Zhu Yuanyuan
On the day of "Xiaoman", news came out that actress Zhu Yuanyuan passed away due to cancer, shocking and saddening many people.
As a "TV child" born in the 1990s, Zhu Yuanyuan left a deep impression on me - in the TV dramas in the early 2000s, she always had a smiling face with two small canine teeth showing when she laughed. She was a particularly kind "auntie" on the screen, and always reminded me of my mother's colleagues, neighbor sisters, aunts and many other people I knew.
When I saw the news of her passing, I was surprised to find out that this warm and simple "aunt" was only 23 years old when she played the role of the sister-in-law who managed a whole family in "The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin". She had not even gotten married yet, but she became the "national daughter-in-law".
Where does this talent and skill of a good actor come from? One netizen commented, "Because she is a messenger of life, she loves life."
In many classic dramas such as "Romantic Things" and "Nine Phoenixes in the Family", the characters portrayed by Zhu Yuanyuan are all ordinary people in the market, always busy with the daily necessities at home and outside, with the texture and warmth of life. Ni Ping, who worked with Zhu Yuanyuan in "Romantic Things", talked about the interesting things in between filming when she posted a message of mourning: "She is so vivid that you feel that she is not acting, she is just living!" For example, in "My Sister", Zhu Yuanyuan cut a small piece at the end when cutting watermelon, which was praised by many viewers. Use it to wipe off the smell of vegetables on the knife. People who have no life experience and have never touched a cutting board may not think of such details at all, which are trivial but touching. But Zhu Yuanyuan herself feels that "we all do this in life."
Such a performance undoubtedly stems from the actor's experience and observation of the details of daily life. Perhaps this is also a mark of Zhu Yuanyuan's serious life outside the screen. Zhu Yuanyuan is not a traffic actor, and rarely stands at the forefront of public opinion. Her life trajectory is simple. In the entertainment circle where all kinds of stars "grab hot searches" nowadays, it can be said to be a "clear stream". She and her husband Xin Baiqing are each other's first love. They have walked hand in hand for 30 years. After getting married and having a daughter, they reduced their workload and focused on family. Previously, Zhu Yuanyuan said in an interview video: "My main identity is now a mother." Speaking of her family life, "My day is a day for a housewife." Participating in the anti-cancer movie "Send You a Little Red Flower" was also taken over by "the child in the summer vacation when the primary school was promoted to junior high school." Because she herself is a mother who is willing to accompany her children, she will be moved by the role of a mother. However, she is low-key, but she rarely talks about her own affairs on social platforms. It was not until her family issued an obituary that many people learned that she had coexisted and fought with cancer for nearly 5 years.
When audiences nowadays praise celebrities, they particularly like to say "liveliness". The so-called "liveliness" means that celebrities break those carefully designed perfect personas and filters, and show a natural, real, "down-to-earth" and even flawed side. This is probably because those suspended plots that are out of touch with life, exquisite beauty filters, and doting control of comments by fans have made many celebrities accustomed to and dependent on excessive modification and post-packaging, and have long lost the ability to live the daily lives of ordinary people and empathize with ordinary people.
The audience loves and misses Zhu Yuanyuan, which is actually a nostalgia and call for an artistic pursuit of returning to reality and taking root in life. In today's increasingly impetuous and fast-paced environment, we have eaten too much "industrial saccharin", and it has been a long time since we have seen works and roles close to ordinary people and daily life in domestic film and television dramas. Actors like Zhu Yuanyuan who live and shape characters with heart are becoming more and more valuable. Not relying on hot searches, charts, or variety shows, but relying solely on ordinary and real life fragments to resonate with the audience is the confidence of a "good actor".
Good actors need to maintain a pious and serious attitude towards life, and so do all of us. As Zhu Yuanyuan said in "Send You a Little Red Flower": "Everyone will experience loss in life, and we are all afraid of loss. But in the face of this fear, the most powerful counterattack is to live every minute and every second seriously."
