Recently, with the launch of the time loop short drama "The Beginning", Liu Yijun has once again become the object of hot discussion among the audience.
The old criminal police officer he starred in was old Zhang, keen, calm, with a sense of justice bursting, and between his eyebrows, he revealed a feeling of wanting to be close.
This is rare for Liu Yijun, in the memory of most audiences, he is still the acting school that frequently plays villains, Wang Tianfeng in "The Pretender", Xie Yu in "Langya List", Zhang Wanlin in "Great Prospects"... In a word, Liu Yijun is the "villain professional" in the audience's mind.
Remember the last time Liu Yijun got the "good guy" card, or the policeman He Yong in "Sweeping Black Storm", but even so, when seeing Liu Yijun appear on the screen, the audience will inevitably have a feeling: Will He Yong be blackened?
It can be seen how deeply Liu Yijun's villain role is played.
However, even so, what is touching is that Liu Yijun has never been able to "go out of the circle".
The "actor's dream" rooted in the bones
In 1970, Liu Yijun was born in the ancient city of Xi'an, the historical capital, the bell ringing boiling, a long history.
His parents are both scientific researchers, and in Liu Yijun's memory, his father likes to watch movies the most and loves literature and art. Liu Yijun also has "unique" conditions: the West Film Studio is near his home.
This allowed Liu Yijun to contact with movies from an early age, and under the influence of his father, he read countless films and read his father's collection of books by the way.
In the fourth grade of primary school, the teacher asked Liu Yijun: What is your ideal for the future?
Other students have written down their ideals: scientists, writers, painters, mathematicians...
In that era of firm belief in "learning mathematics, physics and chemistry well, walking all over the world is not afraid",
Liu Yijun's "dream" made the teacher scornful, he said: I want to be an actor.
Those cold and meaningful eyes, many years later, Liu Yijun still remembers deeply.
How can a wildfire buried in the bones be extinguished with a single word?
Despite being ridiculed and incomprehensible by his teacher, Liu Yijun still insisted on his dream.
Fortunately, after his father learned the true thoughts of Liu Yijun's heart, he not only did not oppose, but also gave trust and support.
When Liu Yijun was facing the division of arts and sciences, he took him to learn acting under the famous actor Qu Guoqiang.
Together with Qu Guoqiang's door, there was Liu Yijun's hometown Zhang Jiayi, who later became Liu Yijun's college classmate.
It is said that learning this thing of art, the master introduces the door, and the practice is in the individual.
Liu Yijun, who already has a special love for movies, has the guidance of famous teachers and his professional level has improved rapidly.
At the age of 17, he was admitted to Nortel with Zhang Jiayi, and came to the school together, as well as Wang Quan'an, Guan Hu, Zhang Zijian and so on.
But the same class has different lives, Liu Yijun probably did not think at that time, in the past, the students who used to talk about wine and talk mulberry, point out the country and mountains, and excite the words would go to different life trajectories.
In the whole class, Liu Yijun is the youngest, people look red lips and white teeth, sword eyebrows and stars, in today's place, it is a small piece of fresh meat.
Just a freshman year, Liu Yijun got the opportunity to star in "Female Thief", the starting point is higher than most of the students, plus when taking the college entrance examination, the subject of the physical fitness class is ballet, walking elegantly, quite a bit of "the pride of heaven" feeling.
But the first time I acted, I was poured a basin of cold water on reality, and it was difficult to finish filming, but I failed to pass the trial, and I had no chance to meet the audience.
What he didn't expect was that worse circumstances were yet to come.
"Kill chickens with a cattle knife", he became a "scribe"
After graduating from college, everyone went their separate ways.
At that time, the work was still a package distribution system, and Zhang Jiayi and Liu Yijun were both assigned back to their hometown West Film Studio.
Zhang Jiayi was assigned to the Youth League Committee, and Liu Yijun was assigned to renlao.
The work done has nothing to do with their own professional eight rods, and they are copying salary slips for the employees of the unit.
At that time, Liu Yijun's heart was thinking of acting, but no director was willing to invite him.
Zhang Jiayi's luck is slightly better, after entering the West Film Studio, he has successively participated in some film and television dramas, but most of them are some small supporting roles, dragon sets.
The director gave a good reason: you are young, only twenty-one years old, not yet the protagonist. The actor has to mature himself to pick the beam.
Sometimes it is necessary to be temporarily changed, the pain in the heart, there is nowhere to tell, not famous, there is no right to speak.
Stable work in the system is, in the eyes of others, an "iron rice bowl", but for Liu Yijun, it is tantamount to a kind of torture.
Copying a lifetime of salary slips for others runs counter to Liu Yijun's ideals of life.
At that time, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige rose rapidly, and on the screen, rough actors like Jiang Wen came into being and were spoiled.
On the contrary, an actor like Liu Yijun, who is born "beautiful", is incompatible with the whole trend of movies, has no drama to shoot, and spends all day in melancholy.
Once, when he caught an opportunity, the director asked him: Where are you from?
Liu Yijun replied: Shanxi's.
After the director listened, he sighed continuously, but unfortunately it was not Shaanxi's.
Liu Yijun knew that he was out of the play.
In 1994, after staying in the Western Film Studio for a long time, Liu Yijun also wanted to go to the outside world to see, but the leader was very busy, and he could not find the opportunity, so he simply left a leave slip and went to Fujian, where he got the opportunity to star in "Tai Yao Love", and he was addicted to a play.
When he returned, he was greeted by the leader's bitter criticism, as well as the rumors of dismissal, and the intercession of colleagues, before he left a factory for inspection.
Fortunately, at that time, Ningbo Television threw an olive branch to him and invited Liu Yijun to be a choreographer, although it was not filming, but fortunately it was related to acting.
At Ningbo Television, Liu Yijun finally found the meaning of life, and the self-written and self-directed short drama "Long Memories of the World" also won the second prize of the National Television Literature and Art Starlight Award in 1996.
But for Liu Yijun, this is far from what he wants, as an actor, he is still Liu Yijun's first choice.
After bumping and bumping, Liu Yijun decided to return to Beijing to find an opportunity to be an actor.
Before going to Beijing, in order to reassure his parents, he first solved the emotional matter and held a wedding with his wife outside the circle.
But such a hasty marriage was destined to be a tragedy, and more than ten years later, it was verified in Liu Yijun's body.
The big instrument was late, and he finally got his wish
Back in Beijing, with the experience of winning awards, the number of times Liu Yijun was invited to shoot began to increase.
But perhaps it is really bad luck, every time you are invited, either the other party temporarily breaks the contract, or is changed.
This made Liu Yijun depressed, and he could only climb the mountain to relieve his depression.
At that time, his classmate Wang Quan'an was already well-known in the director's circle, and the first film he shot, "Eclipse of the Moon", was a great success, won the International Jury Prize of the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival, and also hugged the beauty and began a relationship with Yu Nan.
Zhang Jiayi also began to emerge, starring in dramas such as "The Old House" and "Doctor Pamir", and the drama gradually increased.
The classmates around me are mixed up, and I am still a non-literate, and anyone who changes to them will feel anxious and anxious.
It was not until 2000 that Liu Yijun ushered in the first turning point in his acting life, and this year, he met director Kong Sheng.
Partnered with Liu Mintao and starred in "Human Ghost Love".
At that time, Liu Yijun was 30 years old and Liu Mintao was 24 years old.
Although there is already Zhang Guorong's version of "Qiannu Ghost" zhuyu in front, Liu Yijun's version of Ning Caichen is still unforgettable.
After many years, Douban netizens still gave a rating of up to 8.5 points.
There is also this, Liu Yijun and the "noonday sun" formed an indissoluble relationship, after that, almost became the noonday sun's "royal supporting role".
There has always been a popular saying in the circle: noon production, must be a fine product.
In other words, most of the dramas produced by the noonday sun are conscience dramas.
And in these classic dramas, most of them have Liu Yijun's figure.
In 2014, Liu Yijun and Kong Sheng collaborated again, partnering Guo Tao, Liu Mintao and others to star in "Parental Love".
In the torrent of history, he is the proud and noble intellectual Ouyang Yi, in the mud and sand of history, the rivers and rivers are falling day by day, suddenly encountering great changes, from a good prince to a "old Europe" with vicissitudes and despair, and the sense of gap in the role makes people cry for a while.
In 2015, Liu Yijun ushered in two films that made him popular, one was "The Pretender" and the other was "Langya List".
All are villains.
The former, he is the "spicy instructor" Wang Tianfeng, the cold and cunning in his bones is creepy, and the personality of Zhi En Tu Bao adds a stroke to the complexity of the character.
The latter, he is the powerful Marquis Xie for a while, the organ is calculated, and finally forced to death by Mei Changsu played by Hu Ge, but he also has a tender side, even if the heart is so fierce, the organ calculates so, still deeply in love with Princess Xiangyang.
After that, Liu Yijun embarked on the path of villain.
"The Legend of Mi Yue", "Great Prospects", "Surgical Storm"...
But even if it is a villain, in Liu Yijun's body, you can still see the complexity of the character, so bad that people grit their teeth and make people hate the character.
Just as Liu Yijun said: I never play a pure good person, nor do I play a pure bad person.
Whether it is Wang Berlin in "Fox Hunting",
He Yong in "Sweeping The Black Storm" has the sunshine and dark side of human nature.
There were more dramas, and Liu Yijun also began to get busy.
The result of busyness is to get together with his wife less and leave more, and his feelings have diverged, and in the end, they parted ways. The custody of the son eventually went to Liu Yijun.
This made Liu Yijun dare not touch his feelings for many years, until he met another wife outside the circle. The understanding and support of the other party finally broke the ice cube in his heart.
The other party is a strong woman, the business is doing well, but in order to support Liu Yijun, he chose to quit the business world, and after marriage, he was at ease to teach his husband and children at home, added a daughter to Liu Yijun, and regarded the children born by his ex-wife as his own.
However, I remembered a sentence from Zhang Ailing: Becoming famous needs to be early.
It is inevitable that some sighs and sighs, Liu Yijun 30 years old to emerge, ups and downs for many years, only to enter the audience's sight, now the big instrument is late, will he have a trace of regret in his heart?
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