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A popular uncle a year, from Wu Xiubo to Zhang Songwen, the "uncle circle" formed in the entertainment industry is going uphill, and if the audience is asked to predict the next "old and popular" actor, I believe many people will mention Li Naiwen!
Maybe you haven't heard his name, but you have definitely seen the film and television dramas he has starred in, and he has appeared in hundreds of film and television dramas since his debut, known as the "golden supporting role", even Song Dandan once called Qu for him: How can Naiwen not be hot!
But Li Naiwen said that he is willing to be the actor who is only remembered by the audience, which is enough to show that Li Naiwen really regards acting as his profession.
And looking back at Li Naiwen's years of art, the titles of golden supporting role, decay god, and golden retriever in people accompanied him, and he was "one breath away" from "red".
First, the "second generation of stars" went to school at their own expense to shame him
"At that time, I watched the props every day and watched my mother act." Li Naiwen moved from Ningxia to Tianjin with his mother at the age of 5, and his mother acted in the drama troupe, and the little Li Naiwen watched offstage.
When he was 5 years old, he heard that he could not go to kindergarten, and he was a young actor who was absent from the troupe.
But what is surprising is that the usually frizzy Li Naiwen went on stage like a little adult, the lines, position, position, and emotions were all very in place, and he acted in several scenes in a row, and even the actors around him mispronounced the words, Li Naiwen could point it out.
So naturally, Li Naiwen became interested in acting, and he yearned for his mother's eyes shining on stage.
However, acting was not as simple as he thought, and attending the interview at the Central Academy of Drama had problems in the third round.
The teacher said that this child has no spirituality, and if he wants to come to school, he should pay for it.
As soon as Li Naiwen heard that the annual tuition fee was 5,000 yuan, he immediately doubted life: everyone else goes to school for 700 yuan, and he wants 5,000 yuan, is it so bad?
At that time, the brother in the family was going to get married, and the originally not wealthy family could not take this "huge capital", and Li Naiwen thought that he would simply not pay it.
But his mother's words half-coaxed Li Naiwen to go to school.
Don't worry about the money, I'll borrow it with your dad, and what you have to do is make the teacher regret hiring you as a self-funded student when you graduate.
Li Naiwen was instantly ignited by this statement, saying that he would make this school famous!
Therefore, when the classmates were all going to pick up the drama and filming, Li Naiwen was still in class, and every knowledge point taught by the teacher was figured out to the extreme.
In fact, Li Naiwen's sense of crisis also comes from his classmates, Zhu Yuanyuan, Xin Baiqing, Wang Qianyuan, etc., all of them are powerful in the future, and the light they showed when they were students was not weak.
Li Naiwen, who believes that he does not look good and his acting skills are not in place, was spurred on by this environment and moved forward step by step, and by the time he graduated, he really met his mother's expectations.
Teacher Gao Jingwen, who recruited him, really hugged him and said that he regretted letting him do his own expense!
At this time, Li Naiwen's heart that had been hanging for four years finally sank, and the reason why he did not completely let go was because Li Naiwen had not yet received a decent work, and he did not even have a representative work in his four years of college.
Second, the decaying god possesses the body and deeply cultivates drama
In his sophomore year, a teacher introduced Li Naiwen to play a small role in the TV series "Home Has Three Gorges", and Li Naiwen went with great interest and returned with great surprise.
This acting is his first time in a TV series in a real sense, and it is also the first time he has received a salary of 5,000 yuan, which is called a beauty in his heart.
But when Li Naiwen Meizi returned to the dormitory, he found that there was not a dime left in his pocket, and he recalled that he stupidly put the money in his chest pocket on the way, and he did not expect to be targeted, and suddenly beat his chest.
But at that time, he had already reported his congratulations to his family, and he did not need living expenses for the next semester.
At that time, Li Naiwen had a good personality, and many classmates loved to play with him, chat with him, and even got the title of "golden retriever among people".
The boys in the class had the best relationship with Li Naiwen and the girls, and once a female classmate in the class accidentally loosened the underwear belt during rehearsals, and naturally lifted the back clothes for Li Naiwen to help button up.
Li Naiwen didn't feel anything wrong, and he buttoned it up.
Afterwards, after being reminded by other students, the female classmate was surprised to remember that she had forgotten that Li Naiwen was a boy, which shows how "harmless" Li Naiwen feels to the people around him.
It is precisely with this good popularity that Li Naiwen really eats the last meal and the next meal.
But the help of the classmates cannot solve Li Naiwen's fundamental problem, and if you want not to go hungry, you must have a filming.
But Li Naiwen is really "possessed by the decaying god", but any drama he wants to participate in, whether it is prepared or in preparation, will be "yellow" for one reason or another, and Li Naiwen also has the name of "big drama killer" circulating among Chinese opera classmates.
Li Naiwen's "decline" has also become a good way for many classmates to comfort themselves, Wang Qianyuan once joked that when he felt bad, thinking more about Li Naiwen would balance, and he was even worse.
Although it is a little unkind, Wang Qianyuan did say Li Naiwen's "dilemma".
After graduation, Li Naiwen once fell into the point of not filming, film and television dramas he can shoot or not, but he has always loved the drama career, and there is no place for himself.
As soon as he called the director to ask whether the roles were finished or not filmed, Li Naiwen began to wonder if his "fortune" was abnormal.
But actors often encounter bottoming out moments, and Li Naiwen, who still relies on his parents from time to time 7 years after graduation, met his own Bole Meng Jinghui.
A "Rhino in Love", from a small theater performance to a national tour, from no audience to a full house, Li Naiwen played a toothbrush salesman called "toothbrush", owed appearance and eight-sided delicate character, finally let the audience know this "axis" surprisingly actor.
As a start-up team, Li Naiwen and Duan Yihong and other actors have many and tired roles, and the pay is pitiful, but no one complains, they are all "real actors" who can open up for the play.
In 2004, Li Naiwen, who wanted to act in dramas, changed his thinking, and he bluntly said that he took "What to Move, Don't Move Feelings" for money, and thus officially entered the road of appearing in TV series.
Although many of them are small roles with a few words, Li Naiwen has gradually found the joy of being an actor in this process, and he can figure something out of every appearance and drama.
Sometimes it's some technique, sometimes it's some emotional resonance in acting.
Li Naiwen, who has filmed a lot of TV series, also began to be curious about the world of the big screen, but because he was not famous and did not have the connections of a big director, he had been unable to get out.
Until 2007, Feng Xiaogang discovered Li Naiwen and arranged him to play the role of "Lv Kuangou" in "Rally".
The role is not large, Li Naiwen's sweat is inversely proportional, every expression and movement has been carefully polished, and he feels an unprecedented challenge.
After that, Li Naiwen had no requirements for the role, as long as it was a good script, he could take it, playing a military agent, a village branch secretary, a revolutionary figure, and an urban elite.
Li Si, who played in "Great Qin Fu" in 2021, broke the stereotype of Li Si in history books, and Li Naiwen had no traces of memorization of large paragraphs of literary lines, but had a sense of naturalness. It was precisely this play that made Li Naiwen win the Huading Award.
This is also one of the few "awards" that Li Naiwen has won in his actor career, but in fact, Li Naiwen does not care about winning the award in his heart, because "the audience's affirmation" and "the recognition of his peers" have made him an uncrowned king.
Jiang Wu always felt bottomless when he was filming "Pulling Teeth from the Mouth of the Tiger", until he learned that Li Naiwen also participated, and directly said with confidence: Naiwen, you will be stable when you come to this play.
In the hearts of many powerful actors, Li Naiwen's appearance is a reassuring pill, and his vision for choosing scripts is worthy of recognition.
Many viewers who like Li Naiwen predict that if there is the next popular "uncle" in the entertainment industry, it will definitely be Li Naiwen.
And Li Naiwen has always been a "Buddhist" attitude towards whether he is popular or not, and if he is not popular, he will act steadily, and becoming popular means that he has more opportunities to choose.
Li Naiwen has been in the industry for so many years and has always made it clear in his heart that he has always considered himself a pure actor.
While the audience pays more attention to Li Naiwen, they will find that this man has neither hype nor outrageous scandals, and now 48-year-old Li Naiwen is now single, and his love life has become a topic of increasing concern for fans.
Third, the 48-year-old's love life is a mystery
There was a period of time when an informed source broke the news that Li Naiwen had always called Zhang Shaohua's teacher "mother", and the two had a good relationship in private and often ate together, so there were rumors that "Li Naiwen is Zhang Shaohua's son-in-law" went viral.
But in fact, this is completely speculation, first of all, Teacher Zhang Shaohua does not have a daughter at all, and secondly, Li Naiwen clarified at the first time that he called Teacher Zhang Shaohua "Mother" out of respect, and secondly, it was continued from the play.
Such an explanation is reasonable, and netizens have to "relax", while regretting it, netizens also hope that Li Naiwen will really find his home.
In fact, before this "oolong", Li Naiwen also had an affair with three female stars.
The first is the goddess Wang Likun, and for a while it was rumored on the Internet that Wang Likun and Li Naiwen lived together and frequently went in and out of the same community together. The two met when they collaborated on "Wedding Nest", and the emotional drama in the play made many viewers really snort the pair of CPs.
But in fact, all this is a misunderstanding, the two just happen to live in the same community, and Li Naiwen always goes to Wang Likun to visit the decoration.
The second is actress Huang Man, the two met in "Distant Happiness", because the performance in the play is too "real", and is always frequently "licensed" by netizens, netizens believe it to be true, but the two are just a simple partnership.
The third object of the scandal is also the most regrettable and "uneasy" one that netizens feel, that is, the queen Yan Bingyan.
The two became a couple in "Teeth of Love" broadcast in 2007, and the behind-the-scenes story made the audience relish.
Li Naiwen has been very unable to let go when filming the kissing scene, so angry that Yan Bingyan directly yelled: Li Naiwen, you don't open your mouth when kissing your girlfriend!
A sentence made Li Naiwen ashamed and annoyed, but fortunately the intimate scene was successfully filmed, and Li Naiwen also practiced kissing skills hard in later days, until the two reunited in the movie "Restart" many years later, Yan Bingyan ridiculed that Yang Naiwen's kissing skills were good and his mouth was swollen.
But in fact, the two who have cooperated several times, the relationship stops at the friendship of mutual ridicule, although netizens are looking forward to the relationship between the two to go further, but sometimes the relationship between friends can be longer.
No matter what, I hope Li Naiwen will find his own happiness as soon as possible!
epilogue
In the impetuous entertainment industry, the awards are getting more and more watery, the actors' acting skills are getting more and more crotch-pulling, and even the "old drama bones" have gradually evolved into a derogatory term, at this time, there are actors like Li Naiwen who have been sinking into acting for decades, which is really rare, and it is really a great blessing in the entertainment industry that is becoming more and more "collapsed".
I still hope that more actors can treat "actor" as a career, instead of a "drama bastard" with a daily salary of 2.08 million but only flying facial features!