In the first half of October, Wu Jing's "Changjin Lake" was a big seller, and people inside and outside the circle were congratulating Wu Jing. This man who debuted as a "star" can now be said to have supported half of the Box Office of Chinese movies.
At the same time, another "star" who was equal to Wu Jing was also in full swing to promote his new film, he is Xie Miao.
In contrast to Wu Jing, Xie Miao's new film did not splash a little.
In fact, as early as a few months ago, The new film "Boss Lady" cooperated by Xie Miao, Wang Jing and Xu Dongdong has been released on many platforms. Many years later, Wang Jing and Xie Miao cooperated again, but they could not find the glory of that year.
Today, Wang Jing is no longer the Wang Jing of that year, and Xie Miao no longer has the "aura" of that year. This makes us nostalgic for the "Five Ancestors of New Shaolin" cooperated by Wang Jing, Jet Li and Xie Miao in 1993.
How did Xie Miao, who was once known as "Jet Li's successor", have now fallen into this?
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Time back to the early 90s of the last century, when Semyon debuted as a child star, it can be said that it is popular all over the country.
Working with Top Hong Kong stars such as Wu Mengda, Chow Yun Fat, Mui Yanfang, Qiu Shuzhen and Ke Shouliang, the audience recognized Jet Li's successor made him a hit.
At the peak of his career, Semyon suddenly disappeared, quitting for decades, and when he returned again, he was already human.
Mei Yanfang and Wu Mengda have passed away one after another, Jet Li has withdrawn from the entertainment industry for many years, and although Zhou Runfa and Wang Jing have occasional news, they are always bad movies.
In 1984, Xie Miao was born in a middle-class family in Beijing. His parents have placed deep expectations on Semyon since childhood, and perhaps this is also the origin of his name.
Because of his stubborn personality from childhood, when he was 7 years old, his mother took him to learn dance. For Xie Miao, the dance was too "mother", so he begged his parents to learn martial arts for himself.
Fortunately, the parents were more enlightened and readily agreed. In this way, Only 7-year-old Xie Miao began to learn martial arts, which also laid the groundwork for his later achievements.
In 1993, Wang Jing, who was famous at the time, was worried about the selection of the film "New Shaolin Five Ancestors". Because the request of the funder to Wang Jing is to find someone as capable as Jet Li to play the lead role.
After all, it is the "Five Ancestors", so isn't this search to find 5? No one can do it!
Fortunately, Wang Jing's spirit moved, if you find five children, it will not work! So Wang Jing came to the Bayi Film Studio to select personnel, and it was under such a coincidence that Xie Miao and Wang Jing met for the first time.
On the one hand, Xie Miao's profound martial arts skills, on the other hand, Xie Miao's innate bitter and vengeful temperament is very suitable for starring in "New Shaolin Five Ancestors".
Wang Jing immediately decided to let Xie Miao play, even though Xie Miao had not played any role in front of the screen at that time.
It turned out that Wang Jing's vision was indeed poisonous. "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" was released, immediately received a huge response, and Xie Miao even played Jet Li's son with Jet Li, who was both serious and naughty in the play, a kung fu at a young age, and a character who dared to love and hate, and became a hit!
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The first cooperation was a great success, Wang Jing naturally would not let go of such an opportunity, he took advantage of the hot iron to sign Xie Miao.
The following year, he first cooperated with Zhou Runfa in the classic film "God of Gamblers 2", and then with Wu Mengda on "Peter Pan", which also had a good response.
Semyon really exploded after working with Jet Li again. In 1995, Jet Li and Wang Jing cooperated in the film "Letter to Daddy", when Wang Jing remembered Xie Miao because Jet Li's son in the play could not find the right person to play.
Perhaps Jet Li and Wang Jing were born to be noble people in Xie Miao's life, and this cooperation can be said to be seamless and seamless, so that many years later, many viewers mistakenly thought that Xie Miao was really Jet Li's son in reality.
In this movie, in addition to Jet Li, there are top stars such as Mei Yanfang and Yu Rongguang at that time, and Xie Miao can be said to be the most beautiful child star.
It is also because of many cooperations that the relationship between Semyon and Jet Li is getting better and better, and the media will basically use "Jet Li's royal son" to describe Semyon when publicizing. Jet Li also placed high expectations on Xie Miao, and repeatedly expressed the hope that Xie Miao could act well and have better development in the future.
Xie Miao may not have imagined that the scenery was fleeting, but this became his highest moment in the next 20 years.
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In the entertainment industry in the 90s, materialization was not so serious, and the precedent of child stars debuting was even rarer. Especially Xie Miao's parents, one is a doctor and the other is an employee of a state-owned enterprise, naturally hoping that their children can study well, rather than wading into the muddy waters of the entertainment industry.
Just after filming "Letter to Daddy", Xie Miao's contract with Wang Jing expired. Xie Miao's mother thought of letting him go back to Beijing to study, but looking at Xie Miao's love of movies, she was caught in a dilemma.
So she asked Wang Jing and Zhou Runfa for help, and he gave very different opinions.
Wang Jing feels that this opportunity for Xie Miao is rare, and Xie Miao is a good seedling, and he loves acting so much, as long as he takes into account learning, he can continue to develop in the entertainment industry. If you miss an opportunity, you may never have it again.
Zhou Runfa felt that he should do a good job in his studies first, and then enter the entertainment circle later.
In addition, he suffered a lot because he did not study well when he was a child, and he liked this little boy after working with Semyon in "God of Gamblers 2", so he did not want him to take a detour.
Xie Miao's parents themselves hoped that he could go back to school, and Zhou Runfa said so again, and naturally immediately took him back to school.
Everything that happened afterwards proved that Wang Jing was right. But Zhou Runfa did not have a bad heart, it was completely a good intention, and after Xie Miao returned to study, he also wrote a letter to Xie Miao hoping that he could read with peace of mind. Even when Xie Miao left Hong Kong, Zhou Runfa personally gave Xie Miao a red envelope of 5,000 yuan to encourage him.
Fame is not easy, it is even more difficult to become famous for a second time, coupled with the golden age of the Hong Kong entertainment industry is gone, Xie Miao finally failed to live up to Jet Li's expectations.
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From the highly anticipated star to the unattended student, the huge identity gap made It difficult for Xie Miao to accept for a long time after that.
What is even more difficult to accept is that when I see the movies I starred in in front of the TV again and again, I always have an inexplicable feeling in my heart, maybe unwilling, maybe regret.
In 2002, seeing that the college entrance examination was about to take the college entrance examination, Xie Miao suddenly received an invitation from Shi Xiaolong to shoot the movie "North and South Lions" together.
In the face of the sudden invitation, Xie Miao was both touched and embarrassed, and finally he chose to make a movie. But also because of this film, he delayed his studies and eventually only entered the Capital Institute of Physical Education.
In his senior year, Xie Miao was suddenly invited by CCTV to participate in the recording of the program. In the program, Xie Miao met Jet Li, who had not been seen for many years, and Jet Li repeatedly told Xie Miao to study hard and honor his mother.
In 2006, seeing that her son had graduated, her mother finally put her mind at ease and said to him: "You have grown up and can make your own decisions." ”
In this way, he returned to the entertainment industry after many years of absence.
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But at this time, the entertainment industry has undergone earth-shaking changes, countless artists have sprung up like mushrooms, and the major IPs are one after another.
At this time, the entertainment industry no longer only looks at your acting skills and professional qualities as in the past, but also pays more attention to the "traffic" brought by the actors and whether the actors are "small fresh meat".
In 2006, Xie Miao was invited by Henan Satellite TV to star in the TV series "Legend of Shaolin Temple". Although the play is performed hard, he has received a lot of praise for not having to stand in. But the final broadcast effect can not return to the height of that year.
Later, he successively starred in "Qi Jiajun", "Great Prospects" and "Qimen Dunjia", but each one was tepid.
In 2010, he was invited by Wang Baoqiang to co-star in the movie "Cai Li Fo Fist" with Wu Mengda again, but these two former "top streams" plus Wang Baoqiang still failed to set off too many waves.
Last year alone, Semyon shot a full 12 works, and this year has also shot 4.
Although he worked hard, he also tried not to miss any opportunities. But in this flood-like entertainment industry, opportunities are hard to find, and many people may not have the opportunity to become famous in their lifetime.
And Semyon had such an opportunity, but missed it. In a sense, he wasn't wrong. But as Wang Jing said, there is only one chance, and once you miss it, you may never encounter it again.
Compared with child stars such as Hao Shaowen and Shi Xiaolong, Xie Miao may be the most regrettable one. Other child stars may have an advantage because of selling cuteness, cool play, appearance, etc., but in front of the camera, his calmness, vicissitudes, precociousness, kung fu and cuteness, there is no ambiguity.
He's a master of money:
He was the heart of the god of gamblers Zhou Runfa:
He made Mei Yanfang feel sad:
He and Jet Li are like father and son:
He has done a great job, dares to love and dare to hate:
He is a master of love:
He made Wu Mengda beat his chest:
But these are all the people he once was, and everything can't go back.