Text | Wang Zhenyi
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Ni Ni finally turned red.
At the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, she proved her acting skills with one film and one drama, and once again gained recognition.
In the film "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" cooperated with Andy Lau, she is not a vase character, but an important person who promotes the plot, and the crying scene at the end of the movie is even more impressive to the audience.
In the TV series "Flowing Golden Years" with Liu Shishi, Chen Daoming and Dong Zijian, she vividly interpreted Zhu Suosuo's low-key humility and dare to love and hate personality, which was deeply loved by the audience.
With "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" and "Flowing Golden Years", Ni Ni once again entered the public's field of vision, and the last time she received so much attention was 10 years ago, when she starred in the film "Jinling Thirteen Chao" directed by Zhang Yimou, and became famous in one war.
However, from "Jinling Thirteen Chao" to "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" and "Flowing Golden Years", Ni Ni's journey is not easy, although in the eyes of outsiders, she has a very high starting point.
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Ni Ni was born in Nanjing in 1988, because she was more boyish when she was a child, her mother let her learn dance and cultivate her temperament. And in order to temper her will, her mother let her practice swimming.
Ni Ni's mother's training was very effective, and later Ni Ni became a national swimming second-class athlete and won the national standard dance championship in Jiangsu Province.
In addition to this, Ni Ni also likes English very much, thanks to her aunt. Her aunt is a graduate of the English Department of Nanjing University, working in a foreign company, and she said to Ni Ni that learning English is very useful, so she often urges Ni Ni to learn English.
Ni Ni also listened to her aunt's words, she is determined to become an excellent person like her aunt, and will work in a foreign company after graduating from college in the future.
But before she went to college, Ni Ni encountered setbacks.
In 2006, Ni Ni took the college entrance examination, and her grades were very average, barely able to attend an ordinary university.
So do you want to go to a regular university? Ni Ni was confused.
Just when Ni Ni was confused, the aunt appeared. My aunt asked her to make a table and write down what she would gain and lose from repeating and going to ordinary college, respectively.
After writing, Ni Ni was not confused, and she decided to repeat it.
After a year of hard work, Ni Ni was successfully admitted to the Nanguang College of communication university of China in 2007 and studied in the Department of Broadcasting.
In the year that Ni Ni was admitted to college, Zhang Yimou, who will change his fate in the future, is looking for an actress for the new film "Jinling Thirteen Chao".
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Originally, Ni Ni's college time was very calm, she was no different from thousands of female college students, she studied seriously, and when she had time, she went to a foreign company for internship.
But a phone call changed the trajectory of her destiny.
In 2008, Ni Ni received a phone call during her internship outside the school, and her teacher asked her to sign up for the selection of the actors of "Jinling Thirteen Chao" and recommended her to pu Lun, the assistant director of the crew. At that time, the crew required the actress to speak English and Speak Nanjing, and the teacher felt that Ni Ni was particularly suitable.
Ni Ni met Pu Lun. She and Pu Lun spoke a few words of Nanjing and recorded some video materials.
After doing these things, Pu Lun did not contact Ni Ni for a long time, and Ni Ni felt that this matter was no longer a play.
What she did not expect was that a year after she had recorded the video, Pu Lun dialed her phone and told her that Zhang Yimou was in Shanghai and asked her to go to Shanghai to meet her.
So she rushed from Nanjing to Shanghai, and when she saw Zhang Yimou, she was very nervous and almost unable to speak. Fortunately, Zhang Yimou was very kind, and Ni Ni slowly relaxed. Zhang Yimou asked her some basic information and asked her to dance a dance on the spot.
The total duration of this meeting between Ni Ni and Zhang Yimou did not exceed 20 minutes.
But it was this meeting that made Zhang Yimou decide to use Ni Ni to play the heroine of "Jinling Thirteen Chao", "Yumo". To this end, he did not hesitate to offend his partner Zhang Weiping, who wanted Han Xiting to play "Yumo" at that time, but Zhang Yimou refused him.
After settling ni ni, Zhang Yimou let ni ni and other actresses undergo training for up to two and a half years, and did not allow them to tell the outside world what they were doing. Zhang Yimou also specially called Liu Tianchi, a teacher who trained actresses, and said to Liu Tianchi: "Ni Ni this child is more important, but there is no acting experience, you can see her plasticity through performance experience." ”
Ni Ni did not disappoint Zhang Yimou, she performed very well in training, very hard and hard. Although Zhang Yimou also told her at that time that it was possible not to let her play the heroine in the end, Ni Ni felt that this was no longer important, at that time she seemed to be very happy to be able to act, and she did not want zhang Yimou to be disappointed, nor did she want Zhang Yimou to spend the money spent on her training.
At the beginning of 2011, Ni Ni successfully completed all the training. On January 10 of this year, Ni Ni officially began the filming of "Jinling Thirteen Chao".
03
On November 23, 2011, "Jinling Thirteen Chao" premiered in the United States. On the day of the premiere, Ni Ni was so nervous that her legs were shaking.
Fortunately, her acting skills conquered the audience, and she vividly displayed the style of "jade ink" and interpreted the righteousness of her home and country in her heart very accurately.
Ni Ni was on fire, she became the envy of countless girls, and Ni Ni signed the brokerage contract to Zhang Yimou's partner Zhang Weiping's new picture company.
With "Jinling Thirteen Chao", Ni Ni also won many awards such as the Best New Actor at the 6th Asian Film Awards. At that time, it seemed to the outside world that Ni Ni was expected to grow into a future superstar.
Also in this year, Ni Ni no longer wanted to go to work in foreign companies, she wanted to become a qualified actor, and Zhang Yimou also told her to "be a good actor".
But the facts are unpredictable.
Just when Ni Ni was expected to improve her career again, in 2012, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping broke up, and the two chose to part ways, ending a 16-year partnership.
At that time, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping's "breakup" was boiling over, and Ni Ni chose to side with Zhang Yimou without hesitation.
Ni Ni did this, offending Zhang Weiping, and her brokerage contract was in Zhang Weiping's company. Zhang Weiping bluntly said to the outside world that He would take back the management rights of Ni Ni and several other female artists, and would not allow Ni Ni and other female artists under his command to take over the role without his permission.
Ni Ni was hidden by the snow.
Ni Ni had to start saving herself, and she first proposed to the new picture company to terminate the contract, even if she had to pay a large liquidated damages. During this period, in order to maintain exposure and topicality, she actively participated in the shooting of magazines, actively walked the red carpet, and entered the fashion circle.
She herself knew that the exposure gained by shooting magazines and walking the red carpet was far less than that of film and television dramas, but this was the best way she could think of in the situation at that time.
Ni Ni's situation changed after she met Feng Shaofeng, on May 24, 2012, Feng Shaofeng and Ni Ni opened their relationship, and the two were in a generous relationship.
With the help of Feng Shaofeng, Ni Ni had some resources, and they also filmed the movie "I Want to Be Good with You" together, but it did not splash much, and the two broke up peacefully in 2015.
After breaking up with Feng Shaofeng, Ni Ni and Jing Bairan fell in love, she is still a generous style of love, and for her acting career she still did not give up, she starred in "Bridal War", "28-year-old minor", "Wukong Biography", "Qimen Dunjia" and other movies, she does not care about the position, but these movies still can not bring her to the height of "Jinling Thirteen Chao".
In 2018, Ni Ni and Jing Bairan broke up, and it was also in this year that Ni Ni began to try in the field of TV dramas, she starred in "Tiansheng Long Song" and "Chen Xi Yuan", although her performance was good, but these two dramas did not catch fire.
A series of failures, in the perception of the outside world, Ni Ni's resources are getting worse and worse, and she can only rely on walking the red carpet and marketing advanced faces to gain attention.
In the face of unfriendly voices from the outside world, Ni Ni did not say much, she was silently accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity.
Finally she waited, and someone always believed in her acting skills.
When Andy Lau and Qiu Litao were preparing the movie "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", he thought of Ni Ni, who had seen "Jinling Thirteen Chao" starring Ni Ni and thought she was acting well and had always wanted to cooperate with her. So he took this opportunity to contact Ni Ni and recommended Ni Ni to Qiu Litao to play the heroine "Pang Ling", and after meeting with Ni Ni, Qiu Litao directly fixed Ni Ni.
In addition to "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", Ni Ni also received an invitation from "Flowing Golden Years".
For these two opportunities, Ni Ni seized them tightly.
When "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" was released, when "Flowing Golden Years" was broadcast, everyone found that the girl who starred in "Jinling Thirteen Chao" was back, and her acting skills improved compared with before.
Just to this step, Ni Ni spent 10 years, it is not easy.
Now 32-year-old Ni Ni has successfully turned red, I believe that her resources will get better and better in the future, as long as she does not make any big mistakes, I believe she will still bring surprises to the audience.