On the previous TV screen, there were many kung fu movie stars such as Jet Li and Zhen Zidan. Behind these superstars, there are always martial fingers and stand-ins, coupled with the director's grasp of the camera, which will present a smooth play in front of the screen. And Xiong Xinxin, who wants to talk about today, has experienced the identity of a stand-in, martial arts instructor, kung fu actor and director over and over again in the past 36 years of practice.
Xiong Xinxin literally sounds a bit feminine, but he himself is an out-and-out tough guy image. He was born in 1962, and when he reached his youth, it was when Chinese martial arts films began to flourish. Perhaps affected by this, Xiong Xinxin began practicing martial arts at the age of 12, and entered the Guangxi Wushu team two years later, and had a life of learning martial arts for 8 years.
In the process of learning martial arts, he has won many martial arts championships in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the national martial arts. After retiring from the martial arts team at the age of 21, Xiong Xinxin became a martial arts instructor in Liuzhou. However, just after a year of work, he entered the crew of the movie "North and South Shaolin" as a stand-in under the introduction of a friend, and since then opened the door to a new world.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the golden age of the development of Hong Kong martial arts films, Kung Fu superstars such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Zhen Zidan emerged one after another. Xiong Xinxin's first job on the set was to be Jet Li's martial arts substitute.
Because of Xiong Xinxin's excellent martial arts foundation and physical fitness, he has become Jet Li's stand-in many times since then. In "Huang Feihong 1", Xu Ke saw his familiarity with Jet Li and invited Xiong Xinxin to act as a stand-in for Jet Li again. He was also appreciated by Xu Ke in the process of becoming a martial artist, and when filming of "Huang Feihong 2" began, he was given the opportunity to play the villain Jiugong Zhenren.
Whether it is as a martial artist or an actor with little supporting role, Xiong Xinxin has shown great sincerity to treat it. Once in "Tiger Out", he worked as a stand-in for seven people in one night. He is also very popular on the set with his solid martial arts skills and the strength of desperate Sanlang.
Xu Ke saw the fierceness in his body, so in the third part of the Huang Feihong series of movies, "Lion King Battle", Xiong Xinxin played the role of Ghost Foot Seven. He seized this opportunity and brought to life the lame and crooked-necked, leg-accomplished ghost foot seven. The 720-degree rotating kick he made in the play has become a silver screen classic.
In this play, he and Jet Li also have a lot of rival scenes. In a very important emotional scene, a slap plot was designed. He slapped Jet Li four times in the rain, swollen his face. Jet Li said that there was nothing wrong, but Xiong Xinxin cried guiltily after filming.
After the movie was broadcast, Xiong Xinxin added a "ghost foot seven" label, the road to acting became smoother, and he received more and more scripts. But the director he has worked with the most is Still Xu Ke, who often plays some small supporting roles in his works.
He once played the top chef Huang Rong in "Golden Jade Man Tang", but he made a big joke in the play. There is a scene in the movie about eating the nine wings of the sky, which is a real guy borrowed by director Xu Ke, and it is said that it is also the treasure of a restaurant. Xiong Xinxin improvised in it and really took a bite. It was this seemingly random bite that lost 800,000 blood.
When Xiong Xinxin was still filming Xu Ke's film "Knife", she slowly developed another technique of her own, that is, action guidance. He has since worked as a martial arts instructor for several classic films, and in 2005 he won the Best Action Design Award at the 42nd Golden Horse Awards for Seven Swords.
He became more and more famous in the circle, and later he was hired by Hollywood as an action director. Xiong Xinxin, who has worked hard in Hollywood for many years, participated in directing a series of action films such as "SwordMan Ambition" and "Strike Back King", becoming the first Asian action director in Hollywood history.
Xiong Xinxin, who has made great strides in his career, has not left his feelings behind. At the age of 33, he met Cai Jiali, one of TVB's "Galactic Seven Stars" at the time, under the introduction of a friend, and the two fell in love at first sight and married in 1996.
Cai Jiali was originally a bodybuilding lady, and after marriage, she chose to quit the entertainment circle and gave birth to a daughter for Xiong Xinxin, and the family life of a family of three was very happy.
Xiong Xinxin, 58 years old this year, has also slowly put down her footsteps in her career and enjoyed life with more time. In March this year, after not filming for a long time, he also posted photos of his dumplings on social platforms, and he was in a happy mood.
Xiong Xinxin has been a director from an unknown stand-in all the way, and the hardships may only be known to him. Now he is still worried about the current situation of martial arts films in China, and he has truly devoted his life to the martial arts film and television industry that he loves.