At 13:43 on March 6, the Spring Festival movie "Hello, Li Huanying" officially broke through the 5 billion box office mark on the 23rd day of its release, becoming the third film in the history of Chinese film with a box office of more than 5 billion yuan.
According to the data of Maoyan Professional Edition, "Hello, Li Huanying" reached a total box office of 5.035 billion yuan at 20:28 on March 6th, which officially surpassed the 2019 summer movie "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World" and rose to the box office of Chinese Film History. The second place in the overall list, second only to the 2017 summer movie "Wolf Warriors 2" with a box office of 5.693 billion yuan.
With "Hello, Li Huanying" breaking the record at the box office, the film's director Jia Ling and starring Zhang Xiaofei have also become popular in the circle.
Especially Zhang Xiaofei, she was almost unknown before the film came out, but now she has become the "Fei's mother" among countless netizens, and even the rice circle culture that was not in touch with her in the past has also come to the door..."5 billion actresses "Does Zhang Xiaofei need help from the rice circle?"
What risks and opportunities will her future star road face?
A reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News interviewed a senior artist management team member in a certain circle on this topic.
The other party believes that although the support of fans can bring more direct benefits to Zhang Xiaofei, the risks and costs are also not small. Zhang Xiaofei may wish to choose a "harder road": keep the distance from the fans and use his own strength to maintain the current situation. Good start.
Actress who only became popular at the age of 35
In fact, in the past, Zhang Xiaofei and Jia Ling have repeatedly appeared on the national stage because of their partner sketches.
However, most viewers remember Jia Ling, not Zhang Xiaofei, who is less recognizable in body and style.
Until the appearance of "Hello, Li Huanying", thanks to the role, Zhang Xiaofei, who played Li Huanying in his youth, became a shining presence in the film no less than Jia Ling.
This year, 35-year-old Zhang Xiaofei has really become popular for the first time.
Many people are surprised by Zhang Xiaofei's unusually tall posture from sketches to movies. In fact, this is because she has studied ballet since she was a child.
Because she was studying dance, she left her hometown of Liaoning at the age of 11 and was sent by her mother to the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing to study dance.
But in 2005, Zhang Xiaofei made a bold decision: she wanted to learn acting!
So she gave up dancing and was admitted to the acting department of Beijing Film Academy, and became classmates with Yang Mi, Yuan Shanshan, and Jiao Junyan.
At school, Zhang Xiaofei is a "student tyrant", but his grades are not the same thing as Star Fortune.
In 2009, Zhang Xiaofei almost faced "unemployment" after graduation.
In order to survive, Zhang Xiaofei had to be admitted to the China Broadcasting Art Troupe as a host on the advice of his teacher.
Like many "Beijing Drift" actors, Zhang Xiaofei has experienced various cold encounters and blank eyes.
One of the most famous stories about her downfall was when she went to an interview with the crew.
At that time, Zhang Xiaofei went to see a producer, but just pushed the door and went in, and pointed at her to Convenience and said: Do you think there is a problem with your face?
In many days, Zhang Xiaofei was even so poor that he had a last meal without a second meal.
These experiences may have made her look down on the so-called rice circle culture today-after all, no matter how difficult the days are, she has survived alone.
Not everyone can catch the luck
In the China Broadcasting Art Troupe, Zhang Xiaofei met perhaps the most important person in her life-Jia Ling.
Because of the lack of people for the upcoming sketches, Jia Ling asked Zhang Xiaofei if she could help, and the two began their intimate relationship for more than ten years.
In 2012, Jia Ling led Zhang Xiaofei to perform "The N-th Power of Women" on the Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala. Although not many people noticed Zhang Xiaofei as an assistant, this was the beginning of another actor career in her life.
The foreshadowing of fate at the time was not revealed until the two participated in the Zhejiang Satellite TV variety show "Comedy Story" in September 2016. The answer: At that time, Jia Ling and Zhang Xiaofei performed an original sketch "Hello, Li Huanying". Watch and cry countless audiences.
This sketch is the prototype of the movie of the same name in the Spring Festival of 2021 5 years later.
Many people talked about the fairy confidante between Jia Ling and Zhang Xiaofei.
Especially after Jia Ling's Weibo about Zhang Xiaofei was "archaeologically" by netizens, the fact that she "premeditated" to popularize Zhang Xiaofei became a good talk in the entertainment circle.
Today’s most widely spread Jia Ling’s Weibo was posted by her in May 2012: “It’s very hard for my friends to film a movie. It starts at 5 o’clock at the earliest and returns at 12 o’clock in the evening, and then she’s full of happiness. I’ve never heard her say bitterness before. Today’s filming of the explosion scene, my eyes were blown up, and the two big men from the fireworks crew set up a shrew troupe to scold friends. The little girl was so scolded that she cried. At home, I saw the blue-red hurt in my leg, my heart hurts to death. Little actor, life is so cheap, I will soon become a big name! You are only one scene away from becoming the idol of the sister!" The netizen was right, "friend" It is Zhang Xiaofei.
But Jia Ling certainly didn't expect that she would be the director of the "a drama" she said was bad.
After the movie "Hello, Li Huanying" became popular, Zhang Xiaofei once said frankly that she was actually very nervous until the filming started, because she didn't know if Jia Ling would use her in the movie version.
Of course Jia Ling will use her. Jia Ling was the first to sign a contract even after the establishment of "Big Bowl Entertainment" in 2016.
From then to now, Jia Ling has repeatedly recommended Zhang Xiaofei, who has outstanding professional ability, on various occasions.
In the filming footage of the movie "Hello, Li Huanying", Jia Ling often ran over to hug Zhang Xiaofei after taking a shot, sincerely praising her: "The acting is great!" Many people said that Zhang Xiaofei was the luckiest to meet Jia Ling .
This is true, but the premise may be that Zhang Xiaofei has enough strength to catch this luck.
The first confrontation with the rice circle culture
Jia Ling once described Zhang Xiaofei's smile in "Hello, Li Huanying": "The smile of Xiaofei makes the world warmer." This is not how Jia Ling feels alone.
Many viewers felt that their souls were healed to some extent after watching this film crying, laughing and laughing.
Psychologist Wu Zhihong’s personal public account once published an article discussing this phenomenon, saying that Zhang Xiaofei’s smile in the film gave people a feeling of "ideal motherly love": "Usually, in our lives, we often encounter some good things or get You will laugh only after you have achieved something and what goals have been achieved. Many parents are also used to smiling when their children behave well and meet their expectations. These are actually'conditional laughs'. And'Li Huanying' only needs to see Jia Ling, almost always laughs from the bottom of her heart. There is no need for anything special to happen, nor for her daughter to achieve any great goals. There are no conditions that make people feel like an unconditional love."
Under Zhang Xiaofei's Weibo, many netizens of Aiwu and Wu directly called her "Mom" affectionately, and many people unilaterally "reported" their work, life, and mood to her from time to time.
Before I was married and had a baby, Zhang Xiaofei, 35, became a "national mother" and the nickname "Fei's mother" is well known.
About half a month after the film was released, some of Zhang Xiaofei's fans began to "comment" to his management team.
Fans protested against Zhang Xiaofei’s “dereliction of duty” because they tried to ask his agent many times about Zhang Xiaofei’s future development direction and the work that fans need to cooperate with, but the other party not only did not respond, but even withdrew from the group.
On February 26, netizens discovered that Zhang Xiaofei’s National Fan Support Club and the official fan club had been disbanded. Among them, her official fan club was even disbanded by herself.
Zhang Xiaofei's brokerage company, Big Bowl Entertainment, has officially taken over the work of Zhang Xiaofei's Weibo Super Talk host.
Most netizens applauded the attitude of Zhang Xiaofei and his management team towards fans. People said on Weibo: "Fans don't care too much!" "Fei mom doesn't need the fan ring set!" "Let Zhang Xiaofei be quietly red!" However, some netizens believe that Zhang Xiaofei, who has become popular, cannot completely reject the influence of "rice circle culture".
Yangcheng Evening News reporter Li Li