She entered the business at the age of 5, starred in TV series at the age of 8, became famous at the age of 12, and really became popular at the age of 24.
It can be said that the journey was extremely smooth.
But in Andy's view, this is not the case. She once publicly commented on herself: "I think she is a lonely child star."
This is a bit bleak, but if we know her real experience, we will find that it is not groundless, but her long journey.
Although she lives in the light, the road is full of thorns.
Andy has been very lucky since he was a child.
At least, to outsiders, everything is going well.
She first came into contact with acting when she was five years old.
Andy was watching Princess Pearl at home and fell in love with Zhao Wei at first sight.
Many years later, Andy said to the entertainment record, "I especially like that play, like my idol Zhao Wei, and dream of becoming her."
It is this desire that has been supporting Andy's growth in the next few years.
She quickly told her parents about this idea, and they agreed with her, especially her father, who helped Andy sign up for a children's palace to learn acting.
In the Children's Palace, Andy is not the most beautiful, but the hardest. Now the teacher remembers Andy.
Once, a director suddenly came to the school, saying that he was casting for a TV series. As soon as the director arrived at the classroom, he swept around first, then stared at Andy and blurted out, "That's her."
Andy started to act like this.
Many years later, she said in Starry Speech: "I thought I was funny, so I was named Acting."
That year, when she was five years old, she learned that she was going to play a TV series. At that moment, Andy didn't sleep well all night. The next morning, she auditioned for the cast under the leadership of her father.
When she arrived at the shooting scene, she looked around and saw all the people.
It was winter, and my father held Andy in his arms, wrapped her in his arms and waited at the back of the line. After a long wait, he was called.
Only then did Yang Zi know that this was a group performance. Without lines, she walked around the electric city and repeated an action. She walked all day.
Still, Andy is very happy. "Even so, I think it was a wonderful experience and I was very happy."
From then on, my mother quit her job and stayed with Andy full-time. And my father, while doing business, is Andy's agent.
The whole family is realizing her dream.
With this decision, most of the time, my father took Andy and her heavy material to audition in major film crews in Beijing.
However, this method rarely meets a good script. Usually, if you are lucky, you will meet a good director and say, "Oh, not bad, try a scene", but if you are not satisfied, just throw the material in the trash can.
Without resources, she mostly performs in a group and advertises.
By 1998, this walk-on career is finally getting better.
By chance, director Teng Wenji took a fancy to Andy and wanted her to play "Dream of Spring".
Andy left happily.
This is the most solemn role since she entered the business.
Unfortunately, it is still a group performance. But Andy was very happy: "I really wanted to have a play."
Her persistence was not in vain. Soon, the "So Out of the Mountain" crew found Andy and asked her to play Liu Jinshan's daughter.
This is Andy's first TV play. Although there are not many shots, she officially entered the film and television circle with this drama.
Not long after, the secret history of Xiaozhuang found Andy again and made her a small guest.
In the same year, she played the girl selling apples in The Big House.
Based on these two dramas, in 2004, Andy got a chance to change her life, and Family with Children invited her to play Xia Xue.
Few people know that Andy is not Xia Xue's first choice.
In other words, it is purely accidental that she can act in this play.
At that time, the crew called Yang's mother and claimed that Andy would be a guest student of Liu Xing, so Andy went.
But on the set, the director looked at Andy and said, "Wow, Xia Xue is her."
Andy didn't know who Xia Xue was at that time, but when he knew there was a movie, he acted happily.
Years later, she recalled this adventure: "It took me a long time to know that the director came to me because I was tall. I had 1.62 meters at that time. "
In this way, she received the first heroine drama in her life.
But here's the problem. Andy has never been exposed to comedy and can't act at all. At the filming scene, Zray and You Haoran can act, but Andy can't.
Moreover, Song Dandan has a high demand for filming, and often changes the script. Usually Andy memorized her lines all night and changed them all the next day. She felt devastated.
The crew found Andy often hiding in the yard crying with watermelon in one hand and script in the other.
But this is not the way. If you don't play well, it means being replaced
One day, the chief producer Vingo came to visit this class. Song Dandan said that the crew was in trouble and needed to talk to them. Then they went into the conference room together.
At this time, Andy felt very scared. He once suspected that they were going to change themselves, so he hid outside and eavesdropped, but he heard nothing.
When the chief producer finally came out, Andy kept his head down and didn't dare to look at anyone.
Even after years of this fear, she always remembers it. "I have been very embarrassed that day. I don't know what they said. I dare not look at anyone and think this is the last day here. "
But luckily, Andy stayed.
This false alarm made her cherish the opportunity more, so she began to recite her lines desperately and tried to integrate herself into the role. Soon, Andy found the feeling and slowly grasped the essence of Xia Xue.
She plays the little girl next door, Xia Xue, who is lively and youthful. Because of this role, Andy is very popular all over the country.
She finally became famous.
Andy 12 years old this year.
But she didn't seem to be happy and once felt inferior.
Because she doesn't think she looks good.
Venus once asked Andy: Do you think you are a beautiful girl?
Andy immediately denied: "I didn't, no, I never thought I was good-looking, and then in fact I felt inferior for it."
Once, she showed the photos of her childhood to the people in the company. As a result, everyone looked at them and said, "God is not thin for you."
The implication is that it is rare for you to grow up like this and mix like this.
This makes Andy's inferiority complex increase day by day. During that time, she repeatedly asked in her mind, "I always ask myself, and I said I really don't know."
With this emotion, she finished the first and second parts of Family with Children.
However, in the third part, because of taking part in the senior high school entrance examination, Andy finally failed to play, and the third part was eventually replaced by Ning.
Since Andy lost "Xia Xue", there seems to be no one to rely on.
At that time, she was just in the developmental stage, with a fat face and acne. No director wants to use this image to act, so she kept going to various large-scale auditions as she did when she was a child, but the crew would eventually decline when they saw Andy.
After Xia Xue, for a long time, she couldn't find the film. Before middle age, there was already a crisis of middle-aged actors.
After a difficult time, Andy simply thought, don't film, just concentrate on your studies. At that time, she happened to be a sophomore and decided to concentrate on preparing for the exam.
When her parents saw that Andy had changed, they hired a tutor to tutor her.
Andy once revealed that they invited four teachers to make up from 7 am to 9 pm every day. One teacher spoke for three hours, and four teachers spoke in turn.
Under normal circumstances, Andy will go home to review after class, and review alone until two or three in the morning.
She said: "Even if you don't know how to get through it, but you finally get through it, just tell yourself that you want to learn."
After three months of closed study, her grades have advanced by leaps and bounds. As the college entrance examination approaches, Andy wants to act again. She wants to report to Nortel or Central Academy of Drama.
But because of the previous blow, she was very discouraged, so she called Song Dandan: "Do you think I can act?"
Song Dandan told her, "Son, when you grow up like this,' Mom' will advise you to stop acting. Baby, you have great self-esteem. You can study hard. This circle is too messy. Besides, so many beautiful little girls are ugly. Just say it might be sad in the future. It is better to study hard. "
Song Dandan himself broke the news. She once publicly told reporters: "Her father once asked me, do you think children can be actors? I said never to be an actor. I said Andy was not beautiful. I said I don't think she can. "
But even though Song Dandan had no confidence in her, Andy still wanted to act, so he applied for Nortel. In the third test, Andy played Zhao Wei's idol Mulan and said all the lines inside.
When acting, Andy could clearly feel that everyone in the meeting place was watching her. After leaving the examination room, Andy's first words to his father were: "I feel fine."
Sure enough, she passed the exam and became a freshman in Nortel.
At the moment when he received the acceptance notice, Andy called Song Dandan again and said that he had been accepted.
When Song Dandan heard this, he said on the phone, "I really congratulate you, baby. I said you were ugly, but I didn't want to touch you. Mom supports you now. "
Hearing this, Andy was stunned for a long time. She said to her mother, "Then at that moment, I felt very happy to get her affirmation."
As for why he was so persistent in applying for Nortel, Andy once said publicly, "Because I don't want to give up, I just want to act, and I like it."
Because she likes it, the first thing she did after she officially entered school was not to enjoy college life, but to try her best to play.
When she was a freshman, Andy ran past many cast members and acted as long as there was a role, even if it was a supporting role, she took it.
In his sophomore year, Andy finally got the chance to play "Knocking on Happiness", with Jiang and his partner.
In this play, Andy no longer plays the girl next door, but the semi-lady Zheng Song.
Because of her sunny image and lively personality, her acting skills were recognized by the public for the first time.
Some people even say that this drama is a sign that Andy got rid of child stars.
But she doesn't want to stop, continue to participate in The Mind and play the doctor in 20 12.
It wasn't long before Andy got another chance to star in Flowers Are Not Flowers Are Not Fog. In the same year, she also starred in the thriller Stand by.
With this film, Andy won the Best Newcomer Award.
Her efforts finally paid off.
Because of his willingness to endure hardships, Andy was invited by War Changsha to play a couple with Wallace Huo in his graduation year.
In the play, she spans a lot. In the first few episodes, she was an immature child, and in the second half, she was already a girl who had experienced many vicissitudes.
But Andy plays very well, with accurate eyes, movements and tone.
Because of this drama, the industry gradually changed their views on her. Venus said frankly that it was after watching this drama that Andy changed.
I have to say, this is also Andy's biggest change.
She once admitted that before she went to college, she had no idea, just like a puppet. She does whatever her father tells her to do, as long as she feels good.
However, since joining the "Battle of Changsha" crew, she began to have her own ideas, trying to communicate with the director and tell the producer about the drama, and no longer treating herself as a child.
But unfortunately, the crew still treated her as a child, even if she said nothing.
Once, Andy took the script and went to discuss with the screenwriter how to act. As a result, the screenwriter just said "Well, OK, I get it" and didn't reply.
Although it ended in nothing, it was a kind of self-improvement for Andy, because she finally learned to take the initiative.
With the experience of not acting before, even if things get better, she won't relax for a moment.
In the same year, Andy accepted Yangko and played a female role.
In order to perform this play well, she stayed in the crew for one year and only studied this play for 12 months.
Generally speaking, it takes two to three months for an actor to make a play, but Andy is unwilling to make do and is willing to stay for a whole year. She told reporters:
"At least after filming this drama, I will proudly tell others that this is a drama that I spent a year studying."
As a result, as soon as the play was broadcast, Andy broke the inherent understanding of netizens. Some netizens commented on Zhihu: After watching Yangko, I found that Andy can still perform like this.
But at this time, Andy had another problem.
First, she became very fat because of adolescence.
Second, because she is not a flow actress, she is always changed.
After filming Yangko, Andy got rid of the title of "child star", but every time she participated in activities, someone always said she was ugly or fat.
Someone even bluntly said in front of Andy: "Why is she getting uglier and uglier? Why is she so fat? " ? Just because she is so embarrassed to participate in activities, let's lose weight first. An actor can't even manage his own body. "
Andy was very uncomfortable when he heard this, but he could only endure it.
"I will convince myself that an artist should not have blx, because you can't be an artist, but you know, artists are human beings, and I will be sad."
After thinking for a long time, she decided to work hard in secret, stop eating more and start trying to lose weight. In Dear Inn, Andy showed amazing willpower. She was so hungry that she stole something from the pot. In the end, she was afraid of gaining weight, and all of them were buckled by hand.
With this awareness, Andy gradually became thinner in front of the camera.
But at this time, I met the second problem. She is not the queen of traffic and has no great commercial value, so she is always replaced.
Andy revealed in "News Party" that once she received a play and decided to only perform it all year round, so she worked out every day and prepared for two months, but it was changed one week before the start.
"That hit me hard, because I think I'm thinking, if I don't have a chance to shoot, I will rely on this play, and I must play it well. As a result, I didn't expect that even the play was gone.
I thought, what should I do? What should I do next? At that time, I knew that an actor should have commercial value, or you would be replaced. "
This fear of changing roles has filled Andy's mind for a long time. Later, when she was a guest on Tamia Liu's program, she said to Tamia Liu, "I have been there for two or three years, and I was changed every first week when I decided to play female No.1."
But fortunately, even if she was wronged, she did not stop.
Until 20 15, Andy got the chance to break out, and she starred in Ode to Joy.
In one episode, Kong Sheng asked Andy to pick a role at will. Andy read the script and said that he wanted to play Qu Xiaoyu, but in the end only Qiu Yingying was left.
She doesn't want to play, "because I think I've played too many roles of this type. I like playing Qu Xiaoyu's ghost horse spirit."
But there is no way, so she can only accept it.
Now that he accepted it, Andy, as before, pondered the role.
Director Kong Sheng told her that Qiu Yingying needed to be fat, so Andy was once fat to 1 10 Jin.
In order to enrich the character, she created a lot of little tricks like eating and added them to the character.
Andy said at the publicity meeting: "My first scene was to eat chocolate pie, and I ate 1 1 piece of chocolate pie, because I repeatedly shot 1 1 piece."
As expected, Andy was angry. Because of the high degree of discussion, there even appeared a topic in Weibo: the whole people tore up Qiu Yingying.
This also reflects from the side that she played like a good one.
Venus asked Andy bluntly: Are you playing yourself or are you playing well?
Andy immediately waved his hand: "Not true color, not true color."
Because of Qiu Yingying, Andy's career almost reached its peak.
Soon, she received an invitation from Qing Yunzhi, which became the second play that changed Andy's life.
At that time, the director wanted her to play Zhou Xiaohuan, which was similar to Qiu Yingying's personality. But Andy doesn't want to play this role again. The crew told Andy that there was another role, but it was difficult.
She hurried to ask who it was, and finally knew that it was Lu Xueqi, the ice and snow beauty in the play, who was untouched by human fireworks.
For Andy, this is a huge challenge. But she decided to accept the role.
However, after netizens knew that Andy was coming to play Lu Xueqi, they began to scold her, saying that she didn't deserve it. Andy was once suspicious, but after she put on makeup, the director finally decided to let Andy have a try.
There was a chance, but she had another problem when shooting.
Andy hasn't filmed before, and he doesn't know how to play sword flowers, and he doesn't know how to watch the movements. Just like when he was a child, he practiced in the crew every day until he was hurt all over.
Finally, after Qing's performance, her performance was recognized by some people.
Andy said, "It is this role that has completely changed me."
Today, Andy finally ranks among the popular Hua Dan.
In recent years, she has also created excellent works, especially Sweet Honey is as Heavy as Frost, which received rave reviews. As soon as the play became a hit, more than half of the entertainment circle came to promote Andy.
Still in today's "Dear, Love", it is even more popular for Andy.
She finally stopped feeling inferior.
Now recalling that mental journey, Andy said, "Because I think it's because you don't have a better work, everyone will always be your light snow in their hearts, but if one day you have a better work standing there, everyone will not think you are a child star, so it has nothing to do with anyone, it's my own problem."
She also publicly expressed her feelings about the media: "So how can we break this concept? I don't think we should force it, but we should rely on drama to speak. I think all the publicity is meaningless. "
In today's era when traffic is king, there are too few post-90 s actors like Andy.
But I believe that with this effort and this uncompromising effort, she will definitely go further and be more practical.
Because, compared with "flow" and "strength", this is the real way for an actor to survive.