Zeng Jiang has suffered from gout in recent years, and his movement is not very convenient, so he came with crutches on this day.
"Gout must be eaten, but I don't quit, tofu say not to eat, seafood and seafood say not to eat, then what does it mean to be a human being?" I'd rather take medicine. Now the most important thing to be a person is to be happy and enjoyable."
His voice was like a bell, a silver hair was combed shiny, and his style was still there. The years have left marks on his face and body, but in the bottom of his heart, he is still dashing and uninhibited. The crutch was only like a filming prop, and it did not hit the confidence in the slightest.
Zeng Jiang has been in the film for more than 60 years, and his footprints have traveled to the Asia-Pacific region and Hollywood, and each of our generations has their own impression of him. I have the privilege of experiencing the days of TV fishing in the 80s, Zeng Jiang in my mind is highly skilled in martial arts, arrogant and conceited, never sticking to the world's vision, is the most deserved Eastern Evil Yellow Medicine Master. Having lived for eighty-seven years, he is now even more spoiled.
"I am an inch, this line is not a dare inch, not an inch I can afford, but I dare to inch."
This sentence has often hung on the mouth of Zeng Jiang over the years. The difference is that today with a smile. The edges and corners are still there, but they don't hurt anymore.
Traveled all over the world, the "Peach Blossom Island" of Tsang River, and finally landed in Kowloon City. He has moved several times, and he can't leave this area.
"Surrounded by old friends, after passing the grocery store, you can go in to study the sauce eating method; after the tea restaurant, you can eat an egg tart, don't remember to bring money, the next day to give." 」 I can even go to the stall and just buy five four-season beans! Yes, five cuts of stir-fried minced meat are enough for the two of us to eat, and the vegetable stalls dare not charge me money. It's not my province, he really doesn't take it! Ginger, onions and garlic don't need to be talked about."
Zeng Jiang was very energetic. On the screen, under the screen is as kind as the grandfather in your family. He has loved cooking in recent years because he can be effective in killing time.
"After breakfast in the morning, what do you want to eat at noon and night, steamed meatloaf or dumplings?" Eating or eating noodles or steamed buns? Go to the market to buy vegetables, you can spend a morning, go back home to wash vegetables, cut vegetables, cured meat, and play for another day."
"I ask for what to eat, but usually I cherish every meal." In the past, there was no opportunity or interest in cooking, but in recent years, there have been fewer jobs and more cooking at home. Initially got the kitchen smoke miasma, quality and poor, quantity and not, the result is to go out to chop char siu back! Later, after boiling, I began to eat well, and the kitchen was cooked as if it had not been cooked. I'm talented, but I try to study because it's so much fun. You play with cars, yachts, women, expensive enough to fly; cooking is really the cheapest and most time-consuming thing in the world, and you can watch yourself progress, you say how happy!" 」
Zeng Jiang yangyang was proud and smiled very happily. Buying vegetables and beating teeth and dice is the daily life of an eighty-seven-year-old man, but being able to buy five four-season beans and walk out of the Kowloon City street market with a smile also symbolizes the status of the jianghu for more than 60 years.
Zeng Jiang's original name was Zeng Guanyi, born in Shanghai, his grandfather was educated in the West, and he was a scholar for generations. In 1949, he came to Hong Kong with his family and lived in Papington Road, Mid-Levels, Central, in an environment. He was in secondary school at Hua Yan College in Kowloon, his sister Lin Cui entered the industry earlier than him, he often went to the set to pick up his sister, and some directors saw him look handsome and discovered him to enter the industry. After making two films, he felt that he was not enough for class and immediately retreated.
"At that time, I couldn't even be a person, what kind of actor was I?" In short, it is not pleasing to the eye to see this stupid guy!"
He studied in the United States and graduated from the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Back in Port, he was already a prospective architect. He also really did painting in the office building for a few years, and his life was rich and carefree, but it wasn't that he liked to drink that cup of tea.
"To do architecture is to know design, but it is more important to know the market itself." Successful architecture in the world is not necessarily the best designer, but it is usually tied to a salesman of Lat. I wouldn't and wouldn't want to sell myself, so I wouldn't be a good architect. Is to make money, but to play, what is the addiction?
"It's so simple, how I treat journalists, it's a good example, I don't know how to sell myself, I don't want to sell myself, I don't want to appreciate myself, I want others to appreciate me, but not everyone understands the truth." 」
For Zeng Jiang, the set is ten thousand times more attractive than the office building.
"There was no waste in those years of studying in the United States, people didn't teach you spellling, they taught you thinking, you learned to analyze, you knew what was right for you, and then you made a choice." 」
Zeng Jiang did not make a mistake, he returned to the film circle in 1964, was a popular young student in the 1960s, often shooting Xue Ni, Chen Baozhu, Xiao Fangfang, and could make twenty-five movies a year.
"At that time, it was so happy, there were more production than actors, the male one absolutely had a job, everyone did not have to fight, did not have to step on the low people's position." 」 We are in the shadows, and we are pulling our arms together."
Looking at Zeng Jiang's old photos, you will see a handsome man with ji yu xuanang, bright eyes, combing the "exhibition head" of the three or seven divisions, and his appearance is like today's Anson Kong. The superior growth background also makes him full of confidence and surging pride.
"A lot of people say I'm not easy to cooperate with. I don't want to be a person, so I can easily offend people, because I like to talk about the truth, tell lies to mean things, and think falsely, and really don't have to think."
Inch, because I have seen the world, I can study abroad in the fifties, and I am not an ordinary ordinary person. He is both an actor and an athlete, ball games and water sports are difficult for him, he has airplane plates, boat plates, diving cards, astronomy, geography, culture and art he understands. He immigrated to Singapore in the 1990s and represented him in a lawn bowls tournament in Australia, winning one of the tournaments.
"I really know everything, but it's all B, and sports, drawing, and reading are all A's." (Lawn bowls don't count A?) No, if it's A, you can win three more games! I know that French, Chilean and Australian wines are different from Italian wines, but I am not an expert, and it is enough to pick your favorite taste! I know Van Gogh and Picasso, but I don't need to delve into it. Many people have the same good lak in their lives, but the rest of the things are not known, there are ghosts? I said I would fit this one, but I thought B was the most comfortable place for me."
"Know your own group A tail, group B head, be a person is group C!" I like to have a script, I like to do my homework, I like to read deep scripts."
Calling himself a B-class is already very "modest" in the case of Zeng Jiang. In the 1970s, cantonese films declined, and Zeng Jiang entered the television circle and continued to comfortably do his B position.
"Every year, the TV station has a training class, and there is a lot of competition, and the filming has to compete in front of the front. But I think I learned a lot from filming TV dramas, every time I watch playback, I see how my opponents act, and how I follow up with myself, which is very interesting."
He has always had requirements for being a person, and acting is not only a job, but also self-improvement. He has been in the TV station for twenty years and has played many well-known roles. When other Cantonese films of his contemporaries have entered licorice, Zeng Jiang's stage has turned to Hollywood. Starting from "Blood Is Not Cold" in 1998, followed by "Anna and the King", "The New Iron King Kong's Dayless Crisis", "Rush SPEED II", "Memoirs of a Geisha", etc., although there are most cameos, the roles are very important. Thought he would give up Hong Kong? No, in 2015, he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor with "Eavesdropping 3", and there was also a good story "Four Little Students To Travel". Zeng Jiang's temperament and aura are obvious, either playing a rich guy or a gangster. "First-class Accusation", which is currently being released, is a rich man who has done all the bad things.
"As a rich man or a gangster leader, that road is so narrow, how can you change it in the narrow road?" I pursue change, and every time I add a different element, I naturally find endless fun."
He is a joker and can find fun in every performance.
"At my age, of course, filming is for fun and fun. I used to get a lot in this industry, and now Hong Kong has such a hard time, should you give back a little effort, this is what I hope to do now."
Zeng Jiang's acting skills are superb, and his private life is equally wonderful. He had three marriages, the first wife being Lan Di, an actor from Malaysia, and the two had a son, and the marriage lasted for ten years. The second wife was columnist Deng Gongbi, and the marriage lasted for ten years, and the two had a daughter, now a stage actor Zeng Muxue. Although he experienced two failed marriages, he did not give up on love, and soon after he met Jiao Jiao, Jiao Jiao's husband Huang Zongxun died in a car accident in his early years, and she has been widowed. Both meet the right person at the right time and compose a twilight love. In 1994, the sixty-year-old Zeng Jiang married the fifty-two-year-old Jiao Jiao, and has experienced twenty-seven years so far, breaking the fate of the "ten-year itch".
"How can two in-laws get along without a pry?" The way for husband and wife to get along is very simple, that is, scolding after making friends. Also, the wife is always right, and I will always be low-minded. But don't think that if you admit your mistake, you may not accept it! So what to do? After a few hours, be a jerk! It's already the third one, will there be a fourth one? No, no, don't do it in the end!" He laughed.
Zeng Jiang was raised by Western education, Jiao Jiao was raised by Chinese education, and the two had opposite backgrounds, so they got along one by one. They love movies and always have a lot to talk about. Zeng Jiang is proficient in Mandarin, and he can listen to the scene when filming in the mainland, that is, to learn from his wife. In recent years, he has to wear hearing aids for hearing loss, and Jiao Jiao has acted as his "manager" to listen to the phone on his behalf. The two sons of flounder are deeply in love with each other.
"I thought that if I was deaf, I would be quieter, and I wouldn't have to argue with my wife so much, but it wasn't, and my wife would talk until you heard it, otherwise it would be more noisy, so I had to pretend not to hear!" 」 He is very ghostly, his mouth is complaining, but he is actually overflowing with love.
After all, at the age of 87, there will always be omissions in memory. He also had several sets of unreleased television and movies, but he didn't remember much.
"Really?" I still shoot that much? Hey, even if you close the tail count, remember what it does?"
Inconsequential, he chose to forget; because the memory should be reserved for those who need to remember, such as the Meiyuan color advertisement that has been broadcast for nearly forty years. The two ladies who stood behind Zeng Jiang in the face of the advertisement had changed according to the trend, but Zeng Jiang did not collect a penny.
"I've found a lawyer to see if I have a chance to chase, and I can eat a good lunch!" At that time, the contract listed the time limit for the broadcast of the advertisement, and the contract was sold out in the morning, and I was again, and the lawyer said that it was difficult to chase, and it would take a lot of money, but I could not get back a lot, and I would definitely not chase it. Think about everything in the good, turn on the TV early in the morning, and see this friend so born and so beautiful, you say how happy you are."
The left one is happy, the right one is fun. Today's Zengjiang, peaceful and optimistic, naughty and frank. Let your advertising sell day and night, the advertising male protagonist is no longer dyeing his hair, which is really enjoyable. Elder Zeng Jiang was no longer Huang Laoevil, nor was he Hong Qigong; he was an old naughty boy.