In 2009, Peng Yuyan spent more than half a year in a fog.
He was depressed and depressed. He said: "I am so confused, why do others have so many dramas, have so many fans, can make so much money, shoot so many advertisements, and I don't have none?" ”
The people who debuted at the same time as him, Yu Wenle, Ruan Jingtian, Rainie Yang, and Fan Weiqi have either become popular stars or have countless halos on their bodies.
Only he was still tepid 7 years after his debut. Now due to his "disobedience", he not only lost all job opportunities and did not have any economic income, but also needed to pay a huge liquidated damages of 50 million yuan to the economic company.
During that time, he once relied on his 62-year-old mother for help. At the age of 27, he began to doubt himself, he wanted to give up, he wanted to quit the industry completely.
But fortunately, his mother's words woke him up: "The road of life is very long, what you have now will not be everything, and what you lose now will not be lost forever." ”
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On March 24, 1982, in Penghu County, Taiwan, a 5-kilogram "overweight" baby boy was born.
His mother, Li Ying, spent a lot of effort when giving birth to him, and even more worried when raising him.
This child is Peng Yuyan.
He suffered from severe asthma as a child and at one point hovered on the brink of death.
When he was a child, his most frequent place was the hospital, and because he could not breathe, he was often taken by his mother to the hospital emergency department to hang a drip.
At that time, the doctor said: "This child is not saved, you should go to other hospitals to try your luck." This sentence frightened his mother, so whenever he heard what others said that could be cured, his mother took him to try it again.
Hearing others say that swimming can be treated, his mother sent him to swim before dawn, swimming for two hours a day, twenty back and forth, after swimming to clean the pool and then go to school, a persistence is several years.
Hearing others say that what medicine is useful, his mother will give him food, but not only has no effect, but also the more he eats, the fatter he gets.
If Peng Yuyan, 7 or 8 years old, looks chubby and quite cute, then when he was 10 years old, he was simply a walking ball of meat.
Because he was too fat, he was very inferior in his childhood, and he had a crush on the girl in the next class with his friends, but he did not dare to confess and became the person who helped people send love letters.
In order to make him thin, his mother sent him to play basketball, practice karate, art, composition, painting, almost everything.
But his mother's dedication to the family and children, his father did not see in the eyes. His mother was busy greeting him and his two young sisters, while his father was busy flirting with other women.
So, when Peng Yuyan was very young, his parents divorced, and he became the child of a single-parent family. He said: "Since I was born, I have seen my father four times. I have almost no impression of my father in my memory. ”
After the divorce, in order to raise his two older sisters, his mother worked three jobs alone. In order to give his children a better education, when he was 13 years old, his mother gritted his teeth and sent him to Canada to study.
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At that time, for him, it was not the most difficult thing for a person to study in a country with a language barrier, the most difficult thing was to face the ridicule of his classmates.
The 14-year-old is less than 160cm tall and weighs 140 pounds. He was ridiculed by his classmates in person: "Eating so much every day, it is no wonder that he will be fat." ”
That's when he really made up his mind to lose weight. In addition to studying, he exercises for hours a day. It was not easy for the ridiculed "fat mound" to lose weight and become a handsome little student who made people shine.
After throwing off a body of fat, he quickly jumped to 182. At the age of 16, he not only became more confident, but also met his first love.
He didn't live up to his mother's expectations. In 2001, he was admitted to Columbia University, one of the top 40 universities in the world and one of the top three universities in Canada, majoring in economics.
Known as the "Pearl of the West Coast", the university has produced seven Nobel laureates and four Canadian prime ministers. If there is no accident, peng Yuyan should become a financial scientist with a high income in suits and shoes after graduating from college.
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However, at the age of 19, fate gave him other options.
In 2002, his grandmother passed away, and he returned to Taiwan from Canada to mourn. At that time, he faded the baby fat and transformed into a handsome young man with handsome features.
Peng Yuyan's grandmother
During the funeral, he was full of youthful spirits and was taken by director Yang Daqing at a glance, and invited him to star in the love idol drama "Love White Paper" with Rainie Yang, Fan Weiqi, Yu Wenle and others.
At that time, he was still a sophomore in college, and he was very hesitant, not knowing whether he wanted to continue his studies and become a financier in the future, or to step into the show business circle and become an actor.
At that time, he remembered that when he was a child, when his grandmother watched the film and television works of Zhou Runfa and Jackie Chan with him, his grandmother said: "I hope that there can be an excellent actor like Fa Ge and Jackie Chan in the family." ”
Considering that his mother was alone for 3 children to study, the economic pressure was relatively large, he chose to "gamble", took a 3-year suspension from school, and signed a brokerage company to officially debut.
At that time, because F4 was popular all over the country, he was forced to grow long hair and work too much to sleep well. In addition, he is still quite happy in life, interesting and rich in filming.
Because of his high appearance, he gained a large wave of female fans as soon as he debuted. In order to quickly circle fans, the company gave him a youth idol drama that only looks at the face and does not need acting skills.
Most of the roles he took on were handsome guys with sunshine, and they didn't need to play at all, because "he was like that at that time." ”
At the age of 21, he felt for the first time the benefits of high appearance.
In 2003, he partnered with Qiu Porcelain Xuan and co-starred in the male and female protagonists of the TV series "Love Xiang". At that time, Peng Yuyan Shuai, who had half-long hair, was really handsome, but his acting skills were really crotch pulling, and there was no love in his eyes when he looked at his lover.
In 2005, he played the infatuated Tang Yu in "The Legend of the Paladin Sword", and his acting skills were good. However, Hu Ge, who also has the same high appearance, has more brilliant acting skills than him, and the audience's eyes are attracted to Hu Ge.
For the first time, Peng Yuyan knew that acting skills were more useful than looks.
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In 2007, he tried his first attempt at film, but it didn't turn out well.
He and Ruan Jingtian co-starred in lin Yuxian's film "Exit Six", which was terrible at the box office.
However, Ruan Jingtian single-handedly carried the girder to star in the film "Mengjia" directed by Niu Chengze, which not only sold well at the box office, but also won the Golden Horse Film Emperor with this movie.
Peng Yuyan began to doubt himself.
7 years after his debut, the same batch of debutants as him have either become A-list stars, or wear countless honors and halos, but he not only has no film and television awards, but also has no sign of "red".
He was very depressed and couldn't understand why the person who was "red" was not him.
Moreover, the roof leaked during the overnight rain. In 2009, he had a contract dispute with the brokerage company, which claimed him liquidated damages of NT$50 million.
For more than a year after that, Peng Yuyan did not receive any notices, no drama, no economic income, and owed the company 50 million yuan in liquidated damages.
The 27-year-old man relies on his 62-year-old mother for help. It was the first time he regretted that he had chosen to take a break from school to enter the entertainment industry.
He wanted to cry and wanted to get out of the loop. Because his mother opened a restaurant, he said to his mother in discouragement: "Why don't I help you open a restaurant?" ”
Who expected his mother to reply to him: "A person's life is very long, what he has now will not be everything, and what he loses now will not be lost forever, and he must learn to cling to and let go." You think about what you really want to do, what you really want to do. ”
Life will not always be in the trough, no matter how difficult the time will pass. Instead of clinging to unsatisfactory, it is better to see the trough as a tribulation and survive it.
Suddenly enlightened, he suddenly understood why that person was not him. He said: "Actually, it's because I'm not good enough. "Although I have tried, I still can't work hard enough.
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Peng Yuyan often said: "I don't have talent, I must fight with my life, I am not afraid of suffering, I am afraid of not learning things." ”
I believe that many people hear this sentence, they will feel that Peng Yuyan is too arrogant and thin, he can obviously eat by the face, and the acting skills are not bad.
However, among the male actors in the same batch as Peng Yuyan, there are too many people who are handsome and have good acting skills, such as Hu Ge, Huo Jianhua, Yu Wenle, Ruan Jingtian...
There are not many good resources in the entertainment industry, and given to other male actors, it is naturally not his turn. In the 7 years since his debut, Peng Yuyan has always hovered in the embarrassing situation of not being popular in the drama.
Because there are too many male actors of the same type, his path is getting narrower and narrower. Peng Yuyan, 29, wants to transform quickly, but suffers from no drama to find him.
I don't know how many tossing and turning nights and sleepless nights, director Lin Yuxian found Peng Yuyan, who had not filmed for three years, and asked him if he would like to star in the movie "Roll Over!" Ashin??
The film is based on the true story of Lin Yuxin, the brother of director Lin Yuxian and the Olympic champion of gymnastics.
Because the male protagonist in the play is a gymnastics champion and has higher physical requirements for the male actors, almost no one is willing to take this play.
The drama that everyone did not want to take became Peng Yuyan's only chance, and he knew that this might be one of the few good opportunities for him to turn the tables against the wind.
In order to become "Ashin", Peng Yuyan practiced hard for 8 months, performing more than 10 hours of high-intensity training every day, learning gymnastics such as saddle horses, hoops, and vaulting with high difficulty coefficients.
After a day of training, it is common for the hands to open the flesh. He also reduced his total body fat content to 3%, which is completely comparable to that of professional athletes.
At that time, everyone did not understand why Peng Yuyan was so cruel and desperate to himself, and even director Lin Yuxian said to him: "Let's use a stand-in." ”
But Peng Yuyan resolutely refused, saying: "If everyone else has done it, then what else do you want me to do?" ”
He knew that this might be his last chance to turn around, and he was going to force himself into a desperate situation and fight back.
In terms of talent, he is better than others, he has to spend more time and energy on others, and do more extremely than others.
It is this fierceness that makes Peng Yuyan, who appears on the big screen, seem to be integrated with the gymnast Ah Xin in the movie.
With the movie "Roll It Over! In the role of A Xin in "A Xin", the 29-year-old Peng Yuyan not only nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for the first time, but also ranked among the first-line actors.
More importantly, more directors have seen Peng Yuyan's ability in addition to appearance, and divided him into the ranks of powerful actors, rather than idol cream students.
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After a night of popularity, a steady stream of good scripts were delivered to Peng Yuyan.
Even if he successfully flipped the market, he still did not dare to relax for a moment.
In 2013, Peng Yuyan starred in the movie "Guild Wars" in the rich second generation Lin Siqi. In order to find his father, who went bankrupt due to business failure and played missing, Lin Siqi learned to box and enter the ring.
In order to make this movie well, Peng Yuyan received 3 months of special training as a fighter and learned skills such as mixed martial arts, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and Lock Skills.
For this film, Pang was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Supporting Actor at the 50th Golden Horse Awards.
In 2015, in order to play huang Feihong, a generation of grandmasters in "Huang Feihong's Hero Has Dreams", Peng Yuyan specially studied boxing with his teacher and practiced hard for half a year, learning the I-word Fuhu Fist and the Tiger Crane Double Fist.
In order to better play the role of professional cyclist Qiu Ming in the movie "Breaking the Wind", Peng Yuyan participated in professional devil training.
He rode more than 120 kilometers a day, accumulated more than 110,000 kilometers, and finally got a professional racing driver certificate.
In 2016, when he was filming the movie "Operation Mekong", in order to prevent the dubbing from causing the audience to play, he forced himself to learn Thai and Burmese, and also participated in the special training of the Royal Thai Security Guard.
During the filming of the movie "Dangerous City", he also learned to double knives.
In 2020, in order to play the sea rescuer Gao Qian in the movie "Emergency Rescue", he also obtained a diving license.
Therefore, many viewers said: "Every time Peng Yuyan makes a movie, he unlocks a new skill." ”
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Someone once asked him: "What do you think you have achieved now?" ”
Peng Yuyan thought about it and replied, "Probably lucky." ”
Liang Jiahui, an actor who has filmed with him, corrected him: "Don't always talk about luck, everything you have now depends on hard work." ”
truly. If Peng Yuyan can enter the entertainment industry because of good luck, then he can get to the present entirely by his own efforts.
Fans are very distressed about Peng Yuyan and feel that he is too desperate. But he disagreed, saying, "Isn't it right for actors to try to get close to the characters?" ”
He added: "Self-discipline is the biggest misunderstanding of me from the outside world. ”
"Others think I'm very disciplined, but in fact, when I don't shoot, I'm really lazy, even my mother thinks I'm lazy, lazy to go out, don't do anything, and I love things." 」
I'm just dedicated, not self-disciplined. Fitness is all about work, not self-discipline.
He said: "For me, life is bigger than work, and the life I like is to play hard and work hard. Play as much as you want, and work hard when you work. ”
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However, how desperate Peng Yuyan is in his career, how "timid" he is emotionally.
He said: "I was scared to be like my dad. ”
Growing up in a single-parent household, he knew how tired and hard it was for his mother to raise him alone. He is very cautious about feelings.
He was afraid that one day he would be afraid of the other person after he was separated, and he was afraid that he would not be able to keep his promise.
In the 19 years since his debut, except for his ignorant first love when he was young, he has not officially announced any relationship.
However, he has had gossip with actresses such as Jolin Tsai, Shu Qi, Big S, Guo Caijie, Zhang Junning, and Lin Jia'an. Among them, the relatively real hammer is the three-year love affair with Jolin Tsai.
In March 2007, some media filmed Jolin Tsai playing at Peng Yuyan's house late at night. In addition, Jolin Tsai fell ill and went to the hospital to see a doctor, and Peng Yuyan was considerate to accompany him.
The two have not admitted to the relationship, and have always said that the two are just good friends.
But in 2011, when a reporter asked Jolin Tsai if his father was surprised that Jolin had found a mixed-race boyfriend?
Cai's father replied: "Peng Yuyan also returned from abroad. ”
After Jolin Tsai and Jinrong broke up, many fans filmed Peng Yuyan's social platform messages, asking him to chase back Jolin Tsai.
But unfortunately, Peng Yuyan has always been alone for so many years.
Last year, Peng Yuyan said in an interview with Lu Yu: "Five years ago, I had a relationship with a girl outside the circle, but because my work was too busy, the two finally broke up. ”
The feelings of adults are inevitably mixed with factors such as reality, pros and cons. When others ask, "What does he most want to find now?" ”
Peng Yuyan replied without hesitation: "I most want to find my first love girlfriend, because my first love is the happiest." ”
"First love is the happiest and most memorable, and both people are completely engaged in love, very pure."