The original work of "Dream of Red Mansions" describes Qin Keqing, "Merry and graceful, like Daiyu, bright and charming, like Baochai", is a beauty with the beauty of both Daiyu and Baochai.
Qin Keqing is a mystery-like character, her life experience and experience are all riddles, she disappeared like a glimpse of the little space, and she was the first of the twelve golden hairpins to die.
The 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" has many actors' fateful coincides with the characters they play, Chen Xiaoxu died early, Ouyang Fenqiang had a bad fate, Ji Yu was devout to Buddha, and Zhang Li turned to the shopping mall to become an outstanding businessman......
Qin Keqing's actor Zhang Lei is the same, she looks like a flower and moon, and was named "the first beauty of the Red Mansion crew", which was once a mystery, and she withdrew from the circle and disappeared from the public eye after filming "Dream of Red Mansions", but the audience missed it for decades at a glance.
However, unlike Qin Keqing, Qin Keqing had a tragic fate, but Zhang Lei outside the play lived happily and smoothly.
At that time, the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" recruited actors in the form of national auditions, and Zhang Lei, who was already a drama actor at that time, was selected and became the first batch of actors to enter the Red Chamber training class to study Xi.
Zhang Lei has a good face and a weak and sentimental temperament, so she became a candidate for the Daiyu group with Chen Xiaoxu, Zhang Jinglin, Hu Zehong, Wang Xiaojie and Shen Lu.
Judging from her appearance, temperament and acting ability, Zhang Lei is a very suitable candidate, and she was indeed Daiyu's first choice at that time, Wang Fulin felt that Chen Xiaoxu was not beautiful enough.
There is only one reason why Zhang Lei was brushed down, that is, she is old, and she is not suitable for playing a girl in her twenties.
The protagonists of "Dream of Red Mansions" are a group of young boys and girls, young and budding, and they have to be filmed for several years, and the actors are too old to present the state of a girl.
The director weighed it again and again, and finally decided to let Zhang Lei play Qin Keqing, who is delicate and has a romantic temperament, and is somewhat similar to Lin Daiyu.
Qin Keqing has very few roles in the play, but Zhang Lei doesn't care, because she decided to go abroad for further study before joining the group, and she has already submitted an application and is waiting for the visa to come down.
Qin Keqing's role is just right, if she plays a lot of roles, she will have to stay for a long time, and she is worried about delaying going abroad.
And Zhang Lei also felt from the bottom of her heart that Chen Xiaoxu was Lin Daiyu, her temperament was too special, and she was Lin Daiyu when she went there.
Although there are few scenes, Zhang Lei is not lazy at all, she has studied Xi training class for more than three months, studied the original work, listened to the lectures of red experts, and she took notes for the role of Qin Keqing alone.
To what extent does she understand the knowledge and characters of the Red Chamber?
The neighbor's child was studying Chinese at Beijing Normal University, and the character who wrote the paper happened to be Qin Keqing, so he came to ask Zhang Lei, who had listened to the master's lectures, for advice.
Zhang Lei told him all the knowledge of "Dream of Red Mansions", character analysis, and expert opinions that she had Xi learned in the training class, and his thesis was very successful, and it was also praised by professors and schools.
In the play, Zhang Lei has a "large-scale" scene, and the filming of "Qin Keqing's obscene funeral Tianxianglou" requires her to show her shoulders.
This was undoubtedly a very bold move in the more conservative era at that time, not to mention in front of so many people.
The sisters on the crew also joked with her that she was going to shoot a pornographic videotape.
Zhang Lei is very professional, after the director made a request, she filmed without any objection after completing the psychological construction, and it was still a pass.
Compared with other actors who have been in the Red Mansion crew for three years, Zhang Lei's stay is relatively short, only a few months, but this experience has become an unforgettable experience for her life.
I got along very well with the actors in the crew.
Maybe it's because they both like to read and have similar temperaments, and Chen Xiaoxu, who is a competitor, is very compatible with Chen Xiaoxu.
Both of them have a little sadness, but Zhang Lei's appearance is sweeter than Lin Daiyu, and she is very sweet when she smiles.
Chen Xiaoxu is a very lively and cheerful personality, but with Zhang Lei, she has become very quiet, treating her as a big sister, and the two often walk together on the trails of Xiangshan.
After knowing that Zhang Lei sang well, Chen Xiaoxu asked Zhang Lei to teach her to sing "The Moon Represents My Heart".
Zhang Lei also gave Chen Xiaoxu a high evaluation, praising her for being very studious.
Because Zhang Lei wants to study abroad, she has few roles, so the director ranks Qin Keqing's roles first.
When the director informed her that the filming had been completed and Zhang Lei's visa had come down, she left the crew and went to the United States to study, and there was almost no news for the next 20 years.
After Zhang Lei left, Dream of Red Mansions continued to shoot, but as the crew patted and filmed, the crew found that there were still two scenes behind Qin Keqing that had not been filmed, although there were not many scenes, but they were very important.
But at that time, there was no news of Zhang Lei.
The crew came to Zhang Lei's house and wanted Zhang Lei's sister to help make up the filming, Zhang Lei was accompanied by her sister to the interview, she was also very beautiful, and the crew asked her to interview together.
Zhang Lei's sister has already studied abroad, but the crew had to find an actor again and found Xia Lirong, a drama actor who looks like Zhang Lei.
Many viewers didn't find out that Qin Keqing was not played by the same person before and after, and the similarity between the two was so high that even Zhang Lei herself didn't recognize it.
Zhang Lei was born in a high-ranking family, her father worked at the Whampoa Military Academy, and later went to Zhongnanhai to work, she grew up in a wealthy family.
Before filming Dream of Red Mansions, Zhang Lei, as a drama actor, already had rich experience in film and drama performances, and was famous.
Due to fate, Zhang Lei missed several film and television works with a good reputation and great influence, such as "Starry Tonight" and "Handcuffed Traveler".
At the best age of an actor, he always misses the wrong thing, and it is inevitable that he will be frustrated.
In addition, Zhang Lei is a person with a lot of artistic pursuits, and she wants to go abroad to broaden her horizons, and it was the tide of going abroad at that time, so Zhang Lei also wanted to go out.
In fact, when filming "Dream of Red Mansions", many directors came to the door to ask Zhang Lei to play the heroine, but Zhang Lei, who was determined to go abroad, shirked them one by one.
When she decides to do something, she will only move forward and not backward, no matter what the road ahead looks like.
The communication in the 80s was not as good as now, when "Dream of Red Mansions" was broadcast, it caused a sensation all over the country, and Zhang Lei, who was studying the other side of the ocean, knew nothing (until a few years later), and also thought that the roles she played were few, and the offline was fast, and the audience would not remember herself.
However, the truth is just the opposite of what she imagined, "Dream of Red Mansions" became a big hit and became a well-known drama, and every character in the play is impressive, from the protagonist to the maid.
In 2003, CCTV's "Art Life" organized a reunion for the 20th anniversary of the filming of "Dream of Red Mansions", and the program team used all their strength to find the cast and crew of the crew at that time, and more than 50 people came to the scene.
This group of people went to the end of the world after the crew was finished, and they had no contact for almost 20 years, and this party gave them the opportunity to meet again and re-establish contact.
After that, they often met and appeared on shows together.
Only I didn't see Zhang Lei.
It wasn't until 2017 that the crew reunited 30 years after the launch of "Dream of Red Mansions", and the public finally saw Zhang Lei, who had not appeared for 30 years.
It's still so beautiful and elegant.
In fact, when the filming was reunited for the 20th anniversary, the program team had already contacted Zhang Lei, but Zhang Lei still did not come back to participate for various reasons.
When the "Art Life" program team sent her the videotape of this party, Zhang Lei was both moved and surprised, she didn't expect that a small role could be remembered by the audience for so long, and she was honored to play this role.
And she also took the initiative to mention to her friends abroad that she had acted in "Dream of Red Mansions", and many people took the initiative to watch the drama version of "Dream of Red Mansions" and the original book because of her.
"Dream of Red Mansions" has become her native sound.
So when the 30-year crew got together, Zhang Lei couldn't wait to return to China to participate after receiving the invitation.
Zhang Lei did not work in film and television in the end.
After going abroad, she first went to Columbia University to study Xi filmmaking, and later went to the University of San Diego to study Xi, and after graduation, she found a new direction in her life and went to Los Angeles to study accounting.
Eventually, he moved to a shopping mall, opened a pharmaceutical research and development company, and became a successful entrepreneur.
The career is successful, the family is also very happy, the husband Ni Yingwei is also Chinese, teaching at a university in the United States, and the son has grown up.
In addition to the surprise brought by the reappearance in 30 years, what is even more surprising is that Zhang Lei's personality is diametrically opposed to her weak appearance.
Every time she faces a choice at the intersection of life, Zhang Lei is free and easy, she does not regret it, and she thinks very transparently.
Many people still feel sorry for her giving up her acting career, thinking that she has such a good starting point and image, and is determined to further her studies, but she did not continue to work as an actor.
She said that she misses filming very much, but she is not attached to it, she will not look backward when she makes a decision, regret is the poison of life, everything will go forward, do her best, do her best, be yourself and take life seriously.
It was the same when he resolutely decided to go abroad for further study, and it was the same when he gave up being an actor to change careers.
Her frankness and sincerity are even more impressive.
People praise her as the first beauty of the Red Mansion, but she doesn't think so, and thinks that Wang Xifeng's candidate Le Yun is.
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Lu Yu asked her if she would have gone abroad if she had known that Dream of Red Mansions was so popular.
She replied that she would not go abroad, and would work very hard to develop her career, and she really liked to perform this art.
And yes, if she is younger, she will not play Qin Keqing, she wants to play Lin Daiyu, if she can really play Daiyu, her life trajectory may be very different.
But she also said that there is no if in life, and she really went back to thirty years ago, and she still made a choice according to the ideas at that time and went through the long river of life.
Transparent, free and easy, calm and calm, everything looks forward, throughout Zhang Lei's life, she has this heart, no matter what line she does, she does it well.
She has struggled, worked hard, and is very satisfied with the current life, and she has no regrets in her life.