Zou Zhaolong should be the most popular villain in Hong Kong, who has beaten Jet Li, beaten Zhen Zidan, and kicked Jackie Chan.
Then he ruthlessly dismantled the stage: "In the film circle, no one is a real kung fu, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Zhen Zidan are not real kung fu, it's just that we like these things and take these as real kung fu, but in fact, it is not, people with real kung fu are practicing on the mountain." ”
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >, the career of a bakery apprentice</h1>
In 1967, Zou Zhaolong was born in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province, a family of 12 brothers and sisters, when he was very young, his father died, and his mother of course could not support 13 children, so he sent Zou Zhaolong's brothers to an orphanage.
In order not to burden his mother, from the age of six, Zou Zhaolong worked as an apprentice in the carving shop next door, and at the age of 9, he transferred to a bakery to work.
There is a National Art Hall near the bakery, when Zou Zhaolong is fine, he likes to hide outside the door and follow the study, and then he was discovered by a kind big brother and asked him to come in and learn kung fu for free, which he studied for three years.
At the age of 12, Zou Zhaolong came to Taipei to join his brother.
His brother was working as a martial artist in the crew, and Zou Zhaolong continued to work as an apprentice at a bakery in Taipei.
One day he went to the crew to find his brother, when the set happened to be missing a girl's martial arts, and the skinny Zou Zhaolong was selected by the director.
Later, Zou Zhaolong's performance far exceeded the expectations of the director's team, and the other party was happy and paid him 1200 Taiwan dollars for the film.
At that time, the market was that XiaoWuxing had 900 yuan and Dawuxing had 1500 yuan, and he could only earn 9000 Taiwan dollars a month in the bakery.
Wrinkle Zhaolong felt that he had the talent to be a martial artist, and he quit his job as an apprentice when he returned on the same day.
Since then, Zou Zhaolong has begun a career of running dragon sets, but this kind of work is not fixed, if the crew lacks martial arts, it will call a building, and whoever receives the call first will have work.
So Zou Zhaolong got up at five o'clock every day and stayed by the phone, which was six years.
In the days on the set, honing his acting skills and teaching others sophistication, he said: "The entertainment industry is very utilitarian, if the level is not enough, don't casually ask people." ”
Later, even if he had become a hot villain actor, he never took the initiative to call the director, except for Yuan Heping.
At the age of 18, Zou Zhaolong, who was practical and willing to do basic skills, was recommended to Hong Jinbao by a well-known producer.
Hong Jinbao also liked him very much, so he invited him to join the Hong family class.
In this way, Zou Zhaolong began his career as a port drifter.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > second, "bad guy" career</h1>
In 1985, when Zou Zhaolong was going to do military service, Hong Jinbao said to him: "Be a soldier, and when you come out, I will take you to Hong Kong." ”
When Zou Zhaolong was still in the army, he drew up a contract and sent it over, and Hong Jinbao valued Zou Zhaolong very much and piled up a lot of resources to support him.
But after the three movie protagonists are performed, zou Zhaolong, who wants to have a good look, a kung fu, and a figure, can't be red.
Until he played a villain policeman in the fourth play, a small fire, the producer was happy, the villain's invitation came like a snowflake, zou Zhaolong began him.
By 1990, Zou Zhaolong's salary had risen to four or five hundred thousand for a play, three or four times a year, and his life was not too moist.
When he was most proud, he changed five cars a year, and the whole wardrobe was brand named, but he didn't know any of those brands.
Later, Weng Huide, one of the top ten models in Hong Kong, came to the crew to play, and was attracted to him, and the two were happily married.
After three years of such upstart life, Zou Zhaolong gradually became tired of the work that was repeated every day.
In 1994, Zhou Xingchi invited him to play the role of Chang Wei in "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", and Wrinkle Zhaolong's dislike of the solidification of his villain role had reached its peak, so he refused.
It wasn't until Hong Jinbao opened his mouth that he was willing.
Later, when he and Jackie Chan played against each other, Jackie Chan's foot was injured, and he proposed to be a stand-in for the eldest brother.
The eldest brother said: "This time I used a stand-in, next time I will not be able to help but use it, and people will slowly abolish it," this remark touched Zou Zhaolong greatly.
In 1999, Zou Zhaolong gave up his career of many years of hard work in Hong Kong and came to study at an American university, he did not have the opportunity to receive education since he was a child, and he cherished this hard-won opportunity.
This year, Zou Zhaolong was thirty years old.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > third, the patriotism of kung fu stars</h1>
Zou Zhaolong has a principle in filming, being a villain at home, how to be bullied can be, but when he goes abroad, he says that he cannot play a villain.
The reasons given are quite encouraging:
"I'm in the mainland, in the Chinese market, it doesn't matter if you look for me as a villain, because everyone is Chinese.
But here (the United States), sorry, I can't be a villain over here.
The Chinese have always established a very good image of themselves in various places, although the remuneration given is very high, but you cannot destroy the image of the Chinese nation that countless people have worked hard to shape.
Art does not distinguish between noble and low, but if you trample on our nation in an artistic way, I cannot accept it. ”
In 2000, Yuan Heping was a martial artist in "The Matrix", and when he heard that Zou Zhaolong was studying in the United States, he called him to help.
Hearing such a big drama, Zou Zhaolong was so excited that he couldn't help himself, and he was eager to let the other party send the contract directly.
After receiving the script, Zou Zhaolong casually flipped through it, and after determining that the role was not a villain, when the next day when people went to work, he couldn't wait to call and agree to act.
It is worth mentioning that Zou Zhaolong's Chinese kung fu shocked the Wachowski brothers, and the director recorded Zou Zhaolong's kung fu, and in return, he will enjoy the permanent dividends of the "Matrix" series.
Now that the film's revenue has reached more than $2 billion, Zou Zhaolong revealed that he has received much more dividends than his film remuneration, and even if he dies, his children can continue to receive money.
Now that Zou Zhaolong has achieved career success, looking back at his life now, he will find that he is not actually a talented actor, and even the starting point is lower than most people.
He was able to get to this day with two words, "diligence."
There is such a popular saying in Wuxing, Xiu only read ten years of books and came out, when Wuxing had to stay up for twenty years to get out.
And he was not frightened by this sentence, step by step to today.
When he was in Taiwan, he was coaxed by three crews because of his extremely serious work attitude.
Also impressed by his work attitude were Hong Jinbao and Yuan Heping.
Later, when he came to Hong Kong, he could not be the protagonist, so he became a supporting role in a down-to-earth manner, and then the love career was double harvested, and at the age of thirty, he gave up everything to study in the United States, and became a Hollywood star.
His story tells us that the harder you work, the luckier you get, and the phrase is by no means just chicken soup for the soul.