The Spring Festival is approaching again, and various movie promotions have entered a fierce stage.
Among them, Jia Ling returns with a new work "Hot Hot" that she directed and starred in. This is her second directorial work since "Hello, Li Huanying" in 2021, so it has attracted much attention.
Especially before this, she "disappeared" for a year and revealed that she had lost 100 pounds, which attracted the attention of the audience.
Not to mention what kind of inspirational story the movie tells, just looking at the fact that at the peak of her career, Jia Ling can be "invisible" just to make good movies, Jia Ling has surpassed 90% of artists.
Her persistence, dedication and sincerity are still her "nirvana".
In addition to the fact that the public is still curious about what Jia Ling has become after losing half of herself, they will also be infected by her own inspirational story - and to go deeper, her approach seems to be "rectifying" domestic entertainment. .
At a time when “top performers” are appearing frequently and artists are becoming more and more valuable, the professionalism of this profession should be mentioned again.
In addition to Jia Ling, the actors who worked quietly in the past just to create good characters should also be remembered.
The following is a half-summary of the "Actors' Dedication Highlights". If there are any omissions, please feel free to add them.
. Weight, figure, face, always serve the role
"Lose 100 pounds, target 10 billion!"
This is one of the comments made by netizens after they learned that Jia Ling really lost 100 pounds for the filming of "Hot and Spicy" Ridicule.
It is said that the film tells the story of a girl named "Le Ying" who had nothing to do and separated from society for a long time, and finally decided to change her lifestyle and get her life back on track.
Le Ying, played by Jia Ling, is "Ling" if read quickly, so the corresponding character is actually herself. In order to restore the story more realistically, she filmed it for a whole year and started filming 5 times.
You must know that before she "disappeared", she had an intensive work schedule:
has been a regular guest on "Ace vs. Ace" in 2021 alone, as well as "The Variety Show", "Annual Comedy Competition" and "Youth Travels" 》 and other announcements.
During one of the shows, she leaked something, and the audience speculated that she might be able to get over 100,000 yuan in compensation for recording one episode of the show.
There are also rumors that before Jia Ling became famous while filming "Li Huanying", her income from recording a season was around 10 million.
In other words, in addition to losing 100 pounds for the new film, Jia Ling also lost a lot of financial benefits during her "absence" from the front desk for more than a year.
At a time when everyone in domestic entertainment has the mentality of "quickly make a buck while they are popular", Jia Ling is indeed worthy of admiration.
In addition to her, there are also many good actors who are willing to use their bodies as "carriers" during filming and serve their roles unconditionally, such as Qin Hao.
Yi Nengjing once fondly recalled in her essay that her husband overeated for a role and then lost weight:
"I overthrow myself faster than anyone else, so that I can continue to live..." "
Last year, he produced the "magic drama" "The Long Season", in which he transformed into the "greasy uncle" Gong Biao and interpreted the character in a "disfigured" way.
What the audience rarely knows is that he wore braces in order to portray Gong Biao’s buck teeth. But in fact, wearing braces was extremely uncomfortable. He could wear out the blood blisters in less than an hour after leaving them in his mouth. Therefore, during the filming process, Qin Hao's mouth has been suffering from ulcers. When
was interviewed about this, he said bluntly: "Actors serve roles. It is impossible for all roles to be handsome men."
Therefore, even his mother "dislikes" him for eating too much and not being energetic when taking photos. Qin Hao also Instead of "compromising", he became "rebellious" and did everything to gain weight.
In addition, Wang Chuanjun also tried his best to lose 20 pounds in order to film the dying scene in "I'm Not the God of Medicine".
In order to quickly achieve his goal, he skipped rope crazily every day. At first, he skipped 4,000 ropes, and later increased to 8,000 ropes. In the end, this scene was only shown in the movie for a few seconds.
Similarly, when Zhu Yilong was filming "Rebel", he also lost weight in a short period of time.
Huang Xiaoming quickly lost 25 pounds while filming "Man in a Wig", which caused heart problems. During the filming process, he often lay weakly on the props.
In addition to losing weight, it is equally difficult to gain weight for the role:
In 2018, Ren Xianqi, who is already 52 years old and has always been very strict about body management, gained 54 pounds in 9 months for the filming of the movie "Horse Race".
His body was once overwhelmed, causing gastric juice reflux, and after his body was severely deformed, his friends and fans "unrecognized him" for a time.
2. Injuries are common, and the consequences of rushing to schedule
In addition to dedicating "everything" to his favorite film and television works, accidents are indeed prone to occur during filming, especially martial arts scenes, where injuries are extremely easy.
As we all know, the most injured among the older generation of artists are undoubtedly Jackie Chan and Jet Li. They were born in martial arts, so they basically did not use stand-ins, and they all performed in person.
Jackie Chan, in particular, worked so hard in filming that even insurance companies refused to insure him.
Wu Jing, who is also a martial arts star, is also injured all the time. The "Wolf Warrior" that made him famous and rich was actually "fighting".
It is reported that in this work, whether it was underwater fighting or bullets passing through, he did not use a stand-in.
When filming an explosion scene, Wu Jing suffered temporary blindness and almost lost his vision.
Even when he got married, he did it on crutches.
Wu Jing seemed particularly indifferent to this, and even shouted to the entire entertainment industry:
"Isn't it right for actors to endure hardship? Why do you still arrive late and leave early when you are paid? Now punctuality has become a virtue, I feel very surprised. "
"Fairy Sister" Liu Yifei was only 18 years old when she was filming "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". However, during a scene of flying over a waterfall, she refused to use a stunt double and was almost swept away by the rushing water.
Fortunately, Huang Xiaoming, with his quick eyesight and quick hands, helped her up and avoided an accident.
In another fight scene, Liu Yifei accidentally suffered a bone spur in her spine while hanging a wire, and she has been suffering from the disease ever since.
years later, she had a lot of underwater scenes in "Meng Hua Lu", but she also did it herself without a substitute.
The key point is that Liu Yifei has never taken the initiative to mention the injuries she suffered during filming. She even said lightly in an interview: "I am not a squeamish person."
Huang Xiaoming, who has worked with Liu Yifei, was also filming "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" An accidental injury caused six steel nails to be inserted into his left foot. Since then, he has been wearing custom-made shoes.
Li Bingbing, who is also known as the "Desperate Sanniang", also suffered from a herniated disc in her waist due to filming a martial arts scene.
When filming "Detective Dee: The Great Empire", she also suffered from spontaneous pneumothorax and needed to be hospitalized for closed chest drainage. However, in order to make the filming progress, Li Bingbing was hospitalized for only two days and rushed back to the crew.
What’s even more serious is that when she was filming the movie "Mystery Nest" in 2015, before the filming started, Li Bingbing bluntly said that she participated in the movie with a "life-threatening" mentality.
Unexpectedly, during the process, she developed a high fever due to acclimatization. However, in order not to delay the progress, Li Bingbing did not return to China for treatment for 16 days, causing her condition to worsen.
But after that, her workload dropped sharply, and she did not mention it in an interview until many years later, saying that her physical condition was not good after "Mystery Nest", and she was afraid of cold and insomnia all year round, which could not be solved by taking medicine. "It's the darkest moment of life."
Also working hard on filming is Zhao Liying, the "85 flower head artist".
When filming "Agarwood in the Palace", in order to recreate a galloping horse scene to a high degree, she took part in the battle herself, but was thrown off by the frightened horse and injured her back.
She was very young at the time. She simply dealt with it and continued filming. However, she did not expect that an obvious bulge would be left on her back.
Moreover, due to filming in Hengdian all year round, Zhao Liying's physical condition is getting worse and worse. In the past few years, she had to enter a "rest period" on the advice of doctors due to blood clots, heart problems and other problems.
3. Learn new skills to restore the character
In addition to uncontrollable accidents during filming, there are also many actors who choose to use the "clumsy method" of spending a lot of time and learning a new skill to restore the character, but every one of them is worthy of admiration.
Back then, in order to shoot a good movie "Roll!" "Axin", Peng Yuyan used 8 months of "devil training" to complete professional events such as pommel horse and horizontal bar. During this period, he also insisted on eating boiled meals to build an athlete-like standard body shape.
The effect of the final movie was so amazing that even professional athlete Liu Xuan also praised it:
"I started practicing gymnastics when I was 5 years old. It only took him two or three months to achieve what we have practiced for two or three years. Suffering is indispensable." ."
Not only that, after that, in order to film "Guild Fight", he quickly learned mixed martial arts, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai.
When filming "Dolphins Fall in Love with Cats", Peng Yuyan actually obtained the dolphin trainer qualification certificate;
For filming "Broken Wind", he passed the professional bicycle racing driver's license;
When filming "Heard and Heard", he also obtained He learned sign language and reached the level of a translator...
Therefore, Peng Yuyan is called a "research expert" by the outside world and a "self-discipline class representative" in the entertainment industry.
The actor Zhang Zhen is also like this. In order to shoot "Red Cliff", he read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" several times, just to play Sun Quan well.
Before filming "Deep Sea", Zhang Zhen also obtained a Padi diving license;
During the filming of "Wu Qingyuan", he improved his Go level to the point where he could overwhelm the professional third-level...
He is also the national Bajiquan champion, and behind the scenes is for While filming "The Grandmaster";
and when the movie "Nie Yinniang" was being completed, Zhang Chen became extremely proficient in close-quarter swordsmanship.
Zhang Ziyi also studied for "The Grandmaster". In order to restore the temperament and skills of the heroine "Gong Er", she specially learned Baguazhang from a teacher. Therefore, every move in the shot was shot real, without a stand-in.
In addition to martial arts, Zhang Ziyi originally had a Peking Opera scene in the movie. She studied for a period of time because of this, but unfortunately the scene was cut by the director.
Even more powerful is Simon Yam, whose acting skills are superb. His little "skills" seem useless, but they are very difficult.
In 2007, in order to film the scene where the protagonist, the thief Qi, "holds a razor blade in his mouth" in "Wenque", he actually put the razor blade in his mouth and could still speak flexibly.
In addition, his flying card skills are also top-notch in the industry. When recording "Quick Book", Simon Yam could easily cut an apple with playing cards, which shows that his private practice should not be underestimated.
Wan Qian devoted herself to studying Kun Opera and Gu Zheng in order to star in "Liu Rushi". In subsequent interviews, she was able to handle Kun Opera performances easily.
Su Youpeng, in order to play the role of "Bai Xiaonian" in "The Wind", specially spent his own money to study at the Beijing Kunqu Opera Theater and studied in depth for a whole year.
It is said that he spent four months lifting his voice, practicing his body, and hooking his fingers all day long, and finally achieved it: no matter from his expression to his behavior, he captured the essence of the character.
The above is an "incomplete" summary of actors' professionalism, and it also answers from another perspective: the difference between artists and actors.
I hope that after "Jia Ling loses weight", more actors will find their original intention to pursue a career in art, produce more sincere and excellent works, and be worthy of the title of "actor" and the expectations of the audience.
