Twenty years ago, Li Jiaming, a teenager with a dream, arrived in Beijing, and he looked forward to honing himself in this world and chasing his dream of being an actor.
Born in a small remote village in Shanxi, he was full of yearning for actors in TV dramas as a child, and he often fantasized that he could become a hero on the screen in the future.
Li Jiaming's family is poor, his parents are ordinary farmers, and he has lived in poverty since he was a child. However, Li Jiaming was gifted and excelled in his studies, and he had a keen interest in classical poetry and literature in his Chinese classes.
Li Jiaming was educated in his hometown of a remote village in Shanxi, but after graduating from high school, he entered the Shanxi Art Institute to study acting with his bright and studious talents, which was an unimaginable opportunity. Li Jiaming has developed a strong interest in the performing arts since he was a child, and has always cherished the dream of becoming a good actor.
In the four years of college, Li Jiaming has been focusing on the study and practice of acting, reciting a large number of lines and jokes every week. He also joined the drama performance club, constantly challenging and experimenting with various role types on stage.
These exercises honed his acting talent and made him more determined about his dreams.
After graduating from university in 2001, Li Jiaming quickly came to Beijing and dreamed of breaking through in the film and television industry. He rented a modest room in Beijing and began his arduous journey to find a job.
Li Jia will participate in various casting non-stop tomorrow, and at night he will work hard to practice basic acting skills. His life is so simple that three meals can only meet the most basic survival needs, in order to save money. However, all these hardships did not stop him from pursuing his dream. He firmly believes that as long as he works hard, he will be able to become an excellent actor.
In Beijing, Li Jiaming participated in the casting of many film and television works, and finally got the first opportunity to perform in his life - a family ethics drama needs a young actor.
The director took a fancy to Li Jiaming's immature appearance and simple performance, so he gave him this opportunity.
Li Jiaming was extremely excited at that moment, and he immediately accepted the role and began to prepare overnight. It was the first performance in his career as an actor, which he had always dreamed of, and it was extremely meaningful.
In order to be fully prepared, he tirelessly studied his lines and practiced his expressions and movements in front of a mirror.
After the official start of filming, Li Jiaming devoted himself to his work. Despite his smaller roles, he sees every scene as a valuable opportunity to act. Under the guidance of the director, Li Jiaming constantly improved the details of his performances and had the courage to try innovative expressions.
After two months of intense filming, this family ethics drama was finally successfully completed, and it was broadcast on various David TVs, and the ratings were quite good. Although Li Jiaming in the play is only a small supporting role, his steady and restrained acting skills left a deep impression on the audience.
Especially a rivalry between him and the old artist, they interacted tacitly in front of the camera and showed extraordinary acting skills.
This successful performance experience made Li Jiaming more confident to show his acting skills. At the same time, in the learning process of the crew, he has a deeper understanding of film and television shooting.
These valuable first-hand experiences will propel Li Jiaming to a higher level on the road of being an actor. He is full of confidence and determination to keep working hard and become a great professional actor.
The success of Li Jiaming's first work gave him a lot of encouragement, and he decided to continue to travel in Beijing, participate in a large number of castings, and through his own strength and efforts, he walked out of his own path in the film and television industry step by step.
The success of Li Jiaming's debut work gave him great encouragement. After that, he traveled around Beijing and participated in a lot of castings. Due to the lack of sufficient network resources, he can only get some small roles or tricks most of the time.
For example, in a red-themed film and television drama depicting the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Li Jiaming only played an ordinary Red Army soldier in the play, just walking by in front of the camera, and even had no lines.
But he remained enthusiastic, and in order to portray this small role, he read a lot of books on the history of the Red Army in advance, and gained an in-depth understanding of the difficult life and revolutionary spirit of the Red Army soldiers.
During the filming of the crew, he listened carefully to the director's instructions and maintained the serious image of the character. Even if it is just a trick, Li Jiaming does not slack off and always maintains a highly professional work attitude.
In a TV series on the theme of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Jiaming played an ordinary person who fled. Although he only appeared in a few mass scenes in the flames of war, he succeeded in showing the pain and helplessness of the victims through thick "blood and ash" makeup and vivid body language.
This immersive acting not only impressed the director, but also allowed the audience to see the cruelty of war.
Although Li Jiaming is only an extra, he puts his heart and soul into every performance, and does not miss any opportunity to improve his acting skills.
By starring in these plays, Li Jiaming's life experience was enriched and he had the opportunity to see the bigger world. Each drama is a new world, which requires him to change his thinking and emotions, and try to empathize.
Li Jiaming played different roles in these drills, and his emotional capacity allowed him to accumulate a wealth of acting experience.
In the crew, he always remained humble and low-key, and got along with all the staff. Even as an extra, Li Jiaming has never slackened off and has always maintained a high degree of professionalism.
He wants to wait for a breakthrough performance, so he has been actively preparing himself.
Li Jiaming knows that this requires a process, and his acting skills are gradually improving. As long as you stick to it, you will be able to break out of your own new world one day. He must accumulate acting experience bit by bit in order to gain a firm foothold in the film and television industry.
After accumulating some experience on the road of acting, Li Jiaming gradually got more opportunities to audition. One day, a director discovered his potential and decided to give him a more important supporting role - a character with a lot of scenes and an interesting role.
This character is a quirky and difficult middle-aged man with a somewhat eccentric personality, but a lot of scenes. Li Jiaming immediately began to prepare, he repeatedly scrutinized the personality characteristics of this character, and wrote down the other party's various small actions and language habits in the notebook.
Then he asked senior actors how to portray comedic characters, and **many references** to learn the performance techniques of similar characters.
At the time of filming, Li Jiaming was already very familiar with the character, and he used an exaggerated tone and large body movements to successfully create a hilarious comedic image.
Li Jiaming excelled in some one-man shows, depicting the character's inner complex personality through self-talk.
This training opportunity has further improved Li Jiaming's acting skills. Under the professional guidance of the director, he mastered the essence of comedy acting. And after repeated training, Li Jiaming learned how to express himself naturally in front of the camera without being too deliberate.
In the end, the response to this drama was very good, and Li Jiaming's excellent performance was also recognized and concerned by the audience. With his own efforts, he succeeded in defusing the original backlash of this difficult character, turning it into an interesting and vivid character image.
This successful attempt allowed Li Jiaming to gradually emerge in the film and television industry. After that, he began to take on some medium-sized supporting roles with high requirements for surgery, such as introverted intellectuals, old-fashioned elders and other roles.
These characters all have distinct personality traits, and the actor must have a higher level of acting skills in order to portray the characters vividly.
Li Jiaming has put a lot of effort into studying the psychological characteristics of each character, and strives to shape the character into a more three-dimensional one. He did a lot of preparatory work to unearth the character's deep world of thoughts and emotions.
In terms of learning acting skills, he began to strengthen his kung fu and break through himself, so that his emotions and body language were richer.
The accumulation of hard work at this stage has made Li Jiaming's acting skills increasingly exquisite, and it has also made him consolidate his position in the industry. He began to attract a loyal audience, and the number of film appointments grew.
Li Jiaming saw that he was getting closer and closer to his dream, and his heart was extremely relieved and excited.
Li Jiaming, whose career has improved, began to consider whether he could return to his hometown of Shanxi for development, and believed that it was his responsibility to return the experience he had gained to his hometown and contribute to Shanxi's cultural cause.
So, Li Jiaming chose a film that was being filmed in Shanxi, and auditioned for a core role - a people's teacher who was deeply loved by the villagers, and his story of stubbornly resisting the enemy and protecting students during the Anti-Japanese War.
For Li Jiaming, it is an honor for him to be able to film in his hometown. This return to his hometown for filming means a lot to him. In the familiar land of his hometown, breathing the air that he had not seen for a long time, Li Jiaming felt a wellspring of inspiration and devoted himself to the portrayal of the character.
He delved into the patriotic spirit of the people's teachers, and consulted with the older generation of artists to gain an in-depth understanding of how to represent those difficult years.
Li Jiaming wore a shabby old-fashioned tunic during the filming, and with his unpretentious performance, he successfully created a touching positive model. He also learned some Shanxi dialects to make the character image more three-dimensional and plump.
In the end, the film was a great success, and Li Jiaming's performance was praised by the audience like never before. The audience was moved and proud to see that familiar face on the screen.
For Li Jiaming, it is his honor to contribute to the film and television industry in his hometown, and it is also a new starting point for his acting career.
However, things don't always go so smoothly. After accumulating a certain amount of career, Li Jiaming encountered the first low point in his life. Due to various reasons, one of the films he participated in could not be shot as scheduled, and the time and energy invested were wasted.
What's worse is that in the next two movies that Li Jiaming starred in, the director has not paid him the salary he deserves. In one of the light comedy films, Li Jiaming played a character that made people laugh; The other is a revolutionary historical film, in which he plays an unpretentious peasant revolutionary.
The two films have been completed for more than a year, and the director has still not paid Li Jiaming 100,000 yuan. made a special trip to the set to ask for help, but his attitude was contemptuous and he couldn't do it.
This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to Li Jiaming, who has entered middle age. First of all, time and energy are wasted; More importantly, however, he desperately needed the money to support his family.
My father's health was no longer able to sustain him, and the money was originally intended for his father's treatment.
Thinking that the results of his performance that he had earned with his blood and sweat were plundered without paying for the ticket, Li Jiaming couldn't help but feel unprecedented despair and anger. He tried all kinds of methods to fight for it, but the other party stubbornly refused to give money.
Li Jiaming, a man who once had hope in human nature, tasted the sorrow of being deceived for the first time.
This encounter dealt a huge blow to Li Jiaming, made him doubt human nature, and even moved the idea of quitting the entertainment industry. After much deliberation, he finally adjusted his mindset and decided to continue chasing his dream of being an actor.
He no longer has any illusions about this circle.
Li Jiaming understands that although he is disappointed now, it is only temporary, and as long as he perseveres, he will definitely be able to get out of the trough, which will become an important lesson in his acting career.
The desperate Li Jiaming finally chose the live broadcast industry to make a living, for a senior veteran actor, this kind of down-and-out life is undoubtedly a big shame in life.
Although Li Jiaming was reluctant in his heart, in order to cure his father's illness, he still decided to embark on this path.
At first, Li Jiaming didn't know anything about live broadcasts, and he always felt embarrassed and couldn't find a topic during the live broadcast. But with the spinning skills and rich language organization skills accumulated over the years of acting, he quickly found the trick, and the live broadcast content became rich and interesting.
By combining his identity as an actor and sharing interesting stories in the filming process, he attracted a fixed audience.
With the passage of time, Li Jiaming's fame on the live broadcast platform has become more and more famous, and the income from live streaming has gradually increased. While this is a far cry from his long-standing dream of filmmaking, he can only accept this reality.
Fortunately, Li Jiaming raised enough medical expenses through the income from the live broadcast to help his father pay for the ** expenses.
However, at this time, Li Jiaming's father died of illness. On his deathbed, the father held his hand tightly and said, "Son, don't give up your dream ......."Li Jiaming was grief-stricken, and he did his best to save his father's illness, but in the end he could not save his father's life.
Li Jiaming's heart was full of incomparable self-blame and self-blame.
The death of his father brought a heavy blow to Li Jiaming. In the following days, Li Jiaming was depressed at home all day, lost confidence in acting, and no longer even wanted to broadcast live.
He began to re-examine his purpose in life and find the courage to regain his strength in the midst of confusion.
Two months later, Li Jiaming cheered up, he realized that he couldn't let his father down, he needed to continue chasing his dreams, he decided to go live again and slowly regain his passion for acting.
The live broadcast provided Li Jiaming with financial **, and also helped him rebuild his self-confidence.
Another year has passed, and Li Jiaming finally waited for the opportunity to return to the film and television industry. A director was full of praise for his acting skills after watching his live broadcast, so he invited him to be the lead role in the new drama. Li Jiaming is looking forward to this, and he believes that this will be the perfect opportunity for him to re-express himself and shine.
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