Jiang Yiyan: A senior female educated youth in the entertainment industry, "Seventy-Seven Days" will fulfill her next dream

“I don’t want to visit, I don’t want to wear a dress to go out, I don’t like socializing, I don’t want to force a smile. Sadly this is what I have to face every day. I don’t think being red will make me happier. My job is just for me to find myself. Please allow me to be myself.”

I remember the first time I met her was because of the TV series "Like Sparks Like Butterflies" starring her and Hu Jun. , I didn’t think she was that beautiful at that time, but looking at her, I felt that she could perform a very strange charm, but mixed with a fresh and refined temperament. It's hard to comment, I think I probably started to remember this actress from then on.

For a while, it seemed that it was rare to see an actress with such an online acting skills on the silver screen. And when I noticed her again, I couldn't take my eyes away.

I have to admit that she has become what I most yearn for. I'm attracted to her

In the nearly 10 years since her debut, she has not appeared in many TV series and movies, and many people don't even know her. I usually take on two to three dramas every year, and I only film roles that I like.

I would like to use one sentence to describe her most appropriately

We spend our entire lives to get rid of other people’s expectations and find our true selves

For For her, her "job" is to find herself.

1*

In 2007, she starred in China's first film TV series "Our Youth Has No Place to Place", playing the quiet and pure heroine Zhou Meng and attracted much attention.

In the play, she has simple eyes and clear eyes, and she looks at everything around her innocently. Every time you walk slowly, you will feel that the whole world has become quiet.

Jiang Yiyan’s fresh, soft and tranquil temperament brings to life the innocent little girl Zhou Meng.

So when the last beautiful things become incomplete in the cold reality, you will also feel more sorry for her fate.

This role once made Jiang Yiyan the dream first love of many boys.

If she keeps acting like this persona, Jiang Yiyan may become an idol star that attracts more attention.

But sticking to the established performance routine step by step is not what she wants.

What she values ????is the charm of the character itself. What she enjoys is a kind of freedom and happiness in trying performances of various styles and types of characters.

2*

As early as in the drama "July and Ansheng", when everyone thought that she was a good girl with a gentle and quiet appearance, she actually acted in a lively manner. It created an existence that is half seawater and half fire, and received a lot of praise from the original author and drama fans.

Jiang Yiyan understands that her personality is more like the rebellious Ansheng, who loves happily, lives happily, and pursues freedom persistently, regardless of what others say.

In order to study abroad, she rejected a script written by a famous director.

She once had the opportunity to walk on the red carpet with a famous screenwriter who won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Berlin Film Festival, but in order to "go home to spend the New Year with her mother", she did not go.

This free-spirited woman knows what she wants, so she is not burdened by external things.

She tried her best to avoid being one-dimensional and create more challenging and charming characters.

3*

In "Nanjing!" Nanjing! "In ", she plays the dancer Xiao Jiang.

At first you will think that this is a woman who is "a businesswoman who does not know the hatred of her country's subjugation, but still sings as a flower in the backyard across the river".

When the country was in danger, she still insisted on keeping her hair, thinking of relying on it to make a living.

But when the Japanese army asked the refugee area to hand over a hundred women, this stubborn woman voluntarily stood up and sacrificed herself in exchange for more people to survive.

When she was taken away, she looked back and smiled at everyone, but her tears fell quietly.

Even death cannot make her compromise. Her tenacity and dignity have declared that her soul cannot be despised.

4*

In "The Lost Bullet", she played the role of Fu Yuan, a female prisoner with both morbidity and high IQ, who committed crimes through a sophisticated layout.

Jiang Yiyan's performance in this film earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards.

There is little apparent overlap in her character types, and the range of styles is very wide. From prostitutes, to elite female prisoners, to the eldest lady of a martial arts family, while the works are diverse, the characters are also different.

However, if you look carefully, you can see that these characters still have something in common - they are all trying to break away from some kind of shackles and pursue the freedom they feel.

Some people once felt sorry for her. If she hadn't wasted so many opportunities, she might have become famous long ago.

But she takes it very lightly. She can play the roles she wants to play and play them well. This is enough.

As she wrote in her book "I am Xiaojiang the Creeper":

"I will never choose a role I don't like just to get rich. I will not compromise for the sake of my dreams.

I am rich because I have always followed the path I want to take and done what I like to do. It has nothing to do with other people's ridicule or contempt, nothing to do with the results, nothing to do with the world. I'm very emotional, but real. ”

That year, Jiang Yiyan went to a small mountain village in Guangxi to film a movie and met some children in the village. They had to walk over mountains and ridges every day, nearly two hours to go to school. The children’s feet were damaged by the trek over mountains and ridges. It was black and swollen. And the school was extremely shabby. At night, five or six students stayed on a wooden bed to sleep.

After that, Jiang Yiyan would spend a month every year doing charity work in the mountains. She teaches Chinese, music, sports, and dance. She lives with the children, eats the same food, lives on the same wooden bed, and visits each child's home carefully.

The children bought school uniforms and mosquito nets, built a radio station and a kitchen, and also funded scholarships. Each student who performed well was rewarded. This brought many children who had dropped out of school back, and the school suddenly had more than 100 students. < /p>

Jiang Yiyan has been doing this for nine years.

Jiang Yiyan’s mother has been obsessed with photography since she was a child.

After becoming an actress. Others use lenses to record her beauty. She carries a big camera and goes to Europe, Africa, and America, climbing mountains, wrestling, wading in mud, and crossing rivers to record the beauty and uniqueness of the world.

Her works have been. Selected in "National Geographic" magazine many times

3. Singing

Speaking of which, Jiang Yiyan is also a singer-songwriter. She has written several songs and likes to play and sing by herself.

She has three guitars at home, one is Zhang Yadong’s guitar that was bought at a charity sale, one is an electric guitar presented by the company, and her favorite one was specially customized for her by a fan in Japan. , with her name engraved on it.

She said that whenever she had time, she would pick up the guitar anytime and anywhere, whether at home, filming or traveling. The school composed the school song "The Song of Changdong Elementary School".

Traveling around the world alone is a dream of many female literary youths.

Jiang Yiyan has made it happen while filming. She visited more than 40 countries on five continents around the world.

She described her trip to Africa this way: "The place I lived in was a wooden house, which was very primitive and close to nature. When I slept at night, I felt like a hippopotamus was in front of my window. Like living in the forest. "

She did not reveal the screams and weakness that a girl should have. "It is not difficult there. People who like nature, even if they live in such a wooden house, it doesn't matter if there are bugs. I can understand it. See the spiritual connection between people and animals, people and plants. When you love them in a friendly way, everything will respond. ”

Whether you can capture the happiness of the soul through the pain of the flesh and blood is the criterion for judging true love.

Will you devote yourself to something that cannot obtain real benefits? , Enjoying it is the criterion for judging whether a person has a soul.

Jiang Yiyan has published a book: "I am Xiao Jiang the Creeper." ".

Unlike other photo albums, it records many of Jiang Yiyan's inner feelings.

This book is simple in text, but it always contains emotions. Her face is pure and beautiful, but there is always a certain meaning.

Chen Daoming wrote the preface to this book. He said:

The age gap means that I may not be young to you. People say they understand everything, but that doesn’t stop me from being infected and moved by your words.

It’s like watching one of your performances. It doesn’t matter whether I laugh or cry, as long as it’s full of sincerity. , it is inevitable to be loved.

And in this winter, her efforts finally got the glory that we hope belongs to her

Not only was she nominated for the No. 1 award for her new film "The Blizzard is Coming". Selection of the Best Actress in the Main Competition of the 30th Tokyo Film Festival

Also won the China-Canada International Film Festival for her role as the high-level paraplegic female photographer "Blue Sky" in the new film "Seventy-Seven Days". Won the Best Actress Award.

This film is based on the true story of adventure writer Yang Liusong's 77-day journey through the no-man's land of Qiangtang. It is China's first outdoor adventure film.

Filmed over a period of three years, the film will have a strong visual impact on the audience in terms of rhythm, images and tension.

Just looking at the stills is very visually shocking

"Seventy-Seven Days"

As the first polar adventure film in China, it won the special award at the Beijing Film Festival before its release.

In order to restore the reality, the film was created. It was filmed in five uninhabited areas including Hoh Xil, Altyn Tagh, Kunlun Mountains, Northern Tibet, and Qaidam. The local altitude averages more than 5,000 meters and reaches a maximum of 6,700 meters. It can be said that this is a "National Geographic"-level film. It is worth noting that the crew spent 3 years of hard work filming.

Not only are there endless grasslands, snow-capped mountains and glaciers, and many endangered wild animals and plants, but there are also various natural disasters, which make people feel the danger at all times. Nature’s gifts and challenges.

The protagonist Yang Liusong in "The Clearing of the North" is a young man who has lost himself in life. Wandering on the snowy plateau, he made such a crazy decision - to cross the Qiang on foot. Tang no man's land.

Faced with the extremely harsh environment and rudimentary equipment in the wilderness, he completed the first self-reliant mission in human history for the first time in seventy-seven days alone, with a bicycle and limited food. A day of hiking through the uninhabited land of Qiangtang.

"Seventy-seven Days" was adapted from Yang Liusong's "The Clearing of the North". When she learned that this was the author's personal experience, she admitted that she was very surprised and wanted to know what it was. What kind of opportunity prompted the author to enter such a wilderness where ordinary people dare not stop. So, with a lot of curiosity, she walked into the set and opened the book. She starred in the film for free, and during the filming, she appeared without makeup.

During the wheelchair training, I often fell down and my hands were bruised with numerous blisters. I also had to endure altitude sickness and shoot in extreme conditions. The weather was so cold that my face was frozen and my jaw even cracked. The problem is, I can’t say a single line. But she persisted with great endurance.

She said: There was a director who mortgaged his house in order to make a movie he had in mind. It took three years for the movie to be made and he is still making it. Because there will be no compromise.

They said that I am the representative of the idealism department. When I meet you, I feel that I am not alone. This world is very realistic, but we still have to be people with light in our bodies.

The character played by Jiang Yiyan, a girl named Lan Tian, ??is also a real person. Lan Tian and Jiang Yiyan have many overlapping personality traits. For example, they both love photography, the outdoors, and getting along with nature. The difference is that Jiang Yiyan and Lan Tian are actually experiencing completely different lives.

Lan Tian was paraplegic due to a dangerous shooting experience and had to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. A girl who was in her youth, and she was such a freedom-loving, unrestrained person, encountered such a fate, she once felt sorry for herself, and even thought about ending her life.

Friends are worried that she "can't stand up", not only physically, but also mentally.

Later, after a painful struggle, she finally accepted it. It took a long time to insist on using a wheelchair to go down the stairs alone, use a wheelchair to see the world, and even use a wheelchair to go where I wanted to go. What's even more rare is that she also learned to drive.

In order to interpret such a character with a very strong heart, Jiang Yiyan, who has always given people a weak impression, talked about the various challenges he encountered during the filming - the huge physical test in the extreme environment of the wilderness, both In order to complete the performance of the character and also take into account the operation of the wheelchair, I got a lot of blisters on my hands, and wrestling was a common occurrence.

But it was the harsh shooting experience that made her have a strong passion for the things expressed in Yang Liusong's book. When she overcame all the difficulties brought by the environment and reached the holy mountain, she faced the mountains of Kailash and almost burst into tears.

She said that in fact, everyone has a Qiangtang in their heart.

Qiangtang is full of idealism. Rather than being a fascinating wilderness, it is better to say that it is a spiritual symbol. In everyone's heart, there is such an ideal place that they are eager to set foot on.

Maybe it was a trip waiting to start, maybe it was an unfinished goal, maybe it was a long-lost youth ideal hidden in the heart, or even a secret love that ran away because of timidity. Facing that "Qiang Pond", some people are running away and hiding, some are hesitating, some are timidly looking around, and some are risking their lives to reach it. Which one are you?

Jiang Yiyan said that Yang Liusong's "The Clearing of the North" is actually very objective. He does not encourage everyone to be a hero, as long as they know what they really want in their hearts.

As free and easy as Jiang Yiyan, she seems to have always been the "brave" who dares to follow her heart. Whether it is the choice of film roles or the overlap between her idol identity and her own world, she looks like today It's all so natural. However, she was not without her share of moments of embarrassment and panic.

Jiang Yiyan agreed with this paragraph in the book. She said, the end is not important. When we long to reach the place of hope in our hearts and experience the baptism of wind, sand, ice and snow in difficult times, what we pursue is no longer the end point on that coordinate. The experience of life gives this journey more meaning.

So, why worry about whether the scenery at the end is brilliant or not, and put the inner hope on the shelf, as the book says -

"When I get old, I look back, I won't I hope I haven’t accomplished many things that I should have done because of my inner timidity.”

This is Jiang Yiyan, a senior female educated youth who works in the entertainment industry but has a simple humanistic sentiment.