He once said bluntly in front of the Hong Kong media that Hong Kong actors do not have a professional, and his arrogance is also famous in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, but even so, Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau, Jackie Chan and other people must respect him, and the fourth brother Xie Xian, after slapping him angrily, is also rare to be soft, personally bowing to the door to apologize. What capital could he be so crazy? Today we will reveal the behind-the-scenes story of huang lao evil Zeng Jiang.
Born in Hong Kong in 1934, Zeng Jiang was a studio architect in his youth, and his sister Lin Cui became famous as a film artist at the age of 17 in his early years. Heroine. Once Zeng Jiang often went to visit the class, did not want to be too handsome, but was the director Tao Qin at a glance, think he is personable, is a good material to be on the screen, so invited Zeng Jiang to star in his new film "With the Forest Bird", soon after directly starring in the movie "That Is Not Sentimental", debut is the male number one, and two consecutive responses are good, it can be seen that Zeng Jiang's luck and potential are very good.
But just when everyone thought that a new star on the screen was about to rise, Zeng Jiang made an unexpected decision to quit the circle to study, and the reason for this decision is said to be because of the words of the famous director Wang Tianlin. At that time, Wang Tianlin suggested adding a late debut, because he was too handsome and the peach blossom luck was too strong, which was not conducive to career development. However, some people speculate that it is because Zeng Jiang's parents did not agree to her entering the entertainment circle that year, and then Zeng Jiang was admitted to the University of California, Berkeley, with excellent results, to study architecture, and worked as a surveyor for three years after graduation. Although architects in Hong Kong were very popular at that time, they could never forget their dreams of acting.
So in 1964, at the invitation of her brother-in-law Qin Jian, Zeng Jiang starred in the male protagonist of the movie "The Great Circus" and returned to the show business circle, which not only made Zeng Jiang's career leap forward, but also made her harvest love. The heroine of this movie is Lan Di, and the two play a couple who are happily married, and when they act, they extend the feelings in the play to the outside of the play. At that time, Zeng Jiang's career love double harvest, can be described as good luck, but in fact, his good luck in the first half of his life also ended here.
In 1965, he will once again star in the new work "Confused Female Detective" by his brother-in-law Qin Jian, but unfortunately, this box office hit the street, Zeng Jian will not only fail to catch fire, Qin Jian has been in a slump, no one is holding himself, Zeng Jiang's acting resources have plummeted, and he can only be reduced to playing some supporting roles, and has always been tepid. Zeng Jiang also tried to transform into a director, but unfortunately there was no splash.
In 1982, Zeng Jiang, who had always been depressed, joined TVB to seek a path of transformation, and this time he chose the right one. In the first year, he met the character Huang Laoevil who had achieved his life. Zeng Jiang once said that playing Huang Yaoshi, I said second, no one dared to say first, and there was a reason why he was so confident.
Jin Yong's Huang Yaoshi, nicknamed Dong Evil, is a character with three points of righteousness in the name, and three points of evil in the middle, and this is also quite similar to zeng Jiang's own personality, the yellow medicine man in the sentence is played by Zeng Jiang but does not lose his integrity, domineering but not rude, tough and tender, it is precisely because of this, it is called the most classic Yellow Medicine Master. Although the archery was later remade many times, many viewers unanimously believed that only Huang Yaoshi was there after Zeng Jiang, and there was no Yellow Old Evil. With a volume of Huang Yaoshi, Zeng Jiang ushered in the redness of his career,
In 1986, Zeng Yusen met Wu Yusen, a nobleman in his career, and Wu Yusen's several of the most classic gunfight movies have basically starred, such as the open-minded and righteous uncle Jian in "The True Colors of Heroes", the mercenary adoptive father in "All The Worlds", the policeman in "Blood Double Male", although it is the same type of role, but let him play each other, basically can not see the traces of repetition, and in 1992, there was a villain in "Police Story 3" directed by Jackie Chan, and Zeng Jiang also sat firmly in the title of the villain's old drama bone.
Across the globe
Across the globe
In 2015, the 81-year-old Zeng Jiang won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor with the movie "Eavesdropping 2", although his strength is well-known, but this is the first time he has been affirmed by the Academy Awards, so when he received the award, he was excited to tears, the award is not unwinnable, but 80 years old can still take this award, a bit excessive, so I said afterwards, I hope young people get the award, I can be selected, I have enough. Although in his career, Zeng Jiang has no regrets, in life, his personality is not pleasing, like the unruly Huang Yaoshi, and he has offended many people for this.
Eavesdropping Storm 2
Best Supporting Actor at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards
Xie Xian, who is known as the fourth brother in the jianghu people, no one in Hong Kong dares not to give him face, but not long ago, the 85-year-old rarely dressed softly, personally went to the hospital to visit his old friend Zeng Jiang, and bowed and apologized, completely unlike the style of the fourth brother. And the successful Zeng Jiang once lamented that not handling interpersonal relationships is the biggest regret in his life, others evaluated him as conceited, good teacher, strong control, his rigor of the play also made Zhou Runfa and Andy Lau feel pressure, and even with the older generation of actors to participate in a variety show conference with Xie Xian was unhappy, but also by Xie Xian angrily got up and slapped several times, shocking everyone present, are the old predecessors who are highly respected in the circle, what is the deep hatred? Need to do it in front of so many people?. What is even stranger is that the two gave two diametrically opposed explanations for this matter afterwards.
It is said that the brother-in-law Wang Yu, who was later added, once called Xie Xian to let him climb to Taiwan to see me. It wasn't until 2020 that the relationship between the two reversed. Xie Xian said in an interview that it was an impulse to do it at that time. Later, when Zeng Jiang was hospitalized in poor health, Xie Xian took the initiative to visit the hospital and bowed to Zeng Jiang and confessed his mistake. In this regard, Zeng will also ridicule, do you want to bow three times, two? The old man finally released his former suspicions, and presumably there was no regret in Zeng's heart.
On 27 April 2022, he was found dead at the age of 88 in a hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. He has acted all his life and has long become the memory of an era. I hope that the old man will go all the way, and Huang Yaoshi will always remain in the hearts of the audience.