Zhang Songwen and Guo Jinglin, two powerful people have almost the same experience

After the finale of "Crazy", the popularity did not decrease, and the topics related to Zhang Songwen frequently appeared on the hot list.

There is such an actor in the entertainment industry, which is extremely similar to Zhang Songwen's fate.

The actor's name is Guo Jinglin, he and Zhang Songwen are 6 years old, and they both lost their mothers as teenagers.

Late bloomers are the label on them, and they are not understood by everyone when they choose to be actors, but they are willing to go all the way to the dark.

Ten years of grinding a sword and waiting for the blossom, although the road was bumpy, fortunately, they all found an answer that satisfied each other.

The seeds of acting are rooted in the heart, and they also originated from the "heartbeat" of childhood.

When he was a child, Zhang Songwen's parents were busy with work, so they put him in the countryside and asked an uncle living in his hometown to help take care of him.

Uncle is a ticket inspector in the cinema, so as long as there is a movie released, he can enter for free, and since then Zhang Songwen has had the vision of becoming an actor.

Zhang Songwen and Guo Jinglin's mental journeys are very similar, but the initial conditions of the latter are better.

Guo Jinglin is a native of Beijing and lives near Beijing Renyi.

The neighbors are all celebrities, and Mei Lanfang's son Mei Jiubao, Mr. Qian Zhongshu, and the old drama bone Lu Zhongzhong all live near his house.

Nurtured in this environment with a rich artistic atmosphere, Guo Jinglin has developed a strong interest in performance since he became sensible.

When he was 16 years old, Guo Jinglin acted in his first play by chance, when he saw that the crew of "Previttecher Company" was looking for actors.

Guo Jinglin went to the interview and performed a few shows in confusion, and soon he was told that the male lead would be played by him.

This filming made Guo Jinglin experience the fun of being an actor, and made him firm in his belief in becoming an actor.

But when Guo Jinglin told his father what he thought, he was beaten in exchange.

Guo Jinglin's father hopes that his son will grow up to become a soldier, or a lawyer or doctor.

In addition, Guo Jinglin also has a sister who suffers from some congenital disease, and in order to treat his sister, the family's living standard has long begun to deteriorate, and there are no conditions to support him to take the road of art.

But Guo Jinglin still insisted on his own ideas, and his father beat him for this, and angrily reprimanded: "Don't look at the current situation at home, why are you still so ignorant?" ”

Later, Guo Jinglin ran away from home and lived in a friend's house to prepare for the exam.

In 1990, Guo Jinglin was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy and became classmates with Xu Zheng, Shen Xiaohai and others.

It was also in this year that Zhang Songwen's family changed.

The year Guo Jinglin kicked open the door of his dream, Zhang Songwen was only in his third year of junior high school.

That year, his mother was seriously ill, and from hollowing out the family to building up debt, he still failed to cure his mother's illness, and Zhang Songwen had to keep his dream in the dust.

After his mother's death, Zhang Songwen had a plan in his heart, and after graduating from high school, he began to work part-time to pay off debts.

Guo Jinglin's 16-year-old has the opportunity to become a leading actor, and Zhang Songwen's 16-year-old will start making money to pay off debts.

After leaving the school, Zhang Songwen worked as a printer, waiter, air conditioner installer, hotel administrator and so on.

Although the starting points are different, the fates of the two people are highly similar at different ages.

In her junior year, Guo Jinglin's peaceful college life was shattered by a phone call from home.

The son wants to raise and does not wait, and he has not earned a penny to honor his mother when he is so big, and Guo Jinglin's heart seems to be pierced with a thorn.

When her mother was alive, she wanted to have a beautiful coat, but Guo Jinglin, who was a junior at the time, had no ability to make money at all.

So he went to sell blood, exchanged a few hundred dollars for a coat to cover his mother's body.

The two who are just 6 years apart, fate is like a mirror.

Zhang Songwen's mother died when he was in his third year of junior high school, and Guo Jinglin's mother died when he was in his junior year.

In the matter of "taking the opposite path to the comfort zone", the choice of the two also coincides.

After his mother died, Guo Jinglin, who returned to school, studied harder.

An excellent report card is Guo Jinglin's best gift to his mother who is far away in heaven, and it is also the best comfort for his mother.

Every time he took the exam, Guo Jinglin would compete with Xu Zheng, and the top three positions always had the names of the two of them.

When Guo Jinglin was 24 years old, he faced a big choice, and he had two choices when he was about to graduate:

The first is to stay in Shanghai and work as a teacher at school, with food and accommodation and a salary.

The second is to return to Beijing and enter the China Young Art Theater, with a salary of less than 200 yuan.

Considering that his father was old and his sister needed to be taken care of, Guo Jinglin resolutely decided to enter a theater troupe in Beijing.

When he graduated, Guo Jinglin was admitted to the Beijing Youth Art Theater with the first place.

At that time, all the students did not understand Guo Jinglin's choice.

On the day he reported to the troupe, Guo Jinglin was dumbfounded, the unit was in ruins, and the troupe was facing reconstruction.

Although the unit has become a ruin, it will still pay a monthly salary, and the salary is only more than 190 yuan.

With a salary of less than 200 yuan, Guo Jinglin will not sleep on the streets.

He and Wang Jinsong, who was recruited at the same time, shared a house in Gaobeidian that was far from the city and only had a bus.

Winter is the hardest, tickets are half more expensive than in summer, spring and autumn, and in order to open source throttling, Guo Jinglin often has to hike in the cold wind.

The dilemma of life is far more than that, the salary of less than 200 yuan is not even enough for transportation, in order to fill his stomach, he often goes to the vegetable market with Wang Jinsong to pick up vegetable leaves.

In addition to the dilemma in life, Guo Jinglin's acting career is not very satisfactory.

I learned that many classmates have begun to be the protagonists, and they can only be prop people on stage, and sometimes they have to play a shoe.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel sad from his heart, and the days without dramas to film lasted for five or six years.

In 2000, Guo Jinglin participated in "The Woman Who Walks the Gobi" starring Ding Jiali and Du Zhiguo, which was the first play he received after graduation, when he was 30 years old.

From his early twenties to his thirties, Zhang Songwen's experience was almost identical to his.

In 2000, Zhang Songwen, in his early twenties, made a decision as incomprehensible as Guo Jinglin.

At that time, he was still a tour guide, and one day he talked to a little girl in the company about his dream and asked him what his dream was.

Zhang Songwen said that his dream is to have movies to watch every day, and he has liked watching movies since he was a child, but unfortunately there were no conditions when he was a child, and he didn't have time when he grew up.

The little girl suddenly realized: "Oh! Then your dream is to make movies. ”

Forced by reality, the longing of childhood has long faded out of memory, and now the dusty yearning has been ignited again, Zhang Songwen asked: "What should the movie do?" ”

The little girl popularized several colleges for him to study film, including Nortel Film Academy, and Zhang Songwen took a pen and paper to write down his name.

The scene at that time was not much different from the next picture of the book introduced by Gao Qiqiang to An Xin in "Crazy".

That night, Zhang Songwen couldn't sleep.

The next day, he couldn't wait to get on a flight from Shenzhen to Beijing.

That year, 25-year-old Zhang Songwen was admitted to the senior vocational class of Nortel's performance department.

Zhang Songwen wants to return to school to learn acting, and his relatives and friends who learned the news thought he was crazy.

At that time, the wages of assembly line workers in some factories in Guangdong were generally only 1,000 yuan, while Zhang Songwen's monthly income had exceeded 20,000 yuan.

Giving up such a good job to learn acting, no one could understand what he thought.

Among Zhang Songwen's classmates are Zhou Wei, Lin Jiachuan, Che Xiao, etc., and he is the oldest student in the class.

"I know it's going to be my lifelong career, I'm 25 years old and don't have time."

The classmates around him were not only younger than him, but the conditions were not much better than him in all aspects, and Zhang Songwen at that time could not even speak standard Mandarin.

Because Mandarin is not standard, the teacher gave him an ultimatum in the first week of admission: "Give you four months to practice Mandarin, if you can't practice well, you will automatically withdraw from school." ”

So Zhang Songwen went to the playground to practice Mandarin every day, and a standard Guangpu accent inhalation attracted Haiqing's attention: "You have no effect in practicing like this, you have to learn to roll your tongue." ”

After learning what his problem was, Zhang Songwen thought of a way, that is, to hold a small pebble in his mouth and let the stone support his tongue.

Four months later, Zhang Songwen was able to speak a very slippery Mandarin, so he also swallowed a lot of pebbles during the practice.

Four years later, Zhang Songwen successfully graduated from the Beijing Film Academy with the first professional score.

Because of his excellent performance in school, he also got the opportunity to stay on to teach.

But soon, like Guo Jinglin, he had to face the situation of no drama to film.

The savings Zhang Songwen saved when he was a tour guide had bottomed out by the time he graduated, and the problem of survival was imminent.

It is a bit difficult for a foreigner to survive in Beijing on the salary of a left-behind teacher, and even the rent is not enough.

On weekdays, in addition to teaching students, he also works as a cutscene, editor, co-ordinator, screenwriter and so on.

In the year after graduation, Zhang Songwen ran more than 300 crews and was rejected more than 300 times.

Also suffering from the same illness was Zhou Wei, and the two at that time could be described as a pair of brothers and brothers.

The rejection is still light, and what makes people anginate is that the director insulted them personally: "You look at these two, one with a sausage mouth and the other like a dwarf, you don't need to think about it to know that they are not the material for being an actor." ”

The harsh words did not break Zhang Songwen, and after repeated injuries, he would always comfort himself: It's okay, tomorrow will be better.

But in fact, he didn't, and he couldn't even pay the heating bill, when there was no drama to shoot in the winter.

Not much different from Guo Jinglin's situation after graduation, Zhang Songwen said at that time: "I can always know when the food in the vegetable market is the cheapest. ”

2005 was very special for Zhang Songwen, this year he was the male number one Jia Fa in the sitcom "Dragon Riding Monster", which was officially debuted.

"Dragon Riding Monster" achieved good ratings after it was broadcast, and it was the next dinner drama of the two Cantons at that time, and Zhang Songwen's wonderful performance made many viewers spray rice.

Like Guo Jinglin, he only starred in his first work after graduation at the age of thirty.

Standing from thirty to forty is a key node in the acting careers of Zhang Songwen and Guo Jinglin, and being able to hold the flame in their hearts in the cold wind is the key.

After the age of thirty, Guo Jinglin has participated in several TV series one after another, and it is already good to have a drama, and it is a luxury to be the main actor.

In 2006, the inspirational drama "Days Related to Youth" was broadcast, in fact, Guo Jinglin was not the first choice to play Gao Yang at the beginning.

Because the original actor has not been able to enter the state, the director decided to temporarily replace him, which allowed him to pick up the leak.

After the broadcast, most of the actors in it became popular, because the popularity of this drama also made many viewers remember Guo Jinglin, who played Gao Yang.

In 2009, the crew of the biographical film "Yuan Longping" found Guo Jinglin and invited him to play Yuan Longping's grandfather in the movie.

At the beginning, the first choice of the protagonist was not Guo Jinglin, and the production team once found an actor, but unfortunately the other party's asking price was too high and did not negotiate.

When the production team of "Yuan Longping" found Guo Jinglin, he signed his name on the blank contract without thinking.

Guo Jinglin said: "It is my honor to play such a role, you can fill in the salary yourself, and I am willing to play it without a salary." ”

Rao is that the two sides negotiate unimpeded, but before the start of shooting, Guo Jinglin felt that this time was not so simple.

In order to have a deep understanding of the character, Guo Jinglin specially visited Yuan Longping's grandfather before filming.

After contact with the consequences, Jinglin sighed: "Mr. Yuan is too comprehensive, can speak fluent English, can play the violin, not only won the Wuhan swimming championship, but also was admitted to the pilot." ”

The deeper he understood, the less confident Guo Jinglin was about the role he was going to play: "It's so powerful that I'm not even as good as a thousandth of him." ”

Fortunately, in the end, Jinglin still overcame the psychological barrier, and with a heart of awe, he tried his best to act!

In order to play the charm of Yuan Longping's grandfather, before filming, Guo Jinglin specially chose the strongest weather in the sun to run outdoors to expose to the sun, so the dark skin color presented in the camera is real.

In order not to affect the quality of the entire film, whenever the scene of the rice field was filmed, Guo Jinglin only made a symbolic protection on his leg.

During the filming process, Guo Jinglin's legs were crawling with leeches, and his legs were red, but for him, everything was worth it.

The kung fu paid off, and Guo Jinglin won the Best Actor Award at the 13th China Film Huabiao Awards for his excellent portrayal in "Yuan Longping".

This is the first award in his acting career, both for his career and for the change of heart to a new level.

After that, Guo Jinglin's strength has also been recognized by the industry.

After that, Guo Jinglin played many deeply rooted roles.

For example, Chu Yunfei in "New Bright Sword", and the master in "Great Expectations" and so on.

In "Great Expectations", Guo Jinglin's acting skills are still praiseworthy.

The martial arts of each of the thirteen taibao in the play are unfathomable, but the top-ranked masters have made very few shots.

Even such a character with little performance, under Guo Jinglin's interpretation, it still makes people feel at a glance that the master is a character with high martial arts skills and a ruthless heart.

The interesting point is that there is obviously a bad face, but as long as it is a villain played by Guo Jinglin, it often does not receive too much attention from the audience.

In 2017, "Born on a Bright Day" was launched, and Guo Jinglin not only played Guo Laosan in it, but he was also the screenwriter of the play.

Later, the play was a hit on various David TVs and achieved a good response.

This drama also allowed Guo Jinglin's career to climb to another peak before entering the age of fifty.

The idiom of late bloomer is very suitable to describe Guo Jinglin, and it is also very appropriate to put it on Zhang Songwen's body, and the journey of the two is extremely similar.

Zhang Songwen only acted in the first part of "The Dragon Riding Monster", and the starring roles in the next few films have undergone a major change, and the series with this theme was quickly submerged in the long river of time.

In the future, Zhang Songwen also participated in many excellent works, including the TV series "Huo Yuanjia" starring Zheng Yijian and Chen Xiaochun, the costume drama "Bing Sheng" directed by Zhang Jizhong and the historical costume drama "The Secret History of Yang Guifei" and so on.

The play has to be filmed, but it is not as good as the outside world thinks, and sometimes it is so poor that you can't even pay the heating bill.

In 2019, Zhang Songwen's "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" was released, and finally someone discovered his acting skills.

Only half of the little popularity is attributed to him on the variety show "Acting School", and contributed several textbook-level performances in variety shows.

In fact, the number of scripts received has not increased, and the standard of living has not changed much.

After the broadcast of "Hidden Corner" in 2020, Zhang Songwen was on the hot search.

A Yuntun drama moved countless audiences, and many people said that he was on fire, but Zhang Songwen himself did not think so.

An interviewed reporter asked him a very sharp question: After so many years of debut, he finally became popular, did he buy a house?

Zhang Songwen: "Why am I so angry?" I also want to fire, I heard that a drama can be quoted for 2 million after the fire, I don't quite believe this is true. ”

Offering 2 million yuan for another script is impossible in Zhang Songwen's eyes, and 2.08 million a day is a large-scale magic drama for him.

Some netizens are angry: An actor as good as Zhang Songwen, the salary he receives is only enough for food and clothing, and the entire entertainment industry is crazy, right?

Returning to reality, the drama is still the norm for Zhang Songwen.

In 2023, "Crazy" will be broadcast, and there is no need to repeat how popular the drama is.

When he stops at the fish stall, he is a fish seller, and when the hairspray is smeared into his hair, he is a big guy.

Zhang Songwen's acting skills in "Crazy" do not need to be praised with gorgeous words, and the foundation can be seen with only three eyes.

Four years ago, Zhang Songwen couldn't imagine what "red" was like, but now he finally feels it.

Countless people left messages under Zhang Songwen's social account: Finally fire, can afford to buy a house.

After the end of "Crazy", the popularity has not decreased, and the salary has also fallen into controversy, and selling a house may still be a sharp topic for Zhang Songwen.

For Zhang Songwen, who is now 46 years old, it is true that he wants to be popular, and it is good to get a high salary.

But more importantly, he finally proved his persistence right.

Compare Guo Jinglin with Zhang Songwen because the two have a lot in common.

The two people, who are six years apart, have very similar experiences and circumstances, and they also have the same persistence in acting and taking over scripts.

One thing is very interesting, Guo Jinglin, who has a "bad face", often goes unnoticed as a villain, and playing a positive role is applauded.

And Zhang Songwen, who has a "good face", shines when he plays a villain, and plays a positive character tepidly.

Both of them received their first work after graduation at the age of 30.

In the matter of being actors, they have all been influenced by the same person.

Zhang Songwen said: "I am very glad that I can meet Gong Li, her affirmation of me is very important, it is she who makes me feel that my concept and concept of performance are correct. ”

Guo Jinglin said: "One day I met Gong Li in Chinese opera, and the seed to learn acting was planted at that time. ”

There are still many actors of Zhang Songwen and Guo Jinglin, and if they are popular, they are late bloomers, otherwise they are reduced to a speck of dust in the entertainment industry.

It takes more than ten or twenty years to put together a blossoming fruit, such persistence is both admirable and embarrassing.