In the audience's perception, there seem to be only two kinds of actors in the show business:
One is the actor who is red through half the sky, and the various films are soft, and the popularity among the masses is very high.
The other is an unknown eighteen-line small actor, it is difficult to maintain food and clothing, and there are almost no fans.
In fact, there is a third kind of actor in the show business circle, this kind of actor is a combination of the first two, obviously the acting skills are passed, the film is continuous, but it is inexplicably unfired.
Audiences can remember the roles they played, but they can't remember their names.
As a "drama idiot", Li Naiwen is undoubtedly this type of actor, debuted for 18 years, he has played supporting roles for 18 years, and he has always been in an embarrassing situation where the drama celebrities are not popular.
This is the helplessness of fate, and it is also Li Naiwen's personal choice.
In his own words: "Being able to call out my name but not remembering my role is the biggest frustration of being an actor."
Such a simple sentence, I don't know how many entertainment circles have empty traffic and no works of small fresh meat.
In 1974, Li Naiwen was born in Ningxia to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, his father was a famous local Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and his mother was an actor in the Tianjin Drama Theatre.
His father was very good at medicine, but it did not affect Li Naiwen in the slightest.
Li Naiwen likes to be with his mother since he was a child, and when he was young, he liked to watch his mother play a variety of different roles on stage.
Under the influence of his mother, Li Naiwen gradually fell in love with acting and had the dream of becoming an actor.
At the age of 19, Li Naiwen applied for the Central Academy of Drama.
The exam was divided into three sessions, and the first two were successfully passed by Li Naiwen.
However, in the third exam, the chief examiner, Gao Jingwen, felt that he lacked aura and said that if he wanted to enroll, he must be a self-funded student.
Wanting to enroll as a self-funded student means that Li Naiwen needs to pay a tuition fee of 5,000 yuan per year, while other students are only 700 yuan.
Thinking that his brother was getting married, his parents' wages could not be turned around at all, and the high tuition fees made Li Naiwen retreat.
Fortunately, my mother knew about this matter and said: I will give you a way to find a way for money, and I have only one request for you, that is, when you graduate, let the teacher feel that it is wrong to let you enroll as a self-funded student.
With his mother's expectations and 5,000 yuan of tuition, Li Naiwen rushed into the Central Academy of Drama and began his own path as an actor.
After entering the Chinese opera, Li Naiwen became classmates with Liu Mintao, Zhu Yuanyuan, Xin Baiqing and Wang Qianyuan, and this class later became a famous "drama bone production class".
The original classmates casually took one out, and now they are all famous old drama bones.
Many years later, Li Naiwen once had a drink with Gao Jingwen, and at that banquet, Gao Jingwen tightly held Li Naiwen's hand and said that he regretted letting him do his own work.
In the face of the belated apology, Li Naiwen's heart has long been relieved, and even to some extent, he is very grateful to the teacher for being harsh on him and allowing him to learn something.
It was only the inferiority of the original enrollment that followed Li Naiwen for most of his life.
When he first entered the school, Li Naiwen not only ranked at the bottom of the class, but also the only self-funded student in the class.
This made Li Naiwen talk to the others, and they all couldn't look up.
This "inferiority" continues to this day, and to this day, Li Naiwen still does not like to take photos and photographs, which is one of the reasons why he has been tepid for many years since his debut.
In his sophomore year, on the recommendation of his teacher, Li Naiwen participated in the TV series "Home with Three Gorges" and played an important supporting role in it.
This is Li Naiwen's first official contact with filming, and the whole process is very nervous.
Originally, this time of filming, Li Naiwen just came over to accumulate experience, but he did not expect that the director actually gave 5,000 yuan of remuneration after the killing!
You know, at that time, Li Naiwen's monthly living expenses were only 300 yuan.
With this money, Li Naiwen felt very imposing when he walked, afraid that others would not know that he had developed.
As the saying goes: happiness is born of sorrow, and this sentence has been fulfilled in Li Naiwen.
Just after getting off the bus, as soon as he touched his pocket, Li Naiwen suddenly became a bitter melon face, because the money was lost.
Not long after announcing the good news with his family, Li Naiwen did not want his parents to worry, so he could only swallow the bitter fruit alone.
In the second semester, Li Naiwen did not ask his parents for money to do living expenses, saying that he had the money earned from filming, and continued to punch the fat man in the face.
Having to eat at school also inspired Li Naiwen to practice his cooking skills
In order to eat a full meal, Li Naiwen began to chat with his classmates, and when it came to dinner, as long as someone stood up and said, "Eh? It's noon, let's eat together. ”
Li Naiwen followed up with a thick skin, and when he was a student, the boys were all good-looking, and they relied on this method to last for 2 weeks.
Later, after the economy improved slightly, Li Naiwen found another way to fill his stomach.
At that time, there was a cheap self-service small hot pot next to the school, Li Naiwen and his classmate Tang Xu often went hungry for a few days to eat small hot pot together, and the plate after plate frightened the boss, and it did not take long for the store to increase the price by 10 yuan.
After graduation, Li Naiwen did not plunge into the big circle of show business like other students, but was willing to sit on the cold bench and start from a drama actor, and as a result, this sitting was a full seven years.
In these seven years, Li Naiwen played almost all supporting roles, until he met the first noble man in his life, Meng Jinghui, he changed from a supporting role to a protagonist.
Director Meng Jinghui once publicly praised Li Naiwen: "People who do not know how to play the main role may think that it is difficult to play the main role and it is easy to play a supporting role, but it is not common for a golden male second like Li Naiwen." ”
One day, Li Naiwen and Wu Yue and other actors were playing cards in the theater.
Halfway through the fight, Meng Jinghui ran in from the outside furiously, shouting while running: It's not good, something big has happened.
The crowd was startled and hurriedly got up and ran outside to check on the situation, only to see a long line outside the theater, all of whom were coming to see the play.
After questioning afterwards, the crowd learned that it was their small theater that was on fire, and the audience felt that their crew was good, so they would come to line up to watch the play.
It is precisely because of this incident that Li Naiwen's acting career is completely on the right track.
In 2004, in the TV series "Move Something, Don't Move Feelings", Li Naiwen played the internet writer Xiao Li Meidao.
As soon as the TV series was broadcast, many viewers remembered the name of this character: "To marry someone is to marry someone like Mei Dao, not why, just to have fun." ”
The audience did not remember Li Naiwen, but the famous director Feng Xiaogang remembered, felt that he had great potential for development, and directly signed Li Naiwen to his studio.
Since then, Li Naiwen has continued to have resources, and he has also used his strength to catch these resources, and has won many awards large and small.
In fact, for the matter of fame, Li Naiwen still looks very open, he only wants to be a pure actor, does not want to covet any fame and fortune, and playing each role well is the most important thing.
It may be precisely because of this idea that Li Naiwen is a little famous in the circle, and his acting skills are also passed, but there is no way to catch fire.
The career is tepid, but Li Naiwen's feelings have attracted much attention.
Now 48 years old, he has four scandals, but it is difficult to distinguish between true and false scandals, which also leads to a mystery about his marital status.
Li Naiwen's first scandal is related to the goddess Wang Likun.
At that time, the two were filming "Marriage Nest", there were a lot of opponent scenes, and it just so happened that the two lived in the same neighborhood in real life, so the scandal broke out.
The second scandal is related to Zuo Xiaoqing, who has had a long-term cooperative relationship with Li Naiwen.
However, judging from the public view of mate selection by this North Film School Flower, the two really can't see any possibility.
The third scandal is related to actress Huang Man.
The two met because of the play "Distant Happiness", in which they played a loving couple.
It was a very normal thing, but I don't know why, and the gossip about the fake drama of the two people began to circulate.
Because this kind of thing is originally a wind and shadow, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Li Naiwen's last scandal is related to yan Bingyan, the "queen of shadows".
The two did not come together in the end, which really made many viewers feel uneasy.
In 2005, Li Naiwen and Yan Bingyan co-starred in the film and television drama "The Teeth of Love", in which the two had a large number of intimate scenes.
For these intimate scenes, Li Naiwen, who was obviously new to contact, was a bit unable to let go, and always messed up when filming kiss scenes.
A lot of times, Yan Bingyan, who has high requirements for filming, is also angry: Li Naiwen, is it like this when you kiss your girlfriend? Don't open your mouth?
Under the lesson of Yan Bingyan, Li Naiwen successfully passed this shooting and offered his first kiss on the screen.
The relationship between the two also developed by leaps and bounds in the process of filming, and they spent more and more time together.
Later, Li Naiwen and Yan Bingyan successively cooperated in many rival plays, plus both of them were elderly unmarried young people, from friends to fans, they were competing to match the two.
Originally, according to normal development, the audience thought that the two would eventually come together.
As a result, no matter how anxious the outsiders are, Li Naiwen and Yan Bingyan maintain a state of friendship above and lovers.
Later, in an interview, Li Naiwen also said that the relationship between himself and Yan Bingyan is pure friendship, and the two are eternal iron brothers, and it is impossible to be together.
When Li Naiwen said this, many viewers felt uneasy, because everyone was really optimistic about the relationship between him and Yan Bingyan.
In the interview, Li Naiwen also opened his own view of mate selection: "I like strong women, she has a strong personality, and I can tolerate her." ”
Although it is difficult to distinguish between true and false gossip, Li Naiwen's legitimate girlfriend has not yet appeared.
But the audience still generously offered their blessings, and for them, as long as Li Naiwen himself can live happily and smoothly, there will be no problem.
Today, Li Naiwen has been debuting for 18 years, during which he has played one drama after another, and the roles are more wonderful than one.
Among film and television works such as "Assembling Number", "Borrowing a Gun", "I Am Not a Medicine God", "Great Qin Fu", "On the Cliff" and so on, Li Naiwen has contributed very outstanding acting skills.
He used his acting skills to create many "golden supporting roles", but still maintained a tepid state.
However, Li Naiwen has never had any dissatisfaction with this, for him, as long as he can continue to act, it does not matter whether he can catch fire.
Compared with the pursuit of fame and fortune, Li Naiwen prefers this calm and indifferent life now.
He can squeeze the subway, go to the market to buy vegetables, or he can sit generously on the road and skewer with his friends, not afraid of being recognized.
This kind of life like ordinary people is really too good for Li Naiwen.