Triangle eyes, big long face, because of "looking anxious", Han Tongsheng has not played the main role since his debut.
Also because this face is not handsome enough, Han Tongsheng, who has passed the exam three times, was also screened by the Chinese opera recruitment teacher.
Not only that, Han Tongsheng had a hard time becoming an actor, and as a result, he did not touch the remuneration for the first time filming, but he owed the crew 400 yuan.
Really, it's extremely unlucky.
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In 1955, Han Tongsheng was born in an alley in the city of Beijing.
Grandpa Han Tongsheng is a shareholder of the old medical hall Henian Hall, and he has loved Peking Opera since he was young, and often invites well-known opera anglers to sing at home.
Han Tongsheng's father grew up with a strong theater atmosphere in his home, and when he grew up, he played drums in Peking Opera.
Han Tongsheng's mother sang opera, and the two became acquainted with each other because of the drama and gave birth to Han Tongsheng.
On the night of his birth, a large family surrounded Han Tongsheng, not knowing what name to give him.
After a while, they were arguing because they had different opinions on the name.
Finally, Han Tongsheng's father roared:
"Don't argue! I'm his dad, and the child's name is from me! ”
Then he did not choose the cultural names in the family tree, but named him Han Tongsheng.
The reason for this is that the day of his birth happens to be June 1st, Children's Day.
Compared with others, the nature of Han Tong's parents' work gives him more opportunities to face the stage.
In such a family with a strong artistic atmosphere, Han Tongsheng was deeply influenced and was very interested in dramas such as Peking Opera from an early age.
When Han Tongsheng was in junior high school, he was still a member of the literary and art committee in his class.
It's one thing for Han Tongsheng to have an artistic cell, and it's another thing for family education.
In that era, the education method of Peking Opera actors was only one word - "fighting".
Han's father knew his way well, and the word "typing" ran through Han Tongsheng's entire adolescence.
Don't study your homework?
beat!
Don't learn erhu well?
Don't learn a single string?
In this way, on the basis of his original interest, Han Tongsheng was driven by his father to master erhu and single strings, and also learned allegro and cross-talk, and even skipped ballet.
Academic performance is not to say, the top two in the class.
It's just a pity that the college entrance examination has not been resumed at that time, otherwise judging by his results at that time, it would be more than enough to enter a key university.
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When Han Tongsheng talked about how he got along with his father in his childhood, his expression was very complicated.
His father set a lot of rules for him, as long as he didn't obey them, a reprimand was specified that he could not escape.
First, as long as Han Tongsheng arrived home before his father, at the moment when his father returned home, he would appear at the door, take the bag in his father's hand, and say:
"Father, you're back."
Second, after his father arrived home, he had to brew new tea for his father, and the heat should be controlled.
Third, when it comes to the meal, after the father is seated, the whole family can sit down, as long as the father does not move the chopsticks, everyone can not eat first.
Han Tongsheng's family is very traditional, and these rules are only part of it.
Growing up in such an environment, Han Tongsheng gradually developed a rebellious mentality, of course, he did not dare to be too rebellious.
Once, he had just been beaten by his father, his ass could not be on the bench for half a day, and he lay on the bed and began to think about how to resist his father's "hegemony".
Coincidentally, his little friend came to him at this time and asked him if he wanted to catch the cockroach together.
He came up with a temperament:
"Go, why don't you go!"
The little friend went home happily, Han Tongsheng went to find him when his ass was better, and the two ran to the grass together until midnight.
It was cool to go out to play, but when I arrived at the door and thought of my father's stern face, Han Tongsheng's legs and stomach were still a little twisted.
He quietly rummaged into his cabin and changed into his pajamas.
He thought that his father had not noticed, and when he was relieved, the lights in the house "snapped" on.
His father pushed open his door, unable to see his expression clearly against the light, which made Han Tongsheng's heart instantly lift.
Sure enough, he didn't escape a beating.
In this way, he was beaten by his father from childhood to adulthood.
After graduation, his father also arranged a job for him, an "iron rice bowl".
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In 1971, 16-year-old Han Tongsheng graduated, and in accordance with his father's arrangement, he entered the Youth League Committee of the Beijing Municipal Materials Administration.
Han Tongsheng, who has just entered here, "draws his sword and looks around dazed", he does not know whether it is right or wrong to go against his wish to perform and come here to hold the "iron rice bowl".
He also knew that this was a good job that ordinary people could not get by squeezing their heads, and the salary was 33 yuan a month.
When he got his first month's salary, he handed it over to his family and kept only 5 yuan for himself.
At that time, the people who worked with him were all "old fritters" who were about the same age as his father, and he was the only young man who could not talk about going together.
Therefore, in his spare time, Han Tongsheng joined the drama team of the Workers' Club.
When the unit has activities to perform, it is basically indispensable to Han Tongsheng's figure.
At work, Han Tongsheng, a young man, has the momentum and is willing to endure hardships, and the above has deliberately trained him to a management position.
But Han Tongsheng did not want to spend the rest of his life in this boring life day after day.
In 1978, when domestic art colleges resumed enrollment, Han Tongsheng did not hesitate to submit an application to the Central Academy of Drama.
Han Tongsheng has been clever since he was a child, and he has made up for his professional knowledge, one try, two attempts, three attempts, all the way through the barrier, he finally came to the last hurdle, only one foot away from stepping into the door of Chinese opera.
Just when he was confident that he would be selected, he was defeated.
He couldn't resist this breath and ran to the middle of the drama to find the admissions teacher and asked him where the difference was and where he wanted to be eliminated.
Under his repeated questioning, the admissions teacher euphemistically told the truth:
Compared with those sixteen or seventeen-year-old candidates, Han Tongsheng was not young enough and not handsome enough.
He returned home in despair, but the yin and yang were wrong, and he was favored by Teacher Li Kesheng.
Mr. Li Kesheng works at the Central Experimental Drama Theatre, and he has watched two sketches by Han Tongsheng during the interview and has been paying attention to his examination.
When Han Tongsheng lost the election, Li Kesheng called him:
"You don't want to come to the Central Experimental Theatre?" However, there is no diploma for the time being, but it will be replaced later. ”
Han Tongsheng was overjoyed and quickly agreed.
At that time, the Central Experimental Drama Theater was much more difficult to enter than Chinese opera, and the people inside were the best among the graduates of Chinese art colleges.
And Han Tongsheng skipped the Chinese opera and went directly into the Central Experimental Drama Theater, which attracted the envy of countless people.
Even he jokingly said:
"I didn't get into college, I went straight to graduate school."
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A few years passed, and Han Tongsheng graduated.
The drama he participated in for the first time was called "The Big Windmill", and he only had one line in the whole play, 4 words:
"Li Shang breaks into the palace!"
But even for a role with only 4 words, there are still more than a dozen candidates.
Director Shu Qiang selected Han Tongsheng, who had a superior voice, among these dozen people, to audition offstage.
At first, Han Tongsheng thought that it was not difficult to speak four words, nor was he very serious, but the director always kept improving, and after noticing that he did not pay attention to it, he let Han Tongsheng shout these four words thousands of times.
When Han Tongsheng felt that it was superfluous, the director seriously said to him:
"From the height of the building, first say 4 words of lines, and then have the ability to deal with 400 lines, or even 4,000 lines."
When he heard these words, he seemed to be enlightened.
Since then, he has calmed down and studied the performance experience of his predecessors in a down-to-earth manner.
Regardless of his role or not, sit by the side with a small book and memorize the key points and learn from experience.
In this way, he ran the dragon set for 6 years.
Until one day, "The Trick of Fate" was being filmed, and the male protagonist at that time was always out of state, and the director helplessly thought of Han Tongsheng, who often took notes with a small book.
At the invitation of the director, Han Tongsheng put a lot of effort into studying the script, and even more so when he auditioned for the play.
After the official performance, Han Tongsheng won the "Plum Blossom Award", the highest award of Chinese drama, because of the role of "Lu Kashen".
At that time, the salary of drama actors was low, only a few tens of yuan per month, not enough to live, so many drama actors were shooting movies and TV series outside the country to get some extra money.
Han Tongsheng watched his colleagues go out to shoot dramas one after another, and heard that he could earn thousands of foreign dramas, and his eyes gradually warmed up.
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In 1988, Han Tongsheng took over the first play of his life and needed to go to Guangzhou to shoot a play, with a salary of 3,000 yuan.
He rushed over, but because it often rained in Guangzhou, some scenes could not be filmed.
The budget of the crew was not enough, and due to weather reasons, the shooting time was delayed for more than three months before it was barely finished.
Han Tongsheng, who was not easy to kill, happily went to the finance to receive a film remuneration, and the finance took the calculator to calculate, looked up and said to him:
"Due to the overrun of the crew, various expenses such as food and accommodation are borne by the actors, you have no remuneration, and you still owe the crew 400 yuan."
This dares him to seriously shoot the scene for more than three months, and he can't get a penny and still have to paste 400 yuan upside down?
Just when Han Tongsheng narrowed his eyes and was about to get angry, the finance quickly explained the difficulties of the crew, and then said:
"Your shooting attitude is very serious, the 400 yuan crew will not let you pay back, we will send you another ticket back to Beijing."
Han Tongsheng finally chose to be considerate and flew back to Beijing, where he worked for more than three months.
This is Han Tongsheng's first filming, a dramatic scene.
The first time out of the teacher is unfavorable, does not mean that the future will be unfavorable, but because of the late filming, looks anxious, he plays most of the father, and even the grandfather.
In 2014, "Red Sorghum" came out, and Han Tongsheng played the father of Zhou Xun who sold his daughter fiercely, and because this role was too deeply rooted in people's hearts, he was chased and beaten by passers-by.
In 2015, Han Tongsheng played Zhao Wei's kind father in the TV series "Tiger Mother and Cat Father", playing his "old-fashioned and severe" personality into three points.
In 2017, in the movie "Sewing Machine Band", Han Tongsheng played a doctor who was ostensibly holding hot tea, but in fact, he was Yang Shuangshu, the "guitar emperor" who was extremely good at rock and roll.
In 2019, Han Tongsheng also starred in the movie "Rat Bile Hero" starring Xiao Yueyue, starring as the police chief who ostensibly eradicated the evil forces, but was actually the "protective umbrella".
In the 2020 hit "An Jia", he also has his figure, and the "bun shop owner" he starred in was strict and honest but principled, and through micro-expressions, the audience could know what he thought.
Director Tian Qinxin once commented on Han Tongsheng:
"He can play anyone, and the roles that others can't play are right for him."
In the end, the reason why directors are relieved to use him is his attitude towards acting:
conscientious.
Unlike other actors who play with their mobile phones on the set, Han Tongsheng never touches his mobile phone on the set.
"Mobile phones are a good thing, everyone loves to play, but acting is work, and playing with mobile phones during work is a reason."
Han Tongsheng has always believed that performance is sacred and an art.
During the two-and-a-half-hour performance of "The Field of Life and Death", most of the time he was required to make a crawling motion.
For the performer, it is an extremely physically demanding and easy to strain, and it is laborious and undesirable.
The director suggested that he act with less amplitude and more dazzling performance skills, but he refused:
"What impresses the audience is not skill, but sincerity. When you stand in front of the audience and dedicate all your sincerity, as an actor, you have no regrets. ”
This sentence fully demonstrates his determination and belief, and at the same time, he will continue this persistence throughout his life.
When the reporter asked him when he would not shoot again, Han Tongsheng choked up slightly:
"There are only two situations that will make me give up acting. First, I was physically ill and could not remember my lines; second, some viewers told me that they were tired of seeing me and did not want to see me again. ”
So, will anyone not want to see him again?
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