When you think of the star Xie Miao, you may think of Hong Wending in "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", and think of the child with a tiger's head and a very talented acting talent.
But it is such a seemingly promising child, but in the acting career has only gone through two good moves, the rest of the step "failure".
As a result, his popularity plummeted, and he finally came to such an embarrassing situation that he is not in pain today.
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Xie Miao was born in Beijing in May 1982 to the son of an employee of a state-owned enterprise and a doctor to a doctor.
At that time, it seemed that a family like Xie Miao was a well-off family at that time, although it was not a rich family, but overall it was not worried about eating and wearing.
Growing up in such a family, Xie Miao lived a very happy life.
Don't worry about eating and wearing, then you have to grasp the child's education.
As early as the 1990s, Xie's mother began to learn "a skill", which can be described as very forward-looking.
And this is the beginning of the first good move.
At first, Mother Xie sent Xie Miao to a dance class at the Children's Palace.
But Semyon was a boy who was obviously very uninterested in dance, and even somewhat repelled.
After a dance class, Xie Miao and his mother told him what he thought, and he wanted to go to the martial arts class next door to learn martial arts.
In this way, Semyon's extracurricular class was transferred from the dance class to the martial arts class next door.
In the beginning, Xie Miao did not learn martial arts to become a martial arts star.
In his view, learning martial arts, like learning to dance, is to have a skill and strengthen the body at the same time.
For the matter of learning martial arts, he also did not have any connection with the martial arts stars in the movie.
Until one day, Wang Jing led the team to the Children's Palace to cast.
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In 1993, the famous Hong Kong director Wang Jing prepared to prepare his new film "New Shaolin Five Ancestors".
Due to the needs of filming, the crew needed to find young children learning martial arts across the country.
At that time, Wang Jing and his party came to the capital Beijing, and as long as there was a school to teach martial arts, they would choose the right person.
At this time, Semyon had been studying martial arts for two years.
After arriving at the Children's Palace, Xie Miao and the other martial arts team children took turns to show, and Xie Miao showed the long fist.
The assistant director took a fancy to this very energetic and tiger-headed child at a glance, and let him have time to audition with Director Wang Jing.
After learning that he had been selected, Semyon immediately seized this opportunity and successfully participated in the filming of the film, which was his second very successful move.
At first, Wang Jing originally wanted Xie Miao to play a rich boy, but after several auditions, Xie Miao's temperament did not match very much.
So the production team let Xie Miao audition for the role of "Hong Wending", the son of "Hong Xiguan".
This attempt finally found Xie Miao's positioning.
Although Xie Miao was only 9 years old at that time, due to the practice of martial arts, he himself had a righteous spirit.
Coupled with Xie Miao's sharp eyes and the temperament of some teenagers and old adults, Wang Jing decided to set the role of "Hong Wending" to be played by Xie Miao.
Obviously, Wang Jing's vision did not go wrong, and Xie Miao did not live up to this role.
Back then, filming was not like the script that has ended now, it is all a line that is filmed one day to another,
For the current actor, it may lead to inability to enter the play, but these do not exist in Semyon.
After the release of "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", Wang Jing signed a one-year contract with Xie Miao.
During the year, Semyon was active in Hong Kong as a martial arts child star.
During the contract period, with Wang Jing's resources, Xie Miao cooperated with Chow Yun Fat, Mui Yanfang, Qiu Shuzhen and Jet Li, who were hong Kong celebrities at that time.
Among the big coffees, Xie Miao and Jet Li cooperated the most, and were jokingly called Jet Li's "royal son".
Jet Li, as a first-line superstar, cooperates with Xie Miao very carefully.
In addition, Jet Li himself is also quite successful in martial arts, and in addition to filming, when he sees that Some of Xie Miao's actions are not in place, he will teach strictly, which can also be regarded as Half of Xie Miao's master.
From the perspective of that time, Xie Miao at this time can be regarded as a household name with a promising future.
As long as you shoot with your heart, you will certainly be able to compete with big names like Jet Li in the future.
But it was such a promising child star, Jet Li's successor, who suddenly disappeared from the public eye because of another person's suggestion.
03
A year later, Xie Miao's contract with Wang Jing expired.
At this time, Xie's mother began to make plans for Xie Miao's life after that.
Because the Xie family has taken the life path of studying well to make money and supporting the family, for Xie Miao to shoot on the set all day, I don't know whether it is good or bad.
At that time, there was no experience to refer to, so they began to ask for advice from star artists with status in the circle.
But in the bottom of their hearts, Xie Miao's parents hope that their children can go back to school for further study.
So Xie Miao's parents asked Zhou Runfa, Wang Jing and others.
In Wang Jing's view, Xie Miao's child is very talented and a malleable talent, and he believes that It is a better choice for Xie Miao to stay in Hong Kong at this time to continue to develop.
And Zhou Runfa suffered a lot of losses because of the lack of culture in his early acting career, and for this young man who is very talented in acting, Zhou Runfa hopes that he can return to school to study well and not suffer losses in culture.
At that time, Semyon was still young, and in his view, filming was that he did not need to go to school, did not know anything about fame and future, and lacked a plan for life.
Xie Miao's parents chose to listen to Zhou Runfa's advice because they wanted Xie Miao to live a stable life.
Before leaving, Zhou Runfa also took out 5,000 red envelopes, hoping that Xie Miao could study well.
The parents followed Zhou Runfa's advice and chose to return to school for Xie Miao.
In the eyes of the outside world, Zhou Runfa's 5,000 pieces of encouragement have also become a factor hindering his progress in disguise.
Some people even blamed Zhou Runfa for Xie Miao.
But Zhou Runfa was too wronged, and this "pot" really couldn't let him carry it.
After returning to Beijing, Xie Miao transferred from his original school to a martial arts school in Beijing.
During this period, many directors came to the door to ask Semyon to come back to filming, but they were all rejected by him and his parents.
For a time, the amount of exposure that Xie Miao had accumulated before gradually disappeared.
In the eyes of outsiders, Within ten years, Xie Miao must have studied and read without distraction, and would not make a comeback in the middle.
But in 2000, Semyon's approach was incomprehensible, and it was said that he lost watermelon for sesame seeds.
In 2000, Xie Miao was in her third year of high school, and in the eyes of others, she should concentrate on studying and preparing for the college entrance examination, but she chose to "distract herself from filming" at this critical node.
When Semyon was in his third year of high school, a director invited him to star in a film, but at this time, Semyon came back and filmed "Prime Minister Xiao Ganluo".
And this time, unsurprisingly, the play did not win the red Semyon again, but affected his learning.
Xie Miao, who was delayed by the drama, finally did not get admitted to the university of his choice as desired, and had no choice but to go to the National Sports Major of the Capital Institute of Physical Education.
We also know that if we want to engage in the world of acting in the future, the regular film and television university can be much stronger than the sports college.
But there is no way, who let the third year of high school, they delayed themselves?
Having learned his lessons, he began to concentrate on studying at the Sports Academy.
Before 2006, Semyon had been studying national martial arts such as long fist, gun, stick, and nine-knot whip at the Sports Institute, and did not make a comeback.
Although he returned to the set as soon as he graduated, he participated in the filming of film and television works such as "The Legend of Shaolin Temple" and gained a little word of mouth.
But the lack of professional knowledge of exercises is destined to make him take many detours in his acting career.
Coupled with the rise of inland film and television, the Hong Kong film and television industry is gradually declining,
The martial arts stars of the past have either become famous for a long time and have already made a lot of money, or they have a bad future and another livelihood.
The glory of martial arts has been replaced by small fresh meat idols, and Semyon's face, which is not as cute and cute as a child, and can even be said to be somewhat "long and disabled", is even less popular with the market.
In addition to the name of Jet Li's royal son and martial arts child star, Xie Miao, who retired after just becoming popular, did not have anything, and he could establish a life in the entertainment industry.
At this time, Xie Miao found that he had made a wrong step at the beginning, and he called out regret but it did not help.
But he was still a little "unrepentant."
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In recent years, the martial arts market has been sluggish, but Xie Miao, who is a martial arts star, does not intend to transform.
Originally, when the audience had forgotten that he was a martial arts child star, Xie Miao could make up for it as long as he worked hard to further his studies and took professional and systematic acting courses.
But Semyon wanted to fight to the end.
Whether it is 2010's "Cai Li Fo Fist" or 2012's "Bagua Grandmaster", the films in which Xie Miao participated are always based on fighting dramas, and there are also bad movies.
In his view, the swords and swords he learned at the Capital Institute of Physical Education can help his acting career.
But as everyone knows, the excessive pursuit of play and the lack of depth of acting skills, after all, can not let the audience remember him.
When he was a child, the audience could simply appreciate his good skills, but when he grew up, it was not enough to demand himself with good skills.
Around 2014, China's online film industry also gradually developed, and Xie Miao began to tentatively enter this new field because the road to acting was not smooth.
At first, Semyon could only be regarded as famous in the field of online movies, but he could not come up with works worthy of fame, although he made more than ten online movies in three years, but in the end the response was mediocre.
In 2016, Semyon launched his own movie "Journey to the West with Big Dreams", which not only collided with Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West", but also highly similar in content and plot.
Semyon confessed that he was paying tribute to Stephen Chow's film.
But his operation is tantamount to plagiarism in the eyes of netizens, and it is not at a level at all.
For the plagiarized drama, netizens are ruthless, and for a time the network comments and scoldings are everywhere.
Lack of understanding of comedy films, as well as lack of systematic theory learning, Xie Miao blindly imitated Zhou Xingchi but had a feeling of east-to-east effect, which also made "Journey to the West" a generation of bad films.
It is not difficult to see from here that the two points that Xie Miao lacked were exactly the two moves he had taken in the wrong way, and he had not received good exercise or entered an excellent university for further study.
After the word of mouth plummeted, Semyon began to transform into a tough guy again.
In 2019, Xie Miao starred in "Eighteen Arhats of the Shaolin Temple" and "Xin Abandoned Disease", and won unanimous praise from the public for his superb playing and high-quality content.
In April 2020, Semyon's online movie "Broken God" defeated one-vote competitors and won the seventh consecutive box office title.
Xie Miao also completely gained a foothold in online movies because of such achievements and became a brother in online movies.
However, he has already made small achievements, but he has once again "died" and taken a bad move.
From mid-to-late 2020, Semyon once again tried to set foot in the Journey to the West series of comedies, launching the "Great God Monkey" series.
As always, he still imitated Stephen Chow's comedic style, and the last imitation did not seem to teach him enough lessons.
His superficial study of comedy, coupled with the audience's comparison between the previous 86 version of Journey to the West and Zhou Xingchi, Semyon's big god monkey is more like a monkey, and the cold rice of the back and forth journey to the west also makes his accumulated reputation ruined.
It seems that Semyon is going to go down the road of web drama, but what can he do?
Nowadays, there is no market for martial arts films
Therefore, from a comprehensive point of view, web drama is indeed the only choice for Xie Miao, who focuses on learning movements and martial arts.