In June 2011, it was the second time that Wang Xuexi and his wife Sun Changning had confronted the court, and this time he finally got his wish and divorced his wife who had been married for 40 years.
Before that, when they first confronted Bo Gongtang, Wang Xuexi had said:
"We have been married for 40 years, both parties are busy with their own careers, feelings are gradually indifferent, it seems that 40 years of marriage, but in fact, it has long existed in name"
At the time of the divorce, Wang Xuexi was already 65 years old, and many people at that time wondered why a person who was running fast to seven was still thinking about divorce, and could there still be a third party at this age?
Sure enough, not long after the divorce, Wang Xuexi sent out a photo suspected of holding hands with Fan Bingbing, and rumors about them flew all over the place for a while.
What kind of person is Wang Xuexi, who once said that "I am more important than reputation than life", why would he divorce him at the expense of the court, but in his later years he felt ashamed of his son?
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In 1969, after retiring from the army, Wang Xuexi came to work as a turning turner in a factory in Beijing, when he turned 23 when he received a call from a relative saying that he had introduced him to an object.
Wang Xuexi hurriedly threw away the work at hand, ran home and saw the girl sitting on the chair for the first time, and the two of them blushed a little after looking at each other.
Relatives hurriedly grabbed the words and said:
"Wang Xuexi is not small, I see that you two are about the same age, try to communicate for a while, and then set a good day to get married."
At that time, marriage was simple, and some people didn't even know what the other party looked like before they got married, but Wang Xuexi's family was still relatively well-off when she was a child, and she still paid great attention to the marriage of her children.
The woman's family is average, but now she is also a literary girl.
With both families satisfied, Wang Xuexi quickly established a romantic relationship with Sun Changning.
After only two years of dating, Wang Xuexi and Sun Changning entered the palace of marriage, when Wang Xuexi was still working in the machinery factory, and Sun Changning had just been arranged to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At that time, they worked about the same number of hours, and they were close, and they could enjoy the world of two people when they had time.
In 1972, after a year of marriage, Sun Changning became pregnant with a child, and Wang Xuexi, who felt that he was about to become a father, was very excited, and in addition to going to work, the rest of the time was spent with his wife.
In the second year, the child was born smoothly and named Wang Daqing.
The arrival of the child obviously brought a lot of joy to this small family, but at the same time, the pressure and responsibility on Wang Xuexi's body were heavier, and if he continued to work as a worker in the machinery factory, I am afraid that it would be difficult to take on the heavy responsibility of taking care of his wife and children.
In fact, before that, Wang Xuexi had already had a dream of becoming an actor, and when he first joined the army, he was in order to be able to enter the Bayi Factory to act in movies about war.
When the child just turned 5 years old, Wang Xuexi was successfully admitted to the Air Politics Repertory Theater and became a classmate with Li Xuejian, Pu Cunxin and others, and Sun Changning had also become a cultural counselor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The development of the career has forced the two to often separate the two places, and the children live with their grandparents and grandparents.
At that time, Wang Xuexi, Li Xuejian and others in the Air Politics Repertory Theater were still just unknown small actors, and occasionally when there was a vacant supporting role or a dragon set, they had the opportunity to play.
However, this is already very satisfying for Wang Xuexi, because he has always wanted to engage in art, and he has finally eaten this bowl of rice.
However, this career of acting in supporting roles and running dragon sets, Wang Xuexi lasted for about 6 years.
In the past few years, not only Wang Xuexi, but also Li Xuejian and Pu Cunxin have also followed the dragon set, and sometimes they will pull the curtain, when the three people came to the stage and remembered not a single line.
Until one day, Wang Xuexi received a play with a line, just a line "Mr. Zhao is deeply involved in water and fire..."
Although there is only a simple line, it is indeed a major breakthrough for the three people, to which Li Xuejian also joked:
"We finally have someone to speak to."
Soon after, Li Xuejian became popular for starring in "Longing", and Pu Cunxin also had his own career.
And Wang Xuexi still lives a dragon set life, and after becoming popular, Li Xuejian came back to tell him:
"Don't be discouraged, I'm optimistic about you"
This gave Wang Xuexi great encouragement, so he devoted himself more to the study of acting.
However, it is precisely because of the small roles played for many years that Wang Xuexi has less opportunities to become popular, but has more understanding of life.
He once said:
"Playing small roles requires more specialization, whether it is playing a policeman or a thief, or a passerby who sets up a stall, you need to know what life is like in these roles, so that you can play to the extreme."
Until one time, a role made him difficult.
At that time, the repertory theater was preparing to shoot the drama "Nine·One Three", naming Wang Xuexi as an eighty-year-old uncle who picked up the rags, when he was in his early 30s, who could play the state of eighty-something.
But the role was already arranged, he had to throw in, in order to make the role more vivid, he went out every day before dawn, specifically to the garbage heap to wait for those passers-by who came to pick up the garbage, and when he returned, he began to imitate their movements.
Over time, Wang Xuexi has a deeper understanding of the characters in the play.
On the day of filming, Wang Xuexi spoke an old Beijing dialect, walking hunched over and trembling, even the director was surprised, this person is really only in his thirties?
With this role, Wang Xuexi finally got rid of the dragon set career.
In 1984, Wang Xuexi filmed the movies "Yellow Land" and "Forced To Take Off", when Li Xuejian said after watching it:
"In Wang Xuexi's place, there are no small roles, he can play every role to the extreme"
Although he has officially entered the film world, Wang Xuexi has not become popular because of this.
Acting is an essential skill for an actor, but an actor with acting skills also needs an opportunity to become popular.
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In terms of acting skills, Wang Xuexi can be described as a real ten years of grinding a sword, many actors become popular by virtue of a certain play, and Wang Xuexi is different, his popularity is the accumulation of many years.
If you have to say which play he started to become popular, then Wang Xuexi's answer must be "Mei Lanfang".
At the end of 2008, Wang Xuexi received an invitation from the crew of "Mei Lanfang" to play the opponent of "Mei Lanfang" in the early years, "Thirteen Yan", in fact, when she first received this play, Wang Xuexi was also muttering in her heart.
He had never studied Peking Opera, but he wanted to act to the best of every role, and he did not think about perfunctory.
To this end, Wang Xuexi specifically found Mr. Li Shu to study, and worshiped him as a teacher, from standing waist, walking posture, lifting the arm, slashing a large knife, etc., one move at a time, and finally Wang Xuexi understood the integrity, arrogance and inner fragility of Peking Opera.
Incorporating these details into the lines, Wang Xuexi presented the audience with a perfect "thirteen swallows", when he was 62 years old, and he experienced the taste of popularity at the age of retirement of others.
With the role of "Thirteen Yan" in "Mei Lanfang", Wang Xuexi won the "Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor".
At that time, director Chen Kexin also said:
"This year, Wang Xuexi won the Best Supporting Actor Award, and next year's "October Siege" has a chance to win the Golden Horse Film Emperor"
At that time, Wang Xuexi had already received an invitation to participate in the role of "Li Yutang" in "October Siege", but in the ten years before Wang Xuexi, the role that the director had been looking for was Zeng Zhiwei.
Because this play is immersed in sadness from beginning to end, if Zeng Zhiwei is allowed to play Li Yutang, he may be able to "adjust" it, but until the director saw Wang Xuexi's acting skills in "Mei Lanfang", he took a fancy to Wang Xuexi.
Thinking about it, if you add a comedy part, will it not be too serious, so it is close to filming to change Wang Xuexi to play "Li Yutang".
But the director and Wang Xuexi are not familiar with each other, in order to let him participate in the performance, but also specially pulled his friend Huang Jianxin to find him, at that time Wang Xuexi was very surprised and moved, he said:
"It's all the actors who go to see the crew, but they send such an important role for a small actor, I don't have a reason to accept it."
Sure enough, Wang Xuexi won the Best Actor Award for this role.
In fact, this time filming, Wang Xuexi is not more of a chance to play with many movie emperors, nor is he happy to get a movie emperor, more is self-blame, remembering that when his child was a child, I was so harsh on him, and now I have some regrets.
Over the years, Wang Xuexi has won many awards large and small, but he can carry them clearly, he said:
"You live in reality, winning the prize does not necessarily mean that you are Douglas, you have to go back and pull the car, you win the prize outside, come back you have to drink your stick noodle porridge"
At this time, Wang Xuexi was respected by the audience as an "old drama bone", which is a respect for the older generation of actors, and I also hope that you can play every role well in the future.
It is not difficult to let go of arrogance in the face of adversity, but it is rare to be able to remain humble while standing on a high place.
Therefore, in ordinary life, Wang Xuexi does not feel that he is a big star, nor does he put up a big star shelf at all, as if he is an ordinary person, he will also buy vegetables and cook by himself.
But in life, he has a lot of troubles and loneliness, which also come from his wife who is far away.
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In 2010, Wang Xuexi filed divorce proceedings with his wife for the first time, but this time he did not get what he wanted.
At this time, they have been married for 39 years, why have they come over for so many years, And Wang Xuexi will suddenly file for divorce?
At that time, Wang Xuexi's wife, Sun Changning, as a counselor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mostly worked abroad, from 1998 to 2006, Sun Changning has been working abroad, and the two have maintained a separate life after returning to China.
So Wang Xuexi said:
"This thing (divorce) is not a year or two, many of my friends know"
In fact, there is another important reason why Wang Xuexi insists on divorce, that is, his wife's work has brought him a lot of pressure, which is also reflected in the process of his usual filming, there can be no kiss scenes, and when interviewing, he cannot mention the family, for fear of affecting her.
Why did Wang Xuexi delay until he was almost seventy years old before divorcing, this reason came from the child Wang Daqing.
Before the two divorced, Wang Daqing had been studying abroad, and Wang Xuexi did not want to let his children be affected because of his divorce, and waited until he grew up and understood his parents before deciding to divorce.
So it wasn't until 2010, when Wang Daqing returned from abroad, that Wang Xuexi filed for divorce, at which time Wang Xuexi said:
"Although we have been married for 40 years, our marriage has long since died in name only"
Often live in two places, several years can not see each other once, such a marriage and what is the significance of existence, two people married is from the individual to the family, work together to take care of the family better and better is the most important.
You take care of the family, I go out to earn money, and the division of labor is clear.
But they all have their own careers, the family is almost every day is an empty room, every time Wang Xuexi returns home, his wife and children are abroad, facing the empty room, decades later, he has long had the idea of divorce.
It was not until 2011 that Wang Xuexi filed divorce proceedings again, and the two finally ended their 40-year married life.
But soon after, Wang Xuexi and Fan Bingbing's scandal came out, in fact, these are all fictitious, but at that time, the two were colleagues, so Wang Xuexi also said angrily:
"We are a studio, and we do have more contact with each other, but you can't spoil me like this."
In 2012, Wang Xuexi's son Wang Daqing and daughter-in-law Fan Xia announced that they already had a three-year-old child, and Wang Xuexi had become a grandfather at this time.
Now that Wang Xuexi is 76 years old and has been divorced from Sun Changning for 11 years, Wang Xuexi said:
"I have nothing in my life, only a career, and the only one who feels guilty is my son Wang Daqing."
Wang Xuexi is a very strict person, of course, is also a very strict father, once Wang Daqing had a work showing childhood, Wang Xuexi read it after reading thousands of thoughts gushed out of his heart.
Wang Daqing has been very restrained until now, Wang Xuexi said:
"It's all my fault"
Wang Daqing also revealed that when he was a child, he did not get along well with his father, and he often taught him, and his discipline style was like treating me as a "warrior".
But regarding the divorce of his parents, Wang Daqing has always supported his father.
Wang Daqing got along with him like a buddy, usually playing chess together, nagging at home, of course, he could also be like a friend, but Wang Daqing has always maintained a respectful attitude towards his father.
I have to say that Wang Xuexi is indeed a good actor "old drama bone" in acting, and to this day he has not given up the profession of actor, from his film and television works, it is difficult to see that he is already an old man of nearly 80 years old, and even can still show perfect acting skills.
But in family and marriage, he failed to be perfect.