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Stills from Xu Di's "Old Girlfriend"
On February 3, 2022, the 52-episode urban emotional drama "Old Girlfriend" landed on CCTV's eight prime-time sets, and 3 episodes were broadcast consecutively every night.
The wonderful plot, the details of grounded life, and the blessing of famous old drama bones such as Pan Hong, Wu Mian, Xu Di, and Song Xiaoying have aroused heated discussion among the audience.
Today's "Savor Celebrities" is here to restore the famous actor Xu Di's career, love, family life, and her tear-jerking past of life and death with her husband...
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Xu Di (third from left) stills from "Old Girlfriend"
The "Dr. Liu" played by Xu Di in "Old Girlfriend" has a lot of personality, which makes people shine in the 5 old girlfriends. Dr. Liu's real name is Liu Yinan, and it can be seen from the name that his personality is somewhat tough.
She is a single mother, living with her son, and has the characteristics of a woman. Dr. Liu loves his profession and values the identity of a doctor, this role makes the audience remember at a glance, and also remembers the famous actor Xu Di, who played "Dr. Liu".
Xu Di was born in Beijing in 1958, with a height of 1.66 meters, she was a great beauty when she was young, and her voice was round and jade. In 1974, Xu Di was studying at Beijing 134 Middle School, and it happened that the Beijing Opera School ququ class came to the school to enroll, and Xu Di was successfully admitted.
Xu Di collapsed as soon as she entered school, and she couldn't even sing the introductory little fork song. Xu Di's midrange area is good, but the bass can't come down, and the treble can't go up.
Xu Di (first from the left) as a child with her older sister and younger sister
Xu Di (first from left) with her sister and sister
When learning to sing the opera "A Pot of Rice", Xu Di sang with a hoarse voice. She had never practiced Tong Zi Gong, and only began to press her legs at the age of 17, and her bones often crackled, and the pain made her tears flow. The class rehearsed a musical, and Xu Di was arranged to play the old lady.
Because of the poor foundation, Xu Di often worked overtime and gradually became the top student in the class.
During her studies, Xu Di fell in love with Yu Jianwei, a boy in the same class. Yu Jianwei is also a Beijinger, handsome in appearance and gentle in personality.
In 1978, Xu Di and Yu Jianwei graduated from drama school and were both assigned to work in the Beijing Opera Troupe.
In 1981, Xu Di married Yu Jianwei, and two years later her son Yu Zibo was born. Ququ opera is a small drama, and many audiences do not understand it.
Young Xu Di
But since you are a performer, you have to do your best. After becoming a mother, Xu Di insisted on practicing at home every day, after her son went to kindergarten, her husband also went to work at work, and Xu Di sat at home at the piano, playing and singing.
She had to practice from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then rushed to the unit to rehearse the performance.
In those years, Xu Di's singing skills were not formed, and the cooperation with the band in the group was not tacit, and everyone often rehearsed until late at night. Due to the tight budget of the unit, there was not even a supper until 11 o'clock in the evening, and everyone was hungry and grunting.
The hardships in it, Xu Di still remembers.
Xu Di's talent and hard work, the opera everyone Wei Xikui looked in the eyes. In January 1990, she made an exception and accepted Xu Di as a closed disciple.
Xu Di (left) and Wei Xikui
Xu Di plays Empress Xiaozhuang of the Beijing opera repertoire "Young Heavenly Son".
Born in 1926 in Jixian County, Tianjin, Wei Xikui was the founder of opera, and was on a par with Mei Lanfang.
She starred in "Yang Naiwu and the Little Cabbage", "Laughing Cause", "Fang Pearl", "Tear Blood Cherry Blossom", etc., which can be called the classic repertoire of opera.
Under the guidance of Wei Xikui, Xu Di's singing voice became more and more mature. In 1996, Xu Di won the "Plum Blossom Award" for chinese drama for playing "Cheng Niangzi" in the opera "Longsugou", and she was also the first person in the Beijing opera industry to receive this honor.
Since then, the operas starring Xu Di, such as "Young Heavenly Son" and "Yang Naiwu and the Little Cabbage", have also caused great repercussions.
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Many years later, Xu Di learned that the reason why Teacher Wei Xikui, who never accepted disciples, accepted her as a closed disciple was because she looked like Wei Xikui when she was young on the stage.
Early years Xu Di
Wei Xikui has a strong sense of mission and responsibility for Beijing opera, and often performs with illness.
The teacher's words and deeds invisibly affected Xu Di. Although the performance income is low, Xu Di is conscientious about every performance.
In 1995, Wei Xikui called Xu Di to come to her home, and she sadly said that her good friend Guan Sushuang had died, and gave Xu Di a necklace and a diamond ring.
Shortly after the Spring Festival in 1996, Wei Xikui died of illness. When Xu Di was cleaning up the teacher's belongings, she found that the teacher did not have a decent dress. The teacher was poor all her life, and she shed tears of heartache.
Xu Di and his disciple Wang Yu
Beijing opera is not like Peking Opera, it has a narrow audience, few actors, and fewer famous characters who can support the stage. Therefore, as a pillar in the troupe, Xu Di performed continuously and accepted Wang Yu as a disciple.
However, due to low wages and little remuneration for performances, Xu Digui is a famous actor in opera, but she lives an ordinary life with her husband and son.
They live in old neighborhoods, there are no cars at home, and the husband rides his bike to work. Xu Di usually goes to work and squeezes the bus or subway.
In addition to the performance, Xu Di also took over some film and television dramas, which could improve the economic conditions of herself and the troupe.
Xu Di's "Love You Are Not Negotiable" Stills (1992)
Xu Di's embarkation on the road of film and television actors is very accidental. It was 1986, she went to the communication room of the opera troupe to get a newspaper, and met the director Bai Tang (that is, director Liu Wentian).
He asked Xu Di if he would like to make a TV series, and Xu Di said: "I am a opera actor and have never made a TV series. In her heart, Xu Di has resistance to filming TV series.
Director Liu patiently communicated with her: "Even if you perform every day and the venue is full, only more than 1,000 people watch it, and there are more than 30,000 audiences in a month." And if you act in a TV series, there are at least hundreds of thousands of viewers in one night. ”
Xu Di went home to discuss with her husband, and Yu Jianwei said: "I think I can try to make TV dramas, many drama actors are filming film and television dramas." ”
Then Xu Di consulted with the troupe, and the troupe agreed, but there were also requirements: first, if there was a performance task in the troupe, Xu Di had to come back at any time; second, 40% of Xu Di's film remuneration should be handed over to the troupe.
Xu Di (left) stills from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
Stills from Xu Di's "White Jade Cream" (1994)
Xu Di's first TV series was "He Has No Wind and RainCoats", after which she starred in a series of film and television works such as "The Camera Reaches out to the Courtyard", "Love You Are Not Negotiable", the old version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Starting to Stop", "The Woman Who Waded Across the Man's River", "The Family Has a Difficult Scripture", "Idle Centaur Sister" and so on.
Among them, the "Lady Gan" she played in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the "Big Biaozi" played in "The Woman Who Waded Across the Man's River" left a deep impression on the audience.
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At that time, acting in opera was Xu Di's main business, she dressed well and played a wide road. The directors of TV series such as "Longing" and "Beijingers in New York" have approached Xu Di and asked her to play the heroine, because she wanted to act in a musical drama at that time, and she pushed the TV series.
Later, the protagonists and supporting roles of these TV series were red, and Xu Di was very disappointed in her heart. Xu Di has acted in operas for most of her life, with many classic tracks, but none of them have their own albums.
It is too difficult for a drama actor to make an album, except for wei Xikui's death, the audio-visual company has released a commemorative album of hers, and no opera actor has ever released an album.
In 2004, Xu Di launched a solo opera album, which contained 16 of her singing segments, including excerpts from traditional plays such as "Yang Naiwu and the Little Cabbage" and "Laughing Karma", as well as singing sections of "Young Heavenly Son", "Tea House" and "Longsugou" created and performed by Xu Di.
When Xu Di signed a contract with an audio-visual company, he proposed not to pay 1 cent. The album of opera performers is not only Xu Di's personal honor, but also a major event of the Beijing Opera Troupe.
Colleagues have taken action, and Retired makeup artist Wang Huiling volunteered to make a headdress for Xu Di at home. The teachers of the band stayed up late every day to rehearse with Xu Di, and the colleagues of the stage team put on costumes and played the background role in the back.
A few months later, Xu Di couldn't help but burst into tears when she got the album.
Xu Di has acted in opera for most of her life, leaving an old injury, and practicing at this age will bring greater harm to the body.
Xu Di and his disciple Wei Jindong
In 2007, Xu Di proposed retirement to the regiment, but the unit did not approve it. Because she is the backbone actor in the group, she needs to support the overall situation.
Depressed, Xu Di developed menopausal symptoms, she was emotionally unstable, throwing tantrums at her husband and son at home, and shed tears at every turn. To get rid of her pain, she plays games on her computer every day.
Her eyesight dropped dramatically due to overuse of her eyes. Xu Di's depression stung the heart of her husband, Yu Jianwei, who whispered to comfort his wife and cook for her at home. He also accompanied Xu Di to climb the mountain with his son.
The family climbed up hand in hand and walked down hand in hand. Under the care of her husband and son, Xu Di got rid of the problem of menopause after half a year.
On June 30, 2008, Xu Di officially went through the retirement procedures. Leaving the stage of struggle for more than 30 years, Xu Di cried a lot. When saying goodbye to her colleagues, Xu Di choked up and said nothing.
Xu Di's "Phantom of the Mist" stills
A month after retiring, Xu Di walked into the crew of the TV series "Phantom of the Mist" and played "Xu Ma" in the play. Mama Xu is ostensibly an old mother, but in fact she is the head of the secret service.
After the drama was completed, Xu Di walked into the crew of the TV series "Village Official is Young". Who knew that the scene had just been halfway filmed, and the husband was found to have metastases during the physical examination.
The husband hid the condition from Xu Di, and Xu Di called the doctor, who told Xu Di: "Your husband's tumor has metastasized to the liver, most likely liver cancer." ”
Xu Di's brain went blank, and her heart seemed to be hollowed out. At that time, filming was tight, her role was heavy, the amount of lines was very large, and her body and mind were suffering greatly.
The director understood Xu Di's difficulty, concentrated her scenes, and let her take 3 days to return to Beijing to visit her husband.
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Xu Di and Li Youlin do shows on TV stations
As soon as they met, Xu Di asked her husband with tears: "There is such a big thing, why don't you tell me the truth?" Yu Jianwei replied darkly: "You are so busy filming, I don't want to increase your psychological burden, I have prepared for the worst." ”
Xu Di accompanied her husband to two famous hospitals for re-examination, and as a result, her husband was diagnosed with hemangioma. Although the tumor is not cancer, the degree of danger is also very high, and Xu Di's heart is still heavy.
A week later, xu Di's scene was finished, and she returned to Beijing to accompany her husband for surgery. The operation was quite successful, and Xu Di accompanied her husband in the hospital.
When cutting fruit for her husband, Xu Di said: "Husband and wife have a lifetime, it seems that the time is very long, but in fact, the real time together is very short. 24 hours a day, more than 10 hours of sleep. I also go out a lot to shoot, and we don't have much time together. From now on, we will live every day and not be separated for a long time. ”
The husband grabbed Xu Di's hand and burst into tears.
Xu Di
Half a month later, her husband was discharged from the hospital, and Xu Di did not take the role for half a year, and accompanied her husband to recover at home.
In 2009, after Yu Jianwei's health improved, he also went through the internal withdrawal procedures from the unit in advance. In order not to be separated from her husband, when Xu Di went out to shoot a scene, she took her husband with her.
Yu Jianwei volunteered to be his wife's assistant. Xu Di received a new play, he and his wife studied the script together, Xu Di filmed to find information, Yu Jianwei helped her download from the Internet.
During the break between the filming of the crew, Xu Di accompanied her husband to travel around and eat local food, and the couple was like a first love couple.
Xu Di and Deng Jiajia and Lei Jiayin
Yu Jianwei
In the company of her husband, Xu Di has successively taken over a series of film and television works such as "You Are My Brother", "My Father and Mother", "Mother-in-law of the Only Child", "Look at these two families", "Divorce Agreement", "Love is Home", "Big Husband", "Rules Before Marriage", "Lost Orphaned", "Little Husband" and so on.
Because Xu Di mostly plays the role of mother-in-law, she is praised by the media and fans as a "mother professional household".
Xu Di and her husband's son Yu Zibo were very angry, and after graduating from high school, they were admitted to the Beijing Film Academy.
After graduating from college, Xu Di and her husband hoped that their son would enter the civil service examination and find a stable job. But my son wanted to do what he liked to do, so he became a recording engineer.
In 2015, Yu Zibo got married, and his wife Liu Yanru was an assistant director.
In the TV series "Tiger Mother and Cat Father", Yu Zibo is a recording engineer, and Liu Yanru is an assistant director. Yu Zibo and his wife are very filial and often go home to visit their parents.
Xu Di and her husband are also very lenient with their sons and daughters-in-law, and never interfere with their lives except for forcing them to have children.
Xu Di's artistic attainment is high, she sings very well, and other actors are getting older and less dramatic, but she continues to play. She spends most of her time on the crew with her husband.
In 2018, Xu Di won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Shanghai TV Festival "Magnolia" Award for her wonderful performance in the TV series "The First Half of My Life".
Stills from Xu Di's "The First Half of My Life"
In December 2019, she starred in the TV series "Elite Lawyer", which was simultaneously broadcast in Beijing, Oriental Satellite TV, iQiyi and Tencent Video, and also set a new high in ratings.
From 2020 to now, Xu Di has successively filmed nearly 10 film and television dramas such as "My Unquered Youth", "Centimeter of Love", "Police Honor", "Ideal City", "There Is Her in the World", "Big Winner", "Deep Love" and so on, which is higher than the output of many traffic stars.
Xu Di in life is simple and simple, without any star shelf. She often wears ordinary clothes with her husband and carries bags to the morning market to buy vegetables.
Her clothes and shoes are all ordinary brands, she can't drive, and even if she becomes famous, her husband still uses a bicycle to take her around.
In the words of fans, Xu Di is not only a good actor with both moral integrity and art, but also a good wife and mother who is virtuous and low-key.
"Savor Celebrity" Reviews:
Xu Di's acting skills are exquisite and her temperament is elegant, but because of her low profile, she is not well known to the audience. With the popularity of "Old Girlfriend", Xu Di is loved by more and more viewers.
Xu Di in life is not ostentatious at all. Compared with her, her husband Yu Jianwei is an ordinary person, and there is a gap between the husband and wife in the eyes of the world. However, Xu Di has never abandoned her husband, and when her husband suffered from hemangioma, she went all out to save her husband, which made people tear up.
The marriage in the show business circle is as fragile as thin ice, many actors divorced after becoming famous, while Xu Di and her first love husband held hands to baishou, showing good character and artistic virtue.
The reason why the media and fans love Xu Di is that in addition to her superb acting skills, there is also the loyalty to the marriage!
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