In the furious sand, the sun is scorching, the wind and sand are dancing, and at the end of an inaccessible road, stands an isolated city, which is like a monument silent here, and the four huge forces cannot invade.
In the heart of actor Zhu Yawen, there is such a city, he uses all his strength to defend the city and be stable, and he uses his awe to defend the city from chaos.
This poetic man, although there are thousands of changes, but only in the middle of the role of free flow, to the performance, he always adhere to the authenticity of the profession, the existing role, and then talk about the actor.
In the 18 years since his debut, he has never dared to treat the role lightly, nor is he willing to give each character a different fate and undertake the responsibility with each character.
"People are lazy for a day, and I hope to come later that day," he said lightly.
Today, the 37-year-old is jumping out of the comfortable safety zone, constantly trying to touch, constantly looking for the self that has more possibilities.
This time, he saw the bigger world.
First, the "North and South Brother" growth record
One morning in 1984, at the ferry port of the Kushiba River, a group of fishermen returning home with a full load were holding aloft the fat fish in their hands, facing the sea breeze, laughing out of the folds of the old sun, the old wine in the bowl and the splash of the fish, intertwined across the sleeping coastline.
A tribute party full of goods to celebrate going to sea is very lively.
In the same year, Zhu Yawen was born in this small waterside city "Yancheng", and later more than ten years of experience in the north drift made this gentle southerner have a little more fortitude of the northerners, and the eyebrows became more heroic.
He was born into a military family, his grandfather and father were both soldiers, his father Zhu Guo became a local prosecutor after he changed careers, and his mother Zhang Dongfeng was a teacher at a health school.
Zhu Yawen is the only son in the family, especially the grace of his grandparents, but his father attaches great importance to his education, the rules are numerous, the discipline is ironclad, the family is like a military training ground, the son is the soldier under the command, the slightest transgression, will be punished to do push-ups, stand in the military posture.
Since childhood, because of his parents' busy work, Zhu Yawen grew up next to his grandparents' mahjong table, sneaking on a fart mound, riding a three-wheeled toy car, surrounding an old square table with four corners polished, turning in a circle, and the Yancheng dialect in the hall house where you come and go is funny and hilarious.
To this day, it is a warm and kind memory in Zhu Yawen's heart, and even now, he will intentionally communicate with his daughter in Yancheng dialect, hoping that no matter how far they go when they grow up, they will clearly know where they come from.
When he was a child, he stayed with him on a color television set of an old age, and Zhu Yawen, a small "TV fan", liked to watch TV secretly the most, so he often fought guerrilla warfare with his mother.
The severed broom became his golden hoop stick, the sheets and bedding were his armor, the pot and pan lid became a protective shield, the home was the jianghu, the characters on TV, he imitated one by one, but the picture was exquisite.
Just when Zhu Yawen was playing with a stick and playing a monkey, Shen Jiani, a small boy in Shanghai, had been selected by the Shanghai Rhythmic Gymnastics Team, and became a professional gymnast at the age of 8, and won the third place in the all-around in the artistic gymnastics competition of the National Games at the age of 15.
After that, the handsome teenager and the oxygen girl met one day in the future and achieved a good marriage story.
In junior high school, Zhu Yawen gradually showed his love for the liberal arts, often suddenly chanting a poem, quite a sour literary feeling, but the serious partiality of the subject, so that his parents worried about his studies.
The parents' beloved son was far-reaching, and under some scheming, they decided to let Zhu Yawen take the road of literature and art, and because the son's voice conditions were still good, they cultivated according to the vocal route.
For 5 years, Zhu Yawen has been learning vocal music and practicing baritone. In order to provide better conditions for his son, from a small class in Yancheng, to a special training in Nanjing, to a further study in Beijing, this small working-class family used all its savings to train his son.
In order to repay his parents' painstaking cultivation, Zhu Yawen worked very hard, and finally he passed the ninth grade of bel canto, and the bright report card seemed to see his future as a singing superstar.
However, perhaps due to talent, there is always an undercurrent in the teenager's heart, and he actually hates singing, copying other people's emotions every day, singing the same tune, making him feel bored and bored.
Before the third year of high school, he suddenly turned the muzzle of the gun and changed to acting, although his parents opposed him, but he became increasingly obsessed with the rehearsal of sketches and dramas, and he did not perceive the threat of time at all, and paranoidly let them integrate into the bits and pieces of his life.
At the age of 18, Zhu Yawen was successfully admitted to the Beijing Film Academy with excellent results, and became a classmate with Luo Jin, Liu Yifei, Jiang Yiyan and others.
Second, the day of the North Drift
"I am a person without ideals, acting well is what I should do in my life, it has nothing to do with ideals," Zhu Yawen said firmly.
Perhaps, his connection with acting began very early, a natural sense of mission that allowed him to devote himself to the things he loved, without any false intentions.
The life of Beiying is wonderful, and this proud and stubborn boy, as if he has found his own spiritual paradise, like a fish leaving the water, can't wait to plunge into it.
For this top art school, there is no shortage of beautiful women and handsome men, coupled with the confusion about systematic professional learning, the first level that children who have just entered the school is the "sense of inferiority".
However, Zhu Yawen, who is not outstanding in appearance, does not seem to have such a problem, he is always in good spirits and very confident.
Whether it is an acting class or a line class, a small theater or a big stage, he is the first person to get on the stage, and his performance is also quite eye-catching, and the teacher's evaluation of him is very high.
In my freshman year, because of the sketch assignments for the final exams, all the students fell into anxiety.
Among them, there was Liu Yifei, who was admitted out of the box, and she was only 15 years old at the time, the youngest in the class.
That year, due to the divorce of her parents, Liu Yifei was brought to the United States by her mother to live, and changed her motherhood, renamed "Liu Qianmeizi", and regained her stage name after returning to China, under the mediation of her father Chen Jinfei, at the age of 14, she became popular because of her participation in the "White Xiuzhu" in "Golden Powder Family".
Liu Yifei, who looks like a heavenly immortal, has a lonely and cold personality, and because he is already busy filming during school, he has very few friends in school, and his schoolwork is also halfway down.
Zhu Yawen, who has already completed the final work, has many ideas in the arrangement of sketches, and has given ideas to many students in the class, and Liu Yifei, a temperament beauty, cannot refuse and takes the initiative to help her do rehearsal homework.
A pair of wall shadow beauties have become a unique landscape in the rehearsal hall, which seems to have the meaning of "talking about wine and talking about love for a long time", and has also become the object of private discussion among the students.
It is said that Zhu Yawen was very fond of cleanliness, and he would clean up the bed early on, and he would not allow anyone to sit on his bed indiscriminately, but there was only one exception, and this person was Liu Yifei.
In fact, the scandal between the two is also out of nowhere, Zhu Yawen has always regarded Liu Yifei as a little sister, giving more care and help, in fact, he already has a girlfriend who is in love.
The girlfriend is the same school, Pan Yutong, who is one year younger than herself, a fresh and lovely cute girl, has already won the heart of the male god one step ahead, and the two have been in love for 9 years.
Unfortunately, the relationship between the two still did not run through the disturbances of the entertainment circle, and finally broke up peacefully, after which Pan Yutong married a rich man outside the circle and gave birth to a son, and life was very happy.
Zhu Yawen, who wanted to stay in school as a teacher, was favored by director Jiang Ruojin in his sophomore year, starred in the TV series "Sunshine and Rainy Season", and accidentally stepped into the film and television circle.
After graduation, Zhu Yawen began a long life of north drift, like duckweed, without roots, a body of loneliness and pride, in the face of reality, was beaten to pieces.
"Sometimes, home is a place you can't go back to, and you feel guilty in the face of your family's expectations and efforts," he said with his head bowed.
Cold Beijing, with nothing of itself, a green face drowned in the corner of the city, only the layer of dusty hope at the bottom of the heart, shining with a hazy fire.
For several years, he wore what he thought was the best-looking clothes, ran all over The big and small crews in Beijing, relying on the annual TV drama indicators, playing some small roles that were not well known, and barely survived.
However, obsessed with drama, he often put forward opinions bluntly because of discrepancies with the director's ideas, offending many directors and receiving fewer and fewer scenes.
Even so, he is not willing to change his original intentions and obsessions, unwilling to be tempted by opportunity and fame and fortune and choose to compromise, he is like a hungry beast, hiding his majestic ambitions, waiting for opportunities.
3. Luck and talent
"In front of every character, I am actually very powerless", when he dreams back in the middle of the night, he often wakes up in pain in the tear between drama and reality, because he really loves it, so he can't let go.
After wandering for a few years, once he saw the group, he and the director Zhang Xinjian accidentally collided with a full heart, and when he stumbled, he saw Zhang Xinjian suddenly standing still, raising his eyes to look at this young man carefully, thoughtful.
After half an hour of conversation, this humble and interesting young man made Zhang Xinjian very happy, and the Kong Wu zhengqi between his eyebrows was like "Zhu Chuanwu" in the TV series "Breaking into the Guandong" he was preparing to shoot.
In 2006, after the broadcast of "Breaking into the Kanto", it attracted great attention from the audience, and Zhu Yawen was also deeply loved by the audience for playing this slightly reckless, but sentient and righteous patriotic youth, and was named one of the "Top Ten Tough Guys on the Screen" for his role.
After that, Zhu Yawen's acting career has been hanging all the way, and his solid acting skills coupled with an angular face have made the first-line screenwriters Gao Mantang and Liu Heping vote for favor, playing many "tough guy" roles in the main drama, and one is more wonderful than the other.
In 2009, in "Love for the Northern Wilderness", he played the brave and heroic " Hao Bao" who was not afraid of sacrifice.
In 2010, in "The Flying Eagle Far Away", he played the "Gao Zhihang" heroically and vigorously.
In 2012, in "Our French Years", he played Zhou Enlai in his youth as realistic and evocative.
In 2013, in "Under the Gate of Zhengyang", he cooperated with the old drama bone Ni Dahong to portray the male protagonist Han Chunming, who grew from a "rag king" to an industrialist in the play.
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However, Zhu Yawen fell into the embarrassing bottleneck of not being popular among the drama celebrities, and has always been unknown.
Until 2014, after cooperating with Zhou Xun in "Red Sorghum", it was gradually known to the audience, and because of the bandit leader "Yu Zhan'ao" played by him, the domineering, chivalrous and affectionate image, it caused countless hot topics, and netizens commented that "casual sorghum land, walking hormones"!
In fact, before receiving this role, there was already a film version of "Red Sorghum", which won the "Golden Bear Award" at the Berlin International Film Festival, and the acting skills of the film emperor Jiang Wen became the industry benchmark, so Zhu Yawen was under great pressure.
In order to richly present the drama version of "Yu Zhan'ao", Zhu Yawen went deep into the high-density countryside to experience life. Every day, he braved the poisonous sun, bare-chested, went down to the farmland to work, scooped the weeds and seedlings, and did everything himself.
After 3 months, he became a lean farmer who was blackened and could not be easily recognized, even among the locals.
For the needs of the role, he even gained 10 pounds from 130 pounds in a short period of time, just to find the symmetrical sense of muscle lines of the characters.
In the play, a demolition scene, could have been used to replace the scene, Zhu Yawen insisted on completing the difficult work, the result was that the left hand was injured, the blood flowed non-stop, in order not to delay the shooting progress, simple bandaging and then put into work.
And this happens every day in the crew:
In "Love for the Great Northern Wilderness", in order to cooperate with the plot, he stood for half a day in the ice and snow weather of more than 30 degrees below zero, and finally froze to the point of unconsciousness.
In "Daming Style", in the hot summer, he wore more than 50 pounds of armor to shoot a big drama, tired to exhaustion, in order not to waste the staff's time, even if he rested, he could not pack up.
With the drama "Red Sorghum", Zhu Yawen won the Best Actor Award of the "Magnolia Award" of the Shanghai TV Festival and was officially promoted to the ranks of first-line actors.
Dedicated and diligent Zhu Yawen, not only let the director rest assured, but also let the opponent trust a good actor, treat the profession, he is always higher than the requirements, always one step further than the standard, he always maintains this sensitivity.
Fourth, the matter of marriage
"The happiest thing in my life is to know Shen Jiani, and the most correct thing to do is to marry her." As long as my heart beats for a day, I will love her for a day," Zhu Yawen said to his wife emotionally at the wedding scene.
Because of starring in Haiyan's drama "Plain Life", Shen Jiani has been called "Rock Girl", with a height of 1.7 meters and plain facial features, she has a fresh and pure temperament, and is even known as "Little Zhou Xun".
In 2010, the two met on a late autumn afternoon.
On that day, the sun was just right, the autumn wind was not dry, the autumn leaves of Shizui Mountain were all over the mountains, and a thin girl, standing with her back to a piece of red leaves, with her hands in the pockets of light blue jeans, was turning her head to smile at Zhu Yawen, who had just arrived.
"She looks like a sika deer, a little cute, very quiet, very sensitive, can be ignored when calm, can be overturned when cheerful, running up and down, not aggressive, but very characterful," Zhu Yawen recalled.
The TV series "Love in the Vast Land" began filming in Ningxia, the director was late for some reason on the same day, and the two lead actors Zhu Yawen and Shen Jiani met in this way.
During the shooting, often encountered rain and snow weather, filming a delay, the food on the table is cold, and the two are both southerners, at this time they especially want to eat something soft and hot, in total, they decided to show a hand.
Therefore, Zhu Yawen borrowed the farmer's cross pickaxe and dug carrots leisurely in the snow, over there, between filming, Shen Jiani ran to the farmers' market and weighed two pounds of lamb.
The two of them borrowed the stove of their hometown, you made a fire to cook the pot, joined hands to make a pot of hot lamb stewed radish, the first time they cooperated to cook, it was like an old couple who had lived for many years.
And the delicate and warm love between "Wen Mingyuan" and "Zuo Beibei" in the play also continued outside the play, and after the killing, Shen Jiani accepted Zhu Yawen's confession.
The next year, Zhu Yawen took Shen Jiani back to her hometown in Yancheng to meet her parents, and her mother Zhang Dongfeng liked it as soon as she saw this girl, and from the beginning of entering the door, she kept Holding Shen Jiani's hand and said happily: "In the future, I have another daughter, if Yawen dares to bully you, I will give you the master."
In love for 3 years, for this girl in his heart, Zhu Yawen always wants to give her all the good ones, no matter where he goes to shoot, he will always squeeze out time to buy his girlfriend what she likes.
Once when he went to Cannes, he ran all over the streets of the city, looking for Shen Jiani everywhere, and even swiped his own card.
On June 16, 2013, 29-year-old Zhu Yawen officially married 30-year-old Shen Jiani, and the wedding ceremony was held in Beijing, and many friends in the circle such as Tong Yao and Zheng Jun were present to celebrate.
Liu Yifei, who has always been low-key, also came to attend the wedding of "brother" Zhu Yawen, and also gave an interview at the wedding site that he was Zhu Yawen's classmate.
In 2015, Shen Jiani gave birth to her husband's eldest daughter "haha", and added a thousand gold two years later. After having a child, Zhu Yawen gradually reduced her production, accompanied her wife and daughter at home, and also asked her sister-in-law for advice, personally changing diapers, washing milk and bathing for the children...
In order to accompany them more, Zhu Yawen specially bought a motorhome from the second-hand car market, which was carefully designed and transformed to accommodate a family of four.
Nowadays, he will attach a requirement to filming: "The film remuneration can be lower, but you must bring your wife and children."
He has been living with his wife and daughter for 6 years, and although the location is always on the move, as long as his wife and daughter are around, everywhere is home.
Fifth, the return
"I never believed that there are comfortable safe zones, and all areas that can give you breathing, comforting, and pause are traps", in order to dig out his multi-faceted nature, Zhu Yawen never stopped.
After coming down from the big screen, he will restore his more authentic self to the audience. After that, he participated in some variety shows, and the response was very good, becoming a proper "variety show café".
In 2015, he participated in the reality show "True Heart Hero" for the first time, which is a reasoning competition program, and Zhu Yawen sang the theme song "True Heart Hero" for the show.
In 2018, as a "heartbeat observer", he also participated in a program "Heartbeat Signal" of urban men and women in love.
In the same year, the program "Sound Immersion", which made him famous again, was simply tailor-made for Zhu Yawen, and he perfectly presented the strength of the original actor with his textbook voice and explosive acting skills.
A playful phrase in the show, "Baby," was shouted out of the mouth of the subwoofer Zhu Yawen, making the audience scream crisp, and he was praised as a "walking hormone.".
And for his unique sexy charm, he once said:
"Sexy and wave are two different things, I am sexy, but I am not a wave, limited and precious sexiness, may be in addition to my wife, is to release some in the character." 」
In 2019, he participated in the outdoor competitive reality show "Run Bar Season 3" as a regular guest, and the performance in the show was also quite eye-catching.
In addition to acting, he also carried out many "small attempts", he used sound as an outlet, recorded audio stories, life insights, etc., to convey more positive energy of himself.
At the same time, he has a big boy side, such as a love of anime, and has updated a lot of voice shows on social accounts about Sisso, Dior, Doflamingo and other villains and animation characters.
Today, 37-year-old Zhu Yawen has gradually become soft and wise in the changes in the identity of actor, husband and father.
For acting, he never obsessed with the protagonist and supporting roles, and he was willing to retire to the role as long as the plot required.
For the family, he claimed to have three daughters, and he was the happy "king of the daughter country".
Seeking inward, returning to plainness, such a Zhu Yawen, it is really good!