If you want to write a biography about Xu Shaoqiang's life, you can't avoid the word wine.
Zeng Zhiwei said that he was a real hero who was "uninhibited", drunk and had to get drunk, and had a wide range of friends and won the hearts of women.
However, the name of the hero is too solemn, and it is more appropriate to call him a "prodigal son" with his wild posture of indulging in eroticism for many years.
Moreover, his life was equally turbulent, full of surprises and ups and downs. He had been lifted high and fell badly.
What is rare is that he himself is always at ease with the ups and downs of life, really a bit like the unruly prodigal son in martial arts novels.
In the 1970s, martial arts films were most popular in Hong Kong.
Xu Shaoqiang caught up with this early train, and at the age of 17, he was admitted to the Shaw actor training class and appeared as an action movie student.
He does not lack the conditions for being an actor.
Thick eyebrows and big eyes have a heroic martial spirit, young but can train acting skills steadily, and can completely take the baton from the predecessors to become a popular martial arts student.
Unfortunately, although Shao Signed him at the beginning, he had some laissez-faire taste, and only let him match dillon and Jiang David.
At that time, Li's (the predecessor of ATV) and Shaw's wireless were harmonious on the surface, but in fact, they were competing in the light and in the dark.
With a vote difference, Jin Yong's martial arts drama has the upper hand slightly, and Li plans to move out Xiao Ruoyuan's original novel to meet the battle.
In 1977, Li asked Shao to borrow Xu Shaoqiang and asked him to make a cameo appearance in "New Humanity".
I didn't expect that the cameo in this urban drama was a disguise, and starring in the martial arts drama "Heavenly Silkworm Change" was the real thing.
This drama, which was prepared by the whole department of Li, was watched by millions of viewers at the premiere, setting a record for the highest rating of Hong Kong TV dramas.
Hearing this news, Wireless immediately cut off all the unit programs in the same period, and urgently convened its own gold medal martial arts team to produce "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", hoping to compete with it.
Unexpectedly, "Heavenly Silkworm Change" not only did not become weaker, but became stronger and stronger, and Xu Shaoqiang, who played "Yun Feiyang", also became the biggest trump card in Li's hand.
At that rate of popularity, he could have become one of the first-line actors through this drama.
Unfortunately, success or failure is in the "silkworm change".
Because many TV dramas at that time were broadcast while filming, "rolling drama" was also common, so he was "constantly robbed to make movies" at the same time.
Li's side sent a high-level stare at him, as long as there is a slight gap, he will rush to shoot the drama. Later, Xu Shaoqiang simply disappeared and pigeonted everyone.
Forced to be helpless, he could only change the actors in the middle of the way, and the script was greatly changed, saying that yun feiyang had changed his appearance after practicing the Heavenly Silkworm Divine Gong, so he vaguely prevaricated the past.
Xiao Ruoyuan, the screenwriter of "Heavenly Silkworm Change", later said in "Yuan Memoirs" that Xu Shaoqiang was instructed to hide.
Although there is no name, but with the toes also figured out, in addition to the sworn enemy wireless, no other company has the financial resources and courage to make a move behind the scenes.
After this storm, Xu Shaoqiang's popularity plummeted, not only Li terminated his contract with him, but even Wireless refused to ask him.
From a martial arts star loved by everyone to an outcast that everyone hates, it only takes a drama.
After that, Xu Shaoqiang actually looked at it, and took what he wanted, and when he was in a good mood, he also came to the door to shoot.
Although his career development was hindered, he had more and more friends with him.
Gu Long has a vote of hot-blooded drinkers, and Xu Shaoqiang is also one of them.
The opportunity for screenwriters and actors to get to know each other is inseparable from the film and television drama adapted from the novel.
If so, at best, they have met each other once, and their relationship is far beyond this.
In 1980, Gu Long founded the "Snow Dragon Film Company" and served as a producer and director.
In addition to shooting his own martial arts works, Gu Long also took on the task of finding actors and met Xu Shaoqiang in the long run.
And both have a reputation for drinking, and there are many opportunities to drink.
It is said that before drinking with Gu Long, Xu Shaoqiang will first make a long-distance call to her mother, afraid that he will get drunk and lose contact at the party. Unable to contact home.
Gu Long described the drinking friend this way: "Drinking is fast, steady and fierce, as long as you see the opportunity, sometimes even toast you several large cups in a row, and drink pure brandy with neither ice nor water, until you lie down." It was not easy for him to lie down. ”
After that, Gu Long's health deteriorated. Although the doctor repeatedly told him not to drink, when he met Xu Shaoqiang, he still pulled the wine and was ashamed.
In the end, the alcoholic Gu Long ended his life with wine. To commemorate these 48 years, my friend sent 48 bottles of XO to be buried with him.
There are rumors that since Gu Long's death, Xu Shaoqiang did not dare to drink so fiercely, but this is not a small difference from director Li Rengang's memories.
When filming "94 One-Armed Knife Love", it coincided with the snow night after the end of work, and he drank with Jiang David, Liu Songren, Xu Shaoqiang, these "heroes".
Xu Shaoqiang is very wild when drinking, even if he is drunk, he does not care about decency, he falls to sleep on the ground in a small restaurant, and Jiang David also said that he most appreciates his prodigal personality.
He is still the prodigal son who will drink until he lies down and drink to the fullest, and he has never changed.
And Xu Shaoqiang's affair history is also very exciting, and there are 5 of them that I have personally admitted.
His first wife was Named Zhang Xiaofeng.
His second wife was He Shukuan (A Joe).
Both were ordinary people who were said to have remarried after separation.
During Li's period, he also talked with Li Judi, the artist of the first stage of the training class at that time.
After coming to the mainland to develop, in 2005, he married his current wife, who is now 30 years younger.
But the most sensational is the 18-year-old Sydney who bore him a son, but has never had a name.
Sydney's full name is Yan Huiming, who debuted at the age of 14 and created countless classic roles.
Li Moxuan in "Divine Eagle Hero", Madame Ma KangMin in "Tianlong Eight Parts", and Zhao Ya in "Searching for Qin" are all extremely recognizable.
But all of these characters have one thing in common: they've all been hurt by men.
In reality, there is also a man who has deeply hurt Sydney, and even made her eager to delete the past.
This man is Xu Shaoqiang.
In 1982, Xu Shaoqiang and Sydney filmed a horror movie called "Raising Ghosts" in Thailand.
This play turned out to be their love work, when Sydney was 17 years old and Xu Shaoqiang was 32 years old.
Although Fang knew that Xu Shaoqiang was married when she was pregnant, and her sister (Michelle) and mother strongly opposed this betrayal of the love affair, Sydney still fell into it like a moth to the fire and insisted on giving birth to a son Xu Weidong.
18 years old unmarried and childless, and the man is still married, not to say or will the star path be dimmed, that is, the spit stars of the melon-eating masses can drown people.
What exactly does Sydney want?
Xiao Ruoyuan said that Xu Shaoqiang has a kind of rogue spirit and a feeling of hanging on lang dang, which makes women like it very much.
At the time, he was said to have promised Sydney that after the birth of the child, he would divorce his wife and marry Sydney.
Even an unruly prodigal son will eventually be changed by someone. So why can't this person be me?
Perhaps it is with this expectation that Sydney is willing to bear the name of Xiao San and turn into an underground affair with Xu Shaoqiang.
In 1986, Sydney thought she had finally waited for that promise, but she didn't expect it to be empty again.
They had visited the Marriage Registry to make an appointment, but were told by staff that they could not register because of the lack of a divorce certificate.
But after the divorce certificate is completed, the marriage can no longer be concluded.
During this period, their daughter Xu Yingkun was born, but Xu Shaoqiang never fulfilled his father's responsibilities.
At that time, he was at the trough of his career, and his business failed, so he often borrowed wine to pour sorrow, and the nature of the wind was difficult to change.
By the time I looked back, there was no one in the house.
In 1988, Sydney traveled to Canada with a pair of children.
Even if Xu Shaoqiang wanted to give this name, she no longer needed it.
After separating, Sydney and Xu Shaoqiang, the old lovers, did not have the same old and dead as the media wrote.
In 1993, ATV decided to shoot the sequel to "Silkworm Change", and found Xu Shaoqiang to play "Yun Feiyang" again, and Sydney played "Tang Ning", who was obsessed with him.
Whether it is dedication or old feelings, the rivalry between Yun Feiyang and Tang Ning is still full of sparks.
Sydney is a pair of children born to Xu Shaoqiang, and although they still have a grudge against their father when they grow up, they have not completely broken off contact and occasionally meet.
After Xu Shaoqiang came to the mainland to develop, his fame was indeed lower than before, but the drama has always had to be filmed.
His relationship with his current wife for more than a decade is also stable. They have a son and a daughter and were also photographed traveling with their children in 2018.
However, Xu Shaoqiang, 70 years old, has occasionally spread gossip with Internet celebrities in previous years.
I explained afterwards, "I don't want to be misunderstood, so I recognize her as a dry sister and draw a line between them!" ”
Even if you don't rule out the possibility of deliberate speculation by Internet celebrities, it's natural for you to hug and shake hands at someone else's birthday party, right?
However, to classify this as another history of affair is somewhat reluctant, after all, Xu Shaoqiang's age is there, and he has a heart and is powerless.
I am afraid that only years can recall the prodigal son.