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Since the arrival of the first year of traffic, the entertainment industry has become more and more mixed.
Looking at those little fresh meat who can't act but are held hard, "castrating" our eyes on the screen, countless audiences have lost their expectations for domestic dramas.
Maybe it's hearing the voice of the public, or maybe the times have changed. In the past two years, more and more middle-aged drama bones have been excavated and reused.
Looking at the roles interpreted by these people, the public understands what it means to "wash your eyes"!
Zhang Jiayi
Zhang Jiayi, born in 1970, has starred in "Daobeiren" and "Halfway Couple", but the ratings are mediocre, and the audience does not have much impression of Zhang Jiayi.
In 2009, after the release of Worm, it exploded, making Zhang Jiayi, who has always been unknown, become famous overnight.
At this time, he was over forty years old.
Song Siming in the play has become a representative of successful men, the secretary general of the government of a certain tier of large cities, holding heavy power, driving a Land Rover, buying a house, buying a car, doing things, and flirting with girls.
Song Siming, a corrupt official who combines power, wealth, ability and temperament, is vividly portrayed by Zhang Jiayi, and his good professionalism is stimulated, making the character itself more attractive.
Since then, Zhang Jiayi has become a first-line star.
According to normal thinking, this age is about to go downhill as an actor, if you act, you can also play a supporting role, starring is generally impossible, but Zhang Jiayi broke this evil and went all the way to Changhong.
Since then, as if on a hanging, the star path has been smooth.
For a time, good dramas came one after another, "Cliff", "My Physical Education Teacher", "Emergency Department Doctor" and so on, all of them are good dramas, and all star.
The explosion is not only a good script, good acting skills are fundamental, and it is the unremitting continuous learning and improvement that can support him to continue to be popular.
After years of hard work, he has gained fame and fortune and wealth freedom, but even if he suffers from spondylitis, he has never stopped filming.
In terms of personal feelings, he is even more clean, unassuming, self-disciplined and low-key, and there have never been rumors about him in the entertainment industry.
He also never relies on scandal hype and does things in a down-to-earth manner.
Zhang Jiayi is popular in his forties, not because he is lucky, but because he has solid acting skills, and when he encounters a good script, he is bound to be popular.
Jin Dong
Jin Dong was also forty years old when he filmed "The Pretender".
After the release of "The Pretender", Jin Dong was fired, although he was not the first star, but he gave the audience a bright feeling.
Some people say that this is not a spy war drama in the true sense.
Different from the spy war dramas filmed before, they are full of mysterious, depressing, and terrifying atmosphere, and this drama, the plot is ups and downs, unpredictable, and slightly witty and light, and people who watch it are addicted, which can be called a classic.
The eldest brother Ming Lou among the Ming brothers played in the play is really tireless and endlessly memorable.
He has multiple identities, one side is the minister of economy of the Wang puppet government, on the other hand is an undercover agent of the military system, and on the other hand is a liaison to the underground party of the CCP.
Although it is complicated, it can switch freely, move through the clouds and flow, there is truth in falsehood, there is false in reality, and there is no trace of changing identities.
On the surface, he will be Sven's eldest young master, and the other will be a veteran of the love scene who is merry and mixed.
In fact, behind the intricate relationship, he is really a strategizing behind-the-scenes operator, and everything big and small is in his hands.
In life, he is a good big brother of two younger brothers and a good brother of his eldest sister.
The surface wind is light, and the inner undercurrent is surging. Multiple emotions are mixed. Role-playing can be described as difficult.
Like Zhang Jiayi before becoming famous, he is also a lonely and unknown person, filmed several unpopular dramas, and played several roles, most of them are tricky, and they are small transparent in the entertainment industry.
Jin Dong is a thick accumulation, and he has many years of skills to interpret this role so wonderfully.
After becoming famous overnight, Jin Dong continued to work hard, successively cooperating with Liu Tao, and cooperating with Ma Yili and other works, and all of them are boutique.
"Ode to Joy" plays Shanghai's legendary business figure Tan Zongming, the proper five bosses of the diamond king, like a girlfriend, always protecting Andy and tolerating everything about Andy.
It can be said that in addition to love, he can provide Andy with everything, such as a job, a house, a car, and a high-end social circle.
At critical moments, he is more like a life coach as a spiritual guide, and he is simply a god-like existence.
Just think, who doesn't want a confidant and friend like Tan Zongming?
For example, the drama that cooperated with Ma Yili is not to mention, a plot of sending umbrellas on a rainy day, so that He Han is popular all over various short video platforms, and the audience only remembers He Han and forgets that he is Jin Dong.
What's funny is that there are even news on the Internet that many aunts fall in love with He Han and want to run away from home, which is ridiculous.
Women all over the world want an all-powerful boyfriend like He Han, which shows that He Han has been deeply implanted in people's hearts. This is the effect that can only be achieved by interpreting the character to the extreme.
Therefore, Jin Dong's success is not accidental, it is the accumulation of many years, the time and place, and the success created by his extraordinary strength.
Liu Mintao
In recent years, when it comes to middle-aged women who are active on the screen, Liu Mintao is definitely indispensable. Although he is 46 years old, he still has a graceful appearance, his temperament remains, and he continues to shine on the stage without fear of age.
Liu Mintao, born in 1976, graduated from Chinese opera, and has also made a lot of films on and off, probably looked at the title of the play, almost never watched it, because they are all small supporting roles, and there are not many opportunities to appear on camera.
But the acting skills in the play are still very good, but Liu Mintao does not have a great sense of career.
In her concept, she believes that a woman's life should be to marry a good husband, be a woman behind a successful man, and film is just a hobby.
Therefore, at the age of thirty, Liu Mintao chose to get married and have children, and married a rich husband with quite good conditions.
After marriage, with the backer of a rich husband, he directly gave up his career and was at ease at home with his husband and children. I thought that I would live with peace of mind for a lifetime, but in fact, nothing is eternal, including marriage, and a marriage certificate does not mean that a woman is insured for life.
A few years after Liu Mintao got married, Liu Mintao accompanied his daughter, took care of the elderly, and lived quietly. The husband also had a more successful career, often traveled and had little time home.
Slowly, the children also went to school, and the husband's career also improved by leaps and bounds. And she is alone at home with nothing to do and no income, so she can only reach out and ask her husband for money to live.
Over time, she found that the distance between her and her husband became more and more distant, and even communication was a little difficult, and she became the most familiar stranger.
It is not as imagined, the male protagonist and the female protagonist are discussing their lives.
But everything is decided by the husband, who has no autonomy in spending money at home, like a bird in captivity, living on the handouts of her owner.
Sadness arose, and she suddenly woke up to the fact that she couldn't go on like this, that life couldn't just go on like this, that she had to seek change and find her original self.
In 2013, Liu Mintao finally bravely took the first step, got out of marriage, reworked his career, and actively found the crew to film.
In 2015, after the release of "The Pretender", the show was a huge success.
Liu Mintao, who plays the resolute and calm eldest sister of the Ming family in the play, has been unanimously praised by the audience. Mingjing, the eldest sister who cherishes her family and country, and has to take care of the three brothers of the Ming family, has a righteous face, does not anger himself in her eyebrows, and her acting skills simply surpass the role itself.
Although there are also young actresses such as Wang Ou and Song Yi participating in the play, the most successful actor is undoubtedly the image of Sister Mingjing.
Immediately afterwards, he starred in the sister drama "Langya List" of "The Pretender".
In the play, she plays Concubine Jing, does not compete with other harems, does not fight for power, looks down on everything, lives a life away from harem disputes, and receives a wave of praise from the audience.
In recent years, he has received invitations from many variety shows, and announcements have been continuous.
In this way, 47-year-old Liu Mintao is still interpreting his acting skills in various roles. And, more and more exciting, more and more confident.
Wu Gang
After the release of the TV series "In the Name of the People", the role of the secretary of the municipal party committee was played by Wu Gang, and overnight, Li Dakang became popular on the Internet, and micro-expressions were made into various memes by netizens, which were extremely cute.
Wu Gang was born in 1962 and works in Beijing Renyi.
When he was in elementary school, he was selected to join the children's performance team because of his liveliness and cuteness, and at this time, Xiao Wugang had a small dream and wanted to be an actor when he grew up. Later, he finally wished to be admitted to Beijing Renyi, and has been mainly acting in dramas.
He once played Wang Jinxi in the famous TV series "Iron Man" and won the Best Actor Award.
He also played Lu Qiaoshan in "Lurking", is it a little familiar in retrospect?
Before becoming popular, he was a dispensable existence in the entertainment industry, although he also participated in many roles, although the quality was good, but he was not remembered personally.
When he played "The People", he was already 55 years old, and he himself did not expect that he would be popular in his fifties.
Actors speak by their works.
Wu Gang's popularity is not accidental, it is the strength of iron fighting plus good opportunities.
He likes to meticulously craft his works, and every movement and every look of the characters in the play strictly requires him to do his best.
When filming "The People", in order to play Li Dakang well, he observed the expressions, postures, and movements of various big leaders on the video every day, imitated countless times in front of the mirror at home, and even the Li Dakang emoji that later became popular on the Internet, each of which was specially designed by himself.
During the interview, he said that he was usually a common man, but now he suddenly wants to play such a big person as the secretary of the municipal party committee, and he must make great efforts to achieve a god-like leader.
Last year, he was invited by director Chen Kexin to play Yuan Weimin in "Winning the Championship".
This year, Xu Zhong, who starred in the task force in the TV series "Crazy".
In the play, he was complained that he had undergone plastic surgery, his face was puffy and deformed, and for a while there were continuous bad reviews on the Internet.
It turns out that a facelift does not exist at all? But because of the attack of nephritis during filming, in order not to affect the progress of the crew and work with illness, the degree of dedication is amazing!
epilogue
The so-called sudden popularity, in fact, is the result of ten years of grinding a sword, silently working hard in a corner invisible to others, the audience will be aesthetically tired of little fresh meat and little fairies sooner or later, only the deep shaping of the role is the real material, and powerful actors can go further.