Filming for more than 20 years, acting in Zhang Yimou Feng Xiaogang movies, 48-year-old powerful Li Naiwen, why is it not popular

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"Do you want to win the award?"

"How do you think you are not popular?"

In the past few days, I have watched an interview with an actor character "Powerful" that has just started broadcasting, and the first issue is Li Naiwen, which is impressed.

Li Naiwen, who is 48 years old, did not avoid the slightest in the face of sharp questions, but directly gave his views and inner thoughts, making people feel his truth and persistent love for the performance itself.

Since 2003, he officially entered the film and television industry and filmed for 20 years, Li Naiwen has played the male number two in various film and television dramas all year round, and his acting skills have been recognized by many people; He's not handsome, but you just think he is attractive in acting, and you can always see him wherever you go.

However, the legendary "Golden Male No. 2" Li Naiwen has never been popular, and he has not won any performance awards in 20 years as a supporting actor, which makes many audiences who like him feel sorry for him.

Therefore, people often ask: Li Naiwen, why is it not popular? Why haven't you won a grand prize yet?

But Li Naiwen said in "Strength" this time:

I wasn't expecting an award.

If I talk about this role, I am going to win the award, this is not right, this (winning the award) is the icing on the cake. Anyway, you're enjoying the performance, and I think it's good.

"Dutifully, act your current play well, leave the rest to others, and you leave it to the audience to judge."

"If you don't even do your own things right now, you won't have this afterword." It's all for others to judge. ”

"I've heard it, I don't mind what it does, it's not that you want to be popular, it's that you want to be recognized, it's not that you just get the audience's recognition, you get the recognition of people in the industry, directors and producers."

Such a frank and daring star interview, I haven't seen it for a long time, and the first interview with the characters of "Powerful" makes people feel: something.

Li Naiwen, as the first interviewer of the "Powerful" program, is a veritable "powerful".

Since graduating from the Central Academy of Drama, Li Naiwen, 48-year-old who has been an actor for more than 20 years, has cooperated with many famous directors, including Meng Jinghui in the drama industry, Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou in the film industry.

Li Naiwen is even more excellent - from the drama stage, all the way to the TV screen, and then to the movie screen, including "Rhino in Love", "Borrowing a Gun", "Proof of Identity", "Daqin Fu", "Mr. Love", "Rally", "I Am Not the God of Medicine", "Above the Cliff" and so on.

He also starred in the popular suspense online drama "Daughter Back" not long ago, and "Our Day", which just started.

Whether it is a spy war drama, a costume drama, an urban drama or a workplace drama, Li Naiwen gives the impression that he can play any drama and any role, whether he plays a big person or an ordinary person, he can be competent.

Such a performance resume is the envy of many actors, but in the interview show "Powerful", Li Naiwen opened his heart and said that the road he took as an actor was not very smooth.

Li Naiwen said that he was initially "coerced and lured" by his mother, who was an actor, and embarked on this path.

His mother asked him to apply for the Central Academy of Drama, Li Naiwen recalled in the program "Powerful" that he was particularly stunned by the exam at that time, did not play well, and later studied at his own expense, others have a tuition fee of 700, and his tuition fee is more than 5,000 yuan, but his mother said "I can borrow this money with your father", that is, he wants him to study hard.

As a result, after Li Naiwen walked into the door of Chinese opera, he learned to learn and completely fell in love with acting. But as soon as he graduated, no one asked him to film, no one asked him to act in dramas, "I was an unemployed vagrant, wandering for a year."

He lamented that being an actor is a road of no return, and he must endure loneliness.

Later, Li Naiwen got the opportunity to play "Sifan" directed by Meng Jinghui, but after the performance and there was nothing to do, he took the initiative to ask Meng Jinghui if there was a play of mass actors, and Meng Jinghui gave him another chance, which was the famous drama "Rhino in Love".

Li Naiwen played the role of "toothbrush" in "Rhino in Love", this role is too unforgettable for theater fans, and it is still talked about by theater fans, since 1999, years of polishing of drama performances have also made Li Naiwen's acting skills polished together.

Speaking of Li Naiwen, from a long time ago, the roles in various plays, although they are basically supporting roles, but too many are impressive.

In the 2007 movie "Rally", Zhang Hanyu played Gu Zidi, Wang Baoqiang played Jiang Maocai, and Li Naiwen played Demoman Lu Kuangou. Lv Kuangou and Jiang Maocai grew up together and joined the army together, not only comrades-in-arms, but also fellow villagers and brothers.

There are not many Li Naiwen plays in "Rally", but it is quite impressive, this character is still humorous and optimistic on the battlefield, and the film was shot and sacrificed in order to pick up a watch for the company commander, which broke the audience's heart.

In 2009, Li Naiwen cooperated with Zhang Hanyu again after "Rally" and starred in the spy war drama "Proof of Identity" in Xiang Defu, a character who defected after being captured, extremely complex, and became an important role in promoting the development of this drama.

In 2011, Li Naiwen acted in the spy war drama "Borrow a Gun", in this drama, the male number one is Zhang Jiayi, the male number two is Zhang Zijian, and Yang Xiaoju, played by Li Naiwen, is at best a male number three.

But this role was played by Li Naiwen and became a soul character in "Borrowing a Gun".

According to Li Naiwen himself, Yang Xiaoju's actor was originally set to be his college classmate Wang Qianyuan, and later Wang Qianyuan could not participate because of scheduling problems (he was filming "The Piano of Steel" at the time), so Luo Haiqiong, another actor of "Borrow a Gun", strongly recommended Li Naiwen to the director.

Before the filming of "Borrow a Gun" began, Li Naiwen got the role, and also called his college classmate Wang Qianyuan, saying, "This is considered fertile water does not flow into the field of outsiders, he will be happy." ”

Got the rare opportunity, Li Naiwen cherished it very much, carefully figuring out how to act.

This time in the interview with "Powerful" recalled the filming of "Borrow a Gun" more than ten years ago, Li Naiwen said that after watching his performance, the director directly said that he could increase the price after filming this play (meaning to praise him for acting well).

In recent movies, Li Naiwen's appearance is also very eye-catching.

 In 2018, the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine" was released and became one of the phenomenal films of the year.

 Li Naiwen plays a medical representative in the film: suit and leather shoes, black-rimmed glasses, neatly combed hair... A few shots make this character stand: a refined egoist, an indifferent black-hearted drug dealer.

In the face of the protests of the patient group against their company's "sky-high drugs" under the public, the medical representative played by Li Naiwen was expressionless, and even picked his fingernails in public, showing such indifference.

Including in the recent suspense online drama "Daughter Back", Li Naiwen grew a beard and played Wang Chongjiang, who was killed by the world, but was finally killed by counter-killing, which is also impressive.

Li Naiwen has played supporting roles all year round, and generously admitted in "Powerful" that the popular people are not popular.

He said: "Even if you are a stepping stone in the industry, you must pave the stone a little steadily, this is also my value, let future generations step on the stone, this stone must be stable." ”

In fact, Li Naiwen is modest, although he often plays supporting roles, but because his acting skills are there, he also has the opportunity to lead the actor: in the TV series "Our Day" that has just started, he is the male number one.

Moreover, what is less known is that in fact, Li Naiwen has another movie that has not been released, he is the male number one: it is a film adapted from the famous writer Yu Hua's novel "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", the director is Yu Hua's son Yu Haiguo, and the photographer is from the crew of the Japanese classic film "The Undertaker".

Li Naiwen played the male protagonist Xu Sanguan in the film, and his old partner Yan Bingyan who played "Teeth of Love", "Rebirth" and "Borrow a Gun", and Xu Yulan, the wife of the heroine Xu Sanguan.

A few years ago, there was some news about the film, but it hasn't moved since. According to insiders, Li Naiwen was crazy to lose weight and lose weight in order to act in this drama, and ate very little during filming, just to get closer to the character in appearance.

Looking at Douban now, the release time of this movie has been postponed to 2025.

Perhaps, Li Naiwen was really almost lucky?

Li Naiwen, who does not set limits for himself, went to participate in the variety reality show "The Birth of an Actor" a few years ago, and although he was eliminated, it also let people see his high requirements for himself.

His performance ability, everyone saw in their eyes, Song Dandan also jokingly sighed in the show: "Why is Naiwen old and not hot?" He may just not have a good image. ”

For so many years, Li Naiwen has always cared more about what to play than what will be popular. He once said, "Being able to call me by name and not remember my role is the biggest frustration of being an actor."

After so many years of acting career, Li Naiwen has a very good mentality, saying that he does not feel that he is almost 50 years old, and his wife said that he has always had a childlike heart.

In "Powerful" talking about actors and stars, Li Naiwen has his own unique opinion, he believes, "Actors are professions, stars are phenomena, stars cannot become actors, but actors can become stars." ”

So what does he want to be?

Li Naiwen said with a smile: I hope I can become a powerful actor myself.

In the interview with "Powerful", Li Naiwen talked about the profession of an actor, full of love that could not be hidden, he said: "I found that this (acting) is my life's work, I love it, so I work hard for it." ”

At present, more and more audiences like the powerful, and Li Naiwen, who has played a supporting role for many years, has long been a powerful person in the hearts of many audiences.

In Li Naiwen's view, what three words can be used to describe the powerful?

His answer was: persistence, awe, introspection.

Li Naiwen also talked about his "experience" as a supporting role for many years in the interview——

"First of all, don't steal the show, when it's not yours, this thing can't be biased."

"The supporting role is difficult, you have your highlights, you don't grab the light of the protagonist, but the audience will feel that you can't do without you."

"You say it's a bit difficult to measure? But I'm just going to do it. This is the skill. ”

Speaking of this, Li Naiwen smiled, this kind of confidence, why doesn't it come from strength?