The term drama bastard was originally a jargon of drama, referring to the flowing actors who matched the protagonist in the troupe. In recent years, this term has entered the world of the public, and it has become these actors who have poor acting skills but have a lot of film appointments, satirizing them for only having long years and no acting skills.
One
In 1962, Zhang Kaili was born in a family of intellectuals in Changchun City, Jilin Province, and grew up under the love of her grandmother, with a bold and interesting personality.
Zhang Kaili was slim and beautiful when she was twelve or thirteen years old. Since her mother's colleague's lover Cui Shunzi is a national short track speed skating champion and a sports school coach, and the two families live upstairs and downstairs, she follows Cui Shunzi to learn short track speed skating at the sports school. During that time, she ate, lived and trained with future World Champion Ye Qiaobo.
However, as she got older, her stature changed, and she was too tall to affect her skating speed. So after three years of training at a sports school, he chose to retire.
At the age of sixteen, she enlisted in the army and served as a docent at the Military Museum of the Chinese Revolution, but although it was an iron rice bowl job, she was not happy, she loved acting very much, and after working for a few years, she chose to give up a stable job and devote herself to the acting career.
After returning to her hometown, she was successfully admitted to Jilin University of the Arts, and after graduation, she was assigned to the China Coal Mine Art Troupe to become a professional drama actor.
In 1987, Zhang Kaili participated in the first play of her life "Eight Girls Cast into the River", playing the role of Leng Yun, thus entering the showbiz, at which time she was only 25 years old.
The entertainment method in this period is to turn on the TV every day after work, and the actor industry is slowly sprouting. Zhang Kaili also seized the tuyere of this era.
Two
What really made her popular was the TV series "Desire", at that time, everyone who followed this drama felt very sorry for Liu Huifang played by Zhang Kaili.
But at that time, director Lu Xiaowei did not let Zhang Kaili play the heroine, and the director's favorite candidate at that time was Zuo Ling. However, Zuo Ling was already in a mess in "Love in the Pearl River", and he didn't have time to participate in the performance.
So the director decided to use the newcomer Zhang Kaili under the recommendation of many parties, and Zhang Kaili's own personality is also very similar to Liu Huifang, so Zhang Kaili went to the peak because of this drama, and won the "Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress" and "The Top Ten Actors in the Country" in one fell swoop, and became a well-known star for a while, which can be said to be "the peak of debut".
Because the image of "Liu Huifang" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, this also brings huge pressure and constraints to Zhang Kaili, so that her acting career has to start from a high point, but there are not many "high point" works.
The 2009 Spring Festival Gala sketch "Not Bad Money" made Xiao Shenyang a hot mess overnight, but Xiao Shenyang's works after standing at the top have never been as classic as "Not Bad Money".
After thinking about it a few times, he decided to give up acting in sketches, which shows that the pressure on this standing at the top is not borne by ordinary people.
Just in 1995, Zhang Kaili met the love of her life Zhang Jianquan when she was filming in Shenzhen, Zhang Jianquan was still a writer at that time, and he had no money and no name, but Zhang Kaili met love and married him without hesitation.
After marriage, with the help of Zhang Kaili, Zhang Jianquan changed careers and started real estate, and Zhang Kaili chose to be a virtuous helper. In the second year after marriage, their daughter Zhang Keying was born.
Three
From 2001 to 2007, he participated in more than 20 film and television works. Zhang Kaili has always been a good actor with a good reputation, and she is loved by many audiences for her conscientious work.
What really made her reputation suffer was in 2014, when Zhang Kaili participated in the first season of "Flowers and Boys".
As soon as she opened, Zhang Kaili made a complaint.
The reason is that everyone has to travel abroad, so there is a lesson for all employees to learn foreign languages.
But Zhang Kaili couldn't learn anything, so she collapsed, saying that she was a beloved artist, and she felt very embarrassed and wronged when she went outside, and others wouldn't look at her in a foreign language.
This remark directly confuses people, and it is really a bit of a confused confidence. This is not over, maybe in her heart she feels that she is really here to travel and not to do the show, and the whole person is very real.
In the process of choosing a room, due to limited funds, Zhang Han booked a relatively narrow room as a tour guide, which led to several people having to squeeze together, and the corridor was very narrow, which made Zhang Kaili feel a little uncomfortable, and said bluntly: "Oh my God! ”
turned his head and walked into the boy's room, and when he saw Zhang Han and Hua Chenyu's more crowded and cramped room, Kelly instantly laughed and ran to their bed to roll.
After this operation, everyone stood in place and didn't know what to do.
The most incomprehensible thing is that Zhang Kaili directly said that Zhang Han and Li Feier were "shameless" and did not want to look at them with disgust.
The reason is that the funds given by the director team are limited, which makes the whole troupe very poor, and every expenditure must be cautious and cautious.
But Kelly didn't care so much, when she was hungry, she yelled for Zhang Han to buy the cake, and she didn't care about other people's feelings at all. Actually, everyone was very hungry at that time.
In order to save money, Zhang Han, who was about to faint, asked a passerby for two sandwiches, Zhang Han felt that he was thinking about the entire tour group, but Zhang Kaili didn't appreciate it at all, and felt that his behavior was no different from begging, and he even opened his mouth and said, "Shameless, it's not your own style." ”
made Li Fei'er and Zhang Han's faces unbearable, and Xu Qing and Hua Chenyu next to them also laughed awkwardly.
Standing in the position of the elders, the junior is Zhang Kaili.
The most unpredictable thing is that Zhang Kaili begged Liu Tao not to clean up, and to lie down and rest with her, because Liu Tao kept cleaning up and seemed too lazy.
Liu Tao just smiled and didn't speak.
The first season of "Flowers and Boys" is really too topical, and Zhang Kaili has also been complained by many people, and it is really tiring to travel with her.
Her performance in the show did not affect her acting in the slightest.
Maybe it's because she has played too many roles as a mother and mother-in-law, and her performance has become stylized, and netizens gave her the title of "drama bastard" after starring in "In the Name of the People".
From Tian Shuyun in "The Age of Naked Marriage" to Gao Yuanyuan's mother in "Let's Get Married", Zhang Kaili's performance can be said to show her strength by pointing at her nose at every turn, crossing her waist and using exaggerated expressions and loud speech.
The most offensive role is in "In the Name of the People", Zhang Kaili plays the wife of a high-ranking official, and her performance was criticized by the audience as "rampant and domineering", lacking the depth and connotation of the role, and was crowned a "drama bastard" by the public.
Coincidentally.
In 2019, a 64-year-old man in Jiangsu Province fell and broke a bone while wearing the shoes of the elderly endorsed by Zhang Kaili.
The old man claimed that it was because this shoe was endorsed by Zhang Kaili, mainly because it was non-slip, and he was not afraid of falling and he bought it, but he didn't expect to fall.
It proved that the "non-slip" advertisement advertised by this shoe did not match the reality, and Zhang Kaili's reputation was also affected.
However, Zhang Kaili is no longer the spokesperson of the Zulijian brand, so she also used legal weapons to protect her reputation and win the lawsuit.
In those years, she was still active on the screen, because she was going to pave the way for her daughter Zhang Keying, who had a dream of being an actress.
Four
In 2017, Zhang Kaili's daughter Zhang Keying was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama with the first score in cultural classes. As a second-generation star, Zhang Keying has a much higher starting point than many actors.
Mother Zhang Kaili also helped her daughter a lot.
Soon after graduation, Zhang Keying got the second female lead who starred in "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" with Zhao Liying, with a lot of scenes, but her acting skills are average.
Today's Zhang Kaili is rarely active on the screen, and the only thing to say is that she once again participated in the variety show of the fourth season of "Flowers and Boys".
It is understandable that there is indeed no breakthrough in the roles that are always the same, and the gradual acting skills also make people feel the same aesthetic fatigue.
The comfort zone is indeed comfortable, but without a breakthrough, it gradually fades out of the public eye.
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Resources:
Baidu Library: Zhang Kaili
Sohu.com: 1, the old actor on the variety show double standard drama essence all kinds of work scolded the junior shameless Netizen: I was embarrassed and shocked to see it
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