"Love Only" followed by Jiang Wenli and Ming Dao's "Corner Love", which started sweetly.
It is also focused on the theme of "sibling love", but it was called by netizens: too high!
Compared with the former's continuous complaints, the reputation of this work has soared to a new high after it was released, especially the actor Wu Lei, who was even called "April Song's boyfriend" by netizens.
He really released his "sexual tension" in the play, and simply became a new "walking hormone".
This year, he is 24 years old, he has been debuting for 18 years, and he has always felt like a "younger brother", but now he is going to succeed in his transformation with "Love Only"?
1. "Cultivation is a national younger brother"
As one of the popular students of the "cultivation department", Wu Lei has worked with many actresses, and almost every pair has been "forcibly" fired by netizens CP, but there are not many scandals in his own hands.
Born in Shanghai in 1999, he was selected by advertisers at the age of 3 because he was cute and shot an advertisement for health products.
After that, he got out of control on the road, shooting no less than 50 commercials in two years, which also inspired his acting talent.
In 2005, 6-year-old Wu Lei was selected by the crew of the TV series "Fengming Qishan" in the art school, so he starred in Nezha and officially entered the film and television industry.
After filming this play, Wu Lei's acting career was like a hanging, and he has participated in works of different themes such as "Young Yang Family General", "There Are Aliens at Home" and "Who Knows the Heart of a Woman", but the roles are basically the childhood of the male protagonist - although cute, it did not leave a particularly deep impression on the audience.
In 2010, Wu Lei took over the 100-episode children's sitcom "Naughty Baoma Little Jump".
At that time, he was 11 years old, in addition to still looking very attractive, his acting skills were also natural and flexible, and he is still known as the "childhood god" by many people, and his popularity has increased.
The following year, while filming the national drama "Angry Sea Revenge", Wu Lei met child star Jiang Yiyi, who was 2 years younger than him, and the two worked together a lot in the future, and even gave each other their first on-screen kiss, but they have always been just friends.
However, the debut of "child stars" is not a elixir that continues to become popular, after all, throughout the entertainment industry, there are many child stars who become famous as teenagers but "paste" when they grow up: such as Xie Miao, Cao Jun, Shi Xiaolong and so on.
In other words, if Wu Lei does not quickly transform at the right time period, Wu Lei is likely to be "fleeting".
In 2015, 16-year-old Wu Lei suddenly had more dramas, and it can be seen that he has begun to transform, starring in the inspirational drama "Whirlwind Girl", he played Hu Yifeng, the senior brother of Songbai Taoist Hall.
This is a youth inspirational drama, the play gathers male stars such as Yang Yang and Chen Xiang, who were popular at that time, Wu Lei can only be regarded as the male number four, but it is also impressive.
It is worth mentioning that in this drama, the CP with Wu Lei is Tan Songyun, who is 9 years older than him.
At that time, Tan Songyun had not yet come out with "The Best of Us", so it was not very popular, but the CP sense of the two was also very strong - and this was just the beginning of his gradual growth from "younger brother" to man.
When the two were interviewed, the host asked about the age difference between the two, and Wu Lei also had a high emotional intelligence to use "she is 6 years old, I am 15 years old" to relieve each other, which can be said to be very warm.
In the same year, Wu Lei also took out works such as "Langya List" and "Qin Shi Mingyue", especially in the former, he played the guards with incomplete minds but high martial arts skills very well, not only did not lose at all in a group of acting schools, but also had a sense of existence.
Hu Ge, who has worked with "Langya List", once said: "I hope you become a great actor because you have this condition." ”
Finally, the audience's impression of "Ma Xiao Jump" grew into a tall and handsome teenager.
2. "Boring" emotional experience
In addition, the child stars Wu Lei has worked with include well-known actresses such as Xu Jiao, Guan Xiaotong, and Li Randi.
But every paragraph is a "screen CP" or a friend in reality, and it is not very related to scandals, so Wu Lei is also known as one of the "male stars with a clean love history" as an adult.
Wu Lei's real popularity as a male star rather than a child star originated in 2018.
Although the fantasy drama "Breaking the Sky" in which he participated was full of complaints, it still received nearly 5 billion views, and another work "Sand Sea" received a good response.
What is even more surprising is that Wu Lei participated in the movie "Shadow" directed by Zhang Yimou, in which he challenged to play the role of the heroic young martial general Yang Ping, although there are not many scenes, but let everyone see his plasticity.
Zhang Yimou once praised Wu Lei for being very dedicated during the filming process in an interview:
"All the action is hands-on and reflects the excellent qualities of a young actor."
Since then, Wu Lei has finally joined the ranks of first-line students and opened his acting path as a "big male protagonist".
In order to better interpret the steppe tribe special agent Ashile Falcon in "Long Song Line", he soaked in the gym before starting up: "I hope to restore my body to a strong state as much as possible." ”
In fact, at this time, Wu Lei already had a "sense of yu", and his figure was particularly eye-catching.
In addition to the appearance, he also pays special attention to the soul of the character, especially when performing crying scenes, he has a sense of layering, and is even strongly praised by the official media.
In the same year, Wu Lei also came up with works such as "Midsummer Future" and "Set Sail: When the Wind Rises".
In the former, his second match with "national sister" Zhang Zifeng has attracted much attention, and even before the film's release, just released a poster shooting tidbit, which was praised by netizens:
"There is a sense of CP, the national brother and the national sister have grown up!"
In "Set Sail: When the Wind Rises", Wu Lei challenges the typical Beijing master Xiao Chuang, and he and Xie Hang, played by Mao Xiaohui, are a couple with a bumpy road.
But in reality, Wu Lei had a scandal with Xiang Hanzhi, the actor of Tan Yuan, who was originally a couple with Hou Minghao in the play, and the female number two.
Xiang Hanzhi is one of the "post-00s little flowers" held by Xu Jinglei, who once attracted attention in 2021 for playing Huang Lei's daughter in the TV series "Xiaomin's House".
When this work was not yet broadcast, the scandal between Wu Lei and Xiang Hanzhi spread, and at first it was only picked up by netizens with the same mobile phone case and sweatshirt, so it did not attract excessive attention.
But the following year, when "Star Han Splendid" was on fire, the scandal between the two was rumored again.
During a live broadcast with Zhao Lusi, due to the bad signal, Wu Lei switched his mobile phone to 4G, and Xiang Hanzhi immediately posted on social platforms that night: "The Internet is 4G but my heart is for you."
This made the relationship between the two hotly discussed again.
In July of the same year, a chat record of the man was uploaded on the Internet, and the avatar of the top contact was a photo of a snow beauty, which was suspected by netizens to be Xiang Hanzhi, who had taken similar photos, but she immediately came out to deny it.
However, this "suspenseful love drama" did not stop because in August, Xiang Hanzhi entered the group to film, and the actor Wang Anning inadvertently revealed that the object of his cooperation was Wu Lei's girlfriend.
But the man's fan support will immediately come out to refute the rumors, and more directly express "outrageous" and deny the idol's love.
Wu Lei immediately changed his relationship status on social platforms to "single", suspected of indirect denial.
In November last year, Xiang Hanzhi posted his own small essay on his social platform, telling some of his experiences as an artist, and there was no lack of expectations for "love" in the text.
What's more interesting is that netizens saw her post and left messages, and some people directly asked "Is there a boyfriend", but she suddenly burst into foul language.
Therefore, she was also angry with netizens: "Is your boyfriend unwilling to make it public, what does it have to do with netizens?" Disease-free moaning! ”
However, later, Zhou Yiran, who Xiang Hanzhi cooperated with "Xiaomin's Family", had a scandal, and the story between him and Wu Lei naturally became a thing of the past.
3. Successful transformation and full play of "sexual tension"
In the hit "Love Only", Wu Lei turned into Song Sanchuan, a badminton player who was accustomed to sitting on a cold bench, and met Liang Youan, the "sister" who was in a bottleneck period in his life, because of fate, and opened a beautiful love with mutual confidence.
The heroine's actor Zhou Yutong is 5 years older than Wu Lei, but she is full of "sister feeling" and is also a highly malleable actress.
In a sense, Wu Lei's successful transformation this time has a lot to do with choosing the right heroine.
In addition, the current 24-year-old Wu Lei still has youthful vitality and sunshine, so it is very appropriate to interpret a 20+ male athlete.
It is also because of the identity of this athlete that the "sense of dog" on his body has been reduced by a few points, but there are more similar to control, oppression or attraction to the opposite sex.
In order to play this role well, Wu Lei did not work hard before filming:
He learned badminton skills, trained abs, and even changed his hairstyle, all in order to get close to the character.
Screenwriter Zhang Yingji recognized Wu Lei's performance very much in an interview, saying that when the two met for the first time, the other party appeared without slovenliness, looking very "Song Sanchuan", and he was often in a plain state during the filming process.
As a result, Song Sanchuan in the play has become the image of a big boy who is now full of hormones and straight feelings.
The director also captured a lot of details, such as the arms with green tendons during training, the beads of sweat in the sun after high-intensity training, and the chest muscles and abs that do not fall...
"Song Sanchuan is relatively close to me, because unlike the plays I have acted in before, this time he is a 'mortal' and is about the same age as me. So this time the performance is more suitable for the characters. ”
The reason why he took on this role, he said in an interview, and he also liked the emotional view in the play, so he was also suspected by fans: "Could it be that he likes sibling love?" ”
However, the "sister and brother love" in the play is different from similar works that forcibly added industrial saccharin in the past, especially what touches porcelain, spins in circles, and wall knocks at every turn, all of which are blocked.
But with delicate techniques, slowly let the audience's feelings for the two gradually enter the play, the relationship between the two is also very boundary, occasionally a small action, small details but inexplicably poke the audience's heart, the heart to say: "So sweet!" ”
Some people even bluntly said that "Love Only" is the correct way to open the "sister and brother love" theme works of domestic entertainment.
Therefore, it is understandable to say that this work is the work of Wu Lei's transformation from a teenager to a man.
At present, in addition to the idol drama "In Blizzard" starring Zhao Jinmai, who is also a child star, Wu Lei also has two film works with different themes.
"It's Worth the Trip" led by Hu Ge and the feature film "Grass and Wood World" starring Jiang Qinqin - it can be said that several works have their own characteristics and different types.
In fact, from the stills of several works, it can also be clearly felt: this little boy who grew up under our noses has counterattacked into another attractive look.
Looking forward to the many surprises he will continue to bring, after all, Wu Lei's future is indeed promising.