There is a kind of magic of actors, which can convincingly admit that they were "too loud" before.
This is the comfort zone of actor Lan Yingying-
In "The Legend of Zhen Huan", she played the personal maid of the deep palace, forbearance for fate and disloyalty due to jealousy, the audience gritted their teeth with hatred at the beginning, but "understood" many years later;
In "Surgery", she played a surgical female nurse, she slapped "forced marriage", fanned sober and backbone, and also played the classic "happy enemy CP";
She is on the same stage with her predecessors in acting variety shows, and her aura is not inferior;
In the reality show, she strives for excellence on the duet and dance stage, and her "volume" is jaw-dropping, but people have to admire the super-high-quality results.
"Ambition" is her label, her source of motivation, and it has also made her misinterpreted for too long.
In the recently hit suspense TV series "Dislocation", Lan Yingying plays a "winner in life", who faces all kinds of human tests after losing her legs due to an accident.
What kind of breakthrough and growth is it this time?
Let's listen to Lan Yingying's story.
Thank you netizens for helping me define a new way of playing: sick women.
The first thing that attracted me to the character of Su Zhenzhen was the complexity.
At that time, after the script came over, I liked it very much as soon as I read it, and I saw the fragility behind Su Zhenzhen's complexity, which attracted me very much.
Because of her vulnerability, many of her actions are justified.
Vulnerability stems from the loss of control of her body and therefore of her sense of control over her life. In the past, she was a winner in life, and Miss Qianjin was loved by everyone. When she loses control of her legs, she thinks that her life will not change, such as having a fiancé who loves her very much, and she is still the pride of the sky.
But she later found out that this is not the case: the fiancé will maintain a very loving personality, but it is impossible to really fall in love with her with such a disability. Su Zhenzhen herself still loves dancing so much, everything has changed, so she has become very vulnerable.
Through this vulnerability, what the audience can see is her control over Gu Jiming (played by Tong Dawei), her suspicions, and the kind of successful life she hopes for step by step in the later stage......
Many people like to distinguish love, family, friendship, and all kinds of love, but in fact, human nature is not like this.
There are all kinds of love mixed together, and that's human nature.
What is love? I think love is an emotion that comes and goes.
I saw that some netizens said that Su Zhenzhen and Gu Jiming were crazy fathers and women. If it weren't for Gu Jiming's murder, I think the two of them would be a good combination.
They have their own fragility, low self-esteem, huddle together for warmth, and are in a relationship of pulling each other and needing each other. Zhenzhen definitely loved him until the last moment.
This is my first time acting in a suspense drama, and in addition to what I can see, I also have to make some preparations for many details that I can't see.
There is a big challenge to play Su Zhenzhen, that is, to be in a wheelchair all the time.
I'm a very active person, and I don't sit when I can stand.
A while ago, I went to rehab training, and the coach also said: "You have a little varicose veins, you have to sit more." I asked, "Shouldn't I have to stand more?" He said, "You're a little too much." ”
I'm one of those people, so it's been a big challenge for me to be in a wheelchair all the time. I can't express a lot of emotional changes in the characters through my body, so I will tie up the straps to make myself feel like I don't feel in my legs, and so on.
I think I've got talent, I've got skill, I'm a general.
Every year, I actually prepare for an update and iteration of my performance. I studied the "Stanley School" at my alma mater, the Central Academy of Drama, and when I was filming "Dislocation", I heard a new school called "Meissner". I bought the book back and read it every day, to practice and feel.
People feel that the way I perform in "Dislocation" has changed, and it is also because every time I discover a new genre, or interview some good actors and artists, their words may bring me a new perception of performance, human nature, and life.
My personal way of working is to do my homework with reason in the early stage, and when I get to the scene, I completely throw away the script to feel the feeling of the opponent actor at that moment, or the whole aura and atmosphere.
Like in "The Story of Rose", the audience only saw the opening and ending of Guan Zhizhi, in fact, I also did some homework in my own heart. I am very happy to get the role of Guan Zhizhi, although there are very few scenes, but her character arc is very full.
I envisioned Guan Zhizhi's life before the appearance:
She may be an ordinary girl from a second- or third-tier city, and she was admitted to a first-tier city through her own efforts, because she focused all her attention on taking exams and studying hard, so she did not have the level of "reading countless people". Until she was told before the marriage that Zhou Shihui fell in love with another girl, her love "failed".
But she is a very cheerful girl, probably because she came up step by step through her own efforts, so she has the courage to start again after being frustrated.
Because of such a change, Guan Zhizhi will reconsider: Is there any other possibility in her life?
People say that if you are disappointed in love, you will be proud in other places, because you will divert your attention from your emotions and try to prove your life worth in some other object in life.
So others have also seen Guan Zhizhi's decisiveness at work, as if there is nothing to lose, the old lady has to go out and live her life well, and she has become more attractive and confident.
I think that if you have to experience setbacks in life, the sooner you encounter them, the better.
Isn't there a saying that "the greatest misfortune in life is the ambition of a young man", when you were young, it was smooth sailing, and you didn't encounter any setbacks, maybe people suddenly let you go through all the changes in the world when you reach middle age, which is actually very difficult.
Every time people like to ask me, "What's your best role?" ”
My official answer is: the best is the next one.
I played Huanbi when I was very young, and there were a lot of roles like this that were always looking for me, and I had a lot of changes in my thinking in those years.
At first, I felt so repulsed; There is a paragraph in the middle that I feel that it is okay to have the ability to play this role to the extreme; Later, after acting, I felt that it was not good, I couldn't always play such a role, I had to break through, and then change the way of acting.
So later, I am very grateful to "The Birth of an Actor", which let everyone see the different sides of actor Lan Yingying, and also helped me transform well.
I saw that everyone has been archiving "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and I cried when I watched the clip of a blogger cutting Huanbi.
From questioning Huanbi, understanding Huanbi, to becoming Huanbi, I am very happy to see this.
I feel that now everyone is more and more accepting of different and real human nature, and accepting the shortcomings and weaknesses in everyone's personality. Seeing that the character made a choice that not everyone would accept, everyone was willing to understand it.
Zhen Huan and Huanbi (right)
Someone asked me, if I played Huanbi again, would I be able to play better than I did back then?
I can only say that I will act differently than I did then, but there is no way to say that I will definitely be better than then, because people can never step into the same river at the same time.
If I play it now, I may have a better interpretation of the thickness (aspect) of life than I did at that time, but Huanbi is young and immature, and it is difficult for me to reach the previous state at this moment, so there is no comparison between each character.
After so many years in the industry, my awe and preparation for each role are no worse than Huanbi, and I have interpreted each role with great care.
During the filming time, not only me, but many brothers and sisters in the crew of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" were interpreting their characters in a seemingly "very stupid" but effective way - they also shrunk themselves into the space of the characters in their daily lives. Every time we get together with my brothers and sisters, the one we talk about the most is "The Legend of Zhen Huan", because we all have common memories.
After participating in the variety show "Rejuvenating the Journey", I also had a lot of new feelings. Like the episode just aired, I met a lot of brothers and sisters of the main creators of the "The Legend of Zhen Huan" crew in Fushun again.
I'm a person who doesn't shed many tears, and my tears usually go to my characters, but in "The Legend of Renewal" I really cried a lot.
I hugged Zhan Jingyi, who played Liuzhu, and the images that flashed in my mind at that time were all clips of filming in the Ming and Qing Dynasties at that time and getting along with Sister Jingyi fourteen years ago.
I'm a person who likes to go out and look at myself.
Sometimes I keep asking myself a lot of questions, and in response to my emotions or sudden thoughts, I will pick them up and ask: Why?
In the show, when I saw everyone looking back at the previous photos, what made me cry the most was that the director team held a bouquet of flowers and told everyone who was finished, and I felt so sad at the time.
I wanted to rip everyone off and didn't want to hear the word "finish" – I really realized that I was a bit of an evasive person about saying goodbye.
Every time it's time it's finished, or when everything is over, I'm sad the day before I say goodbye, and my heart is empty. But when it comes time to say goodbye, I will leave immediately.
In the past, I felt that I was a very strong, unpretentious person, who could quickly look forward, and everyone cried without crying, as if there was a lack of empathy.
It turned out later that this was not the case. I have a lot of inner turmoil, but everyone's emotional point, everyone's hindsight or immediate reaction is different.
I'm sure I'm not alone in the world – I can't feel my emotions right away. This is the brain's self-protection mechanism that helps us block out sad moments.
I haven't learned very well about saying goodbye to this lesson.
I just released my own single this year.
I've always had the dream of singing, and participating in "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" has also made me more determined that I like the feeling of being on stage, so I will also work hard in music in the future. This year, there is also a variety show, and I myself have participated in the behind-the-scenes work, and there are also plans and preparations for a short film.
When I work, I usually don't let myself get tired, and I will be relaxed and know where my line is.
I let myself rest when I'm tired, and if I don't think I'm OK when I'm ahead of the process, I won't force myself.
I'm a person who loves to have my own life.
When I'm not filming, I often get involved in my life, I go to the streets, I do what everybody does, and I like to observe the people around me. When I want to relax, I go for massages and ear picks, but first of all, I have to get a good night's sleep, get a full 8 hours of sleep, take myself to eat what I want to eat, watch a movie I want to watch, and do Pilates.
I strongly discourage exercising when you are still very tired. When your body is ready, just follow your heart.
I'm a J person who likes to do planning, but there are many times in my life that I'm very P. In my life, I used to write down roughly what I want to do every day, on the one hand, because I feel that I can do it better and more efficiently, and on the other hand, it is also a way to relax my brain.
I've always felt that my brain is like a machine, and I feel tired when I always use my head to memorize, so I might as well write down what I want to do. After completing them one by one, I will feel very relaxed, and I don't have to pretend to be in my head.
The best way to overcome anxiety is to act.
I saw that some netizens compared my appearance 14 years ago and 14 years later. Many people put stills from when I was Huanbi on one side, and on the other side, they put on what Su Zhenzhen looks like now, or what I look like in my life.
Maybe the most viewers see the corners of their mouths, but when the two photos are combined, my biggest feeling is that I have grown up. My face didn't change much because I didn't move.
There can be a lot of information behind a photograph that contains the emotional or physical state of that moment. Huanbi is in a very sad state, and there is actually no comparison between the current state of being very happy.
Don't listen to what is said on the Internet, everyone's physique is different. I have a scar constitution, and I have small pits on my face when I have a mole before, which can also be seen in the very high-definition footage of "Dislocation". I didn't do anything to smile lips, and I don't recommend it to girls who are at risk of scarring.
There's nothing inherently wrong with plastic surgery, because everyone is definitely a beauty lover, but there are more great ways to do it, such as facial yoga.
In the past few years, I have made some changes in my career, and the change is not in my mentality, but in some positions and perspectives that I stand on.
Some time ago, there was a hot search, saying that I said that "the only way to slack is to use too much force".
As actors, we rarely see the different personalities of everyone in life. We are filming every day, understanding society in utopia, and the shadows that society reflects to us are all from the script, so my perspective is limited.
For so many years, I would have thought that everyone thought the same thing as me. So I'm also very grateful to "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves", which is the first real reality show I participated in, which allows people to see themselves and the whole world through a different perspective.
I used to think that being ambitious and pushing too hard was very good, that it should be appreciated, and that everyone should be like that.
But then, I found out that everyone's personality is different.
Each of us has our own stage of life growth, and our growth background is also different, the world should become more and more diverse, and there are not many essential differences between us.
The fact that "ambitious" is a distinct label and is discussed may be because there are so few of them.
I joined the show in 2020, and four years later, I feel like it's a lot better now. In the whole society, all boys and girls, especially girls, have a very appreciative and appreciative attitude towards ambition, wanting to win, self-awareness, and controlling their own lives.
Now everyone should think that it is a very applaudable thing for ambition and wanting to win in competitive programs.
Everyone's thoughts are changing, and if you feel that you can't understand it now, it may be that the stage of life has not yet arrived, or the growth background and life experience have not yet arrived, and that's it.