On the evening of April 16, "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves 2" officially ended. Hu Jing's failure to form a group made many viewers regret. But the result of the group, or the long tail effect of "red or not red", does not seem to be so important to "sister" Hu Jing. Before the competition, she wrote the names of thirty sisters on her arms, and this important journey, she successfully fought with all the sisters' dreams to the end.
Hu Jing wrote the names of the 30 sisters on her arm.
As a 40+ actress who dares to "start from scratch" on this stage, she hopes to let all women see that no matter what age, any time, as long as they have the courage to challenge themselves, they can successfully break through their comfort zone.
"I'm sure sometimes women tell themselves, 'I'm my age and I can't do these things. In fact, everything is imposed on oneself. Whenever you want to do something, you can do it. Have something in your heart that burns you, and don't drown in chai, rice, oil and salt. Every woman can be great, and every life is wonderful. ”
In "Sister 2", I feel tired that I have never experienced in the first half of my life
At the end of December 2019, the first season of "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" invited Hu Jing. Hearing the show's name, she quickly agreed to come down – "Ride the Wind and Waves", the word "Great!" "She can understand the expression that the show wants to achieve.
However, the sudden outbreak of the epidemic delayed the appointment between Hu Jing, who settled in Malaysia, and "Sister" by one year. When the second season was preparing, the epidemic situation abroad was still in a panic, and the children and families made Hu Jing hesitate for a long time. In fact, she watched the whole show in the first season, and the chemistry of this stage with her sisters made her yearn. Wan Qian and Jin Chen were once friends of Hu Jing's cooperation, but they were even more radiant on the stage; there were also sisters that Hu Jing was not familiar with, such as Zhang Yuqi, whose bluntness and authenticity made Hu Jing successfully "turn to powder".
Hu Jing participated in "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves 2".
"There are many steps in life, and the most important ones are only a few steps. The stage of Sister 2 is important to me. I used to learn to dance, but I had no foundation in singing. I want to see how far I can break through the wind and waves of my 40+ self. ”
However, the process of stepping on the waves is far more difficult than Hu Jing imagined, "I thought of being tired, but I didn't expect to be so tired." From entering the film and television circle in 1998 to getting married in 2008, Hu Jing's acting work has never stopped. Even after becoming a mother, Hu Jing still maintained the rhythm of two or three plays a year, and even chose to make a comeback four months after giving birth. Every time she shoots a scene, she enjoys it and never feels that work is a hard thing. "After participating in Sister 2, I felt that I had a very happy life for the first half of my life."
"Sister 2" is a group, Hu Jing and Ji Kejunyi (left), Zhou Bichang (right).
It's a kind of "bitterness" of breaking out of the comfort zone and starting from scratch in new areas. During the first performance, Hu Jing was assigned to a group with two professional singers, Ji KeJunyi and Zhou Bichang. They are very professional in singing, and the way they play the beat is also very professional, and Hu Jing, who has a foundation in zero music theory, does not dare to ask, but she is worried that it will delay the training of her teammates. Even, due to the high pressure of the whole team's dance, the vocal lessons were all changed to dance lessons.
"Sister 2" was recorded for more than two months, and Hu Jing has never left Changsha. She asked the vocal teacher of the program to "open the small stove", and the time after recording was offline to try to catch up with the progress. Due to the long period of sustained high-intensity dance and vocal training, Hu Jing's waist injury for many years recurred. In that case, her group needed to challenge the slope dance. This is a confrontation with the "waist force", and the five sisters must rush down from the high platform together to complete the most beautiful moment. Hu Jingsheng was afraid of discrediting the team, so she put on her waist seal and faced unbearable pain to complete the highlight moment. "If your willpower had collapsed a little bit, or if you had weakened and taken a step back, you really wouldn't have been able to do it." Sometimes people's willpower is really a very magical thing. ”
At the second time, Hu Jing's waist injury recurred, and he insisted on completing the slope dance.
Socialize with your sisters and say words of encouragement to yourself
Compared with the challenges on the stage and getting along with her sisters day and night, Hu Jing needs more courage to "ride the wind and waves".
Hu Jing in life is simple and direct, and will automatically stay away when it encounters complex things. In her circle, making friends is a very precious thing, and her proportion of male friends is far greater than that of female friends - men are more direct and less troublesome; women are delicate and often non-more, especially in the entertainment industry. Worried about this, Hu Jing also took "Sister 2" as another topic for her life study: overcoming social weaknesses and learning to survive and get along in the pile of women.
"But when it came to the finals, I was really glad I came to the show." Hu Jing sighed. When he was a public servant, in the face of Zhou Bichang and Ji Kejunyi, two powerful factions, Hu Jing was once very worried that as a "singing and dancing little white", he would drag down the entire team. She is not used to releasing stress by expressing emotions, and can only practice silently, "but in fact, at that time, my heart especially needed encouragement." ”
So she tried to translate this need into "giving" and hoped to bring energy to herself. Between rehearsals, when she saw that the other sisters were also feeling pressured by the competition, she involuntarily stepped forward to encourage, "Be sure to cheer!" "Let's work together!" After the first quiz, she would also say to the sisters of the other teams, "You guys are awesome!" Although at that time, the sisters were not very familiar with each other, Hu Jing believed that others would be very happy to hear her cheering.
Hu Jing said that socializing with her sisters requires the courage to "ride the wind and waves".
Hu Jing in the past would never have expressed it in this way. Even when she sees an actor she admires, or a very close friend in her life, she rarely uses direct language such as "you are good" or "you are excellent" to reveal her inner thoughts. "It used to be that the mouth was too stupid. But after coming to this show, I felt that since I really felt it in my heart, when the other party also needed it, why didn't I say it? You encourage the other person, but you actually encourage yourself. ”
Until now, Hu Jing has not yet learned to be left and right, but she has mastered the ability to express real emotions. In Hu Jing's view, women who can stand on this stage can stand in the "C position" in their respective fields, but all people are willing to start from scratch, break themselves, and reshape themselves. The innate empathy of women makes the sisters have an inseparable sisterly feeling for each other. "There wasn't a tear-up scene on this show because I didn't think there was a win or lose on the stage. Everyone stumbled all the way, supported each other, encouraged each other, and passed through one level after another; although some sisters did not go to the end, it did not mean that they were not good. Coming to this stage, in fact, I already have the greatest courage. ”
It is the character who is very happy to be red, not Hu Jing
Hu Jing, 40+, is indifferent and tolerant. In her opinion, this is the change in her heart given by age and family, "knowing how to love the people around her." ”
Tolerance is embodied in the attitude towards people in the world. At the age of 11, Hu Jing was admitted to the Dance Department Of the Central Institute for Nationalities (now the Central University for Nationalities), with the ideal of becoming a dancer like Yang Liping who could stand in the center of the stage. Then he was admitted to the Chinese opera and embarked on the road of actor. "When I was younger, I was more arrogant and willful, and when I saw something I didn't like, I couldn't accept it."
Hu Jing's dream was to become a dancer like Yang Liping who could stand in the center of the stage.
But after the age of 30, Hu Jing became a wife and a mother, and between the blandness of chai rice oil and salt and the balance between life and work, she gradually realized that no one is perfect, and no one thing is perfect. When you are open-minded, the whole world is yours; when you are narrow-minded, the whole world may be only the size of a fingernail.
It's also the reason she never felt anxious about her "age". After becoming a mother, Hu Jing once faced the confusion of "no drama to shoot" - there were very few scripts to get, and the roles were getting narrower and narrower. "But anxiety can't change the status quo either." In Hu Jing's view, acting is a long-term profession, and the most important thing is the ability to shape the role. If you can play the role well, there will always be a script to find; if the actor always picks faults, it is not the heroine, and the job opportunities are naturally less and less.
"In this market, there are very few opportunities for 30+ or 40+ women to play the female lead, or TV series and movies based on this age group. The market needs young, fresh blood, and that's something that can't be changed. Hu Jing also never resisted playing the mother, "I am already a mother, why should I refuse?" And I may have a lot of feelings about life and children that I can't understand before I become a family. ”
When unable to change the general environment, Hu Jing chooses not to compete with the environment, but to change her mentality. In recent years, she has taken over the role of Gao Xiaoqin in "In the Name of the People", Dao Meilan, a mother who is bent on revenge for her daughter in "New World", and Ye Ziqi, a poisonous tongue lawyer in "Decisive Victory Court". Many people can count these classic characters in detail, but it is difficult to call out Hu Jing's name in one mouth. Hu Jing didn't care. After the broadcast of "In the Name of the People", the team arranged a lot of publicity and interviews for her, but most of them were rejected by her. She doesn't like to do things that have nothing to do with the characters and the drama, which also seems to block her path to popularity.
Gao Xiaoqin in the TV series "In the Name of the People".
In the TV series "New World", Hu Jing played Dao Meilan.
In Hu Jing's cognition, whether "Sister 2" can make her "turn red" is not so important. "I've always been doing this with an actor mentality. The most important thing for an actor is to create a role, and I think the audience remembers my role, and everyone knows that I have acting skills, so I don't lack work. As long as the audience still likes to watch me act, I will continue to act. Red or not red doesn't make much difference to me. ”
Zhang He, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
Chief Editor Wu Dongni Proofreader Zhao Lin
Source: Beijing News