She is the highest-grossing female director in the history of Chinese cinema, and her work has set staggering box office records. However, after attending the award ceremony of the 34th Golden Rooster Awards, she was like ** and did not appear in the public eye again. Jia Ling, who has not appeared for more than a year, finally announced her new movie on January 11 - a movie "Hot and Hot" directed and starred by her herself, which is scheduled to meet the audience on the first day of the Spring Festival. This is a movie about how kind people get out of trouble, regain self-confidence, and learn to love themselves, not a movie that simply talks about boxing or ** themes. In order to create this role, Jia Ling made great efforts, successfully lost 100 pounds of weight, and also learned various boxing skills. Jia Ling's weight change is amazing and curious, in fact, as long as Jia Ling appears in public, it can play a good role in publicity, but she has never appeared in public, nor has she taken the initiative to reveal any details about herself in the movie, nor has she responded to any suspicions from the outside world. I think she just wanted to keep this mystery, for fear of disturbing the surprise that the movie brought to the audience. For this movie, the pain that Jia Ling, who is 100 pounds, is probably unimaginable to ordinary people.
She once announced that she wanted to lose 100 pounds. At that time, everyone who heard the news was dismissive, thinking that she was joking. However, she ignored their ridicule and proved her determination and perseverance with her actual actions. This reminds people of her three years ago, when she broke into the extremely competitive Spring Festival stalls with a "Hello, Li Huanying". At that time, no one was optimistic about her, thinking that she was just a comedy actress and it was impossible to make any good movies. However, it turns out that her films not only touched the hearts of countless audiences, but also created amazing box office. Until 2024, the film will still be firmly in the top 10 of the total box office list in Chinese film history. "She is not burdened by the world, she is not burdened by suffering, she is not attached to happiness. "That's her attitude to life. Therefore, after she became famous overnight, she did not indulge in fame and fortune, but took the initiative to withdraw from the public eye in order to shoot new works, and she went for a year. If "Hello, Li Huanying" is her rummaging through her memories just to pursue her mother's shadow, then "Hot and Hot" is her journey to find her true self and start again. She once said that she had never really felt happy since her mother left her. It has been 23 years since she lost her mother, and her journey to find herself has lasted 23 years. Will she be able to find her own answer this time?
In the spring of 2003, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the China Quyi Artists Association and Beijing TV jointly created a "Beijing Cross Talk Sketch Invitational Competition", which attracted the active participation of countless quyi lovers. Participating in the competition are rookies in the cross talk industry Guo Degang, Yu Qian, Jia Ling, Li Weijian, etc., and the guests are Jiang Kun, Pan Changjiang, Fu Biao, Feng Gong, etc. At that time, China's quyi cross talk industry was experiencing a cold winter, and it urgently needed a fire to rekindle people's hearts. This invitational tournament lasted for ten whole days, with wonderful performances and fierce competition every day. The organizers of the sketch invitational competition receive letters from audiences from all over the world every day, praising them, criticizing, suggesting, and looking forward to ......"Cross talk", an art form that was once infinitely beautiful, has returned to people's vision and topics. In the final finals, Jia Ling and Wang Tong jointly performed the cross talk "What's Wrong" won the championship, and Guo Degang and Yu Qian's cross talk "Learning Lei Feng" won the third place. Guo Degang praised the little girl who won the championship very much: "Really beautiful, tall figure, wearing high heels on her feet, wearing a small skirt on her body, long hair on her head, and a 'answer to answer' in the aisle." "He's talking about Jia Ling. At that time, she was still calling Jia Yuling, full of longing and hope for her future. When Feng Gong scored Jia Ling's performance, he said a classic sentence: "No matter whether it is a black cat or a white cat, the one that can amuse the audience is a good cat." This sentence undoubtedly gave Jia Ling great encouragement and confidence.
Jia Ling's life is full of hardships. Not only does she have to withstand the blows of reality, but she also has to face the challenge ...... comedyHer acting career was tortuous and difficult, and she encountered countless difficulties in the process of pursuing her comedy dream, but she never gave up. The reality made Jia Ling breathless. She thought that she could show her strength in the field of cross talk, but the attitude of the cross talk industry towards women has always been unfriendly. When performing with a male partner on stage, the laugh is always on the male. In a sense, female comedian is just a supporting role, and no one cares. In her early years, she lived in a dark and damp basement in Beijing's East 40 Tiao, where the room was so small that she could only put a bed and did not even have a place to go to the toilet. The winter in Beijing is bitterly cold, and she has to shrink into a ball every day when she wakes up, braving the cold wind to go out to pour urinals. She comforted herself and said, "It's okay, didn't Faye Wong also pour the urinal?" Jia Ling can endure these hardships. But that loss made Jia Ling suffer a lifetime of pain.
In the autumn of 2001, Jia Ling had just become a freshman at the ** Drama Academy, and she was full of longing and expectation for the future. One day, she was listening intently, and suddenly someone looked for her and asked her to hurry up to pick up **, and picked up ** is her brother-in-law's voice: "You hurry back to see your mother for the last time, and your mother ...... her."Let's go. Jia Ling was stunned for a while, not knowing what he was talking about, what was called leaving, and what was the last face. She subconsciously packed her schoolbag, ran to the train station, bought the earliest ticket to her hometown in Hubei, and was still looking forward to seeing her mother's warm smile, she couldn't believe that her mother had really left her. At that time, Jia Ling didn't have her own mobile phone, she could only kneel down to every strange passenger on the train, begging them to lend her mobile phone, she wanted to know about her mother's situation: "Please, borrow me a mobile phone, my mother is dying, I want to talk to my family." However, no matter who she called, the answer she got was the same, Jia Ling's mother, Li Huanying, had passed away. The train finally arrived in Yicheng, Hubei, Jia Ling rushed to the funeral home, she looked at her mother's last photo, tears rained down, and the whole person fell to the ground softly. That year, Jia Ling was just 19 years old, and she lost her mother, who loved her the most. The biggest regret in her heart is that her mother has always wanted a green fur coat. Before, Jia Ling bought a green leather coat for her mother, but unfortunately the size was too small, and she planned to change it to a suitable one after returning to Beijing, but she didn't expect that there would be no more such opportunity.
After Jia Ling's mother left, Jia Ling's heart was filled with endless sadness. She once said in frustration: "My mother is gone, and I will never be happy in my life." Nothing really makes me happy. In fact, it was her mother, Li Huanying, who inadvertently guided Jia Ling's fate to a different path. In 2000, Jia Ling, with the dream of becoming an actor, applied for the performance department of ** Drama Academy, but unfortunately failed. In the second year, she was unwilling to fail, and applied for the two majors of drama and cross talk at the ** Drama Academy at the same time, but she didn't expect to be admitted both. Just when she was about to make a choice, the ** from the admissions office called home, and it was her mother Li Huanying who picked up **, she couldn't hear the other party's words clearly, so she casually said a "comedy", and as a result, Jia Ling was sent to the cross talk class. When Jia Ling learned the news, she jumped to her feet in anger, crying and making trouble, saying that how could she learn those funny things by being beautiful and smooth, or cross talk, ......When Jia Ling was young, she was handsome, and she had two cute dimples when she smiled, which made people feel soothing. At that time, Jia Ling's dream was to become an orthodox actress, and the actress she admired the most was Zhang Ziyi.
Jia Ling's heart was full of unwillingness, she pulled her sister Jia Dan to run to the Chinese opera, and begged the teacher bitterly, hoping to change her major, but unfortunately the teacher was unmoved. Mother Li Huanying gently stroked her daughter's hair and said, you loved to watch "Quyuan Miscellaneous" when you were a child, imitated various performances in it, and also liked to make jokes to make everyone laugh, you are a natural comedy talent. In this way, Jia Ling embarked on the road of comedy because of this accident. At that time, Chinese opera had just opened a cross talk class, and there were 40 students in the first class, of which only 7 were girls, and Jia Ling was one of them, and their teacher was cross talk master Feng Gong. A few days later, her sister Jia Dan also received an admission letter from the Communication University of China, but the Jia family's financial situation was so poor that they could not afford the cost of their two daughters studying art in Beijing. My sister saw the difficulties of her parents and resolutely decided to stay in her hometown in Hubei: "Beijing is too dangerous, we both went, who will take care of the family?" Soon after, her mother died suddenly, which was a heavy blow to Jia Ling, who felt that her heart had been pierced by a sharp thorn. She regretted it very much, she was finally admitted to the ** Drama Academy, and she was about to become a star, and her mother was about to live a good life, but fate cruelly threw Li Huanying off the haystack of life, and she was only 48 years old.
The death of Jia Ling's mother made her heart like a knife, and when she returned to her home in Beijing, she cried every day, her life lost its color, and she even had the idea of wanting to go with her mother. While Jia Ling was wandering in the dark, her sister Jia Dan had no time to take care of her grief. The mother's departure made the father turn white overnight, and his body became weaker and weaker. Jia Dan took on the burden of the family, dropped out of school to work, did all kinds of hard chores, and could only earn 1,000 yuan a month, and had to take out half of it for Jia Ling's tuition and living expenses. Jia Ling saw her sister's sacrifice for her, her heart was full of gratitude and guilt, and she decided not to be decadent, to study hard, and repay her sister's kindness. After Jia Ling graduated from Chinese opera, her boyfriend invited her to return to his hometown together, but she politely declined, and the two broke up and each embarked on a different path.
Subsequently, Jia Ling resolutely walked into the palace of cross talk. However, her path was not smooth. In this male-dominated industry, it is difficult for her to get respect and opportunities as a woman, she often can't find opportunities and stages to appear in cross talk, and even if she is lucky enough to be on stage, she can only play some roles of wives with unhappy marriages. She also found that many performance venues did not have dressing rooms for women at all, so she had to run to the toilet to change her clothes, which was very embarrassing, like going to the wrong bathhouse. When there are no performances, Jia Ling can only do odd jobs everywhere, working as temporary assistants for some artists, and as a gas bag. The money is getting less and less, so she has to sell all her valuable things, at that time, a dilapidated *** can be sold for 20 yuan, and she lives on pickles and steamed buns, which can barely make her survive for a week. Her sister Jia Dan couldn't stand it anymore, she often sent money to her sister to help her tide over the difficulties, and persuaded her to give up her dream of Beijing and return to her hometown: "You better come back, Beijing is not for you, I have already found you a good job." That job was at a toll booth on the highway, and he could earn 3,000 yuan a month, but Jia Ling sternly refused.
Back then, Jia Ling worshipped Feng Gong as a teacher and learned the skills of cross talk, Feng Gong heard that her family had suffered an accident, and he immediately called Jia Ling's sister Jia Dan: If there is no place to live, I still have an empty room here, you let her come directly. If I don't have money to eat, I won't let her go hungry, I'm Jia Ling's **, I have to take care of her! Feng Gong's words moved Jia Dan very much, and she couldn't refuse. Since then, Feng Gong has taken Jia Ling around to participate in various performances, Jia Ling's salary has slowly risen, she has hidden all the money she earns in the innermost part of the wardrobe, one day, she opened the wardrobe and was surprised to find that she had saved more than 10,000 yuan, Jia Ling's life finally has a little hope. In 2008, she created a novel cross talk "Big Talk", which was performed more than 80 times in a small theater in Beijing with Bai Kainan, which aroused enthusiastic responses from the audience.
Once, as soon as they walked off the stage, they ran into Jiang Kun, who walked up to them and said, "Your show is very good, I want to recommend it to the Spring Festival Gala." Jia Ling couldn't believe her ears, although she already had a certain popularity in the cross talk circle, she never thought that she would be able to appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala one day. Two years later, 29-year-old Jia Ling and Bai Kainan stood on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala together and performed the cross talk "Big Talk", becoming the first mixed and matched cross talk combination in the history of the Spring Festival Gala, and also won the third prize of "My Favorite Spring Festival Gala Program". She tied her hair into a neat ponytail, wore a plain white shirt with a red vest on the outside, and said humorous cross talk jokes in her mouth, this strange girl won warm applause from the audience. There was not much joy in her heart, because she knew how difficult it was to go on stage this time, and experienced countless setbacks and changes, until the last moment, she was not sure that she could perform on stage, she quickly took out her mobile phone and sent a text message to her father who was far away in Hubei: "Lao Jia, hurry up and turn on the TV, your daughter is performing at the Spring Festival Gala." After the Spring Festival Gala, Jia Ling's fame soared, and she became a cross talk actor familiar to people all over the country, and she was indispensable in the Spring Festival Gala every year. She didn't stop there, she began to venture into new areas, using her talent and hard work to create her own kingdom of sketches.
At the Spring Festival Gala in 2015, 33-year-old comedian Jia Ling partnered with the good-looking Qu Ying to perform a sketch called "Joy Street". This sketch takes the "older leftover girl" played by Jia Ling as the protagonist, telling how she cheers each other up with her friends and finds the joy of life when she has no money and no boyfriend. Jia Ling's image of a female man forms a strong contrast with Qu Ying's goddess temperament, which was originally intended to bring laughter to the audience. However, what I didn't expect was that as soon as this sketch was broadcast, it caused a huge controversy on the Internet, and many people accused this sketch of discriminating and ridiculing women's body and marital status. In this way, Jia Ling, who was originally loved by the public, became the target of public criticism overnight. In the face of such accusations, Jia Ling explained that she did not discriminate against women, and that she played the role of a cheerful and lovely girl who had a cheerful and lovely personality despite having no boyfriend or job, but had a group of happy friends, rather than a simple leftover girl. She felt aggrieved:"When I was thin, the audience said I wasn't funny. After I gained weight, the audience said that I was funny, but you blackened yourself, you insulted women and damaged the image of women. "Jia Ling was in a dilemma, she didn't know what to do. What saddened her even more was that she was getting heavier and heavier.
She experienced countless sleepless nights during the recording of "Variety Show", paid countless sweat and tears, and stayed up until the early hours of the morning every time she recorded, Jia Ling could only find a little solace in the street stalls, she loved those shiny, spicy and exciting food. In two years, her weight has skyrocketed by 30 pounds, and she has more expectations and pressure on her shoulders. The creation of comedy is a mind-consuming thing, and Jia Ling always uses food to relieve her emotions when she encounters difficulties and setbacks. In the show, Sha Yi often said to her: "Sister, why have you gained weight again?" Ironically, however, her body is getting more and more rounded, and her fans are growing. In "Variety Show", Jia Ling doesn't care about her image, challenges her limits, and imitates all kinds of stars, such as Tengger, Liu Huan, Huofeng ......"What girl doesn't want to show off her beauty and charm on stage, but when I see all the audience laughing because of me, I think it's worth sacrificing a little bit of beauty," she said. ”
On the stage of "Comedy, Comedy", Jia Ling told her love story in a humorous way. It was many years ago, in order to pursue her dream of cross talk, despite her boyfriend's opposition, she resolutely chose to break up. In order to increase the effect of the show, she disregarded her own health, ate two spicy red peppers in a row, followed by another bottle of foaming beer, and before she could catch her breath, she grabbed another piece of watermelon and gnawed it in a big gulp, the juice of the watermelon ran down her lips and dripped down her chin. Ma Li sat backstage, looking at her friend, unable to bear it, and persuaded her over and over again: "Enough, enough, don't eat anymore." "Everyone else is worried about her, worried that she will eat a bad stomach, worried that she will not be able to stand it. However, Jia Ling showed a bright smile in front of the camera. Behind that smile, in order to hide the tears that he was about to fall and the hardships of life. Da Zhang Wei participated in this show with her, and even he sighed and said: "I have never seen a girl who can be as strong and brave as her." In those years, Jia Ling's laughter brought warmth and strength to countless people, and her jokes were polished after countless all-nighters. The core of comedy is tragedy, but the pain of comedians cannot be revealed. Because once seen through by the audience, the role of the comedian will fall apart. Jia Ling is always alone and very lonely. Her fame grew, but her mood was getting lower and lower. Jia Ling felt that the more successful she was, the more empty she became, because her dearest mother had left this world and could not share her achievements with her mother and let her mother witness her glory.
In the Spring Festival file in 2021, Jia Ling used her personal experience and creative talent to create a movie "Hello, Li Huanying" that touched tens of millions of audiences. This film, written and directed by her, not only received an astonishing box office of more than 5.4 billion, but also created a miracle of being screened in theaters for three consecutive months, which shocked everyone, including herself. Since then, she has become the highest-grossing female director in China, and Zhang Xiaofei, who has always been unknown, has tasted the sweetness of fame. On the day the filming ended, Jia Ling did not have any ecstasy or sadness, but quietly posted a message on Weibo dedicated to her deceased mother, Li Huanying. "Mom, the movie "Hello, Li Huanying" is finished. Am I awesome? Jia Ling is 41 years old, and in the middle of her life, she has achieved the success that many people dream of, she is not only an excellent actor, but also an excellent director. She has always maintained her nostalgia for her mother and her attachment to her dreams, but she has also learned to face the hardships of life and the changes in the world with a more peaceful mind. Her fame and achievements are hard-won, and there are many unknown sacrifices and pains hidden behind it, I am afraid that only she knows it.
Eight years ago, in the sketch "Hello, Li Huanying", through the work, Jia Ling said what she had pressed in her heart for a long time and wanted to say to her mother: "I am a comedian now, and many people like me. "Everyone is looking forward to meeting a brand-new Jia Ling. Those dark years have been gone for a long, long time, and the hardships Jia Ling has endured, the tears she has shed, and her fat and thin figure have all dissipated in the wind.
There are some regrets that may never be remedied. That hot life, Jia Ling is slowly walking through, she has walked so far strongly, there is no trace of sadness on her face, only a sweet smile, she has never bowed her head to fate. In the final analysis, life is a journey to the other side, whether it is the sea of stars or the prosperity of three thousand, in the end, only you are your own ferryman.