Movie "Chinese Partner"
TV series "The Legend of Wu Meiniang"
Movie "Memory Master"
TV series "Undocumented Crime"
TV Series "Shanghai Women's Picture Book"
Reading books and visiting the vegetable market is the life that Wang Zhen'er yearns for.
Youku's hit drama "Shanghai Women's Illustrated Book" will end this week, and the heroine of the drama, "Luo Haiyan", will also usher in her own emotional choices and continue to live firmly in the metropolis of Shanghai.
Wang Zhen'er, who plays the heroine in the play, may not be familiar to many people, from the international trade professional "halfway out of the house" to the film and television circle, Wang Zhen'er sighed, so far she has always felt that "Luo Haiyan" is like her own experience along the way. After graduating, I found a white-collar job, met the makeup artist who changed my fate and began to be an actor, but still faced with the pickiness of "looking not mainstream", no background, no connections, with a stubborn personality, I kept running group auditions until now.
Many people see the show business as a vanity fair with intertwined interests, but Wang Zhen'er does not feel that this line is more complicated than other industries, and she herself does not care about those flashy, "I don't care about any discussion, as long as it doesn't hurt my family, it can be done." Even if I was wronged, I would cry in the toilet for a while. ”
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Never planned a life before the age of 20
Wang Zhen'er grew up in an ordinary family, no one in the family is engaged in the field of art, and her parents' expectations for her are like thousands of families, hoping that she will study well, be admitted to a popular major in a good university, find a stable job after graduation, get married and have children, and live a happy little life.
And Wang Zhen'er herself never wanted to be an actor. The profession on her childhood dream list was police.
Being strictly disciplined at home from an early age, Wang Zhen'er grew up in accordance with the well-behaved and obedient "children of other people's families" model. Mom didn't let her apply nail polish; she wanted to learn street dance during the rebellious period of her teenage years, wearing ripped low-waist jeans, a small vest, a street girl's outfit was told by her father, and she gave up her street dance dream; the family asked for the first place in the study exam, she published an essay in the fifth grade of primary school, earned five hundred yuan, and bought a bicycle for her father.
University admission to Nanjing University of Finance and Economics majoring in international trade is also the wish of parents. Wang Zhen'er said that she had never planned her life before the age of 20 and was a person who went with the flow.
And embarking on the road of performance is purely accidental.
Enter the industry
Meet a make-up artist who changed your destiny
After graduating from college, Wang Zhen'er entered a company internship, and at the event held by the company, the host brought a makeup artist, who was working in the crew at the time, and after seeing Wang Zhen'er, she said that a role in the play was particularly suitable for her. But Wang Zhen'er didn't have a little concept of filming at that time, and directly refused, "I'm not interested." The next plot development is like a "coincidence" in the film and television drama, and the colleague said, "Let's go and see it together, we haven't seen the filming."
At the instigation of colleagues, Wang Zhen'er came to the crew audition, director Qin Jinghong took a look at her, and decided to let her play the heroine at the moment, this drama is the campus drama "Peacock Blue", which tells the story of college students' struggle. Although it is the first time to act, even the camera can not be found anywhere, but the heroine's personality is straightforward and innocent, and this character is the true color of Wang Zhen'er. Since then, she has also started her acting path.
At that time, the director said that filming would be addictive. After filming this work, Wang Zhen'er struggled for a long time. She first returned to her original company, but she could feel strongly that she wanted to make a scene. "I have a very stubborn personality, and it will be uncomfortable if I don't do it."
I didn't learn acting and I wasn't pretty. With the "idea of trying it out", Wang Zhen'er came to Beijing and began the "North Drift life" of a film and television actor.
Wang Zhen'er said that in the first days of beijing, it was to keep going to auditions, and when someone introduced it, he would go. There are many fixed hotels in Beijing that receive actors from the crew to audition, and she has gone to try them one by one, and she has also acted in many unknown small films. The most common thing I heard when running the group was, "This girl is not pretty."
Wang Zhen'er said that Luo Haiyan had experienced those practical problems, she had more or less encountered, shared two rooms and a living room with a big sister, and when she was the poorest, she only had a few cents left in her pocket and ate a bun a day.
The turning point came in 2013, when Wang Zhen'er signed a well-resourced agency and cooperated with Deng Chao in the movie "Chinese Partner", playing Liang Qin, a piano teacher who did not give up her dignity for life; later, she played Chunying, who was hated to the point of gritting her teeth in the TV series "The Legend of Wu Meiniang".
advantage
"The most ugly actress who cried"
Wang Zhen'er's work of "picking the beam" is the 2017 movie "Memory Master", in which she plays Li Huilan, a woman who was abused by domestic violence, slapped, strangled, pushed down the stairs, climbed on the ground, and finally brutally killed.
When he went to see director Chen Zhengdao for an audition, Chen Zhengdao felt that Wang Zhen'er's feelings were very similar to that of Korean actor Bae Doona, and the two of them talked a lot about Korean movies. Wang Zhen'er chatted happily, but she didn't care so much about whether she could be selected. Because of the experience of too many failed auditions before, her mentality was particularly good, "I will try my best when I have the opportunity, but I will not expect too much." ”
After entering the group to shoot, she found that her role in the film was in addition to various "falls" that were crying scenes. Just falling down the stairs has been filmed a lot of scenes, she does not know what skills to shoot action scenes, falling to the skull hurts, even rolling down the stairs to the back to the ground first to protect the cervical spine.
In the three days of filming the scene where he fell, Wang Zhen'er was on the verge of a mental breakdown, unable to eat any food, and could only rely on drinking coffee to refresh his mind. At that time, the whole crew felt that she was very pitiful, as long as she was in the crew, either crying or preparing to cry.
Wang Zhen'er cried so hard in every crying scene that Chen Zhengdao lamented that she was the most ugly actress she had ever seen crying. Wang Zhen'er laughed, "This may be my advantage, the idol burden is not heavy." ”
After that, Wang Zhen'er took over the web drama "Undocumented Crime", playing the criminal police captain in the play, which also fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a policeman. Before the filming of "Undocumented Crime", In order to get closer to the feeling of the criminal police captain, Wang Zhen'er often went to the police friends around him to eat and chat with them to discuss the role. So much so that when she ended up with friends, someone pointed at her and asked, "Who is this?" "The friend said, police. As a result, everyone present believed it.
Looks
I was picky from the day I became an actor
When auditioning for the role of Luo Haiyan, seeing Wang Zhen'er wearing black pants and a professional outfit with a white shirt, producer Ma Xiaonan knew that he had found the right person and quickly fixed her as the heroine.
Wang Zhen'er admitted that his outfit at that time was a little "careful", "I have seen the original Japanese version, and I think the actress Mizukawa Asami in it is too good, maybe we look like a type." On the day of the audition, I just returned to Beijing after filming, took a shower, and deliberately wore a professional outfit. ”
In the play, Wang Zhen'er supported the story of this "Shanghai drifting girl" with the aura of "grounding gas", the budget was too low to rent a room, participating in a colleague dinner to spend the food expenses of his three-day meal, and had to go home to eat instant noodles, which was not unfamiliar to Wang Zhen'er, who once had white-collar work experience.
Wang Zhen'er said that she had experienced Luo Haiyan's life before she succeeded, but the difference was that she was not an elegant person like Luo Haiyan in her later period, there was no contract of tens of millions, and no one sent "pigeon eggs".
Wang Zhen'er studied international trade in college, and she thought about it, if she had done this line of work in those years, she might have really become Luo Haiyan now.
In the barrage of the "Shanghai Women's Picture Book", many netizens ridiculed her as a "big household that hit her face", from An Yixuan to Zhou Yun, and even the female version of Duan Yihong and the female version of Yang Di have some similar angles. For her appearance, some people feel "grounded", and some people think it is "senior face".
In the face of these evaluations, Wang Zhen'er accepted them all according to the order. She said she had been picky about not looking good since the day she became an actress. Someone directly told her that her appearance does not conform to the mainstream aesthetic, "For example, my 'senior face', I think they are embarrassed to say that they are not good-looking, and do not know how to boast, they will say so, that is, the appearance is not very popular." ”
Although netizens commented on her appearance differently, Wang Zhen'er was very confident in her appearance, "I am a moderate look, I can create various roles, not limited by looks." ”
live
The most afraid of socializing, worried about offending people
Wang Zhen'er in life has a very regular schedule, does not stay up late, does not insomnia, and gets up on time every day to eat breakfast. There is no entertainment on a daily basis, not even a game on the phone. In order to maintain her figure, she will occasionally exercise, but at the same time she can't resist the temptation of food, "I can't restrain myself, I love to eat, I can only do things that are not healthy while maintaining health." Drink beer and add two goji berries to it. Wang Zhen'er laughed and said that she was "never a thin actress."
When she is not filming, she does not like to mix circles, so she hides at home and reads books and movies, and loves to hang out in the market. I also don't like to participate in socializing," because I usually talk without a cover, not a friend is easy to offend people, and I am not very good at speaking politely." ”
Wang Zhen'er said that she likes to live in her own world and feels stable and comfortable. At present, the only thing I yearn for is to hope to live a few months of study abroad life, "I have always wanted to study abroad, but there was no money at that time." I still want to change the environment and feel the lives of other people. ”
Liu Wei, chief reporter of the Beijing News
Courtesy of the artist