In 2018, Liu Lin played the role of "Grand Lady" in the TV series "Do You Know If You Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin", which was the first time she officially played the role of a costume drama, but she didn't want to create a classic.
For older audiences, Wang Lin's most classic role should be "Jiang Dehua" in "Parents' Love", but in fact, Wang Lin didn't like this role at first.
So, why did she change her mind?
1. "Rural people" in period dramas
In 2014, "Parents' Love" was broadcast, creating a double harvest of ratings and word-of-mouth, which is still repeatedly recalled by countless audiences, and "Jiang Dehua" has also become a milestone role in Liu Lin's acting career.
But Liu Lin's process of taking over this role was not smooth.
Liu Lin is a native of Beijing, and her family conditions are relatively wealthy, because she likes acting, she was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, and at the age of 19, she got the opportunity to participate in movies.
When Liu Lin was just starting out, the actors she cooperated with were actors at the level of Lu Zhong, Leslie Cheung, and Li Xuejian, and the roles she played were basically literary and artistic.
In 2004, she co-starred with Mei Ting in the TV series "Camphor Tree", in which she played the almost perfect "Tao Ni".
This role has brought her career to a new stage, and her friendship with Mei Ting is indestructible.
Therefore, in the preparation stage of "Parents' Love", when the director was struggling to find an actor willing to play "Jiang Dehua", Mei Ting proposed: "Why don't you let Liu Lin try it." ”
Under Mei Ting's recommendation, Liu Lin got the script of "Jiang Dehua", but after reading it, she said that she was not willing to act.
As for the reason, first, Liu Lin has not played a similar role, and her own experience is completely different from Jiang Dehua; The second is that she thinks Jiang Dehua is too "vulgar", and what he says in his mouth is ", pee, and fart", which is too annoying.
Liu Lin also said that if she had to participate, she would like to fight for the role of "An Xin".
But at that time, she was pulled to the rescue, where was there room to choose a role. Mei Ting also persuaded her that Jiang Dehua is a character who first attracts hatred and then love, and actors always dare to challenge the charm of different images.
Mei Ting also said: "Don't you want to film with me? ”
So, under Mei Ting's "knowing with reason, moving with emotion", Liu Lin finally took over the role, and lived up to expectations, interpreting it delicately and vividly.
Liu Lin, who has played a supporting role in film and television dramas for 20 years, finally really came to the public.
The good luck brought to her by "Parents' Love" was not only that, not long after the filming ended, Liu Lin was pleasantly surprised to find that she was pregnant.
Second, the bumpy road of love
When she was young, Liu Lin fell in love with the famous director Zhang Li, who was 17 years older than her, and fell in love with her for three years.
At that time, Liu Lin was almost emotionally blank, but Zhang Li was a man who had been divorced four times, and once said directly to Liu Lin: "We are only in love and not married, okay?" ”
Liu Lin naively thought that Zhang Li was just a momentary mood, and after the two got along for a long time, Zhang Li would still marry him, so he didn't say anything at that time.
But she didn't expect that Zhang Li really had no plans to marry her.
Later, Zhang Li fell in love with Liu Bei, abandoned her, and married Liu Bei only half a year after the two broke up.
When Liu Lin heard about this, she cried when she sat in a taxi.
Later, when she came out of the shadows, she met her husband outside the circle, but the pain of childbirth entangled her again.
Because she was in her 30s at the time, Liu Lin suffered fetal arrest in both pregnancies, and then she went to the hospital for a comprehensive examination and treatment.
Finally, after "Parents' Love", she became pregnant, and just two months after she became pregnant, her good sister Mei Ting was also pregnant.
"Parental Love has brought us a lot of good luck." Later, Liu Lin said in an interview.
3. The "housewife" in costume dramas
After "Jiang Dehua", Liu Lin's most representative role should be the "grand lady" in the costume drama "Do You Know If You Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin".
In fact, this is Liu Lin's first official role in a costume drama, but her superb acting skills and slightly joyful character setting have inadvertently created a classic again.
"Grand Lady" made Liu Lin famous and made her a finalist for the Magnolia Award.
On this basis, Liu Lin, who is nearly half a hundred years old, received the script softly, and she did not live up to the trust of the audience, and performed well in hit dramas such as "The Hidden Corner", "Awakening Age", "Children of the Qiao Family", "The Long Season" and so on.
In February this year, she also won the honorary award of "Powerful Actress of the Year" in the "TV Drama Annual Ceremony".
"Late bloomer" may be an actor like Liu Lin.
Resources:
Douyin Encyclopedia - Liu Lin