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Netizens who often watch TV dramas must be very familiar with Hong Jiantao, and the class leader Fat Hong he played in "The Story of the Cooking Class" is still impressive.
But in fact, few people know that this rounded actor also debuted as a child star in his early years.
He was once a strong contender for the role of Pan Dongzi in Shining Red Star.
He also almost became the actor of Jia Baoyu in the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Although he has missed some good roles many times, Hong Jiantao has never given up acting.
Because of acting, he was seriously ill and bedridden for a year.
But because he was an actor, he gained a beautiful love.
In front of the public, Hong Jiantao always looks cute, but he may subvert the imagination of many people in life.
01
One day in mid-November 1965, Hong Jiantao was born in an ordinary family in Beijing.
There were three children in the family, many people with little income, and at that time, their lives were really poor.
Many years have passed, Hong Jiantao is still impressed by the experience of picking up coal cores as a child, sometimes there is no coal at home for heating, and the three children will go to their grandmother's house to get a few pieces to come back to the emergency.
In the summer, in order to eat a bite of watermelon, Father Hong often waited next to the watermelon cart, and when people accidentally broke one, they rushed to grab it home for the children at a lower price.
Peanuts and melon seeds, which are very common today, were also extremely difficult for Hong Jiantao to taste at that time.
Despite this, Hong Jiantao's father is also a literary and art lover, and he not only likes it himself, but also intends to cultivate his children's interest in this aspect.
After observing that his father thought that Hong Jiantao was one of the three children with more literary and artistic talent, he deliberately took him to do some training similar to basic skills.
For example, standing outside in the winter to blow snow to exercise the breath is the most common practice that Hong Jiantao did when he was a child, until he was in elementary school, and his father found a professional acting teacher for him.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Zhifei, who has recently caught fire with "Sweeping Black Storm", is actually small with Hong Jiantao.
When Hong Jiantao fished fish and insects in the river and put them in a matchbox and sold them to Wang Zhifei for 2 cents, the two still talk about it from time to time.
In general, although Hong Jiantao's childhood was relatively scarce, his father did not relax his education at all, and his life was full and happy, and his life was not bitter.
02
Children who grow up in Beijing will always have more opportunities to emerge no matter what their family situation is.
In 1972, the classic film "Shining Red Star" was undergoing intense casting, and after some selection, Zhu Xinyun and Hong Jiantao became the last two candidates.
At that time, Hong Jiantao was only 7 years old and his appearance was very outstanding. But the fly in the ointment is that experiencing this scene for the first time makes him a little timid.
Therefore, some people suggested that Hong Jiantao's personality was not suitable for the role of Pan Dongzi, and he regretted that he had failed.
It wasn't until 3 years later, when Li Jun, the director of "Shining Red Star", needed a small actor when preparing a movie called "The Great Wall of the South China Sea", which reminded him of the outstanding Image of Hong Jiantao.
The stars of "The Great Wall of the South China Sea" are Liu Xiaoqing and Wang Xingang, which is not only Hong Jiantao's screen debut, but also Liu Xiaoqing's debut.
Although Hong Jiantao's role in the film is not too much, once the film is released, he still has some fame and has begun to be photographed by more directors.
In those years, Hong Jiantao successively starred in many films such as "Dawn" and "Song of Lei Feng".
After the time entered the 80s, Hong Jiantao seemed to have ushered in the spring of his career.
During this period, he participated in the movie "Xizhao Street", which can be described as a bright star in the present, among which Li Ding, Song Xiaoying, Chen Peisi, and Chi Zhiqiang are all familiar actors.
Hong Jiantao's appearance in this film not only gained fame, but also got a relatively generous salary, that is, from that time on, he began to use the money he earned to improve the conditions of his family.
The first washing machine at home, brand new bicycles and other valuables are basically purchased by him one after another.
Being able to exchange his own efforts for a good life for his family is a thing that makes Hong Jiantao very satisfied in his heart.
03
In 1984, Hong Jiantao starred in a film called "Please Leave the Letter".
In this film, he plays a pair of brothers and sisters with Shen Danping, who has become famous, and the two stage a deep love affair between sisters and brothers in the play, and they also get along very well outside the play.
In addition to inviting Shen Danping and another lead actor to go to the restaurant, he often cooks himself to improve their food.
At that time, Shen Danping was upset about a relationship, while Hong Jiantao's side confirmed a relationship when the film was finished.
The heroine of the relationship, Ran Zhijuan, is 2 years older than Hong Jiantao and was also an actor at that time.
Once a director planned to let Ran Zhijuan and Hong Jiantao play, so he took her to Hong Jiantao's home to see if the two people were in proportion to each other.
Unexpectedly, Hong Jiantao happened to be absent, and the two had to return in vain, and later when he came back and heard about it, he took the initiative to find Ran Zhijuan.
Many years later, when Hong Jiantao recalled the first meeting between the two, he joked in a mocking tone that his first impression of Ran Zhijuan was that his skin was really dark, but he was later subdued by this black girl.
They have been in contact since the first meeting, and when Hong Jiantao filmed "Please Leave the Letter", Ran Zhijuan also came to visit the class.
At that time, although they were much closer, they were not yet lovers.
And their matchmaker is actually 5 yuan in the snow.
At that time, the crew just happened to be finished, and Hong Jiantao organized another dinner in order to celebrate, in addition to Shen Danping and another starring actor, he also brought Ran Zhijuan and another friend.
Hong Jiantao brought 30 yuan, which was originally used to pay for the rich and surplus. But he did not expect that two people came uninvited at the table, and the money he prepared was not very rich.
Just when he was very upset in his heart and thinking of countermeasures in his mind, Ran Zhijuan quietly took out 5 yuan and handed it to Hong Jiantao's hand.
It was these 5 yuan that made Hong Jiantao identify Ran Zhijuan, and he felt that this girl was kind and considerate, which was really too likable.
04
After falling in love, Hong Jiantao became very active.
One winter, he wanted to surprise the other party, so he called Ran Zhijuan's home address in advance and bought a fruit basket gift to visit.
I didn't expect to inquire how to know where he said, and after tossing and turning for most of the day, he found the police station.
Under the reminder of others, Hong Jiantao understood that he had heard what Ran Zhijuan's grandfather said about Yu'ershan Road as one, two or three roads.
Hong Jiantao, who was not lightly frozen, cried and laughed, and the surprise turned into a ridiculous experience.
The mid-1980s was a moment of double harvest of love in Hong Jiantao's career.
Although when he competed with Ouyang Fenqiang for the role of Jia Baoyu, he regretted that he was defeated because of a scar on his forehead that could not be covered.
But compared to the joy of being admitted to 3 art schools at the same time, that failure was nothing.
If he had chosen the Beijing Film Academy at that time, he would probably have become a classmate of Zhang Hanyu.
However, because of the military complex in his heart and the distribution problem of Beiying after graduation, Hong Jiantao finally chose the Air Politics Repertory Theatre.
When he got the exclusive clothes and bedding for the soldiers, Hong Jiantao was very excited, he put the new clothes on his body, and walked all the way home to share this joy with his parents.
In the early 1990s, Hong Jiantao was admitted to the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, where he and Gao Yalin and Li Bin became classmates and roommates, and actors such as Niu Li and Sun Tao were also classmates.
Confirmed by many of Hong Jiantao's classmates, he can be regarded as a prominent figure in the class, because he was both a child actor and opened his own advertising agency at that time.
The advertisements produced by their company have even been put on CCTV, and Hong Jiantao has also organized a model team, and he often personally leads the team out to the catwalk.
Because of his wealth and generous hands, Hong Jiantao has made many like-minded friends, and the campus life is extremely colorful.
After graduation, he returned to the Air Politics Repertory Theatre, and no one would have thought that he would almost die because of a performance.
05
It was around 1995, and the repertory theater rehearsed a big play called "Desert Soul", in which Hong Jiantao played the main role.
In order to show the spectacular scene of the desert, the crew brought a lot of real fine sand to spread on the stage.
But the headache is that the fine sand on the stage is not golden yellow, but a black patch.
In order to achieve a satisfactory effect, the crew used a large amount of paint and latex to dye the fine sand yellow, and the harmful substances emitted by it made Hong Jiantao miserable.
He went from an uncomfortable throat and cough to a complete inability to catch his breath.
The doctor told him to leave the environment as soon as possible, but in order to persist in the performance, he chose to use drugs to relieve the discomfort symptoms.
After a few days of hard playing, Hong Jiantao directly fainted on the stage.
Since then, Hong Jiantao's physical condition has been not good, and he has been bedridden at home for more than a year.
Friends found various remedies for him, and Zhou Xiaobin, who played Da Zhou in "The Story of the Cooking Class", had just entered the air government not long ago, and he was also worried about Hong Jiantao's condition.
Later, Zhou Xiaobin's mother got a folk remedy and sent it all the way from the northeast to Beijing, where it was handled by the mother of air political actor Hu Yajie and sent to Hong Jiantao's family.
At that time, Hong Jiantao and Ran Zhijuan were already married and had children, and she was responsible for wrapping Zhou Xiaobin's home remedies into dumplings for her husband to eat.
I don't know if this home remedy played a role, but after that, Hong Jiantao did gradually improve, but left the problem of allergic asthma and the shape of the body after taking the drug.
And it wasn't until years later that he learned all that his friends and family had done for him.
At that moment, he was touched by the care of his relatives and friends.
06
In 2001, Hong Jiantao starred in "The Story of the Cooking Class", ushering in the heyday of his career.
The so-called people are not much, not false at all.
In 2007, a photo of Hong Jiantao kissing a mysterious woman after a party was exposed.
Since then, it has been reported that because he had an affair with a married woman, Ran Zhijuan chose to divorce her and remarry.
When some media called Hong Jiantao's staff, the other party said that the photo incident and divorce rumors were purely fictitious.
After that, Hong Jiantao also began to talk about how deep the feelings between himself and his wife were on the show.
He revealed that he was happy to surprise each other in his marriage, and described the couple as two trees growing together, which had long since become a community that could not be separated.
At the same time, Hong Jiantao also admitted that he was a person with many problems, and only his wife could tolerate him.
Hong Jiantao is really not modest when he says this, as a husband, he does have many points that ordinary women can't stand.
For example, too generous to shoot, too generous to people. Every time a friend opens his mouth to borrow money, he will help, and will not consider whether the other party can pay it back.
Once the nanny who had served their family for 10 years wanted to borrow 100,000 yuan, and Hong Jiantao also chose to help without saying a word.
A few years later, when the nanny returned the money, it actually moved Hong Jiantao badly.
In addition, Hong Jiantao once took many female friends back to the dormitory to rest.
For example, the more well-known actors Yan Ni or Chen Jin have had the experience of resting in his home.
It is not difficult to see that Hong Jiantao is a righteous person, and it is excellent to be friends with such a person. But to form a family with him, you need a very tolerant mentality.
07
In private, Hong Jiantao is also a person who especially likes to be nosy.
While riding the bus, he would get into a fight by reminding a man to give up his seat to the woman holding the child.
They will also walk over when they see someone littering with mineral water bottles and throw the water bottles on the ground back into the other person's car.
Seeing that the security guards in the community were wearing thin cotton clothes in winter, he would take Ran Zhijuan to spend thousands of yuan to buy more than a dozen thick clothes to distribute.
From these countless small things, we can feel that Hong Jiantao is indeed a brave and kind person.
However, brave people also have weaknesses, and although Hong Jiantao is strong, he is very afraid of black and lightning.
Many of his partners were woken up in the middle of the night during filming and accompanied him to the bathroom.
Once Gao Yalin went to a performance with him and lived in a villa, the whole villa had three floors and six rooms, but Hong Jiantao had to live in the same room with Gao Yalin, which was really ridiculous.
If you don't look at the photos of Hong Jiantao when he was young, it is difficult for anyone to believe that his appearance was so outstanding when he was young.
If you don't know him under the stage, it is difficult for anyone to believe that the characteristics of righteousness, timidity, and love of romance will be concentrated on one person.
And this is precisely Hong Jiantao, who lives like you and me.
In order to make the family live a good life and work hard, there have been brilliant and twists and turns in the career, and the partner has gone through the wind and rain, and the friends have really paid regardless of gains and losses.
Now that Hong Jiantao is 55 years old, the classic roles he has created have become the public's memories, and his happy life continues.