Preface
Mei Ting, who was born on April 30, 1975, and Liu Lin, who was born on April 13, 1974, are well-deserved queens in mainland film and television dramas, and the other is a powerful female supporting actress with highly praised acting skills.
Although these two people seem to be incompatible, you would never have imagined that the life experiences of the two female stars can be so similar.
Liu Lin and Mei Ting, two actresses, have both fallen in love with a big director, and they are very consistent with finding a photographer to fall in love and get married and have children.
What's even more amazing is that the due dates of the two people are clearly one before and one after the other, but in the end, the children are rushing together.
So what is the relationship between two people who are so similar and very different?
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The Camphor Tree
When Mei Ting and Liu Lin are mentioned, some people will definitely think of the sister-in-law in "Parents Love", An Jie and Dehua.
But in fact, the fate of the two of them started earlier than Anjie and Dehua.
In 2001, an epoch-making anti-domestic violence TV series helped Mei Ting become a household name female star, but few people know that Liu Lin also tried hard to fight for this role.
At that time, the director of this TV series approached Liu Lin, hoping that she could play the second female lead in the play, Mei Xiangnan's best friend Liu Wei.
But after reading the script, Liu Lin said: The role of Mei Xiangnan is really good, and I especially want to play the role of Mei Xiangnan.
But the director team of this role already liked Mei Ting, so they could only tell Liu Lin that they already had a favorite candidate, and Liu Lin couldn't win the role he liked and was unwilling to settle for the second, and the two passed by.
The real contact took place three years after the casting event, when the director of "Camphor Tree", like the director of "Don't Talk to Strangers", extended invitations to both of them at the same time.
Coincidentally, the roles of the two this time are also the female number one and female number two who are each other's best friends.
In the TV series, Mei Ting and Liu Lin are good friends of the "Three Knots of the Camphor Tree", and outside the TV series, two young actors of similar age and complementary personalities have also become friends.
At the climax of the conflict during the filming of the TV series, the two had a big quarrel in front of the camera, and Liu Lin still couldn't get out of the scene after the filming of the scene, and kept chattering about Mei Ting.
The surrounding camera crew saw that the two people were getting more and more noisy, and they wanted to persuade but didn't dare to be afraid of the two of them, so they had to wait for the filming to end.
Who knew that by the end of the day's filming, the two would become good sisters hand in hand again.
This TV series is also the beginning of Mei Ting and Liu Lin's friendship, and the two are still in constant contact after the TV series is filmed.
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After getting acquainted, this pair of good girlfriends found out that the objects of the two of them were both engaged in art, and even directors.
The only difference is that Mei Ting and her husband Yan Po have been concerned by the media since they announced their relationship, while Liu Lin's relationship is very low-key, and almost no one knew about it before they broke up.
Mei Ting and Yan Po belong to the type of strong women and weak men in their careers, in order to take care of Yan Po's psychology, Mei Ting specially took out her savings to Yan Po to do business, and the two have partnered to open a studio, coffee shop and even a yoga studio, but unfortunately they did not make a profit in the end.
In order to help her husband's dream of directing, Mei Ting also used her connections in the film and television industry for so many years.
This time, the result finally came true, Yan Po really has some talent, and the movie "Aspirin" directed in 2005 has already been in the limelight in China before it is released.
"Aspirin" also brought Yan Po, a rookie director, to the spotlight. However, the fate of the two slowly came to an end after Yan Po's career finally succeeded.
In 2006, there were rumors on the Internet that Mei Ting and Yan Po divorced, Mei Ting came forward to deny and posted wedding photos, and the rumors gradually subsided, but in March of the following year, Mei Ting publicly admitted that their marriage broke down.
We still don't know the reason, but what we can know is that the breakup of the two was not the intervention of a third party, but the breakdown of the relationship.
Liu Lin, who is also a good girlfriend, has a good love life, and in 2003, Liu Lin and director Zhang Li proposed marriage but were repeatedly rejected.
The 29-year-old Liu Lin was looking forward to a family of her own, but Zhang Li's attitude made her disheartened.
After the two broke up, Liu Lin lived her life in peace, filming and traveling step by step, but only three months after the breakup, she received the news of Zhang Li's new marriage.
At that time, Liu Lin was sitting in a taxi, and the driver handed Liu Lin, who was bored, a newspaper, saying that he hadn't read what he had just bought.
Liu Lin took it and just opened it, the first page was her ex-boyfriend's wedding photo, and at that moment she understood that Zhang Li didn't want to get married, but didn't want to marry herself.
Liu Lin, who was so devastated that she was so injured that she sat in a taxi and cried.
Mei Ting was also very distressed when she knew about this, and kept introducing her boyfriend to her, but Liu Lin was in no mood to enter a relationship again.
This year, Liu Lin was 26 years old, and Liu Lin, who was a little anxious by her parents' urging to get married, agreed to go on a blind date and met her current husband at the blind date.
In 2012, Mei Ting also met a photographer five years after breaking up with Yan Po, his name was Zeng Jian, and the two got married in a flash within a few months of acquaintance.
Different means to the same end
In 2012, Mei Ting received the script of the TV series "Parents' Love", and after reading the entire script, Mei Ting immediately thought of Liu Lin.
After confirming her role, Mei Ting recommended Liu Lin to the director team to play the sister-in-law of the heroine An Jie-Jiang Dehua.
Liu Lin, who had just got her script, frowned after reading a few pages, and told Mei Ting that she didn't like this role, this Jiang Dehua was such a rude character, she didn't think it was interesting.
Mei Ting told her not to rush to conclusions, you will like this role after reading the script, Mei Ting also said that she believes in Liu Lin's creative ability, and she thinks that the two of us will definitely be able to perform this play well together.
Liu Lin listened to Mei Ting's words, and after flipping through the whole script, she changed her opinion on the role of Jiang Dehua, and the two of them once again got together in the crew and became best friends.
These two people are like good friends hand-picked by God, before joining the group "Parents' Love", Liu Lin was pregnant twice and had two abortions, and they were about to lose confidence in pregnancy.
But in the crew of "Parents Love", the two of them magically conceived children one after another.
Liu Lin found out that she was pregnant first, and her due date was earlier than Mei Ting's, but in the end, when her due date was approaching, Mei Ting was one step ahead of Liu Lin and was about to give birth.
is also because she is one step faster than Liu Lin, Mei Ting named her daughter's nickname "Kuaikuai", and Liu Lin called her son "Little Snail" (slowly).
The two of them have been good girlfriends for so long, Mei Ting will think about Liu Lin if she has a good script, and Liu Lin is no exception.
After filming "Do You Know If You Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin", Liu Lin received a lot of scripts, and there happened to be a play where the heroine quit the crew because of something, and Liu Lin was the first to think of Mei Ting.
She asked Mei Ting: My dear, I took a play to play the female number one in it, the female number one can't come, do you want to read the script to try? If you come, we can be together again!
Mei Ting happily agreed, but she couldn't wait for the script, so she went to play with Liu Lin and asked Liu Lin what was going on.
Liu Lin said to her embarrassedly: The female number one can't come, they changed the female number one, and then changed me, the female number two.
Mei Ting could only laugh and say: It's okay, let's go.
The friendship between the two actresses is even more precious under the interests of the entertainment industry.
After the children were born one after another, Mei Ting and Liu Lin became closer, and the two mothers chatted on the phone every day, and when the phone hung up, they took the children out for a stroll and chatted.
It is said that at that time, their two families lived like a family, and as soon as the car navigation was turned on, they went from one house to another.
A happy life
After experiencing a failed love affair with the director, Mei Ting and Liu Lin's lives are basically left with work.
Mei Ting, who was still entangled with Yan Po at that time, introduced Liu Lin to many men in order to let her come out quickly, but Liu Lin was not interested at all.
In the end, Liu Lin, who was shaken by her parents' urging to marry, went to participate in the blind date they arranged, and it was here that she met her photographer boyfriend.
This boyfriend did not struggle in the entertainment industry, and he has a good personality and treats Liu Lin very gently, and the two came together after a long relationship.
After marriage, the two originally had their own jobs, but with Liu Lin's career development and the impact of the epidemic, her husband slowly paid more attention to the family.
Friends around her persuaded Liu Lin and her husband, saying that "a man must have a career" and "let him go out and find some work to do".
But Liu Lin and his wife have their own considerations, the child is still young, if both of them are running outside, it will have a great impact on the growth of the child, not to mention that filming is really profitable, and Liu Lin's family does not necessarily need a dead salary.
Lu Yu, who interviewed Liu Lin, also felt that her husband was really courageous to take the initiative to retreat to the family in such a conservative and traditional society.
Mei Ting's marriage is also very loving, although it is a flash marriage, Zeng Jianren is very good and feels very sorry for Mei Ting, Mei Ting didn't even do housework after marriage, she was directing him to do it on the side.
Year after year, morning and twilight
On April 13 this year, Mei Ting's Weibo topic of celebrating Liu Lin's birthday was on the hot search, and everyone knew that Dehua and An Jie had a good relationship not only in the TV series.
Mei Ting can be seen in Liu Lin's daily videos, and Mei Ting also keeps mentioning Liu Lin in her vlog, and the lives of the two are quite closely intertwined.
In fact, if you look at their Weibo in previous years, you can find that every year on their birthday, they will send each other blessings for friendship and the future on their social accounts.
In addition to the four coincidences of career, love, marriage, and childbirth, the fifth coincidence of the two people has appeared, that is, the interval between the birthdays of the two is only half a month.
Liu Lin's birthday is April 13th, and Mei Ting is on April 30th, and it will be April 30th soon, what kind of blessing will Liu Lin send to Mei Ting this time?
summary
What is the friendship between the actors? The crew, the busy work, the emotions in the play are brought outside the play, and even the director will choose your friends instead of you to play the role for the sake of fame.
The life trajectories of the two actors overlap so much, and as actors, appearance, fame, etc., they seem to have a lot of conflicts over resources.
But the wonderful thing is that when the age settles down, and the impetuous traffic requirements of the film and television drama circle are set aside, in the end, the relationship between the two people is still like a cup of white wine, mellow and endless.
The information in this article is from:
Sina Entertainment-Liu Lin was a guest on "Super Interview"
Baidu Encyclopedia - Mei Ting
bilibili-【刘琳】鲁豫一日行访谈
Text/Four Precepts of Life
Editor/The Four Commandments of Life