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Zhao Xiaorui
The 28-episode contemporary crime drama "Sweeping The Black Storm" is being broadcast on Tencent Video, and the famous actor Zhao Xiaorui plays an important role in the play "Cao Peng". His tough image and temperament, hardcore acting skills, let the audience shine.
Zhao Xiaorui has starred in more than 100 film and television dramas such as "Agni King Kong", "The Gate of the Great Mansion", "No War in Peking", "Rescue Mr. Wu", "Deer DingJi", etc., of which he is most famous for playing "Li Kui" in the old version of "Water Margin".
Zhao Xiaorui's wife, Cao Yumei, is an ordinary person, and the couple has a son. The combination of a celebrity husband and an ordinary wife, what kind of siege scenery will be interpreted?
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Stills from Zhao Xiaorui's "Sweeping The Black Storm"
In "Sweeping The Black Storm", Cao Peng, played by Zhao Xiaorui, is the branch secretary of Yihe Village in Luteng City, Zhongjiang Province, and is a villain. He colluded with Gao Mingyuan, chairman of Nagato Capital, and Mayor Wu, and took the project of Yihe New Village.
Cao Peng has a mantra in the play: "The problem of money must be solved with money." Zhao Xiaorui's acting skills are old and spicy, deep, and his hands and feet reflect Cao Peng's greed and domineering.
Zhao Xiaorui was born in 1956 in Qingdao, Shandong Province. His father was Lao Balu, who transferred to the North Sea Fleet in 1948 and was a naval officer.
Zhao Xiaorui's mother, a native of Sichuan and surnamed Tang, came to Qingdao as a soldier since childhood. Zhao Xiaorui is the eldest son in the family and has two younger sisters below. He attended the Naval School for Children in elementary school, and after entering junior high school, a special era began, and the school often did not attend classes.
Young Zhao Xiaorui
Zhao Xiaorui became obsessed with sports, practicing athletics, swimming, wrestling, boxing, and his body was obviously stronger than that of children of the same age. At that time, Zhao Xiaorui's dream was to become an athlete, and he applied for many sports teams such as athletics, basketball, volleyball, etc., but he was not admitted.
After graduating from high school, Zhao Xiaorui was assigned to the Qingdao Machinery Factory as an ordinary worker. At that time, with his father's relationship, he could fully enter the public institution and become a navy.
But Zhao Xiaorui and his father are very upright, tough and tough, and disdain to go through the back door. In 1978, the China Youth Art Theater came to Qingdao to recruit actors. Zhao Xiaorui, who had not studied a day of acting, ran to take the exam with enthusiasm, and because of his strong and burly figure and tough temperament, he was admitted.
So Zhao Xiaorui left Qingdao for Beijing, and yin and yang mistakenly became a professional actor. Later, the Youth Arts Theater merged with the National Drama Theatre, and Zhao Xiaorui became an actor in mandarin.
Young Zhao Xiaorui and his wife Cao Yumei
In the China Youth Art Theater, Zhao Xiaorui mainly performs dramas, but he also runs the dragon set and rarely plays the main role.
In the early 1980s, the creation of film and television dramas in mainland China was in the ascendant, the drama market was sluggish, and many actors went outside to take over film and television dramas, and Zhao Xiaorui was also moved.
There are often directors who come to the troupe to select actors, and at that time, the director favored the "small white face" and "creamy little student" type of male actors, like Zhao Xiaorui, who was burly and masculine-looking, and did not enter the director's eyes.
For two years, Zhao Xiaorui did not receive a single play. Seeing his colleagues filming outside, Zhao Xiaorui felt unprecedentedly confused about the future.
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One and Eight poster
Zhao Xiaorui stills
In 1984, Zhang Junzhao, a famous director of Guangxi Film Studio, directed the film "One and Eight", zhao Xiaorui's image and temperament were in line with the villain role in the film, and Zhang director let him play the bandit leader "Big Bald" in the film.
After the film was released, Zhao Xiaorui's fierce temperament attracted the attention of many directors in the circle. Since then, Zhao Xiaorui has starred in a series of reckless and rough tough guys, mainly including "Fire King Kong", "Flying Tiger Team", "Lightning Action", "Iron Blood Wind and Dust", "Cannon Double Lights" and other films, and began to emerge in the film and television circle.
In 1996, Zhang Shaolin, the general director of the 43-episode old version of "Water Margin", was selected as an actor in the national audition. Listening to an actor say that Zhao Xiaorui is good at swimming, Zhang Dao asked him to play "Ruan Xiaoqi" among the three ruan brothers.
Stills of Zhao Xiaorui's "Water Margin"
This role is not a lot of drama, Zhao Xiaorui read the script and wanted to play the black whirlwind "Li Kui". However, this role has a hard requirement, the height must be more than 1.80 meters, and the weight is not less than 100 kilograms.
Zhao Xiaorui weighed only 80 kilograms, which obviously did not meet the requirements. He wrote to Zhang Dao: "Give me half a month, I will quickly increase my weight and meet the requirements." ”
Back in Beijing, Zhao Xiaorui ate six meals a day, fell asleep at home after eating, and added meals late at night. Half a month later, he gained nearly 20 pounds.
He went to the crew to audition again, and the makeup artist glued his beard, put on his chest hair, and painted him with oil paint. Zhao Xiaorui picked up the axe and roared, "Li Kui is coming!" "Get rid of a "black whirlwind" Li Kui alive. The director clapped on the spot and decided to let Zhao Xiaorui play "Li Kui".
The location of the crew was in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province, and the filming lasted for 1 and a half years. During this period, Zhao Xiaorui was injured three times: the first time he fell off his horse and suffered a contusion in the front chest; the second time he had his feet broken, and the surface of his feet was swollen like a purple eggplant; the third time, Zhao Xiaorui's big thumb was trampled by a horse.
What makes Zhao Xiaorui even more unforgettable is that when he was fighting with Yan Qing, he almost fell from the 3-story ring...
Stills from Zhao Xiaorui's "Plain Gunshots"
After the hit "Water Margin", Zhao Xiaorui became famous in the country, and since then the "black whirlwind" Li Kui has become synonymous with him.
Zhao Xiaorui can bear hardships, be bold and generous, do not steal scenes, jump scenes, and directors like to use him. After entering 2000, Zhao Xiaorui's drama has become more and more, and in more than 20 years, he has starred in many film and television dramas such as "Plain Gunshot", "Ping Trace Hero Shadow", "Great Han Tianzi 2", "Little Fish and Flowers", "The Legend of Lü Liang Heroes", etc., becoming an old drama bone loved by the audience.
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Unlike many male actors, Zhao Xiaorui's marriage is happy and stable. His wife, Cao Yumei, is two years younger than Zhao Xiaorui and is an ordinary cultural worker.
Zhao Xiaorui and his wife
The two married in Beijing in 1982, when Zhao Xiaorui had no house, no savings, no car, and the two were naked, even borrowing wedding dresses. During the whole marriage process, Zhao Xiaorui did not spend money.
After the birth of her son, Cao Yumei undertook most of the housework and let Zhao Xiaorui shoot the scene wholeheartedly. Zhao Xiaorui is a model husband, clean and self-sufficient in the crew, and has never had a scandal. He handed over all the remuneration to his wife, and Cao Yumei had the greatest sense of security.
In 2009, Zhao Xiaorui's mother died in Qingdao. During the old woman's illness, Zhao Xiaorui took his mother to Beijing for treatment. He has been filming outside for many years, and it is Cao Yumei who takes care of her mother-in-law before and after she is busy.
After the death of her mother-in-law, Cao Yumei rushed back to Qingdao with her husband and arranged her mother-in-law's affairs properly.
Zhao Xiaorui knows that without his wife's efforts behind his back, he could not have taken so many plays, and he would not have today's glory. So he was grateful to his wife. When he was not filming, Zhao Xiaorui rushed to take on housework, he wiped the floor at home, cooked, cleaned the range hood, and did any rough work.
In order to prolong her husband's acting career, Cao Yumei encouraged her husband to read more, she often bought books for her husband, and Zhao Xiaorui had to read dozens of books every year. Because of the need to shoot, Zhao Xiaorui especially prefers psychology books.
Under the supervision of his wife, Zhao Xiaorui insisted on fitness for many years, he insisted on running 5 kilometers a day and swimming in the swimming pool. Even if people reach middle age, Zhao Xiaorui's body is still very strong and strong.
Generally at the age of 55, the actor's role is less, but Zhao Xiaorui is still about to continue. In recent years, he has successively starred in film and television dramas such as "Sharp Blade Attack", "Predatory General", "Animal Administration", "East Fourth Arch Building East" and has been active in the front line of film and television.
Zhao Xiaorui is a star and has never exposed Cao Yumei's personal information. In 2018, Cao Yumei's identity was exposed, and many people felt that there was a gap between the two, but Zhao Xiaorui did not think so. He felt that his wife was the driving force of his career, the solid rear of him, his gas station.
Every time he came home tired from filming, it was his wife's love, encouragement and praise that made him raise the sails again and again. Because of this, Zhao Xiaorui regarded his ordinary wife as a treasure in the palm of his hand!
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