44-year-old Zhang Jingchu revealed that he lived in a small courtyard without sex and love, guarding a house of tatters, he wanted to be a useless person, but he had countless fans, which was a life he longed for

Uncle Chai will take you to a movie

2024-07-22 12:03Published in Beijing

Author|Maruko

Edited by Evening Evening

Zhang Jingchu, an actor who is both familiar and unfamiliar to the audience.

is familiar because she has acted in many excellent films, such as "Peacock", "Tangshan Earthquake" and "Wushuang";

is strange, but it feels like I haven't seen her on the screen for a long time.

Zhang Jingchu chose to fade out of the film and television industry during the rise of his career, and disappeared for 8 years.

When she returned to the public eye, she threw away the aura of an actor.

revealed that he is now living a sexless and loveless life, living in a mansion, guarding a room of "tatters", and he wants to be a useless person.

It looks like an early pension.

In fact, the "useless people" she said are not really useless.

In the past, she was an "international Zhang"

In 1980, Zhang Jingchu was born in a small mountain village in Yong'an, Fujian Province.

Because of her poor grades since she was a child, her parents sent her to a normal school to learn painting, hoping to become an art teacher in the future.

When she was 16 years old, Zhang Jingchu hid from her family and was admitted to a makeup major in a college in Beijing.

During her college studies, Zhang Jingchu often went to the photography class next door to listen to lectures.

She found that she preferred acting-related classes to makeup majors. Two years later, she was admitted to the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama.

Since then, Zhang Jingchu's life trajectory has completely changed.

At the age of 20, Zhang Jingchu participated in the TV series "Your Life is So Amorous", thus entering the showbiz.

Three years later, she was favored by director Gu Changwei and starred in the movie "Peacock" as her sister Gao Weihong.

She played the literary and artistic youth who had dreams but struggled in the depressed old era, and was finally defeated by realization.

With this role, Zhang Jingchu won the crown of the Chinese Film Media Award in one fell swoop, becoming a new generation of "goddess of literature and art"

Since then, Zhang Jingchu's career as an actor has been full of highlights.

She starred in the trilogy of films "The Bride with a Flower Waist", "Aromatic Journey" and "Red River" directed by Zhang Jiarui.

Later, she stepped into the Hong Kong entertainment industry, acting in classic films such as "The Disciple" and "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai", and was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards twice.

In the movie "Disciple", Zhang Jingchu played the role of a drug addict Ah Fen in the film.

In a famous scene, Ah Fen died of a drug overdose in a rental house, and when she was found, her body was crawling with rats.

In this scene, Zhang Jingchu insisted on playing by himself, without a stand-in, and let those rats run around on his body.

Director Er Dongsheng, who cooperated with Zhang Jingchu, was full of praise for this and admired her from the bottom of his heart.

Later, Director Er approached Zhang Jingchu again and wanted to continue to cooperate, but Zhang Jingchu refused.

The reason is that I don't have feelings for those characters.

In 2010, Zhang Jingchu came to the corner of Fang Deng in "Tangshan Earthquake", a girl who was abandoned by her mother in the earthquake and had a grudge with her mother for 32 years.

Zhang Jingchu used an extremely restrained way to interpret the grievances and resentments in Fang Deng's heart.

After filming this film, Zhang Jingchu couldn't get out of the role for a long time, and the feeling of powerlessness always lingered.

Back then, Zhang Jingchu became the highest-grossing mainland actress and the most commercially valuable female star.

Later, she starred in many overseas movies such as "Jade Warrior", "Rush Hour 3", "Mission Impossible 5", and was known as the next "International Zhang".

As his fame grows, Zhang Jingchu has to face not only the dividends brought by fame, but also some foul language, and even rumors and slander.

With mixed reputations, she chose to "escape"

Since Zhang Jingchu cooperated with director Gu Changwei in the movie "Peacock", the scandal about the two in the entertainment industry has not stopped.

"She is a newcomer, why does she act in Gu Changwei's movie? There must be some unspoken rule in this. ”

On the Internet, such voices overwhelmingly hit Zhang Jingchu.

"Peacock" movie In the past three years, Zhang Jingchu has participated in Gu Changwei's new movie "Lichun".

After the movie was released, to Zhang Jingchu's surprise, all his scenes were deleted.

As soon as this incident came out, yellow rumors began to envelop Zhang Jingchu again.

She smiled and didn't argue, thinking that time would tell.

However, Zhang Jingchu underestimated the power of rumors, and the group of people on the Internet didn't care about the truth at all, they just wanted to see if the excitement was big enough.

Even if she later went to Hong Kong, the scandal was still there.

In Hong Kong, Zhang Jingchu met director Zhang Jiarui and starred in the movie "The Bride with a Flower Waist".

During the filming of the movie, Zhang Jingchu almost fell off a cliff because of a mistake by the crew. Director Zhang Jiarui jokingly said: "I almost have to raise Zhang Jingchu for the rest of my life." ”

As a result, this sentence pushed Zhang Jingchu to the forefront of public opinion again.

"Fostered", "slut", "director harvester", one by one dirty labels hit Zhang Jingchu.

This time, she decided to speak out and prove her innocence.

But every time the statement was regarded as a "quibble", Zhang Jingchu felt a deep sense of powerlessness, like falling into a swamp, and the more he struggled, the more he fell.

Even in some later movies, Zhang Jingchu's acting skills are obvious to everyone, but people still regard her as a "vase" who is raised by the big guy.

Under the weight of this public opinion, Zhang Jingchu suffered from depression for a time.

She began to dislike "fame", and she chose to "escape" from the entertainment industry.

Maybe she didn't know what she would look like after she was away from the entertainment industry.

But time has proved that Zhang Jingchu's choice was right.

New pursuits, she enjoys them

In order to avoid those gossips and alleviate depression, Zhang Jingchu chose to go to New York to study acting.

During this period, she will continue to make films, with new works almost every year, but there is no film that can compare with the previous ones.

But Zhang Jingchu doesn't care, she feels that as long as this film can expand her life experience, it is enough.

The 2019 movie "Ice Storm" proves that in order to make this film, she went to learn to climb mountains and experienced the joy of mountaineering.

When she doesn't have an appointment, she shares her life on social platforms: three meals a day, self-discipline exercise, reading, etc.

She gradually discovered that the simple and ordinary life is the most real.

In that small villa with a courtyard, Zhang Jingchu planted trees, flowers, melons, fruits and vegetables, and lived a fairy-like life.

Some say it's an escape.

But in Zhang Jing's heart, this is the beginning of her new life.

She has completely precipitated and has the courage to fight the world again.

In June 2021, when Zhang Jingchu heard the outside world slander her again, saying that she used an improper relationship between men and women to get a job, and that she was banned, Zhang Jingchu chose to use legal weapons to protect her reputation this time.

This lawsuit lasted one and a half years, and it was too "hard work and money", until January 2023, when a verdict came down, Zhang Jingchu won the lawsuit.

She could finally tell everyone that she hadn't done those things.

In March of the same year, Zhang Jingchu also did a very unexpected thing.

In less than four months, she prepared for the graduate school of directing at the United States Film Academy and successfully landed.

During this time, she had to get a TOEFL score of 100, shoot two short films, and complete three essays.

She thought it was an impossible task, but she wanted to give it a try.

She has become accustomed to sharing her daily life on social platforms, and she has shown the entire preparation process one by one.

She insisted on preparing a full day's meals for an hour every morning and half an hour for laundry and cleaning. 

Then use all the remaining time to sprint and review.

She would do her homework while eating, which she said would not waste time.

She would also type sleepily until the wee hours of the morning in order to meet deadlines for her homework.

Zhang Jingchu's alternative live broadcast has made countless netizens fall in love with her, and there are many students who are also taking the postgraduate entrance examination to join her and work together.

At present, Zhang Jingchu has studied at the United States Film Academy for one year and has spent the most bitter and volatile year.

She also often shares her daily life of studying and shooting, and it can be seen that she loves her current life too much.

Write at the end:

On the way to becoming a 40+ older actress, Zhang Jingchu found her own comfortable track.

Other actors are bringing goods in live broadcasts, but she is doing her homework live broadcast.

Many people persuaded her to seize the current golden period as an actor and take on a few more plays to increase her exposure.

But she insisted on slowing down the pace of filming and doing something more important to herself.

44-year-old Zhang Jingchu, life is like starting all over again. She is happy and happy in this new life, and she is completely in her own hands.

I hope everyone can be like Zhang Jingchu, find what they love, be brave and reckless, and embrace everything fearlessly.

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