Last spring, actor Zhao Lixin caught fire, but not because of his superb acting skills, but because of some inappropriate remarks he made online. For people who do not pay attention to the show business circle, Zhao Lixin is not famous. Speaking of which, he is also a relatively maverick presence in the Chinese showbiz circle.
Who is Zhao Lixin?
Born in 1968 in a military family, Zhao Lixin entered the Central Academy of Drama at the university, and was sent to the All-Soviet State Film University in Russia for further study because of his excellent achievements and outstanding performance, systematically learning film-related knowledge and skills, and obtaining a master's degree.
At the age of 27, Zhao Lixin married and became a Swedish citizen, and three years later the marriage came to an end, and it was rumored that he had deliberately stayed in Russia. In Sweden, Zhao Lixin worked as a professional drama actor and was admitted to the Swedish National Theatre, where he is said to be the first Chinese actor to be admitted. In Sweden, Zhao Lixin's self-directed and self-acting plays have won the International Theatre Festival Award.
At the age of 36, Zhao Lixin was employed by his alma mater, the Central Academy of Drama, as an elite returnee. A year later, Zhao Lixin set up a personal studio. After returning to China, Zhao Lixin participated in acting work while teaching, and his TV series have won awards such as the Feitian Award, and he himself has been shortlisted for the Magnolia Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Huading Award for Best Supporting Actor, and also won the 2017 China TV Drama Quality Ceremony Annual Charm Drama Star Award.
In addition to acting in TV dramas, Zhao Lixin has also participated in and directed dramas, starred in movies, participated in various variety shows and speech competitions, and also wrote scripts, dubbed and served as a program host.
Zhao Lixin, who is versatile and has solid business ability, if he does not "die" and his posture is not so high, he is indeed a powerful actor, and even deserves the title of "artist", and will continue to be loved by his fans.
The people of Kochi's old drama bones were set up well, and Zhao Lixin somehow made a mistake and overturned the car.
On April 2 last year, Zhao Lixin posted on Weibo: "Why didn't the Japanese take away the cultural relics in the Forbidden City and burn down the Forbidden City after occupying Beijing for eight years?" Is this in line with the nature of the aggressor? ”
Soon, inappropriate remarks were discovered by netizens, and then everyone expressed doubts and ridicule to Zhao Lixin in the comment area, and even more directly scolded. Things soon fermented, and Weibo big v went down one after another, carrying out historical science popularization on the topic, saying that the cultural relics were taken away by the Japanese in advance. In the case of being punched in the face, Zhao Lixin, instead of seriously reflecting, defended himself one after another, saying that some valuable cultural relics had not been taken away. And he continued to subtly comment on history on Weibo, which was suspected of excusing Japan.
This series of operations completely angered the vast number of netizens, and then the Purple Light Pavilion, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and other officials criticized their views as incorrect, and Xinmin Weekly bluntly said that Zhao Lixin had reached the level of "deportation" applicable.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves. Under heavy pressure, Zhao Lixin deleted the relevant Weibo and issued an apology letter in the early morning, and later his personal and studio Weibo were also cancelled. Of course, it was too late, and the accusations against him by online public opinion continued for many days, and because he had joined the Swedish nationality, netizens were highly suspicious of his political stance and patriotic feelings, believing that he had glorified aggression and returned to China to seek gold and let him "get out of China."
The public is not well known, challenging the people's bottom line, and the result is to be pickpocketed to the sky. Zhao Lixin's price of making a difference in Weibo and showing off his talents is too great.
For Zhao Lixin's follow-up series of operations, most netizens did not recognize it. Some people said that Zhao Lixin did this entirely to avoid the wind. First cancel Weibo, disappear from the public's vision, calm the anger of the public, but also win the sympathy of the uninformed masses, let them think that it is the extremist netizens "Internet violence" him, he is innocent.
When the limelight passed, the attention of the crowd shifted elsewhere, and he took several more films back into the public eye, and everything was unconscious. After all, the audience is good at forgetting, as long as the performance is good, maybe a few "male gods" images may be created, and the success circle fans are not known.
It's a big game of chess, but as netizens said, whitewashing Japan is a real "contradiction between the enemy and ourselves", which is not at all forgivable, and such a person should be "banned". According to the agitated attitude of netizens, unless Zhao Lixin stops the flag and completely leaves the Chinese showbiz circle, it is not so simple to regain the recognition of the audience.
Of course, Zhao Lixin does not see it this way, he said in an interview with the media that he was not rigorous in his expression, which led to misunderstanding among netizens, and the views put forward were not entirely personal positions, he just moved the cognition of his predecessors to Weibo for academic discussion.
Zhao Lixin also said that he never regarded himself as a star, nor did he expect to get so much attention. But whether it is a star or an ordinary person, since people are in China, they must abide by the law and abide by the law in this land and be responsible for their words and deeds, so netizens are not attacking him because he is a public figure, but his remarks are too out of place and provoke public anger.
Instead of apologizing and whitewashing himself while apologizing, Zhao Lixin should seriously review his own mistakes and give the public a clear and sincere apology.
After this incident, many of zhao Lixin's works were implicated and temporarily withdrawn, and Zhao Lixin also disappeared from the public eye for a period of time. However, within a few months, there was news of Zhao Lixin's participation in the new drama, and the inappropriate remarks he threw out seemed to have been forgotten by the public.
In April this year, after a full year, some netizens turned over the old accounts of a year ago. In this regard, Zhao Lixin made a special interview quite aggrieved, saying that he was due to "insufficient understanding of the network platform, imprecise expression of the problem" caused by the misunderstanding of netizens.
Today's Zhao Lixin is trying to get out of the haze caused by this incident, but I don't know if the majority of netizens will buy his Swedish account?