Lee is probably the most underrated of the Mesozoic actors, though he doesn't care.
If you list the acting schools of the Mesozoic generation, the audience will say a string of names like a family.
Zhang Yi, Yu Hewei, Duan Yihong, Wang Jingchun, Liao Fan, Wang Qianyuan, Fu Dalong, Lei Jiayin, Guo Jingfei, Xin Baiqing and so on.
If the age is more relaxed and the requirements for appearance are higher, then Liu Yijun, Wang Yang, Nie Yuan, Deng Chao, Wang Kai, Hu Ge, Zhu Yawen and so on are also on the list.
But no matter how it is arranged, few people will mention Li Naiwen's name.
"Being able to call out my name but not remembering my role is the biggest frustration of being an actor."
He said so.
This man, tall, smiled with a kind of free and a little bit of a prickly smell on his face.
But from childhood to adulthood, he has never done anything outrageous, and even entered the entertainment industry, he is walking step by step.
"I have always been taking every path of my life step by step, and after I went to college, I began to act in dramas, and I made movies and televisions when I acted.
Since then, he has shot nearly 100 works.
His changeable temperament and highly malleable appearance allow him to navigate the role between good and evil.
These characters, big or small, are plump and three-dimensional, and he really makes the audience forget him and remember the characters.
His achievements, can afford a sentence of "color and art, a thousand people and a thousand faces", is a well-deserved golden supporting role.
But on the other hand, under his seemingly conformist life, he has his own absolute persistence.
In the entertainment industry, he is against the tide of fame and fortune, and his low profile is outrageous.
He only pays for the role, abandons any hype, and for him being an actor is just "a career worth sticking to for a lifetime." ”
And the source of all this is only because of love.
01、
Li Naiwen was born in 1974 to a chinese opera actress.
In a sense, his acting is a kind of inheritance.
Li Naiwen grew up in Xinjiang, and when he was 4 years old, his mother was assigned to Tianjin Renyi, and he followed his mother back to Tianjin.
Offstage, watching his mother sparkle on the stage, he was full of longing for the stage.
When he grew up, he naturally applied for the Chinese opera.
Before the three attempts, he was confident in himself.
As early as the age of 5, he tried the play with his mother.
At a young age, he was unremarkable offstage, but as soon as he got on stage, his spirit came at once.
Don't forget the words, don't be nervous, the rhythm of the performance and the adults are meticulous, and there is no drama at all.
Such a performance made the theater overjoyed.
Later, whenever a young actor is needed, the theater will find him without saying a word.
After that, he performed four theater plays "Her", "Fiery Heart", "Jiqing Youyu" and "Tianjin Battle" in a row.
With such an experience, still his mother's alma mater, he is full of confidence in his future.
However, after successfully passing the second test, he encountered Waterloo in the third test.
In the face of his performance, the teacher gave three words lightly: "No aura."
In this way, the "acting skills" that he has always been proud of have been denied.
If he wants to continue his studies, there is only one way, at his own expense.
Tuition fees are 7 times higher than public expense.
When his mother asked him if he wanted to read it, he thought in his heart, but he hesitated at the thought that it was a huge tuition fee at that time.
At the critical moment, her mother took out the family's savings of 5,000 yuan for many years and helped him pay the tuition.
My mother is very good, she said to me: Son, don't feel bad in your heart, just be good, my request to you is that after these four years, let the teacher feel that it is wrong to let you pay for it
With his mother's advice, he walked into the play.
In the first year, he impressed the teacher with all-round honors.
At that time, gao Jingwen, the teacher of the three tests, said many years later that looking back and letting Li Naiwen pay for himself, he was really a little sorry for him.
The sophomore teacher recommended the group "Home with Three Gorges" for him.
After the performance, he earned the first pot of gold in his life, 5,000 yuan.
He rushed to the school excitedly with the money, only to get out of the car and find that the money had been stolen.
But it was enough for him to appreciate his worth.
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After the sophomore year, Li Naiwen's drama road opened.
In the Chinese opera, as long as the brothers want to shoot big dramas, many will come to him.
There is only one reason, his play has a texture.
But he has a characteristic, but all the plays that come to him to perform have not been successfully performed in the end.
He is also nicknamed the "Drama Killer".
Chen Jianbin ambitiously sought him to star in and directed a drama, because the concept was too avant-garde, it was directly rejected by the teacher.
When filming the graduation drama, three teachers 2 hospitalized one has an emergency,
The graduation drama is also gone.
Before graduating, he interned in the theater, and originally had a big play "My Nineteen Ninety-Seven".
But in the end, it failed because of various problems.
Wang Qianyuan, who is familiar with him, has also encountered many setbacks.
Because of the problem of appearance, he has always developed badly and ran for six years.
At its lowest point, he even gave up acting completely and opened a small restaurant to deliver box lunches to teachers and students of Chinese opera.
At that time, his box lunch was very famous, and he was also famous in the Chinese opera.
But after all, he is a student who graduated from Chinese opera, and seeing that these students have achieved something, he can only sell box lunches, and Wang Qianyuan's heart is somewhat uncomfortable.
However, even when Wang Qianyuan was at his lowest point and most inferior, he thought about it, and Li Naiwen, who could hardly make a scene, felt comforted in his heart.
In fact, not only Wang Qianyuan, but also actors such as Duan Yihong ZhangYi, who is now widely praised, have gone through a long wait and tempering before becoming famous.
For them, these setbacks and neglected experiences before becoming famous are all time to look back and sigh, but when they experience, no one knows whether they broke out of the cocoon or fell silent.
The same is true for Lee Nai-wen.
The difference is that he is content to be silent.
After graduating from college, he went to the drama theater and became a drama actor.
He likes the stage, and although he is paid little and is not famous for practicing, he just likes and is only willing to rehearse dramas.
After running the dragon set for a long time, Meng Jinghui began to prepare "Rhinoceros in Love".
This is an experimental drama, and for many actors who are already famous, the drama has become a curry position that can improve themselves, even if it does not have a big impact.
But for an actor like Lee Nai-wen, who has not yet become famous, it is risky to use his best years to polish in this experimental drama with an unknown future.
But he just liked it.
The birth of this play was not smooth, Meng Jinghui had no financial support, and could only arrive at the family's house.
In the play, Li Naiwen plays the role of "toothbrush".
A salesman who owes a lot of debt but is eloquent.
In order to play this role well, he almost reached the point of going crazy.
Every day when I go to work and commute, I always think about the role.
No matter when or where, the mouth is always muttering lines.
For a long time, people who didn't know him felt that he was mentally abnormal.
People who were less familiar didn't even dare to approach him.
"Rhinoceros in Love" unexpectedly caught fire.
Wu Yue Guo Tao, Hao Lei Duan Yihong, etc., most of the main actors of this play have been impressed by this acting skill.
However, as the first version of Li Naiwen, who played the "toothbrush", although he was also the main role, he did not become popular with this play.
But he has always enjoyed it, as he himself said: "At that time, the special axis was to act in drama. ”
Such a drama, after arduous rehearsals, a few hours of acting, he got more than 100 money.
After a month, it is difficult to maintain a basic life.
During this period, some directors came to him with the script, but he only had 2 words to push: "rehearsal".
He recommended these directors to his classmates, and these scripts have also been popular later, but he has never felt regrets.
In this way, he has been working on the stage for 7 years.
03
In 2004, Li Naiwen began to dabble in film and television.
This is not because he does not love drama anymore, but because the stage of drama has declined.
And, he really has to think about his livelihood.
His first work was "Don't Move Your Feelings", in which he played "Little Li Mei Dao".
In the play, his character stutters a bit.
Filming has always been serious, he has always entered the role.
After the scene was finished, he got a far richer salary than the drama and stuttered.
After that, he embarked on the path of a golden supporting role.
"The Gathering Number", "I Am Not a Medicine God", "Great Qin Fu", "On the Cliff", in these works more or less have his figure.
Some of these characters have only a few lines, and some are very late.
But in Li Naiwen's hands, these roles are glorious.
The famous director Meng Jinghui once commented on the role of the male second in the crew.
He said that the work of the second man is to lift the palanquin for the protagonist, without the person who lifts the palanquin, the palanquin cannot get up, but the person who carries the role must be brilliant, and he cannot rob the protagonist's play, not only can not steal the scene but also make the protagonist comfortable to stand out.
It's a hard thing to do.
He said that it is easy for men two and golden men two for gold.
"If you slowly explore a seemingly ordinary character, you will actually find that there are many unknown places in the core of each character, or that the heart is different from what everyone thinks, and the process of digging deeper into the character makes me feel very enjoyable."
He's willing to spend a lot of time on the role, which makes him look a bit "shaft".
In addition to acting, he does not hype, does not advertise, and is low-key like people in the entertainment industry.
But in life, he did judge two people.
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Li Naiwen has a nickname "Golden Retriever among Men".
That is to say, in the schedule of life, unless it is a special bottom-line thing, he can make it tolerant.
His own most common words are "almost done."
Good temper is as docile as a golden retriever.
But it is such a handsome man, super good temper, and successful career that his emotional life has always been a mystery
What many people don't know is that he is gentle and atmospheric, tolerant and humorous, not a straight man who does not understand the style, and the woman is very popular.
When he was studying in Chinese opera, he was a "trio" with Zhu Yuanyuan and Tang Xu.
Wherever they went, the three of them were inseparable, even if Zhu Yuanyuan later fell in love with Xin Baiqing, it did not affect a few of them to go out alone.
In school rehearsals, the girls in the same class did not zip the zipper, and everyone could naturally ask him to pull it up, even if there were other female classmates next to him.
But his feelings have always been a mystery, at least in the era of paparazzi development, in the era of netizens with golden eyes, no one has pointed out exactly what his girlfriend or family situation is.
But there are not many scandals around him, but they are all confusing, which adds a bit of mystery to him.
The most unreliable is that he is the son-in-law of actor Zhang Shaohua.
He once starred as a mother and son with Zhang Shaohua in a play, and after the scene was filmed, he continued this title.
The result was misunderstood.
In 2011, he co-starred with Wang Likun in "Marriage Nest".
At the time of publicity, Li Naiwen could not come to the scene because of something, so he recorded a small film in advance and sent it over.
At the scene, the reporter found that in the small film, his interaction with Wang Likun was somewhat sweet.
He asked about the relationship between their families.
Wang Likun, who was grinning widely, said amazingly, "We live together." ”
Although in the end Wang Likun clarified, they just lived in a small area.
But the relationship between the two is very good, and when Wang Likun is too busy to decorate, he will entrust Li Naiwen to help keep an eye on it.
For Li Naiwen, who can help his female classmates zipper without waves in college, it should also be a big deal to help a friend of the crew stare at the decoration.
But during that time, the pair of actors who were 11 years apart still spread rumors.
But after the play was over, it was gone.
In addition, he also had a gossip with Zuo Xiaoqing.
But the most surprising thing is his scandal with Yan Bingyan.
The two met in 2005 to collaborate on the filming of "Teeth of Love".
When filming love scenes, Li Naiwen sometimes did not open enough.
Yan Bingyan, who is meticulous about filming, will guide and even accuse him.
In Yan Bingyan's "teaching", their cooperation in the play is becoming more and more tacit.
Li Naiwen's first kiss on the screen was also given to Yan Bingyan in this play.
Outside the play, the figure of the two shopping and eating together is also frequently seen.
Both are elderly young people, and there is a tacit understanding in filming, and many people feel that they are a natural thing to be together.
The two men, who felt good, had a very close relationship and then worked together again.
The scale is not small, but the two get along more and more naturally.
Yan Bingyan is a person with a very strong personality, and the general works and books do not act at all, especially those who do not cross the drama and do not roll the drama.
When the director of "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart" looked at Yan Bingyan, she was in the crew, and the book could not be handed over.
In the end, through Li Naiwen, Yan Bingyan, who was extremely principled, read the book.
And this drama also directly made Yan Bingyan a god.
But the two are good, but the relationship has never taken a step forward.
The only time there was a hint was on Guo Degang's show.
Guo Degang said that he and Yan Bingyan were good brothers.
Li Naiwen blurted out: "Then, I can't be your younger sister."
In a word, it seems to be frank.
He has also said in the past that he likes strong and assertive women.
It seemed that all kinds of things pointed to Yan Bingyan.
But unfortunately, Yan Bingyan said: "We are brothers."
This is probably also the most difficult place for everyone to be at peace, obviously the two people who are so matched, going around for decades, have been accompanied by each other, but they are still alone.
Maybe there will always be regrets in life, and imperfection is the truth of life.
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Now Li Naiwen is still tepid.
But it still didn't matter to him.
Acting is a profession that I think is very ordinary but also very passionate. What has not changed over the years is that I have not hesitated to be firm in my career and have always stuck to the actor industry. ”
He knows this profession very well.
No matter what the future holds, no matter what the process is, acting is a profession he will stick to all his life.
If so, what if it is not red?
Those labors paid for the role, after performing their own feelings, even if only they know, for him, it is enough.
Hopefully he will be better in the future.