In 2011, after the release of "The New Version of Water Margin", the charming and moving role of Pan Jinlian attracted the attention of the audience, and the actor Gan Tingting was also known as "the purest Pan Jinlian in history", so her acting career went to the next level, and she was selected as one of the top ten most beautiful actresses of the year.
After Gan Tingting became popular because of "Pan Jinlian", her ex-boyfriend ** took her private**, and some people thought that she was performing herself in real life, so she fell into a peachy news whirlpool that she couldn't get rid of. This is like the saying, "success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He".
Although she later came forward to clarify, the image of "Pan Jinlian" played by her was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it obviously became a label on her, which had an irreparable impact on her career.
I thought it would usher in the peak of my career, but I didn't expect it to gradually decline.
What kind of impact did Pan Jinlian's corner have on Gan Tingting?Did she ever regret accepting the role?
Gan Tingting was born in Wuhu City, Anhui Province in 1986, her parents are ordinary workers, although the family is not wealthy, but live a happy and comfortable life.
Gan Tingting, the eldest child in the family, has been very sensible since she was a child, and has never worried her parents.
When Gan heard about the outbreak of the financial crisis when she was 12 years old, she was too young to know anything about it, and never imagined that she would be a first-hand witness to it.
As soon as she entered the house, she found her father sitting in the living room with a sad face, and her mother sighing beside her.
Dad Gan has always been keen on investing**, and there was no problem when the market was good, but the sudden economic crisis caught him off guard, resulting in heavy losses, and the family property almost suffered a huge loss.
After her father's investment failed, Gan Tingting's family's financial situation plummeted, and life became very poor.
She was a sensible girl, and she thought to herself that it would be great if she could learn Xi financial literacy to help her father.
Gan Tingting made a choice when she filled in the college entrance examination, and she decided to go to the finance department of a university in Shanghai to study Xi investment.
Shanghai is known as the fashion capital, attracting the yearning of countless young people. They look forward to the richer social resources and broader opportunities there, and even rush into the city at all costs, hoping to display their talents here and achieve a better version of themselves.
Gan Tingting doesn't have many ideas, her wish is very simple: learn Xi financial knowledge well, work in ** companies after graduation, become a white-collar worker, and then continue to develop in the financial field for several years.
Her outstanding looks made it impossible for her to keep a low profile, and whenever she walked down the street, she would meet people who would come over to talk to her, including some talent scouts, who wanted to invite her to shoot commercials or become celebrities.
Because Gan Tingting has been beautiful since she was a child, her parents taught her not to trust others easily, so she has a strong sense of self-preservation.
She treats all the scouts she meets as **, and is worried that she will be abducted if she follows them, so she always ignores the accosting.
Once, when she was shopping with her classmates, she met a talent scout who invited her to shoot an advertisement.
Gan Tingting decided to agree to give it a try, because she thought that there were so many people around her, and she didn't dare to do anything about the other party.
After being taken to the studio, Gan Tingting learned that she was going to participate in the shooting of a flower water commercial. She had no shooting experience, so she stood in front of the camera and looked very reserved, not knowing where to look for a while, so she could only stand still.
The photographer could intuitively feel from her performance that she was an inexperienced novice. So he asked Gan Tingting: "Have you ever photographed mosquitoes?"”
She listened to the photographer's words, stunned for a moment, then raised her hand and waved it twice, feeling a little funny. At this moment, the director actually praised her, so that she completed the first photo shoot in her life.
Gan Tingting was paid handsomely at the end, and she was secretly shocked: it turned out that she could make so much money by filming commercials.
At that time, Gan Tingting was in her senior year and needed to make important choices about Xi and employment. After much deliberation, she decided to make the leap into the advertising industry and work hard for it.
After Gan Tingting took over the advertisement for flower water, she soon received the first one.
2. The invitation of the third advertisement, she happily went to participate in the shooting, and since then she has started her modeling career.
Because of her previous experience, Gan Tingting felt very smooth about becoming a model, and began to consider whether she could take on the responsibility of supporting her family.
She realized that her parents were not in good health, so she decided to give them a ** call, proposing that they quit their jobs and take care of the family themselves.
Gan Tingting just boasted about Haikou, but reality quickly hit her hard. Just because you've shot one or two commercials doesn't mean you'll always have the opportunity to shoot commercials in the future, and she waited a long time without receiving any more contact from advertisers.
Gan Tingting revealed in an interview with "Very Quiet Distance" that that time was the most difficult stage of her life.
The advertising money she earned before had been sent home, and she couldn't bear to ask her parents for money anymore because she had boasted about it at the beginning. Gan Tingting, who has never borrowed money from others, bowed her head to a friend for the first time to borrow money to pay three months' rent.
Finding that she couldn't afford to wait any longer, she took the initiative and walked around the audition venues in her high heels, just as Gan did.
Models must be extremely strict with their figure in front of the camera, even if they are a little fat, they will be magnified by the camera without ground, in order to maintain the best condition, Gan Tingting began an almost "masochistic" **, she didn't dare to eat more at every meal, and even was so hungry that she would pick it out and spit it out after only two bites of rice.
After more than half a month of perseverance, Gan Tingting finally got her dream job.
Whenever Gan Tingting sits on the bus and goes to the shooting location, she can always meet the rising sun unexpectedly. She silently vowed: "I must survive in Shanghai." ”
In the next two years, Gan Tingting became a leader in the industry with a desperate attitude, and she frequently appeared in major studios in Shanghai, shooting more than 100 advertisements one after another, so she was known as the "Queen of Shanghai Advertising".
Haikou, which she once boasted to her parents, has now become a reality, and Gan Tingting has greatly improved her family conditions by filming advertisements.
However, Gan Tingting is not deceived by the current comfortable life, she is clearly aware of the reality of youth in the modeling industry, and understands that the opportunities brought by youth and beauty are temporary.
If she gets older in the future, she won't be able to gain a foothold in the industry.
In 2004, Gan Tingting decided to leave Shanghai and go to Beijing to look for opportunities. When she first arrived in Beijing, she knew nothing about the city and had no vision for the future.
Fortunately, Gan Tingting found an agent she had worked with before, and she happened to be in Beijing, so Gan Tingting decided to go to her.
At the suggestion of her agent, she decided to change her career to acting, so she entered ** Drama Academy for a year of further study.
With the wealth accumulated from filming advertisements in the past few years, Gan Tingting's economic situation is better than that of many young actors. She shuttles back and forth between the east and west ends of Beijing every day, taking a taxi, and no matter how much it costs, she doesn't feel distressed.
One day, she suddenly realized that this state was not very good. She is no longer the "advertising queen" of Shanghai, but a rookie actor with a Xi attitude, and must re-establish her image from scratch.
She decided not to pursue pleasure anymore, but chose to commute by bus like she did when she first worked in Shanghai, watching the rising sun every day, and saying to herself, "I must achieve something in Beijing." ”
Director Chen Xiaoxu's new film "Red Clothes Square" is recruiting actors, and Gan Tingting's agent successfully won her the opportunity to audition.
Gan Tingting was very excited to meet the director she had always admired, and in order to impress him, she deliberately dressed up neatly.
She wears a bright red T-shirt and white hot pants, knee-high boots, curly hair, and exaggerated earrings on her ears.
Gan Tingting went to the appointment with such an image, but was ruthlessly eliminated as soon as she finished eating. In the play, a "female Communist Party member" needs to be chosen, and her dress can only make the director think that she is a vase.
Gan Tingting realized her own shortcomings through this failure, and she understood that being an actor and a model are two different things, and it is not enough to be beautiful in appearance, but also to have excellent acting skills to interpret the role.
Since then, she has devoted more time to the study of acting, silently waiting for the opportunity and working tirelessly.
In 2005, Gan Tingting got the opportunity to play Yu'er in "Zhu Yuanzhang", and since then she has officially embarked on her acting career.
In the crew, Gan Tingting learned a lot of knowledge that could not be taught in the classroom, and her understanding of actors was very different from before.
A year later, she starred in the film "Hanoi, Hanoi" and won the "Best Actress" award at the 2007 Vietnam Golden Kite International Film Festival.
Gan Tingting attracted the attention of insiders because of her outstanding appearance, and in 2007, Hairun's brokerage company signed a contract with her, and regarded her as the company's key training object.
Hai Rui has written a number of plays for her, including "Detective Chen Xu", "Night Run" and "Heroes of Troubled Times".
Gan Tingting was pleasantly surprised by this, she was very surprised that the company valued her so much, so she gave her all and gave back to the company with the best attitude.
During the filming of "Detective Chen Xu", an accident occurred in a blasting scene, which caused Gan Tingting's eyes to be burned, making her blind for three days and three nights.
In addition, half of her body was burned red, and she couldn't sleep all night due to pain.
She was unwilling to delay the progress of the crew, although her body was not yet complete, she immediately devoted herself to the filming work, and her dedicated attitude was very admirable.
Gan Tingting ushered in a rare opportunity in the same year, she successfully won the role of the second female "Ye Huimei" in the movie "Landing, Please Open the Phone", which was also her first attempt to play the role of a villain.
Gan Tingting has achieved great success with her excellent acting skills, and the image of the bad woman she played is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and then she has taken on many bad woman roles and has become a "bad woman professional actor".
She rose to fame with "Ye Huimei" and attracted the attention of the director of "New Water Margin", which means a lot to her.
Gan Tingting was attracted by the role of the peerless beauty "Master Li", and submitted her resume to the crew after hearing the casting news of "New Water Margin" in 2009.
The director became interested in Gan Tingting after browsing her information, and then checked her past roles, and unexpectedly found that she played the role of "Ye Huimei", so he thought that she was more suitable to play Pan Jinlian.
The director specially invited her to dinner, and asked at the dinner table if she would consider playing the role of Pan Jinlian. At that time, Gan Tingting was concentrating on enjoying the food, and before she could react, she subconsciously agreed.
Gan Tingting thus became the "most beautiful Pan Jinlian", and shined with this role, and was named one of the top ten most beautiful actresses of the year, becoming a rising star in the entertainment industry. That's it.
Just when Gan Tingting thought that her career had reached its peak, a scandal suddenly broke out: a netizen who claimed to be her ex-boyfriend ** her private ** on the Internet, and her attitude changed from praise to accusation.
The reason why Gan Tingting can interpret "Pan Jinlian" excellently is that everyone generally believes that this must be inseparable from her personal charm. Because in life, she is a person like "Pan Jinlian".
Although she later came forward to clarify that ** was a tidbit filmed during the filming of the crew, the stereotype has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, causing everyone to be reluctant to listen to the statements of the parties.
Gan Tingting decided to change her image and no longer choose to play the role of a bad woman, but turned to the development of drama performance to get out of the current predicament.
In the following years, she failed to surpass "Pan Jinlian" in the role she played, and this role became an insurmountable obstacle on her acting path.
Gan Tingting won a high-profile big IP project in 2017 - "Lonely Fang Doesn't Appreciate Yourself", and the cast of the show is very strong.
She struggles to figure out the role every day, sees this drama as an opportunity for self-transformation, and plays the role of Princess Yaotian in the best condition.
Her luck seems to be a little unsatisfactory, "Lonely Fang Doesn't Appreciate Yourself" fell sharply due to the impact of the heroine's "cutout" incident, and finally became one of the bad movies, which disappointed Gan Tingting's wishes.
Over the next few years, she struggled to find opportunities for change, but the response to her work was lackluster and failed to make much of a splash.
In 2020, she became a hot search topic for her role as "Chen Yuanyuan" in "The Legend of Deer and Ding", and was criticized by netizens that her appearance was no longer good, and she was also branded as "Fafu version of Chen Yuanyuan".
She played the role of "Ye Dalian" in "Love Fights to Win" again this year, although she performed this role to the fullest, but still did not impress the audience.
Gan Tingting is 36 years old, her career has been seriously affected by the "Pan Jinlian" incident, and there has been no progress in her love life, and she is still single.
Gan Tingting's acting career can be seen as a successful journey, she was widely praised for her role in "Pan Jinlian", but at the same time, her role was limited.
If she had realized that playing "Pan Jinlian" would have such a significant impact on her career, would she still choose to take on this role?