Do you remember him? Hao Shaowen, the little fat man who sang and sang with Shi Xiaolong, was the most popular child star in the 90s, and it is said that when he was 10 years old, his film salary had exceeded 10 million, and his family also lived a rich life. But many years later, the media has spread the news that "the former child star is now down and working to survive", what has Hao Shaowen experienced in these years?
This is the leisure bubble hall, and what the owner of the church wants to tell today is the story of Hao Shaowen's ascent to the top and down the mountain.
In mainland parlance, Hao Shaowen was one of the first post-90s generation. When he was born, the economy of Taiwan was in a slump, and his parents did not have any luxury for their son to get ahead, but only hoped that he would study well and grow up to be an ordinary office worker.
Hao Shaowen at birth
However, because his father's work at that time was related to the acting industry, Hao Shaowen, who was a tiger and a tiger and a pleasant look, was discovered and filmed a juice advertisement when he was 3 years old, and crossed from kindergarten to the entertainment circle.
At that time, director Zhu Yanping had just returned to Taiwan. In the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong films were like gods fighting, and the unknown Zhu Yanping had to return to Taiwan to find another opportunity. He holds the script of "New Oolong Temple" in his hand, and he also gets the investment, but he worries about the actor's problem.
Zhu Yanping, director of "Laughing Forest Boy 2: New Oolong Courtyard"
At that time, there was no shortage of handsome men and beautiful women in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film circles, but the only bright child stars were extremely scarce. Zhu Yanping was once overwhelmed, and even had the idea of giving up shooting, and soon after he saw hope again. At the Shaolin Temple, he unearthed Shi Xiaolong, and then 4-year-old Hao Shaowen was pushed in front of him.
Shi Xiaolong from the Shaolin Temple and Hao Shaowen, who became popular in the filming of advertisements
In 1994, "Laughing Forest Boy 2: New Oolong Temple" came out. This movie gathers Popular stars such as Wu Mengda, Ye Quanzhen, Yang Ziqiong, Zhang Weijian, Zheng Shaoqiu, etc., but the most popular is Hao Shaowen and Shi Xiaolong, two hairy boys, especially Hao Shaowen.
Stills from "Laughing Forest Kid 2: New Oolong Courtyard"
At that time, Hao Shaowen did not need acting skills at all, and there was a pair of small sunglasses on the flat nose bridge, and the cute little expression alone could make the audience smile forward and backward.
He and Shi Xiaolong, one responsible for gags, one responsible for performing kung fu, the chemical effects of the collision have made this work a phenomenon-level movie, in fact, child star partners like Hao Shaowen and Shi Xiaolong, there is still no one to surpass.
In the era when there was little cross-strait exchange, the circulation of video tapes also made Hao Shaowen, who was only 4 years old, known to mainland audiences, and many viewers of the same age on the other side of the strait remembered the jokes and joys he brought, and he even became an indelible childhood memory of the post-80s and 90s.
"New Oolong Temple" became the first masterpiece of child star Hao Shaowen, and it was also his first step to the top.
Because the film exploded, the parents saw another possibility in Hao Shaowen, they simply let Hao Shaowen drop out of school to shoot full-time, and the little Hao Shaowen began to move between the crew.
Hao Shaowen, Lin Zhiying, Shi Xiaolong
"Ancestral Love", "Crayon Little Student", "Ten Brothers", "Nezha vs. Monkey King"... Before 2000, Hao Shaowen's appeal on the silver screen reached its peak, and it is said that the film was once paid more than 10 million, and he later recalled: "At that time, the money earned could not be spent." ”
"Crayon Little Student" makes Hao Shaowen called "stinky fart text"
But as he grew older, Hao Shaowen's appearance also changed. The childish cuteness of childhood naturally passes with time, and the road to child stars has reached the stage of having to say goodbye. In 2003, he began to fade out of the entertainment industry and return to the road of study.
This decision came from Hao Shaowen's mother. With many works, Hao Shaowen is like a day in the sky, when the mother thinks that the entertainment industry is a complex world after all, she is worried that her son will not be able to resist the temptation to immerse herself in it for a long time, and go to the side door, so she insists on letting Hao Shaowen quit the circle and continue her studies.
Unlike the mischievous tricks on the screen, the real Hao Shaowen is very well-behaved and obedient. He obeyed his mother's decision, and after retiring from the circle, he did not have the slightest nostalgia for the aura of the past, and his mind was focused on reading, and when he was in the third grade of primary school, he also scored a good score of 299 in three homework courses, just like a bully seedling.
Hao Shaowen, the little star of Nijin Doujin, has become Hao Shaowen, a good student with a promising future, but his parents are no longer the parents who were down-to-earth.
When filming, Hao Shaowen was like a hen who would lay golden eggs at home, and his parents turned around and threw the hard-earned money made by their sons into extravagant consumption and lack of vision investment, and when they woke up, not only did Hao Shaowen's years of accumulated film remuneration reach the bottom, but also owed a lot of foreign debts.
In the face of the huge hole, Hao Shaowen behaved very sensibly. After being admitted to high school, Hao Shaowen began a life of part-time work and half-study. Part-time sales in real estate companies, washing dishes in restaurants until hands bleed, walking the streets and alleys in the early hours of the morning to steal leaflets... Child star Hao Shaowen spent the most beautiful adolescence in this way, which is also the first part of his journey to the peak.
Hao Shaowen was photographed by the media as a part-time worker
Although his appearance has changed, many people still recognize that the migrant boy is the former child star Hao Shaowen, the story of the "child star's downfall" has been installed on him, the media has caught the explosive point and publicized it, and the viewers have little sympathy, more pointing and falling into the well.
But Hao Shaowen did not care, he said: "I work without stealing or robbing, this is not an unseemly thing, I am not more noble than ordinary people, through my own efforts, there is food to eat, this is something to be proud of." ”
In fact, the boy's fortitude is far beyond people's imagination. While working to pay off debts, while insisting on hard study, in 2008, Hao Shaowen was admitted to Tamkang University, a famous school in Taiwan.
Perhaps because of the different growth process, Hao Shaowen made plans for his future in high school, chose the transportation management major after careful consideration, and had no intention of returning to the entertainment industry, only hoping to find a professional job after graduating from college.
However, fate gave Hao Shaowen another blow. In his sophomore year, Hao Shaowen, who was reading in the school library, received a phone call and suddenly became dignified, and his father was in a car accident.
The day had just given Hao Shaowen a chance to catch his breath, but he suddenly retracted it. The family fell into difficulties again, and the helpless Hao Shaowen resumed his life of working everywhere to collect money. At that time, many Taiwanese went to Hong Kong to work, and it was said that they could get paid more, but after much consideration, Hao Shaowen decided to take a break from school and go to Hong Kong alone.
One day, Hao Shaowen, who was working in a sushi restaurant, was recognized by a friend he had known when he was filming before. In 2009, 19-year-old Hao Shaowen made an official comeback.
In 2009, Hao Shaowen made an official comeback
At that time, the entertainment industry was not the same as in the 1990s. Shi Xiaolong, who debuted at the same time as him, caught up with the good era of the full blossoming of mainland film and television dramas, although there was no big hit, and he also had classic works such as "Young Bao Qingtian", "Nine-year-old County Taiye", "Dragon Slayer in Yitian", "Water Moon Cave Heaven" and so on.
The gap between them before was no longer just a two-year-old age difference, and Shi Xiaolong had a taste of fame and fortune, and was even once regarded as a martial arts potential stock after Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
And Hao Shaowen, who has just come back, the achievements of the child star period have long dimmed with the audience's update iteration, he does not have the most popular handsome appearance in the current entertainment industry, nor does he have the resources of a role, Xie Minghe in "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" may be his most concerned role, but it has not allowed him to return to the peak of the past.
Stills from "The Girl We Chased Together In Those Years"
At the same time, Hao Shaowen, a former bully, was also delayed for his livelihood, and even failed to get a university diploma.
Lin Zhiying and Hao Shaowen are once again in the same frame
In "To Youth: It Turns Out You're Still Here", he assigns Wu Yifan, who was also born in 1990, which is Wu Yifan's fourth film, but Hao Shaowen's 29th film. In the C position that he did not have in his time, he had never stood on it, and the scenery at the top of the mountain was already old, covered with layer after layer of ash.
Group photo behind the scenes of "To Youth: Turns Out You're Still Here"
Like Shi Xiaolong, Hao Shaowen also kept up with the express train of the variety show era and appeared on some reality shows, but there was also no splash.
In the past two years, he has become more and more low-key, but he has still been found to be "reduced" to playing soy sauce in some small-cost network dramas, and even started to "eat broadcast" Internet celebrities on video websites.
After Hao Shaowen's comeback, all kinds of poisonous evaluations are like raindrops that have not stopped. The chubby figure did not make him gain the impression of "cuteness" as when he was a child, and people complained that he was crippled, saying that he was downcast and that his life was not good... Unsuccessful labels follow.
In the blink of an eye, he was 30 years old, Shi Xiaolong had already talked about love and parted his hands, and Hao Shaowen was still alone.
Unlike those artists who seem to be depressed and actually rely on their savings when filming to live well, Hao Shaowen really changed from a radiant star to an ordinary person. But does that really mean he's a "failure"?
Weight loss dump meat deformation man, turning red when the traffic, for the age is not too old Hao Shaowen may be a way out, he also tried unsuccessfully, and then he was relieved, laughing and said: "I also tried to lose weight, but I can't lose weight, I can only let go." But I still like my form and appearance, I am comfortable myself, the most important health is good. ”
Yeah, it's good to be healthy. In 2021, Wu Mengda, who grew up watching Hao Shaowen, passed away. Hao Shaowen recalled that when he was a child, he asked Uncle Da why he always took him to eat, and Uncle Da said, "Because you are a good child!" ”
Uncle Da is not wrong, Hao Shaowen has always been a good child.
When the media mentioned that his parents had squandered their remuneration, he only lightly mentioned it, saying: "Don't mention it, my mother will be sad." ”
Hao Shaowen and his mother
The high and low gap in life is originally the norm, but the fate of child stars is easier to be magnified and concerned. Because this is a real world, not red is not red, cruel and real, it is undeniable that some people grow up without drama to shoot, and some people even embark on the road of self-destruction.
But Hao Shaowen did not take a crooked road, he was not famous, but he did not sell miserably, and there was no negative scandal.
Those who laugh at Hao Shaowen's downfall are better off than the lifeline from high to low that they despise, desperately confirming that others are not doing well, in order to appease their fragile dignity. And Hao Shaowen, who did not give up on himself, only tried to carry so many difficulties, even if he was not a winner, he did not lose to fate.
Instead of describing the invisible people as universal pain, it is better to change the perspective, the universal happiness is not the ordinary life after reading a thousand sails?