Is there a cooler grandmother than Yin Ruzhen? Without.
At the Oscar Awards ceremony that just ended not long ago, South Korean actor Yoon Ru-jeong, who will turn 74 in June this year, won the Best Supporting Actress Award for the role of a grandmother, becoming the first actor in the Korean film industry to receive this honor.
The seventy-year-old actor stood on the podium and teased the man who presented him the award in fluent English: "Oh, Mr. Brad Pitt, I finally saw you, where were you when we were filming in Tulsa [a northeastern Oklahoma city]. ”
Later, the reporter interviewed her and asked her how she felt when she first met Blatter Pitt, and Yin Ruzhen replied in a stunned manner: "I didn't smell it, and I'm not a dog." ”
Who would have thought that 40 years ago, this now beautiful actress was still unmarried, boycotted by the industry, and had almost no way out, if anyone had told her at the time that she could win an Oscar at the age of 74, she would have laughed at that person for being stupid. However, Yin Ruzhen did create a myth.
Yin Ruzhen is really handsome, but she is not the only handsome grandmother in the Korean showbiz circle to drop the slag, in fact, a group of Korean national grandmothers are ushering in a collective sunset red, and domestic elderly actresses can basically only shine in the role of supporting actresses, they not only win international awards repeatedly, but also often win domestic awards with the role of the heroine.
They are the coolest grandmothers in the world. How exactly did they do it?
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A common feature of these old Korean drama bones is that they have been acting since they were young and have been acting for decades, and Yoon Ru-jeong is the most popular among them when they were young.
Yin Ruzhen was born in 1947, when she went to college in the mid-60s, in order to earn tuition fees to work in the TV station, she did not expect to apply for the open recruitment of the TV station under the recommendation of the host of the program at that time, and then simply dropped out of school to shoot TV series, which was definitely a maverick in that era.
Only 5 years after her debut, she became popular for starring in the role of Zhang Xi concubine, the first evil woman in Korean history, in the costume drama "Zhang Xi Concubine". It is said that because she acted too well and the role was too deeply rooted in people's hearts, people would throw stones at her from time to time when walking on the street.
Only 24 years old, Yin Ruzhen and the famous director Kim Ki-yong cooperated in the first film "Fire Girl", this movie was so capable of playing that year, so strong that she won the Green Dragon Film Award, the Big Bell Award, and the Busan Film Award in one go.
Unfortunately, at the peak of her career, Yin Ruzhen met singer Zhao Yingnan on TV, who was two years older than her, could speak and paint. In 1973, the two announced their engagement. Zhao Yingnan decided to go to the United States for further study, and Yin Ruzhen gave up her peak career and immigrated to the United States with him.
Who knows that after she raised children for Zhao Ying boys, the musician's husband cheated and openly asked her to live with the cheating woman, 37-year-old Yin Ruzhen was angry and returned to the show business circle after the divorce, and once again got the nomination for the Big Bell Award, but soon fell silent, because the Korean showbiz at that time felt that a woman's divorce was a shame, and the audience also called the TV station to boycott her, and as a result, she was cast idle.
In despair, she also thought about giving up, and she wanted to raise her children with a minimum income. But the screenwriter Kim So-hyun, who has worked with her, scolded her: Say something stupid, you are on fire!
Yin Ruzhen, who wanted to understand, decided to start again, participating in "What Is Love" written by Kim So-hyun, playing the mother of the heroine, which was also her first time to play the role of mother, this year she was 44 years old. The drama was a fire, reaching 76.9% at its highest rating, becoming a Korean national drama and being introduced into China.
Then she starred in Kim So-hyun's "The Men of the Bathhouse Owner's House", playing the second daughter-in-law Hye-young, who has been "elegant and noble" for her life. The role of the "old girl" who was immersed in her dreams and did not want to grow up quickly allowed her to completely regain her acting status, and later became familiar to domestic audiences in the "Love Hotel" and "Come on! In a series of works such as "Jin Shun", he played the role of mother and grandmother.
In 2016, she was nominated for the Green Dragon Award for Best Actress for her role as an elderly special industry worker in Miss Dionysus. Yin Ruzhen's performance in the film interprets the character's numbness, helplessness, compassion, mixed tastes, and mixed feelings.
The first time Yin Ruzhen became familiar to Chinese audiences was when she participated in the recording of Luo PD's "Fancy Sister". If you get on the "thief ship", you can't get off.
In 2017, the 70-year-old Yin Ruzhen ushered in the 50th anniversary of entering the industry, Luo PD tailored a new variety show for her - "Yin Canteen", please let her serve as the president and chef, and Li Ruizhen, Zheng Youmei and others opened Korean restaurants abroad, resulting in a big hit, shooting for two consecutive seasons.
Yin Ruzhen completely exposed her poisonous tongue attributes in the show, always complaining about Luo PD's doing things while happily completing it.
She also laughed at herself for this, "After 50 years of being an actor, the representative work is "Yin Canteen", which is too humiliating." ”
But in the latest film, she swept the supporting actress awards at major international awards with her charismatic performances and re-innovated the history of Korean cinema.
Yoon Joo-jeong has participated in many Korean film and television classics, but has also acted in bad films. When participating in "Flower Sister", the screenwriter asked: "What if I encounter a bad work?" Her answer was, "So what?" Then it's good to step on the. ”
In the movie "Actresses" released in 2009, in the form of a half-drama film and a half-documentary, Yin Ruzhen appeared with a cigarette, and expressionlessly recalled that she was complained about after her comeback, because of the past of divorce and abandonment, when Choi Ji-woo Kim Min-hee and other actresses cried about their misfortune, she raised her glass and smiled and said: "What are you crying?" Drink bar everyone! ”
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If the national grandmother also has 101, the Korean national grandmother who can compete with Yin Ruzhen for the C position must be Luo Wenxi.
Like many Korean grandmother actors, Luo Wenxi has been playing the old man since he was 42 years old, and this old actor often reveals a natural sense of joy, which is easy for the audience to take over the role. In 1995, Luo Wenji played a strong mother role in the TV series "Even if the wind is blowing", which won the highest award at the KBS Acting Awards that year.
Next, she played many mother-in-law and mother-in-law roles, whether it was a kind grandmother, a strong mother, a sour mother-in-law, she did not refuse, and finally in 2005, ushered in another highlight moment of her own.
That year, Luo Wenji first played the stereotypical mother-in-law in "My Name is Jin Sanshun", and in the same year, she debuted on the big screen, playing the mother of the male protagonist in the movie "Crying Fist", and won the 42nd Dazhong Award for Best Supporting Actress.
For Chinese audiences, many people are most familiar with her role as a duplicitous old lady in "Funny Family", and there are still many memes she performs in the film.
In 2013, Luo Wenji starred in the fantasy film "Strange Her", playing the widow grandmother Wu Moshun, who worked for her son for most of her life, and the young grandfather played by Kim So-hyun in the film stopped beside her on a motorcycle, smiled at her, and carried Luo Wenji away, that scene, and Luo Wenji could catch it.
In 2017, Luo Wenji participated in the movie "I Can Say", playing a difficult "ghost horse grandmother" Yufen in this movie about comfort women. Although it is a special comfort women theme, the film does not take a heavy route, but presents it with comedy.
Luo Wenji's performance before the joy and sorrow, the last scene seems to be expressionless, in fact, the beauty of the wordless elephant invisible wisdom and foolishness, this dignified performance stunned everyone, some Douban netizens commented: "At the beginning, I thought it was just a funny comedy of a typical Korean grandmother learning English, and the result was that I cried into tears, and Luo Wenji is worthy of being a National Treasure of South Korea." ”
With this role, Luo Wenji swept the "Three Materials Queen" of the Korean Blue Dragon Film Award, the Big Bell Award and the Baeksang Art Awards that year. This year, Luo Wenji was 77 years old, and she should have reached the age of winning the "Lifetime Achievement Award", but she became a Grand Slam film queen, reaching a height that could not be reached by the younger generations.
Similarly, who reached the peak of her acting career in her later years, there is another national grandmother, Kim Keiko.
She was best known to Chinese audiences for the graceful and somewhat eccentric empress dowager in the 2006 hit modern court drama "Palace".
But what really showed her acting skills to the fullest was the Korean drama "Dazzling" that she starred in at the age of 77, in this drama with her as the first heroine and the popular actress Han Zhimin as the second heroine, she played an old man with dementia who treated her son as her husband and her daughter-in-law as her mother-in-law.
However, when the last episode of the story, a final reversal made all the audience deeply moved, and more than 50,000 viewers on Douban scored a high score of 9.0 for the series, and she also beat a number of popular actresses with the show, winning the honor of Hundred Thoughts Queen.
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Why is it that at the age of grandma, these 70+ actresses not only continue to shine, but even become more and more popular, frequently winning the best actress in the domestic important film and television awards instead of the best supporting actress award, but also becoming the pillar of popular variety shows, and even creating history for Korean movies?
One reason, of course, is that these old drama bones have a straightforward personality, can keep pace with the times, carry the most fashionable leather bags, laugh at themselves anytime and anywhere, and mingle with this era, and are still highly sought after by Young Koreans in their seventies.
It is said that the acting life of actresses is relatively short, and at a certain age, it is easy to be eliminated by the market, but there are also problems in the mentality of the actors themselves, do not want to be a supporting role, do not want to play a mother role, do not want to play ugly, etc. also affected the play path of some actresses, and these actresses began to play the elderly from their 40s, the age of the play spanned half a century, some people from the supporting role to the protagonist, from the protagonist to the best heroine of the podium, it took a whole youth time.
When Kim Keiko won the Baeksang Award, she used the classic line of "Dazzling" as the acceptance speech, "My life is sometimes unfortunate and sometimes happy. Although they all say that life is just a dream, I am still very happy to come to this world to live. ”
For these cool grandmothers, the Korean showbiz circle not only respects the elderly, but also praises the elderly.
Compared with the domestic film and television industry grandma-level actresses can only play supporting roles no matter how good the acting skills, Korean film and television dramas often use grandmothers as the heroine, in 2016, South Korean TVN TV asked South Korean gold medal screenwriter Lu Xijing to shoot "My Dear Friends", Kim Hye-ko, Luo Wenxi and other old drama bones once again put on the battlefield, performed this main story that mainly tells the story of several old people, and interpreted the life praise of "life is not over, we are still alive" Twilight Youth. When the episode was broadcast, it received high praise in South Korea, and the Douban rating was as high as 9.5 points.
In addition to the excellent script and the excellent acting skills of the old drama bones that have achieved these classic dramas, there is also a key reason, which is that unlike the domestic popular stars who are accustomed to bringing screenwriters into the group, and even take pride in changing the script and increasing their own roles, these film and television dramas with old actors as the main line, although there are also popular actors such as Zhao Yincheng and Han Zhimin, none of them have forcibly changed the series to their own core works, and they have not imposed a variety of love + narcissistic dramas that make the audience extremely bored for their roles.
It is this kind of true respect for the elderly that has finally achieved these classic works that make the old drama bones shine, and also made them become the favored "national grandmothers", and the popularity of these national grandmothers themselves has become part of the benign operation of the Korean film and television industry. Their life stories are also more exciting than the plays they have played.
Like Yin Ruzhen, who has experienced popularity, quitting the film world, getting married, having children, divorcing, returning, low tide, turning red, etc., itself is a textbook of life, talking about the past, she just said lightly that there is nothing to regret, because "Where is there a life without regrets and pain?" It's painful and unfortunate. I had to learn to let go and give up one by one, and I decided to live with a smile. Life is worth a try, it's really fun. ”
But the grandmothers never make any lofty remarks, their golden sentences are the most grounded, Yin Ruzhen also said: "Actors have the best acting skills when they are in urgent need of money." I acted because I was hungry, but others praised me a lot... So art is cruel. ”
Recently, she became popular again, and zhao Yingnan, her ex-husband who lived with Xiao San, began to confess in the media, saying that the most wrong thing was cheating, and also sent her flowers. Yin Ruzhen directly threw all the flowers and gifts sent by the scumbag's ex-husband outside the door. But she also joked: "The acting skills before marriage are average, if I don't meet Zhao Yingnan, I may be a very ordinary actor." ”
Such a grandmother is indeed going to be cool for a lifetime.