In 2000, in an ordinary family in Shaanxi, a little boy was crying in front of a television set.
In the television, the boy's father was surrounded by a group.
Although the boy's grandparents kept comforting the child that it was all acting, the boy was obviously scared enough by the tv scenes.
And it is Liu Yijun who is surrounded and suppressed in the TV series, and it is obvious that the villain he plays is already at the end of the road.
Coincidentally, at that time, Liu Yijun's acting career was also the same as in the play, which was full of difficulties.
Throughout Liu Yijun's career as an actor, although he has acted for more than thirty years, he has suffered for more than twenty years, and for a long time there is even no drama to act.
01
In 1970, Liu Yijun was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, to an intellectual family.
In the 70s, his parents had a belly full of ink, which also allowed Liu Yijun to receive a superior education from an early age.
Good education, coupled with a handsome appearance, in the eyes of others, such a shy and quiet child is not like the Shaanxi Hanzi known for its roughness.
Since his family lives near the Xi'an Film Studio, Liu Yijun has seen many actors of all kinds since he was a child, and has watched many "open-air movies" with him.
Since then, Liu Yijun has aspired to become an actor.
He hoped that with the advantage of "home near the film studio", he would be discovered by a star scout passing studio, until he was 15 years old, and he and his father went out of the province.
In the third year of junior high school, Liu Yijun followed his father out of the province to run errands, and on the way home, he happened to pass through Beijing and visited his father's Fa Xiao along the way.
I didn't think that Fa Xiao happened to be a professor at the Central Academy of Drama.
Knowing that Liu Yijun had dreams of becoming an actor, his uncle recommended him to apply for drama academies such as North Shadow and Shangju.
At this time, Liu Yijun suddenly realized.
Before that, he thought that as long as he wandered on the street and was looked at by the star scouts, he could casually "catch" the past to act.
Back home, Liu Yijun and her parents told her parents that she wanted to find a teacher to learn acting.
You should know that in the 70s and 80s of the last century, not everyone was optimistic about the profession of "actor".
Even in the eyes of some people, actors are "dramatists", have no status, will only play on the scene, and have nothing to do.
Liu Yijun's parents were very enlightened, and after learning that Liu Yijun wanted to learn acting, they inquired around to find a teacher who could teach him.
Looking around, I found the teacher Qu Guoqiang of Sichuan Renyi, who was the first nobleman on Liu Yijun's acting road.
Just as the so-called master leads into the door, the cultivation is in the individual, there is such a big master to open the way, Liu Yijun's learning progress is very fast.
After only studying for more than a month, Liu Yijun went to apply for the drama academy.
For a month, even the entry could not enter, how could Liu Yijun, the "second knife", be able to pass the examination.
But Liu Yijun seems to be born to eat the bowl of rice of the actor, only one month of study, he was admitted to the admission letter of North Shadow and the play.
The first on the right is Liu Yijun
In the end, Liu Yijun chose the Beijing Film Academy.
02
In 1987, at the age of 17, Liu Yijun walked into the Beijing Film Academy.
But as soon as he entered film school, he found that the people here were not the same as he had imagined.
Although everyone who came here was studying, his classmates seemed to be a bit "old-fashioned".
Not only are they older than him, but they are also very sophisticated in their dealings with the world.
It turned out that at that time, most people in the school went to the society to explore and play a bit, and then went to the school for further study, like Liu Yijun, who was a minority.
A group of "social people" gathered together, and this school is naturally a small society.
At this time, Liu Yijun was even a "newcomer to society".
In order to better learn and integrate into the classmates, Liu Yijun "acted" all the time when she was studying in college.
During the break, Liu Yijun learned to speak with Jiang Wen in "Sunny Days" and tried to perform how to socialize with this group of "social people".
Although he is young, Liu Yijun's momentum is not bad at all, and he even had a scene in his freshman year.
That year, he was selected to be the male number one in the movie "Female Thief".
He became the male number one at the beginning, although the movie was not released, Liu Yijun's starting point was also very high.
Soon, Liu Yijun, a sophomore, was selected by another crew, "Falling Mountain Wind", and partnered with the popular actress Song Jia.
As a result, this time, Liu Yijun "overturned the car".
Perhaps because he was too naïve, despite his efforts to learn human affection in school, Liu Yijun was expelled from the crew for suspected offending Song Jia.
There are rumors that Liu Yijun is too arrogant, and the crew is unwilling to be close to Song Jiatao, nor does he have a good relationship, which leads to the end of being expelled.
But what the inside story is, no one knows except the parties.
Does the dismissal of the crew have an impact on Liu Yijun?
In the eyes of Liu Yijun at that time, he just lost an opportunity to win an acting award.
From now on, from this point of view, Liu Yijun's acting days can be described as very difficult.
In the remaining two and a half years of college, Liu Yijun did not enter the crew to act again.
After graduation, Liu Yijun, who thought that he could enter the show business circle after graduating from a well-known college, was confused in the next 10 years.
03
When Liu Yijun graduated, tough guys and real men were the mainstream, like what small fresh meat, they all went to sing and dance.
Coincidentally, Liu Yijun caught up with that time after graduation.
Liu Yijun, who has just graduated, can be described as a solid creamy little student face.
Full of collagen, he could not find a suitable job after graduation.
In the middle is Liu Yijun
In this way, Liu Yijun was assigned to the Western Film Actor Troupe at the doorstep of his home.
In the troupe, Liu Yijun worked as a handyman.
Although once his friend introduced him to the Shaanxi director, the director asked him a question.
"Where did you ride (where are you from)?"
Liu Yijun immediately replied to himself that he was from Shaanxi.
The director said, "Ah, you're not like a Shaanxi person." ”
This phrase broke Liu Yijun's biggest obstacle in acting at that time - Taiwen Zou Zou was not tough enough.
This appearance problem is an important reason why Liu Yijun's play road was not smooth in the first place.
In 1996, invited by a friend, Liu Yijun wrote his first script for Ningbo Television Station, "Comic Memories of the World".
He won the Starlight Award that year.
This award was also one of the best at the time.
Although there has been a slight improvement in the road of screenwriting, Liu Yijun does not want to stop at the screenwriter.
Did you study hard for four years to become a screenwriter?
It must not be, his dream is to act.
After graduation, five years of unhappiness made him hold his breath and look for opportunities in the north drift.
But after five or six years, many of his former college classmates lost contact, and Liu Yijun once again lost in terms of human feelings.
But God has eyes, Liu Yijun really found an opportunity through "wandering" on the street.
One day, Liu Yijun squatted at the door of the North Film Studio as usual and happened to meet his classmate Guan Hu, who was already a director at that time.
Seeing that liu Yijun, the "talented son" of the university, had fallen into this, Guan Hu immediately proposed to let Liu Yijun go to work as a screenwriter and direct the play with himself.
Liu Yijun, who did not succeed in filming and became a screenwriter, began to deal with ink again in desperation.
But he knew that although he was a screenwriter, this also counted as breaking into the Beijing showbiz circle, and he would naturally have opportunities in the future.
In the end, Guan Hu's work did not continue for some other reason, but Liu Yijun entered the circle as he wished.
After separating from Guan Hu, he filmed the first drama in his life, "Chinese Armed Police".
After suffering so much, Liu Yijun finally had a play to play.
At this time, Liu Yijun was 27 years old.
04
After surviving so many years, Liu Yijun also solved his life event - marriage.
Also, Liu Yijun had graduated for six years at that time, and many people around him had become a family, and in that era, they didn't say: first start a family and then establish a career.
After Liu Yijun's career in the north drift was frustrated, he was very insecure, and he wanted to stabilize it quickly.
But the idea of rushing to start a family not only did not help Liu Yijun gain a sense of security, but also affected his life afterwards.
In 1997, Liu Yijun married his son, and after marriage, Liu Yijun still insisted on pursuing his acting career.
Being an actor, in his opinion, is his own dream, and there is nothing wrong with working hard for his own dream.
At that time, he did not think that after marriage, he would have to face a series of "problems" such as buying a house, supporting the family, and what kindergarten his children went to.
When the actor's meager income and ignorance of marriage led to the end of his first marriage in 2001.
The decade after graduating from college was the most confused time in his life, and he was not happy with anything, and he looked like a loser to others.
Although they have all come to this step, Liu Yijun still has not given up.
If you don't give up like this, he is definitely not a person.
His career and family have been so screwed up, he can still insist.
This persistence is fifteen years.
For fifteen years, although Liu Yijun has always been a supporting role, he has not slackened off any shot.
After ten years of no drama to shoot, he will treat any scene, even if there is no line, with two hundred percent attention.
In 2010, Ma Jingwu, Liu Yijun's college teacher, sent a message to students who had achieved success.
When it was Liu Yijun's turn to "achieve nothing", the teacher seriously pointed at him and said, "This person is bound to be a great instrument and a late success." ”
Perhaps it is the love of acting, or the words of the teacher, Liu Yijun has been in the show business circle for five years.
Five years and five years, he was really persistent.
2015 is a year when Liu Yijun kept the clouds open to see the moon, and with the popularity of "Langya List" and "The Pretender", Liu Yijun, who played the villain in it, was also successfully remembered by the audience.
Because the two films are so tightly aired, it's hard for viewers not to remember these two characters that people love and hate.
On the one hand, the sinister and cunning Wang Tianfeng, on the other hand, Xie Yu, who is always scheming and calculating step by step, are both villains, but they seem to be different.
Although they are all bad, although the faces are all faces, the audience feels that these two bad ones are not a force, and it is as if he is not a person.
To play the villain in the traditional sense, most actors only perform "fierce", how bad and how to act.
The audience, in addition to scolding him, will not understand, interpret a bad person, and cannot see complex emotions.
But Liu Yijun did it, and 25 years of dragon set time made him take every role seriously.
05
In 2020, Liu Yijun came into contact with the script of "Sweeping Black Storm".
When the director found him, he was still assigned a villain.
However, Liu Yijun left an eye on his heart this time.
After reading the script, he began to ask the producer about the role of He Yong, and after several contacts, the "big villain" Liu Yijun finally married the role of He Yong.
The explosion of "Sweeping Black Storm" this time pushed Liu Yijun to a height, and he was really and truly boiled out.
Today's Liu Yijun, has a blind date and acquaintance of the wife, the two have a daughter together, and the ex-wife's eldest son Liu Yitong, now 24 years old, has a small reputation in the show business circle.
This kind of life is considered to be a successful career, and the family is happy.