Zhang Yu
Even if people reach their old age, fame and fortune, sit on gold mines, and have a wealth of 100 billion, actor Zhang Yu still feels that he is very pitiful.
The reason is not him, only because in 1985, one of her insistences: "Abandon your husband and go abroad to study abroad."
Because of this persistence, she lost her love, lost her family, looked back behind her, stood alone, lonely shadow green lights, only regret.
In 1981, in the Chinese film industry, it was also known as "Zhang Yunian".
With her outstanding performance in the two films "Lushan Love" and "Bashan Night Rain", Zhang Yu was selected as the first golden rooster and hundred flowers in the history of Chinese cinema.
For a while, the limelight was the same.
Lushan love stills
Hundreds of millions of Chinese remembered the overseas Chinese Zhou Yun played by her, and in full view of everyone, took the initiative to kiss the male protagonist Guo Kaimin.
The kiss of dragonfly on the cheek really shocked the young man at the time, "Ah! It turns out that love can still be talked about like this! ”
Thousands of women remember Zhang Yu's 47 sets of gorgeous costumes with different styles in the play, red flared pants, floral tight tops, modern berets, white stockings with high heels...
It can be said that if zhang Yu had not made a brave sacrifice, he would not have achieved "the first kiss on the Chinese screen." ”
The first kiss on Chinese screen
Because the image of Zhang Yu and Guo Kaimin's on-screen couple is too deeply rooted in people's hearts, so that everyone thinks that the beautiful Zhang Yu should be matched with a handsome, tall flower beauty man.
So when Zhang Yu and the volleyball prince Wang Jiawei spread a new scandal, the audience all believed it.
Originally, Wang Jiawei was in love with the volleyball goddess Zhang Jieyun.
The two have the same profession and match their appearance, and they are about to go to the field of marriage and marriage, but they did not want to change things.
And this "change" is related to the scandal of Zhang Yu's "active seduction".
Volleyball Prince Wang Jiawei
One day, Wang Jiawei received a letter, which was full of love for him, which made people blush after reading it.
It is reasonable to say that Wang Jiawei, as the prince of volleyball, can receive a sack a day of such a confessional courtship letter, but only this one makes his heart beat like a drum, because the letter is written "Zhang Yu"!
Who is Zhang Yu? National Idol! It is also the goddess of his dreams!
Wang Jiawei was pleasantly surprised, and the person became no longer reserved, and he immediately began to reply to the letter, informing him of the same love, hoping that there was a glimmer of possibility between the two.
Soon, the two frequently passed on the book, only through letters to determine the relationship, in order to show his sincerity, Wang Jiawei even sent his ancestral ring as a souvenir to "Zhang Yu".
With the new love, the old love will naturally be left aside, and Zhang Jieyun will helplessly "be broken up".
The female ranking will be Zhang Jieyun
Seeing that their teammates were "snatched by the horizontal knife" by the actress, the women's volleyball girls, including Lang Ping, hated Zhang Yu, and they unanimously believed that Zhang Yu took the initiative to seduce and seduce Wang Jiawei.
I didn't expect that big stars would also grab boyfriends with ordinary people, and there was really a set behind it!
Unexpectedly, Oolong quickly saw Zhenzhang.
One day, Wang Jiawei suddenly saw a news message while talking to "Zhang Yu" on the phone: Zhang Yu is filming in Australia at the moment, so who is "Zhang Yu" who is talking to him on the phone now?
Zhang Yu stills
Although Wang Jiawei was full of doubts, he still had a hint of illusion and continued to "deceive himself."
But director Xie Tieli had some doubts after hearing the rumor that "Zhang Yu took the initiative to write a letter to court Wang Jiawei", so he took advantage of the gap between filming to specifically ask Zhang Yu for verification, Zhang Yu was dumbfounded after listening to it, and quickly clarified that this was "a rumor made out of nothing!" ”
Under the two evidences, the "fake Zhang Yu" was ultimately unable to maintain the lie, and simply put it out.
It turned out that from the beginning to the end, the "Zhang Yu" who contacted Wang Jiawei was just a fake; and Wang Jiawei's seemingly dream-like love was just a gamble between two boring girls.
At this time, Wang Jiawei completely collapsed, not only was he disgraced and taken as a joke, but he also lost his true love.
But regret will not help.
Wang Jiawei, who was injured by love and had a double blow of intelligence, did not have the face to continue to stay in China, so he went to Japan to study, first married Zhang Tielin's first love Deng Xing, and a few years later, the two broke up peacefully.
Wang Jiawei and his wife
In 2006, Wang Jiawei married Liu Chaoying, a tiger woman, and the two joined hands to break into the business world.
Now that Wang Jiawei has become an oil tycoon, he must have had a rather moist life, and probably forgot about that slightly humiliating impulsive past.
And our real Zhang Yu, the real love object at that time, was actually the director Zhang Jianya.
After all, in those days, acting was a very normal profession, and their social circle was not very extensive.
Either fall in love with the same cast or fall in love with the crew.
However, Zhang Yu, who is bent on being strong and independent, is more willing to interact with people who can improve himself, so he met the director Zhang Jianya under the introduction of Guo Kaimin.
At a glance of ten thousand years, the moment Zhang Jianya saw Zhang Yu, he was fascinated by the sweet smile and beautiful figure of the other party.
Heartbroken than action, Zhang Jianya launched a crazy pursuit of Zhang Yu.
The beautiful woman is also afraid of infatuation, Zhang Yu was finally moved by Zhang Jianya's warm confession, and chose to marry in 1984, at the peak of her career.
Zhang Jianya and Zhang Yu
After marriage, the two did live a good life of knowing each other and cherishing each other, but at that time, Zhang Yu also encountered a new career bottleneck period.
Although her popularity is very high, and the masses are willing to praise her, she herself knows that this kind of "pursuit" in China is not something she has obtained by her real ability.
Her aura has always stayed in the "first kiss on the Chinese screen", this sign is too big, so that people can't see the shortcomings of her performance, nor can they see the panic after her fame.
It is not that she Zhang Yu played the role of Zhou Yun, but this role was played by another person, and it can still be fired!
The fame of the role overshadows the actor himself, which is actually dangerous.
Zhang Yu clearly remembered that at that time, the director Huang Zumo first chose a beautiful woman named Jiang Xun.
Jiang Xun's appearance has the most moving beauty, and often interacts with foreign friends, whether it is appearance or personality, it is closer to the image of overseas Chinese Zhou Jun.
However, when it was time to start up, Jiang Xun was exposed to selling fake gold jewelry to foreign guests in a hotel, whether it is now or then, this is an "international scandal" that can be called a corrupt image of the Chinese people.
Jiang Xun went to jail for counterfeiting and selling fakes, and regretted losing his great future of "fame and fortune".
But three-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged beauties are still easy to find.
The director soon found the great beauty Wu Haiyan, who had just entered the factory.
Wu Haiyan's appearance did not fall at all, or even more outstanding.
But at that time, Wu Haiyan wanted to be the heroine of the drama "Wait until the Mountains Are Full of Red Leaves" directed by her uncle Tang Huada, and she could only regret giving up.
Actor Wu Haiyan
At this time, Zhang Yu, who is slightly inferior in both fame and appearance, has the opportunity to enter the director's sight.
Although she is "not very pretty", she is victorious in her natural acting skills and agility and willingness.
For example, Zhou Yun found that he mistakenly recognized tourists as Geng Hua on Lushan Mountain, and immediately added a frown and tongue action.
This kind of delicacy and mischievousness is more in line with the innocence and liveliness of Zhou Jun's overseas Chinese.
After the release of "Lushan Love", Zhang Yu immediately caught fire as expected.
Even if everyone recognizes Zhang Yu's acting skills, she always insists in her heart: "It was that era that made this film, not me." ”
This kind of sober cognition is certainly valuable, but it also torments Zhang Yu all the time, how to break the blessing of the aura of fame?
Not long after, the peer inadvertently said: "You are so famous in China, which director dares to teach you to shoot a scene?" ”
The speaker had no intention, the listener was intentional, and Zhang Yu instantly made up his mind: "Since I dare not teach at home, then I will go abroad!" ”
So not long after the new marriage, Zhang Yu decided to study abroad in 1985.
This is also a challenge for Zhang Jianya, although he has the heart to persuade his wife not to cling, but as a husband, he understands Zhang Yu's stubbornness.
"If the eagle is destined to belong to the sky, it will be futile for me to give you even the vastest meadows."
In desperation, Zhang Jianya finally agreed to Zhang Yu's "abandoning her husband and going abroad".
Zhang Yu and Zhang Jianya
Although in the early stages, Zhang Yu swore that he would not be affected by the environment and change his loyalty to love.
But with the change of time, distance, cognition, etc., she feels more and more that this relationship is unable to maintain herself.
In the movie "Lushan Love", even if Zhou Yun and the male protagonist are affected by the environment and obstructed by many parties, they can reunite in Lushan many years later and continue the frontier.
But real life is never as perfect as the script is set.
During the day, Zhang Yu wants to go to class, and at night, she also has to "open a small stove" to practice speaking, this kind of fatigue, she does not dare to cry with Zhang Jianya, both afraid that the other party is worried, but also afraid that the other party does not understand;
The freshness of overseas life is soon replaced by strangeness, she longs for her husband's support and help, but what she gains is only the blind voice on the other end of the phone and the endless night waiting;
Night and day, straits and mountains, this deviation between space and time, eventually blocked her husband's love from Zhang Yu's heart.
Under the financial guarantee of the "Sino-US Cultural Exchange Foundation", Zhang Yu, who studied at the California State University northridge at public expense, although he did not have the embarrassment of life, the psychological pressure was still very large.
Zhang Yu attended university
She understands that she cannot embarrass the country, and that learning to succeed is her only option.
Correspondingly, Zhang Jianya's children are long-term and obsessive.
This love is certainly precious, but compared with the pressure of learning, it has become a "burden".
Without much choice, Zhang Yu decided to give up this "love" and choose a career.
She conceded defeat, she was tired, she admitted, she couldn't move her back...
After returning to China after graduating with a master's degree, Zhang Yu took the initiative to propose to Zhang Jianya: "Divorce it, it is too tired, and long pain is not as good as short pain." ”
Although this sentence has been sketched in her mind many times, Zhang Yu has also imagined that Zhang Jianya may be angry, may reprimand her change of heart, and she even prepared a lot of words of persuasion, but she did not expect that Zhang Jianya just calmly accepted.
Perhaps from the moment Zhang Yu went abroad, this scene had already been anticipated by Zhang Jianya.
"Disagreement doesn't start the moment you go abroad, but separation begins when two people choose different lives."
Zhang Jianya's letting go of the completion may have made Zhang Yu greatly relieved.
She believes that there is no love, no marriage constraints, and she will infinitely travel in the sky of overseas art.
But at that time, Hollywood did not welcome oriental faces, Zhang Yu had no background, and domestic fame was worthless in the United States.
She does not have the distinctive personal characteristics of Chen Chong, and can only dream of shattering Hollywood and regretting the American dream.
Chen Chong stills
In 1990, Zhang Yu had no choice but to change his route and come to Taiwan for development, and successively filmed TV series such as "The Legend of Li Shishi", "Red Flower", "Paper Marriage" and so on.
However, the model of Taiwanese dramas filming and broadcasting while making Zhang Yu "unsatisfied with the water and soil", the acting skills shown are not recognized by the market, and all thoughts are gray, Zhang Yu received a call from her ex-husband Zhang Jianya.
Zhang Jianya found Zhang Yu and wanted her to participate in the new film "Mr. Wang's Desire to Burn" directed by himself, and gave a friendly advice: "Here are relatives and friends who love you, there is such a good audience, don't be afraid, come back!" ”
A good word is warm in three winters, and this signal has no stinginess for Zhang Yu, who is in deep trouble.
After many years, Zhang Yu, who had run into fruitlessness, finally returned to China.
But unexpectedly, the vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry field, the passage of time.
The moment Zhang Yu leaves the film and television industry, there will naturally be more young and excellent beautiful actresses to fill the gap, and the market will not leave a good position for Zhang Yu alone.
Zhang Yu didn't shoot anymore.
With the encouragement of her ex-husband Zhang Jianya, Zhang Yu passively began the transformation from actor to producer and director.
Not only in 1995, he filmed "The Sun Has Ears" and won the Silver Bear Award at the 46th Berlin Film Festival.
In 2005's "Ren Changxia", with his superb acting skills, he truly returned to the public's vision and was nominated for the Huabiao Award and the Hundred Flowers Award again.
But her fame never returned.
Stills of Zhang Yu's "Ren Changxia"
Discouraged, or looking down on fame and fortune, Zhang Yu slowly withdrew from the film and television circle.
And her personal Weibo also stopped updating in 2019, and the content of the last public Weibo was "Deep Sleep 丨 Make a SPA for the Mind".
It's like her life, always surprisingly chosen to be silent.
Zhang Yu's personal Weibo
Now she has long been a citizen of the United States, and according to the latest entertainment industry policy, she probably can't participate in the recording of domestic programs as often as before.
I hope that this time, she really found a way to spa her soul, look down on the past, let go of self-pity, and usher in a calmer old age.
Recalling that she frequently appeared in those interview variety shows that recalled the 80s, her occasional stunning appearance also confirmed the view that the years had never been defeated, and the same elegant and calm, the same eyebrow style.
However, in the interview with "Screen Connecting You and Me" hosted by Tian Ge, Zhang Yu still rarely confided his true voice.
Zhang Yuren reached middle age
"At that time, I was really young and ignorant, didn't know what to give up, wasn't afraid of anything, and firmly believed that each other loved each other deeply, and time and separation would not destroy our love."
"Now my life is really flawed, I did not deliberately pursue such a way of life, but God did not care too much for me, did not become a wife, did not become a mother, I am quite pitiful." 」
The poet Zhang Zao said: "As long as you remember the regrets in your life, plum blossoms will fall all over the South Mountain." ”
This emotion, Zhang Yu can understand very well.
She has had the love of the pursuit of love, has also had the unchangeable waiting, and has also sent charcoal in the snow of life's frustration.
But all this, in the end, due to its immaturity, turned into a falling flower on the South Mountain, leaving an empty fragrance.
Regrets, regrets, in the end, a dream has become empty.