Recently, the living Buddha Jigong actor You Benchang posted a video of himself on a social platform, and his thin cheeks at the age of 87 were sunken, but he still looked full of energy.
In the video, Teacher You Benchang wears a gray flower shirt and greets netizens with a smile with black-framed eyes. He looks emaciated, wrinkled but still has a bright eye, and affectionately calls netizens "dolls", like a kind grandfather.
Teacher You Benchang sent Tanabata blessings to netizens in the video, and also gave everyone a question, asking: How much does 1+1 equal? And said that this is not a math problem, let the netizens write the answer on the message board, he is very happy to interact with everyone.
As soon as the video came out, netizens wrote the answer on the message board and expressed their thoughts to Teacher You Benchang, saying "Grandpa Jigong, I haven't seen you for a long time, we miss you." It seems that even though the image of the Living Buddha Jigong has left the big screen for so many years, the audience still remembers him in their hearts.
Teacher You Benchang has always been a good actor with both virtue and art. The most important reason why the image of the Living Buddha Jigong is so successful is that You Benchang is as dedicated as ever, and there have been many dedicated stories on the set.
It is reported that during the filming of the living Buddha Jigong, there was a scene of Jigong eating meat, which was in the middle of summer and the temperature reached 39 degrees. When filming, he needed to go to the mountains to shoot, so You Benchang covered it with meat for a day, and when he arrived at the shooting scene, he was already smelly. But he still gulped down the meat and finished the scene in earnest.
In addition to acting dedication, Teacher You Benchang's own artistic virtue is also commendable. After the great success of the living Buddha Jigong played by him, many scripts came to the door. But Mr. You Benchang did not use this opportunity to make a lot of money, but carefully chose the script and avoided shoddy fabrication. He once said that what is important for an actor is not to win an award, but to praise you from the audience.
After this, because he rejected too many scripts and offended too many people, his acting career entered a low period. But he has always maintained a heart that sincerely engages in artistic creation. Some time ago, someone asked him what he had been busy with lately, and he said in the video that he had been engaged in creation.
Some time ago, the "Lie Detector Man" in which he participated was released, and the actor Ma Li was also in it, although the box office results were not very satisfactory, but Teacher You Benchang has been constantly breaking through himself and challenging different types of plays, this spirit is valuable.
The 87-year-old teacher You Benchang is full of confidence in life and career. Although he is old, he often posts his recent situation on social platforms and often sends blessings to netizens on holidays. Some time ago, during the Dragon Boat Festival, he took out a zongzi to show that his relationship with the dolls was as closely connected as the glutinous rice in the zongzi.
In today's showbiz circle where materialism is rampant and the new generation of actors are emerging in an endless stream, Grandpa You Benchang is definitely a clear stream. The wine and flesh passed through the intestines, and the Buddha's heart remained. In the entertainment circle of drunken fans, he can still maintain the bottom line of the actor and maintain inner peace, which is his cultivation and the ethics of a respectable old artist. Such actors are exactly the actors we really need today.