In this Spring Festival file, in addition to the topic queen Jia Ling, Lei Jiayin's presence is also very strong. "Article 20" and "Hot and Hot", he is the leading actor, the former is the core character in the group drama, and the latter is the big green leaf that sets off Jia Ling, and the box office of the two dramas has exceeded 5 billion. Looking at his continuous works and discussions in the past two years, as well as a long stack of heavyweight works to be broadcast, it can be said that Lei Jiayin has really become a domestic first-line actor. 
Article 20" stills However, in front of such an excellent and dazzling report card, the audience's judgment of him is——"Riding in the dust on the track of playing the waste of the nest", "The waste of the nest is really the ruling area of Lei Jiayin", "Lei Jiayin was the god in charge of the waste of the nest in ancient Greece in his last life". is also a waste track, Guo Jingfei may collapse and go crazy at any time, what about white customers, there is a feeling that although I can't do it, I have to work hard, only Lei Jiayin, my body is full of pure nests. 
I am Yu Huanshui" and "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop" stills.
Looking at this meaning, could it be that Lei Jiayin was promoted to the first line by virtue of his image of a wreck? When did the wreckage start to become so popular with the audience? That's what I'm going to talk about. Lei Jiayin's sense of nest first comes from his appearance: eyebrows and eyes, the corners of his eyes and mouth are drooping, plus a round face, a soft figure, and a rather abusive head and body, even if he is actually 1.84 meters, he looks cute, non-aggressive, very much like some kind of large pet, innocent, harmless to humans and animals. With such a man, you can't expect him to do anything earth-shatteringAs long as he doesn't hold everyone back, even if he does something unreliable, he can be forgiven by everyone in the end. 
Stills from "The World" But please note that this is just a shallow intuitive impression of the appearance, and it does not mean that Lei Jiayin is such a person, nor does it mean that he plays all such roles. The first time I watched Lei Jiayin's play was "The Great Robbery" directed by Ning Hao in 2012, which was also Lei Jiayin's first movie actor. At that time, his role in the play was called "Little Northeast", and he was a typical "street (gai) slipper", that is, a little ruffian, a little gangster, flamboyant, heartless, with a bad stomach, living in troubled times, and everything can be cheated and cheated, which has nothing to do with waste. 
* The Great Robbery" stills Although it is a bit hindsight to say this now, I did have a hunch at the time that I felt that Lei Jiayin was going to be popular. Because he naturally has a sense of joy in his image, he will not lack audience popularity, and the performance rhythm and lines at that time were very good, plus he is a newcomer who is highly praised by the great director Ning Hao, there is no reason not to be popular. But my hunch was only half right. "* The Great Robbery" has an average reputation at the box office, and "Street Slicker" is not the most popular type of character, he did not become popular immediately, but delayed for five years, until the 2017 TV series "The First Half of My Life", the role of his former husband Chen Junsheng was not known to the public, which can be described as a late bloomer. 
Stills from "The First Half of My Life".
In the five years between 2012 and 2017, he was not idle, "* The Great Robbery" at least made him familiar in the industry, and he was also well-known in the drama circle before, and he has always been short of acting. And the role he plays at this stage is mainly the kind of waste type in the standard senseThat is, the little man in the urban marriage and family drama, who has no ambitions, is timid and cowardly, lazy and loves his family, and respects his wife. In those years, there was a special term to describe this type of man: "affordable man". From the names of several dramas he starred in, we can get a general glimpse of his drama at that time - "The Mother-in-law is Coming", "Weaning", "My Daughter-in-law is the Queen", "I Love Male Nanny". Among these dramas, except for "I Love Male Nanny", the audience response was slightly better, and the others basically did not make any splashes. Another important background knowledge point here is that in the field of marriage and family dramas in those years, there were two most successful actors, one was an article and the other was Huang Haibo. And these two, almost at the same time (both in 2014), were caught in negative news around their feet, and their acting careers were suspended. There was a huge vacancy in the field of "affordable men", which was a good opportunity to fill for Lei Jiayin, who collided with them. However, perhaps because of the quality of the work, or maybe because of a little bit of bad luck, he still failed to fill the position. 
I Love Male Nanny" stills As for Chen Junsheng in "The First Half of My Life", some people say that he performed a sense of whims, but this is a cheating man after all, and he is by no means a wretched and affordable man in the typical sense. Later, Lei Jiayin's more successful roles, the business elite in "Living Together in Time and Space", the heroes and righteous men in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", the positive energy model in "The World", and the sick traitor in "Man Jianghong", of course, are even farther away from the nest. 
Stills from "Man Jianghong" to the two movies in this Spring Festival. "Article 20" he plays the people's prosecutor Han Ming, although he is an angry image in front of his daughter-in-law and children when dealing with family issues, but at the critical moment when his career involves the fate of others, he does not forget his original intention, and finally gushed a lot of speeches about fairness and justice, deafening and turning the tide, how can such a role be a wreck? 
Article 20" stills from "Hot and Hot" fitness coach Hao Kun is a more controversial character. Many viewers questioned that he didn't look strong enough, not like a coach, and some people didn't understand why Jia Ling didn't find a handsome guy like Yan Chengxu to play this role. But I think Jia Ling must have done it on purpose, what she wants is a man who looks ordinary, strong and capable, so as to make the heroine's situation and changes before and after more realistic, from inferiority and self-pity, to finally starting to love herself and taking the initiative to give up unworthy men. The role of Haokun can finally be summed up as a wreck, but it is more of a decadence, rather than the cowardly and cute little man image that everyone wants to see from Lei Jiayin. 
The stills from "Hot and Hot" can now be summarized. Lei Jiayin has indeed played some typical wretched roles in the past, but they have not been too successful. And his more successful roles are not wretched in the typical sense. We can only say that these successful characters will have some sense of guilt to varying degrees, but they are not so simple, each role is different and has various levels. Lei Jiayin is an aspiring actor, and he certainly doesn't want to limit himself to the same type of role. Although an actor has to perform on the basis of his own body after all, he looks like a certain person, which is naturally suitable for a certain type of role, but if he just paints a scoop according to the gourd, how can he reflect the creativity of an actor? In that way, it is easy to kill one's own path and lose self-motivation, and the audience is also prone to aesthetic fatigue, and the position on the front line is unstable. Therefore, Lei Jiayin's choice is to accept the sense of pouch on his body, let this sense of pouch establish a connection with the audience, and form his own recognition, but only use it as a color in the palette. There are many other colors, from his thinking, from his experience, from his creation. In the end, he had to reconcile the colors and present a rich variety of colors. 
Article 20" stills In fact, Lei Jiayin already knows the outside world's evaluation of his "God of Waste", and some time ago he responded in front of **, saying that he didn't want to play only this type, but he expressed himself more modestly: "I also want to seek change, sometimes my ability is not good, I can't change, sometimes the subject matter may be limited, and you can't change." In fact, I also try to find this sense of difference between the characters, and the characters I hand over next will definitely have a big contrast. ”Appearances can really cloud our judgment of a person. After I learned more about Lei Jiayin, I found that he was not the kind of lazy person we imagined at all. In other words, he just doesn't like to move on the surface, always eating, drinking, talking and laughing like a mascot, but in fact he is nervous in his head, and he will do a lot of preparation before every acting. For example, Qin Hui in "Man Jianghong", he pondered early in the morning, and planned to perform the pathology of this traitor, from the pathology of the body to the pathology of the spirit. Another example is the large paragraph of lines at the end of "Article 20", which is as much as six pages written on paper, but he was stunned to memorize them all, and when he arrived on the set, he could do it in one go without stumbling, which shocked Zhang Yimou. After the performance, he also likes to review his performance, always reflecting there, pondering, and summarizing experience
Article 20" stills Lei Jiayin described himself in Lu Yu's program, he said that he was like a cat at home and a dog outside, but he was actually a sloth. But I don't think he's right to describe it, he's obviously more like a duck, and the part that floats on the surface of the water is leisurely, but the duck's paws under the water are fluttering all the time. Such an image would certainly be pleasing. The hard work is put behind the back, and it is always a relaxed appearance in front of people, not sabre-rattling, not creating pressure on people, only relieving people. I always see some people on the Internet who don't understand Lei Jiayin's popularity, thinking that he is not handsome, and his image does not have any distinctive characteristics, why is he so popular? But I can totally understand that I had foreseen him 12 years ago. Although audience popularity is a metaphysics, let's just take a look at what the top actors who have been most popular with the Chinese people in the past few decades are like: Ge You, Li Xuejian, Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng, Zhang Yi, ......Which of them is handsome again? Compared with them, is Lei Jiayin quite good-eyed?
Xu Zheng, Shen Teng, Lei Jiayin (picture Weibo @雷佳音).If you want to sum up a rule, that is, to become a national-level actor, you can't be too handsome, not too delicate, not too sexually tense, and the male hormones can't be too heavy, can't be too daddy, and can't be too tough. Of course, there are exceptions, we also have Jiang Wen and Wu Jing, but they are more actors for the sake of supply, and they will not go into thousands of households to become everyone's brothers, uncles, brothers-in-law, and second uncles, and they will not have such a sense of intimacy. Those top actors who can enter thousands of households are actually more or less a little guilty. Or let's change the word, not "nest", but "weak", willing to show weakness; It is "empty", and the heart is often empty. The roles they play are not so determined, they don't have such a strong desire to control, they are not too ambitious, and they don't need to make too much money, and their gentle personalities and humorous speech are enough to make up for it. The shortcomings that we traditionally think should not appear in a man, "face", "cowardice", and "soft egg", can be transformed into advantages in film and television dramas. In my impression, several national-level real-life dramas, the male protagonists can confirm my statement. In "I Love My Family", Jia Zhiguo and Jia Zhixin, the two brothers, have distinct personalities, but they are both quite nesty, the elder brother is a traditional literati who is talented and does not encounter pedantic and high-level nests, and the younger brother is a unemployed vagrant who does not learn and has no skills to lie flat and ridicule, but these brothers are not short of women's love, Jia Zhiguo has a wife and loves him peacefully, Jia Zhixin has various other young women in society who love him, and the audience also thinks they are very cute.
I Love My Family" stills "The Happy Life of the Poor Zhang Damin" Zhang Damin played by Liang Guanhua has no other skills, only a stinky and poor mouth, Ah Q's spiritual victory is a thief, and he is good at making fun in suffering. The big beauty Yun Fang also followed him with all her heart, even if the house was so narrow that she couldn't turn around, and a tree had to be inserted, her life would be as happy as she could.
The Happy Life of Poor Zhang Damin" stills "Golden Wedding" in "Golden Wedding" Tong Zhi, played by Zhang Guoli, has been unsuccessful in his career for a long time, in order to be promoted, he wants to be transferred to a distant third-tier factory, so he has to separate from Wen Li and his wife, but Wen Li's attitude is opposed, she repeatedly ridiculed Tong Zhi as an "official fan", saying that she doesn't expect her husband to be an official at all, just be poor, as long as the two can accompany each other together, they are very satisfied.
Golden Wedding" stills These are the most popular dramas reflecting married life in different periods, but the image temperament and relationship mode of the male and female protagonists are highly unified, the husband has no ability, and the wife does not ask her husband to have any ability, all she wants is to be good to herself, An Ansheng has a simple life. Waste men can be said to have a long history in our film and television dramas. It's just that these are all life dramas with realistic themes, and the audience has a certain amount of life experience. is not like those young audiences who watch idol dramas, they all fantasize about elite bosses. When a woman is mature and sober enough, she will lower her requirements for men, and no longer expect men to bring her any practical benefits in material life, so it is better to fight for her own career. Then their expectations of a man become, as long as he doesn't mess with himself, doesn't drag himself down, doesn't consume himself, and preferably provides as much emotional value as possible, it's enough. This should be the ultimate reason why wretched men have always been so popular.