Who is Li Ning?

Many people know almost nothing about this name.

He is an actor, an actor to the core.

In the crime of undocumented, he is cold-blooded killer "Li Toyota" who is wrapped in a broken cotton-padded jacket and extremely indifferent to life;

In The Silent Truth, he is the "Juck Zhang" who seamlessly switches between the murderer and the lawyer;

In the hidden corner, he is the philistine king who pretends to be generous, giving Yan Liang money first and then getting it back. ...

It seems that most people's impression of him is just:

Suspense, online drama, supporting roles and villains have only become popular in recent years.

But in fact, in the 1990s, he was already on the screen.

In the plays such as The Legend of Little Pudong and Brother Hui, the protagonist is Li Ning.

But why has he been silent for so many years after all?

Li Ning was born in a relatively happy family.

My father is an engineer and my mother is a doctor. Li Ning has an elder sister upstairs and a younger brother downstairs.

At that time, the family conditions were generally poor, but the family got along well and rarely had unpleasant times.

Li Ning once said that it was a "chess" that carried his whole childhood memory.

This chess game was made by my mother, and the chessboard was drawn by her. She made chess with the rubber stopper of the infusion bottle and found someone who can write "handsome, scholar, elephant, horse" ...

Because there are no toys, the three brothers and sisters often get together to play chess.

Until that day.

Li Ning clearly remembers that it was Wednesday afternoon.

The three of them got together to play chess. My cousin ran over and said that Li Ning's mother had been hit by a car and was out of breath before being taken to the hospital.

It is said that the death of a loved one is a dull knife to cut the flesh.

When you leave, your mind may be empty in an instant, and people's self-protection mechanism will make you first disbelieve, then suffer, and then numb.

Until day by day, you lose the figure of that person in your life. At this time, a great sadness will come like a flood until you are completely wrapped and almost suffocated.

Li Ning is like this.

He was only 1 1 years old at that time. My sister cried after hearing the news of her mother's death, but he was very confused. He thought:

Will mom come back to cook for them?

Later, he understood that his mother would not come back.

Since then, the sense of security from home has gradually blurred, and this sense of unease about the unknown has run through his first half of life.

When Li Ning was a teenager, he was smart, rebellious and studious, which led to his failure in the college entrance examination in the first year.

At the request of his father, he studied for another year and planned to take the "World War II" college entrance examination.

But what Ning thinks is a textbook. He often peeks at extra-curricular books when the teacher is not looking.

Notre Dame de Paris, Old Man, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Romance of the Three Kingdoms ...

It is suitable for all ages at home and abroad.

At that time, Li Ning was very interested in drama. He not only performed it himself, but sometimes skipped school to watch it.

His family has a terrible headache, and he thinks that Li Ning may have no future in this life.

A few months before the college entrance examination, a friend of Anhui Art School who studied opera said to Li Ning:

Li Ning was just taking a risk. He was inexperienced and unprepared at that time. He sang and danced the most popular song of the year, A Fire in Winter, and did some radio gymnastics. Unexpectedly, he passed the first and second attempts.

That year, Li Ning 19 years old, playful and unable to settle down, almost forgot the dates of three trials.

Later, Wang Su, the thread teacher who taught him, tried to remind him that the whole yard was looking for him, otherwise three attempts almost failed.

Tried it three times, and basically got into the play.

Whether he can play with both feet depends on his next professional course results.

At this time, Li Ning, who has always been indifferent to her studies, panicked and realized for the first time how urgent time is now.

There is only one month left before the professional exam, and he needs to improve his grades within one month, otherwise he will fail again.

Li Ning studied so hard for the first time.

It was June, and he borrowed his father's office to study. There are many hot mosquitoes in the office. Li Ning described the scene like this:

In this way, he studied hard for a month and was admitted to more than 400 plays with a perfect score of 500.

Teachers often tell parents that children are not stupid or smart, but they just don't like learning. If they are willing to learn, their grades will be fine.

In this sentence, some teachers are telling the truth, some teachers just want to save face for their parents, while in Li Ning, they just describe the facts.

Raising your grades to this level in a month can be called "one in a hundred".

After entering the genius drama, his light has not been concealed.

Li Ning once said in an interview:

Until the drama teacher let them experience life, understand the lives of all kinds of people, and sometimes ask him to imitate the behavior of the old lady.

After a while, he gradually understood the meaning of performance.

After graduation, Li Ning was assigned to Shanghai People's Art Theatre. Unlike many actors who need to start as a walk-on, he began to play the leading role as soon as he graduated, and many people in the street talked to him.

At that time, he was young and vigorous, and gradually liked the feeling of being concerned.

The profession of actor not only brought him material satisfaction, but also enriched him spiritually.

At that time, he lived in the house allocated by Bao, and the crew helped him pay the rent. His neighbors are always curious about what he is shooting, and even when he needs to go out for a long trip, they will help him look after the house.

Li Ning felt great, and everything he owned was taken for granted. For a while, he was on cloud nine.

In an interview, Li Ning recalled his frivolity after graduation and smiled.

Only later did Li Ning know how lucky he was.

Li Ning touched the "ceiling" of the domestic drama industry when he was in his twenties.

At that time, there was a single type of domestic drama, and Li Ning, who had rich performance experience, knew all the scripts worthy of the name.

Li Ning soon got tired of this endless life.

Coupled with the flowers and applause around him at that time, almost everyone hugged him.

In such an environment, Li Ning feels that even if he changes the environment, he will succeed.

Studying abroad was popular at that time. Li Ning happened to have relatives in America, so he went there smartly.

From 65438 to 0996, when Li Ning first came to America, he experienced this gap for the first time in his life.

At home, he was admitted to the drama smoothly, graduated smoothly, played the leading role smoothly, and achieved many actors' lifelong goals in a few years.

But in foreign countries, language barrier is the top priority.

When he first arrived in America, no one asked him to act because he had no connections and no language.

In order to practice oral English, he worked as a real estate agent; In order to survive, he even delivered newspapers.

Later, I studied jewelry appraisal for a while, but I quit in less than a month because I thought it was inappropriate.

After he was able to communicate with Americans normally, he also took part in court translation training, but later he didn't take any orders because of fewer lawsuits.

For a time, Li Ning fell to the bottom.

When he was most short of money, his clothes were torn, so he went to a second-hand clothing store to find old clothes to wear.

Even for a long time, he ate the cheapest canned food and soaked it in water like a vegetable soup.

At this time, he opens his eyes every day thinking about how to earn an extra dollar, so that he doesn't have to eat canned food at night.

At this point, he almost swept away his dream as an actor.

Soon after, the local post office recruited temporary workers. He dragged his thin body into the crowd to sign up and became a temporary worker.

At the end of the term, the supervisor found him and told him how many places these temporary workers have to become full members, as well as insurance benefits, and which community they live in when they are old. ...

This is a great temptation for Li Ning who has a diet problem, although it is a life track that can be seen at a glance.

He was both excited and hesitant when he returned to his residence.

Excited, he has a formal job since then.

Hesitant, he came abroad for better development. If it is only for stability, why did he give up the iron rice bowl of Shanghai People's Art?

Finally, he gave up the temptation to be an ordinary post office worker and picked up his dream of giving up for life.

In 2000, I went to the University of Minnesota to study film production, and worked part-time in the library and equipment room.

In order to save rent, he negotiated with the landlord to become a second landlord, helping the landlord mow the grass, look at the house, help the landlord find a tenant, and share the rent for free.

It was also here that he met his wife who had been with him for life.

In the interview, when Li Ning mentioned his wife, his eyes were gentle:

When Li Ning's wife's parents got married, they were poor and melted a pair of silver dollars into a ring. The first time I failed, the ring didn't look good, so I made another pair of rings.

Li Ning was poor when he married his wife. The ring he used was the first pair of rings that his parents melted at that time.

After marriage, they had a daughter. Li Ning often goes out to shoot movies for several months. Besides working, his wife has to take care of her daughter, but she doesn't complain at all.

In Li Ning's words, what matters is gratitude to his wife.

Shortly after graduation, my wife returned to China because of her work in UNICEF, so the whole family returned to China, and Li Ning also started a film career in China.

However, I have to admit that before going abroad, he was able to play the leading role and played one play after another. After returning home, his opportunities were much less, and even his plays were much lighter than before.

When he became famous, his title was enough for him to master most of the excellent resources, but now outstanding graduates from major performance colleges come in batches, and resources are getting less and less.

Because he has laid the foundation for more than ten years, he only recommended himself to audition one by one like a young man, but many times, the director politely refused.

It is urgent. When Li Ning didn't have a chance to shoot, the situation was really urgent.

It was not until the crime of undocumented that Li Ning got out of trouble.

The role of "Li Toyota" once again brought him into the public eye.

When he got the script of unlicensed crime, the director gave him several roles to choose from, and his hands were shaking when he saw Li Toyota.

Without thinking about it, Ning was directly chosen to play the cruel role of "Li Toyota".

In one scene, Li Toyota hit someone with an ashtray, which was so sophisticated that he was killed in a few times.

Behind this kind of flowing water is Li Ning's repeated training for dozens and hundreds of times.

Really can't hit people, but can't hit the air.

If you hit someone, they will give you a rebound and hit the air.

In order to be realistic, he bought a big grapefruit and nailed it to the box.

He smashed grapefruit with an ashtray again and again, just to carefully control the strength and let the muscles remember the strength of each smash.

It is precisely because of his strict control over details that the audience stood up when they saw him kill people, especially the scene where he smoked backwards, which made the audience remember this cold-blooded killer deeply.

But behind the reverse smoking scene are Li Ning's charred beard and his lips burned by smoke.

Fortunately, the fire was put out in time, and he left no scars.

After the broadcast of this drama, many viewers compared "Li Toyota" with childhood shadows "An Jiahe" and "Rong Mammy", which shows how deeply rooted in people's hearts.

That passers-by often ask him:

Li Ning is often depressed at this time, but he always explains seriously that he is him and I am me.

In the first half of his life, Li Ning stood at the top, but fell heavily. He is radiant, hard-working, high-spirited, peaceful and serene.

Now he has stood up again and will walk firmly with the audience in the future.