beg for mercy".
Vivid and casual, funny and funny.
Just like the appearance of Chen Jialing, the heroine of "The Cultivation of Vulgar Women".
And the confidence of this sense of relaxation stems from Xie Yingxuan's career explosion in recent years.
"Vulgar Girl" series, the Douban score is as high as 9.3.
"Lonely Taste" is recognized as the best female film in Chinese in 2020.
"Who fell in love with him first" even helped her to seal the golden horse.
But unfortunately, "celebrities are not popular".
To this day, many mainland audiences are not familiar with her.
In the barrage of works, the most common is the praise of this "unknown actress".
Today let's simply take advantage of this happy event to talk about this "vulgar girl" actress -
Xie Yingxuan
"Vulgar Girl" Xie Yingxuan
For Xie Yingxuan, the audience is most familiar with the work "The Cultivation of Vulgar Women".
39-year-old Chen Jialing works hard in Taipei.
She rejected a low-hanging fruit marriage.
quit a seemingly glamorous job.
Twenty years away from home, the first time is empty.
When I set off, I was full of pride, but I returned as a vulgar woman.
Chen Jialing went back to her hometown in Tainan.
Looking back at my own path of cultivating a lay woman from childhood to the present.
In the fireworks of the world, he unexpectedly gained healing and courage.
The story proceeds in two lines, in which Xie Yingxuan plays the adult Chen Jialing.
The audience can build tolerance and love for this character.
Even the wrong words at the award ceremony became reasonable because it was Chen Jialing.
And all this is largely due to Xie Yingxuan's acting skills.
The reason why Chen Jialing broke up at the age of 39 in the play is because she has seen the future after marrying her Mabao boyfriend.
At this age, some bottom lines really don't want to let go.
After the breakup, Chen Jialing gained a short period of freedom.
She tidies up, cleans the house, and lives healthily.
From time to time, he dances passionately in the joyful air of freedom.
But anxiety, as a vertigo effect of freedom, also comes with it.
The relationship of the past four years has fermented in an unemployed life of failure at an older age.
So he jumped and jumped and poofed down, laughed and laughed and cried.
Xie Yingxuan's "vulgarity" stems from the emotional opening and closing.
"Mad and crazy", without any baggage.
She doesn't care if her expression is "exaggerated to ugly".
The real breath of life hung on every mess of her hair.
The emotions that drove the audience also cried and laughed.
The "five stages of sadness" on the way home are also famous scenes.
Denial — anger — bargaining — melancholy — acceptance.
Every stage is fun, realistic and extremely precise.
Before becoming a "vulgar woman", Xie Yingxuan's emotional expressiveness had been released on the big screen.
In "Who Fell in Love with Him First", Liu Sanlian played by Xie Yingxuan is pathetic and pitiful.
When her husband died, all the insurance money was left to the male lover.
The marriage she paid for her youth ended up full of lies.
Liu Sanlian was resentful, puzzled, and helpless.
She is alone with her children and bears the pressure of life.
But there is no one to tell, there is nowhere to vent, so that the whole person is in a state of stress.
In the film, Liu Sanlian was played by Xie Yingxuan several times of emotional release:
Weep and sit in the shrine and question your dead husband.
She speaks of revenge, but the audience can see the humility and reluctance.
Consulting a psychiatrist, anger made her curse incessantly.
But remembering that he was an adult and needed the last decency, he forced a smile.
Then she picks out the remaining hope from what little reason remains.
A small question that broke everyone's hearts was asked:
"Without a little love, just... Not at all, not at all?"
Then fell into a long silence.
This small problem almost became the subject of the film.
Successfully knocked on the hearts of the audience and the Golden Horse judges.
Xie Yingxuan is like the "magic pen Ma Liang" among actors.
She brought Carina Chen and Liu Sanlian into reality and breathed the same air as us.
Frustration, resentment, gain and loss, can all be felt with empathy.
"There's nothing wrong with being a vulgar girl."
At a time when spiritual exhaustion hollows people out, this primal passion is precious.
But what many people don't know is.
Xie Yingxuan, who combines people and drama, was also once said to have no heroine's life.
"Good" actress
Xie Yingxuan was born in 1979 and went all the way to high school as a dance student.
After coming into contact with theater by chance, I actually liked it very much.
But he took the exam twice before he was admitted to the drama department of Taipei University of the Arts.
At home, parents pursue a beating and scolding education.
At school, the teachers are also very demanding.
Acting has become a more serious thing than expected.
Xie Yingxuan has been "unsmooth" since she began to learn acting.
Compared to mainstream actresses, she is really not beautiful enough.
Therefore, it is often said that it is impossible to become the "heroine in the eyes of boys".
She is 176 tall, which is not an advantage for actresses.
Even if it is difficult to find opponent actors, Xie Yingxuan still has her own unique performance rhythm.
So campus time has also become her supporting role time.
But Xie Yingxuan was not convinced because she liked to perform.
No teacher told her why she couldn't play the leading role, so she took the initiative to theorize.
Without the lead role, she will make the only supporting role as best as possible.
She believes in hard work more than talent.
Xie Yingxuan walked all the way and was hit all the way.
The income is not high, and he was also named the "poorest queen" when he won the award.
When asked in interviews whether to choose between dreams and bread, they bargain like Carina Chan.
"A job that you love with a salary of 30,000 (NT$)" VS "a job that you don't like with a salary of 200,000"
These experiences made her "vulgar" enough to play small people as if they were their true colors.
But at the same time, years of supporting roles' "marginal experience" and judgmental blows about appearance have given her a "good" sense of femininity.
In the environment of quick success in the entertainment industry.
Xie Yingxuan cares more about whether the work touches social issues.
She is not only content to create vivid characters, but also hopes to use her works to make her voice heard.
For example, the mother-daughter relationship.
In Admiralty's work "Heaven on the Fourth Floor".
Xie Yingxuan plays a psychological counselor who has a close relationship with his mother.
In the process of untying the deadlock of the mother-daughter relationship, the actor asks one question after another with the help of the character's mouth.
She doesn't want to repeat her mother's mistakes, and she can't complete understanding and communication across generations.
Even if you specialize in human psychology, you can't solve your own problems.
It reflects the similar contours of many East Asian mother-daughter relationships.
Another example is society's evaluation of women.
In the movie "Lonely Taste", Xie Yingxuan's A-Qing is a dancer.
Personality free, circling in multiple relationships between men and women.
Even when he learned that his cancer had returned, he still looked like he didn't care about himself.
But behind the escape, there is still a bitter aftertaste for the audience to taste.
When understanding the corner of A-Qing.
Xie Yingxuan is aware of the stereotypical feedback that the surrounding environment brings to women.
She purposefully fills up the characters in an attempt to twist some prejudices with performance.
starring in "The Cultivation of Vulgar Women" is also out of a kind of release.
Xie Yingxuan doesn't just want to change the way she performs nervously.
I also want to complete self-construction through Carina Chen's joyful experience.
The same 39-year-old inside and outside the play, the film and television obviously tell more than Chen Jialing's life.
Like the older vulgar daughter Chen Jialing, Xie Yingxuan is now 43 years old and unmarried and childless.
The questions thrown by the media are always age and aging, marriage and childbirth.
In Xie Yingxuan's answer, it is more of a mature woman's insight than anxiety.
She realized that the actress's fear of aging stemmed from the pathological aesthetic requirements of society.
Marriage and childbearing are also supposed to be the result of the independent search for happiness.
Now it has become a shackle, but it is actually due to the general environmental discipline.
Too many people think that women are incomplete without marriage.
But even the definition of "complete" is not of unknown origin.
This attitude is also reflected in the characters created by Xie Yingxuan.
Just as Chen Jialing's refusal to marry is precisely because she wants to preserve herself.
Keen and delicate observation, amplified when equipped with suitable works.
Xie Yingxuan's heavy thinking and rumination complement "The Cultivation of Vulgar Women".
The actor makes the role, and the role completes the actor.
The soil of the "vulgar woman"
People often use "late bloomer" to describe Xie Yingxuan.
In addition to its own tools, it also needs opportunities to play.
The erection of Taiwanese women's dramas provides it with suitable soil.
Whether it is 39-year-old unmarried woman Chen Jialing.
Or A-Qing, who seems dashing but is actually trapped by freedom.
Or Liu Sanlian, the overly cheated mother.
In terms of character setting and image complexity, it is difficult for domestic entertainment to match.
Xie Yingxuan also mentioned many times how lucky she is to have such a role to play.
On the other hand, the treatment of women's dramas in domestic entertainment is still limited so far.
For example, under the banner of not being afraid of age, the actress is sharpened to distortion.
Self-deception, on the contrary, seems to be escapism.
Not only that, but the performance opportunities for older actresses in the circle are still scarce.
Haiqing once stood on the podium and shouted.
Express the plight and helplessness of Mesozoic actresses, and call for and even implore the market to give more performance opportunities.
Such shouting requires courage, but it leads to "show" and "embarrassment" in the follow-up.
And in this year's phenomenal movie "Hidden in the Dust".
Haiqing really smashed the doubt with the role of Cao Guiying.
Mesozoic actresses have accumulated rich life and acting experience, which is obviously just in time.
It shouldn't just disappear into a corner where the audience can't see.
Similarly, in the highly discussed drama "The Beginning", Liu Dan, the actor of Aunt Pot, has also attracted national attention.
She successfully portrays a villain who takes revenge on society into a three-dimensional and sensible way, allowing the audience to see the real pain of losing her daughter.
For powerful older mesozoic actresses.
It seems that only the size of a gap can carve a flower.
At the same time, actors are distinguished from stars, enough to blur age boundaries with acting ability.
Just like when Xie Yingxuan was interviewed, instead of feeling that the path of acting will come to an end due to age, she looked forward to one day being able to perform to the end of her life like the old Japanese drama bone tree Xilin.
Develop the possibility of giving back to the actor over the years.
The movie "Mom" released not long ago made such a valuable attempt.
The 85-year-old mother (played by Wu Yanshu) and the 65-year-old daughter (played by Xi Meijuan) live together.
Who knew that the daughter who was supposed to care for her mother suffered from Alzheimer's disease first.
The film does not become cliché, but opens up a new field for discussion of women's topics.
As long as people live, they will have stories.
The limitations of film and television for presenting women's stories are further broadened by the film.
Wu Yanshu, one of the leading actors, also won the Temple of Heaven Award for Best Actress for her wonderful performance in the movie.
You see, this place is not without stories, and it is not that it cannot give birth to a powerful actress.
Maybe they're worse than a chance to be seen.