"Flowers" became a hit drama at the end of the year, and all three heroines received positive reviews.
Among them, Xin Zhilei, who plays Li Li, is undoubtedly the most popular. Just her swaying back is enough for everyone to remember for a whole year.
I remember that I liked Xin Zhilei at the beginning because of Ding Baiying's fierceness and sharpness in "Xiu Chun Dao", and her sharp eyes that cut off the Xiu Chun Dao became an unforgettable scene for many people.
But now, when I mention Xin Zhilei, I can no longer remember Ding Baiying's appearance. All I can think about is Li Li's bright and bright face.
I have to say that Xin Zhilei is so good at acting. When many actors act, they have some color from other dramas, but Xin Zhilei completely broke the audience's inherent impression of her.
What is real acting, this is it!
Unfortunate native family
Nowadays, Xin Zhilei is loved by everyone because of her role as Li Li. But for a long time, she was disliked by the audience because she liked to be in the limelight too much.
Xin Zhilei was born in a very ordinary family in Heilongjiang. Her parents raised three children and suffered a lot. As the eldest daughter, Xin Zhilei only hopes that she can finish her studies early and find a good job, so that her parents' burden can be lighter.
But things didn't go as planned. When she was in her third year of college, her father became ill due to overwork and was unfortunately paralyzed in bed.
Xin Zhilei originally wanted to bite the bullet and work part-time until graduation. But the heavy medical expenses, tuition and miscellaneous fees for her younger siblings, and the family's living expenses all fell on her mother's shoulders, leaving her with almost no chance to breathe. This made Xin Zhilei feel distressed and blamed herself.
At this moment, the school recommended her to be a hostess in a TV show. Here, she met Donnie Yen's assistant. Donnie Yen's assistant told her that based on her conditions, she could become an actor. Even if she didn't get ahead, she would still be able to earn 2,000 yuan a month.
After hearing about it, Xin Zhilei, who was trapped in the quagmire, immediately gave up her favorite clothing design and entered the unfamiliar industry of acting without hesitation.
Actually, no matter what time it is, the road to becoming a star is not easy. Especially for a girl like her who has no background and doesn't know how to act, she has basically learned enough lessons and has to find a new career.
Xin Zhilei is not luckier than other girls. The only difference between her and her is that she is more persistent than other girls. After signed a contract with Donnie Yen's agent's company, she was arranged to take a further training class in Chinese opera. With a salary of 2,000 yuan, she worked hard to hone her acting skills every day, hoping to earn her first pot of gold in life.
Xin Zhilei remembers that when she started auditioning for movies, her father sighed, seemingly unintentionally, that it would be great if there was a computer at home so that he could chat with his uncles on QQ.
Sensible Xin Zhilei really wanted to fulfill her father's wish, but her living expenses were already so low that she had no extra money to buy a computer.
Later, when her grandpa came to Beijing for medical treatment, Xin Zhilei wanted to treat her grandpa to a meal of authentic Beijing roast duck, but with an empty wallet, she couldn't even afford the roast duck. After
went back, she vowed desperately in her heart that she would do her best to become famous. Once she became famous, she would have money. Once she got rich, she would immediately buy a computer and roast duck.
An obsession
This obsession to be popular is deeply embedded in Xin Zhilei's heart.
As long as it is about work, she is very competitive.
Once, the company received a valuable advertisement and needed to select a heroine to partner with Tony Leung. Xin Zhilei ran for it without thinking, standing among hundreds of girls, staring into the eyes of the brand owner, showing a confident and decent smile.
This impressed the brand very deeply. After several rounds of screening, when deciding on the final candidate, the brand had the clearest image of her in their mind.
Xin Zhilei stood beside Tony Leung smoothly. She thought that this time she could finally buy what she wanted for her grandfather and father.
But after the commercial was filmed, no one paid attention to her again.
It wasn't until she graduated from the Chinese Opera Advanced Course in 2011 that the company arranged for her to join the cast of "Painted Skin" and play the role of the young and lovely blind girl Susu, and she finally made her screen debut.
Of course, this small role did not make the audience remember her, so she began a period of hard work.
In order to get a role and leave a mark on the director and the audience, Xin Zhilei was very hard on herself. She could take on any role. Even though she couldn't swim, she had to overcome her fear and practice every day before going into the water. Finally completed the role.
Which girl didn't scream when "plasma" was poured all over her head? In order to act well in the horror drama, Xin Zhilei endured it.
Every time Xin Zhilei introduces herself to the director, she will brazenly say that she is the international superstar Xin Zhilei. Although she is often treated as a joke, she is never afraid of being laughed at.
In 2014, Xin Zhilei finally got her first leading role in her life. In order to win this role, she stayed firmly in the audience from the beginning to the end of the audition, trying again and again, and even stood on the stage. She bluntly stated that this character is very similar to her own upbringing experience, and no one here understands this character better than her.
It was this shamelessness that gave her the opportunity. In "The Moon Embracing the Stars", her role with no trace of acting at all made the audience's eyes light up, and some people began to remember the name Xin Zhilei.
This is the rhythm of becoming famous. However, at this moment when she was about to become famous, her father and grandfather, who she wanted to be filial to, passed away one after another.
The pain of "having a son who wants to be taken care of but cannot be cared for" was like a heavy hammer that struck hard into Xin Zhilei's heart. She had never cried much after suffering so much, but this late regret made her eyes red in an instant, with tears streaming down her face.
The only "black material"
In 2017, Xin Zhilei starred in several TV series and accumulated a certain amount of goodwill in the hearts of the audience, and then came to the popular variety show "The Birth of an Actor".
Xin Zhilei, who competed with Shu Chang on the same stage and was judged to have lost, faced the camera and said without hesitation that she thought her acting skills were no worse than Shu Chang's, and that she wanted to be popular more than anyone else.
It was this unabashed "ambition" that made the audience question her character. After all, in the public mind, humility is the image that everyone likes.
For a time, Xin Zhilei was criticized by all parties, and her "arrogance" became her only black material.
But she didn't care. Instead, she made a beautiful turnaround in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" in the second year. Anyone who has watched Jin Yuyan will be deeply impressed by her ruthless intelligence.
originally didn't have an advantage in playing the villain, but Xin Zhilei's interpretation of the character and her behavior were completely in the play, and there were almost no flaws.
In 2020, when selecting roles for "Flowers", Wong Kar-wai intended to let Xin Zhilei try Li Li, but when Xin Zhilei came, Wong Kar-wai frowned.
Seeing the change in the situation, Xin Zhilei immediately said that she could change anything she was dissatisfied with.
As a result, Wong Kar Wai "criticized" her from top to bottom. Xin Zhilei never felt that she was taking the wrong path. Although she doubted life, she was a person who never let opportunities slip away, especially Such a famous director.
So, this year, she started learning tango, Latin and other temperament-building dances from scratch. Almost all of them had high heels welded to her feet. It was common for her feet to bleed.
Thanks to this hard work, he finally became the ambitious and charming Zhizhenyuan boss Li Li on the Yellow River Road.
The more ordinary you are, the more ambitious you have to be.
Xin Zhilei is popular, but it is not accidental.
Even if she hadn’t met Wong Kar-Wai, she would have become popular one day. Because, despite exposing her ambition to the outside world, she was already fully prepared for this ambition.
is very emotional, with such strong mental power, one can be infinitely close to one's goal and thus change one's destiny!
Children from poor families may really stop being unknown and ambitious, speak out loudly what they want, rush, fight, and get opportunities, only then can they break away from the cage of fate.
Your destiny is always in your own hands, isn't it?
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Author of this article | Editor in charge of Jasmine
| Zhenzhen
