Although the popular TV series "Breakout" is currently being broadcast, although the reputation is mixed, Jin Dong, Yan Ni, Huang Zhizhong, Chen Xiao, Geng Le and other powerful actors have attracted a large number of viewers, and the ratings have gone all the way up.
Among them, it is particularly worth mentioning that Yan Ni played the role of Shi Hongxing, the boss of the state-owned enterprise, and her daughter Zou Yuanqing starred in the young Shi Hongxing. The mother and daughter competed on the screen and the performance was excellent.
Yan Ni off-screen had a failed marriage, with her daughter Zou Yuanqing working and living, what is the story behind the mother and daughter?
In 1971, Yan Ni was born in the ancient city of Xi'an to a working-class family, and her family had nothing to do with the eight lifetimes of literature and art.
When she was 15 years old, Yan Ni moved to a new home, next to the Xi'an Film Studio. She often went to the factory with her classmates to play, and she became obsessed with the profession of actor.
Classmates ridiculed her, if she became an actress, with her sloppy personality, how much film would be ruined!
The actor's dream is too far away, Yan Ni graduated from high school and was admitted to the Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics majoring in business management.
If there is no accident, Yan Ni, like most ordinary women, looks for a job after graduation, has a family and children, and lives a plain life.
In 1990, the Lanzhou Military Region Combat Drama Troupe came to Xi'an to enroll, and Yan Ni, who was in her sophomore year, signed up, but unexpectedly, she was admitted and became a literary and artistic soldier.
After training in the drama troupe for two months, Yan Ni was sent by the army to study in the performance department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts.
During her military art studies, Yan Ni starred in the movie "Farewell to the Overlord" starring Gong Li and Zhang Guorong, and after the film was released, Yan Ni couldn't find herself, and the original drama she played was cut.
In 1994, after graduating from the military arts, Yan Ni entered the Air Politics Repertory Theatre and acted in many dramas, most of which were running dragon sets, and did not even have lines.
Yan Ni met Zou Wei, who works in Beijing's public security system through blind dates, and the two had similar conditions in all aspects, and they got married in less than a year.
In 1998, their daughter Zou Yuanqing was born. Yan Ni, a new mother, was in a hurry, the child was crying, and she didn't know whether she was hungry or peeing.
Yan Ni just finished confinement, and then ran to perform in other places, which made her husband a little unhappy.
The profession of an actor is different from that of ordinary office workers, Yan Ni often walks away for several months, with children by her in-laws and daughters when she returns home.
Zou Wei hopes that Yan Ni can teach her husband and daughter at home, but Yan Ni is focused on her career, after all, the golden period of an actress is only a few years.
The wife did not go home all day, and the life of gathering less and leaving more made Zou Wei intolerable, and the marriage between the two came to an end.
In 2004, when her daughter Zou Yuanqing was 6 years old, Yan Ni divorced Zou Wei and she won custody of her daughter.
At that time, Yan Ni was not financially rich, looking around for drama.
Yan Ni and director Shang Jing have cooperated in "The Story of the Cooking Class" and "Health Express", and the two have a good relationship.
In 2005, Shang Jing's comedy "The Legend of Wulin" began filming, inviting Yan Ni to play the boss lady Tong Xiangyu.
Yan Ni cherished this opportunity very much, she handed over her daughter to her parents to take care of, devoted herself to acting, and used a Western Shaanxi dialect to play the Tong treasurer with a variety of styles.
After the broadcast of "The Tale of Wulin" the following year, the 35-year-old Yan Ni finally became a well-known star.
After becoming popular, Yan Ni was busier, shooting four or five plays a year, often not going home for several months.
Once, 8-year-old Zou Yuanqing had a high fever, Yan Ni took a leave of absence to go home with her daughter, and the child returned to the crew to shoot after she was well. Zou Yuanqing told his mother that he hoped that he could get sick again, so that he could be with his mother, which made Yan Ni's heart shake.
After that, whenever her daughter was on vacation, Yan Ni took her daughter with her when filming, so that the mother and daughter spent more time together, and Zou Yuanqing also understood the hard work of her mother and the difficulty of making money to support her family.
Once returning home from filming, Yan Ni went out to a friend's party, and Zou Yuanqing also made an appointment with her classmates to go out and play. However, when Yan Ni returned home at night, she saw her daughter at home and asked her why she didn't go out with her classmates?
Zou Yuanqing said that he was afraid that if his mother got drunk, there would be no one to take care of her when she went home, so she did not go. At that moment, Yan Ni's nose was sour, and she felt that she was the happiest person in the world.
The divorce of his parents has brought a shadow to Zou Yuanqing, and his psychology has become sensitive. By puberty, Zou Yuanqing became more and more rebellious, often invited by teachers to parents, Yan Ni did not criticize her daughter less, and mother and daughter often had small conflicts.
When Zou Yuanqing was 13 years old, he suddenly had a whimsical idea of changing the environment and going to study abroad.
Yan Ni categorically refused, she is a soldier can not go abroad to accompany the study, there is no parental supervision abroad, who knows what such a small child will become, how can parents rest assured?
Zou Yuanqing's father and grandparents also opposed her to studying abroad, but Zou Yuanqing was determined to study abroad.
After some thought, Yan Ni decided to let her study abroad, which can exercise her independent survival ability.
Yan Ni sent Zou Yuanqing to a private middle school in Los Angeles, where she was introduced by a friend in Los Angeles and boarded at the home of a reliable white couple.
Zou Yuanqing attended classes at school during the day and ate and slept at the white couple's home at night and on rest days.
She ate bread and ham every day at the white couple's house, and the more she ate, the more disgusting she became. And because his English is not good, he is often ridiculed by his classmates.
Once, she had a cold and fever at school, and it was very troublesome to make an appointment in advance to see a doctor in Los Angeles, and she survived for 3 days by drinking boiled water before her body returned to normal.
Zou Yuanqing understood at this time that everything was difficult to go out, and it was as good as a thousand at home. She was homesick and called her mother to say she wanted to go back to China to study.
Yan Ni was very angry and criticized her daughter fiercely: It was you who asked to go out, blindly tossing something, you have to learn to face everything independently.
Zou Yuanqing hung up the phone crying and did not call her mother in the next few days.
Yan Ni was finally relieved, flew to Los Angeles to accompany her daughter for a week, cooked Chinese food for her daughter every day, and encouraged her: A person always has to learn to grow, if he encounters difficulties and gives up, how can he gain a foothold in society in the future?
Zou Yuanqing finally slowly integrated into the social life of the United States, her English became more and more fluent, mingled with her classmates, and actively participated in community activities.
She became the hardest working student in the class, sitting in the library on Sunday for most of the day, and every homework in the final exam was A+, which was praised by teachers and classmates.
Zou Yuanqing helped the white couple to do housework, wrapped dumplings for them, and the white couple praised her, called Yan Ni, and praised her as a capable and sensible child, an angel sent by God.
Every day, Yan Ni and her daughter talk about their learning situation and the big and small things in their lives through telephone and video chat.
With the support and encouragement of his mother, Zou Yuanqing completed his high school studies in the United States, returned to China to participate in the college entrance examination, and was admitted to the double degree class of the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama with a score of 463 points, studied in Chinese opera in his freshman year and went to the London City Hall Drama Academy in the United Kingdom in his sophomore and junior year.
In 2016, Zou Yuanqing and his classmates went to London to study, because of his study experience in the United States, Zou Yuanqing quickly adapted to the study life in London.
In 2017, Zou Yuanqing was electrocuted for the first time and starred in "Secret Fruit" with Chen Feiyu and Ouyang Nana. Her mother Yan Ni gave her a lot of help in her performance, and the school flower "Scarlett" she played left a deep impression on the audience.
In 2018, Yan Ni and Zou Yuanqing played single mothers and rebellious daughters in the movie "I Am Your Mother", like sisters and deep love.
This is the first time that the mother and daughter have partnered on the screen, and the interpretation is three points, real and natural. Zou Yuanqing learned a lot of things from his mother that could not be learned from books, and benefited a lot.
"I Am Your Mom" was released on Mother's Day in 2018 and received a lot of praise, with fans jokingly calling them "sister flowers".
In 2021, Yan Ni and Zou Yuanqing starred in the poverty alleviation drama "Mountains and Seas", which is the second cooperation between mother and daughter. Yan Ni plays the upright Yang County Governor, and Zou Yuanqing plays Ma Defu's sister Ma Dehua.
"Mountains and Seas" is full of big coffee, Zou Yuanqing is not under pressure, afraid of losing his mother's face. She carefully studied the script, wrote down the character notes, followed her mother deep into the northwest countryside to experience life, and learned to speak the Ningxia dialect.
The mother and daughter lived with the peasants and worked in the fields, and Zou Yuanqing soon learned to do farm work, and the Ningxia dialect was almost fake and real, and had the appearance of a farmer.
The shooting conditions of "Mountains and Seas" are very difficult, when eating, the sand keeps drilling into the neck, ears, and mouth, Zou Yuanqing takes off his coat to help his mother block the wind and sand, and Yan Ni hurriedly finishes eating and then blocks the wind and sand for her daughter.
When Zou Yuanqing did not shoot, she studied and watched the seniors acting on the spot, so her grasp of the role was quite in place, and she was affirmed by the seniors, and Yan Ni was also proud of her daughter.
This year's broadcast of "Breakout", Zou Yuanqing played the young Yan Ni, there is a video of Yan Ni guiding her daughter to shoot a play on the Internet, Yan Ni watched her daughter acting very attentively, could not help but tears, said that watching her daughter acting is more nervous than her own acting.
Zou Yuanqing's performance is very natural and grounded, the director affirmed her performance, and Yan Ni also sent a Weibo to support her daughter.
In the past, when Zou Yuanqing participated in the variety show "Actors Please Take Place", his acting skills were severely criticized by the judges and the crazy spit of netizens, but in recent few plays, his acting skills have improved significantly, and he is a good talent among the many "star second generations" in the show business circle.
Yan Ni, 50, still has the charm of standing with her 23-year-old daughter Zou Yuanqing, and friends say they are like sisters. In life, they really talk like girlfriends, cooking together, shopping together, exchanging acting and skin care tips.
One of Zou Yuanqing's wishes is that she hopes that her mother can meet the right person and start a family again, which makes Yan Ni feel moved.
Yan Ni said that she and her daughter really love acting and must take this profession seriously.
I hope that in the future, I can have more opportunities to see Yan Ni's mother and daughter appear on the screen and contribute more good dramas to the audience!
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