A few days ago, Liu Ye, a 45-year-old actor who "hasn't seen for a long time", appeared at the Huabiao Awards ceremony, and finally won the "actor" because of the movie "Island Guardian".
This is not a very popular movie, but it has been praised by industry insiders: it deserves it!
But in fact, as a classmate of Zhang Ziyi, Yuan Quan and other "Seven Golden Flowers of Chinese Opera", and a proud protégé of the famous acting teacher Chang Li, it is not unusual for Liu Ye to achieve today's achievements.
It's just that the public's attention to him has always been the unforgettable Be aesthetics with Xie Na, and now look at it, is it still necessary?
1. Meet in microtime
Liu Ye is not the proud son of heaven, although he was born into a film family, his father Liu Jianhua is a lighting engineer at Changchun Film Studio, and his mother also works in Changying.
However, when he was a child, he did not study well, but by mistake, he was suggested by his sister's classmates to learn acting.
At the age of 17, because he was tall and handsome, Liu Ye was successfully admitted to the Chinese opera acting department and became the youngest child in the class.
Liu Ye actually has no acting experience, coupled with his introverted and melancholy personality, he once did not know how to get along with his classmates, and almost no one was willing to play with him in daily acting classes.
When it was the most painful, Liu Ye once thought about giving up, and once ran to Shichahai in the middle of the night to cry to relieve the pressure.
At this stage, Xie Na, who was far away in Sichuan, was only 15 years old, but her parents were also literary and artistic workers, and she got the opportunity to participate in the movie "Young Liu Bocheng".
Some of Liu Ye's classmates also have acting experience, such as Mei Ting.
At that time, she was a big star in the class, and she acted in "Blood Child's Heart" before taking the Beiying exam, and entered the same year that she entered the Chinese opera, and won the Chunyan Award for Best Actress.
And Liu Ye, who just entered the school, is "poor and white", living a very poor life, and once relied on helping Mei Ting get hot water in exchange for cigarettes.
In 1997, Mei Ting violated school rules by participating in the TV series "Northern Story", so she stubbornly chose to drop out of school.
Then she collaborated with Leslie Cheung in the movie "Red Lover", and many years later, the famous Zhang Ziyi still recalled enviously in an interview:
"Back then, Mei Ting brought sunglasses to Leslie Cheung when she returned to school."
But soon, Zhang Ziyi's opportunity also came, and she accidentally received the role of Zhang Yimou's movie "My Father and Mother".
This role originally fell in love with classmate Zeng Li, but the other party rejected Zhang Yimou, saying that he only wanted to concentrate on studying at school.
The person who got the opportunity at the same time as Zhang Ziyi was Liu Ye.
In 1998, at the age of 19, he was selected by director Huo Jianqi and invited to participate in his film "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog".
This is a film that tells the family story between the father and son of the postman in Dashan Township, Liu Ye's simple appearance and melancholy temperament, as well as his spiritual performance, made him nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor in one fell swoop.
In the same year, Xie Na, who drifted from Sichuan to Beijing and wanted to quickly become famous and make money to pay off her father's debts, was also actively looking for opportunities.
She soon played the role of a maid in the costume drama "Young Fang Shiyu", and therefore followed the crew on the then popular "Fast Ben" and met He Jiong, a "nobleman" in the workplace.
In 2000, Xie Na and Liu Ye simultaneously filmed a TV series "Happy Street" directed by Yingda, in which they played a small couple.
It is said that when they first met, the two could not look at each other, Xie Na felt that Liu Ye was too stuffy, and Liu Ye thought that Xie Na was too noisy.
But I didn't expect that when they came and went, two people with completely different personalities actually fell in love for a long time.
At that time, they were both unknown, and they also spent a simple love time, and it is said that their favorite thing to do is to ride a bicycle around Beijing.
2. I didn't wait to get married, I waited for a breakup
But the romantic days did not last long, and Liu Ye was selected by Hong Kong director Kwan Jinpeng to star in the movie "Lan Yu".
Years later, the public is still obsessed with Liu Ye and Hu Jun, the pair of "Lanyu CP", this time Liu Ye won the award again, and the latter also immediately came out to congratulate and cause heated discussions.
At that time, his work was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Award and invited him to participate, Liu Yeben was not confident in winning the award, so he wanted to refuse, but was finally suggested by Guan Jinpeng to "meet the world".
To this end, he also spent 130,000 yuan to buy a brand-name dress, but he accidentally defeated Andy Lau and Hu Jun and became the youngest "Golden Horse Film King".
On the acceptance speech, Liu Ye smiled and said: "I want to thank my girlfriend PP (his nickname for Xie Na). ”
He even said: As long as Xie Na says that she wants to get married, then I can marry her immediately, but the reality is that as Liu Ye becomes more and more popular, the gap between them is getting bigger and bigger.
At that time, although Xie Na had begun to enter "Fast Ben", she was "Little Transparent" who appeared under the stage name "Green Leaf", and she gradually came out until Li Xiang left completely in 2004.
Therefore, when she was with Liu Ye, Xie Na was under great pressure for a while, appearing in public with the other party, either as an assistant or scattered by fans.
At the same stage, Liu Ye, who had just become famous, was also under great pressure.
In 2002, he starred with Chen Kun and Zhou Xun in the movie "Balzac and the Little Tailor", which was shortlisted for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and had unlimited scenery.
But whenever Liu Ye went out with the crew to publicize, the media were always enthusiastic about Zhou Xun and Chen Kun, but often ignored themselves.
This made him gradually understand that his so-called actor was too niche, and if he wanted to really gain fame, he still needed to shoot more works.
After that, Liu Ye became a "desperate three langs", and successively took out film works such as "Scenery of Love", "Lovers in the Sky" and "Purple Butterfly" that have received good responses.
But what really brought him into the hearts of the public was Haiyan's work "What to Save You, My Love".
In other words, why is Liu Ye so "desperate"?
He once revealed in an interview that because he bought a house for his parents in Beijing early and had a huge loan on his back, he had to worry about it every day, so he filmed a lot to make money.
Under anxiety and pressure, Liu Ye became more and more busy, and it was said that he only rested 9 days a year when he was busiest.
In this case, coupled with the personality itself is sullen, so he often loses his temper with his girlfriend Xie Na, and the gap between the two is increasing: the woman's grievances are self-evident.
In 2005, Xie Na's career suffered a blow:
At that time, "Fast Ben" began to reform, and decided the whereabouts of the 5 hosts by voting, and her odds of winning with an average reputation were very small.
At this time, Liu Ye secretly prepared 9999 rose surprises for his girlfriend, one is to support, and the other is to confess.
After a long time, he recalled: I thought I would give roses, and the next day she would come to marry me, but I didn't expect that the other party proposed to break up.
Originally, Liu Ye suffered from severe depression under high pressure, and it was difficult to sleep for a long time, even if he ate Valium, it had no effect.
In addition, he participated in Zhang Yimou's "Full of Golden Armor in the City" that year, and the character he played was not good, and after the movie was released, he won an overwhelming reputation.
The so-called "the wall fell and everyone pushed", at this time, some media jumped out and said that Liu Ye's famous work was still about "comrades".
And the breakup with Xie Na was also said to have "drunk and beaten someone" ...
All kinds of negative news swept in, and Liu Ye, the "melancholy little student", had a very poor reputation and collapsed his personality.
3. His wife Anna saves him from fire and water
Fortunately, in October of the same year that she broke up with Xie Na, Liu Ye met Anna, a Beijing correspondent of the French Free Newspaper, at a gathering of friends.
On the other side, Xie Na also met singer Zhang Jie who has debuted for 2 years through a party at the same stage, and later there were reports that she took the initiative to pursue each other.
Anna is 1 year younger than Liu Ye, a French Jew, proficient in many Chinese languages, photography and writing, and an optimistic personality, and the two fell in love at first sight.
Two months after they met, they were photographed already together.
Faced with her lover's severe insomnia, Anna took the initiative to put down her work and specially accompanied Liu Ye on a trip, and told him:
"Work and life must be separated, you can work for a few months and then take a break."
But stress doesn't mean you can let it go.
Once, Liu Ye was drunk and vomited to talk about cooperation, and Anna did not complain, but just told him: "The money is enough, let's make a good movie next." ”
In 2008, Liu Ye successfully transformed and took out the movie "Tough Guy", he did not hesitate to gain 40 pounds in order to play the retired soldier "Old Three" with brain damage, but the movie continued to be praised after its release.
The following year, he participated in the war film "Nanjing Nanjing", and then married his girlfriend Anna in Beiying, and the director of the film, Lu Chuan, became the best man, and Xie Na also revealed in an interview that he sent blessings.
But these after-dinner talks quickly passed, because Liu Ye continued to try new styles with works such as "Tough Guy 2", "King's Feast", "Cook Play Riffraff" and so on.
Especially in 2013, he cooperated with Jackie Chan in "Police Story 2013", which broke the box office record of Chinese mainland police and bandit films with 500 million.
The following year, Liu Ye was beaten by a group of old drama bones in the hit drama "No War in Beiping", and the outside world bluntly said that "his expression is dull and his acting skills are stretched".
But these do not prevent him from walking on an undulating acting road that few male actors take: high starting point, mixed evaluations, few scandals, but always after the headwind, in another way.
After that, the story about Liu Ye and Xie Na seemed to have become a beautiful story in the circle, a Be aesthetic that everyone envied.
However, in 2014, when Liu Ye was recording the variety show "Grandpa Fancy", he suddenly revealed the reason for the real breakup with the other party that year:
"After she became very popular, she often quarreled with me and then broke up."
Xie Na immediately shot back when she heard the remarks, saying that her husband Zhang Jie "didn't dump me even if he was red", and the connotation could not be more obvious.
After that, Liu Ye did not "love war" again, and even when Xie Na was questioned by the public about her hosting ability, she posted a strong support, although it was deleted in seconds, it was also seen by people with intentions.
Since then, this pair of the sweetest Be aesthetics in your circle has had a flawed meaning, but after all, they have found true love and lived a life that has no intersection.
In 2015, Liu Ye took a pair of children to record "Where Did Dad Go" and "circle fans" again.
But in fact, this year, his wife Anna was found to be ill, and Liu Ye had to put down all work to accompany herself, just like she did to herself:
"At that time, I thought, if it is a bad result, no one will see me for three years, and I will not film, whether I want to be famous or not, it doesn't matter if I earn money or not, the health of my family is the most important, I want to accompany me."
After that, except for "The Chaser" won the "actor" of the Shanghai Film Festival again, Liu Ye did not play the leading role for three years.
Until 2021, Liu Ye starred in the movie "Island Guardian" based on real deeds.
In the movie, the melancholy boy who is flourishing has long disappeared, but the image of a middle-aged uncle with a beard.
It is said that he is the only choice chosen by director Chen Li to play Wang Jicai.
In order to restore the truth, Liu Ye's face, shoulders, arms, and back began to peel layer by layer during the filming, and he also had to practice throwing crab cages, collecting ropes, and tying knots like local fishermen...
But Liu Ye almost supported the whole film with his "one-man show", and won the Golden Deer Award at the Changchun Film Festival and the Huabiao Award for two actors.
Perhaps nowadays, when many people mention Liu Ye, they still think of the identity of "Xie Na's ex-boyfriend", but in fact, his achievements in acting are really good.