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Suddenly mentioning Liu Yijun's name may feel a little strange to everyone.
But I also believe that as long as you see his face and hear the roles he has played, you can't help but sigh: Ah it was him.
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Recently, "Sweeping Black Storm" was popular, and the role of He Yong also made Liu Yijun's name mentioned by the audience again.
In the past few years, everyone's impression of Liu Yijun is a villain professional.
He is the unrestrained Zhang Wanlin in "Great Prospects", the vicious Wang Tianfeng in "The Pretender", and the scheming Xie Yu in "Langyabang".
Because his classic "wicked" role is played too much, so that when the audience finds out that He Yong is played by Liu Yijun, they are always wondering if he will suddenly turn against the water in the next episode.
Liu Yijun is a typical late-stage player, until the age of 30 to officially enter the industry of actors, and acting, for him, is a lifelong dream and pursuit.
Liu Yijun lived near the West Film Studio when he was a child, and since he was a child, he watched movies in an auditorium next to his home, and he unconsciously liked this line.
In his fourth grade, the teacher asked them to write their dreams, and the other children said they wanted to be doctors and scientists, but he wrote down the word actor.
At the age of 17, Liu Yijun was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy as she wished, becoming the youngest student in Nortel's 87th class.
When he first entered school, he felt that he was particularly bullish, and because he had studied ballet in physical fitness class, he had to walk with his head held high.
But all the youthful vigor will eventually be polished by the harsh reality. Liu Yijun's actor road was not smooth from the beginning.
In his freshman year, he received an invitation from the male number one of the movie "Female Thief", and the scene was not easy to finish, and the result was that he could not go online without trial.
After this, the "Falling Mountain Wind" crew also found him, but not long after entering the group, he was forced to roll up and leave.
There have always been rumors that Liu Yijun has offended the lead actor Song Jia, and even offended the entire Beijing circle, only to miss this opportunity, and even some people say that he has been silent for so many years because of this.
However, rumors are just rumors. In an exclusive interview, Liu Yijun has talked about his encounters after graduation several times.
At that time, the actors were assigned to the group, and after graduation, the school and the state would assign them to major film studios, theaters or theaters where they were registered.
Liu Yijun and Zhang Jiayi were both assigned to work in the Western Film Studio, Zhang Jiayi was in the Youth League Committee, and he was responsible for the work of copying pay slips at the People's Labor Office.
He also wanted to go out and find a scene, but no director was willing to ask him.
At that time, China's fifth generation of directors had just emerged, and the popular works on the market were all works like "Red Sorghum", and the Shaanxi territory was even more hoping to find some actors with angular, rough images and some experience.
Liu Yijun was a newly graduated student at that time, and his image was more creamy, and his experience was even more lacking, and he naturally went to the point where there was no drama to shoot.
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Liu Yijun, who has worked in the Western Film Studio for a long time, has never wanted to give up his dream of being an actor. One day, he received an invitation from male number one of a TV series, wanted to ask the leader for leave and could not find anyone, he could only leave a note to write the reason for the leave, and then left the West Film Studio.
A month and a half later, he returned to his post, but was criticized by the leader for a split head and a face, and received a punishment of staying in the factory for probation.
It was also at this time that Ningbo Television extended an olive branch to him and asked him to be a director. He summed it up, at least the director was still next to the work of the showbiz industry, and agreed.
His self-written and self-directed short drama "Long Memories of the World" at Ningbo Television also won the second prize of the National Television Literature and Art Starlight Award in 1996.
But Liu Yijun finally couldn't stand the loneliness and chose to return to Beijing and continue his dream of acting from scratch.
After returning to Beijing, he experienced many days when he was extremely confused because he had nothing to do.
Although many directors came to him and invited him to act, he waited at home for the crew to start, and in the end the scene was either a change of people or he could not wait for the day when the camera started.
At that time, he was losing sleep almost every day, waking up in bed at one point, struggling for two hours and not being able to sleep.
So, several times, he got up at three o'clock and went for a run. Or get up early in the morning with two apples and a small folding knife to climb the mountain, climb all the way from the Bada in Beijing to Xiangshan, cut two apples in the pavilion at the top of the mountain and eat them before coming down.
Fortunately, the arrival of the darkest hour often means that it is not far from dawn.
Liu Yijun met many friends in Beijing, and with the help of these friends, he finally had the opportunity to enter the group to shoot.
The year 2000 was also the first turning point in the life of Liu Yijun, who was 30 years old at the time.
In this year, he met director Kong Sheng through the TV series "Human Ghost Love", and also won the nomination for the best actor at the 18th Golden Eagle Awards for the role of Liu Guoqiang in "Brotherhood of Life and Death".
After this, his acting path finally began to smooth out.
Whether it is Xiao Yuntian, the second son in "Modern Family", or Ouyang Yi, an intellectual in "Parental Love", they have left a deep impression.
He has also slowly become the kind of actor who looks a little familiar in the minds of many audiences.
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Many people really know Liu Yijun's name because he once played two villains in "The Pretender" and "LangyaBang", Wang Tianfeng and Xie Yu.
In fact, the final effect of these two plays will be so good, also because of the results he has accumulated over the years.
He has talked about the feelings of playing various villains or marginal characters in interviews.
Detached from the restrictions of the decent protagonist on himself, Liu Yijun finally really let go, immersed himself in the city where the character was located, and grew up.
In this process, the biggest problem he faced was also too immersive.
In the process of playing the role of "evil man", he once felt impatient with people in real life because he was too immersed in the role, and even had depression.
But it is precisely because he has the ability to empathize with the character that he can successfully grasp every detail of the character.
When Liu Yijun is filming, she often thinks about how to better present the complex side of this role to the audience.
For example, when filming the scene at the end of "Langya List" where Xie Yu was on his way, Liu Yijun's performance was very exciting.
Even if Xie Yu is a very bad person, he will still be soft in the face of his beloved woman.
While hugging the eldest princess, Xie Yu once pulled out a knife, but in the end he threw it away.
In "Sweeping The Black Storm", the complicated psychology of He Yong and Li Chengyang when they finally met after many years was also shown by Liu Yijun.
From He Yong's surprise at meeting his friend at the beginning, to the disdain that Li Chengyang had in his heart when he worked for the bad man Ma Shuai in his mind, this psychological change is actually very complicated.
He only used a simple movement from hugging to actively pushing away to present this change.
In the whole process, there is not a single line, an action is superfluous, perhaps only an actor like Liu Yijun is worthy of the title of old drama bone.
Will fire conclusion -
Although many people are lamenting, Liu Yijun finally had the opportunity to be recognized by the public in middle age.
But in fact, it is better to look a little opener, everyone has their own different opportunities, and it is not necessarily a bad thing for Liu Yijun to have the opportunity to hone their acting skills in various small roles.
He himself once said—
"Life has spring, summer, autumn and winter, spring and summer do not be proud, autumn and winter do not be arrogant." No matter how the seasons change, feel free to do your learning, strengthen yourself, and sooner or later the chance is yours. ”
Calm enough in mind to live up to every role he plays, I believe that such an actor will never be buried by time.