The evaluation criteria for actresses in the entertainment industry are often appearance first, age second, and acting skills last. Under this rule, beauty and youth seem to have become the "standard accessories" for actresses. Once they "grow old and fade", it will be

The evaluation criteria for actresses in the entertainment industry are often looks first, age second, and acting skills last.

Under this rule, beauty and youth seem to have become the "standard features" for actresses.

Once they "age and fade", it will be difficult for them to enjoy the halo of the protagonist, and they will even be ruthlessly marginalized.

Therefore, many actresses will feel a huge career crisis as soon as they reach the age of 35.

This dilemma was once presented straightforwardly by Hai Qing.

At an awards ceremony, she pulled a group of middle-aged actresses and asked the director and producer in public:

"We will definitely be cheaper than Hu Ge and as useful as him. I hope everyone will give us more opportunities!"

This scene made me doubt it for a long time.

Does appearance and age really surpass acting skills and become the decisive factor in an actress's career?

It wasn’t until I saw the performances of 44-year-old Song Jia and 31-year-old Zhong Chuxi in the movie "Good Stuff" that I finally found the answer.

1. Song Jia: Appearance and age are the soil for actors to nourish their roles.

In "Good Stuff", Song Jia played a single mother named Wang Tiemei.

When she reached middle age, her family was broken up and her job was not going well.

As soon as the film opened, she was forced to move into a dilapidated old community with her young daughter under the pressure of reality.

It is undeniable that this role of being both a father and a mother, and also suffering from the torment of life, brings certain challenges to Sonja.

After all, the self-proclaimed "little flower" has taken advantage of her age for a long time in the past and is extremely beautiful and confident.

Nowadays, small flowers have grown into "big flowers", and they have to remove their "appearance halo" to show the fatigue and dilemma of middle-aged women as much as possible.

This kind of attempt is undoubtedly a bold adventure in the entertainment industry that is accustomed to using appearance and youth as the criterion.

But Sonja did not succumb to these standards. She neither regarded age as a shackles nor her aging appearance as a burden.

Instead, he took a different approach and used his appearance and age as soil to nourish the characters.

A scene that impressed me deeply was when Wang Tiemei accidentally exposed the scar on her stomach, and her boyfriend cast a distressed look at her.

She was not moved, but said calmly, don't look at my belly.

This mark left by childbirth was not regarded by her as a flaw or a tool to show vulnerability. It was just a testimony of her motherhood.

Here, Song Jia's increasingly vicissitudes of face, coupled with her somewhat deep voice, well demonstrate Wang Tiemei's tenacity and calmness as a mother.

In addition, Song Jia also showed many charms of middle-aged women in the movie with her "raunchy" appearance and increasingly rich experience.

In front of her daughter, she is an omnipotent mother.

In front of her friends, she is a casual but warm confidant.

In front of her colleagues, she is also a resolute boss.

When she faced herself alone, she occasionally felt sorry for herself, but she never forgot to be proactive.

Because she has been struggling with various identities, Wang Tiemei’s image in this movie is by no means youthful and beautiful.

Many times, she would frown and sigh, and would slump on the sofa tiredly.

Even if you are walking among the crowd, you will feel a sense of loneliness.

However, what the audience should see in this movie that shows the power of women is not a glamorous female star.

is an actress who can skillfully show the transformation of female identity.

4-year-old Song Jia may have lost her youthful and beautiful appearance, but this does not prevent her from using her superb acting skills to make Wang Tiemei, a middle-aged woman, enter the hearts of countless audiences.

2. Zhong Chuxi: Youth and beauty are both honey and arsenic, and acting is the foundation for a foothold.

She has good looks and a good figure. She often appears on magazine covers, but her acting skills are not high. This is what Zhong Chuxi faced when she first debuted. Dilemma.

Therefore, for a long time, she has been favored by "capital", but she has been burdened with the reputation of "vase".

To put it bluntly, for her who lacks acting skills, youth and beauty are honey in the eyes of "capital", but "arsenic" in the eyes of the audience.

Until 2017, after being trained by Feng Xiaogang, he brilliantly portrayed the role of Xiao Suizi in " Youth".

With the blessing of acting skills, Zhong Chuxi finally made a beautiful turnaround.

Years later, due to her youthful and beautiful appearance, Zhong Chuxi is still recognized as a "hot potato" in the industry and has never lacked job opportunities.

Unfortunately, without the guidance of a famous director, she has appeared in so many works one after another, but she has never created another character that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Now, Zhong Chuxi, who is over 30 years old, has finally reached the time to worry about her appearance and age.

If she no longer relies on her acting skills to conquer the audience, "capital" will probably abandon her and instead favor younger and more beautiful newcomers.

Fortunately, she met "Good Things" at this fork in the road.

It is undeniable that Zhong Chuxi’s clothes, style and makeup in the movie are still beautiful.

At first I thought this was just an "eye candy" character.

But watching it, I was actually addicted to her performance and was deeply touched by the fate of the character.

Xiao Ye, played by Zhong Chuxi, is very beautiful. She has a pair of beautiful big eyes and a head of seaweed-like curly hair.

As the lead singer of the band, she can always exude charming charm on the stage.

However, this is only a small leaf on the surface.

In fact, Xiaoye has a very low self-esteem inside.

She never felt that she was good-looking, and she even felt that her lovely big eyes were a very scary existence.

Because of her domestically violent father and painful mother, they always used her as a punching bag and belittled her wantonly.

Growing up in this kind of native family, she was extremely lacking in love.

When he grew up, Xiaoye would often seek the love of others by trying to please and please.

Even if you do this, you will have no self-esteem and it will be very painful.

What impressed me very deeply was the scene where Xiaoye was a guest at Wang Tiemei's house.

Wang Tiemei and her daughter Wang Moli had a quarrel. As a guest, Xiaoye had no fault at all.

But in order to ease their relationship, Xiaoye immediately knelt down between the two of them, apologizing to Wang Tiemei while appeasing Wang Moli's emotions.

At this time, Xiaoye had completely lost the charm on the stage, and his whole body was exuding fear and uneasiness.

This kind of "negative energy" emanating from the inside out has appeared more than once when Xiaoye gets along with others.

To a large extent, it devoured the beauty of her appearance, but instead gave her a grimace, looking very anxious and painful.

To be honest, when I see these scenes, I feel that Zhong Chuxi has lost her usual beauty.

But she learned to use acting skills to create characters. This is the foundation for an actor to truly gain a foothold in the entertainment industry.

It is because of her wonderful performance of "self-destruction" that the audience can truly feel Xiaoye's heart.

can also truly understand the harm that lack of love does to a woman, and what self-esteem and self-love mean to women.

3. How important is the appearance of an actress?

After watching the performances of Song Jia and Zhong Chuxi in "Good Stuff", let's think about it again, how important is the appearance of an actress?

It can be clearly found that these two actresses in their 30s and 40s have used practical actions to bring us a clear answer.

No matter how important appearance and age are to actresses, they can only be regarded as "admission tickets" at best.

has advantages in these external conditions, which may help an actress stand on the stage, but there is no guarantee that they will always be followed by the spotlight.

The decisive factor in whether an actress can enter the hearts of the audience and whether she can stay in the entertainment industry for a long time depends on her acting skills.

I hope that all actresses can recognize this fact and constantly arm themselves with acting skills instead of demanding themselves with the deformed aesthetic of "white, thin".

At the same time, we also hope that the audience can give more tolerance and patience to female actors and focus on their performances themselves, rather than stereotyped labels of age or appearance.Only in this way can the entertainment industry truly emerge with more outstanding actresses and more outstanding female works.(Written by: stebufa)