How did Jia Ling disappear?
After participating in the 34th Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, China's highest-grossing female director "disappeared" from the public eye.
Until today, a Weibo has refocused all eyes and voices.
"I managed to lose 100 pounds. ”
Jia Ling's official announcement instantly topped the hot search. At the same time, her new film "Hot and Hot", which she wrote, directed and acted in, will also be released soon.
● Jia Ling Weibo
At the beginning, when she announced that she was going to lose 100 pounds, everyone laughed. Now, she has responded to all doubts with her actions.
Just like three years ago, she took "Hello, Li Huanying" to "kill" into the fiercely competitive New Year's file, and no one believed that she could achieve such brilliant results.
But until 2024, "Hello, Li Huanying" will still rank in the top ten at the box office in Chinese film history.
"Live in the world without sticking to the world, bear suffering without complaining about suffering, welcome joy without clinging to joy. ”
So after she became famous in the first fight, she was able to completely fade out of the public eye for a whole year for the new film.
If "Hello, Li Huanying" is her rummaging through her memories to find her mother, then "Hot and Hot" is her restarting to find herself.
● "Hot and Hot" poster
Perhaps, as she herself said, after her mother's death, nothing could make her truly happy.
It has been 23 years since her mother died, and she has been on the road to find herself for 23 years.
I wonder if she will be able to find the answer this time?
● One year, one play, 100 pounds, no one knows what kind of hardships Jia Ling has paid
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When she was a child, Jia Ling often went up to the tree with a group of friends to dig birds' nests, and she would also imitate and perform vividly in response to the applause of relatives and friends.
The attentive mother discovered her daughter's talent for acting and encouraged her again and again in her later life.
Although she did not receive systematic training, 18-year-old Jia Ling resolutely applied for the Central Academy of Drama and Beijing Film Academy.
She got her wish and was admitted to Chinese opera the next year.
Zhongju called Jia Ling's mother to report the good news and asked the parents to decide whether their child would attend a drama class or a comedy class. Jia Ling's mother was overjoyed to say "drama class", but due to accent problems, the admissions teacher misheard it as "comedy class". She was originally fond of drama, but she stepped into the world of comedy by accident.
In the eyes of the public, the greatest charm of comedy is to make people laugh. But behind the laughter, to a certain extent, is the actor's "distortion" and abandonment of self-image.
Writer Chi Li once said: "Saying that cross talk often needs gags, hippie smiles, and pretending to be crazy and stupid, men do it, happy and chic, it is a kind of demeanor, women do it, okay, it's a completely stupid big sister." ”
What's more, the comedy industry has always been favoritism for actors and actresses. The stage and living space belonging to the actress is very small.
In 2003, she successfully graduated. Jia Ling, who walked out of school, found that most of the girls in her class, who were originally as few as morning stars, chose to change careers after graduation.
Everyone else was busy looking for a way out, but Jia Ling took "What's Wrong" to participate in the National Crosstalk Sketch Invitational Contest and won the championship of the professional group.
As a fledgling, she seemed to be standing on the commanding heights of fate, but she didn't expect that the road to heaven that seemed to have been paved was actually a thorny road.
The days of Beipiao are 10 square meters of basement, it is to sell MP3 in exchange for a month's "pickle steamed buns", it is to use old newspapers as quilts for heating in winter, it is to go out against the wind to pour urinals, and it is to drink desperately and perform and only get 7 yuan.
Talking about that very dark time, she said in "Very Quiet Distance": "It's okay, didn't Faye Wong also pour (urinal)?"
Her sister Jia Dan has persuaded her to return to her hometown more than once for development, and more than once sent her 800 yuan salary to her sister 500, leaving only 300 for herself.
Once, in the face of her boyfriend's incomprehension of her: "You are a girl, you don't have to do this at all, I can make money to support you, why do you want to do it?"
"But I like it. ”
The boyfriend didn't want to her anymore, so he turned around and left.
"I'm not afraid of 10,000 people blocking me, I'm just afraid of surrendering myself. ”
But what makes her most desperate is that as a cross talk actress, she runs into walls everywhere and is unsustainable. was rejected, ridiculed, and humiliated again and again, but the stubbornness in her bones that she refused to admit made her persist in the darkness of not seeing the future for seven or eight years.
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In 2008, she integrated the elements of stage comedy into traditional cross talk, created "Big Talk", and proposed a new concept of "cool comedy", which has been performed more than 80 times in various small theaters in Beijing.
Relying on this creative work, she also appeared on the 2010 Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and won the third prize in the Quyi group of "My Favorite Spring Festival Gala Program";
In 2011, she cooperated with Bai Kainan again and performed the cross talk "Open Sesame" at the Spring Festival Gala, and won another award.
Later, she became a frequent guest of the Spring Festival Gala of various David TVs. At the same time, he appeared in major variety shows and reality shows.
She imitated Bao, Liu Huan, Tengger, and also played Marilyn Monroe, the White Lady, and also walked on the same stage with supermodel Qu Ying.
In 2015, Jia Ling appeared on the Spring Festival Gala again, and in the sketch "Joy Street", she and the slender and modern Qu Ying stood side by side and danced and sang:
Qu Ying, who plays the goddess, is full of confidence, "I am beautiful, and a group of boys hug me back and forth, which is very face-saving." ”
When I got to the female man Jia Ling, the line changed to "I have no heart and lungs, a group of boys hugged me and asked me to break my wrists." ”
The audience burst into laughter.
Jia Ling, who was open-minded, scandalized herself and entertained everyone.
She said: "I don't have a face problem, it's the job of a comedian to make you happy." ”
But in any kind of profession, what is most feared is internal friction, which means the elimination of internal power. Gradually, Jia Ling found that "my armor is gone".
So, she "hidden" herself at home. During this rare recharge time, she slowly "put the armor back on little by little".
Later, she not only appeared on the stage of more sketch cross talk, but also won the love of the audience in a more enjoyable and refreshing way, and also made guest appearances in TV series many times. He also sang "Smug Laughter" for "Happy Agent". In 2016, she also starred in the movie "The Ferryman".
In 2018, Jia Ling turned into a "quarrel diva" and starred in the hilarious action comedy movie "Happiness is Coming Soon" directed by Master Feng Gong.
Whether it is in cross talk sketches, film and television dramas, or variety shows, she is the one who often makes people laugh.
In this day and age, we think that happiness is at our fingertips, but it is not, and the people who make it are often precious.
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In Shen Teng's eyes, Jia Ling's biggest advantage is that men like her, and women are not jealous of her.
What does it mean to be both men and women, young and old? The sad truth behind this is that what she needs to cut is her charm as a woman, and to gain widespread recognition as a more universal comedian.
In China, comedians are, to a large extent, genderless. Female comedians often "de-glamify" and de-gender in the way of self-blackening and ugliness, so that they can get a piece of the alienated comedy world.
Jia Ling is no exception.
The rumored goddess photo is a glimpse of what she had when she was young. At that time, she had a well-proportioned figure, clear eyebrows and eyes, and a delicate posture, and I felt pity.
But after becoming a comedian, her weight has risen all the way.
Of course, this is not the result of self-discipline, it is precisely her "vote for fame" that she uses her figure as a bargaining chip to dedicate to her career.
What's even more sad than the lack of recognition for "beauty" is that as comedians, they can't be too beautiful!
Actor Xie Yilin once said in an interview, "Comedy is a road of no return, when you choose this path, you have to give up becoming Lin Chiling." ”
Therefore, despite her love for beauty, she did not dare to lose weight: "I am especially afraid that after I lose weight, the audience will not like me." ”
She carefully carried a share of everyone's recognition and liking for her, and she didn't dare to lose weight, afraid that she would no longer lose her sense of joy, afraid that the affinity of the sketch would be weakened and the effect of the comedy would be greatly reduced, and she was even more afraid that everything she had worked so hard would suddenly come to naught.
Some people, as long as they stop there, already have their own light and win thousands of supports, but some people have to go through a long and dark tunnel to usher in Xiwei.
She was afraid of being put back in the abyss of no return, so she would rather destroy her figure, ruin her beauty, and take care of that hard-won little sweetness.
Similarly, she can also lose 100 pounds for the new movie, and only she can know the bitterness and bitterness.
Therefore, the Jia Ling we see is often the "female man" who can go out.
She once acted in a sketch "Comedy, Comedy", when she played Yiping, in order to create a strong contrast effect, after eating two red peppers, she dried the whole bottle of beer in one go, and then, after eating a piece of watermelon in three seconds, all the links were almost done in one go.
While many of the audience were frowning and sweating for her madness, she smiled casually after the performance.
When self-blackening and self-abuse became the norm, she tacitly accepted that this was part of the profession, there was nothing to be pretentious, this is life, you enjoy the A side of its scenery, and you have to bear its cruel B side.
In "Wonderful Sayings", Bai Bonnie once sighed: The heart is full of bitter people, how much sweetness does it take to fill it.
Ma Donghui: Bonnie, you are wrong, there are many bitter people in your heart, as long as a trace of sweetness can fill it.
He who lives to death has abstained from cowardice;
In the adult world, I quit my emotions;
A woman who dedicated the rest of her life to acting gave up all her unwillingness.
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Many people like her, not only because of her simplicity and frankness, but also because they agree that she has high emotional intelligence.
I think that high emotional intelligence is not only a test of adaptability and superficial ingenuity, because left and right, long sleeves and good dancing, can only be called a master of social interaction. The real high emotional intelligence must be the kindness of pushing oneself and others, the tolerance of humility, and the wisdom of four or two thousand pounds.
At Bao Bell's wedding, when Liu Yan was used by a group of groomsmen for fun and almost threw off the pool, she was the one who protected Liu Yan with her life and settled everything with red envelopes;
When Song Qian took a selfie with Jia Ling in the show and teased her: "Sister Jia Ling, can your face go in", she did not pretend, but responded generously: "Just kidding, the feet are still here." ”
In the Q&A session of a certain episode of the show, the smart Jia Ling is often the first to come up with the answer. But in order to leave a chance for others, she deliberately didn't say the answer when she guessed it, and kept prompting her opponent to guide him to say the correct answer. When her opponent wins, she is even happier than she is when she wins.
She is not a well-behaved person, and when kindness and kindness become the background color of life, many acts of compassion will come naturally.
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Buddha Yun, the most painful thing in life is not to get and to lose.
She has acted in countless sketches, most of which were completed in laughter, only "Hello, Li Huanying" ended in tears.
Lee Hwan Young is her mother. This sketch is also the first work she created after setting up the company.
In 2001, Jia Ling was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, and just one month after enrolling, Jia Ling received a call from her sister, saying that her mother had passed away in a car accident.
Shocked by the news, she couldn't believe that her mother was really gone, and when she rushed straight from the train station to the crematorium, when her sister asked her to take one last look at her mother, she still felt that her mother should still be alive.
But after years, she became the one who lived in this world for her mother.
Jia Ling once used the money from her part-time job to buy two leather clothes for her parents. But the size of the clothes I bought for my mother was a little small, so she brought them back to Beijing to change to a bigger one, but my mother died suddenly without waiting for the fitting clothes.
In "Hello, Li Huanying", she traveled through time and space to reminisce about her mother, and said what she wanted to say to her mother the most: "I am a comedian now, and many people like me. ”
I once thought that I would be crawling in the muddy water of fate all my life, despondent, but when she finally got into the water, her mother had already died.
"After my mother died, nothing really made me happy. Even if I go to the Spring Festival Gala, I can marry very well, no matter how I am, I feel that I am always ...... When I lie in bed at night, I think, my mom doesn't know. ”
You have suffered so much, suffered so many humiliations, and finally got the rewards of life, but the person you want to share with the most is no longer there.
We always think that the future is long, that we can be calm and filial, that all the good things can stay on this shore, but every goodbye may be a farewell, and every goodbye may become goodbye.
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Japanese writer Osamu Dazai said that sad people are always laughing.
Just like comedy, the person who brings people the most laughter is not necessarily the one with the strongest sense of happiness, but they know how to hide all their unhappiness. In the awe of the profession, what you need to come up with is the most valuable thing.
"When I was a child, crying was our weapon to solve problems;
Growing up, laughter is our weapon to face reality. ”
Kevin Blair, a comedian who suffers from depression, confessed in one of his speeches: "For a long time in my life, I felt like I was living two different lives: a life that everyone saw, and a life that only I could see. ”
You can't talk about your difficulties when you meet people, then, the kind of "life that only I can see", you should be ordinary.
At an event, the audience said to Stephen Chow: I like your "Journey to the West".
Stephen Chow asked: Which clip do you like?
The other party said, "You are the one who was burned there."
He smiled bitterly.
If happiness was a sacrifice, she would rather be happy to be happy with it herself, and she hoped that years from now, even if someone is still asking, "Why are you doing this?"
She can still reply: "I really like it." ”
Someone said, "Everyone feels the same pain when they are crushed by fate, and so is their helplessness in life." Fortunately, when each of us walks alone in the dark, your forbearance, your positivity, and your posture of trying to resist the world will become a ray of sunshine that illuminates our lives. As long as you are sober and not blind, content and not satisfied, you will definitely be able to get where you want to go. ”
In the final analysis, life is an arrival, whether it is the sea of stars or the prosperity of three thousand, in the end, only you are your own ferryman.