He only has two states of acting in movies, either in a suit and leather shoes, or a treacherous villain.
He is Cao Charlie of the "Emperor of the Wind Moon Piece".
Charlie Cao was born in Hong Kong in 1950.
He also has an older sister named Jenny Cao, who is the mother of movie star Zhang Zhilin.
Therefore, in terms of blood, Cao Charlie is Zhang Zhilin's uncle.
Perhaps because of their very different paths, the two never publicly mentioned each other.
In early 1969, Charlie Cao, a high school graduate, was planning his future.
His ideal is to apply for the Police Academy and graduate as a police officer.
At that time, Hong Kong's security was very poor, gangs were in charge, and the police were very dangerous professions.
Ren Dahua's father died in the mission.
"What is the situation now, how many policemen die every day, do you know?"
The strong opposition from his family made Cao Charlie give up this choice and become an air-conditioning worker.
This year, his Bole director He Fan left Shaw and transformed from an actor to a director.
Born in Shanghai in 1937, Ho moved to Hong Kong with his father at the age of 12.
The 24-year-old He Fan joined Shaw Film and Television and has always been a supporting role.
He once played the Tang monk in the movie "Journey to the West", but such a movie lacked beauty in his eyes.
"Movies should have truth, goodness, and beauty," so he began to make love literary films and "wind and moon films."
When Charlie Cao made some money as a worker, he was taken by his friends and began to speculate in stocks.
"I'll take it off if I make a little money so I don't have to work."
But before long, his money was all locked up.
After playing, I learned that stocks are not played by the poor, and how much money is earned is not false, and it must be supported by funds.
The money ran out, and he started working again, becoming a collector for the frozen meat company.
Specifically to the company to ask for accounts, do not give soft and hard at the same time.
"At that time, I was very good, the whole street was my people, and I went alone to ask for the account."
It didn't take long for the company to start declining.
Charlie Cao found a new way out for himself, entered Asian film and television, and filmed advertisements.
In 1982, Charlie Cao was appreciated and participated in the movie "82 Tenants" into the film and television circle.
The debut is the "dressed beast", dressed in white with gold-rimmed glasses and combing the oil head of the board.
Looking like a rich man, dressed in a good dress, he is actually a treacherous villain.
As soon as this image came out, the subsequent characters were all such "villains" and "lewd men", and they also had lustful attributes.
Since then, he has begun to make frequent appearances in movies, and the cooperation is still with wrists.
In 1985, he participated in "Courtship Anti-Fighting Star", starring Zhang Guorong and Chen Baixiang.
In the same year, he was invited to participate in Jackie Chan's "Police Story".
In 1986, He Fan's "Foot Jade Futon" was a fire.
The film set off a climax of Hong Kong cinema and opened the "video hall" mode.
At the same time, He Fan found his own shooting advantage.
At this time, Charlie Cao is still struggling in supporting roles, "Police Story 2", "Trickster Expert"...
In "The Whole Trick Expert", a sentence of "obscene cannot be moved" is matched with his obscene smile, and it is not at all obvious that this is a serious person.
But these scenes look like blockbusters, but Charlie Cao is a supporting role.
His tall and handsome image has become a tooth-itching villain on the screen.
This made Charlie Cao very unwilling, playing more than 200 roles, and there was not a single positive character.
He is also tall and handsome, why should he play a supporting role, or a bad person.
And he is very troubled, he feels that his temperament is very elegant,
However, after so many years of coming to him to play a villain, the image is very obscene.
Is he not like a good person, or is fate deliberately playing tricks on him?
Moreover, at this time, he was still speculating in stocks and was short of money in his hands.
One day, a director came to him and gave him a high salary, but it was just a wind and moon film.
The first time I made such a film, Charlie Cao was so nervous that his whole body was sweating.
After the filming of this scene, Cao Charlie unexpectedly liked to shoot this kind of scene, because the film was very highly paid.
Soon, Charlie Cao ushered in the peak of his career.
In 1991, not long after filming "The Whole Trick Expert", director He Fan found Charlie Cao.
At that time, He Fan was preparing to shoot his own trilogy
The heroines of the three plays are all the same person, the bearer of the golden age of Hong Kong wind and moon films, Ye Yuqing, one of the "double leaves".
And the female second is even more powerful, the Japanese diva level actress - Murakami Reina.
As soon as this casting came out, it was already destined to become the rhythm of the hit.
At that time, the male protagonist had already been determined, but the male second had not yet been determined.
This character is a Sven scum, Sven on the outside but evil on the inside, which is very much in line with Charlie Cao's previous role.
However, Cao Charlie did not immediately agree, replying, "I consider considering it."
To make this kind of film, it is because of lack of money.
Cao Charlie was short of money, and he still wanted to fight for breath, at that time, Zeng Zhiwei was the director and male number one, and he was not yet a climate.
"I just want to pick up some wind and moon films to see if those male number one dare to pick up."
Moreover, Charlie Cao is really short of money, and the film remuneration of the supporting roles cannot meet his needs for stock speculation.
This play made Cao Charlie angry, and since then he has opened the star path of his wind and moon film "Emperor".
In the film, Charlie Cao is a satyr, and outside the play, he is a real upright gentleman who never takes advantage of female stars.
Charlie Cao became a hot male star because of the wind moon film,
And his other heroine, Chen Baolian, has just been sold to Fengyue Film by her own mother.
Pauline Chan was in Miss Asia 1990, and the winner that year was Wu Qili.
That's right, it's the Wu Qili of the "Little Dragon Girl".
Chen Baolian was unsuccessful, but because of her outstanding appearance, she also gained resources to debut.
She was a single parent and lived with her mother.
As soon as she debuted, her mother signed a contract with the Wind Moon Film Company behind her back.
At that time, Chen Baolian was only 17 years old, and she had to sign her guardian before she was eighteen.
The first play of her debut was not inching, and Chen Baolian was doomed to the tragedy of life.
"I would never do anything to them, she (Pauline Chan) believed me."
In 1992, Charlie Cao and Baolian Chen made a movie.
At that time, Chen Baolian had just turned eighteen, and although she had a shooting experience, she was still very resistant in her heart.
On the shooting scene, "Chen Baolian is not allowed to touch anyone, only Cao Charlie can." ”
This is known to everyone in the crew.
"Once a woman enters this industry, there are few good people, most of them end in tragedy."
Cao Charlie's words accurately illustrate The end of Chen Baolian and are doomed to tragedy.
In 2002, Chen Baolian committed suicide by jumping off a building in Shanghai, ending her 29-year-old life and leaving her son half a month old.
When Charlie Cao was busiest, in 1992 and 1993, he made forty wind and moon films.
One of the reasons Charlie Cao has been immersed in this is because making money too quickly.
His remuneration is very high, and he can get thirty thousand yuan for eight hours of shooting.
If you walk around a few different crews, you will be paid 90,000 films a day, and nearly three million in a month.
"Even if I wasn't filming at that time, the director would pay me for the film."
Once the set was inappropriate, the director directly let Cao Charlie go back to the hotel to rest, but the film was paid.
This treatment, serious film actors can not enjoy.
And the wind moon film does not pursue quality, the filming progress is very fast, almost ten days can finish a play.
"Cao Charlie's name means that you can sell money", which is enough to see the influence of Cao Charlie.
At that time, Charlie Cao could earn money for a building in almost a few months.
But the stock market is really a big pit, and a building can't fill Charlie Cao's stock pit.
Therefore, he hardly saved any money, and could only keep filming.
From 1991 to 1996, he made more than 80 wind and moon films, the proper "Emperor of the Wind Moon".
When he was at his hottest, people in several countries in Southeast Asia knew him.
He went out on a trip and a lot of people were very excited to see him.
"I know you're the actor from the XX movie!"
We all know his character, but no one knows what his name is.
Can you imagine that the popularity of an actor in a wind and moon film in the theater was tied with Andy Lau.
Charlie Cao himself wanted to be open, he did not want to be remembered like other movie stars.
Filming is to make money, stock trading loses money, but it makes him happy.
But if you keep shooting such a role, you will still be bored in your heart.
In 1996, Charlie Cao gradually withdrew from the market of Wind Moon films and reduced his number of shots.
And the scenes are similar, he has also made enough money, "if you don't shoot, it's okay." ”
In the 1997 financial crisis, Charlie Cao lost all his stocks.
In order to make up for the hole in the stock, he sold all the cars and houses under his name and continued to churn in the stock market.
But before long, all the wealth accumulated over the years was gone.
Life has ups and downs, and Charlie Cao did not hesitate because of the loss of wealth.
However, his wife could not stand it, and directly left Charlie Cao and returned to Canada alone.
There is very little information about Charlie Cao's wife, and there are no photos of her online.
Charlie Cao has hardly ever mentioned his wife to anyone, and the outside world only knows that she is a Canadian overseas Chinese.
In 1997, the wife returned to Canada, and the two have never had children and have not divorced, but they have not been in contact with each other.
Marriage is useless, but Charlie Cao feels that it is particularly free.
"No one cares about me, I can do whatever I want."
Because Charlie Cao's "Wind Moon" image is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, he has withdrawn from the circle and is still misunderstood.
Once he worked with a travel agency to take tourists to meet Japanese actresses.
You can only bring five people over at a time, so it's easy to get enough of ten people, you can take them in two batches.
But then Charlie was rejected because the staff thought he was "ill-intentioned."
The previous role was so deeply rooted that the staff felt that he must be doing something bad.
For this result, Cao Charlie himself could only laugh helplessly.
In 2015, Charlie Cao was invited to re-emerge from the jianghu to shoot a movie.
The female protagonist is 24-year-old Ji Ai Meiqi, who was very nervous in the face of the two male actors who played with her during filming.
Because of Charlie Cao's presence, the atmosphere on the scene became very relaxed, and the shooting progress was much smoother.
Charlie Cao is too familiar with the positioning of this kind of scene, directly replacing the director to guide the various filming techniques of the live actors.
In the days when he was not filming, he often came to the mainland to do commercial performances, and he could earn millions in a few months.
Usually, I will sing in a small bar in Hong Kong and say some passages that cannot be said on stage.
In this relaxed environment, Cao Charlie enjoyed it very much.
So not in front of the screen, he does not worry about no money to spend, but also live a very dashing life.
In 2020, the Hong Kong TV program "Commencement of Construction 77" was launched.
The host of the show, Yuan Qiongdan (Sister Pomegranate), invited Charlie Cao, who had not appeared for a long time.
Charlie Cao has not been on stage for a long time, and he himself said: If it were not for Yuan Zai calling me, I would not have come.
In the show, he and Yuan Qiongdan talked about their previous experiences when filming Wind moon films, and they did not shy away from it at all.
Speaking of his rejection of japanese tourism, Yuan Qiongdan directly said, "It is that the image of your previous wind and moon film is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people."
In the face of such ridicule from his old friends, Cao Charlie was not angry.
The two have known each other since filming in 1983, and they have been in a relationship for 37 years, and others are naturally incomparable.
On July 14, Hong Kong actor Huang Yishan came to a live broadcast to meet Charlie Cao.
71-year-old Cao Charlie has no longer the shiny big oil head of the year,
The hair on the top of the head was completely white, the hairline was seriously moved back, and there was not much hair on the top of the head.
He used to wear suits and shoes and dressed as a beast, but now he is a grandfather wearing an old man's shirt.
Even Huang Yishan, who grew up watching him play, is 57 years old, and the doll's face has wrinkles.
Charlie Cao still has no new feelings,
He has never had feelings for women in the entertainment industry,
Nor did I have any bad thoughts about the female stars who filmed with her.
More than 80 wind and moon films, never a woman has ever said that he is not good.
There are countless women, but the feelings are still very clean, and there has never been a scandal.
Such a person deserves the gentle treatment of the world.
I hope he can continue to live happily in the future life,
Don't worry about the trivialities of life, be a "little person" with no heart and no lungs.
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