One day there will be a day, today do not cook, tomorrow do not comb the hair, that is no life.
"The Golden Years"
[Many post-60s actors are called drama bones, and Wu Yanshu after 30s can be called drama essences]
Now the post-85 generation has become the Mesozoic generation of the film and television circle, the post-90s and even the post-95s have stood in the center of the stage, and countless post-00s and even post-05s are also frantically emerging. Now, those post-70s and post-80s actors who were once full of honors have gradually accepted the reality of middle-aged actors, while those more senior post-50s and post-60s actors have long been accustomed to playing some marginal elderly roles.
Because of enough experience and profound acting skills, those post-50s or even post-60s actors have long been called drama bones or old drama bones. So, what about wu Yanshu, an actor after the 30s?
I'm afraid it's not an exaggeration to call it a drama.
[Wu Yanshu] was born on January 1, 1938 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and is 83 years old this year. However, her honor in the film and television industry has only begun in the past 5 years.
The earliest was in 2016, with "Beijing Meets Seattle Love Letter" nominated for the 53rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards Best Supporting Actress Award; in 2017, with "Relocation", won the 31st Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress Award; later, with "Love and Affection", nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2021, Wu Yanshu starred in a Sino-Japanese co-production drama film "See You Nara Again", which was shortlisted for two international A-level film festivals in Shanghai and Tokyo, and was named the top ten Chinese films of the year at the 29th Shanghai Film Critics Association Awards.
At the just-concluded 24th Shanghai International Film Festival, Wu Yanshu participated in the premiere as the star of the ethnic minority children's film "Red Tip", showing the elegant and dignified temperament of the national grandmother.
Wu Yanshu was born in An intellectual family in Guangzhou, whose real name was Yue Sheng, and later because of the war, he followed his family all the way to the west and moved to Shanxi to settle down. Later, Wu Yanshu was admitted to the Shanxi Drama Theatre.
In 1959, the 21-year-old Wu Yanshu starred in her first film "Flowing Water Song", playing Gao Xiaoling, a water conservancy commissioner of a small power station.
After that, Wu Yanshu also participated in several TV dramas filmed in Shanxi, such as "Love of Life and Death"; most of the time Wu Yanshu worked in the Shanxi Drama Theatre until her retirement in 2003.
In 2010, after the death of Wu Yanshu's husband, she was taken to Beijing by her daughter, and the 72-year-old Wu Yanshu officially "debuted" in the film and television circle.
Therefore, before 2010, there was almost no legend of Wu Yanshu in the film and television circle.
In other words, Wu Yanshu's legend in the film and television circle began at the age of 72.
In 2010, in the drama version of "Mobile Phone", Wu Yanshu played the mother of Wu Yue (played by Yu Mingjia);
In 2012, in the public security drama "Yingpan Town Police Affairs", Wu Yanshu played the mother of Dang Yu (played by Zhang Jiayi);
In 2015, in the period drama "Young Marshal"; Wu Yanshu played Zhang Xuecheng's mother;
In 2016, in the love movie "Beijing Meets Seattle's Love Letter", he played Grandpa Lin's (played by Qin Pei) old partner Tang Xiuyi;
In 2017, in the family love movie "Love and Affection", Wu Yanshu played a rural grandmother who insisted on love all her life because of a paper marriage contract;
In 2018, in the love movie "Hello, Zhihua", Wu Yanshu played the mother of Zhou Wentao (played by Du Jiang);
In 2019, in the drama movie "The Taste of Peppercorns", Wu Yanshu played Xia Ruo (played by Li Xiaofeng) grandmother;
In 2020, in the feature film "See You Again in Nara", Wu Yanshu played Chen Huiming, a Chinese grandmother who adopted Japan's post-war orphans;
In 2020, in the emotional drama "Flowing Golden Years", Wu Yanshu played the grandmother of Jiang Nansun (played by Liu Shishi);
In 2021, in the drama movie "No Year Without Going", Wu Yanshu played the mother of Wang Ziliang (played by Wu Gang);
In 2021, in the period drama "Beautiful Days", Wu Yanshu played the mother of Qi Xiangqian (played by Wang Qianyuan).
Next, in Han Han's "Four Seas", I don't know whose mother Wu Yanshu wants to play?
In the 10 years since her debut, Wu Yanshu has almost become a mother of half of the entertainment industry, or a grandmother, a grandmother; in these 10 years, through dozens of film and television works, the audience has recognized the performance skills of a post-30s actor.
More than 40 years of drama stage performance skills, coupled with 70 or 80 years of life experience, Wu Yanshu's image of cimei and good purpose, standing in that is the drama.
In the popular period drama "Beautiful Days", Wu Yanshu plays the mother of the male protagonist Qi Xiangqian, a great woman who is reasonable and understands the righteousness.
"Good Day" tells the story of a Great North Locomotive Factory in the north from 1954 to 2021, three generations and five groups of families have continuously struggled for the new Chinese locomotive industry and created the era of China's high-speed rail.
The story begins with the male protagonist Qi Xiangqian (played by Wang Qianyuan) returning from the victory of the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, to the report to the Great North Factory, and then gradually taking root in the Great North Factory and marrying bai Ruoxue (played by Tong Lei), the goddess of white moonlight in his heart.
After getting married, Qi Xiangqian thought of going home to see his mother, so he took his newlywed wife back to his hometown with him.
By episode 13, a quarter of the time of the story, Wu Yanshu's Qi Qianqian old lady Jiang Shi only appeared, but he instantly entered the drama and quickly integrated into the story center of the Great North Factory. [In fact, they are not biological mother and son, but survivors after the Japanese army slaughtered the village, and their feelings are deeper than those of mother and son.] 】
On the first day of arriving at the Great North Factory, the old and young people of the entire staff compound gathered around to greet him, making her the center and focus of the picture.
Professional family representatives Liu Guiqin (played by Ding Jiali), Qi Xiangqian's master (played by Zhang Fengyi), Qi Xiangqian's comrade-in-arms Zhao Duofu (played by Wang Xun), neighbor who had just given birth to a child (played by Ni Hongjie), as well as the director of the Dabei Factory (played by Liu Jiaoxin) who had been in Qi Xiangqian's hometown of anti-Japanese resistance, and even Soviet experts, all came to the scene to welcome her to pay respects.
The old man steamed dozens of steamed buns early and gave them to everyone as a meet and greet gift, and everyone had it. In addition to being the hero's mother, she is also a hero who participated in the anti-Japanese resistance, and she is also a respectable old man.
She talked about the origin of these steamed buns, and the director wrapped them in handkerchiefs to keep as a souvenir, leaving everyone silent. In a fierce battle, many armed workers died on a piece of land, and these steamed buns were made of wheat planted in that field.
The play that makes everyone move and be silent, Wu Yanshu is the drama of this play.
Such a great female figure who is reasonable and understands the great righteousness, a play stands up.
The voice of Qi Qianqian's son as a first-person narrator said: "Those who have received the grace of their grandmother, why are they the only ones?"
After a dozen episodes of the story, it is this Grandma Qi, with her own righteousness and love, Enze Qi forward to the family, and countless people in the Great North Factory.
The male protagonist Qi Xiangqian is a stubborn donkey, and when his temper rises, no one can stop him, only Grandma Qi can move him. After that, Grandma Qi is the lubricant that balances Qi Xiangqian's relationship with his wife, children, and leaders, neighbors, and colleagues.
The first sentence that Qi Xiangqian's master said when he met was very accurate: There is an old man in the family, such as a treasure.
Wu Yanshu's grounded performance has made this treasure the most popular person in the Great North Factory, and has also become the audience's favorite and respected role.
In past works, Wu Yanshu presented the audience with some dignified and elegant elderly female characters, but in "Good Day", she tied up her pants, put on cloth shoes, and transformed into a rural old woman who had experienced hardships but was firm in her heart.
This contrast makes the audience shine, and as soon as she appears, it can make people feel that she has long been integrated into this role and this scene.
Wang Qianyuan after the 70s and Tong Lei after the 80s are already representatives of the acting school of the Mesozoic Generation, and Zhang Fengyi and Ding Jiali after the 50s have long been called old drama bones by the audience.
In "Good Day", Wu Yanshu, who came after the 30s, is an absolute drama.