Jet Li never dreamed that the actor sent in by the underworld big brother Yang Dengkui through the back door was not a beautiful female star, but a strong man - Chen Songyong.
In 1992, Jet Li's agent Cai Ziming was shot dead, and no one in his gang dared to help him.
Jet Li could only go away and ask Yang Dengkui to cross the river and go to Hong Kong to help him sit in the lineup, and only then did Jet Li dare to start filming again.
With the support of Yang Dengkui, Jet Li prepared the film "Fang Shiyu", Yang Dengkui paid and contributed, lending his little brother to Jet Li as a group performance, allowing Jet Li to dispatch.
Of course, there is no free lunch in the world, and the return Yang Dengkui wants is box office accounting, and let Jet Li help praise Taiwanese actor Chen Songyong.
On the set, Jet Li met this actor, 51-year-old Chen Songyong looks like a hero, holding a beer belly, speaking rudely, and looking like a social person.
Jet Li was quite surprised, Yang Dengkui, the big guy of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, did not love to praise beautiful star stars, but actually loved to hold rough men!
What is the charm of 51-year-old Chen Songyong, who can actually hold the thigh of Taiwanese gang boss Yang Dengkui? This story should start from Chen Songyong's growth experience.
In 1941, Chen Songyong was born in an ordinary family in Taiwan Province, his mother died early, and he lived with his father since he was a child.
In the 1940s, Gezai opera and Peking Opera were the most popular among the people. Chen's father would take Chen Songyong into the theater to watch the play from time to time, and after a long time, the young Chen Songyong also fell in love with Peking Opera, and when he returned home, he would occasionally sing two sentences.
However, Chen's father does not like his son to sing opera, in his concept, singing opera is the drama, belonging to the three religions and nine streams without dignity.
Chen Songyong, who was young, often quarreled with his father, and his father scolded him for his education methods, and over time, Chen Songyong also formed a grumpy personality.
At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and began earning money to support his family.
In order to make quick money, Chen Songyong fell into the gang and became the parking brother of the horned big brother, grabbing the land for the big brother and watching the scene.
Once, the Chen Songyong was hunted down by the police, he hid in a crew that was filming, Chen Songyong was in a hurry, pretending to be a crew member, which avoided a disaster.
After the police left, Chen Songyong stayed on the set to watch the actors act, and the more he watched, the more energetic he became, and he felt that acting was more interesting than watching the play.
Chen Songyong couldn't look at it intently, and the seed of the drama in his heart was activated again.
After this, Chen Songyong did not like to fight, and when there was nothing to do, he went to the crew to help, lifted props, and played miscellaneous, Chen Songyong did a lot of fun. Over time, he and the crew also became acquainted.
At the age of 22, Chen Songyong was introduced by a friend and entered Taiwan Television as an extra and began his career as a dragon set.
At that time, although Chen Songyong was only an extra, his work was extremely serious, and he willingly rehearsed for three days for a little bit of drama until the official performance.
Chen Songyong's dedication has been recognized by everyone, and at the same time, it has also received the attention of Yang Dengkui, a big man in the show business circle.
At that time, Yang Dengkui was doing show business, and he was popular with Liao Jun, Peng Peng, Gao Lingfeng and other artists.
Yang Dengkui has the heart to do a good job in the business of the show business, so he is also secretly concerned about dedicated artists.
From 1963 to 1988, Chen Songyong played supporting roles for 25 years, and he participated in film and television works such as "Zombie Boy" and "Ye Qing Ge Zai Drama - Golden Branches and Jade Leaves". Although his career has been tepid, Chen Songyong has always loved acting and worked diligently.
In 1988, Chen Songyong's opportunity finally arrived.
This year, Hou Xiaoxian began to prepare for the filming of "City of Sorrows", and Yang Dengkui served as the supervising producer of the film. Out of the producer's intuition, Yang Dengkui believes that the role of Lin Wenxiong, the son of Lin's parents, is very suitable for his subordinate Chen Songyong.
Yang Dengkui recommended Chen Songyong to the director, but Hou Xiaoxian was not satisfied with Chen Songyong, he liked another actor, but Yang Dengkui's voice was greater, Chen Songyong "took the back door" to star in "Sad City".
The film officially began shooting, there is no script, no lines, the director will not rehearse the scene in advance, and every time the filming is filmed, he will send a plot outline to the actors, asking them to think of their own lines and find character feelings.
This way of filming makes it difficult for professional actor Liang Chaowei to adapt and feel a serious sense of frustration.
On the contrary, Chen Songyong, who was halfway out of the house, played like a fish.
In Chen Songyong's eyes, Lin Wenxiong is very much like his father, with a rough appearance and a tender heart, desperately working outside, just to give his family a warm harbor.
Chen Songyong's performance in "City of Sorrows" greatly appreciated Hou Xiaoxian, and he really did not expect that such an actor who took the back door had such excellent acting skills.
After the release of "City of Sorrows", the outside world received a lot of praise, and the lead actor Chen Songyong also won the Golden Horse Film Emperor, and overnight, he was upgraded from a supporting role in the show business circle to a top actor.
Chen Songyong said: "I am very grateful to Yang Dengkui, we did not contact each other for three or four months at the beginning, and then Yang Dengkui wanted to find me to play the city of sorrow, and the twists and turns in the middle were only known after several years." ”
After "City of Sorrows", Yang Dengkui's film business became better and better, and he gradually expanded his commercial territory to Hong Kong.
In 1993, he supported Jet Li to open a company and make movies, and Chen Songyong was also close to the water building, waiting for many performance opportunities.
Chen Songyong has starred in classic film and television works such as "Prison Storm 2 Fugitive", "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu", "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" and so on.
Among them, Chen Songyong's performance in "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu" is particularly outstanding, and the Lei Tiger he plays has a fierce personality, saying that he "subdues people with virtue" all day long, grins a lot, and often makes jokes.
The bridge section where Lei Laohu and Fang Shiyu sang on the roof made people laugh and are still talked about.
After the release of "Young Hero Fang Shiyu", it achieved a box office performance of 30.67 million, becoming the top few box office of that year. Jet Li, Li Jiaxin, Chen Songyong and other actors have soared again because of this movie, and their earnings are full.
Chen Songyong's income is getting higher and higher, and his life is slowly getting better.
Unfortunately, his father died at this time, and Chen Songyong sighed helplessly: the tree wants to be quiet and the wind is not stopping, and the son wants to raise and the relatives are not there.
After his father left, Chen Songyong was even more lonely, because he only had his father, a close relative, and for so many years, Chen Songyong had been single and had never had a stable relationship.
When he was young, because he was poor, he worked hard, and when he was 50 years old, Chen Songyong finally became rich, but he was also used to being single.
As the big brother of the show business circle, many friends will introduce him to the object, and some young girls will chase him backwards, but Chen Songyong does not dare to accept it, he is afraid that the other party is greedy for his own money.
On the other hand, due to factors such as staying up late to shoot movies, drinking and smoking, and being injured in filming scenes over the years, Chen Songyong's health is getting worse and worse.
At the age of 65, he suffered from stroke, cataracts, severe retinal bleeding and other diseases, Chen Songyong had to quit the show business circle and treat his illness with peace of mind.
Luckily, Chen Songyong met a kind servant, Yule, who took good care of him. Chen Songyong said: "She is very kind, taking care of me as a father, I will give her whatever she wants, as long as I can do it." ”
Under Yule's care, Chen Songyong's body also slowly recovered, but because there were too many diseases on his body, his body was always good and bad.
Now, 80-year-old Chen Songyong because of the wind, the body once again appeared unwell symptoms, the maid quickly called an ambulance to take him to the hospital.
After seeing the emergency room, Chen Songyong said that his body was no longer in serious trouble, but because of his previous medical history, the doctor asked him to continue to stay in the hospital for observation.
And he once said, "I will always struggle, wait until I am well, share my experience with everyone, and call on everyone to prevent and pay attention to physical warnings." ”
Chen Songyong struggled with life when he was young, he worked hard, filmed diligently, and when he was old, he began to fight with the disease, worked hard to quit smoking and alcohol, and fought for a healthy life.