Search for Lu Liangwei on the Internet, and the word "young" will definitely appear in the keyword. Others joked that he was like taking preservatives, "66 years old but 30 years old." For this, Lu Liangwei is very confident, he laughed and said that he really has the physique and state of more than thirty years old. Ask him how he did it, and he'll go out of his way to share his maintenance process and perform "Air Erlang Legs".
Character photography / Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing
No matter how many years have passed, many people will blurt out a name "Ding Li" when they see Lu Liangwei's face again. In the TV series "Shanghai Beach" broadcast in 1980, in addition to Xu Wenqiang and Feng Chengcheng, the role of Ding Li made actor Lu Liangwei popular overnight. Since then, on the road of performance, he has also begun to "love and kill" with Ding Li, which will be painful because the audience cannot accept him other than Ding Li, and will also be excited because he can play a new role, because he always wants to get more "presence" to conquer the role.
Although there will be some frustration and wandering occasionally, but these years Lu Liangwei has long resolved it, although the TVB artists who have fought with him at the same time have changed careers, becoming teachers, selling insurance, running business performances, but he said that he must stick to the matter of being an actor: "My life must not lose the pleasure of conquering the role, and the general direction of being an actor will not change, because I really enjoy the process." I can act, I act, I feel very satisfied. ”
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"No Turn in the World" is the best ending of "Lost Alone"
In the eyes of Zhang Xin, the director of the movie "No Abduction in the World", Lu Liangwei is the best candidate to play the role of The Peak of the Abduction Police. After reading the script, Lu Liangwei took it without saying a word, "This must be performed."
Every time he talked about this role, he always clenched his fists and frowned, "Why do you say there are such bad people in the world?" Every time I think of a trafficker stealing a child, I hate it, a child is gone, and several families are suffering, which is really painful. Lu Liangwei said that throughout the filming process, he interpreted the role with anger, especially when playing against the "human traffickers" in the play, he was eager to arrest the criminals all over the world.
In the movie "No Abduction in the World", Lu Liangwei played the high peak of the abduction policeman.
During the promotion of the film, it coincided with the prototype Guo Gangtang in the movie "Lost Orphans" found his long-lost son, and Lu Liangwei was particularly happy after hearing this news, and he also hoped that his starring role in "No Abduction in the World" could fulfill the social responsibility of the film: "I watched the news, Hua Tsai's film is really a perfect merit, and I hope that "No Abduction in the World" can become the best ending of "Lost Orphan". I can't even imagine how families with similar experiences survived the storm, and I hope that child traffickers will be brought to justice sooner rather than later. ”
Handsome is not an actor's booster, but a hindrance
"For so many years I've avoided showing the audience the handsome side because it makes the audience ignore my performance."
In the first years of his debut, many people felt that Lu Liangwei would definitely be able to make achievements in being an idol. Only he himself did not have any feelings about being a star, and even the initial application for TVB was his father's idea.
When he was a child, Lu Liangwei loved to play and was curious about new things. Whenever friends came to the family, his father asked Lu Liangwei to perform a show for everyone, the model catwalk, and Sun Wukong turned over. Father Lu felt that since the child could not study, it was better to go to the training class for the artist and learn to be an actor. After arriving at the training class, Lu Liangwei found that the original performance was so fun. He never thought he looked good, and began to redouble his efforts.
"For me, handsomeness is by no means a booster to performance, to a certain extent, it is still an obstacle. For so many years I have avoided showing the audience the handsome side because it would make the audience ignore my performance. So every time I perform, I either deliberately play ugly, or try to blend in with the character. Lu Liangwei said that he did not like to use "handsome" to flaunt himself, nor did he want his role to be the appearance of Yushu Linfeng every time. "For example, "Lame Hao", is a middle-aged greasy uncle, and then such as the scum brother in the movie "Fuse", the brother in "Storm", although they are all villains, but each role has its own independent style, if I play these roles together, it is not connected, this is the effect I want." 」
In the movies Fuse (Top) and Storm (Part 2), Lu Liangwei played two very different villains.
The true color starred in "Shanghai Beach", and no one can copy it now
"The reason why the audience likes this role so much is because the character is real, and the audience is also growing up with Ding Li."
In the days when TVB ran the dragon set, Lu Liangwei would never have thought that the role of Ding Li in the TV series "Shanghai Beach" would fall on his head.
At that time, he was just a small actor in the crew of the TV series "People in the Net" starring Zhou Runfa and Zheng Yuling, and in an action scene, his head fell on the table and he went to the hospital for eight stitches. Just when the crew thought that the next night scene could not continue shooting, Lu Liangwei appeared on the set and shouted "I must complete today's work." In this way, he took the injury and did not finish the work until dawn the next day. And these "work that should have been done" in his opinion were known by Shao Zhenqiang, the executive producer of "Shanghai Beach", and insisted on replacing the ding li actor who had been scheduled and replaced by Lu Liangwei. "Shao Zhenqiang thinks that I am Ding Li, not only with a helpless and stoic personality, but also with the strength to be cruel enough to himself. But I was just starting out at that time, I didn't even know what acting was, and I didn't know how to act, so I could only star hard. "Ding Li is keen on hugging unevenness, straightforward and frank, acting, even Lu Liangwei can't tell the difference, is it himself or Ding Li."
In the 1980 TV series "Shanghai Beach", Lu Liangwei (right) quickly became popular with his role as Ding Li.
However, when it comes to the so-called pressure, Lu Liangwei said that there was nothing at all, because at that time, everyone did not expect that this drama could be so popular after it was broadcast. "The reason why the audience likes this role so much is because he is real, and the audience is also growing up with Ding Li." If you look for someone to repeat it now, no one can replicate or perform the feeling we had at the time. ”
In the post-Ding Li era, the enjoyment that was once enjoyed became a wandering
"I still think those five years were blank and it was too difficult to break through a bottleneck."
After the broadcast of "Shanghai Beach", Lu Liangwei was completely on fire. He remembers filming in Shanghai in 1990, everywhere he passed was blocked. "The airport is full of people who welcome you, the road is full of people watching you, and even people who eat come to watch you." I said, 'I can't eat it when you look at it like this,' and the other person said, 'You eat it, I'll see.'" That enthusiasm can be scary, but it's more about enjoyment. Even today, many fans will shout "Ding Li" when they see Lu Liangwei.
But in the slow passage of time, the feeling of enjoyment at first turned into chagrin, and Lu Liangwei even felt that he was completely "finished", because after playing Ding Li, no matter what play he played or what role he played, the audience could not accept it.
After "Shanghai Beach", Lu Liangwei first starred in "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousands of Mountains Always Love" (Part 1) and "Beacon Flying Flowers" (Part 2).
In order to jump out of "Ding Li", he filmed a lot of TV series, partnered with Wang Mingquan in "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains Always Love", and Zheng Shaoqiu in "Beacon Flying Flower", not only did not get recognition, but was "protested" by the audience: we have to see Ding Li. At this time, Lu Liangwei often asked others: "I have played so many different roles, why do you still only want to see Ding Li?" During that time, he often doubted himself, how he did not expect that the price of Ding Li's popularity was to make him wander for five years, "how painful", "everyone did not want to see me play other (roles), they thought that I could only play Ding Li, playing this person for a lifetime, is the best choice for me." I still think that those five years are blank, it is too difficult to break through a bottleneck, not only to improve my performance, but also to break the inherent thoughts of the people around me, but no one taught me how to do it. ”
"Snow Mountain Flying Fox" plays two roles and successfully conquers the character
"Do you know why our eyes are always red in those Hong Kong dramas?" That's because I just woke up. ”
Lu Liangwei still follows the schedule of that year in TVB: 6 o'clock in the morning makeup, 7 o'clock departure, 8 o'clock shooting until 12 noon, continue to shoot after lunch until midnight, and end work every day at 2 am. "Shoot every day, and you don't know what to do in the next moment." He was most impressed by the fact that he shared a car with Zhou Runfa at that time, and the two of them were drivers for each other at different times, "Brother Fa said, 'You drive me to squint for a while', and when I was really sleepy, I shouted brother 'You come and drive me to sleep'." At that time, Fa Ge often found a paper cushion in the powder room and slept with his head, so I made a bunk in the corridor, as long as it was lighting and makeup, we were all making up for sleep. Do you know why our eyes are always red in those Hong Kong dramas? That's because I just woke up (laughs). ”
At the same time, Lu Liangwei is also trying to improve his acting skills, he began to read a lot of performance-related books, seek inspiration from the performances of others in the movie, and then transform it into his own style. In 1985, he played two roles in the TV series "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", during the broadcast, he overheard an audience member say, "It turns out that Lu Liangwei can play other roles", but just a few words moved him to tears, only because he was too eager to let everyone know that he could conquer other roles.
In the 1985 TV series "Flying Fox on the Snowy Mountain", Lu Liangwei played Hu Yidao and Hu Fei.
In 1982, TVB entered the era of "Wireless Five Tigers" (Huang Rihua, Andy Lau, Liang Chaowei, Miao Qiaowei, Tang Zhenye), Lu Liangwei found that the opportunities left to him were getting less and less, "The feeling of being treated as the 'bottom' is really discouraging, if I continue to stay, it will wipe out all my willpower, so I can only go outside to develop and break out of my own way." In 1990, Lu Liangwei decided to leave TVB, and after filming TV dramas for many years, he stepped into the film circle, signed a contract with Jiahe Film Company and "zeroed" himself, and met a turning point in his acting career - lame Hao.
There is no ambition for performance, and life should be casual
"People can't always stand at the top, we must know how to face ourselves at each stage."
In 1991, Lu Liangwei was nominated for the Best Actor of the Hong Kong Film Awards for his starring film "Crippled Hao", which also created a wave of Hong Kong gangster films and became another peak masterpiece of Lu Liangwei. In the film, the originally thin lame Hao began to make a fortune in the later stage, and Lu Liangwei gained nearly 40 pounds in a short period of time, which really made him experience the sacrificial spirit of an actor. In the 1990s, he began to shift his focus to the mainland, gradually learning to accept the audience's unforgettable appreciation of classic roles, and realizing that he should be open to the outside world at every stage.
That year, Lu Liangwei was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor with the movie "Lame Hao".
Now more than twenty years later, mentioning the praise of others for his "childlike appearance", Lu Liangwei said that this is more or less related to his mentality, he said that this is an important secret to his ability to maintain his thirties.
Lu Liangwei has never had the ambition of "must be anything" in acting, he hopes that he can live a casual life, do not shoot dramas in the heat, do charity to help more people, insist on exercising every day, shoot short videos, and take people around him to maintain health. Of course, he also encountered many similar questions: Lu Liangwei, why aren't you red? But he said that ups and downs are the normal laws of being an actor, and from the beginning, he did not want to be coerced by a false name to go on, but also shielded from the scrutiny and questioning from the outside world, and lived in a comfortable environment that he had built up for himself. He said that he can create more possibilities: "There is no time to spend a hundred days, people can not always stand at the peak, we must know how to face each stage of ourselves, to learn how to accept the present self, to find new things to enrich the future." 」 ”
Fresh Q&A
Beijing News: The 1980 version of "Shanghai Beach" is a classic, if you have time, will you revisit it?
Lv Liangwei: I often relive it on the plane, and every time I fly for more than three hours, I watch a few episodes. In fact, "On the Beach" is also a good memory for me. However, looking at yourself is picky, and where it is good and what is not good, it will be re-examined.
Beijing News: Now that the output of filming is not as much as before, will it leave more time for life?
Lv Liangwei: For me, I still have to meet a good script and production team. When I was young, I was a workaholic, I didn't know anything, I would only shoot with my mind. So now I want to pursue a comfortable state of life, I like to compare my current self with my previous self, and I also want to change in a better direction, the past has passed, I hope the future is better.
Beijing News: Can you say that you are a person who is very demanding of yourself?
Lv Liangwei: Yes, I don't like to talk about what I have obtained before, and there are still many new goals in front of me, so why not pursue them? Some people think this endless chase is tiring, but that's my character.
Beijing News: You are like a "health promotion ambassador" on the social platform, why do you go out of your way to instill health knowledge in everyone?
Lv Liangwei: Because I want to bring health and happiness to everyone. Many people say that I try to stay 30 years old because I don't want to be old, but in fact, I am not afraid of getting old, I have a way to make myself young. Even in another ten years, I believe my physical fitness will decline more slowly than many people. Every day life is very tired, everyone should care about their own body, less pain, the burden will be lighter, these can be changed through mentality, diet, work and rest, exercise, will make you better and better.
Zhou Huixiaowan, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
Chief Photographer Guo Yanbing
Chief Editor Wu Dongni Proofreader Zhao Lin