The best way to live in middle age: high spirits, low material
Author | Fan Deng Reading · Zhang Ms.
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The protagonist who appeared today is called the "most expensive" actor in China.
However, he has won 33 actors for more than 40 years of debut, but he has only shot 1 commercial. He has fought with nasopharyngeal cancer for more than 20 years and interpreted his love for the profession of actors with his life.
Let's go to the famous performing artists together. - Li Xuejian 's wonderful life ~
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Today, the famous old artist Li Xuejian is 68 years old.
There are no hot searches and no topics. This birthday, he is as low-key as ever.
As the actor Hu Jun said at the 8th Beijing International Film Festival :
"He (Li Xuejian) is the only actor in China to win a Grand Slam, but his life is simple and he is low-key.
His evaluation of himself is only one sentence, 'I can't speak, and the words I want to say are all in the role I play'."
Since he started filming, he has only shot one advertisement and has lived the most low-key life.
Li Xuejian's life is just like what he once said: "Do work seriously and be honest and honest."
His down-to-earth and simplicity can face choices calmly and look at life soberly.
On February 20, 1954, Li Xuejian was born in a small village in Juye, Heze, Shandong Province.
After a heavy snowfall, his parents named it "Snow Jian". After
, his parents felt distressed and changed his name to "Xuejian" for him, hoping that he would be safe and healthy.
10 years old, Li Xuejian's family moved to Guizhou. In school, he was selected into the school's literary and artistic publicity team because he spoke well in Mandarin .
In 1973, Li Xuejian joined the army. Four years later, he was admitted to the Air Affairs Art Troupe.
came to Beijing from rural Shandong. Li Xuejian cherished this opportunity very much. Although he usually plays a supporting role and plays a small role, he insists on studying hard and practicing hard.
26 years old, he finally won the role of Lin Biao in the drama "September 13th Incident".
In order to make himself more like in shape, he shaved his hair without hesitation and lost 20 kilograms of weight.
At the same time, he learned through documentaries and other methods:
"Lin Biao's stomach is not good, so he must eat soybeans when he wakes up in the morning. There must be two things in his pocket, telescope and soybeans."
It is for this amazing performance that Li Xuejian won the first highest award in the drama performance art - Plum Blossom Award .
And Li Xuejian really entered the public eye 10 years later, that is, the TV series " Desire " and the movie "Jiao Yulu" released in 1990.
When "Desire" was broadcast, it was said that there were thousands of people.The slogan of "Marrying a wife, marrying Liu Huifang, marrying a woman, marrying Song Dacheng " made Song Dacheng, played by Li Xuejian, a model of good men of that era.
To play Song Dacheng, he gained more than ten pounds of weight, but in order to make the role of Jiao Yulu more popular, he resolutely decided to lose weight.
4. I ate cabbage for 3 months and only slept for two hours a day, successfully losing 30 kilograms. After the filming of the movie started, Jiao Yulu's wife Xu Junya was moved by his efforts and said with heartache:
"It's really hard for Xue Jian."
For every role he played, Li Xuejian has such almost crazy seriousness and obsession, which belongs to his pursuit.
Because of this, Li Xuejian has ushered in the peak of his career.
He won the 11th Chinese TV Series Feitian Award and the 9th Chinese TV Golden Eagle Award Best Actor Award for "Desire".
and the movie "Jiao Yulu" also made him the double actor of the Golden Rooster Awards and the Hundred Flowers Awards that year.
When he came on stage to receive the award, his speech on winning made the audience applause:
"The hardship and fatigue both make a good man Jiao Yulu bear, and fame and fortune make a fool Li Xuejian get."
After his acting skills are becoming increasingly recognized, Li Xuejian, who is late to become a latecomer, has always been sober about his career and fame:
does not have the arrogance of becoming famous, nor does he have the high profile of honor and honor. He only has the seriousness and original intention of performing.
After the movie "Jiao Yulu" was broadcast, Li Xuejian became popular all over the country.
In 1992, an advertiser came to the door:
"Teacher Li Xuejian, we have an advertisement for liver medicine. You just need to act like Jiao Yulu and cover your liver and promote it for us."
At that time, the cost of this advertisement was 200,000 yuan.
The two dramas "Desire" and "Jiao Yulu" combined, and his salary was less than 20,000 yuan.
But Li Xuejian refused without hesitation: "I won't make any more money."
In 2004, a lozenges advertisement was found. This was the only advertisement he received in his life, with the line "No sound, no matter how good the drama is, it cannot be produced."
Later, he played a deaf and mute in the TV series " Take the wrong car ".
A reporter asked him:
"Didn't you say that no matter how good the sound is, you can't get it? How did you play the mute character this time?"
Although it was a heartless saying, he felt embarrassed and never accepted commercial advertisements again.
After that, Li Xuejian has a deeper understanding of how to correctly face the profession of actors, which has a "halo":
First, you must have self-knowledge, second, you must grasp the degree, and third, you must have a pure heart.
At the 19th Beijing University Student Film Festival , Li Xuejian won the Best Actor Award for the movie "Yang Shanzhou". After the party ended, he came to Yunnan again and presented the trophy to Yang Shanzhou Memorial Hall.
After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, he donated 1 million yuan.
Unexpectedly, he was sneered: Why did he donate 1 million yuan after acting for a lifetime?
But no one knows that after he got cancer in 2000, he wanted to give up treatment several times because the surgery was too expensive and he was reluctant to spend money.
Reviewed when he was seriously ill, he once described it like this: "I am the fish whose internal organs were broken. Life is worse than death."
After his hearing and voice were severely damaged, he insisted on returning to filming. He said: "If you shoot one less, you have to make one."
Just like that, Li Xuejian gained a good reputation regardless of inside and outside the circle.
2016 Golden Eagle Festival Awards Ceremony, Hu Ge walked up to him before taking the stage to receive the award, bent down to shake hands, and leaned close to his ear and said humbly:
"I feel sorry for it!" This behavior represents the respect of a junior to his senior's acting career from the bottom of his heart.
Like Hu Ge, the young actor Bai Yu , who became popular because of "The Courtyard of Qiao Family", said bluntly that Teacher Li Xuejian is his role model.
Be like him and become a clean and pure good actor.
When filming the TV series "Young Marshal", Bai Yu was greatly impacted when he watched Li Xuejian act.
In the interview, he described the scene at that time like this:
"The old man dressed very simply, and there was nothing in life.
When he passed by, if you don't look carefully, you won't know that he is Li Xuejian. I went to the scene to watch it while filming, and it was completely two people in life."
Just like that, he watched Li Xuejian and other groups of veteran actors performing.
is also the process, which makes Bai Yu completely awake, get rid of all kinds of frivolous problems in his previous youth, and be determined to become a person like him.
I want to talk about these years, Li Xuejian has another thing that has been ashamed of.
When filming " emerged from the sky" in 1999, the prototype character should be very thin in a difficult environment, but Li Xuejian was a little fatter. He remembered the incident of
for more than 20 years and felt ashamed of the audience.
After that, he has given his all to every role he plays.
He said that his ability is limited, but he must do his best. This is his attitude.
When filming the movie "Yang Shanzhou", he ran to Daliangshan to experience life:
Wear clothes that the old man had worn, sleep on the bed that the old man had slept, and walk on the mountain road that the old man had walked...
After the diagnosis of nasopharyngeal cancer, he went to the hospital for chemotherapy in the morning and then went to the crew to film in the afternoon.
When filming the last scene of "China Track", it was already very difficult to speak, but he still finished speaking a long line in one go, which was so touched that the staff present burst into tears.
In order to continue his acting career, he chose conservative treatment, which caused serious damage to his voice and hearing. After returning to filming, in order to ensure the smooth shooting, he always memorized the other party's lines and knew what to say by looking at the lip.
Although his health is not as good as before, he still starred in "Young Marshal" and "Hey! "Old Man" many film and television works.
Among them, he won the Best Supporting Actor at the 50th Golden Horse Awards for his role as Li Peiji in the movie "1942".
Feng Xiaogang therefore praised him as a "strong pillar" in "1942", Wang Zhonglei believes that he is "really a palace-level performer", while Chen Guofu said that Li Xuejian "showed his ability to be a master of the generation!"
But when praised, he hopes that the audience will forget Li Xuejian and remember the role. He believes that actors are to constantly repay the audience's love with new characters.
In the popular drama "The Young Marshal", Li Xuejian plays the "Old Marshal" Zhang Zuolin, and his magical acting skills are shocking again.
"The world is not about fighting and killing, but the world is about human nature!"
has passed, but I believe many viewers remember these classic lines, which shows that this Northeast "old cannon" with a ecstasy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
After watching this drama, Dou Wentao is very frank:
"I jumped to watch "Young Marshal" and watched Zhang Zuolin, the old coach played by Li Xuejian.
The old coach died, the drama is over, you can stop watching it."
received such recognition, and Li Xuejian believed that it was the audience who placed their emotions towards the characters in the play on the actors. Actors need to make friends with audiences using roles!
This may also be the reason why Li Xuejian has been favored by audiences and media for more than 40 years since his career.
He once said: "I'm stupid and can't speak. All the things I want to say are in the role."
Someone asked: "From an actor, what do you think is the most expensive in your heart?"
He replied: "The audience is the most expensive."
As the poet Haizi once said:
"What the world needs is not the reeds, flags and goose feathers that repeatedly fall, but something that grows from the deepest foundation.
Real things should grow upward."
As a well-known Chinese performing artist, he does not have an agent or assistant.
What is even more touching is that when attending important award ceremony, he will wear the national emblem to express his most simple love for the motherland and remind himself not to forget his identity as a party member!
For fame, his heart is as calm as water; for fame, he has no distractions.
If you ask Li Xuejian when will he be the happiest?
His answer is definitely the same as in the past: "I am the happiest when I eat a box lunch, because I feel that I can act again."
Just as someone praises Li Xuejian, the most proud identity that makes him proudest in this life is not just an actor, but also a warrior. On the position of
, the smoke of gunpowder has not dissipated, and the mission is still there!
and friends to encourage each other.
Author | Ms. Zhang, a master's degree in communication, former urban newspaper emotional confidant reporter, and now a middle-aged girl who writes under her daughter's nickname.
column manager | Chengzi
typesetting | Zheng Xiangbei
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