In 1990, a reporter from Wenhui Film Times was greatly touched after watching the movie " Fake Jurchen Love ".
She specially published a photo of the female star Xi Meijuan and boldly asserted: "In the 1990 double awards selection, she should be one of the best actresses."
As expected, Xi Meijuan, who moved from the drama stage to the film and television industry at the age of 36, won the Best Actress Award at the 11th China Film Golden Rooster Awards.
32 years later, on November 12, 2022, 67-year-old Xi Meijuan used the movie "Mom! 》The role of his daughter Feng Jizhen won the 35th Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress in .
This time, the elegant beauty Ni Ni , the new generation actor Wang Danni, and the 9-year-old actor Yang Enyou, and the minority actor Yang Xiucuo.
Although each of the opponents is extraordinary, Xi Meijuan deserves it.
Her superb acting skills are impressive. Since she started filming, she has won all the awards of all sizes and big and small with the momentum of "award harvester".
And her performance outside the play made the audience truly admire it.
As soon as I entered the industry, I encountered "appearance discrimination"; I gave up a child at an age, but was divorced during the confinement period; I gave up a great career and raised my son alone...
These bad things, if it were someone else, I am afraid I could no longer bear it.
But she can always be unhurried and resolve it one by one with a dignified and decent attitude, open mountains when encountering mountains, build bridges when encountering water, and walk out of a world.
So, follow Uncle Chai to see how Xi Meijuan’s life was cultivated, right?
01
Xi Meijuan's screen character has always been vivid and everlasting.
She is an intellectual with poetry and books, a gentle and kind wife and mother, an Empress Dowager Cixi who is not angry and powerful, and even a cunning and greedy vicious woman.
But who would have thought that Xi Meijuan, who is so good at acting, came from an ordinary working family without a literary atmosphere.
In 1955, Xi Meijuan was born in Shanghai.
The mother is a textile worker and the father is a toy factory designer. They are busy working all day to support their five children.
As the eldest daughter in the family, Xi Meijuan knew how to help her parents take care of their younger siblings and do housework.
However, the hard life did not make Xi Meijuan numb.
On the contrary, under the guidance of her father, she appreciated the vast world from the book and yearned for a broader world.
, and her mother and grandmother taught her to sing traditional folk songs and adhered to the bottom line of being a human being. Over time, calmness and decency gathered into her character background.
18 years old, Xi Meijuan responded to the call to go to the countryside to go to the countryside to go to the countryside to go to the countryside to go to the countryside.
Lucky as she was, she was taken to participate in the Shanghai Theatre Academy admissions before she could do farm work for a few days.
But she was helpless. Xi Meijuan spoke dialect and spoke Mandarin at that time, and she had never learned any performance knowledge. When she was asked to perform a sketch, she was stunned.
However, Xi Meijuan was very smart and simply performed the scene of herself doing farm work.
acted a little and felt a little bit, but the examiner suddenly shouted, "The pigpen is on fire."
Xi Meijuan was not panicked. She calmly realized that this was also the content of the assessment.
So she calmly picked up the basin to "put out the fire". In order to increase the effect, she turned back and carried a large bucket of water.
It’s like this. With her unique understanding of performance, Xi Meijuan stood out from hundreds of candidates and knocked on the door to the Drama Academy.
First entered the campus, she was like Liu Laolao . She entered the colorful Grand View Garden. She was dazzled by the clouds of beauty, and of course she was also compared.
Whenever the crew comes to school to pick actors, beautiful students get auditions one after another.
, Xi Meijuan, who has the best and hardest results, was defeated again and again. The reason for being rejected is always the same, "Your face is not on camera!"
, that is fake, no one wants his acting career to stop due to appearance.
But Xi Meijuan also knows that complaining in the face of setbacks is useless. Only by discarding the shortcomings and making up for the strengths can we reverse the trend.
In the early morning, she was the first to go to the rehearsal venue to practice, and the last to go back to the dormitory late at night.
After working hard for 4 years, Xi Meijuan ushered in the moment of flowers blooming.
She was successfully assigned to the Shanghai People's Art Theater and became the only girl among the same students in the school to receive this honor.
02
I once saw an interesting saying that Xi Meijuan, who won numerous awards, finished writing her resume in just two lines.
"In 1973, 18-year-old Xi Meijuan was admitted to Shanghai Theater Academy to study performance. After graduation, she was assigned to Shanghai People's Art Theater and began her brilliant and simple performing art career."
Indeed, the square-inch stage of the People's Art Theater has a unique significance for Xi Meijuan.
There, she is like a fish breaking into the sea and roaming with all her heart, winning countless awards and blooming with brilliance.
At the same time, she also met a man who changed the direction of her life, Zhou Yemang .
Zhou Yemang's most well-known character is the "leopard head" Lin Chong in the CCTV version of " Water Margin ".
He is not a mediocre person. He comes from an artistic family and his parents are both senior actors.
It’s just that because of the experience of a special period, his parents were greatly traumatized and he was not allowed to take the art path again.
But Zhou Yemang was unwilling to be a machine tool worker. He was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy without telling his parents. Later, he entered the Shanghai People's Art Theater with his ability and became Xi Meijuan's junior brother.
From the first sight of Xi Meijuan on the stage, Zhou Yemang fell in love and pursued it crazy.
Soon, the two got together.
But the mystery of fate is that Zhou Yemang has talent and hard work, but his fame is still not as good as his wife Xi Meijuan.
Perhaps it was for the sake of men's face or to break the career deadlock, Zhou Yemang chose to go abroad for further studies at his own expense.
During the two years he went abroad, Xi Meijuan had no regrets, saved money, and supported her husband's study.
In 1988, the energetic Zhou Yemang returned from studying and played the male and female lead in "The Chinese Dream" with his wife.
performance effect was extremely popular. Xi Meijuan won the highest honor in the drama industry " Plum Blossom Award ".
Two years later, she tried to transform into a movie.
Unexpectedly, her first movie "Fake Jurchen Love" won the grand prize.
Soon, those directors who asserted that Xi Meijuan's face was not photogenic, brought a script that was as tall as a hill to Xi Meijuan for her to choose.
At this point, Xi Meijuan, who has worked hard on the drama stage for 15 years, has reached the peak of her life.
can be hidden behind the prosperity.
The stone representing marriage under Xi Meijuan's feet is quietly loosening.
03
At the beginning of the marriage, you and I were in love.
But as the couple showed a momentum of "strong women and weak men" in their careers, the balance of small families was broken.
Especially when he was working together on the drama "Chinese Dream", even though Zhou Yemang learned advanced foreign performance knowledge, even though he tried his best, the performance effect was still inferior to his wife.
At the same time, another incident pushed Zhou Yemang's resentment to the extreme.
Xi Meijuan has a miscarriage.
It turned out that Xi Meijuan was busy working hard for her career until the child disappeared, and she suddenly realized that she was pregnant.
Although Zhou Yemang, he cannot attribute all the mistakes to Xi Meijuan's latecomer, he is in an emotional vortex and is very eager to have a child.
Xi Meijuan keenly noticed her husband's indifference and unhappiness, and she attributed the mistake to herself. In the following years, she reduced her filming volume and actively prepared for pregnancy, hoping to repair the relationship between husband and wife with the arrival of her next child.
39 years old, Xi Meijuan finally got pregnant.
She was very happy, but she didn't know that her marriage was heading for the countdown.
In 1994, Xi Meijuan, who was immersed in the joy of becoming a mother for the first time, received a divorce notice from Zhou Yemang.
Faced with the child in the cradle and the weak mother, the other party never gave him any pity, and his attitude of leaving was cold and resolute.
Xi Meijuan, who is still in confinement, wants to cry without tears, but she has never made any noise and entanglement.
is all due to her self-sustainment over the years, which allows her to have huge energy to stabilize her mind and maintain her dignity when facing sudden changes.
"I agree to divorce, but the child belongs to me, so I will take my surname."
After calmly signing the divorce agreement , Xi Meijuan made a decision.
She pushed the performance off and stayed at home to accompany her son to grow up.
Every Children's Day, she takes photos with her son; during the winter and summer vacations, she has to travel thousands of miles with her children; on normal days, she accompanys her children to read books and newspapers and develop good habits.
Xi Meijuan named her son Xi Nan, and spent all her efforts on him, but she never poured the unsatisfactory marriage on her son.
She has never said a bad word from her ex-husband, and often tells her son: Dad is your backer.
She did not stop the father and son from meeting each other. When her ex-husband came to see the child, she took the initiative to give in.
Even though his ex-husband Zhou Yemang remarries quickly and starts a new family, Xi Meijuan has never complained.
She only cares about being a single mother in her own rhythm and achieving a better self.
04
1998, 43-year-old Xi Meijuan returned to the circle again.
For female celebrities who are eating entertainment, youth and beauty are capital, but when they reach the awkward age of 40, where should they go?
Xi Meijuan rarely gets confused, because in the storm of life and the polishing of time, she should understand what she should understand and experience what she should experience.
She believes that if you survive, you will get a brand new life.
From then on, Xi Meijuan was willing to become a "mama professional household".
" Red Prescription ", in order to play the mother of Zhou Xun, she learned anti-drug knowledge and brought her mother's emotions into it, and slapped Zhou Xun with a slap.
" Hawthorn Tree Love ", in order to play the role of Zhou Dongyu 's mother, she went to the printing factory to make an envelope with the master for half a month, knocking the tiger's mouth swollen.
Some people think there is no need to be serious, it’s just a few scenes.
Xi Meijuan said, "Art work is like walking on a bowl of water on your head. You can't sprinkle a drop. If you sprinkle a drop, then sprinkle a drop. The performance will be unreal."
There are also some people who are not worth it for her. The former heroine can only be trapped in the role of mother-in-law and mother.
Xi Meijuan said, "No matter what role, as long as there is a play, I will be satisfied."
satisfaction does not mean that I will be in a hurry. On the contrary, Xi Meijuan uses greater courage and strength to polish her acting skills and improve herself.
In his sixties, Xi Meijuan contributed a touching "love myth" to the audience in "Anjia".
The calm tranquility and elegance that permeates her body also allows everyone to see the most beautiful appearance of her old age.
What is more worth mentioning is that after years of divorce with Zhou Yemang, she calmly acted in the same drama with the other party, which shows the pattern.
"Mom! In 》, she plays the daughter suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Faced with a sudden life dilemma, she refused to be destroyed by the disease, and always showed a tenacious and calm attitude.
Looking at her screen image, I couldn't help but think of what a reporter said to Xi Meijuan, "People often say you, be quiet, not slow."
Yes, life is long, and it is really not easy for Xi Meijuan to go all the way. She has encountered appearance scrutiny and experienced marriage breakdown...
Those sufferings did not curb her backbone, but instead were like a melting pot, tempering her, making her inner broader and more orderly inside.
So, Xi Meijuan, who stood on the stage today, was so brilliant and calm.
For winning the award, just like she once said: "Many things are short-lived and lively, and the end time will survive the fittest and give the answer."
When all the bitterness fades with the years, the elegant character has already appeared.
Since time can prove everything, then just take your time and there is nothing to worry about.
Reference:
1. Jiefang Daily Xi Meijuan: No hurry, I choose to take it slowly, and the end time will survive the fittest, give the answer
2. New performing arts Xi Meijuan: Words can lead us to explore deeper humanity｜A corner B-face
3. Celebrities face to face the story of fighting forgetting | Interview with Xi Mei
Text/Nanfeng
Editor|Xiang Wanwan&Zhiyu
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