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"Let youth blow your long hair, let it pull your dreams, unconsciously the history of the city, has remembered your smile ..."
Whenever the melody of "Youth Without Regrets" sounds, the days when Wu Qianlian sits in the back seat of Andy Lau's motorcycle appear in front of her.
21 years later, this classic has been imitated and never surpassed.
When Andy Lau was asked: "I have cooperated with so many heroines, who is closest to?" ”
He would still blurt out, "Wu Qianlian." ”
Why would this woman, who was "pampered" by the four heavenly kings and six film emperors when she first entered the film world, choose to retire at the peak of her career?
Where did she "disappear" after all these years without a trace?
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Wu Qianlian is known as the "second-eyed beauty" because of her controversial appearance of single eyelids, small eyes, and thick lips.
In 1968, Wu Qianlian was born in an ordinary family in Taiwan, but unfortunately, she became an "abandoned baby" soon after.
Because Wu's parents felt that their daughter's appearance was difficult to say, plus they already had a son and a daughter, they gave Wu Qianlian to a relative who could not have children to raise.
Fortunately, Wu Qianlian's grandfather was distressed about her granddaughter and was afraid that her granddaughter would be abused in someone else's house, so after learning the news, she ran to a relative's house overnight and hugged Wu Qianlian back.
When she was a child, she didn't even have a serious photo, because her mother was afraid that she would have low self-esteem when she saw the photo in the future.
But Wu Qianlian did not care so much about her appearance, and she was different from childhood.
When I was in elementary school, the school stipulated that girls wear skirts and boys wear sweatpants, but Wu Qianlian had to face the school and beat her to death without wearing skirts. After being caught by the director of teaching, Wu Qianlian still went her own way.
In the end, the school saw that Wu Qianlian's academic performance was good, so it made an exception for her to wear a boys' uniform.
In elementary school, she could still fool around without wearing a skirt, but after being admitted to girls' middle school, Wu Qianlian had to wear a skirt.
But even so, Wu Qianlian still looks like a "big sister".
I remember once, Wu Qianlian fought with the boys' school student next door for the girl, Wu Qianlian beat the other party to the extent of a broken collarbone, and finally the other party called the police to end the "war", and the person who took Wu Qianlian to the police car was her asir father.
Wu Qianlian did not wake up after being taken to the police car, but felt particularly windy.
Wu Qianlian's fights and brawls did not improve until she was in high school, when she was hooked on break dancing.
At that time, there was an underground dance hall called "Diana" on Linsen North Road. Many girls did not dare to go, but Wu Qianlian was never afraid.
Wu Qianlian secretly practiced breakdancing at school during the day, and at night after school, she ran to the shop to compete with the little, in addition to breaking dance, she also fell in love with singing, and also won the second prize in the singing competition.
During the days of wandering in the nightclub song hall, Wu Qianlian used the word "absurd" to describe.
In 1988, Wu Qianlian was influenced by the free atmosphere of the art school in the movie "Famous in the World" and was admitted to the drama department of the National Academy of Arts.
At this time, Wu Qianlian did not want to be a star, and no one would associate this "ugly duckling" who had a hard time talking since childhood with a big star.
Wu Qianlian, who went to college, is still the school's hero, this time because of her singing voice.
Overheard a producer at Rolling Stone heard Wu Qianlian's voice and felt that she was suitable to be a singer, so he invited her to sign a contract.
Wu Qianlian feels that she is idle and idle, and signing a contract with the Rolling Stones can both make money and sing, why not enjoy it? But she also knows how many pounds she has, and she is willing to accompany popular singers in the company.
Unexpectedly, Wu Qianlian, who wanted to be a "hermit", was about to become the son of heavenly choice.
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One day in 1990, the big director Du Qifeng found Wu Qianlian and said to her: "Congratulations on passing the interview, coming to the crew on time to report, and acting with Andy Lau." ”
Wu Qianlian was a little confused for a moment, she didn't know what was happening.
It turned out that Du Qifeng and Chen Musheng were preparing to shoot a movie - "Heavenly Love", the male protagonist found Andy Lau, and the female protagonist was undecided.
Du Qifeng wanted to find a girl who was not deeply pure in the film, so he boldly used new people to recruit actors in the face of the whole society.
In order to be able to partner with Andy Lau, the girls rushed to submit resumes to the crew, but these girls did not include Wu Qianlian.
So how did she get chosen?
It is also thanks to the colleague who sorted out the resume, who accidentally put a photo of Wu Qianlian in it.
As a result, Wu Qianlian, who has small eyes and single eyelids, stands out among a group of beautiful women, and no one expected that the "ugly duckling" would really turn into a white swan.
"Only I was the ugliest looking, so director Du Qifeng took a fancy to me."
This is Wu Qianlian's evaluation of her own luck.
In 1990, still in her sophomore year, Wu Qianlian, who had never been exposed to performance, and Andy Lau, the king of heaven, starred in "Heavenly Love", and once the film was released, Wu Qianlian became a hit.
She was also nominated for Best New Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for her outstanding performance in the film.
If you can have such achievements in the film industry for the first time, if you develop according to the norm, Wu Qianlian will be able to leave a name in the history of film.
But she didn't have that heart, she just wanted to go back to school and finish her studies.
Wu Qianlian's self-contained personality is incompatible with this entertainment circle.
In 1993, after Wu Qianlian graduated from university, Du Qifeng became her agent, and Du Qifeng let her and Aaron Kwok cooperate with Tianwang Aaron Kwok to return to the film world.
In this regard, Wu Qianlian opened the road of "harvesting" the male god.
In 1994, Wu Qianlian starred with Jacky Cheung and Leung Ka-fai in "New Marginal Man".
And under the recommendation of Du Qifeng, he was favored by director Ang Lee and starred in "Eating Men and Women".
In 1995, Wu Qianlian partnered with Liang Chaowei to star in "Waiting for You to Come Back".
In 1996, Wu Qianlian first starred in the movie "Midnight Singing" with Zhang Guorong, and won the best actress award at the "Changchun International Film Festival" for her wonderful acting skills.
Immediately after starring with Zhou Runfa in the movie "Peace Hotel", partner Liu Qingyun starred in the movie "Dumb Guy Bai Shou".
This year, the once ugly duckling successfully transformed into a white swan, the four heavenly kings and the six movie emperors all loved her, and when Wu Qianlian partnered with Dawn to shoot the movie "Half Life", Zhang Guorong also specially ran to visit the class.
The most emotional thing is that in 1996, Wu Qianlian and Andy Lau continued the frontier and starred in the movie "Heavenly Love 3 Beacon Lady".
Here is a small episode, I don't know if you have such a question: why is the male protagonist of the second part of the "Heavenly Love" series not Andy Lau?
At that time, because after filming "Heavenly Love 1", Andy Lau and Du Qifeng "turned against each other".
The reason for the opposite purpose also makes people cry and laugh, when filming the scene of riding a motorcycle in the film, every time he takes off his helmet, Hua Tsai has to get a squashed hairstyle, and Du Qifeng sees that Hua Tsai cares so much about the hairstyle and accuses him of being unnatural.
After Hua Tsai forcibly endured not moving his hair once or twice, and then subconsciously smoothed his hair, Du Qifeng's violent temper came up and directly announced the suspension of the crew.
At this time, Hua Tsai also lost his temper, and after the crew resumed work, Du Qifeng signaled a pause every time he changed the camera position, and let the hair stylist help him blow his hair again.
In this way, the two quarreled and finished the film, and after the shooting, Andy Lau and Du Qifeng did not communicate again, until the start of the third part of "Heavenly Love", the two iced the previous suspicions.
At the same time, the re-cooperation between Wu Qianlian and Andy Lau has fulfilled the dreams of many viewers.
Later, when Andy Lau was preparing for the concert, he specially invited Wu Qianlian as a concert guest, and Wu Qianlian did not know that a huge surprise was being prepared...
At the concert site, thousands of spectators watched Andy Lau kneel down on one knee to propose to Wu Qianlian, and the fans were very excited, but Wu Qianlian was confused.
But she quickly reacted, laughing and telling the camera: We are still good friends.
But many years later, Wu Qianlian will use "my first man" to describe Andy Lau, and Andy Lau also said that Wu Qianlian is the closest actress.
But for the elaborate "marriage proposal", many fans said that it was just to set off the atmosphere of the concert.
Some people also believe that the reason why Wu Qianlian rejected Andy Lau was because she already had a boyfriend Yu Zonghua at that time.
The two knew each other when Wu Qianlian was 19 years old.
Yu Zonghua belongs to the birth of a child star, and when he fell in love with Wu Qianlian, he was already famous. But later Wu Qianlian began to cooperate with major film emperors, and Yu Zonghua was still starring in the eight-o'clock dog blood drama.
Even if Wu Qianlian's fame is great, her relationship is very low-key, the two will never appear in front of the camera together, and the private date is very secretive, but Wu Qianlian and Yu Zonghua are very in love.
As the old saying goes: when the moon is full, it loses, and when the water is full, it overflows. When Wu Qianlian's career love double harvest, major blows also followed.
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In 1998, this was the most painful year of Wu Qianlian's life.
This year, the Taiwanese version of "Divine Eagle Hero" began filming, and Wu Qianlian was invited to play the little dragon girl, but Wu Qianlian's version of the little dragon girl became a nightmare for martial arts fans.
As soon as this drama was broadcast, the audience complained one after another: the little dragon girl in the play was dressed in black, full of dirty braids, and there was no feeling of not eating human fireworks.
Even Mr. Jin Yong couldn't help but complain after seeing Wu Qianlian's version of the little dragon girl: this little dragon girl probably came back from Africa.
When did Wu Qianlian, who had a smooth ride, receive such an evaluation, she could not get out of public opinion for a long time after that.
The boyfriend who has been with her for 12 years did not comfort her at this time, but proposed to break up.
Under the double blow of love career, Wu Qianlian decided to hide for the time being, as dashing as when she first returned to school.
She picked up her backpack alone and traveled the world.
After 2000, Wu Qianlian did not have many works, she enjoyed the time on the road, but also enjoyed the time alone.
In 2002, Wu Qianlian, who was traveling across the ocean, received a happy post, which was the news of the wedding of her ex-boyfriend Yu Zonghua, and she entrusted someone to send her blessings and a big red envelope.
Since then, the 12-year relationship has come to an end.
The reason for the breakup between the two has never been made public, and Wu Qianlian just said to the outside world: "I don't think I'm good, I only blame myself."
In 2005, Wu Qianlian, who had been hidden for a while, appeared in the audience's field of vision again, and this year she starred in the TV series "Ruan Lingyu" as Ruan Lingyu.
In 2007, 39-year-old Wu Qianlian met her current husband under the introduction of a friend and quickly decided to marry him.
There was no grand wedding, no relatives and friends, Wu Qianlian wore her own modified cheongsam and registered for marriage on her birthday.
After marriage, Wu Qianlian changed from traveling alone to traveling together with two people, and in 2009, she gave birth to a son at an advanced age despite the danger.
In January 2013, Wu Qianlian participated in the TV series "Romantic Heroes of the Tang Dynasty", in which she played Ye Tanglian.
At this point, Wu Qianlian entered a state of seclusion, and we never saw her figure on the big screen again.
A few years ago, some netizens met Wu Qianlian and her husband and children eating ramen in their lives, and it can be seen from the photos that their family lives very happily, and Wu Qianlian is also in a very good state.
A director once commented on Wu Qianlian: "She has no star smell on her body, and she talks and acts like an ordinary person."
Debut can be paired with the four heavenly kings and six film emperors, such resources support how many artists envy, but she does not think so.
Wu Qianlian knows what she wants, and the rapids retreat, leaving the best time on the big screen.
No matter how brilliant it was, it can only be engraved on the wheel of history, and Wu Qianlian can afford to put it down.
You can enjoy the attention of the world, but also stay away from the disturbances, find a paradise, and live a secluded life.
For Wu Qianlian, I can only praise one sentence:
There are beautiful people in the south, who are relict and independent.