In 1977, Xu Shaoqiang became a household name with the role of "Cloud Flying" in "Heavenly Silkworm Change" and became a "hero" in the hearts of countless movie fans.
However, because he was bribed by his family, he deliberately disappeared in the middle of the shooting, and became a "villain professional" in the audience's memory.
I should have had the opportunity to become a generation of martial arts superstars, but I lost my future because of a bad idea.
Debuted more than 50 years, participated in more than 200 film and television dramas, but was criticized by many people, what did Xu Shaoqiang do wrong?
Xu Shaoqiang was born in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province in 1950, and soon after he followed his parents to live in Hong Kong. Growing up, he applied to become an accountant for a stock company.
In 1967, Xu Shaoqiang participated in the filming of the movie "One-Armed Knife" by chance, and played a humble little supporting role in the play.
But it was this TV series that gave him the dream of becoming an actor, and thus kicked off his acting career.
During filming, the image of the hero played by Wang Yu deeply touched him, and he resolutely resigned and applied for the famous Shaw actor training class at that time. After successfully graduating from the training course, he officially signed a contract with Shaw and began his acting career.
But the reality is not always smooth, Xu Shaoqiang, who has just entered the circle, is not optimistic, in order to maintain his life, he has to run dragon sets in various crews.
At that time, the two most popular artists of Shaw were Dillon and David Jiang, the former of whom became popular with a "Thorn Horse", and the latter created an insurmountable classic role "Guan Xiaolou" for the audience through his excellent performance in "Revenge".
As a newcomer to the same company, Xu Shaoqiang has played a supporting role in the drama of two popular stars. However, in the play, Xu Shaoqiang's acting skills have not been reflected, so he can only run dragon sets in various crews.
In 1977, Li came to Shaw Company to borrow actors, and at a glance, she took a fancy to the tall and extraordinary Xu Shaoqiang. In that era when martial arts films were popular, Xu Shaoqiang's external image gave him great value and market potential.
After coming to Li, Xu Shaoqiang began to become famous because of his wonderful performance in the TV series "Big Husband", and then he signed a contract with Li and became an artist under his umbrella.
In the same year, he starred in "The Sword of the Three Young Masters", a prodigal son of "Yan Thirteen", who was skilled in swordsmanship, and was partnered with the fledgling Wan Ziliang. After the broadcast of this drama, Xu Shaoqiang's popularity gradually increased.
Years of honing have made his acting skills recognized, and his new owner is also very important to him. Soon after that, the company created a martial arts blockbuster "Heavenly Silkworm Change" for him.
Xu Shaoqiang played a martial arts stunning, ethereal hero "Yun Feiyang" in the play.
As soon as this drama was broadcast, it immediately became a dark horse in hong Kong TV drama ratings, and it broke the record of the highest rating at that time. And Xu Shaoqiang also became a hit because of this, and his reputation even overshadowed Dillon and Jiang David, who were two heroes on the Shaw screen.
As a Hong Kong film and television giant, TVB, in order to be able to compete with it, hastily launched the TV series "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", and even invited the popular young student Zheng Shaoqiu to play the male protagonist Chu Liuxiang, but the overall ratings are still inferior to "Heavenly Silkworm Change".
According to Xu Shaoqiang's popularity at that time, he could completely become a hot top star at that time with this drama. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by a single thought.
When "Heavenly Silkworm Change" was popular, a strange thing happened, that is, the sudden disappearance of the lead actor Xu Shaoqiang. At that time, Hong Kong TV dramas still took the form of filming and broadcasting, the male lead actors disappeared directly, and the next shooting could only be stopped.
Li's high-level search for Xu Shaoqiang through various channels has always been fruitless, and in desperation, the screenwriter had to rewrite the script of the protagonist "Yun Feiyang".
Let his appearance change due to the cultivation of martial arts, and then find a similar appearance of Gu Guanzhong to replace Xu Shaoqiang to play "Yun Feiyang".
However, the audience has been deeply impressed by Xu Shaoqiang's role of "Yun Feiyang", and the act of changing roles in the middle has made the audience extremely dissatisfied. Coupled with the popularity of the TV series "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", the ratings of "Heavenly Silkworm Change" began to decline all the way.
Later, everyone learned that Xu Shaoqiang deliberately quit filming because he reached a private agreement with TVB. Therefore, Li Directly banned Xu Shaoqiang. On the other hand, TVB also did not believe it and refused to sign a contract with him.
Since then, Xu Shaoqiang's acting career has begun to plummet. In order to have a scene to shoot, he has become famous and will not hesitate to demote himself to a curry position and play a supporting role.
From a generation of heroes and back to the unnamed supporting roles, Xu Shaoqiang played a good hand of cards because of a bad idea.
In order to brush up on the sense of existence in front of the public, Xu Shaoqiang took on many villain roles.
In "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er", he played the fierce and vicious villain Zao Wou-ki. Even playing a supporting role, he left a deep impression on the audience.
In 1994, Xu Shaoqiang played Ding Chunqiu, a traitor of the Runaway Faction, in the TV series Tianlong Babu Tianshan Tongyao.
In 2003, he played the fierce Wan Peng Wang in the TV series "Meteor Butterfly Sword", and his partner was Zheng Shaoqiu, who was once popular under him, and these two levels of reversal could not help but make people sigh.
In 2004, he played cai Shaofen, Zhang Jin and other stars, playing Yin Zhong in "Water Moon Cave Heaven", which became a childhood shadow for many viewers.
For this series of villain roles, Xu Shaoqiang himself said that he did not care, as long as there is a job to find a door, he is willing to shoot, and even bluntly said: "My greatest interest is wine and women!" ”
In 1980, Xu Shaoqiang got acquainted with Gu Long under the line of others. Coupled with the fact that both of them are drunk as much as they want, it is a hit-and-shoot.
It is rumored that Xu Shaoqiang, in order not to let his mother at home worry, would call in advance to report before drinking with Gu Long.
Once, Gu Long lost a little while fighting with Xu Shaoqiang, and then when he went to the crew to visit Xu Shaoqiang, he invited the other party to drink and compete again.
Unexpectedly, Xu Shaoqiang vividly quoted "the winner has won, the loser has lost" in Gu Long's novel, and suddenly blocked Gu Long had nothing to say, and could only sulk alone.
Later, because of long-term alcoholism, Gu Long's liver disease began to worsen, although the doctor repeatedly told him to quit drinking, but as soon as he caught Xu Shaoqiang, he wanted to win and lose, and he had to fight with him.
After Xu Shaoqiang drank the last glass of wine in his life with Gu Long, within a few days, Gu Long passed away.
After Gu Long's death, many people put the blame on Xu Shaoqiang, believing that he indulged Gu Long's continuous alcoholism to cause the final death.
But in the martial arts world of happiness and vengeance that Gu Long thinks, dashing and comfortable are the first in life, and Xu Shaoqiang is precisely because he and Gu Long are the same people, so they can see each other like this!
In addition, Xu Shaoqiang's love life is also incomparably wonderful.
His first two wives were ordinary people and are said to have remarried after their divorces. During the signing period with Li, he had been with Li Judi in the training class. Coming to the mainland to develop, he married his wife, who was 30 years younger than him, in 2005.
But what makes the outside world most talked about is Sydney, who gave birth to a son for him at the age of 18 and has never had a name.
Sydney's original name is Yan Huiming, and she debuted at the age of 14, playing many classic roles, such as Li Moxuan in "Divine Eagle Hero", Madame Ma Kangmin in "Tianlong Babu", Zhao Ya in "Looking for Qin" and so on.
Ironically, the common denominator of these characters is that they are all hurt by love, and Sydney, who is out of the actor's identity, has also been brutally hurt by a man in real life, he is Xu Shaoqiang.
In 1982, Xu Shaoqiang and Sydney met for cooperating in the horror movie "Raising Ghosts", and Xu Shaoqiang, who was already married, fell in love with Sydney with excellent appearance at first sight and launched a fierce pursuit of her.
At that time, Sydney, who was not deeply involved in the world, was able to withstand the attack of Xu Shaoqiang, a veteran of the love field, and soon fell in love. Soon after, Sydney became pregnant, and it was only then that she learned that Xu Shaoqiang already had a wife.
But she listened to Xu Shaoqiang's rhetoric and thought that as long as she gave birth to a child smoothly, Xu Shaoqiang would welcome her to the entrance, so Sydney gave birth to a son and a daughter for Xu Shaoqiang without marriage.
Later, Xu Shaoqiang divorced his wife, but he did not keep his promise to Sydney, but instead evaporated on the grounds of forgetting to bring the divorce certificate.
Sydney, who became everyone's talk after dinner, had no choice but to take her two young children to join her sister Michelle.
After this relationship ended without a problem, the two did not forget each other from then on.
In 1993, ATV was preparing to shoot the sequel to "Silkworm Change", inviting Xu Shaoqiang to play the role of "Yun Feiyang" again, while "Tang Ning", who was obsessed with the male protagonist, found Sydney to play it.
Regardless of the relationship between "Yun Feiyang" and "Tang Ning" outside the play, the opponent scene between the two people in the play makes the audience watch the blood boiling.
After that, Xu Shaoqiang's reputation in Hong Kong became worse and worse, so he began to shift his career focus to the mainland.
At that time, the momentum of the Internet celebrity industry was fierce, and Xu Shaoqiang, as a well-known actor, naturally did not lack beautiful Internet celebrities who threw themselves into their arms. He himself is obsessed with this life of left-and-right hugging and drunkenness.
Many media have exposed that Xu Shaoqiang has been developing in the mainland for many years, not only making a lot of money, but also having close contact with nearly 100 female Internet celebrities in private, and is jokingly called "Net Red Harvester".
In 2010, his current wife bore him a son. At that time, Xu Shaoqiang was already 60 years old.
In order to give his son a favorable living condition, Xu Shaoqiang, who is more than half a hundred years old, can only continue to make money. Whether it was the difference between a thought and a green leaf life now, Xu Shaoqiang can also be regarded as paying the price for his youthful ignorance.
Zeng Zhiwei once commented: "He is a real hero who is uninhibited and uninhibited. ”
Although he has played a generation of heroes, his wild and uninhibited state over the years and his casual and informal attitude towards life are somewhat similar to Gu Long's debauched prodigal son.
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