In early March, the theater ushered in a niche movie: the adventure film "Wasteland" starring Ren Suxi and Li Chen.
The work tells the story of the heroine Jungle played by Ren Suxi, and her brother played by Li Chen who encountered a desperate situation in the Gobi, and had no choice but to go forward alone to find a ray of life for each other.
In fact, there are many excellent works that an actor supports a play, but the requirements for actors are very high.
For example, Leonardo won an Oscar for "Survival in the Wild", and the following year, South Korea's "national treasure" actor Ha Jung-woo came out with a shocking "Tunnel".
It can be said that the idea of supporting a work with the strength of one person is very remarkable, but Ren Suxi has actually done it.
As an actress who has no advantage in appearance, and even once became its shortcoming, Ren Suxi also supported her own acting path with her acting skills.
It can be said that in the "85 flowers" camp with a fairly fierce involvement, she has always been a unique existence - since the popularity of "Donkey Gets Water" 7 years ago, Ren Suxi has been breaking through herself.
And the support behind this is actually the grind of suffering since childhood, the controversy of emotional life, and the awe of performance.
1. Ill-fated childhood
Ren Suxi, 34 years old this year, originally had a very happy family, his father was an erhu player in his early years, and his mother was a kindergarten teacher, and he could also sing and dance.
She also has an older sister, who inherited her parents' literary talent from an early age, but later her father switched careers to salespeople in order to make a living.
In order to make his daughters strong and brave when they grow up, Ren Suxi was named Ren Guotao by his father, but he never took it lightly in raising his two children.
At a very young age, her sister began to learn to dance, and Ren Suxi mainly learned to play the piano.
But the good times did not last long, when she was 10 years old, her father was suddenly diagnosed with cancer, and died in just one year.
In order to treat his father, the family stopped all unnecessary expenses, including her sister learning to dance and learning to play the piano herself.
But the father still hoped that his daughter could not give up halfway, so he said to his mother: "My disease is already like this anyway, so don't spend any more money, buy her a piano!" ”
Before his father died, he once said to Ren Suxi: "If I leave one day, you must take care of your mother." ”
After the father left, the debt owed in order to treat the disease had to be repaid, but the mother and daughter were really unable at that time, and on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve year, in order to avoid the debt, the mother had to take her daughters to hide outside and watch the fireworks, but did not dare to go home.
In those years, at a young age, she tasted the warmth of the world and the coldness of the world, so she was even more determined to work hard and never live such a life in the future.
But in the face of the real problem to be solved, in desperation, the mother chose to remarry.
But what they didn't expect was that life with a "new father" was not much better.
At the age of 13, Ren Suxi and her sister were taken to her stepfather's house, where she also had an older sister and a younger brother.
In this restructured family, Ren Suxi and her sister are just "outsiders", and they are constantly treated favorably by their stepfather: on Children's Day, the new sister and younger brother have pocket money and toy gifts, but they do not.
Even in daily life, the sisters could not eat good things, even if it was left by others, the stepfather would not give it.
The days of sending people under the fence passed for 4 years.
At the age of 17, Ren Suxi began to take the college entrance examination, and her mother expected her to enter a normal school and live a dull life after graduation.
But she still remembers the days when she learned the piano, sang and danced by her biological father many years ago, so she filled in the Chinese opera directing department on the college entrance examination volunteer.
This was the first time she had disobeyed her mother's wishes, and it wasn't until the notice came down that the family knew that this unremarkable girl was assertive.
The mother did not criticize her, but said lightly: "What bowl of rice the child wants to eat, what she wants to do, let her do it, and in the end there will always be a road to accompany her in this life." ”
In fact, at that time, Ren Suxi's favorite major was the acting department, but because the tuition fee was too expensive, he "saved the country with a curve" and was admitted to the directing department.
In addition, there is another reason: taking the directing department and not looking at the looks.
2. A fantastic and colorful acting path
Indeed, Ren Suxi is not good-looking, with a long face, small eyes, and too high cheekbones, and was discriminated against before becoming famous, so he walked a lot of roads before coming to the public.
But after her debut in the film and television circle with "Donkey Gets Water", she suddenly stepped on the hearts of some audiences and was praised for her own taste.
In Chinese opera, Ren Suxi was naturally obsessed with drama:
It was when she was a sophomore, and she was "dragged" on the stage of drama by her senior brother and sister by chance.
Originally, she went to help, but Ren Suxi's extraordinary performance made the teachers applaud, and she herself felt the love for acting and the feeling of being familiar with the road.
Soon after, she participated in the drama sketch competition of Chinese opera and won the Best Actor Award for her outstanding performance in the work "The Beginning of Man".
At the same time, Ren Suxi also sparked with Li Yang, a classmate of the acting department, and the two later spent a very unforgettable time with each other's growth and companionship.
In the same year, at the age of 22, she debuted in the feature film "The Eighth Clay Man", but more time she was still immersed in the stage of drama to hone her acting skills.
At that time, she was paid 300 yuan for acting in a drama, and in order to save money, she squeezed the bus to the performance site.
In this way, Ren Suxi acted for 10 years, during which she won a lot of praise, although the public did not know, but she was famous in the industry.
In 2009, director and screenwriter Zhou Shen suddenly found her and invited her to play the heroine of her drama "If, I Am Not Me".
That was Ren Suxi's first time as a heroine on the drama stage, she was anxious and nervous, but she was sincere and very rare explosive, so she was well received.
Since then, Ren Suxi has starred in drama works such as "Broken Formation", "Fox Xiaojing" and "Silent Scream", and tried many different styles.
Especially in 2011's "Threesomes Can't Work", she played multiple roles by herself, challenged the speech speed of 15 to 20 words per second, and added a lot of performance forms of opera, dialect, and ventriloquist, so she won the Best Actress Award at that year's "Wind Horse Cow Theater Festival".
The following year, Zhou Shen appeared in front of her with his new work "Donkey Gets Water", and Ren Suxi was immediately attracted to the complex role of Zhang Yiman.
However, there was no big splash when "Donkey Gets Water" was first performed, but after a few performances, the audience gradually increased until there were more than 200 performances.
In particular, Ren Suxi's performance is full of tension and ease, making the audience cry one second, and laugh the next, and because of this, she was hung up by the outside world as the "Queen of Small Theater".
It can be said that Ren Suxi and the comedy actress Ma Li who came out of the happy twist team have very similar paths to popularity.
But in terms of life background, they are very different - Ren Suxi looks particularly distant because of his early upbringing: vulnerability seems to be strong.
Her relationship with her boyfriend Li Yang also blossomed in 2014, and the two staged a romantic proposal on one knee after a curtain call.
The year after his marriage, Ren Suxi starred in the drama, and every one of them was almost full, and even the corridor aisles were full of audiences.
3. "85 flowers" that are different
Everyone knows that in 2016, the release of the film version of "Donkey Gets Water" made Ren Suxi seen by the audience overnight.
But few people know that before this, she had already been out of the sky in a small area, and she was busy on the stage every day, and her relationship with Li Yang fell into a period of exhaustion.
Especially at that time, Ren Suxi also had a male partner named Dong Bo beside him, and the two got along day and night, and their relationship gradually became hot.
In the same year that Ren Suxi became popular with "Donkey Gets Water", she suddenly filed for divorce with her husband, and the man did not agree at first, but she was too persistent.
In desperation, Li Yang withdrew, and because of this, he suffered too much blow, causing him to suddenly lose his ear in one ear, so he had to return to his hometown to recuperate.
But Ren Suxi has embarked on the fast track of popularity, and has successively starred in the online drama "Your Taste", the movie "Hanging with Your Heart", "Nameless", etc., with acting skills that constantly refresh the audience's expectations, he has become the leader of "good actors are coming".
How strong was Ren Suxi back then?
She was named "the most dramatic actress of the year", and the number of votes even exceeded that of "actresses" Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi.
However, too much exposure can also bring unexpected annoyances.
In 2019, a topic about "Ren Suxi's new love" quietly climbed the hot search, followed by the intimate interaction between her and her male partner Dong Bo, drinking a cup of milk tea.
Immediately, she was also suspected of cheating and meddling, and Dong Bo was also found to have divorced in 2017.
His wife Ma Qiya and Ren Suxi's ex-husband Li Yang also came out one after another, saying that "if he is not worthy of the position, there will be disaster."
In this regard, Ren Suxi never came forward to explain more, and still focused on his acting career.
In "Me and My Motherland", released the following year, she and Zhang Yi collaborated to play a couple with no fate, so that the viewer silently wet the corners of their eyes.
In the subsequent "Finding Han Scheme", Ren Suxi portrayed Wang Zhao, an older young woman who was unexpectedly pregnant, and was also called by netizens as "only she can perform this aura".
In last year's hit TV series "Dear Child", Ren Suxi played Fang Yinuo, who was entangled between two men, and she who had not given birth at the same time, also interpreted the image of her mother very well.
This work is adapted from the movie "Left and Right", the role of Fang Yinuo originally had the "acting bearer" Liu Weiwei Zhuyu in front, but Ren Suxi completed the shaping of the role brilliantly, and the acting skills definitely did not "pull the crotch".
In the now popular "Wasteland", Ren Suxi began to challenge himself again.
She placed herself alone in the vast and uninhabited Gobi, challenging a very difficult one-man show with acting skills beyond the public's imagination.
Some people say that Ren Suxi in "Wasteland" has completely jumped out of the level of performance, but uses a real state in a desperate situation to reveal the physiological response of a person struggling with life and death.
In an interview, Ren Suxi said bluntly: "This shooting is the glamour of fighting with nature, and as an actor, you can experience this time and will not regret it." ”
Therefore, the audience can also follow the heroine's perspective to "immerse themselves" in watching the movie - this is the charm of "Wasteland" and the reason for Ren Suxi's insistence.
It is worth mentioning that she also composed a song with her own unique charm for the lyrics of this movie, and the lyrics will still touch people's hearts:
"Where there are poets, where there are deer.
Where there is firewood, which household.
O gods, light the lights, and the stars show the way.
One step grass grows, one step hurts. ”
And being able to write such words is enough to show the desolation and stubbornness in the heart of this "non-appearance actress", I believe this is also her greatest confidence in bravely coming to this day.
Looking forward to Ren Suxi stepping out of the "wasteland" and out of his own unique scenery.