In the era of domestic entertainment everywhere, some people dropped out of school to pursue their dreams in the entertainment industry, some people didn't know their knowledge of the Internet's water education, and some people paved the way for half a day and sent off the whole network, and the result was "going to study in the United States for a day"......
There are also people who go ashore for graduate school entrance examinations and successfully win the offer of their dream school, and they still have a strong learning motivation every day when they are over 40 years old.
Zhang Jingchu belongs to the latter - it is unimaginable that 40+ female stars broadcast live for 8 hours a day, not crazy shouting microphone-style live broadcast to bring goods, but frowning and burying their heads in homework and meeting deadlines.
If you follow Zhang Jingchu's social accounts, you will find that Zhang Jingchu has recently been addicted to live streaming and writing homework.
The longest time, she broadcast for more than 9 hours, from day to night ↓
The state visibly changes from energetic to exhausted, withered, and unloved......
How painful is it to learn this? Please see the figure below ↓ for details
The children empathized and said that Zhang Jingchu's "dead appearance" was exactly the same as when she was crazy, as if she saw herself, so she blocked her hahahaha.
So, why did Zhang Jingchu work so hard? Because this sister is now a graduate student at the world's top universities......
Remember the beginning of last year, Zhang Jingchu's studio announced that Zhang Jingchu was admitted to the directing department of the American Film Academy, right?
It's good news in just three lines, but what many people don't know is how high the gold content is.
Founded in 1969, the American Film Institute (AFI) was ranked as the world's No. 1 film school by The Hollywood Reporter in 2011 and remains No. 1 in 2023.
World-renowned director David Lynch graduated from AFI, as well as "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" cinematographer Janush Lynch. Kaminsky, etc., are well-known alumni.
AFI offers the MFA directly, with only 28 students per year in the Director, Producer, Cinematography and Screenwriting tracks, and 14 students in the Editing and Fine Arts tracks......
In other words, most of the admitted students are film and television practitioners who already have rich work experience in the industry.
Zhang Jingchu is one of the 28th of the class of 2023, and being admitted to the AFI is already very good.
What's more, this sister is still a god of exams, from deciding to apply for the exam, to preparing for the TOEFL exam, writing essays, and interviews, it only took her a few months. Among them, it only took 26 days to prepare for the TOEFL, and I passed the test with a score of 100.
Don't look at Zhang Jingchu's mention that the TOEFL score passed the line, as if he didn't do well, you must know that the TOEFL has a full score of 120 points, generally speaking, a score of more than 90 is already good, but a prestigious school requires a test of 100 to be eligible to apply.
Moreover, Zhang Jingchu has been planning to go to graduate school since 20 years ago, and now he can be regarded as realizing a life ideal.
In 1997, Zhang Jingchu was admitted to the junior college class of the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama; In an early interview, she revealed that after graduation, she had been studying English for half a year at Beijing Second Foreign University, and she wanted to take the postgraduate entrance examination at that time.
But life is pushed by countless opportunities and changes, I only worked part-time as an actor in order to earn tuition, but I didn't expect the actor to go down, and the matter of going to graduate school was also shelved.
Even, a few years later, she won the Chinese Film Media Award with Gu Changwei's "Peacock", and the film also won the Silver Bear Award in Berlin that year.
In 2010, Zhang Jingchu went on a study tour to the United States and took classes at a local drama studio.
She once said that after filming "Tangshan Earthquake", she couldn't get out of the role in a short time, her depressed state troubled her for a long time, and she lacked motivation to do almost anything, so she wanted to go to school.
I think the only way to make myself better is to keep learning, and learning is always the right choice, because one day I can use what I have learned."
In an interview in 2012, Zhang Jingchu recalled most of the study tour, and she said that it was a long vacation for herself to experience a different life experience.
At that time, she imagined to reporters that the life she wanted most was to live independently in a foreign country, make her own breakfast every day, and then wipe the floor, "instead of having a group of people take care of me everywhere I go, as in China." ”
I didn't expect this life to come true ten years later.
Now, as long as you open Zhang Jingchu's live broadcast or vlog, you can randomly see her cooking for herself, meditating, exercising, tidying up the house, and immersing herself in homework.
Of course, the most concerned is: Sister, have you finished your homework?
According to Zhang Jingchu, each student in the first year of AFI needs to create 3 short films, as a director, she has to do script analysis, draw storyboards, make PPT visual references, and cast, build a group, and set up a scene......
Every day is an endless meeting, an endless homework, an endless deadline, and an endless night.
So in the live broadcast, she almost gave up the appearance management of female stars, and sometimes she learned that it became more and more blurry, and her hair was visibly messed up
The reason for starting a live broadcast to study is also because I want to force myself to stay awake, don't go to sleep, quickly write my homework, and urge each other with netizens.
Many netizens have witnessed how Zhang Jingchu went from calm to crazy when she wrote her homework, this high-intensity knowledge acquisition, everyone has to go crazy!!
It's no wonder that she said that on the first day of school, the teacher emphasized that she should pay attention to her mental state, and if she collapsed, there were 14 free psychiatrist consultations......
But I have to admit that Zhang Jingchu is really desperate, and she feels that 24 hours a day is not enough for her.
Feel free to click on her daily vlog:
I finish filming at 6 o'clock in the morning, change my clothes and go to the gym, go to the morning class after the gym, go home in the afternoon to record the live broadcast preview, then go to class, and go home in the evening to catch up with my homework......
It's tiring enough for a person to live like this for one or two days, it's hard to imagine that she has been so persistent for more than half a year......
For high-intensity study and life day after day, Sister Zhang's theory is:
"If you keep lying there doing nothing, you will find that your world is getting more and more chaotic, because we take in a lot of new information every day, and only through conscious learning, with your own information intake floodgates, will you know what is interfering with you, what can make your system more complete."
Zhang Jingchu is 44 years old this year, and she is already the oldest group of students in the same class, but she said that she has not had age anxiety at all in recent years.
Because "people don't have age anxiety when they grow up, and as I get older, I'm still getting better, right?" ”
When female stars of the same age are still obsessed with girlishness, struggling with reluctance to play the role of mother, trapped in how to maintain family happiness, and how to set off a topic in singing and dancing variety shows......
Zhang Jingchu chose a lifestyle that may violate the principle of lying flat and may not conform to the mood of the times, and it is better to be a fulfilling self than to be a boring internal entertainment template, right?
However, there are many people who feel that hard work is a mistake, and it is very difficult to admit that others are excellent.
Some people questioned Zhang Jingchu's academic qualifications, and as long as she applied for a foreign master's degree, she could go to ↓
Some people complained that she was not young and beautiful enough, and the "old man's taste" was a bit heavy↓
Some people also say that she is chattering, in the wrong state, and studying hard as if she is pretending to be ↓
They require female stars to work silently even if they work hard, and they can't show off ↓
They also require female celebrities to work hard while not creating anxiety for the same sex, and to have a sense of relaxation ↓
In short, you have to have real talent and real learning, but you can't show it in a high-profile manner; You have to work silently, and at the same time you have to be beautiful; It's not enough to do the above, you can't seem too pushy, you have to keep feeling relaxed.
Desperately, Sanniang had to shake her head when she saw it, this is not asking for a female star, this is asking for a goddess!
OK, even if you do the above, you still won't get compliments.
Because some people will think that you are not sunny enough to learn and learn
Because you are an actress, what's the use of having a high education, you won't be happy if you don't film↓
There will also be people who feel that you are not working hard to make yourself better, but unwilling, not understanding, and twisting with yourself.
But you said that's not the case, you are obviously very happy, you stand on the top of the 40+ mountain and look back at the road you have walked, you only feel comfortable, happy, and full of hope now.
It doesn't matter, they'll also use the ultimate Dafa to give you the fatal blow - slut-shaming you.
As mentioned above, Zhang Jingchu briefly quit the entertainment industry in 2011 and went to the United States for further study, because those years or two were the most outrageous time for her peach news.
At first, it was rumored that Zhang Jingchu and Gu Changwei were in love because of the movie, and they were so exaggerated that they were caught and raped by Jiang Wenli in bed;
When filming "Disciple", Er Dongsheng praised Zhang Jingchu's dedication and hard work, which was misinterpreted as their intimacy and ambiguity;
After the release of "Tangshan Earthquake", some people said that Zhang Jingchu originally wanted to seduce Feng Xiaogang, but because Xu Fan had been watching the crew, he failed to succeed.
Later, it was rumored that Zhang Jingchu intervened in the relationship between Lu Chuan and Qin Lan, and Qin Lan himself refuted the rumors and no one believed them.
How unfriendly the public opinion environment was to female stars more than ten years ago, audiences who have experienced that era of peachy scandals all know that as long as female stars are beautiful and famous, countless rumors will be arranged.
And as long as it has been made once, it will be a brand on its body in this life, and it can't be erased no matter how hard you try.
Because Gu Changwei's movie became popular with Zhang Jingchu, Zhang Jingchu became a female star who was "banned by Jiang Wenli's joint wife group", and even became a "fox charmer" in the mouth of the media.
In July 2021, after being made of pornographic rumors for more than ten years, Zhang Jingchu fought the first lawsuit in her life, and the defendant's account said that she used improper relationships between men and women to obtain job opportunities, was blocked, and was slapped.
In the summer of 2022, the verdict came down, and Zhang Jingchu won the lawsuit, but the account involved refused to implement the court judgment and refused to apologize to Zhang Jingchu in the next six months.
At the beginning of last year, Zhang Jingchu posted a long article about the feeling of being made into pornographic rumors for more than ten years, she said that "making pornographic rumors" is the oldest and most effective way to make women socially die.
Even if there is a court verdict, even if there is a clarification from the parties, even if it is a non-existent thing, people who hear it will still choose to believe these yellow rumors, because it is curious enough and enough to ruin a woman.
Sure enough, to this day, when people are talking about how Zhang Jingchu was admitted to the world's top universities and how hard to indulge in learning, "Yellow Rumors" still follow him.
Some people still say that she was collectively banned by the wife's circle, so she couldn't get the play;
Some people sympathize with her for "encountering a room with such a desperate means", and belittle the two women in one sentence;
There is even more funni, saying that she studied hard and took the directing department so that she could "have a better chance to contact and hook up with other people's director husbands" when she came back.
How to say it, sometimes the world is quite ironic, people have already been next level, and some people are still obsessed with talking about marriage and love on the Internet.
Zhang Jingchu wore out her mouth, these people can't get her happiness and satisfaction every day.