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Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

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Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

"In the Chinese market on the mainland, it doesn't matter if you let me play a villain, everyone is Chinese, but here (abroad), sorry whether you are black or white, I can't play a villain here."

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"
Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

This sentence is what Hong Kong actor Zou Zhaolong said in an interview, although he always plays a villain in various film and television works, but this sentence is indeed very decent!

Most of us began to know Zou Zhaolong through Stephen Chow's movie "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", in which he played the villain "Chang Wei" is not only fierce and vicious, but also excellent in martial arts, and even the "master" played by Xu Jinjiang can't beat him.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

In fact, netizens who like Zou Zhaolong know that most of the roles he plays are villains, and they are all very powerful villains, in other words, as long as he appears, the audience always feels that decent roles cannot beat him, and the "sense of oppression" brought by Zou Zhaolong is obvious.

Although the villain is also an indispensable part of the film and television works, the perennial playing of the villain is also inevitable from the "spit" of the audience who is too deep into the play.

So, why does Zou Zhaolong always play the villain? Is he willing to play the villain?

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

01

Accidentally hooked up with martial arts

Zou Zhaolong was born in 1967 in an ordinary and unusual family in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Ordinary because his family is very ordinary, materially can only be regarded as food just enough to feed, clothes can just cover the body, and the unusual place is that he has a total of 12 brothers and sisters, so many people make the economic pressure of the Zou family much greater than other families.

As the saying goes, "misfortune is not a single line, blessings do not fall", the life of the Zou family is already very poor, but Zou Zhaolong's father also died when he was very young, and Zou's mother became the only pillar of the family.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Since the death of Zou Father, some rude men and women around their house have begun to say some gossip, and whenever Zou Mother hears some ugly words, she is very uncomfortable, but what can she stop as a woman, only to hide in the home silently sad.

Once when the little hooligan outside was light-hearted to Zou Mother, he was seen by Zou Zhaolong, and he wanted to rush up and talk to those little assholes for a while, but was stopped by his mother, who told him, "Don't go, you can't beat them, just wait until you grow up." ”

"Can't beat them", this sentence has a deep mark on Zou Zhaolong's heart, he feels that his mother is right, they are not only many people, but also much older than themselves, so they must find ways to enhance their strength.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Therefore, Zou Zhaolong began to practice boxing day and night, and when there was no fist cover at home, he tore the rag into a cloth strip and tied it to his fist, and there was no sandbag at home, so he put up his pillow and beat it.

Punch after punch, day after day, I didn't expect that Zou Zhaolong had practiced for several months without a professional coach.

Later, Zou Zhaolong reached the age of 6, and his brothers and sisters also grew up a lot, which meant that their expenses were greater, and although Zou Zhaolong was still young, he knew that it was not enough to make money alone on his mother.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

So he went to a carving shop to work, 3 years later Zou Zhaolong changed careers to a bakery to learn to make bread, in these years, in addition to work and rest Zou Zhaolong did not forget to practice boxing, even on the way to work he would swing his fist from time to time.

By chance, Zou Zhaolong was sent by the boss to deliver bread to the guests, and he saw a martial arts club next to the bakery, and Zou Zhaolong passed by when the instructor inside was taking their apprentice to practice martial arts, which could spoil the wrinkled Zhaolong.

I have been practicing boxing for so long, I am thinking about moves, and now there are professional teachers here, maybe you can steal to learn some moves.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Later, Zou Zhaolong would often find an opportunity to go to the outside of that martial arts house to study, others practiced inside, he practiced outside, in the summer, the weather was hot, the sun sunburned the outdoor ground like an oven, but Zou Zhaolong did not care, as long as he could learn the real skill, this bit of pain was nothing.

"Coach, there's a kid out there stealing our moves, and I've seen him several times."

One of the trainees in the martial arts raised his arrogant face and said to the coach, as if expecting the coach's praise.

Who ever thought that this coach was not a stingy person, he thought that as long as he really wanted to learn martial arts, he could learn from him, so Zou Zhaolong could naturally learn from him.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

"That kid outside, if you really want to learn martial arts, come in and learn it, just stand behind them!"

Therefore, because of an unexpected discovery of Zou Zhaolong's discovery of this martial art, and because of the unexpected discovery of the Martial Arts Academy, Zou Zhaolong and martial arts have since formed an indissoluble relationship.

02

Become a stuntman

Since having a professional instructor as a guide, Zou Zhaolong's martial arts have improved very quickly, and he has learned a lot of martial arts moves in just 3 years since he began to learn martial arts.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

After each training, other students rushed to run home, only Zou Zhaolong would stay and practice the learned moves, and the coach would also intimately leave him a door, he looked at Zou Zhaolong's serious back and whispered, "This child will become a great instrument in the future." ”

Later, for a long time, Zou Zhaolong's life was very flat, and the three-point and one-line life of home, bakery and martial arts was all he had.

Of course, gold will always shine, and Zou Zhaolong's life will also change because of his efforts, and soon his opportunity will come.

One day, a crew came to Zou Zhaolong's martial arts line to recruit a martial arts stand-in, the requirement was not to be afraid of hardship, not afraid of injury, and the basic skills were excellent, and other trainees retreated when they heard that they would be injured.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Coaches are also not good at recommending themselves, after all, if someone is really injured, he will also be responsible.

"Coach, I'll go!"

A loud voice broke the awkward atmosphere, Zou Zhaolong stood up, the crew saw that he was very happy and rushed to pull him to the crew, Zou Zhaolong quickly followed, at this time the coach gently pulled him, Zou Zhaolong pulled the coach's hand and said softly, "It's okay, I have a number in my heart." ”

Then Zou Zhaolong followed them to the shooting scene.

What is unexpected is that Zou Zhaolong, who has never been exposed to filming before, is not afraid to face the camera, and he only tried the scene once to pass the test of coming to the director.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

"1200 an hour, minor injuries do not count, serious injuries are reimbursed, can do it, can not do it to leave."

Another person in the crew told Zou Zhaolong about the salary level and related matters, and Zou Zhaolong thought in his heart, "Good guy, I only make 9,000 pieces of bread for a month, and this hour is 1,200, and I have to agree quickly." ”

So Zou Zhaolong began his martial arts stand-in career, and as he filmed for longer, more and more crews wanted to find him to shoot, and more and more wages were given.

Every time Zou Zhaolong got the salary, he would run home for the first time to hand it over to his mother, and Zou Zhaolong's mother looked at her son's gray-headed face and was very distressed, while Zou Zhaolong smiled and said: "You can make so much money by wrestling a few times, it's okay." ”

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

03

"Success is also often mighty, defeat is also often mighty"

In the blink of an eye, Zou Zhaolong has been a martial arts stand-in for more than 5 years, although he has filmed many scenes, he is a small role, and even has not even had the opportunity to show his face in many plays.

However, good things will be more glorious after the grinding of time, and when Zou Zhaolong was 18 years old, he met a noble man in life - Hong Jinbao.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

At that time, Zou Zhaolong played a small role in "Full Rebound", and he maintained his usual style of daring to fight when filming, which was just seen by Hong Jinbao.

"Call that stand-in and I'll have something to ask him."

Hong Jinbao pointed to the assistant next to him and pointed to Zou Zhaolong.

Because Hong Jinbao was originally a person who practiced martial arts, perhaps the hero felt sorry for each other, after the two talked for a while, Hong Jinbao immediately decided to take Zou Zhaolong as an apprentice, and invited him to Hong Kong to develop.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

After hearing Hong Jinbao's words, Zou Zhaolong was very excited, and he immediately decided to follow Hong Jinbao to develop, and Zou Zhaolong immediately went to Hong Kong after the filming of "Full Rebound".

This time, with the help of big people, he felt that he would succeed.

When Zou Zhaolong came to Hong Kong, Hong Jinbao arranged a lot of resources for him, and Zou Zhaolong, who could only play some small roles in the play before, suddenly became the protagonist.

A series of movies such as "Elf Change" and "Street of Fire" have been released one after another, objectively speaking, Zou Zhaolong's acting skills have no problems, but the sales of these movies are very dismal, which makes Hong Jinbao also feel headaches.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Fortunately, Hong Jinbao really looked up to Zou Zhaolong, and he decided to arrange for Zou Zhaolong to play the role of "Song Qingshu" in "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slaughter record in the Heavens", and this role was the nemesis of the role played by Jet Li.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

At that time, Jet Li was already famous all over the world, let Zou Zhaolong play with him, and with Jet Li's heat, he should also be on fire.

After the film was broadcast, the drama was on fire, Jet Li was even more popular, and the only one who did not have fire was Zou Zhaolong.

Hong Jinbao was very surprised, what is going on here? He called Zou Zhaolong to his home to ask about the situation.

The two of them ate and talked, and when they talked about not getting on fire as they wished, Zou Zhaolong felt that he couldn't stand Hong Jinbao, so he slapped his face on the table casually.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

This shot was terrible Hong Jinbao pat woke up, he looked at Zou Zhaolong's angry look, this guy's villain face was alive and free, ah, he had been letting him play a decent guy before.

After finding the "cause", it is natural to find the right solution, and Hong Jinbao immediately began to choose the right role for Zou Zhaolong.

At that time, Zhou Xingchi was preparing to shoot the movie "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", and Hong Jinbao immediately became interested in the role of "Chang Wei" after seeing the script of this movie.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

After he and Zhou Xingchi agreed, he handed over the script to Zou Zhaolong, who knew that Zou Zhaolong actually did not want to play this role.

"I don't want to play this role, I'm not that kind of person."

Zou Zhaolong said indignantly.

"You're an actor, and where there's a distinction between high and low, you have to play." After Hong Jinbao finished speaking, he turned and left.

Zou Zhaolong stood in the same place, he repeatedly thought about Hong Jinbao's words, and finally, he decided.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

The film was shot very successfully, Zou Zhaolong's angry face and his hands made Chang Wei vivid, so after this movie, Zou Zhaolong quickly became popular.

Even he himself did not expect that the villain role he had once scorned would bring so much glory to him.

He walks on the street, there will be many people to recognize him, the sentence "I came in and saw Chang Wei in Laifu" is still popular in the Internet, as for the film, now Zou Zhaolong can have as many as he wants.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

However, Zou Zhaolong was not happy at all, he felt that it was a disgraceful thing for him to become popular because of playing the villain Chang Wei, and at this time, he had already forgotten Hong Jinbao's words.

When asked about the role of "Chang Wei", he even said that "it is not himself who plays Chang Wei, but one of his twin brothers." ”

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Obviously, Zou Zhaolong is still very resistant to playing the role of villain, although playing a villain can make him gain fame and profit, but in his heart, he still longs to play a positive character.

But the film and television industry needs to be profitable after all, and in the eyes of investors, if all the villains in the movie can make more money, then the decency can even be canceled.

Therefore, Zou Zhaolong's "positive role dream" cannot be realized in the short term, and for a period of time after that, he plays the villain role again and again, "disgusting" himself again and again, and survives in the contradiction between ideal and reality every day.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Zou Zhaolong did not know when he would be able to play a decent role in a dignified manner, and he had been looking forward to it until that day came.

04

Actors do not distinguish between positive and negative – out of the inner shackles

In 2000, Yuan Heping invited Zou Zhaolong to participate in the movie "The Matrix" and also served as the martial arts instructor of the crew.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

You know, at that time, the European and American film circles rarely invited Chinese actors to participate in filming, so this opportunity was something that many Chinese actors could not ask for.

Zou Zhaolong was also very happy after receiving the invitation of "The Matrix", and he was also worried, because many previous European and American film and television works have deliberately scandalized the Chinese, so Zou Zhaolong is worried that he will also encounter this situation.

He thought left and right, and finally decided, "It is no problem to invite me to participate in the exercise and do martial arts instruction, but I can't play the villain", which is Zou Zhaolong's request to the director of "The Matrix".

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

As for the reason, according to his words, the positive image that the Chinese spent many years overseas cannot be destroyed because of him, so as long as it is an overseas film and television work, he will not play a villain.

Unexpectedly, the always arrogant foreigner readily agreed to Zou Zhaolong's request, so Zou Zhaolong embarked on his "international journey" and became the only Chinese actor in "The Matrix".

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

After the film was released, it was very successful, and Zou Zhaolong also promoted the influence of Chinese martial arts in the world once again.

Because of filming this movie, Zou Zhaolong not only went out of the country, he also had greater benefits.

Zou Zhaolong once said in a show: "Because of acting in this movie, there will be copyright dividends, so even if he leaves later, his descendants can also receive copyright dividends." ”

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

This is the legendary "temporary success, all the world benefits".

After Zou Zhaolong returned to China after filming the film, many of his friends in the industry came to celebrate for him, including his mentor Hong Jinbao.

At the dinner party, Hong Jinbao looked at his beloved apprentice with satisfaction and said a few words of congratulations, Zou Zhaolong was silent for a while, he said: "I finally understand what you said to me before, actors do not distinguish between decent villains, but I think we must be ourselves." ”

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Hong Jinbao was even happier after hearing his words, he couldn't even think of any words of praise, but just patted Zou Zhaolong's shoulder hard and nodded.

Zou Zhaolong finally figured it out, if playing a villain can make the audience feel better and be a better actor, then why not?

05

epilogue

In 2007, Zou Zhaolong collaborated with Ye Weixin and Zhen Zidan on a "Fuse", of course, this time Zou Zhaolong still played the villain.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Later, there are movies such as "The King of Kung Fu" and "The Jungle Diary of a Predator", and he has played the villain without exception.

For the audience, because there is such a powerful villain as Zou Zhaolong, it makes the results of the decent seem more difficult to come by, and the viewing of film and television works is stronger.

For Zou Zhaolong himself, playing a villain may be the script arranged by heaven for him, and since he has accepted this script, he must act well no matter what, because this is the most basic professional quality as an actor.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Recently, Zou Zhaolong came with his work "Evil to The Elimination", although it is a big network, but the reputation is unexpectedly quite good.

Sure enough, having "Chang Wei" as the villain is one of the quality guarantees of action movies.

Zou Zhaolong: Punching Jet Li, kicking Zhen Zidan, the 54-year-old finally reconciled with "Chang Wei"

Which of his films do you like better?

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