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01
Lu Yi was born in Shanghai on January 6, 1976.
At an early age, he showed an amazing talent for interpretation.
In 1981, the crew of the movie "Spring Water Dingdong" came to Lu Yi's kindergarten to select actors, and as an "active literary and artistic element" in the school, he naturally received the strong recommendation of all the teachers.
The result is not unexpected, Lu Yi was selected by the director, and began to run dragon sets in the film at the age of five.
And Lu Yi did not live up to the director's expectations and completed the task brilliantly.
Since then, the directors in Shanghai have known that there is a child who is good at acting, and every time he has a suitable role, he will call Lu Yi's parents and ask them to quickly bring the child to the scene.
In 1990, although Lu Yi was only fourteen years old, he had nearly ten years of acting experience, and was specially recruited by the Shanghai Children's Art Theater to become a full actor.
In the troupe, Lu Yi is very hardworking, often others are resting, and he still has to continue to practice lines and actions.
There is a saying in the Overlord's Farewell: "If you want to be noble before people, you will be guilty after others."
Lu Yi is such a model, in order to act, he often sleeps, and even sometimes he can't even take care of food when he is busy.
In the years of acting in the troupe, Lu Yi not only practiced kung fu, but also participated in more than 700 stage performances, which also laid the foundation for his artistic accomplishment and future soaring.
02
In 1994, Lu Yi had grown into a big guy, with a height of one meter and eighty meters and angry eyebrows, which made many film and television drama directors favor him.
Also in this year, Lu Yi starred in the TV series "Bloody Child's Heart".
This drama has caused great repercussions at home and abroad, and has received a lot of praise.
After performing this play, Lu Yi received an olive branch from Wang Shuo.
In 1995, Lu Yi officially signed with Wang Shuo's company and became an artist.
However, he grasped both career and study, and even though his acting career was smooth and smooth, he still did not forget to review and prepare for the exam, and was eventually admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy and the Beijing Film Academy at the same time.
In the end, under Lu Yi's repeated trade-offs, he still chose the Shanghai Theater Academy, on the grounds that it was a little cute closer to home!
In this way, how many people's dream Nortel was rejected by Lu Yi, and after coming to the play, Lu Yi's wonderful life picture finally unfolded slowly.
03
In the play, Lu Yi met a beautiful girl- Bao Lei.
According to Bao Lei's original plan, she should go to Shanghai Textile University to study, but perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was fate, and finally she was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy by mistake.
At that time, Bao Lei did not know that she would meet the love of her life here, and complained all the time about why she had come to this school in the first place.
Everything changed from the moment she met Lu Yi.
She was immediately attracted to this tall and handsome big boy, and when Lu Yi first met Bao Lei, he immediately decided that she would become the woman who spent her life with her.
Although Lu Yi at that time already had far more experience than his peers, in terms of love, he was still a big boy who did not understand the wind and moon.
When preparing to confess to Bao Lei, the inexperienced Lu Yi did not know what to do, so he had to stare at Bao Lei with big eyes, and finally until Bao Lei said: "What are you going to do?" If it's okay, I'll go", Lu Yi plucked up enough courage and held out a sentence from between his teeth: "What do you think of me as a person?"
So on such a serious occasion, Bao Lei laughed out like this, for a sunny and handsome big boy like Lu Yi, she had long been spring in her heart, but she didn't expect him to confess to herself so quickly.
After holding back the excitement in her heart, Bao Lei said slowly, "I think you are quite good." ”
In this way, the campus love affair between the two young people slowly unfolded in this way.
At that time, they were just two students who had not graduated, and their lives were very hard, but neither of them had thought of breaking up, but they were considerate of each other everywhere, and in this way, they had been foaming at each other and had come to this day.
04
After nearly a year of hard life, in 1998, the opportunity to change Lu Yi's life finally came.
The TV series "Never Look Away" began filming, because Wang Shuo and Zhao Baogang were old acquaintances, so under the recommendation of Wang Shuo, Zhao Baogang admired Lu Yi very much and was ready to invite him to play the male protagonist Xiao Tong.
But after several rounds of auditions, a young man named Chen Kun also entered Zhao Baogang's sight.
At this time, Zhao Baogang hesitated, both of them are young handsome guys, and their acting skills are also comparable, who to choose to play the male lead?
In order to give himself enough time to think, Zhao Baogang decided to let Lu Yi lose weight, and promised that if after a month, his weight could be reduced from 93 kg to 75 kg, then his chances were great.
In this way, Zhao Baogang considered it for a month, and Lu Yi also "tortured" himself for a whole month.
After talking to Zhao Baogang, Lu Yi returned to school and began to lose weight, eating only fruit and drinking a little water every day.
By the time Zhao Baogang found him for the second time, he had lost a full 17 kilograms.
Zhao Baogang was shocked by the perseverance of the teenager in front of him: Isn't this what the role of "Xiao Tong" needs?
In a trance, Zhao Baogang seemed to see "Xiao Tong" standing in front of his eyes, and in the end, Lu Yi successfully defeated Chen Kun and got the role.
05
It turned out that Zhao Baogang's choice was correct.
In March 1999, "Never Look Away" became a hit as soon as it was launched, and won the ratings championship of that year, in which Lu Yi was indispensable.
It is not even an exaggeration to say that most people watch this TV series and rush to lu Yi's handsome face!
With his wonderful performance in "Never Look Away", in 2000, Lu Yi won the 18th China Television Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor, becoming a veritable "top-notch" male star.
At that time, Lu Yi had just turned 24 years old, which could be regarded as a teenager.
Subsequently, he starred in a number of youth love idol dramas in a row, and together with Li Yapeng, he was called the two prince charmings of that year.
Even in 2002, Lu Yi and Zhou Xun appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala together, singing "This Year Is So Wonderful".
At that time, Lu Yi was a veritable winner in life, not only had a successful career, but also had a virtuous wife, and in the eyes of outsiders, his future was frank and bright.
Even Lu Yi himself thought so, but he did not expect that behind this glamorous appearance, there was a huge crisis.
06
In the 2000s, with the help of Taiwanese idol dramas sweeping through thousands of armies on the mainland, mainland idol dramas also flourished.
It was in those years that many of the stars we are familiar with, such as Li Yapeng, Pan Yueming and others, have successfully stood on the cusp of the times by taking advantage of this east wind.
Lu Yi was also one of them.
With the popularity accumulated by several idol dramas, Lu Yi took over commercials, participated in commercial performances, and even released several records.
It seems that Neither Lu Yi nor the agency has a clear plan for his future, but intends to eat a lifetime of old money by virtue of the popularity accumulated by idol dramas.
So after the idol drama frenzy dissipated, the real Lu Yi was exposed to the public.
07
From 2004 to 2005, Lu Yi obeyed the company's arrangement step by step, and the company let him act, he accepted everything as ordered, and did not consider improving his acting skills at all.
So it was quickly compared to the stars of the same era.
After taking the express train of idol dramas, Pan Yueming clearly knew that if he continued like this, he would one day be angry, after all, he could not maintain a delicate appearance for a lifetime.
So he chose to sink his heart to polish his acting skills, and finally won the recognition of the audience, and won the Best Actor Award at the 9th Beijing University Student Film Festival for his performance in "Can't Help It".
Zhou Xun, who once appeared on the Stage of the Spring Festival Gala with him, also won the Best Actress at the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1995 for "If Love".
Even Chen Kun, who was once eliminated by him, began to seek transformation and strive to improve his performance skills, which won the unanimous praise of the audience.
And Lu Yi never reacted, at this time he naively thought that he could be liked by the audience for a lifetime by relying on his appearance, and he did not pay any attention to the improvement of acting skills.
But gradually, people found that Lu Yidi's roles were mostly a thousand people, and no matter what he played, it was an expression and a routine, so he no longer bought his works so much.
Lu Yi used to be a tall and handsome male god representative, and later when he was mentioned, people thought more of "a cream boy without acting skills".
At this time, Lu Yi finally woke up like a dream and began to think about it.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
At that time, some of his former classmates had already won the film queen in the world, and some also had several film masterpieces, only he had been standing still in the same place, and he had not grown in the same way as in that year.
08
In the overwhelming criticism of the audience, Lu Yi eagerly wants to hone his acting skills, and when he has the opportunity, he will ask the old drama bones he knows how to get a breakthrough in acting.
In those years, Lu Yi did not go to acting classes less, but what made him helpless was that after so many years of acting career, his acting level still stopped at the time when he first went to college.
There are very few people in the world who can act as soon as they are born, such as Liang Chaowei, who can show more than a dozen emotional changes with a pair of eyes; and more people are through the training of the day after tomorrow, excellence, and finally empathize with the audience through performance, Qiu Ze is an outstanding representative.
There is no doubt that Lu Yi belongs to the latter, but the golden age of actors honing their acting skills is when they are young, and Xiao Lizi got rid of the "false appearance" evaluation through several serious theme movies when he was young.
At this time, Lu Yi had already passed this period, and his acting skills were gradually fixed under the baptism of several idol dramas starring in his youth, and the chances of improvement were slim.
Am I really not suitable for acting?
Lu Yi was very dazed in his heart.
Fortunately, in 2008, he starred in "Harbin at Night", subverting the image of a teenager who was once dressed in white, receiving a lot of praise, and also won the title of the most popular actor of the year in the third BQ Celebrity List with this drama.
But what is fatal is that the side that Lu Yi is reluctant to mention is keenly perceived by the audience.
——Although he has been trained for a long time, his acting skills still stay at the age of 20.
Lu Yi was impatient, and his desire for transformation was getting stronger and stronger.
He finally understood that no one can be fired for a lifetime with outstanding appearance, and he does not want himself to be remembered by the audience as a "cream boy" for a lifetime.
In 2009, Gao Xixi, the director of "New Three Kingdoms", approached Lu Yi and wanted him to play the role of Zhuge Liang.
After receiving the invitation, Lu Yi was very excited, and Tang Guoqiang came to prominence with the role of Zhuge Liang, getting rid of the actor positioning of "cream little student" all along.
And Lu Yi also hopes to completely transform through Zhuge Liang.
However, contrary to expectations, under the heavy siege of Chen Jianbin, Yu Hewei and a series of old drama bones, it was too difficult for Lu Yi to kill the siege, and in the end, Zhuge Liang, who he played, could only be regarded as decent, and did not set off too much splash.
Lu Yi's desire to transform was once again disappointed.
09
From 2010 to 2016, although Lu Yi starred in many TV series and movies, his performance was not satisfactory.
For most viewers, the name "Lu Yi" will always stay in yesterday, and the only character who impressed him is Xiao Tong in "Never Look Away".
In 2017, the script of "In the Name of the People" was delivered to him.
Lu Yi, who has been in the arts for many years, was first a little worried after reading the script: there are so many characters here, if you really want to act, it seems that only those old drama bones who have been in the show business for many years can be competent, if you join, will you be covered up by them?
But on second thought, he was soon amused by his naïve thoughts, afraid of being masked, and first of all, there must be light.
In recent years, with his handsome appearance, he has received a steady stream of scripts, so what about ten years later? Ten years later, people may still remember Chen Kun and remember Pan Yueming, but he is sure that in ten years, no one will remember Lu Yi, who does not have a masterpiece, and at present, an opportunity to have a masterpiece is in front of him.
After weighing it up repeatedly, Lu Yi took over the play.
This anti-corruption TV series has broken the ratings record many times, and Lu Yi also won the best actor in the TV series of the 22nd Huading Awards with the role of Hou Liangping, the "anti-corruption bureau chief", but Lu Yi's biggest worry still happened.
Although he has been officially recognized, most of the discussions are still focused on the wonderful performance of He Bing' old drama bones; for Lu Yi, the most talked about is: "How come after so many years, he still has only one expression?" ”
10
Indeed, since "In the Name of the People", there are very few works that Lu Yi can get his hands on.
On the other hand, Chen Kun, Pan Yueming and others in the same period as him had already won awards at home and abroad, and no one had ever thought that Lu Yi would actually be taken away by them.
As an actor, Lu Yi is a textbook case of "debut is the peak". So far, his most impressive role has always been only Xiao Tong, an anti-drug policeman in "Never Look Away".
However, compared with other actors who have no works, most of the audience has an unusual tolerance for Lu Yi.
Although his business level can only be said to be mediocre, he is a good man in life.
He was gentle and considerate to his wife, and had never crossed the line in more than ten years of marriage; he treated his daughter with great affection and gave the whole world for her.
Looking back at Lu Yi's professional experience, from Xiao Tong in "Never Look Away", to Zhuge Liang in "The New Three Kingdoms", to Hou Liangping in "The Name of the People", he has paid 100% of his heart for each role.
But when he was young, his derelict acting skills made him pay the price he deserved, so that after so many years, Lu Yi was still in a tepid state.
But this is also understandable, perhaps what Lu Yi lacks is just a role suitable for himself, an opportunity to prove himself.
We also believe that one day in the future, Lu Yi may be able to really get rid of the reputation of "having good looks and no acting skills", become a real actor, and come up with works that amaze everyone.