Chapter 421
People can't even empathize with their past selves
Ling Suisui and others arrived at the event site. After recording the pre-interview, when everything was ready, it was already two o'clock in the morning.
Her assistant was still looking at her phone, planning the route from here to the airport. Ling Suisui flew back to the United States on a 7 a.m. flight. The boarding process for international flights was more complicated, so he had to arrive earlier than domestic flights.
Tang Bing was in okay condition, after all, she had worked with the crew to stay up late many times when she was young; but Feng Li had never slept so late before, and she was yawning and could hardly keep her eyelids open.
She wanted to have an iced American coffee. At such a young age, she thought it was cool for adults to drink coffee at work. When she really tasted Ling Sui's coffee, the bitterness instantly broke through her mask of pain, and all her filters on coffee were shattered.
"Everyone, speed up the process." Ling Suisui called on all departments to start quickly, "Let's finish the work early and go back to rest early."
She was also in a hurry to catch a flight, and it was difficult to reschedule an international flight.
This time the creators' companionship was not just a simple reaction. Fruit TV also arranged a host, and there were many questions and interactions during the process.
Ling Sui has been busy all day today, and the only reason he has been able to hold on until now is because of his willpower. Out of camera's reach, she secretly pinched herself several times, until the host showed her some of the audience's comments, she perked up a little.
The host first praised the acting skills of several actors. He commented that Tang Bing was worthy of being a veteran artist, and praised Feng Li as a genius and a rising star in the entertainment industry.
——Although Feng Li thought in her heart, is there nothing else I can say to praise her? From "The Sister Who Can't Get Married" to now, she has been on the rise for several years.
Regarding Ling Sui's evaluation, in addition to praising her acting skills as usual, the host also said that some netizens praised her for having a motherly feel.
She read a comment from a netizen: "Is Ling Sui's acting so good that she even changed her appearance? I saw her photos a few days ago and was impressed that superstars will always be superstars. In the drama, the more I see her, the more she looks like my mother. When I see her frowning, my nerves tense up, and I feel like she will scold me in the next second."
The host emphasized that this comment had 200,000 likes on the short video.
Either like the video, or like this comment. Whether the sinking market likes "Three Generations" or not, just looking at this one piece of data can tell the situation very well.
Ling Suisui, who received this comment, smiled at first, then changed his expression to Qin Wenjing's and looked at the host.
The host lowered his head inexplicably, feeling guilty. After realizing what he was doing, he excitedly started shouting in front of the camera, heating up the atmosphere.
Effect +1, Ling Sui's physical strength -1, she felt like she was about to enter low-power mode.
The host continued to ask: "Some viewers mentioned that they felt Qin Wenjing was Li Yuhua 2.0. What do Sui Sui and Teacher Tang think of this statement?"
Li Yuhua is Zhang Zihan's mother in "The List of Successful Apprentices", a role played by Tang Bing.
More than ten years have passed, and this work is still remembered and mentioned by people, which shows how powerful the long tail is.
——Of course, the reason why the host of Fruit TV mentioned it is because the platform also bought the broadcasting rights.
Although Ling Suisui has filmed quite a few TV series in recent years, most of them are exclusively broadcasted by the other three platforms. These are their pension insurances, the kind they won’t give up no matter how much money you spend.
The only chance for Fruit TV to get a piece of the pie is with copyrighted dramas like "The List of Successful Actors", thanks to Qinghe Film and Television.
"I talked about this topic with Teacher Tang before the filming of Three Generations started."
Ling Suisui recalled: "Although Li Yuhua and Qin Wenjing both put a lot of pressure on their daughters, their children felt differently about it. Zihan agreed with the expectations and was worried that she would disappoint her mother; Miaoyi was younger and had a freer personality, so she would resist."
Tang Bing continued: "In fact, Wen Jing's mentality is a little more contradictory. Li Yuhua will take Zi Han's study pressure for granted, because every student she has taught has become successful in this way, and her thinking has become fixed."
"Wen Jing went through the college entrance examination and paid a lot to get into a prestigious university. She doesn't want her daughter to live such a painful and difficult life. She also wants to have a happy education, but she is worried about what will happen if her daughter fails to succeed. From this point of view, the two characters are fundamentally different."
“Isn’t there a popular saying on the Internet that people can’t even empathize with their past selves?”
Ling Suisui went on to say: "I think this sentence can be used to describe the relationship between Qin Wenjing and Zhang Zihan. Wenjing knows how hard it is to be involuted, but now that she has passed this stage, looking back on the past, that kind of hardship will become light and floating."
Feng Li wanted to yawn, but suddenly remembered that they were recording a program, so she quickly yawned.
She asked, "What do you mean? Did Wen Jing's mom forget her previous feelings and tear my umbrella into pieces?"
How many internet buzzwords has this child learned? Ling Sui couldn't help but touched her head.
Facing Feng Li's protesting gaze, Ling Suisui felt very at ease. She is sleepy now and wants to do something to cheer herself up.
"It's not that I've forgotten, it's just that it's faded." Ling Suisui explained, "People's attention span is limited, and they won't always be immersed in the past. What impressed Wen Jing the most was the current reality and the troubles at work. Moreover, people always beautify the past in their memories."
She also gave an example: "When you were in kindergarten, you also had troubles, but after you went to elementary school, the first thing you thought of when you thought of kindergarten was that you didn't have to do homework. Compared with now, it was so happy."
Tang Bing said, "I also saw a blogger online saying that Wen Jing's struggles also stem from her unwillingness to deny the path she has taken. If pushing children to grow up is wrong, and working hard is wrong, then what is her previous life worth?"
“I’ve seen this before, too.”
Mentioning this, Ling Suisui became more energetic: "This blogger's evaluation of Wen Jing is really to the point. It feels like she and I are on the same wavelength."
Ling Suisui first starts with Qin Wenjing’s identity, she is a very anxious middle-class person. This class seems to be neither better than the upper class nor worse than the lower class, but when it comes to intergenerational inheritance, its embarrassing nature is exposed.
The bourgeoisie can pass their social status on to their children through inheritance, but the middle class cannot. It is impossible for Qin Miaoyi to directly inherit Qin Wenjing's job and position in the Internet giant. Even if she has a little educational advantage at the starting line, this competition still requires her to participate in person, and the outcome is unknown.
Qin Wenjing was once the winner of the competition - from her perspective, that was how her life was.
Her definition of happiness is based on the fact that she is a winner, so that all the suffering she has endured is worthwhile. To deny this kind of internal fighting is basically to deny everything about her.
"Moreover, many people were against Wen Jing raising a child alone, and kept telling her that the child needed a father."
Ling Suisui added some background to the story: "The more others were pessimistic, the more she held her breath. She wanted everyone to see that even if her child didn't have a father, he could still live well and be more successful than others."
Qin Wenjing certainly hopes that Qin Miaoyi will have a good life in the future. To be more specific, she very much hopes that her daughter's successful life also comes from her guidance and support.
Ling Suisui was talking excitedly, and Tang Bing and Feng Li were listening attentively.
...Well, actually she was not sure whether Feng Li could understand, but she looked very serious.
After finishing speaking, Ling Suisui thought of something else, so he asked the host: "Can what I just said be broadcasted?"
The host doesn’t know either, but this is a recorded broadcast, so the worst that can happen is that it will just be cut out.
However, that would be a pity... She really wanted more people to know that Sui Huang's understanding of the character had already reached the next level, and that Qin Wenjing's personality was very delicate and could not be summarized by a few labels.
Under the much-talked-about topic of "Ling Sui-sui plays a mother for the first time", Qin Wenjing is herself first, and then Qin Miaoyi's mother.
Her love for her daughter, her stubbornness, unwillingness, vanity and desire for control mixed together in her heart, sometimes conflicting, sometimes merging into one, but ultimately entangled in the blood relationship for a long time.
The host really wanted to speak boldly. Perhaps Qin Wenjing is not the most perfect mother character in the history of domestic dramas, but she is definitely the most three-dimensional, the most real, and the most charismatic.
She kept thinking this in her mind until the interview question turned to Tang Bing, and the host added another "one of" in her mind.
“In fact, the three generations are the stories of women of three different ages searching for themselves.”
Tang Bing commented on Qin Meijuan: "She thought she had to overcome the shackles of marriage, and her opponent was Xu Jianhua. She had to find a way to make him agree to divorce, so that she could be free."
"But in reality, what she needs to overcome is the inertia she has developed over the past few decades. If she can't change her old mindset, then there is actually no essential difference between living around her husband and living around her daughter or granddaughter."
"Meijuan learned this earlier than Wenjing. She didn't have much education, and other than being able to endure hardships, she didn't have any particularly outstanding character traits, so she couldn't teach Wenjing by example. The only thing she taught her daughter again was how to be a mother."
Tang Bing mentioned the topic of three generations of women. Feng Li was about to say something, but Ling Suisui found that she had fallen asleep in his arms.
Before anyone could finish wondering whether to wake Feng Li up, she woke up on her own.
Feng Li was confused at first, but when she remembered that she was being filmed, she quickly straightened her sitting posture. However, her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't lift them up.
"You should take a rest." Ling Suisui fixed her hair. "In fact, it would be more in line with Miaoyi's character if you just slacked off on the side."
Feng Li got Ling Sui's sense of humor. She found it very funny and felt that she was gradually getting over her sleepiness.
In the end, she persisted until the end of the live recording. An outstanding female star will never lower her professionalism because of her young age.
It was already four o'clock. Tang Bing took Feng Li to find a place to rest nearby, while Ling Suisui got on a business car to the airport. She didn't even change her clothes or remove her makeup before she hurried to the airport.
Feng Li watched her leave and couldn't help but close her eyelids again.
She asked Tang Bing: "Grandma, were you so hard-working before?"
Tang Bing really wanted to say that this was just the beginning, there were even more tiring times when filming in the past.
But it was late at night, and she didn't want to give Feng Li chicken soup. Moreover, it is meaningless to compare who works harder. It is not only the hardest working people in the world who are qualified to feel tired.
"This is the life she chose," said Tang Bing and Feng Li. "I believe she will enjoy it."
——If you yearn for her life, I hope you are mentally prepared enough.
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