If you want to say which actor can be collectively bombarded by insiders, criticized for playing big names, having no artistic virtues, and being frequently deleted and changed roles, Li Meng is the only one.
She cried angrily with the director, the producer was about to be driven crazy by her, and Zhang Jizhong said that she was notoriously difficult in the circle.
Li Meng is probably the actor who offended the crew the most, was the most frequently deleted scenes, and was collectively bombarded by insiders.
may say this, there are still people who don't know who Li Meng is, and they also wonder how an actor who is not famous can play a big name so much and offend so many people.
Li Meng is well-known to the public for playing Wang Yao in "The Hidden Corner", Zhu Yongping's wife, Zhu Jingjing's mother, and Zhu Chaoyang's stepmother.
Before this, Li Meng had cooperated with many big directors, Wang Quanan, Jia Zhangke, Jiang Wen, Ding Sheng, Guan Hu, Xu Anhua and Li Yu, etc., and made a lot of literary films, known as the "new goddess of literature and art".
In his early 20s, he was already taking his works to Cannes.
It stands to reason that the starting point is so high, the acting skills are good, and he has a face with a story, it should be promising, how can he be dumb like this.
There's only one reason for all this – to play big.
It was so outrageous that it was collectively sued by the makeup artist, the crew, the actors, the director and the producer.
Li Meng's first play was Wang Quanan's movie "White Deer Plain", in which she played the role of "Bai Ling".
When Wang Quanan was casting "Bai Ling", he thought that the actors who had debuted for many years did not have a sense of purity in natural carving, so they had to choose newcomers.
Li Meng, who was 18 years old at the time and was still a freshman at Beijing Film Academy, stood out from 3,000 candidates.
The first work of his debut was to play the role of a great director, and he still played a very positive and likable role, which is really a very rare opportunity for a newcomer.
Li Meng also cherished this luck, and went to the countryside to experience life two months before the movie started.
However, when the movie was released, Li Meng's role was "cut off".
Wang Quanan's statement is that the length of the movie is limited, so he has to delete the line of Bai Ling played by Li Meng.
However, the crew said another thing, saying that Li Meng's acting skills were insufficient.
But in any case, Li Meng has attracted attention for playing this role, and her performance has been affirmed by Chen Zhongzhong, the author of the original work, and when the drama version was being filmed a few years later, Li Meng was strongly recommended to play the role of "Bai Ling" again.
During this period, Li Meng acted in a lot of films, and cooperated with big directors and well-known actors.
In particular, she starred as the heroine of a unit of Jia Zhangke's movie "Destined", and her acting skills were unanimously praised, and she also walked on the red carpet in Cannes, becoming the first post-90s actress in China to appear at an international film festival.
This posture, no matter how you look at it, is a rising star.
However, when she starred in "Bai Ling" again, the reason why she couldn't become popular was completely exposed.
The production team of the drama version of "White Deer Plain" is very elegant, the script has been polished for several years, and 220 million yuan has been spent, and the starring roles are all powerful old drama bones, Zhang Jiayi, He Bing, Qin Hailu and Liu Peiqi.
Encountering such a good production team and being able to cooperate with such an excellent actor is a rare opportunity, and it can be regarded as an opportunity to make up for the deletion of the movie version.
However, Li Meng happily joined the group, but she was returned by the crew within two months, it is said that her role has been filmed a lot, but the crew would rather bear the loss, and resolutely replace her if she is replaced and remade.
The reason is because she has played big names many times, making "sassy operations" such as lying down and letting the stylist half-squat to style her.
She lay comfortably on her own, and from time to time she picked up the osmanthus and smelled it, and the stylist had to cooperate with her very much.
However, in order to take into account Li Meng's reputation, the crew did not say a word about the role change incident.
Zhang Jiayi even recommended his student Sun Yi to replace Li Meng, causing the two to be detained in the pot of "unspoken rules", and this pot has been carried for several years.
This incident was not exposed back then, but it took several years before it was exposed.
was kicked out of the crew by "White Deer Plain", Li Meng not only did not reflect, but continued to play a big name in another crew "Old Voice" after a year.
After signing the contract, she missed the contract, asked for additional and reduced scenes, and all kinds of late arrivals and early departures during filming, making more than 100 people in the whole crew wait for her, and even often lost contact, and her emotions were easily out of control.
told the director on the scene that he wanted to add a scene, but the director and producer did not agree, so they scolded people on the spot and made a lot of noise in the crew.
When she waited for the premiere of "Old Voice", as the heroine, she simply disappeared and didn't even participate.
Producer Li Linhong is also really unbearable, when Li Meng is mentioned, he is quite emotional, accusing Li Meng on the spot that he has never been on time, and she never replies to sending her messages, and the entire crew from top to bottom has been Xi to her playing big names, bluntly saying that she has no artistic virtue.
The director also revealed that he was cried by Li Mengqi, and when the premiere was about to end, he even slapped the stool to vent the anger in his heart.
This scene is really sad to watch, the producer and director who has the most voice in the crew are so angry that a little girl is so angry that she cries, and she is so angry that she wants to go crazy.
However, it didn't cause much discussion at the time, if it were today, an actor would have been scolded miserably if he was accused by the producer and director of having no artistic virtue.
It is said that there are no more than three, but on Li Meng, there are not only three, but also four.
Lu Xuefeng, who was in the same crew of the movie "That My Dearest Stranger", bluntly expressed her dissatisfaction with Li Meng.
said that when filming a scene, all the staff were ready to be in place, Li Meng touched a handful of hair for 15 minutes, and asked the whole group to wait for her in the sun.
filmed "The Hidden Corner", for an apple, for a teacher.
There is a scene of peeling apples that Li Meng added by herself, and director Xin Shuang felt that she had filmed this scene very well, so she wanted to shoot it again from another angle.
Li Meng agreed, it's okay to reshoot, but you have to find an identical apple for her.
The prop master gave her an almost identical apple, but Li Meng stopped doing it, and insisted on being exactly the same as the previous one.
There is nothing exactly the same thing in the world, but if she can't find something she is satisfied with, she won't shoot, and the prop master will be miserable, and she will find her exactly the same apple on the street at half past twelve in the morning.
All kinds of acts, even if they have not been exposed to the public eye, Li Meng's "notoriety" has long spread throughout the circle.
After all, the presentation of a film and television work requires the full cooperation of the entire crew, and each link requires a lot of effort.
If you are a little unsatisfactory, you will not do it, let alone in the crew, even in the ordinary workplace, it is a nightmare to meet such a colleague in the team.
Li Meng, who is so arrogant and has offended countless people, finally tasted the consequences, and several scenes he starred in were deleted.
Jiang Wen's "Evil Does Not Prevail Over Justice" and Bi Gan's "The Last Night on Earth" scenes were all deleted, and "That My Dearest Stranger" was originally the heroine's role, which was cut to be similar to the female supporting role.
The wind review is so bad that the crew who wants to cooperate with her has to think twice.
Zhang Jizhong directly named Li Meng in "I Am an Actor", Li Meng is very difficult to do, no matter how good her acting skills are, she will not be used.
After being bombarded by peers so many times, the scenes were cut, and the roles were changed, Li Meng still did not reflect.
Many years later, in "I Am an Actor", Li Chengru asked her why she was replaced by "White Deer Plain", and her answer was that she didn't understand the reason herself.
Li Chengru continued to ask questions, saying that if he hadn't overturned the crew and producer, how could he replace the female number one in the middle of filming and let her find her own reasons.
Li Meng couldn't say why, and in the end she blamed it on her own character flaws.
However, this reason cannot be confused.
In the end, she could only say that she was more sensible now than in the past, and apologized to the person who had caused trouble with tears in her eyes.
also posted an apology on Weibo afterwards, begging everyone to give her a chance to be an actress.
This belated apology is from the bottom of my heart, realizing that I did something wrong, or I had to bow my head in the face of the audience and my future career in the show.
This will require her future actions to prove it.
Since then, Li Meng has reined in a lot, and there have been no rumors of playing big names, and he has become low-key.
She has also been filming, and her works are released and broadcast every year, including last year's movies "In the Octagon Cage" and "Parrot Killing".
In all fairness, Li Meng's acting skills are very good, and he also has his own ideas about acting.
Her appearance also belongs to a very story-telling face, distinctive and recognizable, with a signature thick lips and a slightly wider eye distance, the whole person looks sexy and pure, and very tense.
But acting skills and looks alone are not enough.
Learn art first and learn morality first, and be a person before acting, if you can't do this, you are destined to not go far.
There is still a long way to go, and there is a chance to correct mistakes that have been made, so I hope she can really make a change.