Nowadays, no matter what age an actor is, as long as he hands in a good work, he has the possibility of becoming popular. Yu Hewei was directly promoted to the top of the uncle circle with "The Awakening Age", and then Zhang Yi and Zhang Songwen in "Hurricane", and they also ushered in the peak of their careers in middle age. 
Originally, middle-aged was a hurdle for actors, but with the gradual improvement of the audience's aesthetic power, the quality of the works is more demanding, and there is a growing need for high-quality works by good actors with mature acting skills. Including middle-aged Wang Xiao and Lei Jiayin, they have also made great progress all the way, even if it is the appearance of a tractor, they can also let everyone taste the temperament of Ferrari because of the reputation of the work and personal strength. 
But not all actors can reach a higher level when they reach middle age, and some people retreat if they don't advance. For example, Zhang Jiayi, who was once known as the "leader" of ratings, did not perform well in "Happy Parents Group". 
This time, Zhang Jiayi, who was full of blessings, showed his "middle-aged embarrassment" to the fullest01 First, the embarrassment of appearance, Zhang Jiayi, who has acted in so many family dramas, looks really a bit out of harmony in this drama. There is no other reason, Zhang Jiayi, whose face is full of wrinkles, really looks more and more like an old man. 
In the past, when he was in good shape, there was no obvious fat, and there were not so many wrinkles on his face, his walking posture was a bit domineering because of his uniqueness. Now the back is getting more and more rickety, and the same walking posture seems to be exhausted when he is old. Although this is the result of physical discomfort, it is still easy to portray a character. 
The front camera looks at Zhang Jiayi's forehead tattoos layer by layer, his face is swollen, and even his hair has turned a lot whiter. Under the side lens, when Zhang Jiayi turned around, the jawline of the neck was thick, and he couldn't see it, looking like a big head, and he looked like a guy. 
Although Zhang Jiayi has never relied on his appearance to eat, his partner in this drama is no longer Yan Ni, who is of the same age and in much different condition, but has always been well maintained, and at the age of 45, he looks like a heartthrob Chen Hao who is about the same as 35 years old. 
Chen Hao in this drama, even if he has an exaggerated expression, there are no wrinkles on his face, and his eyes are still very attractive, except for his mature dress, he does not have such a strong sense of age. Therefore, when Zhang Jiayi and Chen Hao play husband and wife together, they look more like two generations, Chen Hao is like Zhang Jiayi's eldest daughter, and there is no feeling of two people at all. 
On the contrary, Fang Qingzhuo, who plays Zhang Jiayi's mother in the play, looks more and more like an old couple when he is in the same frame as Zhang Jiayi, the two obviously have an age difference of 15 years, but they look like peers, which is enough to show how old Zhang Jiayi's visual age is. 
02 Second, the embarrassment of the role's appearance is only one aspect, the key is that this time Zhang Jiayi faced up to his age again and chose a role that was not close to his face. In "Youth Pi", Zhang Jiayi's state is not much different from today, but he portrays Zhao Jinmai's father, and Zhao Jinmai's character in the play is an adult who graduated from college and is looking for a job, aged in his 20s. 
Zhang Jiayi, who is over 50 years old, has a daughter in her 20s, which is still very reasonable, but in "Happy Parents Group", 53-year-old Zhang Jiayi plays the father of two young actors.
The two young actors in the play are both elementary school students, one is in the fifth grade, and the other is just in the first grade, both of them are post-05s, and Zhang Jiayi is more than 40 years old from them.
It is undeniable that there are also people who are old enough to have children in reality, and they only have their first child in their 40s, but this situation is rare after all, and most parents will not have such a big age difference with their children. Therefore, for Zhang Jiayi, it is not suitable to play their father, but from all aspects of age and image, it is not too much to play grandfather, which makes his adaptability to this role not high.
The parents of other children in the play are actors of 30+ age like Wang Xiaochen, among whom the actor who plays the mother of the first year of junior high school, and also played the role of Zhang Jiayi's daughter Diao Juhua in "Loading the Stage".
When the three of them went to a parent-teacher conference for their children together, Zhang Jiayi was like taking his two daughters to a parent-teacher conference for his grandson, which was really incompetent.
What's more, his youngest daughter in the play has just entered the first grade, but she is only seven years old, and according to Zhang Jiayi's actual age, she is almost 50 years old, so she is naturally more suitable to play a grandfather. Zhao Da, the only one who also plays the father of a second-child family, is also 43 years old, a full ten years old difference from Zhang Jiayi, and the two play good brothers of the same age, it can only be said that Zhang Jiayi is overconfident this time.
03 Third, the embarrassment of receiving the script Judging from the many works starring Zhang Jiayi, most of them are still family dramas, but in the past two years, he has also tried his best to break his own drama path and try more possibilities.
However, in "Dawn of the East", Zhang Jiayi played the ** general, neither the elegant temperament of the ** general, nor a little less domineering, just because the appearance is not like it, it caused the whole network to complain, and the shortcomings of his acting skills were completely exposed.
Zhang Jiayi's way of acting has always been natural, the state of the whole person is very casual, acting in a life drama looks like acting in his true colors, but acting in a drama like "Dawn of the East" seems to be flowing.
In addition, he also tried the suspense drama "Echo", but Zhang Jiayi only played a cameo role in the play, and even broke the atmosphere created by the whole drama when he appeared. Wanting to get close to the characters excessively leads to a look of tone and tone and does not surprise the audience.
In the costume drama "The Case of Tang Di Gong", Zhang Jiayi is also a supporting role, judging from the image and temperament in the trailer, except for the pot-bellied like a **, there is no mystery at all.
The script that can make Zhang Jiayi the starring role is still a family drama in the comfort zone, and he wants to break through, but he has a heel in "Dawn of the East", and he can only play some cameo supporting roles to find a different feeling, and he is in an embarrassing situation. Epilogue: Far from ushering in the second spring of his career, Zhang Jiayi, who is middle-aged, is more passive, which shows that he has the opportunity to wait for him when he is not at a certain age.
Maintain a perfect state, try to make yourself look young, avoid problems such as middle-aged fat, and constantly polish your acting skills, and you can't relax because you are already an old actor, so that you can have more possibilities.
Zhang Jiayi in "Happy Parents Group" can be regarded as a reminder to everyone, the comfort zone is not so easy to step out, but the comfort zone may not be able to lie flat for the elderly. Can such Zhang Jiayi still let you into the play?