To talk about the most popular dramas recently, "We Are Not Kind Enough" must be on the list.
This Taiwanese drama starring Ariel Lin, He Junxiang, and Xu Weining swiped all major platforms as soon as it was launched.
Ten days after the broadcast, the Douban score rose from 8.7 to 9 points, and the reputation continued to rise.
The story begins with an accidental shirt collision incident, two girls born on the same day and month fall in love with the same man, and often buy the same clothes.
They were rivals when they were young, but for 10 years, they have been dreaming about each other's better lives through Facebook clues and feeling jealous, but they unexpectedly reunited.
The drama not only focuses on the current life and emotional difficulties of 40+ women, but even the lines are extremely realistic, which makes many netizens call it too immersive.
In addition to the excellent plot itself, the characters in the play are also very delicate.
The most surprising thing is the role of Rebecca played by Xu Weining.
Rebecca is an inferiority complex girl with outstanding beauty, but she is cautious everywhere.
The broken family of origin gave her endless insecurity.
For various practical reasons, she missed her beloved and lived a single life devoted herself to her career.
And Xu Weining also played the sensitive and lonely Rebecca well.
In a trance, netizens all asked: Is this still the Xu Weining we are familiar with?
I haven't seen her for a long time, how did her acting skills change so well.
Audiences who are familiar with ancient Taiwanese idol dramas must be familiar with Xu Weining's face.
Back then, she was the "most beautiful female match of Taiwanese puppets" in the hearts of countless people, and the first beauty in Taiwan.
Whenever this impeccable face appears, it can steal the heroine's demeanor.
Xu Weining, who is of mixed Chinese and Italian descent, was born and raised in Taiwan Province.
With her outstanding appearance, she became famous in Taiwan's modeling circle at the age of 16.
In the Taiwanese entertainment industry, it is rare to see a mixed-race face as thrillingly beautiful as Xu Weining.
It is said that beauty is in the bones, not in the skin, and Xu Weining's bone appearance is not only three-dimensional, but also has a natural sense of delicacy.
This invincible face, even if you look all over the Chinese entertainment industry, there is no meal replacement.
The top-notch bones are matched with bright and atmospheric facial features, and just one glance can make people unforgettable.
With such an outstanding beauty, Xu Weining's entry into the showbiz can be said to be a matter of course.
In 2005's "Mischievous Kiss", Xu Weining began to enter the audience's field of vision by playing the second daughter of a rich family who was extremely smart.
Pei Ziyu, the second daughter of a rich family in the play, is not only top-notch academically, but also a core member of the tennis club.
For such a role, Xu Weining is very convincing to play.
Suddenly, she became a wealthy daughter in the puppet.
In "Next Stop Happiness", she played the rich lady He Yiqian, who coexisted with beauty and kindness, which also left a deep impression on the audience.
But beauty is both an advantage and a shackle for Xu Weining.
For quite some time, the scripts that came to her were similar characters.
And Xu Weining has never been able to escape the label of "rich daughter professional".
Even she herself said, who would ask me to play a girl next door?
When people look at me, I'm the kind of bad woman who steals someone's boyfriend.
For celebrities, it's good to have labels.
But for actors, once the image is limited, it is a very terrible thing.
This is undoubtedly narrowing down one's own career to a very narrow scope.
If you want to break the label that is remembered by the audience, it will take several times the effort.
Xu Weining, who did not admit defeat, began to seek a breakthrough in himself.
"Don't you want me to play the daughter of a rich family, then I will play five or six different kinds of rich daughters. ”
Outside of the play, she began to cultivate herself, and in addition to going to the drama course every year, she would also learn a variety of different skills.
French, rock climbing, diving, she dabbled in it......
Xu Weining said that she has always kept herself in a state of living water, ready to meet new challenges.
Because only in this way, when the opportunity came to the door, she was ready.
Her preparation, not in vain.
In 2014, Xu Weining starred in a low-budget movie "Seven Designs of Love".
Originally, Xu Weining was not the first choice in the director's mind, and according to the setting of the original script, Xu Weining's role was similar to others.
But when the director was editing the film, he unexpectedly found that Xu Weining's acting skills were unexpectedly good.
In the end, the director retained her most scenes, and Xu Weining became the heroine of the film.
It was with "Seven Designs of Love" that Xu Weining was successfully nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer Actor.
After 10 years in the industry, she finally began to break the "vase label" on her body.
Since then, the audience has gradually discovered that the 10,000-year-old female supporting actress has begun to be a little different.
In the horror film "The Girl in Red", Xu Weining contributed a breakthrough performance.
Her distorted face and terrifying smile made the audience shudder as soon as she appeared.
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"The Girl in Red" successfully nominated Xu Weining for Best Actress at the Golden Horse Awards that year, and her career went to the next level.
And Xu Weining's next attempts in various themes also let the audience see more possibilities for her.
In 2022, Xu Weining starred in "She and Her Her", which focuses on the theme of sexual assault.
The whole story sharply exposes various women's plight such as sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, and gender discrimination in the workplace.
After watching it, the audience has a complete deep empathy: in this drama, only women understand the fear in it.
Xu Weining, with her delicate portrayal of the characters in the play, successfully won the Golden Bell Award for Best Actress that year.
She finally turned into a butterfly and completed the transformation from the second female protagonist to the best actress.
When he won the Golden Bell Award, Xu Weining choked up and thanked himself at the end of his acceptance speech.
"Thank you to myself, step by step to get to where I am now".
If beauty is a gift from God, then breaking through herself step by step and stepping out of the outside world's inherent impression of her is the reward that Xu Weining has won by herself.
She is also using her story to encourage all audiences: no matter what label the outside world gives you, no one can limit your life except yourself.