In these years in the entertainment industry, big S and small S rarely fall into some kind of trough because of outside comments.
Maverick, dare to say dare to do. In a way, the Xu sisters, known as "big and small S", define another type of female star in this era.
And now, a clear change is: in the past two years, big S has begun to speak more and more slowly, and small S has become more and more emotional.
Big S attributed her changes to marriage, because after marriage, she always had to consider before saying every word, whether it would be over-interpreted;
And Xiao S becomes emotional because as she grows older, the "loss" in her life begins to gradually become greater than the "gain".
After the age of 40, the problems of career, family and life are arranged one by one in front of the two sisters, and how to continue to become a big S and a small S, the answer is not clear.
In the 28th year of their debut, both big S and little S gradually realized that they were in a dilemma - there was no drama to play.
For her sister Big S, for a long time, "actor" has been one of her proud identities.
But after a few years of suspension of her career due to marriage and children, Big S suddenly found that the roles that had come to her in the past had disappeared.
Two years ago, Big S would also post on Weibo: "I really want to act." And now, she can say calmly in the show: "I have no drama to act." ”
Big S confessed in the show that because of his age, he had no drama to play
In fact, in recent years, it is not without scripts handed over to Big S, but most of the characters are some stylized mother roles, and even the director invited her to play Wang Continental's mother in an idol drama.
Big S felt exaggerated, after all, he was only 15 years older than Wang Mainland.
For sister Little S, the same problem is happening.
On Weibo, Xiao S often rises temporarily, shoots a video and posts it to the account, commenting below, often asking her why she does not act.
She replied, "Because no one is looking for me to act." ”
Compared with her sister Big S, Little S's acting experience is not much, and her most recent film was to star in the film "Eat Eat" directed by Cai Kangyong 4 years ago.
The reputation of the movie is not very good, and xiao S, as the lead actor, has also received many bad reviews.
Little S in the movie "Eat Eat Love"
Distressed, she went to ask the film queen Song Jia how to become a good actor, and Song Jia replied: "You have to believe that you are that role." ”
After listening, Xiao S thought to himself, "It seems that there is really no way for me to make myself another person." On the other hand, what bothers the two sisters is that there don't seem to be too many people who will report on them as "individuals."
In the past, when they appeared in the headlines, most of the news was "funny", "out of line", "maverick". Today, these words have been replaced by "childbirth", "magnate", and "marriage has changed".
How to break through this situation and what kind of image to use to appear in front of the public again has become a new topic for big and small S.
The beginning of the Xu family sisters' story takes place in a silver building on Taipei's Bo'ai Road. The owner of the silver building is surnamed Xu, and he has two daughters under his knees, named Xu Xixian and Xu Xiyuan.
In the summer of 1978, Boss Xu's third child was born, and the Xu family thought that the third child would be a boy, but did not expect it to be a girl, so they named their younger daughter "Xu Xidi".
Three sisters and parents of the Xu family
Although the growth environment is the same, the personalities of the three xu sisters are very different. The eldest sister Xu Xixian is quiet and dull, always loves to hide in the bedroom to read novels on weekdays, and is very strict in doing things, and even wears a school uniform to prevent being late when she goes to school.
The second sister Xu Xiyuan is beautiful and has a strong personality, and has been the focus of her classmates since she was a child, and whenever her sister is bullied, she will always be the first to stand up and hug her.
As an old and young Xu Xidi, she was timid and inferior from childhood, she was neither immersed in her own world like the eldest sister, nor was she as maverick as the second sister.
At that time, her biggest dream was to become a piano teacher in the future— "so that I could train students with the right words." ”
Three sisters of the Xu family: Xu Xixian, Xu Xidi, Xu Xiyuan (from left to right)
In the memory of Little S Xu Xidi, the changes in the family occurred when she was in elementary school. In those years, my father became addicted to gambling, often getting drunk and sometimes beating up on his wife.
As the fighting escalated, the rift became more and more apparent. Finally, when Xu Xidi was in middle school, the parents finally decided to separate after discussion, and Yinlou and his three daughters were handed over to their mother Huang Chunmei.
Since then, Huang Chunmei has taken her three daughters and started a new life.
In the summer of 1994, Xu Xiyuan and Xu Xidi were admitted to Taipei Huagang Art School at the same time, and entered the drama department to become classmates.
Xu Xidi, Liu Hanya, and Xu Xiyuan during the Huagang Art School period
Before being admitted to Huagang Art School, Xu Xiyuan also experienced a "dropout incident". In terms of age, Xu Xiyuan is 2 years older than Xu Xidi, and when Xu Xidi was still in junior high school, her sister Xu Xiyuan had already been admitted to another art school. But because the art school implemented militarized management, Xu Xiyuan felt full of constraints, and not long after enrolling, she quarreled with her mother every day to transfer to the relatively relaxed Huagang Art School. But her mother refused her request, saying, "They are all art schools, there is not much difference."
Until once, on the way home, the mother and daughter quarreled about whether they could transfer schools, and Xu Xiyuan ran away from home for a full 3 days in a fit of anger. The mother finally agreed to let her daughter withdraw from school and re-enter Huagang Art School. Xu Xiyuan and Xu Xidi, who are 2 years apart in age, became classmates.
Xu Xidi (left) and Xu Xiyuan (right) as teenagers
With the admission to the art school, the acting careers of the two sisters also began. Because of her sweet looks, Xu Xiyuan starred in some advertising shorts in her teens, and one of the directors felt that she had potential and recommended her to producer Chen Guoqin.
At first, Chen Guoqin only wanted to sign Xu Xiyuan, but Xu's mother felt that Xu Xiyuan's personality was too sharp and not suitable for entering the entertainment circle alone, hoping that the other party would sign her daughter Xu Xidi together.
Chen Guoqin was not sure, so he took a funny video recorded by the two sisters to the other two program producers to evaluate together, and one of them felt: "It's too strange to be red." Another producer felt that the two girls looked clever: "After all, young people are very different now, maybe they will be red."
This producer is one of the guests who often appear in "Kangxi Lai" later - Shen Yulin.
Shen Yulin in "Kangxi Is Coming"
At the same time, Xu Xiyuan also began to persuade her sister to enter the entertainment circle with her. At first, she persuaded her sister that "if she becomes a star, she can wear a puffy skirt and sing and dance on stage."
But at that time, Xu Xidi did not like to dress up, her teeth were messy, and she often walked on her back, Xu Xiyuan described Xu Xidi at that time: "Never included beauty in the important projects of her life." So naturally, the matter of "debuting in a puffy skirt" did not have any temptation for Xu Xidi.
After that, Xu Xiyuan used "after becoming a star, you can share the jokes we tell privately to more people, and you can entertain the audience" as bait to persuade her sister.
Little S likes to make people happy, and for this bait, she is hooked. So at the beginning of their debut, the sisters made a pact: "To be a pair of comedians." In this way, Chen Guoqin signed Xu Xiyuan and Xu Xidi, named their group "Toot Bi Tu Wow", and released their first album "Occupy Young" for them in 1994.
This year, the sister Xu Xiyuan was 18 years old, and the younger sister Xu Xidi was 16 years old.
However, during the promotion period of the album, the two sisters felt that the name "Toot Than Toot Wow" was "rotten and strange", so at the suggestion of the album's producer, the group was renamed SOS, meaning Sisters of Shiu.
Since then, the sister Xu Xiyuan has become the big S, and the younger sister Xu Xidi has become the little S.
At that time, the two sisters of the Xu family, who had just entered the entertainment industry, may not have imagined that these two names would become some kind of summary of their future lives, as well as the most conspicuous labels and synonyms.
In the first few years of his debut, the careers of big and small S were not smooth. After the release of their first album "Occupy Young", they successively released the albums "Letters Sent Every Day" and "Sisterly Love", but they did not attract much attention in the Taiwanese music scene.
Letters Sent Every Day Album Cover (1995)
Because of his love of playing ugly and speaking out of line, in the first few years of his debut, the big and small S were not accepted by the audience. Every time they participate in a show, on the second day of broadcast, the TV station always receives a bunch of complaints.
When he first entered the entertainment industry, Xiao S did not expect that the matter of "becoming a comedian" would be so unacceptable. Seeing that the album sales had not improved for a long time, Chen Guoqin began to consider signing the big and small S to the Japanese company for repackaging.
Xu's mother was reluctant to let her two daughters go to Japan to live alone, plus before that, in 1993, the singer Huang Jiaju, who also went to Japan to develop, died unexpectedly in a program recording.
The big and small S of the teenage years
In the entertainment industry has always been tepid, in 1997, big, small S and big sister together, in the first basement floor of Taipei's East Department Store, rented a storefront of dozens of square meters, sold clothes.
The clothing business was good, and the big and small S also began to gradually break off the idea of being a star, until Wang Weizhong, their former agent, appeared at the door of the big and small S.
From left to right: Wang Weizhong, Big S, Little S, Zhan Renxiong
Note: Zhan Renxiong is the producer of "Kangxi Lai"
Wang Weizhong still remembers the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1998.
He came to the big and small S's home and expressed his willingness to rebuild the two. However, compared to singers, Wang Weizhong believes that they are more suitable for becoming hosts. In order to persuade big and small S to host the show, Wang Weizhong described the show as: "A late-night show, no one will watch, if you don't want to do it, you can leave at any time." ”
The two sisters discussed and decided to agree to Wang Weizhong to become the host of the entertainment news broadcast program "Entertainment 100%", and also started their "alternative idol career".
The Little S and the Big S in Entertainment 100%."
Tsai Kangyong later described the way big and small S hosted in "Entertainment 100%" as "making the whole of Taiwan a sensation": "Because no one will take all the things at home on the table to talk about." "At the scene of the show, the big and small S talk about gossip, talk about beauty, talk about personal affairs, and even take the dog at home to the video studio and let the dog run around the whole field."
In this somewhat peculiar show, the two sisters of the Xu family also left many "famous scenes": for example, the famous "skipping incident" that occurred when Big S was 24 years old - because of the excessive pressure, Big S suddenly disappeared before the program was recorded and disappeared from everyone.
On that day's show, Xiao S, who hosted alone, stood on the stage and cried while calling his sister home: "No matter what kind of things happen to you today, the people who love you the most in the world are your family." ”
For example, after Breaking up with Huang Ziling, Xiao S cried and wished Huang Ziling in the show: "No matter what, I bless you." ”
For the big and small S at that time, instead of comparing the tens of square meters of the studio of "Entertainment 100%" to a work space, it was better to compare it to a chat room for them. As for whether it can be fire, the sisters do not care, big S is even ready, if it can not be fired, go to open a fast food store to sell roast goose.
But what she didn't expect was that as the ratings of the show climbed steadily, slowly, everyone began to like these two eccentric girls. Although it was at an extremely slow speed, with the status of the host, the big and small S finally caught fire.
To this day, Big S is still haunted by an incident from 22 years ago.
That year, the TV series "Huan Zhu GeGe" was planned to start filming, and the crew was looking for suitable actors on both sides of the strait and three places, and in the process, Big S was listed on the shortlist. But in the end, because Big S has a pair of tricks, it is not suitable for costumes, and this opportunity to star was missed.
After learning this news, Big S was very upset, and she even seriously considered whether to go through a plastic surgery and change the shape of her ears.
Although he missed "Huan Zhu Gege", another opportunity soon appeared in front of Big S.
In 1999, producer Chai Zhiping approached Big S and invited her to be the heroine of a youth idol drama. At that time, for big S of 24, all her acting experience came from a cameo at the age of 11 - playing a child star in the movie "The Sea Project". In the face of the invitation, for whether to become a female lead, big S heart straight to mutter.
In the face of Big S's concerns, producer Chai Zhiping said: "It doesn't matter, I'll find you four new male actors, let's put the series in the middle of the night, no one will find you." ”
In this way, Big S became a shancai in the TV series "Meteor Garden", and the four "newcomer actors" were Yan Chengxu, Zhou Yumin, Wu Jianhao and Zhu Xiaotian.
Yan Chengxu, Zhou Yumin, Big S, Wu Jianhao, Zhu Xiaotian in "Meteor Garden"
Prior to this, There was no concept of "youth idol drama" in Taiwan, and most of the TV dramas on the market at that time were "dog blood romance" TV dramas broadcast at 8 pm. But unexpectedly, "Meteor Garden" was popular throughout Asia shortly after it was broadcast.
The four male protagonists in the play also formed a male group and named it "F4". In that year, the theme song "Meteor Shower" from "Meteor Garden" was played on a loop in the video stores in the streets and alleys, and many female college students would draw a red heart with a pen on the "F4 key" on the computer keyboard, fantasizing that one day they could meet their own "Hanazawa class" or "Daoming Temple".
Rainie Yang, who played Xiaoyou in the TV series, later recalled that for a long time after the broadcast of "Meteor Garden", the public did not know her real name. Whenever someone recognizes her on the street, they call her "Xiao you" in the play.
In "Meteor Garden", Rainie Yang played the "Little You"
After "Meteor Garden", Taiwan began to mushroom all kinds of youth idol dramas, and Big S also took this opportunity to turn to the TV drama industry. In the years that followed, she established her position in taiwan's idol drama industry with idol dramas such as "God of War" and "Corner Meets Love".
28-year-old Big S in the TV series God of War (2004)
At the same time, she also starred in mainland TV dramas such as "Ghost of Qiannu", "Summer of Bubbles" and "Midnight Song".
He Rundong and Big S in the TV series "Summer of Bubbles"
When Big S laid a sky in the TV drama industry, Little S also ushered in a breakthrough in his career. If Big S's "Meteor Garden" has opened up a new world of Taiwanese idol dramas, then Little S's "Kangxi Lai" has become a watershed in Taiwan's talk variety shows. In 2004, a program called "Kangxi Lai" was officially broadcast on Zhongtian General Station, and the broadcast time was every Monday to Friday at 10 pm.
In the first issue of "Kangxi Lai", the guest was Li Ao
At first, the name of the show was not "Kangxi Lai", but "Strange Ten O'Clock". Before the official broadcast, Cai Kangyong felt that the name was not new, so he extracted a word from the names of himself and Xiao S to form the name of the program - "Kangxi Lai".
In the program, The eccentricity of Xiao S and the literati image of Cai Kangyong unexpectedly produced a strong chemical reaction, which was not optimistic at first, and the variety show, which was not optimistic at first, soared into popularity in the first year of broadcasting, and even changed the habits of Taiwanese audiences to watch TV - in the past, 10 p.m. belonged to the lower point of Taiwan's ratings, and the explosion of "Kangxi Lai" began to make many viewers willing to wait in front of the TV set at 10 o'clock every night.
After this, various small-cost talk shows began to appear in Taiwan's television industry.
In "Kangxi Lai", Xiao S gradually formed his own unique hosting style. In the show, she "has no boundaries" and jokes with guests, and no matter how jumpy she is, her partner Cai Kangyong will always be able to "pull her back on track".
Looking back, in the life of Little S Xu Xidi, the 12-year-long "Kangxi Lai" is undoubtedly one of the most important chapters in her life.
Here, she became an adult, a mother, and a "little S."
Perhaps because the positioning of the debut at the beginning was not "idol faction", every love between big S and little S was never hidden. Adhering to the idea of "generously admitting if photographed by the media", almost every relationship between the sisters is an open love.
In 2004, Xiao S's love affair with Xu Yajun surfaced.
Little S and Xu Yajun
In Xiao S's eyes, Xu Yajun is very different from the husband image he envisions in his heart. In her vision, her other half should be "calm and quiet", while Xu Yajun loves to wear leather pants and tights, loves to visit nightclubs, and gives a thumbs up when dancing.
When they first met, S would even jokingly ask him when they saw him: "Are you Spider-Man?" So love to wear tights. Whenever this happened, Xu Yajun would always explain his outfit in a serious way, and over time, Xiao S felt that the boy in front of him: "It's a little funny, and a little cute." ”
The two quickly fell in love and, after 3 months of dating, met each other's parents. At that time, Xiao S decided that Xu Yajun was his "destiny" and began to argue with his mother to get married immediately.
Little S and Xu Yajun during the hot love period
Even though she was in the ascendancy of her career, even though her mother did not want her to marry too early, Xiao S resolutely registered her marriage with Xu Yajun in 2005 and gave birth to her first daughter in January 2006.
Later, in the second and seventh years of marriage, she gave birth to two daughters. Many years later, the marriage was given various unhappy adjectives in the media report speculation, but the real scene of the marriage may only be known to the parties.
Little S, Xu Yajun and their three daughters
Unlike Little S, Big S's love affair is always very rational - in a relationship, no matter how much she likes each other, as long as she realizes that the other party is not the "right person", she will immediately terminate the relationship. Even if this breakup would have made her so miserable that she was rolling back and forth in bed, she wouldn't look back.
Because of this, friends described her as an "ascetic" in love. Before meeting her husband Wang Xiaofei, Big S's two most famous relationships, one with Lan Zhenglong and the other with Zhou Yumin, but these two relationships eventually ended because they were "inappropriate".
Blue Dragon with Big S
Zhou Yumin and Big S
In a 2010 interview, Big S talked about her views on love, saying, "Marriage is not needed for me because I can't imagine myself being disciplined by a person." When she said this, Big S had just finished her 34th birthday, and she bought herself a house and planned to live with her mother forever.
The plan was changed in the fall of the following year.
In the autumn of this year, Big S accidentally injured his hand while filming in Beijing, and friends came to Beijing to see her. At dinner, they came to a restaurant run by Wang Xiaofei's family.
Just when Wang Xiaofei was also in the store, during the meal, he came to Big S's dinner table to greet her friends. That meeting left a deep impression on Big S and Wang Xiaofei. At the dinner party that day, in addition to the same age, there were some elders, and Wang Xiaofei was able to chat with everyone very cordially.
Big S vaguely felt at the moment that the boy who was 5 years younger than himself seemed to be the "right person". Wang Xiaofei described Big S: "I have never seen someone who speaks so peacefully and calmly, I think she is too good." ”
After meeting Wang Xiaofei for the third time, Big S called his sister Xiao S and said to her, "I am in love with someone, and I want to marry him." ”
After meeting for the fourth time, the two registered their marriage in Beijing.
Big S and Wang Xiaofei
After marriage, in order to cultivate a fertile physique, the 35-year-old Big S gave up a vegetarian diet that he insisted on for 15 years and began to eat meat and drink soup, because the doctor said that she "had too little abdominal fat accumulation, which was not conducive to pregnancy."
At the same time, Big S also began to give birth injections and take Traditional Chinese medicine, during that time, Big S was addicted to the TV series "Zhen Huan Biography", she described the supplements that were sent to her home one after another as: "I have only seen it in "Zhen Huan Biography". ”
In the past, in order to maintain his stature, Big S ate only one breakfast a day for a long time, and he was really hungry, so he would eat a bowl of boiled vegetables. The change in diet made her figure begin to gain weight, and gradually, Big S stopped many jobs and spent more and more time at home.
The method was tried a lot, but the child never appeared in her life with Wang Xiaofei, at that time, big S would call her sister Xiao S late at night and cry to her: "I probably can't get pregnant in this life." ”
For a while, in the matter of pregnancy, Big S seemed to have walked into a dead end, and for a moment she would tell herself: "If it doesn't work," and then she would persuade herself: "Try again." Two thoughts were like two walls, trapping her in them until one morning, when Big S suddenly saw two bars on a pregnancy test stick.
In the third year of marriage, Big S had children of his own.
The wall that trapped big S finally collapsed.
With the increase of age, some changes gradually appeared among the two sisters of the Xu family.
In 2014, Big S successfully gave birth to his daughter and began to read the script while losing weight, planning to return to the public eye. Unexpectedly, in the second year of giving birth to her daughter, she became pregnant again and her comeback plan was forced to stop.
Big S, Wang Xiaofei and daughter
When pregnant with the second child, big S rarely went out, and most of the day, he was at home reading. During that time, she turned the novel of "Ruyi Zhuan" over and over to watch 8 times, and after learning that the novel was going to be remade into a TV series, she even called the lead actor Zhou Xun and took the initiative to express that she wanted to star in this TV series.
After Zhou Xun listened, he immediately invited her to star and said to her: "You give birth in May, we start shooting in August, as for the recovery of the body, it doesn't matter, the clean clothes can't be seen." ”
But unexpectedly, when giving birth to the second child, Big S suddenly had postpartum epilepsy, lost consciousness and breathing for a while, and walked before the ghost door closed. The plan to star in "Ruyi Zhuan" was also ruined due to physical reasons.
This year, Big S was just 40 years old. She posted on Weibo: "I really want to act." However, the 4-year suspension of her career was like a huge chasm across her life plan, and when she wanted to return to the screen again, she found that there were very few roles to choose. Even Wang Xiaofei once forwarded a Weibo, in which the 30-year-old Big S was smiling like a flower at the Cannes Film Festival.
Wang Xiaofei said: "If it weren't for me, she would have achieved better." ”
Wang Xiaofei Weibo
Also in 2016, "Kangxi Lai", which had been broadcast for 12 years, was officially suspended.
The news of the suspension was announced in 2015, and there are many reasons for the suspension, one of which is because Cai Kangyong feels that for many years the program has always revolved around the celebrity's family chores, so that he can't breathe. As a partner for 12 years, Xiao S naturally decided to advance and retreat with Cai Kangyong.
After all, "Kangxi Is Coming", without "Kang" or "Xi", is incomplete.
Cai Kangyong announced that "Kangxi Is Coming" will be discontinued
On January 14, 2016, the last episode of "Kangxi Lai" aired, Xiao S and Cai Kangyong lay in bed, crying, while recalling the past 12 years of companionship.
Cai Kangyong in the last issue of "Kangxi Is Coming"
At the end of the show, the lights in the studio are turned off layer by layer, and the two people who have accompanied many people's youth in the past 12 years are gradually moving away in the camera. Kangxi came, Kangxi left.
In the past two years, Little S has become more and more crying. In the years after the suspension of "Kangxi Lai", Xiao S did several hosting programs, participated in several TV works, and even released an album, but it was always tepid, netizens commented on Xiao S: "It seems to have more measure, less gossip." ”
Xiao S is also very distressed, she once cried in a variety show while holding her best friend Aya in her life, saying: "I lived to be more than 40 years old, as if I did nothing successfully." ”
Aya gently patted Little S's back and said to her, "How come, there will always be only one Little S in this era." ”
And Big S is also trying to find the "master control" in life.
In the past, whether it was her own life or career, she always had absolute control: she would fight for the role she liked, break up immediately with inappropriate love, and find a breakthrough in her unsuccessful career.
And now, after becoming a mother of two children, more and more out of control, happening in her life. For example, she can't control the weight changes that come with age, can't control the speculation about her marriage, and can't control the career possibilities that are far away from her.
How to hold the "main control" again has become a new issue in the life of Big S.
This year, big S Xu Xiyuan is 45 years old, and little S Xu Xidi is 43 years old.
The pair of "Xu sisters", who were once lawless in the entertainment industry, began to become soft and began to become "afraid of hands and feet". In a recent interview, Little S talked about her sister Big S, and she said: "My sister plans to turn behind the scenes and bring children in the future. ”
Those who belong to them are gradually fading, but unique female stars like big and small S seem to be difficult to reproduce.
Occasionally, perhaps, people think of the two girls with long black hair who appeared on TV 28 years ago.
They appeared on stage, grimaced at the camera, and said, "Our goal is to bring happiness to everyone." ”
Then, the story begins.