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Text: Mei Mei
Edited by Mei Mei
Mr. Xie Xian's life path can be described as ups and downs, from the rich second generation of the young bejeweled youth, to the mixed wine market to chase the waves of the entertainment industry, and then to the career of fame and fortune in the entertainment industry, and then the family was empty, until the twilight of the year to regain the glory of life, which can be called the most tortuous and bizarre legend in the Hong Kong entertainment industry!
Glamorous family background
As a descendant of the well-known Hong Kong family, Mr. Xie Xian has been surrounded by a wealthy life since he was a child. His father, Xie Zefen, was the "gambling king" of the year, owning properties and land in Hong Kong and Macau.
Xie Xian, who is belated, is the youngest son in the family, he has been surrounded and pampered by eight brothers and sisters since he was a child, and he grew up in such a rich and noble family, how can he be a "cynical"!
In addition to the gambling business, the Xie family also operates many other industries, and the family's prestige and strength are famous. If you want to talk about Xie Xian's life when he was a child, he really grew up surrounded by a rich and precious life.
The family has money, and wherever he goes to play is the magnanimity of the eldest lady and the young master, and everything he does is a first-class treatment, Xie Xian, who has been pampered since he was a child, also has a bit of the carelessness and willfulness of a noble son.
However, the nobles still have to devote themselves to the society after all, and due to the influence of family education, Xie Xian planned to take over the family's casino business at first. As a result, the family felt that the casino business would be too simple in the future, and hoped that he could engage in a more decent and serious business.
Just when Xie Xian was at a loss, his family suddenly opened their eyes and felt that the film industry would be a promising emerging industry, so they earnestly persuaded Xie Xian to change his career to the entertainment industry. Xie Xian is outstanding in qualifications and beautiful in appearance, and secondly, his family can also use this to expand their influence in the film industry, which seems to be a win-win choice.
So, 17-year-old Xie Xian unexpectedly stepped into the gorgeous entertainment industry. At that time, Xie Xian could be said to be better than the stars, with a beautiful face, a slender and sturdy figure, and a solid foundation of noble temperament in his family, which made him attract attention as soon as he debuted in the entertainment industry.
With a delicate and beautiful face, Xie Xian was soon photographed by the director and starred in many youth idol dramas, which were all the rage and became the dream lover of thousands of girls.
In this way, in the first ten years of his career, Xie Xian was active in countless youth idol dramas, and quickly rose to prominence with his handsome appearance, and was affectionately called "Fourth Brother" by the audience. The salary is also rising, from a few hundred yuan at the beginning, to a sky-high salary of tens of thousands of yuan for each appearance in the future.
The position of the bigwig in the entertainment industry is stable
Entering the 70s, Xie Xian can be said to have completely sat on the throne of a first-line superstar. When a movie was completed, even international superstars Bruce Lee and Chen Jiaju took the initiative to give up the leading role to him. Xie Xian has long been a bigwig who has swept the film industry and commanded the party.
Rich, powerful, and chic, Xie Xian's peach blossom luck is naturally very vigorous, and he has been entangled with countless stunning actresses. is most famous for the 12-year relationship with the "Hong Kong Little Swallow" Sister Jialing, and the two can be described as the most eye-catching pair in the entertainment industry
When Xie Xian was in his 30s, his career had already reached its peak. In order to complete his career, he founded his own film company in 1967 and has been working as a director and screenwriter ever since. Under his leadership, the company has shot many popular films and won many heavyweight awards.
But at this time, Xie Xian's life took a dramatic turn. Xie Xian gambled all his net worth in just a few years, and lost all his family fortune to the gambling table. From a wealthy prince to a poor man with nothing, this huge contrast in life is undoubtedly a heavy blow to Xie Xian, who is accustomed to the life of a noble son.
Career and family are happy
Just when Xie Xian's life was at the bottom, his old friend Hong Kong gambling king Stanley Ho reached out in time to help, not only paying off his gambling debts, but also generously funding him to re-open a film and television company, allowing him to regain his career.
Just when his career started again, Xie Xian's love life was also full of successes. He tied the knot with actress Zhen Zhen, and the relationship between the two has been very stable since they got married. In 9 years, Xie Xian and Miss Hong Kong champion Deborah entered the marriage hall again. Although both marriages ended in divorce, in the limited few years, Xie Xian can be regarded as trying the warmth of family life.
What's even more unexpected is that 69-year-old Xie Xian fell in love with CoCo, a 49-year-old beauty younger than him, and the two have been in love for 12 years. Some media once speculated whether the two would become "grandmothers and grandsons"? However, what is sad is that this pair of "year-old lovers" did not achieve a positive result in the end.
Xie Xian, who has no regrets in life, will inevitably encounter some troubles in his later years. As he gets older, many viewers and film critics begin to question whether this former screen idols is "outdated" and whether he still has the strength to play wonderful roles.
In the face of doubts from the outside world, Xie Xian didn't care. As a grandmaster-level veteran of the film industry, he has long internalized the calmness of "age irrelevance". In fact, Xie Xian, who is over eighty years old, still maintains the vitality and fighting spirit of a young man. Whenever he is on the set, he always devotes himself to the role with full enthusiasm and conquers the audience with his amazing acting skills.
At the age of 86, Xie Xian starred in a movie called "Deus Ex Twilight". It is known as "the sword is not old, and it deserves its name". In the end, this eighty-year-old actor won the highest honor of Best Actor at the Academy Awards.
In this movie, Xie Xian's opponent and competitor is actually his biological son Nicholas Tse. Nicholas Tse was a popular little king of the first brother, and he has made great achievements in the development of film and television songs. But in the competition for the Academy Awards, the son was finally defeated by the mastery of the family heirloom and was crushed by his father. However, Nicholas Tse didn't care at all, and generously congratulated his father on his outstanding achievements.
In fact, Xie Xian and Nicholas Tse can be said to be models of "family heirloom songs" in the film industry. The two have won many awards and careers, and they can be called the "dynasty family" in the Hong Kong entertainment industry. The descendants of the Xie family are even more famous in the film and television industry, and none of the three generations of children and grandchildren have been left behind, just like a "king's wind" in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
epilogue
From a rich son to a generation of grandmasters, from a family path to a double harvest of career and family, from being questioned as "outdated" to winning the throne of the actor against age, Xie Xian's legendary life experience can be called ups and downs and confusing. With his tenacious struggle, he wrote the most wonderful footnotes of an artist. This is the background of life that the most legendary person in the Hong Kong film industry should have!