The 71-year-old famous director Zhang Yimou has made many internationally renowned films, and he has won many popular actresses over the years, including but not limited to Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Ni Ni, Zhou Dongyu, Dong Jie, and Liu Haocun. Everyone is both beautiful and powerful, which can be described as a bit of a stone into gold ability, but there is only one, because the appearance is too ordinary, was named "the ugliest girl" by netizens.
She is Wei Minzhi, the heroine of the movie "No One Can Be Less" released in 1999.
In 1998, she was discovered by Zhang Yimou and starred as the heroine of the film, which made the film acclaimed and won the highest honor, the Golden Lion Award, at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. However, Zhang Yimou pointed out that Wei Minzhi was ugly and not suitable for development in front of the curtain.
Wei Minzhi, 36, from a rural area in Chicheng County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, was discovered by Zhang Yimou at the age of 13 to shoot "No One Can Be Less", and her simple temperament is the same as the role, perfectly digesting the role.
Zhang Yimou's eyes are clear, "No One Can Be Less" was well received after its release, and it still maintains a high score of 7.7 points in Douban. Wei Minzhi's popularity also soared that year, and she won many performance opportunities.
However, Zhang Yimou told her: "You are not beautiful, your figure is not good, and you are not suitable to be an actor at all." I hope you calm down, you are not suitable for entering the entertainment industry, I do not want you to enter the entertainment industry, the key is to go to school and study, enter the university, this is the only way to change your destiny. ”
Listening to Jun's words is better than reading ten years of books. Bo Le's heavy teaching made Wei Minzhi resolutely decide to quit the curtain. In September 2004, after graduating from high school, she was admitted to the School of Western Film, Film and Television Media of Xi'an Chinese University, becoming a student of the Department of Choreography and Directing, and was later invited to the United States for further study because of her excellent grades.
She spent two years practicing English and took a full scholarship to study film and television directing at Brigham Young University in Hawaii.
During her studies, she not only worked hard to learn professional knowledge and strive for internship opportunities, but she also met her Chinese-American husband Liu Jinhui.
The two married in 2008 two years after patting and having two children, and now Wei Minzhi has become no different from ordinary middle-aged women, compared with Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, and other Hua Dan of the same age, it does not belong to the same world at all.
Seeing Wei Minzhi's recent situation, many netizens thought that Zhang Yimou was wise to persuade Wei Minzhi to retreat. "To be a person, you must have self-knowledge, especially in the entertainment industry, you have to rely on your face to eat, Zhang Yimou just tells the truth." "It's good to live happily, like the acting career does not have to be in front of the curtain, Zhang Yimou also hopes that the apprentice will take less wrong roads."
But some netizens said: "Natural beauty is real beauty, and now that medicine is changming, plastic surgery can also change appearance." ”
To tell the truth, although Wei Minzhi seems to have given up her wonderful and splendid actor career, she has exchanged it for a down-to-earth and happy and more grounded life. If she had fallen in love with the entertainment industry, she might still be unknown, and even suffered a lot of online violence. And Zhang Yimou originally liked to praise cute and pure girls, like Wei Minzhi, who was too grounded, and Zhang Dao could not see the eye. It is said that the threshold of the entertainment industry is low, so it is actually quite high, and from the outside world, Zhang Yimou has changed the fate of this rural girl. But for Wei Minzhi, perhaps she chose a more suitable path for her.