44-year-old Qin Hao returned to the suspense drama market after three years, and cooperated with Fan Wei, the creator of "Hidden Corner" and "actor", to come up with a new work "Long Season".
At present, more than half of the show has been broadcast, and the score has rushed to 9.0 points, which is higher than "Hidden Corner", and is known as "a work of gods" by the outside world.
But in addition to him joining with actors with good reputations such as Fan Wei and Liu Lin, the heroine in the play is "Post-00s Little Flower" Li Gengxi.
Li Gengxi, who just passed his 23rd birthday, was at the peak of his debut, and once became a popular candidate for the "New Four Little Hua Dan", both in terms of acting skills and resources.
However, after she became popular, she fell into a bottleneck period in her career because of several controversial incidents.
And after the broadcast of "The Long Season", can Li Gengxi regain the popularity he lost?
1. The strongest "resource coffee flower"?
The year Li Gengxi became popular, he was only 18 years old.
She is not from a science class, and her family is mysterious, and the known information is that she was sent to the United States to study in junior high school, and later joined the school's drama club because of her hobby, and thus showed her acting talent.
Li Gengxi can become famous as a teenager, and there is another key information: her father is a classmate of actress Xu Jinglei who learned to draw together when she was a child.
Xu Jinglei's background does not need to be repeated, although her parents are ordinary workers, they later went to the sea to do business and found a neon factory, and their family is prosperous.
Her parents attached great importance to the cultivation of Xu Jinglei, so she was sent early to learn calligraphy, learn to draw, and sing rock.
Although Li Gengxi's family situation has not more revelations, it is difficult to guess that it is either rich or expensive, and Xu Jinglei also publicly confided in the show: "I don't understand why children from this family have to enter the entertainment industry?" ”
When he was 15 years old, Li's father accidentally mentioned to Xu Jinglei his daughter who liked acting, and it happened that the latter was preparing an online drama project, so he decided to let her try it.
At this time, Xu Jinglei had begun to gradually withdraw from the work in front of the stage, focusing on running film and television companies and training new people.
And Li Gengxi happened to appear at a key time point, the two hit it off, and then she was successfully signed, and Xu Jinglei also spent 10 months to personally teach her acting skills.
In 2017, 17-year-old Li Gengxi made her successful debut with the girlhood of the heroine Mo Yuhua in the TV series "So You Are Still Here".
The following year, she became the female marshal of Scorpio Star in the online drama "Classmates 200 Million Years Old", Abe Dorai, although she did not become popular, but became the capital for Li Gengxi's future popularity.
Because soon after, Li Gengxi successfully came out of the circle with the role of Qiao Yingzi in "Little Huanxi".
She played Qiao Yingzi, the most important and complex of the several children in the play:
Her body has Fang Yifan's naughtiness, as well as Ji Yangyang's external coldness and internal heat, and Lin Lei'er's simple shyness.
It can be said that Qiao Yingzi is not easy to play - because she has a strong mother and a father who left home early, she has developed a lively but sensitive personality on the surface, and will also treat her mother with a flattering attitude.
Li Gengxi completes the role very well, whether it is crying or laughing, or cautious, touch-triggered, her completion is very high, which will make people who watch TV inevitably substitute into the lives of friends or themselves.
Yes, Li Gengxi performed the "human taste" on Qiao Yingzi, so it is very easy to empathize with the audience, which also makes her the most popular "post-00s little flower", and the limelight once approached Zhang Zifeng and others.
At the end of the same year, she also appeared in the variety show "I am an Actor 2", and made a touching and profound clip with Ni Ping, which was praised by Li Chengru and Zhang Ji as the bigwigs in the circle, and was even said to be "the best performing of all the students".
Especially the "partner" Ni Ping, even made a wish directly to the camera to Li Gengxi, who dropped out of school for filming:
"I know the vice president of the New York Film Institute, and if you want to go to school, I can recommend it for you."
But she was directly rejected by Li Gengxi, and it was obvious that she did not go to study.
Even if Zhou Qi Liu Jiayi, who collaborated with "Little Huanxi" soon after, and Zhang Zifeng in the show's sister "Little Parting", were both on the North Shadow, "Qiao Yingzi" was unexpectedly absent.
However, next, Li Gengxi's film contract continued, gradually showing the state of "dominating the screen", and the development was indeed better than that of the small partners in the same period, but it also ushered in a huge controversy.
After "Little Huanxi", Li Gengxi starred in works such as "Twenty Not Confused", "Flower Moon and Round", "Knife in the Snow" and other works.
Compared with the many post-00s actors who have sprung up one after another, Li Gengxi's resources can indeed be described as "against the sky", which also makes her a "resource coffee" in the eyes of the audience.
To be honest, this label is not friendly.
After all, there were Jing Tian and Yang Ying who had resources against the sky before, and later actresses such as Liu Haocun and Yao Anna, but their acting paths were questioned.
Will Li Gengxi break this "curse"? Apparently not.
2. Looks indifferent and the drama path is limited?
Since 2020, Li Gengxi's works have been continuously released, but among these works that have been broadcast one after another, her shortcomings were soon discovered:
Li Gengxi in "Twenty Not Confused" is no longer the only girl character in "Little Huanxi", so she is no longer a "group pet".
Especially when the rival actor is the big beauty Guan Xiaotong and the cute and round Dong Siyi, Li Gengxi does not seem to have so much presence.
The subsequent broadcasts of several works are all ancient puppet dramas, although she is a solid heroine and a star-studded existence, she is still questioned.
In "Sword in the Snow", Li Gengxi played the "princess of the dead country" Jiang Mu, which is also a complex role:
Because of her fate of national security, she was reduced from a noble princess to a lowly maid, and the drama conflict was particularly strong.
Therefore, the ginger mud in the audience's heart should be an image with a rich heart and decisive work, and she has the appearance of a country and a city, which makes the show full of expectations before it is broadcast.
But Li Gengxi's interpretation of the ginger mud is extremely embarrassing, such as the atmosphere that should have been a killing when he appeared, but she and the male protagonist played the feeling of flirting with the little two.
In terms of appearance, she is not good, because her appearance is on the weak side, and her lips are drooping, so she is not pleasant.
In terms of facial management, ginger mud is also a slight failure, so it was ridiculed by netizens: "Only frown, pout, roll eyes!" ”
There is no doubt that the "light of post-00s acting" that was originally highly sought after suddenly became ineffective in ancient puppet dramas, and it also broke Li Gengxi's original career planning rhythm.
It also triggered a fierce discussion on "whether such a low-looking actress can play a stunning beauty".
But Li Gengxi is not for nothing:
In addition to passing the acting skills, her appearance is actually very recognizable.
The reason why "Qiao Yingzi" can become one of Li Gengxi's representative roles is also because it is very in line with her own temperament.
She laughs very sweetly, especially if she looks very childish, but due to the faintness of her facial line, and the sugar is reduced, if she encounters a good shape, she will be very outstanding.
But if he doesn't smile, Li Gengxi will seem weak enough, especially the two temperaments of calm and unworldly affairs will be conveyed in his eyes, which will form a sense of narrative that actors should have.
Perhaps this is enough for an actor - after all, the screen cannot always be a peerless beauty, as long as she does not act, she will have her own unique stage.
Last year, Li Gengxi finally stopped acting in ancient puppet dramas and came up with the inspirational sports competition drama "Beyond", in which she played short track speed skating young player Chen Mian.
This role once again attracted her attention, and the reason was also that "the grandmaster rewarded the food, and the acting skills should not be underestimated".
In fact, in order to shoot this role well, she trained skating with other actors a month before filming began.
In addition to sliding standard and freely in front of the camera, Li Gengxi also comprehensively shows the process of the heroine Chen Mian getting up again after experiencing being denied by her family and coaches, competing by herself, and finally falling again.
In the play, she once again staged a crying scene with strong empathy, and when she played against powerful actors such as Hu Jun, Sha Yi, Tu Songyan, Zhang Guoqiang, etc., she did not lose at all, very relaxed and natural.
But in fact, she did not "become popular" because of this work.
The reason is that in addition to being suspected of "resource coffee", it is also deeply affected by negative black materials such as "fake purity".
3. Is it fake innocence or little sister?
At the end of 2019, Li Gengxi had just become popular, and was photographed by paparazzi smoking on the street with a strange man, and then threw the cigarette butt directly on the ground, and the "Qiao Yingzi" filter shattered.
After the matter fermented, she immediately came forward to admit her mistake and promised to "standardize her behavior more in the future."
In fact, it is not unusual for celebrities to be filmed smoking, but Li Gengxi was only 19 years old at that time, and he was very skillful in swallowing clouds and fog, which is puzzling.
After all, before this, she took the "pure little flower" route.
Less than a year later, in September 2020, Li Gengxi was once again photographed returning to Beijing to gather with his friends, during which he smoked while walking.
The wrong norms were filmed twice in a row, making the audience realize that sometimes, watching an actor really separates the character and the actor himself, which inevitably affects everyone's view of Li Gengxi.
Until "The Long Season", she returned, and the Shen Mo played by Shen Mo had light makeup and no concave beauty, just an ordinary girl who seemed to have come out of a school.
The appearance in this drama inevitably reminds people of "Qiao Yingzi" a few years ago.
Judging from the current updated plot, this is a girl who is sunny on the surface, but depressed in her heart and has been hurt a lot.
Like a puppet, she was hurt by her adoptive father in the name of love, and eventually brutally murdered.
In fact, being able to win this role shows that the resources of Li Gengxi's agency are still powerful - Qin Hao is a 3-year return of the suspense drama, and also pulled the "Golden Horse Film King" Fan Wei to "carry the sedan car", as the heroine in the play, it is difficult not to be noticed.
And the surprise is that Li Gengxi still lived up to expectations and played the role of Shen Mo just right.
I just hope that in the future, she will think about what she wants when taking over the play, after all, each actor's ability to shape the role and the way he is good at it are limited.
As long as Li Gengxi remains in his comfort zone for a few years, he is bound to make great achievements in the future.
Li Gengxi, who is looking forward to better: In fact, it is not shameful to play "Qiao Yingzi" many times, as long as they can be performed with different tastes, it is an actor's success.