Mention the name Xiong Xinxin, surely many people will feel strange: Who is this person?
But when it comes to "Ghost Foot Seven", is it familiar to everyone?
Xiong Xinxin first appeared on the screen as a full actor, in the 1993 film "Huang Feihong's Lion King Battle", directed by Xu Ke, he played Huang Feihong's land "Ghost Foot Seven".
It is also because of this role that he became famous in one battle.
Prior to that, he had worked as a martial arts stand-in for Hong Kong martial arts actors such as Chow Yun Fat, Yuan Biao, Jet Li and other Hong Kong martial arts actors for nearly a decade, and was also the royal martial arts substitute of Jet Li.
Xiong Xinxin, who was born in xiwu, has been in the show business circle for more than 20 years, and with her own persistence and efforts, she has finally successfully transformed into a "director". He also jumped into the international stage, serving as an action director in several Hollywood films.
His life is more rugged than ordinary people, but if you understand his life experience, you will understand that his success is definitely not accidental.
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Born into an ordinary family in Liuzhou, Guangxi, Xiong Xinxin began practicing martial arts at the age of 12 and entered the martial arts team of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region at the age of 14.
During his days in the martial arts team, he studied hard every day and day for 365 days a year, and won the championship in martial arts competitions many times.
In 1983, at the age of 21, Xiong Xinxin retired from the military and returned to Liuzhou as a martial arts instructor.
At that time, he could not imagine that he would one day enter Hollywood as a director.
At that time, the "Shaolin Temple" series of films once became popular all over the country, and Jet Li also jumped from a martial arts champion to a well-known star.
It happened that at that time, Hong Kong director Liu Jialiang was filming the movie "North and South Shaolin" in Beijing.
During filming, the lead actor Jet Li was suddenly injured. So Liu Jialiang found Xiong Xinxin, who was a martial arts instructor at the time, and invited him to complete the martial arts action in the film in place of Jet Li.
This is the 22-year-old Xiong Xinxin's first contact with the film industry, although he is only a stuntman, he still takes every action arranged by the director very seriously, and thus left a deep impression on Liu Jialiang.
In 1987, it can be said that it was a turning point in Xiong Xinxin's fate.
This year, Liu Jialiang shot the action film "Tiger Out of the Tiger" in Hong Kong, starring Chow Yun Fat and Lee Won-ba, because there were many difficult martial arts action actors who could not complete it.
Therefore, Liu Jialiang, who was full of worries, thought of Xiong Xinxin and called him to Hong Kong.
Liu Jialiang is the originator of the Hong Kong martial arts master, who learned Hong Quan from his father since childhood, and is a descendant of the Southern School of Kung Fu Hong Jia Quan.
Later, he followed his father into the film industry, and was the first martial arts instructor to successfully transform into a director, and his Liu Jiaban had been in the film industry for nearly thirty years at that time, and had seen the top martial arts masters in Hong Kong.
Under the leadership of director Liu Jialiang, Xiong Xinxin officially entered the Hong Kong show business circle and became an action stuntman.
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But Xiong Xinxin has never slackened her work because she is a martial artist, and she is also the hardest and most dedicated one on the set.
Therefore, Liu Jialiang recommended him to director Xu Ke.
At that time, Xu Ke was preparing to shoot the "Huang Feihong" series of films, and the lead actor Jet Li could not carry out difficult fighting actions for a long time because of old injuries. As a result, Xiong Xinxin was hired as Jet Li's stand-in to join Xu Ke's crew.
In the "Huang Feihong" series of films, Xiong Xinxin not only appeared as a stand-in for Jet Li, director Xu Ke also arranged some small supporting roles for him, of course, some dragon set roles.
Until 1993, in the movie "Huang Feihong's Lion King Battle", Xu Ke designed him the role of "Ghost Foot Seven", which was the first time Xiong Xinxin had his own name on the screen and partnered with jet Li, a martial arts actor at the time.
He especially cherished this opportunity, even if he was injured, he never left a performance behind.
Since then, he has played "Ghost Foot Seven" six times in a row, and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Action Design for this role.
The role of "Ghost Foot Seven" played by him has not been surpassed so far.
Therefore, Xiong Xinxin's acting career has become more and more smooth, and she has later performed in supporting roles in films such as "Broken Knife Man", "Man Han Quan Xi", and "JingwuMen".
In 1997, Xu Ke entered Hollywood and filmed his first film, "Strike Back against the King".
The 35-year-old Xiong Xinxin made her first time as an action director, and thus began her own work in front of and behind the scenes of the film and television industry.
Later, director Xu Ke filmed the movie "Seven Swords" and once again invited Xiong Xinxin as an action director.
Once born and matured twice, Xiong Xinxin's path of martial arts became more and more frustrated and courageous.
In 2009, Xiong Xinxin directed the action film "Invincible" for the first time as a director, because she was born in martial arts, so there were a large number of difficult continuous fighting actions in the film.
The most shocking thing is that the whole film has no stand-ins, no special effects, no Weiya, and all the actors have staged physical combat and real guns.
After the film was finished, the actors were all bruised and bruised.
With the first, there is a second.
In 2013, Xiong Xinxin co-directed the film "Brilliant Years" with Zeng Zhiwei as a director.
Although this film is not a masterpiece, it is called by the industry as writing the history of Hong Kong kung fu films.
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In recent years, the kung fu film market has become increasingly sluggish, and Xiong Xinxin still maintains at least one work per year to show to the audience.
He not only starred in two "Shaolin" series of films in a row, but also served as the action director of the TV series "Great Song Palace Words".
He starred in the documentary "Dragon and Tiger Martial Master", which was released on the mainland last month.
Since the "Ghost Foot Seven" became famous in the first world war, the seventh brother has become Xiong Xinxin's exclusive label.
It can be said that for so many years, everyone only knows "Ghost Foot Seven" and does not know Xiong Xinxin.
But that didn't stop him from living his own happy life.
Xiong Xinxin's wife, cai Jiali, is 3 years younger than him, and was once a well-known Hua Dan of Hong Kong TVB, one of the "Seven Stars of the Galaxy".
The two entered the marriage hall in 1996 and had a daughter, and later Cai Jiali gradually faded out of the entertainment circle, and taught her husband and children at home, rarely appearing in front of the public.
The two have been married for 25 years and are still in love.
Xiong Xinxin often posted a picture of sharing afternoon tea with his wife on Weibo, full of love.
Xiong Xinxin has been in the industry for decades, and in the eyes of her peers, she is a very hard worker, whether it is before or behind the scenes, she has used her own energy.
Now 59 years old, although he is getting older, he still has a deep fascination with martial arts. In your spare time, you don't forget to stretch your muscles, and your favorite thing to do every day is exercise.
I once rode a bicycle from Hong Kong to Beijing alone, passing through Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Henan and Hebei, walking a total of 3650 kilometers.
Just like he said himself: don't run for a day, get old immediately, don't practice for a day, and be defile.
On his public platform, the most seen is fitness and sports.
True to that sentence: life goes on, movement does not stop.
Such a Xiong Xinxin, what do you think?