Why do I like Huang Xuan ?
Text by Yan Lingyang
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I have recently been following the new drama "Welcome" by Huang Xuan and Bai Baihe . I also wrote some small feelings on the trumpet before (click here to read "Thoughts of watching Huang Xuan and Bai Baihe's new drama" of》).
I am a big fan of Huang Xuan, but I don’t like to see him bullying others like a domineering CEO.
I just like to watch him being bullied, wronged, ignored, cheated on, abandoned, betrayed, hurt, and treated miserably in movies and TV series, and then my Holy Mother heart will burst, okay Wanted to rush in and protect him.
I really think that Huang Xuan’s appearance is only suitable for playing that kind of role, just like Mars meets dry firewood, his whole person can ignite.
In "Welcome", he played such a low-level character - a little doorman in the hotel. He pursues the goddess he wants - Bai Baihe, who is a stewardess. Many times he is extremely cheap, but I just like to see him being abused.
To be honest, Huang Xuan's acting skills are still online.
When he acts in movies, everything he does is good to watch, and no matter what he does, he makes me want to pounce on him and chew him up.
He is also very good in costume dramas, such as "The Legend of Mi Yue" and "The Legend of the Demon Cat". He has the feeling of "a gentleman without equal in the world".
However, as soon as he acted in a modern workplace drama, I felt that he deserved a beating and wanted to jump up and beat him.
I think Huang Xuan's temperament is only suitable for playing characters who have been badly abused and beaten by society, not a boss.
Look how good he was in "Youth" and "Massage"; even "Only Yun Knows " was pretty good. Seeing how heartbroken and unlucky he was, I wished I could give him all the money I had.
As soon as he plays the role of the boss, people just want to shout "It's over, it's become greasy." I just want to summon Shenlong and let Ming Dao and Ethan Ruan come back to replace him.
Now, he can lower his body and play such a humble role in "Welcome". It feels like he has broken through some kind of psychological barrier. In the future, you should be able to be more flexible in your acting skills, right?
I have never been good at looking at men, but I think Huang Xuan is pretty good. It seems that he and his girlfriend have been in love for more than a year, and I hope he doesn't collapse the house.
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Why do I like Huang Xuan? This story has to start a long time ago.
I especially like to read stories about celebrities who are not yet famous and are struggling to get roles. Huang Xuan is no exception.
Huang Xuan was born in Lanzhou in 1985 into an ordinary working-class family. When he was 12 years old, his parents, who had been quarreling all day long, chose to divorce. He was taken by his mother to live in Guangzhou, and it was difficult for him to adapt to the Cantonese-speaking environment.
In 2004, 19-year-old Huang Xuan passed the Beijing Dance Academy . When he was a sophomore, he was noticed by director Zhang Yimou and was going to invite him to play the role of Liu Ye's younger brother in "The Golden Armor", but... this matter went south.
Zhang Yimou originally planned to cast Huang Xuan as the little prince. Later, considering the box office appeal, the director added Jay Chou to the role. Huang Xuan was too old to play the younger brother, so Huang Xuan was replaced.
14-year-old Qin Junjie played the role of the third prince, while Huang Xuan, as a student of dance academy, was a group dancer in the opening song of the premiere celebration of "The Golden Armor". He could only watch helplessly as all the main creators appeared on stage, while he himself was just a backup dancer hiding behind.
Huang Xuan later said when talking about this past event:
""The City of Golden Armor" had a big impact on me. In fact, the script originally only had two princes, and the character structure was like "Thunderstorm", one brother and one brother. The younger brother, Jay Chou, was added later.
The younger brother’s character was 19 years old at the time, and I was a freshman, so he was just the right age. At that time, I auditioned for scenes and makeup for more than half a year, and kept auditioning one after another. In the end, the assistant director followed me He said it was no problem, it was settled.
I was so excited at the time that I could work with director Zhang Yimou and act with Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li teachers. I couldn’t even think about it. But suddenly they were gone for almost a month. Contact me, and then it was published in the newspaper that the movie was about to start filming.
I asked the assistant director if we were still filming, and then he said, 'The director asked me to apologize to you. The producer may have added it for distribution reasons. Jay Chou came in and said, "The little prince needs to be adjusted to a younger age. He is going to be adjusted to 14 or 15 years old. You are not suitable." I was very frustrated at the time.
Then for more than a year, "The Golden Armor" was promoted overwhelmingly, and every time I When I see it, my heart trembles."
As an actor, who doesn't want to be famous? It's completely understandable that Huang Xuan is frustrated by such a potential hit drama.
Destiny always seems to like to make jokes like this with Huang Xuan, sometimes for some "you know" reasons.
In 2009, he took over the filming of the movie "Rizhao Chongqing". At that time, he was already determined to be one of the male protagonists. However, before the filming started, he was called by the director again and asked him and another boy to audition once each.
Huang Xuan later recalled: After he finished the audition, only the director applauded. After the boy finished the audition, all the investors applauded, and he knew that he was going to be replaced again.
Do you think he was unlucky just once or twice?
is not.
Huang Xuan just debuted, and he was fortunate enough to participate in the filming of " The Night of Spring Breeze" directed by Lou Ye. He originally had a 40-minute scene, but in the end the director considered the overall expression of the movie and his scene was cut. Only a background remains.
Huang Xuan didn't know about it at the time. In order to go to Cannes with the movie, he asked the crew to take a week's leave, but he still didn't hear back. When I asked, I found out that he was no longer in the movie.
In 2007, Huang Xuan participated in the "New Dream of Red Mansions" actor audition and entered the finals of the Baoyu group. At the last moment, he was replaced by Yang Yang. Huang Xuan could only play the supporting role " Xue Biao".
Xue Biao is the cousin of Xue Baochai. He has very few roles. Many people have watched the entire "A Dream of Red Mansions" and still can't find him.
In 2010, the movie "Ocean Paradise " starring Jet Li and Wen Zhang was released. It tells the story of a father and his autistic son. In this movie, Huang Xuan was originally scheduled to play the role of "son".
In order to perform this play well, Huang Xuan spent an entire summer to experience life at a school for autistic patients in the suburbs of Beijing. He lived and ate with them, and then practiced swimming. He went to the sports school swimming pool three times a week. .
As a result, at the last moment, he was replaced again, just because some people said that he didn't look much like Jet Li. So, the person who acted with Jet Li was replaced by Wen Wen.
A blessing in disguise.
Although Huang Xuan failed to appear in Lou Ye's movie in the end, his performance still impressed director Lou Ye, so director Lou Ye immediately thought of Huang Xuan when he was preparing to shoot "Massage" a few years later.
Huang Xuan played the protagonist of the blind "Pony" in the movie "Massage", starring with Guo Xiaodong, Mei Ting and others. I have seen this movie
. It is about a couple of blind people. In the movie, those who are not blind are called "sound people" instead of "normal people". I see a truth from this: Sometimes, the invisible things are the truth of the world.
This is a good movie, but it can be quite depressing.Xiao Ma, played by Huang Xuan, fell in love with the blind wife of Guo Xiaodong ( also played a blind man ). The blind girl played by Mei Ting also liked him, but he had no feelings for Mei Ting. Later, he went to find the lady and fell in love with her. Xiaoman, a girl who washes her hair, regains his sight by accident during an "anti-pornography" conflict.
At the end of the movie, he lives with Xiaoman.
This can be said to be Huang Xuan's first true masterpiece, the kind that can be compared with any big Chinese movie star.
At that time, in order to play this role more realistically, he went to the local school for the blind in Nanjing to experience life, where he ate and studied with the blind people.
The movie "Massage" won the Best Cinematography Award at the Berlin Film Festival and swept six awards at the Golden Horse Awards that year. However, our poor Huang Xuan was not shortlisted for Best Actor by one vote.
Yes. Just one vote difference.
The cruelest thing in life is actually "almost". If it was impossible to get it, there would be no illusions. But if you were once so close to success and happiness, then fate made you "just a little short".
For example, if you take an exam and fail by one point; on the competition field, you can win a medal with 0.001 seconds difference; when applying for some positions, there are 10 people recruiting, but you are ranked 11th overall.
Huang Xuan is one of those people who "almost became famous" many times but had to wait several years.
"Massage" was well received but not a hit. Many people still don't know who Huang Xuan is. Later, he met Jiang Wenli .
Jiang Wenli was not in a good relationship with Gu Changwei at that time, and she was at the stage of competing with her husband in her acting career. During this period, some scandals also spread. Huang Xuan later said in an interview that he felt those rumors were an insult to himself and Jiang Wenli. After
, Huang Xuan still had some opportunities. He participated in the movie "The Golden Age of ", playing the most lovable character Luo Binji, like a ray of light illuminating Xiao Hong on the sick bed.
In the popular TV series "Red Sorghum" in 2014, he played the role of Zhang Junjie , but for this role, he auditioned three times before being selected, and it was highly recommended by Zhou Xun.
Everyone knows what happened next. He appeared in TV series such as "The Legend of Mi Yue", "The Legend of the Female Doctor Ming Fei", " Dear Translator ", and appeared in Feng Xiaogang 's movies. He finally became popular and became " The nation's first love", "quiet and warm man" and "artistic male god".
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I didn’t know that Huang Xuan came from a divorced family until I was watching Lu Yu’s interview with Huang Xuan. His parents are from Gansu, and he lived in Guangzhou with his mother when he was very young.
Affected by his parents' divorce, Huang Xuan spent an unhappy childhood. For a long time, his best friends were the three big trees in front of his dormitory.
When Huang Xuan was about 15 years old, Huang Xuan's father remarried in Beijing, and at that time he was attending a technical secondary school in a dance academy in Guangzhou.
He said that he has many families, including his mother in Guangzhou, his uncle and aunt in his hometown in Gansu, and his father and stepmother in Beijing. He has relatives everywhere, but he is not the closest person to him anywhere, so he said that the New Year is getting better and better. It’s getting more and more boring. I go traveling when I’m not working.
Huang Xuan's father was a respectable man who devoted himself to public welfare undertakings. Perhaps he was too busy, which led to a heart attack and left Huang Xuan early.
Huang Xuan was only about 22 years old at that time and had not become famous. When he received the bad news, he took the bus home overnight while traveling and cried sadly all the way.
Later, his most beloved grandparents passed away, and he still did not become famous.
When the movie "Massage" was wrapping up, Huang Xuan had to rush to Shanghai to shoot the movie "The Golden Age". When he walked out of the set dragging his big and small bags, he chatted with director Lou Ye for a long time, saying to the effect: "I won't do it this time. Will my role be reduced?"
Another time, he said in an interview that he wanted to take on some TV dramas that would become popular, so that he would have more say when choosing movies. Get good movies without having to worry about being replaced again.
These details make me feel particularly sad. It seems that even though he has become famous, the psychological shadow caused by the past role-changing incidents will always remain with him.
I think it is difficult to define Huang Xuan with an accurate vocabulary, because he looks like an elegant ancient man and a man from the Republic of China; he is melancholy and warm; he is both a powerful and an idol; he seems to be very He is aloof and seems to be very friendly.
But perhaps it is this inexplicable and unclear temperament that keeps his acting path from being too narrow and he can be qualified for many roles.
When it was revealed by the media that Huang Xuan was dating a Korean actress, the WeChat group of his best friends was in mourning. Everyone was crying and saying: "How come he was seduced by a Korean girl? In such a big China, can't he find the one he likes? Guangzhou There are quite a few."
I replied: "Take me for example."
We women aged "30+", if we like an actor, we must look at his character. I think there is another important reason why Huang Xuan is favored by mature women like us: He is humble, low-key, clean and self-contained, and has connotation.
Sometimes, becoming famous at a young age is not necessarily a good thing (such as articles) . Because I am young and because fame and fortune come so easily, I tend to be arrogant and feel that the whole world has to pave the way for myself. Of course, it is easier to stumble.
Perhaps it was because of Huang Xuan’s tragic-sounding role-changing experiences that he cherished those hard-won opportunities and life more, and would not become impetuous, arrogant, big-name, or self-aggrandizing because of his popularity. .
html More than 8 years ago, he collaborated with Jiang Wenli in " Women Help ". In the movie, the two experienced a year-long love affair, but in real life there were also scandals. Some people said that Jiang Wenli supported him, which made the city a storm, but later it turned out that it was nothing but a lie.
When he later talked about this incident, he said: "I was angry and felt hurt, and the little self-esteem I had seemed to have been trampled under my feet."
I like people who have experienced some setbacks before finally succeeding. , because I subconsciously feel that such success seems to be more solid, and I also feel that their character is more trustworthy.
When it was constantly revealed in the entertainment industry that male stars were taking drugs and engaging in prostitution, I felt that there were two male stars who would definitely not do this. One is Hu Ge , and the other is Huang Xuan, because they are both people who have truly experienced despair.
Hu Ge's bad luck was that he was in a car accident and was almost completely disfigured, but after his transformation, he became the unique "Mei Changsu" in our minds. Huang Xuan's misfortune lies in the fact that he has been replaced many times and has missed out on some big hits.
What they both have in common is that were both very unlucky in the past, but in the end they both achieved a gorgeous turn. By the time he really becomes famous, he will already be quite young, so he shouldn't be too pretentious. After they became famous, they also acted in a down-to-earth manner without any deliberate hype. There were almost no vulgar scandals and gossips. Most of the comments given to them by others were "clean", "low-key", "humble" and "dedicated", and they continued to practice after becoming famous. When it comes to your acting skills, never forget that you are an actor. If you treat your work well, don't be too sentimental, and take good care of your feathers, you will be a high-quality man in the entertainment industry.
Anyway, if a person has never been truly unlucky or experienced pain, how can he truly know how to revere and cherish it?
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By chance, I saw what Huang Xuan wrote many years ago in his blog. He said:
"Recently, I suddenly felt that treating acting as a career is a very sad behavior! It should be the output of energy, the expression of life feelings, and the transmission of one's own thoughts, attitudes, and feelings...
And when When you don’t have a sufficient source of energy, and when you don’t have works that inspire your feelings and expressions, you can only use technology to make up for it. Over time, the vivid and vivid expressions will transform into work full of technical content, no different from that of a craftsman! But my current stage is still a practice stage, and I need to practice and develop some techniques to better serve my feelings.
Therefore, when the energy is exhausted and I am unable to express, I have to stop and look for more fresh experiences and feelings. , and then express it... it should be like this!"
In fact, I think the same is true for writing... But after I discovered the limitations and ceiling of my abilities, I have fallen and started to accept that I can only be a blogger. It does not exist as an author ( is not even a writer. If you have not published ten books, you are a writer ).
Persistence and perseverance often rely not on grabbing, not busyness, or expansion, but on restraint, tranquility, and "collection."
When people face temptation, it is difficult not to reach out. Therefore, those who can endure it are the ones who can really get things done.
me? Forget it, I can make some money to support my family, and then I can forget about raising my children.
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Author: Yan Lingyang, born in the 1980s, emotional columnist, new feminism author, member of the Chinese Writers Association. He is the author of the best-selling books "Those things that cause you pain, one day you will say it with a smile", "May you let go of the past and be worthy of the future", "May you have a journey and a way out", "I'm Divorced", "Yes" You Are Not Lonely in the World - An Alternative Interpretation of Jin Yong's Martial Arts Novels" and the children's picture book "Mom's Home, Dad's Home". With 13 years of financial industry (management) experience, he is currently the founder of a cultural information consulting company and co-founder of a cultural media company in Guangzhou. Born in Lijiang, Yunnan, now lives in Guangzhou. Welcome to follow WeChat public account: Yan Lingyang Weibo: Yan Lingyang~
