The self-directed and self-acted movie "Hello, Li Huanying" advanced to the second largest box office in the Mainland, and self-confessed that comedians have a sense of satisfaction that other actors cannot feel

  Jia Ling has nothing to complain about till today

  The movie "Hello, Li Huanying" released on Lunar New Year's Day (February 12) in 2021, 15 days after its release, the box office exceeded 4.5 billion. As of press time, the box office was close to 5.3 billion, and it was promoted to the second largest box office in Mainland China.

The first self-directed and self-acted work has achieved such great results, and Jia Ling's name has been frequently searched.

But as far as Jia Ling is concerned, the most important meaning of this film is to let go of the past.

  A few years ago, there was a popular sentence in chicken soup: every comedian has his own sad side.

Regarding Jia Ling, there is also a discussion online-is she really happy?

  To laugh at the audience on stage, she sacrificed her image and played the role of a "female man".

If you want to be a comedy, you seem to forget beauty.

So, is Jia Ling, who is willing to "go out" for the comedy, really happy?

  Hearing this question, Jia Ling in front of her suddenly raised her voice, "I am really happy! What is there to discuss (laughs)? How can an unhappy person'play' happiness everywhere, not in life I want to be so hypocritical."

  It’s not tiring to be a happy person. This is the truth Jia Ling has learned in recent years. She doesn’t think how profound the contrast between sadness and joy is in front of the stage and behind the scenes. She is convinced that making others happy will make herself happy , The surrounding atmosphere is followed by joy, this kind of life state can bring comfort to everyone.

  For Jia Ling at this time, life seems to have nothing to complain about.

  Someone once asked her what she was willing to insist on. She was more convinced of her love for comedy: "I can walk step by step to this day. It is the audience's tolerance and love for me. I cherish this sustenance." She said, she is Fortunately, "If I persist, I still cannot succeed today, and may complain, but now I can be liked by so many viewers, there is no longer anything worthy of me crying and complaining."

  Do you want to lose weight?

  After filming the movie "Hello, Li Huanying", Jia Ling seems to have gained a lot of weight.

Some people say that Jia Ling dare not lose weight, because "fat and round" are her characteristics as a comedian.

Jia Ling smiled and said that she is indeed too fat now, she will have a little idol burden, but it is really not for the audience to not lose weight, but because the pressure is too great, and eating has become her only way to relieve her pressure. .

"When I judge myself, I will be very objective. I know how fat I am to be accepted by the audience. I am willing to think from the same perspective as the audience. I usually watch dramas at home and watch variety shows. See and examine myself like an actor."

  "Then do you want to go back to the state when you were thin?" "Of course I thought about it (laughs), who has said that I am reluctant to lose weight because of my career, how can I be so great? I can't! Isn't I thin and thin? Is it fun?"

  "Hello, Li Huanying"

  Is the last thing she did for her mother

  If Jia Ling can really travel back to 1981, what would she want to change?

After thinking for a while, she said, "I have nothing special (things) that I want to change, I just hope my mother can be happy."

  In 2016, Jia Ling established Big Bowl Entertainment. Her first work was "Hello, Li Huanying", a sketch she created to commemorate her mother.

The audience's evaluation of this sketch is: willing to watch it back thousands of times, but unwilling to let Jia Ling perform it a second time.

The accidental death of her mother is Jia Ling's eternal regret.

  At the age of 19, Jia Ling's brother-in-law called and told her "Mom is gone" and asked her to come back to see her for the last time.

But when she hurried home, she still didn't see the last side.

Jia Ling once thought that this made her life still missing a corner, and she would never be happy anymore.

Until the end of the short drama "Hello, Li Huanying", she felt that she was in a better mood and relieved a lot. At that moment, she thought that she should make this story into a movie. In addition to making up for the regret of her mother's death, she also realized that If she were a little older, it would be difficult to play herself at the time when she traveled back to 1981. She decided to pin her regrets and love on this movie.

  "I also want to tell you the way my mother and I used to get along with each other and the happy time. Those are the days I cherish the most. After watching the movie, the audience can think of calling their mother and I will be satisfied."

  "Hello, Li Huanying" is Jia Ling's first movie in the true sense.

She chose to direct and act on her own, because no one knew her mother better than her.

But during the filming preparations, she encountered unprecedented hesitation: "The script alone has been polished for more than three years, and it is still being revised until the filming starts. The screenwriters are also complaining, saying that such endless writing, I don’t know when to write. .I don’t know when the best story state will be reached. Later, I found that there are areas that need to be modified and refined at each stage. For example, it can be better to make up some here, and it can be better if you change the method over there, but wait for you When it comes to shooting on the spot, the different performance states of the actors need to be revised, and there are problems of this and that every day."

  Although difficult, Jia Ling never thought of giving up. She said that she never seemed to insist on something like this: "The filming of "Hello, Li Huanying" is the last thing I have done for my mother in my life. It is difficult to finish it, it is worthy of my feelings for my mother, and I will show my heart out to you."

  I didn't cry the day I finished

  I just opened the bottle I wanted to keep the wine I drank when I got married

  On the day when "Hello, Li Huanying" was finalized, Jia Ling did not cry. Two hours later, she got on the plane at 6 am and went to the Spring Festival Gala to review the program.

Even after the review of the program, she did not realize that the film was finished, but silently placed a Weibo on the top: Mom, the movie "Hello, Li Huanying" was finished.

Am I good?

  "This movie didn't have time to make me sigh, and I couldn't think about it after the filming. After reviewing the show, my team and I opened a very expensive bottle of wine. Originally, I only drank it when I planned to get married (laughs)."

  In Jia Ling’s impression, her mother is not strict with her, just like sisters, the most powerful thing to her is the smile on the corner of her mother’s mouth, but in real life Jia Ling’s mother has never seen her performance. , Didn't even know that she later became an actor.

She has never seen her mother in the hospital bed, these have always been the pain points in her heart.

Jia Ling added the plot of her going to the hospital to visit her mother and her mother to watch her performance in the movie, which is a dream for herself in this life.

But when these scenes were filmed, she was crying to the point of collapse, and she took more than 20 shots again, because there were too many tears and her eyes were so swollen. Everyone in the crew felt very sorry for her, but they didn't know how to comfort her:" Really shooting the past, I can’t seem to relieve my emotions. If I didn’t shoot well, I would blame myself very much.”

  In the film, Jia Ling’s mother is played by actor Zhang Xiaofei. She always listens to Jia Ling telling Li Huanying’s previous stories, “I told her that my mother and I are basically a kind of personality, and my mother is mentioned every time we chat. Fei’s acting skills are very good. My play cycle is very long. There are sketches and dramas during the period, and then I change it into a movie. After the script is written, I have to arrange the play again. This requires the actors to spend a lot of time to cooperate with me."

  Another key point is that Jia Ling and Shen Teng’s first big screen combination, "At that time, Brother Teng said that he would come to star in my movie. I said you don’t have a cameo. I have a male character here. He exclaimed how to jump. It's so big. Later, he said to look at the script with his inherent "disgusting expression". After reading it, he felt satisfied and agreed." Jia Ling laughed and said that if there is no emotion, Brother Teng would not come to help.

  Standard sad constitution

  Feeling fluctuating, emotional, and crying too much

  In Jia Ling's eyes, her mother knows everything, dares to do everything, and can endure hardships, and so does her father.

The optimism, cheerfulness and tolerance in her body are the fusion of parents' personality and educational style, which also gave Jia Ling enough courage to make her willing to escape from her comfort zone even if she gave up everything.

  In 2001, she was admitted to the cross talk class of the Central Academy of Drama, and thus formed a lifelong mentorship with her teacher Feng Gong.

Speaking of her mentor, she said that the greatest help she had provided to her in life was to start a cross talk class. Without this opportunity, she would not have the opportunity to embark on the path of comedy.

Also because of Feng Gong's decision at the time, many girls with comedy talents were able to participate.

Yue Yunpeng once commented that Jia Ling is a brave girl who debuted as a cross talk actress, but cross talk is a "forbidden zone" for actresses. There is no opportunity and the treatment is not high, but she is willing to lay down all burdens and insist on—— Lived in the basement, worked to survive, because of the figure being teased, played as a harlequin, and hacked.

  In 2008, Jia Ling and Bai Kainan's cross talk "Lun Peng Dou" performed more than 80 times in Beijing.

In 2010, the two made their debut on the Spring Festival Gala stage with the adaptation of "Big Talk".

This year, she was 28 years old.

The love for comedy is something she has always insisted on and never changed. Asked if she was afraid of her performance being bound by the image of comedy, she hurriedly waved her hand: "Of course not, oh, you don’t know how happy it is to be a comedian. thing!"

  In the eyes of outsiders, Jia Ling has always been a happy fruit. Whether on stage or off stage, she always releases happy energy, but she said that she is actually a standard sad physique. The reason is that she loves to cry too much: "My emotions Volatility is relatively large and very emotional. For example, I like puppies, and short videos recommend a lot of pet-related content, such as stray dogs, I dare not watch it, and I can’t help but want to watch it. Every time I see it, it’s easy to cry." After a few seconds of silence, she turned to say, in fact, she is already learning to reconcile: "I used to really hate myself, being too kind, too accommodating to others, and considering others. There are more. But then I discovered that actually caring about others makes me happy, and I silently accepted this fact."

  ● Jia Ling's inner world

  Whether the sketch is good or not depends on the screenwriter

  The Beijing News: The recording of "Ace Vs Ace", is it a kind of adjustment during your filmmaking?

  Jia Ling: I have always liked recording variety shows, but sometimes I feel that film and television works are my spice (laughs).

In fact, there is no way to judge who is easier and who is more difficult. Just like sketches, it also takes a lot of energy. Every piece of "artwork" requires unlimited energy and time. Sometimes rehearsing a sketch is even more expensive than a variety show. Time is longer.

  The Beijing News: Many viewers say that the current sketches lack irony, and the endings are mostly sensational. Language programs are going downhill?

  Jia Ling: This is not determined by us, but by the market.

For so many years, I have also worked hard and actively looking for screenwriters to write better sketches.

I think we must first improve the industry treatment of screenwriters, tap talented screenwriters, and make everyone realize that the baggage of sketches is very valuable and precious.

  Having been acting myself has become a creative bottleneck

  The Beijing News: Chen Peisi once said in an interview with the Beijing News that comedians are actually a painful group of people. Do you think comedy is difficult to do?

  Jia Ling: It’s hard to do. It’s definitely hard to do. You have to keep innovating and producing, but I always think that a person who can bring happiness to others must also be a very happy person, and at the same time he will be very satisfied in his heart, comedian There is often a sense of satisfaction that ordinary actors cannot feel.

  Beijing News: Where does the inspiration come from?

Why are you so good at catching up and showing high emotional intelligence at the same time?

  Jia Ling: Maybe he has the ability to improvise.

Many times I found out that my answer was really good after netizens summarized it (laughs).

But to be honest, I didn’t plan to specifically pick up any stalks at the time. Most of the time, I was in a zero-distance state. Whether it was a reporter or an audience, I regarded each other as ordinary friends. Our chat method was also free and casual. There is no sense of alienation at all, so it may be easy to produce terriers.

"Birth stalk"?

This statement is still "spawning" (haha).

  Beijing News: How big is the difference between what the audience sees and you in real life?

  Jia Ling: There is really no big difference. For example, in "Hello, Li Huanying", I am myself.

Sometimes I feel that the current creative bottleneck is that I have been acting myself. When I play someone else in the next (movie), we will talk again (laughs).

  Beijing News: Are you particularly eager to make other types of movies?

  Jia Ling: I don't have this desire yet. My works must come from the heart.

In fact, I don't have much talent or great abilities. My talent lies in the high concentration of emotion and the ability to express my emotions to the audience smoothly. I can only do this.

  Become more anxious after making movies for four years

  Beijing News: What do you think is the biggest change in your recent years?

  Jia Ling: I think the biggest changes have been made in the past four years of making movies. I started a company, wrote scripts, and made movies faster than before, but I became more anxious and became more concerned about the feedback given by this movie.

(Everyone thinks you have everything now, what are you still anxious about?) Anxiety movie's performance techniques, anxious photography screens are good or not, anxious about every detail of the movie, anxious about this performance, that piece of color, this soundtrack...

  Beijing News: Because you are too eager to make every detail of the movie better.

  Jia Ling: As I said just now, because this may be the last thing I did for my mother. Out of my heart, I also hope that I will be happier after doing this. I don’t want to wait for the movie to be released. Later, regrets remained.

  The Beijing News: Do you pay much attention to the feedback and comments of the audience?

  Jia Ling: Not before.

(Why? Don't you dare to watch it?) It's not that I didn't dare to watch it, because I always thought that even after the performance, there is only one chance for the performance. It is a thing of the past to complete it within the scope of the effort.

But now this kind of thinking is changing, just like I really want to see the feedback of this movie, because this is what I want to express to the audience, and it is also the first time I want to talk to the audience.

  Written by/Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan