In August 1985, a tragic shipwreck occurred in Harbin, and only 67 people survived on the Songhua River, with 238 passengers on board. And Xiao Zhang's whole family almost died in this disaster.
That day was the day when the whole family went to Sun Island as usual, but Zhang Yi suddenly became willful and forced his family to go to the zoo. They forcibly changed their boat itinerary, and the next day they learned the news of the accident on the boat they were going to take yesterday. But this time, Zhang Yi seemed to have consumed all his luck in the first half of his life. The kindergartens and primary schools he attended all went out of business, the junior high schools and high schools he attended either changed their names or changed their addresses, and even the Beijing Broadcasting Institute, which he had always dreamed of, changed its name to the Communication University of China with Zhang Yilian's two-year exam. Even Zhang Yi himself couldn't help but laugh at himself for being a 'god of decline', because his departure made the Communication University of China stronger.
After failing the college entrance examination twice, he was dragged by his father to the Harbin Repertory Theatre. Since he was a child, he has been inferior because of his own image, and he once dared not sing on stage because of his inferiority and shyness, and was chased twice by his girlfriend Guo Na at the time, and slapped him four times in a row when he fell on the tree. But the study of the drama troupe made Zhang Yi fall in love with acting. In order to be admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, he painstakingly read more than 2,000 Soviet plays, but the Chinese opera instructor who was interviewed suggested that Zhang Yi try to learn directing and screenwriting. Zhang Yi was willing to give up easily, and his stubborn temper came up and went to the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, but the people rejected him because Zhang Yi was malnourished and had scoliosis. Just when Zhang Yi was discouraged, things ushered in a turnaround.
The Beijing Comrades-in-Arms Repertory Theatre successfully admitted Zhang Yi, but because of the 'image problem', he ran a dragon set in the repertory theater for ten years, and after graduation, he had no drama to shoot, and even fell to the point that he could only eat a pack of instant noodles for three days to fill his hunger. Later, he was assigned to the crew to do field work, but he loved acting, and even if he did field work, he memorized his lines meticulously. The director, a black, thin and thin boy, loved acting so much that he gave him a role. And this TV series is called the strongest military drama "Soldier Assault".
"Soldier Assault" immediately became popular all over the country as soon as it was broadcast, and Zhang Yi also successfully entered the hearts of the public with his wonderful interpretation of the role of 'Shi Jin'. But Zhang Yi, who is bent on performance, did not choose to take the road of entertaining the public in order to make quick money, he did not go to reality shows or accept brand endorsements, so even if he had a certain degree of popularity, he was still working hard for the mortgage.
In 2007, a woman dialed Zhang Yi's phone. Zhang Yi picked up the phone, heard the incomparably familiar voice on the other side, and was so frightened that he almost dropped his mobile phone on the ground. The caller was guo na, the ex-girlfriend who slapped herself in the face of a tree. After years of not seeing each other, the former lover has become the publicity director of Huayi Pictures. This time, Zhang Yi was found to sign him into huayi banner.
The lover has spoken, and it must be to give some face. What's more, Huayi Film and Television is one of the top two film and television companies in China. Signed a contract with Huayi's Zhang Yi, and since then, his acting career has also begun to usher in the spring.
In 2008, he took over the TV series "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", playing the crippled Meng Bored. In order to get close to the role, he dieted every day and drank milk to replenish his strength. As soon as the director shouts to start, he immediately enters the play, and his every move is no different from that of a real cripple. However, this also led to Zhang Yi's legs becoming thick and thin after the killing, and it was even more because of the long-term crooked body that broke a rib on the right side.
In 2011, in the TV series "Age of Steel", he played with the seniors Feng Yuanzheng and Chen Baoguo on the same stage but did not show timidity, and it was also because of this play that he was appreciated by the screenwriter Gao Mantang and accepted Zhang Yi as an apprentice, naturally Gao Mantang also threw all his works to Zhang Yi to let him play the male lead.
Since then, Zhang Yi's film and television drama works have continued one after another, such as "Beijing Love Story", "Search", "Wenzhou Family", "Spicy Mother Zheng biography" and other national-level works, which not only tempered Zhang Yi's acting skills, but also greatly broadened his popularity. Subsequently, he and the director Feng Xiaogang twice collaborated on the movies "Old Cannon" and "I Am Not Pan Jinlian", paving his way to the big screen. In 2015, at the 30th Golden Rooster Awards Ceremony of Chinese Film, Zhang Yi won the Best Supporting Actor Award by defeating Wang Zhiwen, Wang Qianyuan and other powerful actors with his wonderful performance in the movie "Dear". In 2017, he won the Magnolia Emperor with "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky". In 2020, the 42-year-old Zhang Yi became the sixth male actor in the history of Chinese film and film to star in the history of Chinese film and film with films such as "Eight Hundred", "My Motherland and Me" and "Red Sea Action".
But the success of the box office is not enough to satisfy Zhang Yi, and he is still struggling for the film industry after becoming famous. In "Eight Hundred", his trembling pleading dialogue made director Guan Hu can't help but cry; in order to shoot "One Second", Zhang Yimou said 'I need to see the cheekbones' and let Zhang Yi willingly be exposed to the sun every day, losing 20 pounds in a month; shooting the electric shock scene of "On the Cliff", Zhang Yikou spit white foam and trembled and his whole body was full of iron clips. This is Zhang Yi, a cute 'fading god' who is down-to-earth but persistent in his beloved cause. Even now that he has stood tall on the top Chinese actor, he is still humble and courteous. As a soldier, he is still accustomed to performing a solemn military salute when he receives a special honor. I believe that he has high standards and high requirements for himself and his works, and he will continue to contribute to the rise of Chinese films.