Jin Dong responded to the question, want to retire? "The Pretender" has been 8 years, and he still misses the sister-brother relationship with Liu Mintao
Recently, Jin Dong, who brought the new drama "Welcome to McNuggets Village", was interviewed by Tencent Entertainment, and the topic inevitably talked about many doubts about himself from the outside world.
Throughout Jin Dong's popularity of "The Pretender" broadcast in 2015, he has been immersed in homogeneous characters such as "old cadres", "bosses" and "elites", and his acting skills have been ridiculed because of this.
In the interview, he talked about these doubts again, and bluntly said: "In fact, I have also filmed a lot of doctors, judges, public relations and other industries", and also said that "I am basically going to retire".
In fact, Jin Dong is only 47 years old, and he has a large number of fans, and he is at the most "golden" age of middle-aged actors, why did he talk about "retirement"?
In the interview, he also mentioned the deep friendship between himself and Liu Mintao, the two have known each other for 25 years, and they also successfully became popular with a "Pretender".
Although the work has been on the air for 8 years, their "sister and brother relationship" is still very good.
1. "Older art students" debuted too late
In January 1976, Liu Mintao was born in Yantai, Shandong.
Jin Dong was born in Jinan, Shandong Province in December of the same year, and the two are both fellow countrymen and have been admitted to Chinese opera in the future and become sisters and brothers, and they do have a deep relationship.
Jin Dong's family is well-off, and it is rumored that his father started his own business when he was young, and started by selling electrical appliances in the 80s, but when he was very young, his parents divorced because of their incompatible personalities.
His mother then left with his sister and restarted the family, while Jin Dong and his sister were left to live with his grandmother.
In an interview, Jin Dong said that he had been the youngest student in his class before going to college.
But in fact, because of the lack of parental companionship, his youth was not good, and he graduated from secondary school early and began to work.
Jin Dong worked as a waiter, salesman, and resident singer in his early years, and even opened restaurants and teahouses with his own efforts.
In 1993, by chance, he participated in the TV series "Oriental Merchant" and became interested in acting.
A few years later, he starred in TV series such as "Grandson" and "Mother".
Because of starring in "Mother", Jin Dong met Liu Mintao, and the two started a 25-year relationship.
It was also this year that at the age of 23, he decided to take the Chinese drama exam and become an actor in the future.
However, at that time, there were regulations in Chinese opera that only students under the age of 22 were accepted, and Jin Dong, who was overage, went directly to the admissions teacher's office to fight hard and got the opportunity to interview.
In 1999, he entered the music script class of the Department of Chinese Opera Performance and began a four-year study.
At this time, Liu Mintao has been debuting for 7 years.
She is a student of the 93rd undergraduate class of Chinese opera, because of her excellent professional grades, she began to take over the drama in her sophomore year, and has starred in works such as "Fengyang Boy Zhu Yuanzhang" and "Love in Troubled Times".
It's just that neither of them expected at that time that their acting career was not as smooth as they imagined:
Liu Mintao chose to marry and retire because of the rising period of his career, while Jin Dong spent a long "waiting period" after his debut.
During his studies, as the oldest student in the class, Jin Dong was not very outstanding, although he also took a few plays, but they were all mediocre.
It wasn't until 2003, the year he graduated, that he successively participated in the TV series "Young Daqincha" and the movie "Autumn Rain".
Especially after "Autumn Rain" was released the following year, Jin Dong was successfully nominated for the Outstanding Newcomer Award at the Huabiao Awards that year.
At that time, he was also a "fresh meat", but it seemed that because he had not experienced the polishing of the years, he didn't look special at that time, so his acting career was always tepid.
In 2006, because of the filming of "Sad Mother and Son", Jin Dong, who was 30 years old, and Jiang Shan, the actress who played his mother in the play, fell in love because of the play.
The two had an age difference of 9 years, but they still sparked and soon lived together.
At this time, Liu Mintao also ushered in love, she met a wealthy businessman at a dinner party in 2007, and the two quickly fell in love, so they quickly got married, quit the circle, and became a full-time wife.
But the first relationship between this pair of "sister and brother" failed to end well.
2. 39-year-old both ushered in the "turn red"
Jin Dong and Jiang Shan have been together for 5 years, in addition to the outside world is not optimistic, the woman's daughter is also strongly opposed, and finally the two parted ways.
During this period, he worked the drama stage, and made a name for himself in the industry for starring in "Sunrise", and the actor Fang Dasheng was also rated as "the closest to the original existence".
In 2010, Jin Dong participated in the crew of the TV series "Youth Never Say Die" and met actress Li Jia.
The two played a couple in the work, and soon extended their relationship outside the play.
Li Jia is 1 year younger than Jin Dong, and it is said that he had a short marriage with a wealthy businessman before, and Jin Dong did not care about this, and they soon held a low-key wedding.
It can be seen that Jin Dong has special expectations for family and marriage, and after getting married, Li Jia gradually faded out of the showbiz and concentrated on being a full-time wife.
On the other hand, Liu Mintao, who is also a "full-time wife", has not been as sweet as he imagined after marriage, especially after giving birth to a daughter, her husband is still tired of coping with business and has become a "hands-off shopkeeper".
Moreover, her husband is becoming more and more disdainful of her efforts, and even if she wants to buy an ice cream, she can't make her own decisions.
In 2014, Liu Mintao filed for divorce after weighing it up, and chose to "kill" back to the entertainment industry at the age of 38.
With the connections and strength she had accumulated before, she easily got the script of "The Pretender", and played the leading role in the play, playing the role of the female number one and the red entrepreneur Spiegel.
And Jin Dong plays the second male lead and the famous Minglou in the play.
After the show was launched, it was highly praised, so some people said that their popularity was an overnight hit.
But in fact, Liu Mintao met director Kong Sheng as early as 2004 because of her role as Kui Juner in "Qianmen Louzi Jiuzhangjiu", and her superb acting skills won the praise of the other party, so they cooperated many times later.
Before "The Pretender", Jin Dong also appeared in popular works such as "Wenzhou Family", and the themes and roles he played were different.
Until this time, the two siblings collaborated again in "Welcome to McNugget Village", and Jin Dong's evaluation of this was: "The feeling of reuniting relatives." ”
This is not the first time Liu Mintao has come to help Jin Dong "cameo" in his works, and the two have also collaborated on "Elite Lawyer" and "The Bottom Line" before.
Regarding the fact that the two can often work together, Jin Dong revealed: "She has the mentality of coming to help me, and this time she agreed to come to the star to overcome many difficulties." ”
It is reported that because the filming locations of "Welcome to McNugget Village" are in Hainan and Africa, and it is in the hot summer, Liu Mintao was sunburned and allergic, "but she never said it, it is really admirable."
However, after becoming popular with "The Pretender", both of them have been questioned for their acting skills, especially Jin Dong.
After performing "Ming Lou", he took out fashion dramas such as "Ode to Joy", "The First Half of My Life", "Mr. Love", and played elite fans, which made people question the "homogeneous performance".
Even the "poisonous tongue" Jin Xing once publicly said: "My favorite Jin Dong, the role is too similar, and everything he plays is the same." ”
But in fact, at the same stage, he also had roles with different themes such as "Hu Bayi" in "Exquisite Ancient City" and "Zhuang Shu" in "Surgery".
And the reason why everyone has "aesthetic fatigue" with Jin Dong may be the biggest reason is that his appearance is indeed very "domineering", especially after he is older and mature.
He himself once reluctantly said that due to the influence of his appearance, he really couldn't play the boy next door, nor could he play the angry male protagonist in the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law drama, and complained that he missed a lot of roles because of this.
3. Don't want to "repeat yourself" and are about to retire?
In the past two years, Jin Dong has also been constantly challenging different roles, and it can be seen that he is trying to get rid of the troubles caused by his image.
For example, in the pastoral drama "Warm Taste" broadcast in 2021, he became Sun Guangming, the secretary of the long-sleeved and good dancer.
In "Breakthrough" broadcast in the same year, Jin Dong played the "anti-corruption expert" Qi Ben'an who was ordered in danger.
It is said that when he received the director's olive branch, he originally wanted to refuse, feeling that he "did not fit this image" on the grounds that "Qi Ben'an is too passive and often has a sense of powerlessness, which is different from the roles he played before".
But in the end, he still played Qi Ben'an's difference,—— no longer "hegemon", nor "elite style", but a lot more down-to-earth.
Last year, Jin Dong challenged to play the role of "Fang Yuan", a bit of a mother-in-law and mother judge in "The Bottom Line", and was affectionately called "Aunt Fang" by the audience, which shows that the "sacrifice" in order to restore the role is still quite big.
Throughout this year, he has released three works:
Tang Chen in "The Wind Rises" is a "down-and-out boss" who suddenly suffered betrayal and went bankrupt.
Lu Feng in "Infernal" made Jin Dong return to "The Pretender" and appeared as a new undercover agent, but the response was not as big as "Ming Lou", which is a pity.
Then there is "Welcome to McNuggets Village", where he plays the doctor again, but it is completely different from "Surgery" a few years ago.
Some people use "down-to-earth" to evaluate this drama - and this evaluation may be what Jin Dong wants to see the most.
After all, before this, he was affected by the character of "boss" and seemed very suspended.
In an interview, Jin Dong bluntly said that he actually did not approve of the "homogeneous" performance evaluated by the outside world:
"Every time I take on a play, I must figure out what I hope to present and convey through this role, this drama. ”
In fact, as an actor, the last thing he wants is to "repeat himself".
In addition, Jin Dong also said: "I will retire after filming these two films. ”
In fact, this is not the first time he has mentioned retirement.
In an interview a few years ago, Jin Dong also bluntly said that he "wants to retire", the reason is: "I want to return to the stage, the stage makes me feel that I have more time and space." ”
Maybe it's not a lie.
Some time ago, Mei Ting was on the hot search because of her curtain call in a drama performance, and netizens left messages: I haven't seen her so enthusiastic and unrestrained for a long time, and I can see that I really like and immerse myself in drama performances.
At the beginning of this year, Liu Mintao also returned to the stage to star in "Strange People in the World", and bluntly said in an interview:
"The stage has always been in my heart, in that place in the deepest part of my heart, there is no substitute. ”
Jin Dong has a bigger goal for this, he said that as a theater worker, he plans to make more and better works on the drama stage in 10 to 15 years.
Then look forward to a different him, and play more on a different stage.