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Text: South Lane Layman
Editor|South Lane Resident
She is the Academy Award actress who played an unknown junior in "Flowers".
Playing such a role seems to be a bit overkill for her.
But she didn't care about saying that no matter what type of role, she was willing to try.
She is the queen of banned films-Zeng Meihuizi.
Someone once said that she was a beautiful and dangerous woman like a snake, a woman who could act on her back.
What is the lesser-known story about her?
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Recently, Wong Kar-wai's first TV series "Flowers" has become very popular, with both good and bad reviews flying, and the word of mouth is mixed.
This drama gathers half of the actors in the Shanghai circle, and almost all the famous Shanghai actors have starred.
Some netizens said that Shanghai actors who did not act in this drama are equivalent to British people who have not played Harry Potter.
However, what I want to discuss today is not the Shanghai actor who accounts for the largest proportion in the play, but an actor from Guizhou - Zeng Meihuizi.
In the play, she is just an insignificant waitress.
In order to match the role, she permed her hair into a more tacky little wavy curl, which she tied up when she worked.
Not only that, but at a time when many actresses pay attention to body management, she is the most different.
Her figure is slightly chubby, and at first glance it has not been deliberately carved and maintained, which is very real.
It also restores the image of an ordinary waiter.
Compared with other actors, her role really has no shining points, and it is dispensable.
However, anyone who knows a little about her will think that she is a condescending talent in this TV series.
This inconspicuous waiter is actually an Academy Award actress.
This award is a film award held in Hong Kong, China, and only nine mainland actresses have won this award.
Is it a bit too big to let an Academy Award actress play a mediocre waiter?
How could Zeng Meihuizi agree to take on this role?
Banned film queen
Many people who don't know her subconsciously think that she is Japanese when they hear her name.
Actually, no, she is a pure Chinese.
Born in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, Zeng Meihuizi has been competitive since she was a child and is keen to participate in various competitions.
In his sophomore year of high school, he participated in the "New Miao Cup" host competition and won the third place in the country, so he won the guaranteed quota of Communication University of China.
In 2003, she saw the information of the crew of "Summer Palace" recruiting actors on the street, so she went to sign up for an audition.
Originally, she didn't have much hope, after all, the drama of a big director is not just acting.
Unexpectedly, she was photographed by director Lou Ye at a glance, and asked her to stay and give her a role.
made a small cameo, but she officially entered the ranks of film and television drama performances.
I believe there is no need to say more about the scale of the drama "Summer Palace", this film has been banned since the scale is too large.
It is rumored that Hao Lei and Deng Chao, who had a very good relationship at the time, also broke up because of this drama.
Hao Lei, as the heroine of this drama, is indispensable for some nude scenes, and Deng Chao was dissatisfied and tried his best to prevent her from acting in this drama.
Hao Lei is more ambitious and willing to dedicate herself to art, but the two have serious disagreements and finally break up.
And Zeng Meihuizi plays the heroine's rustic roommate "Dongdong" in it.
At that time, she was only 16 years old, and her face was endlessly green and immature.
She was too young to know what desire was, and she was ashamed and scared of physical nudity.
This film is the initiation film that introduced her to the entertainment industry.
I don't know if it's a special fate, many of her later films are related to sex and desire.
In 2007, in the erotic film "Apple" directed by Li Yu, she played a depraved girl who had lost her footing.
In this film, she is no longer as ashamed as before, and she can show her desire for "love" and "desire" freely.
Stained with the light of the film, she appeared on the big stage of the Berlin Film Festival for the first time.
A little girl who came out of a mountain town stepped on the star-studded red carpet.
At that time, she wrote her ambition on her face, dressed up very hard, and even overwhelmed Fan Bingbing.
It's a pity that this didn't make her instantly "fly on the branches and become a phoenix".
can only rely on the small roles that have been piled up to keep themselves in the "play", waiting for a chance to break out.
In 2010, she played "Niu Caiyun" in the drama adaptation of "Mobile Phone".
The contrast between the exaggerated dress and the country background creates a "harlequin".
She has been involved in comedies, educational dramas, and urban dramas, but the results are always unsatisfactory.
has repeatedly tried to transform and break through, but she still failed to find an opportunity to break through her own drama.
In order to maintain the feeling of acting, she even went to shoot the web drama "Tokyo Blood" that only 23 people have watched.
After a few years of confusion and going around, she still returned to the literary film track of "Love and Desire".
In 2018, she incarnated a young and lonely country widow "Spring Moss" in "Pluto Moment", with few scenes but particularly eye-catching.
Coming into contact with this kind of "sex" related films, she is no longer the ignorant and immature "Dongdong" she used to be.
It is the graceful Sichun woman "Spring Moss".
Zeng Meihuizi is not a big beauty in the traditional sense, and her beauty in the entertainment industry is not outstanding.
But those eyes are very tasteful, with slightly upward hanging eyes, bewitching and charming, and full of charm.
Raise your eyes slightly, as if you can charm people.
In this drama, she contributed even more daring acting skills.
not only played a country woman full of lust, but also showed a different kind of sexiness with a slightly chubby figure.
wants to release but is forced to be unable to resolve loneliness in reality, and shows the inner pain of the characters through repressed "sex".
In several back shots, she was even commented on acting in the back.
After that, she seemed to have found a way, and one drama after another followed.
She is the "Street Girl" in "Down to the Sea", and she is also the dancing girl in "Yunshui".
Several dramas in a row are inseparable from sex appeal and lust.
Finally, after nearly ten years of hibernation, she ushered in a turning point in her acting career.
In 2018, she waited for "Three Husbands" and the first female number one in her life.
This film is a large-scale tertiary film launched by Hong Kong director Chen Guo.
The protagonist's name is Xiaomei, and because she has a congenital intellectual disability, she can't even say a complete sentence.
The story revolves around her and her three husbands with countless prostitutes.
The language of the camera is very bold, and there are even three men observing the impact shot of the little sister's lower body together.
In order to shoot this drama well, Zeng Meihuizi also went out, leaving a lot of large-scale shots of nudity and sexiness.
The reason why she decided to take over this drama was that after communicating with the director, she dreamed of a lot of fish at night.
Dreams overlap with reality, and she feels that Xiaomei is a "mermaid" who must experience the life of this character.
So she went, and thankfully the end result gave her excellent feedback and proved that she had made the right choice.
In 2019, she won the 38th Academy Awards for this work, and she was the seventh person in mainland China to win this award.
The significance of this award is not only an affirmation of her acting skills in this film.
is also a reward for her contributions to acting over the years.
Over the years, the belief that Zeng Meihuizi has insisted on going down has always been "the drama is bigger than the sky".
The drama is bigger than the sky
Zeng Meihuizi's small body hides huge energy, and she has an almost crazy obsession with acting.
Her body seems to be burning with lust, but her profligate form reveals a stubbornness that doesn't care about the eyes of the world.
When it comes to acting, she has always been an experiential person.
In "Apple", in order to play a good foot-washing girl with no name.
She went to the dance hall to experience this profession for a month without telling the crew.
Like a balloon, she lives in no fixed place, and the working girl who floats in the sky above the city is interpreted by her very well.
When filming "The Last Night on Earth", she had a scene where she was drinking and smashing bottles.
In order to keep it real, I resolutely did not mix it with water, and poured more than 20 bottles of beer, and I felt that the whole person was fluttering after the shooting.
Even with such efforts, her scene was deleted due to the length of time, and only one scene remained.
In "Three Husbands", the director asked the little sister to have a plump and full figure.
She eats fried chicken burgers every day and gains more than 20 pounds.
In the end, she shows a primitive wild beauty in the play.
There is a scene where she needs to stand on the 30th floor of the stairs with her wedding dress and throw it down.
Her eyes were empty, and she seemed to have no soul of her own to merge with the "little sister".
It wasn't until her leg hit the railing that she realized she was about to fall.
If it weren't for this railing, she might have been completely immersed in the character and fell into the infinite abyss.
Zeng Meihuizi has been working very hard for filming.
In "The Mistake by the River" with Zhu Yilong this year, in order to play a pregnant woman well, he made his belly look more realistic.
She actually gave up all props and special effects, and insisted on eating herself as a "pregnant woman's belly".
And in "Flowers", in order to play an ordinary working girl, she did not deliberately lose weight.
Create an ordinary character with a relatively fat body.
Although she regards the drama as bigger than the sky, she has never hidden her ambition of "wanting to be popular".
But she is very low-key and never relies on hype and other means to stand out.
In her heart, "acting" is the only way to become popular.
Zeng Meihuizi's current Weibo fans are only 179,000, and the rate of followers is very slow.
Even a small Internet celebrity has hundreds of thousands of fans as soon as he makes a move.
She has been an actor who has debuted for more than ten years, but she only has more than 100,000.
Even on the night she won the Academy Awards, no one seemed to care.
In the excellent opportunity to increase followers, Weibo only gained a few thousand followers.
"Red" sometimes really relies on some metaphysics.
But fortunately, she has acting and can engage in the career she loves.
On the second day of the New Year, she had already posted on Weibo that she had started work.
Previously, according to insiders, her drama appointment has been scheduled for two years, and there is no window period.
With such a tight itinerary, it seems that the rumors are true.
epilogue
As long as she keeps acting, "Zeng Meihuizi" will definitely be able to be seen by the audience, and the public will definitely discover this pearl in the sea.
Maybe what she lacks is just a big explosion opportunity, and the opportunity is always left to those who are on the way forward.
I wish her a smooth journey and further progress in her future acting career.
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