According to CCTV news, at the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Rabbit, Shen Teng and Ma Li brought a skit "Pit" that criticized and satirized "lying flat" cadres, which was the seventh time that Shen Teng and Ma Li collaborated on the Spring Festival Gala. CCTV's "Face to Face" column interviewed Ma Li.
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Best partner
In the entertainment industry, Shen Teng and Ma Li are recognized as the best partners, and they have been with each other for more than ten years in their careers, walking the red carpet together, going to the Spring Festival Gala together, and making movies together, achieving a sympathetic friendship.
Reporter: Before the interview, I sent a message to Shen Teng, today I want to interview Ma Li, what do you want to say to her? Guess what he replied to me?
Ma Li: Hurry up and record it, and go after recording the skewers.
Reporter: He said please tell her, let her pay attention to her body, and take more good scenes.
Ma Li: Paying attention to the body is also what we tell him now, as an old partner, we are more concerned about this, and physical health is the most important.
Reporter: There are comments on the Internet that you can't see Ma Li leaving Shen Teng, what do you think?
Ma Li: I was angry at first, but then I thought they were right. With the happy twist team and the gang together, just these few pages, these ten minutes, we can polish day and night, we are working hard in one place, the feeling of fighting side by side, so we can produce good works when we are together.
Reporter: But in fact, there will be a voice in your heart saying that I am also good without Shen Teng, how can I prove that I am indeed very good?
Ma Li: Just rely on yourself, we said when we talked together, Brother Teng is 1, I am also 1, Allen and Chang Yuan are each 1, but when we add a piece, it is the moment of the explosion of the universe, the most energetic team.
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Seen by comedy
In a way, Ma Li was pushed to become an actress. When she was a child, Ma Li grew up under the careful care of her mother and stepfather, and in 2001 she was admitted to the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama, where she had excellent professional results, but it was not until her mother's business failed and she called her to borrow money, she took the first step to become an actress.
Ma Li: First of all, financially, this question is very realistic, and the other is emotional, you find that your mother needs to rely on you. I used to think that she was superhuman, omnipotent, she didn't have any worries, but after the identity changed, you found that the bits and pieces of life need to be carried by a person, her difficulties, her difficulties.
At that time, Ma Li had just graduated from college, and no one asked her to film, and when someone recommended a role for her, Ma Li would feel happy, even if it was only a small role.
Ma Li: At that time, it was only 50 yuan a day, and I remember it clearly, it was raining that day, and it was overcast and drizzling outside. I put on a makeup for myself in the house, and my hands were shaking because I wanted to take this opportunity so much. I went to see the director, and the director said, it's okay, it's good, you come, let's act. A few lines, ten sentences, that was my first job.
Reporter: Did you only earn 50 yuan?
Ma Li: A 50 yuan, and then began to act in a small theater drama, at that time it was a little better, a little more than 50 yuan, but I still didn't have enough, I think this money may be difficult to support myself, not to mention the need to bear such a burden at home. I started going out to class, teaching children, teaching acting, going to the bus at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, going to a long distance, more than an hour, an hour and a half, and after that, I started the day's classes.
After becoming an actress for a while, Ma Li made a decision and began to turn more to the stage of drama.
Ma Li: I once went to an interview with a crew, and the director took the photo in front of me and said, who is this? What or something... These are very unpleasant words, and I was stupid after listening to them. I felt my self-esteem hurt at that time, and I knew that I didn't mean the kind of girl who looked very beautiful at first glance, beautiful girl. But my kind of confidence and low self-esteem are tangled together to fight, I don't want others to hurt my self-esteem, and then I don't run the group.
Reporter: Will it make you doubt and question whether you still want to do it in this industry?
Ma Li: I didn't doubt my profession, I thought the director should have a pair of glasses.
Reporter: You see that you are still very strong inside.
Ma Li: After experiencing so much, I found that the image stuck in it is the best and most versatile, and the median value is suitable for a variety of roles, I can play the old, I can also play the young, I can create this kind of role that the audience can't recognize, that is, it will surprise the audience and shine in front of their eyes.
Reporter: They said that good actors must be scattered in the pile of people and can't be found?
Ma Li: That's right, like the audience thinks that Ma Li was acting in a drama at the beginning, I acted in comedy when no one knew me, and the comedy saw me. I said I was the lucky one and that's it, I was passive, I was seen by comedy.
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Be a treasure actor
In 2005, Ma Li joined the comedy team of Happy Twist Stage and created a series of successful works and characters. In 2013, she participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the first time and collaborated with Shen Teng in the sketch "Today's Happiness 2". In 2014, she participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala again and performed the sketch "Helpless". In 2015, the comedy movie "Charlotte Troubles" was released, and Ma Dongmei, a sports student played by Ma Li, was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Subsequently, comedy works such as the movie "One Thought of Heaven", "Catsman" and "Iron Fist of Shame" made her a cutting-edge force in the Chinese comedy industry.
The sketches of the Spring Festival Gala, the happy twist stage and several movies that were quite successful at the box office made people have an impression of Ma Li and think that she was a comedian.
Reporter: You said that comedy has to be advanced, and if you want to act in high-level comedy, I am wondering what the meaning of advanced is?
Ma Li: In my heart, first you have to be serious about doing comedy, and then it is a unique way of humor, not a spoof, not a so-called self-destructive image. I've seen some comedies and actresses before, and I feel very distressed when I watch it myself, and this distress is that I know that she may not want to do this, but there is no way, because the actor has to obey all kinds of instructions.
Reporter: Maybe for many people, her choice at that moment was that I would stay away from the label of comedian in the future.
Ma Li: Yes, "Charlotte Troubles" was just popular when the audience first met me, and the scenes I found at that time were all for me to play ugly and spoof, not the characters, I think they thought you should go like this, and the audience would laugh. I just want to say that in addition to comedy, I can create different types of characters, but you don't see it.
Reporter: Which work made you no longer entangle with the five words "comedy actress"?
Ma Li: I really forgot, I think the label "comedy actress" seems to be really because I have made a lot of works later, I have the opportunity to touch different types of works, I have also tried, and I have been seen by the audience.
In 2018, Ma Li posted photos in the circle of friends to announce the news of her marriage. In 2020, 40-year-old Ma Li became a mother. This year, Ma Li participated in two movies: the sci-fi comedy "Walking on the Moon Alone" and "Siberian Tiger" was successfully launched, and there were media comments, and Ma Li threw away her comedy face in the movie "Siberian Tiger", proving with strength that she can act in a serious work.
Reporter: At that time, playing "Siberian Tiger" was that you wanted to prove yourself?
Mary: No, it's because I love the character. I didn't need to prove it at that time, I just felt that if I met a good character, I had to catch it. And acting is the same, comedy is just a form, the so-called formal drama literary film, when you see different characters, different Ma Li, this is actually back to a role, the actor itself. After seeing that she is quite funny, and then watching her very serious and serious to shape the role, and find that she can still do this, only then will you find her light and the feeling that she is a treasure actor.
Reporter: You finally accidentally said that you missed it, you asked yourself to be a treasure actor in your heart, then you should be a blind box actor and open a blind box.
Ma Li: That's accurate, blind box, that's great. I also don't know what the next character will look like, what will be drawn, and I will open this blind box with the audience.
Reporter: Surprise everyone.
Ma Li: Yes, surprise, maybe shock.
Source: CCTV News
Duty Editor Gu Li