He has a wide range of acting paths and exquisite acting skills, and is known as "the acting ceiling of Chinese male actors".
Among the 300 stars interviewed by CCTV, he is the actor who everyone in the entertainment industry most wants to cooperate with, debuted for more than 40 years, he has won the honor of film emperor 33 times, is the only film emperor grand slam winner in China, is recognized by the mainland as one of the "five best in film and television", he is a national first-class actor, Li Xuejian.
As an actor, why is he admired by the entire entertainment industry? Today, I will take you to understand the legendary life of teacher Li Xuejian.
Li Xuejian was born in 1954, a peasant family in Heze City, Shandong Province, because it was snowing heavily when he was born, his parents named him "Yukimi", and later he was born with a serious illness, and after his illness, his parents changed his name to "Xuejian" in the hope that he would grow up healthy and healthy.
Li Xuejian has been very sensible since he was a child, and when he was studying, he not only ranked among the best in his grades, but even the large and small literary and artistic performances on campus often appeared in his small figure.
With his unique artistic talent, Li Xuejian was assigned to the factory to engage in amateur literary and art propaganda work when he graduated from junior high school.
At that time, he would rehearse the performance from time to time, but he was still not satisfied with the moment, and he wanted to stand on a bigger stage, so he signed up for the army.
In the years of his life in the army, he never gave up his pursuit of art, those dragon set roles that could not be named, at that time he could play a wonderful portrait.
Such a talent made him quickly attracted the attention of the leaders of the drama troupe, so he came to talk to him, and it was expected that he would stay in Beijing to develop, which was a rare opportunity for him who was eager to perform at that time.
Li Xuejian was happy at that time, and could not wait to share this news with his parents, but the family was not happy for long, or lost to the cruel reality.
His quota was squeezed down, if he did not want to do anything, he could only return to the army as originally planned, and the ups and downs of life made him fall into endless confusion for a while.
He couldn't bear to disappoint his parents, painstakingly looking for every possibility to stay in Beijing, and the leader couldn't bear to see such an excellent talent stop here, so he asked Li Xuejian to come to the regiment as a carpenter.
Although at that time, he was not able to be re-cultivated as he wished, but he was still extremely glad that he could still be in the regiment.
Because only here can he be exposed to art, can he continue to perform.
To say that he was deeply touched by the actor industry, it is necessary to go to Shanxi condolence performance, the wind at that time was not generally big, a girl who was performing acrobatics on the stage fell from a high place because she did not master her center of gravity, and after coming down, the unfazed staff asked for a glass of water and drank it, and then a mouthful of blood spat out of her mouth.
Even so, she insisted on completing the performance without changing her face, and she was not taken to the hospital until after the gorgeous curtain.
This scene was deeply imprinted in Li Xuejian's mind, and it also made him full of awe for the actor industry at that time.
Actors are never just bright and beautiful on the surface, but more of a heavy sense of responsibility and mission.
What he wants to become is an actor that everyone respects, and he has to pay courage for this, at this time he realized that what he has done is far from enough, in order to be able to better improve himself, he reads and studies after work.
He knows that not only theory, but also a certain amount of practice can be, whenever there are other people performing, he will stand on the sidelines and watch, accumulate experience from it, and polish his acting skills.
Upholding the reverence and persistence of art, he was later admitted to the Air Politics Literary and Labor Troupe, and when others did not dare to try, he forced himself to bear the brunt of it, always playing on the spot, and frantically exercising his ability to adapt to the scene.
This experience allowed him to handle things properly no matter what difficulties he encountered in the future.
At this time, he is still precipitating, and if he does not sound, he will be a blockbuster.
Kung Fu did not pay off, and when he was 26 years old, he finally ushered in the opportunity to pick the beams, and the troupe was in the rehearsal drama "Nine. One or three incidents", because at that time, many actors were sent to all parts of the country to perform, no one could be competent for Lin Biao's words, Li Xuejian knew that his opportunity had come, and resolutely took over this role.
In order to be able to play this role better, he found a lot of photos and recordings of people, and even went to find a large number of photos of people who had contact with Lin Biao, and pasted the information on a large wall. Every day at dawn, he crossed his waist and imitated Lin Biao's speech and learned Lin Biao to walk in the dormitory. True to that old adage.
"If you don't go crazy, you won't live."
Lin Biao was thin, and Li Xuejian lost weight madly for this and lost 20 pounds.
After he was on the stage, he won the recognition of many audiences with his solid acting skills, and also won the honor of the highest award in the drama industry, "Plum Blossom Award".
With this role, he became a hit and opened a door for the success of his acting career.
Various film dramas have contacted him to star, and what really makes him known is the play "Longing".
He plays the role of a simple and kind Song Dacheng.
His words, deeds and every move seem to be his real self in real life.
Let the audience have an immersive feeling, which has aroused a lot of resonance.
At that time, there were even rumors that people who married song Dacheng and married wives should marry Liu Huifang.
It can be seen how fiery he was at that time.
A year later, the movie "Jiao Yulu" came out.
The filming of the film did not go well at the beginning, Li Xuejian went to visit Jiao Yulu's wife, but she did not expect that after she saw Li Xuejian, she said: "It's not like it, this is the look of old Jiao, people are too fat." ”
Li Xuejian was anxious at that time, in order to interpret Jiao Yulu well, he lost more than twenty pounds in just one month.
In the end, with his perfect interpretation of Mr. Jiao Yulu, Li Xuejian won the honor of Best Actor at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award that year.
In his acceptance speech, Li Xuejian said a shocking sentence:
"Suffering and tiredness have all made a good man, Jiao Yulu, suffer, fame and profit, let a stupid boy Li Xuejian get it."
With just this sentence, we can see Li Xuejian's brightness and integrity, as well as the same pure feelings as Jiao Yulu.
After that, he needed to star in "Yang Shanzhou", in order to play this role well, he deliberately went to Yunnan to collect style.
Go deep into the masses, feel people's lives, and understand everyone's evaluation of Yang Shanzhou.
With one wonderful performance after another, he has become a recognized powerful actor.
But he is not arrogant, and will devote himself to his acting career, which in his own view is a mission for the audience, and he must perfectly interpret each role.
For this reason, in "Water Margin", he fell off his horse twice, and the staff was distressed and advised him to find a stand-in to perform instead of himself.
But he has always insisted on riding his own horse, he said that the feeling is different, what he needs to do is the character into one, in order to perform the Xunyang Lou inscription anti-poem, he has to temporarily practice brush writing for three months.
No matter how big or small the role, he must all be his own.
Even when he suffered from nasopharyngeal cancer, he did not give up acting.
At that time, he was filming the TV series "China Orbit", and suddenly his throat could not speak, his whole body seemed to be hollowed out, and he was about to faint a few degrees.
After being taken to the hospital, he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, and because the situation was not optimistic, doctors strongly recommended that he be hospitalized immediately.
But at that time, the scene was only half filmed, and the temporary abandonment would cause huge losses to the crew, and he also had to be worthy of the audience's expectations for this play.
In the end, the doctor could not twist him, and could only let him have chemotherapy in the morning and shoot in the afternoon, but the pain of the disease tormented people, making him lose weight day by day, and he was tortured by the pain.
His wife really couldn't bear him to go on like this again, and once asked him whether his life was important or the drama was important.
But he smiled frankly, saying that people must have a beginning and an end, as long as there is still a breath, they must finish shooting.
The wife had no choice but to seek a solution from the doctor while taking good care of him.
It may also be because Li Xuejian's persistence touched the heavens, and after the scene was finished, his condition gradually improved.
His wife advised him to give up his career to cultivate his body, but in Li Xuejian's own view, acting is his life, drama is bigger than the sky, and only by doing what he likes can he feel that he is still alive.
In 2016, at the age of 62, he also starred in the TV series "Young Marshal", in which he played Zhang Zuolin.
Teacher Li Xuejian portrayed Zhang Zuolin, a generation of tyrants, vividly, so that all people will be unforgettable.
On October 16, 2016, Mr. Li Xuejian won the Best Performing Arts Award at the 28th China Television Golden Eagle Awards.
On the stage, his words are not very clear, his body is even more worrying, and the other actors on the stage are all tearful for Li Xuejian's teacher to win the award, this award, he really deserves it.
But even at this time he still claimed
"If I have the opportunity, I would also like to make a better scene to dedicate to everyone and serve everyone well!"
For more than 40 years since his debut, he has always upheld his respect for actors, just to be worthy of the audience, he used his life to act. But it has never been because of the remuneration, he has only filmed an advertisement once in his life, and the remuneration for each role is not high, and he is known as the poorest film emperor, such an old artist with both virtue and art is a model of countless descendants in the past and the present, and is a national treasure-level actor, hoping that in the future, more artists like Teacher Li Xuejian can be born in the performing arts industry.