"Playing a character should give it soul, that's a good performance."
In an interview, Zhang Qiuge, a 66-year-old old drama bone, sighed like this.
Zhang Qiuge was born in a family with a strong literary atmosphere, and his father was the "Grassland Song King" Na Risong,
The broad voice sings countless popular songs, and his mother is the excellent dancer Wu Xiuqing.
Under the influence of his family, he has liked literature and art since he was a child, and after being admitted to the Shanghai Film Academy, he won well-known domestic awards all the way.
Who would have thought that this famous actor, who is now well-known in the Chinese film industry
But there was a miserable childhood life,
This experience affected Zhang Qiuge's entire life,
It has shaped his will, which is as tough as steel in adulthood,
But it also caused a gap between him and his mother that he could not cross for forty years...
01 Childhood without love becomes a shadow
One cold winter in the 60s, the sky in Hulunbuir was just dark.
In front of an ordinary house, there stood a skinny little boy.
The little boy clutched the 5-cent ticket tightly in his hand, and his little face was frozen red.
He is the famous actor who later wrote a strong mark in the Chinese film industry - Zhang Qiuge.
The winter here is extremely cold, and the wind blows on the face like a knife.
Last night his mother pulled him aside: "Son, as the eldest in the family,
Should help share some housework, here is 5 cents,
You go to the market tomorrow morning to buy some cabbage and garlic seedlings. ”
So early the next morning, the whole family hadn't gotten up.
The young Zhang Qiuge had already stepped into the cold wind.
Zhang Qiuge took a photo with his mother when he was a child
The vegetable market was crowded, and Zhang Qiuge queued up until more than two o'clock in the afternoon to buy vegetables.
In the winter of Inner Mongolia, it is more than minus 40 degrees, and when Zhang Qiuge bought vegetables,
The dishes are frozen hard, like ice,
He was afraid of freezing the vegetables, so he stuffed them all into his little cotton jacket.
At this time, he was cold and hungry, his legs and feet were unconscious, and he walked forward step by step with difficulty.
Zhang Qiuge's home is far from the vegetable market, and there is a bridge in between.
When crossing the bridge, he was not careful, a cabbage fell, and then the remaining change also fell.
At this time, Zhang Qiuge suddenly panicked, because he was afraid of being punished by his mother, he even wanted to jump off the bridge now.
Back home, Zhang Qiuge really ushered in a severe beating.
"Tell you to lose money, call you to lose vegetables, such a little thing can't be done,
How did I give birth to such a lifeless thing as you! His mother took a long bamboo board and slapped it in the palm of his hand.
He clenched his teeth and didn't say a word, and from time to time he suddenly shook in pain, and the tears in his eyes would not fall.
This night, Zhang Qiuge hid in the bed, crying heartbreakingly.
Secretly vowed to grow up quickly and stay away from this warm-free family.
Later, due to the large number of children in the family, his parents could not take care of him, and Zhang Qiuge was sent to his grandparents' house.
Years of not living with their parents have led to their relationship becoming even closer,
Zhang Qiuge's mother does not treat each child unfairly, because he is the eldest in the family,
Even if it was a bun, it was caught by Zhang Qiuge, and it was not left for his younger siblings,
His mother would also hit him with chopsticks.
02 Those who work hard will not be disappointed
This sad past made Zhang Qiuge frantically want to escape from his family.
In 1974, just after graduating from high school, Zhang Qiuge resolutely left his hometown despite his parents' obstruction.
He went to the Inner Mongolia Repertory Theater to become a famous drama actor.
Two years later, he came to Harbin to become a literary and artistic soldier in the Fire and Art Troupe.
Getting up early every day and being greedy for darkness, and having to perform hundreds of times a year in various units across the country, is very hard.
Even so, Zhang Qiuge still maintains a high enthusiasm for performance and never slackens.
No one knows that in his heart, he has a small dream: to be admitted to the acting department of Shanghai Theater Academy.
At that time, the Shanghai Theater Academy gathered heroes and was a paradise for many performing arts students.
But the enrollment system is strict, and the performance department only accepts 30 people a year, all of which did not make Zhang Qiuge choose to give up.
Even if he rehearsed and performed late into the night every day, Zhang Qiuge still studied the script over and over again under the dim candlelight,
Carefully pondering the psychology of the characters, seeing the emotional part, he couldn't help but read it out loud.
And so it went on day after day for four years.
In 1980, Zhang Qiuge was successfully admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy and successfully began his acting career.
In the four years of the college, Zhang Qiuge listened carefully to the lectures and studied every day, and was a veritable good student.
Four years later, he graduated with honors and was assigned to the China Youth Art Theater.
In 1990, he played the bully Xiaohuahu in the character biography "Martial God Taidou", which first attracted attention,
The entertainment industry began to notice such a young actor who acted brilliantly.
Zhang Qiuge was nicknamed "Drama Madman", and he has an unattainable attachment to acting,
When filming "Xi Shi" in 1994, in order to better present the humiliation suffered by Gou Jian,
He proposed that the porridge could be poured straight on the ground and the rats could crawl around on the ground,
Lick the porridge yourself piece by piece.
Director Yang Jie firmly objected, saying: "It is right to pursue real results, but it is not good for your physical and mental health."
Not to mention your acting skills are not bad, I believe you are fully capable of playing this role well. ”
Zhang Qiuge smiled: "Every time an actor plays a role, he must treat himself as the role itself, not as a performance." Thank you Director Yang for your recognition, but I think that only by truly experiencing the humiliation suffered by Gou Jian, the Yue King I played has a soul. ”
Can't help Zhang Qiuge's repeated insistence, the director finally agreed.
When director Yang Jie saw Zhang Qiuge in costume lying on the ground through the monitor, licking the porridge one by one,
As if through the smoke and dust of history, she saw the real King Yue, and she didn't feel tears.
God always favors those who work hard.
In 1998, Zhang Qiuge won the 5th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award "One Degree Mei".
When Zhang Qiuge's career first appeared, he ushered in his first marriage,
However, his unhappy childhood made him less able to deal with intimate relationships,
Plus it was a blind date and the first wife did not have much deep affection,
It didn't take long for the marriage to end in a noisy end.
During that time, Zhang Qiuge was physically and mentally exhausted, and he felt that he was destined to spend the second half of his life alone.
03 Love at first glance rejoices
But people are not as good as heaven, and the flower of love always blooms quietly when there is no hope.
In 1999, at a friend's reception banquet, comrade-in-arms Hu Jing introduced a girl from Mudanjiang to Zhang Qiuge.
Wang Xiaomei is the deputy head of the drama troupe, beautiful and talented.
Zhang Qiuge didn't feel much for her at first, until a few glasses of wine fell into her stomach.
Slightly drunk, he unconsciously peeked at the lively and generous girl opposite frequently.
After the reception banquet, Zhang Qiuge proposed that everyone find a KTV to sing and dance together, and everyone gladly agreed.
When the atmosphere was enthusiastic, someone came over and invited Wang Xiaomei to dance, and this time Zhang Qiuge was like sitting on pins and needles,
After Wang Xiaomei finished dancing with others, he pulled the male friend outside and said: Can you stop dancing with Wang Xiaomei?
My friend smiled and said, "Don't you have a crush on that girl?"
He was a little embarrassed: it's not that the eight characters haven't been skimmed yet.
Zhang Qiuge was born in the grassland, and the vastness and emptiness of the grassland shaped his character of being straightforward and daring to love and hate.
He immediately invited Wang Xiaomei to dance with him.
The music sounded, the dance steps faltered, and he seemed to inadvertently approach Wang Xiaomei.
The young girl remained unmoved on the surface, but her heart was already pounding.
In the misty light, he looked at Wang Xiaomei's beautiful face and couldn't help but say: "
You are my girlfriend from today. ”
Wang Xiaomei paused: "You haven't drunk too much." ”
Zhang Qiuge is very stubborn: "I didn't drink much, I was serious." ”
The next day, he said to director Li Wenqi before filming: "I have to finish filming early today, I want to go to Mudanjiang." ”
The director asked him suspiciously, and Zhang Qiuge was very sneering: "I have love." ”
In the afternoon, Zhang Qiuge drove to Mudanjiang to pick up Wang Xiaomei, and the two chatted in the café until the evening.
But in fact, it is more appropriate to say that Zhang Qiuge talked for six or seven hours alone.
Most of the time, Wang Xiaomei didn't say a word, just nodded lightly or expressed agreement.
When night fell, when the lights came on, Zhang Qiuge realized that the time was not early, and his heart was crossed, and he boldly said a shocking sentence: "Wang Xiaomei, I want to marry you." ”
After speaking, he quickly lowered his head and rubbed his fingers uneasily, afraid that Wang Xiaomei would say half the word "no".
Unexpectedly, the girl opposite smiled, laughed heartily, and said, "I'll marry you." ”
04 Life is firewood, rice, oil and salt
Hearing Wang Xiaomei say this, Zhang Qiuge almost jumped up with joy,
He immediately called the personnel office of the unit: "Please issue me a marriage certificate." ”
The head of the personnel office was surprised and asked, "Haven't you finished filming yet?" ”
Zhang Qiuge laughed: "I got married while filming, killing two birds with one stone, without delay." ”
In this way, the two, who had just known each other for 9 days, quickly received a marriage certificate.
Marriage is not as stormy as love, but full of fluff, which requires husband and wife to constantly tolerate and run-in.
After marriage, although Zhang Qiuge and Wang Xiaomei loved each other deeply, they also indispensably produced many contradictions.
Zhang Qiuge is an absolute perfectionist, serious and strict to the extreme about everything,
Acting is like that, life is the same.
Wang Xiaomei is a little more open-minded about things, and sometimes she doesn't care so much about the details, and she will make some small mistakes when she is indispensable.
Every now and then, Zhang Qiuge would always be a little angry and couldn't help but accuse and correct.
Wang Xiaomei often feels very wronged, but Zhang Qiuge is only angry for 3 minutes,
Three minutes later, Wang Xiaomei was still sulking in the room, and Zhang Qiuge hurriedly ran to coax his wife.
Zhang Qiuge has a humorous and bold humor, many friends, and he and his father-in-law also get along harmoniously.
Once he casually joked with his father-in-law: "Dad, you see that I am so good to you, you have never given me a gift, this is yours." ”
It's just a joke, who knows that the old man really went back and seriously thought about it for a night,
In the morning, I got up and said to him very seriously: Qiu Ge, I thought about what you said all night, I didn't give you anything,
But I have already given you my Xiaomei.
At this moment, Zhang Qiuge's heart was shocked, and he thought: I must take good care of Xiaomei, ten or twenty years, forever...
05 Do not abandon in the face of sudden difficulties
However, there are unexpected storms in the sky, and people have bad luck.
A few years later, one winter, Wang Xiaomei often felt back pain and went to the hospital for examination.
The doctor found that Wang Xiaomei had a 9 cm tumor in her waist, although it was benign, but because the position was not good, it was still necessary to do surgery, and the risk of surgery was very large, and if there was a slight mistake, Wang Xiaomei would fall into lifelong disability.
Wang Xiaomei sat alone in a seat in the hospital corridor, and the more she thought about it, the more desperate she became, and she couldn't help covering her face and crying.
At that time, Zhang Qiuge was still filming in the crew, and when he heard about it, he hurriedly took leave from his busy schedule to go to the hospital,
Seeing his wife crying so sadly, he was in a colic mood, took out a piece of facial paper from his body and handed it over.
Wang Xiaomei took it, wiped her red and swollen eyes, and asked, "Why are you here?" ”
Zhang Qiuge quipped: "If I don't come to my family again, my lady will want to flood the Jinshan Temple." ”
She smiled embarrassedly, and she sighed: "If I fail the operation and become paralyzed, I will divorce you." ”
Zhang Qiuge sighed a few times: "What nonsense." ”
A few days later, the operation was a great success, but Wang Xiaomei, who had just finished the operation, could not take care of herself and could not even turn over.
Zhang Qiuge took a small long vacation, took care of her, he helped his wife turn over, got out of bed, combed her hair and face, and scrubbed her whole body,
Every night, he also went home to wash and cook, boil all kinds of nutritious soup, and then send it early in the morning, and feed his wife to drink it one bite at a time.
Wang Xiaomei
After taking care of it like this for half a month, when Wang Xiaomei was discharged from the hospital, she even gained a lot of weight,
She looked at her husband's face that had lost a lot of weight, and she was very distressed: "You have worked hard." ”
Zhang Qiuge laughed: "We are a family, this is my flesh that grows on your body, and there is no loss in the end." ”
Life is always bright, after accompanying his wife through such a calamity, Zhang Qiuge's career ushered in a new peak,
In 2013, he won the 26th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award "Second Degree Mei", and has been famous since then.
06 Childless and childless
Perhaps influenced by childhood experience, Zhang Qiuge has never thought of having a child after being married for many years.
Wang Xiaomei has an open-minded personality, knowing that her husband has always been troubled by the past, and does not force it.
And the relationship between Zhang Qiuge and his mother Wu Xiuqing was very bad in the early years, once filming in Shanghai,
Wu Xiuqing brought some souvenirs to see him, waited for Zhang Qiuge in Shanghai for 9 days, and finally saw his son,
Zhang Qiuge was very indifferent, and without saying a few words, he found an excuse to drive his mother back to his hometown.
Later, when she married Wang Xiaomei, Wang Xiaomei persuaded her husband that it was not easy for the old man to be old for so many years,
In his early years, he also had many children and he was the eldest in the family, so he had no time to take care of him.
Zhang Qiuge was silent and noncommittal.
Seeing that her husband did not object, Wang Xiaomei often invited Wu Xiuqing to come to her home to promote the relationship between mother and son.
After a long time, Zhang Qiuge did not hate his mother as much as when he was young, and the relationship between the two eased a lot.
Zhang Qiuge with his mother
Now Zhang Qiuge is over sixty years old and has no children or children.
Although he has grayed his hair, the old man is still in good spirits and humorous,
When going on a variety show or being interviewed by a reporter, I make an innocuous little joke from time to time to enliven the atmosphere.
The childless life did not make Zhang Qiuge feel lonely, his life is still colorful,
He even built a vegetable garden in front of his home, and lived Tao Yuanming's life of "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and leisurely seeing the South Mountain", enjoying himself and being unhappy.
Although some media released rumors that there was a problem in his marriage with his wife Wang Xiaomei,
But I still prefer to believe that his relationship with his wife is rock-solid.
Let us sincerely wish this old artist more laughter and less sadness in his future life.