Text/Edited by Stars
At the beginning of 2023, Hong Kong's veteran artist Wan Ziliang once again appeared in the public eye, and some netizens broke out that this veteran Hong Kong star offered 200,000 yuan to come to the annual meeting of a small company to "perform hard".
Wan Ziliang, who was on stage that day, was pale and even his figure was a little stumbling, but Wan Ziliang still reluctantly ended the performance, after all, he signed a contract.
This also makes people sigh, the years urge people to get old, even the "big brother" who used to be in the Hong Kong circle, has now become this vicissitudes.
What happened to make this good brother who used to arrogantly sip a cigar come to this field?
The surname Wan is not surnamed Hu, and the flower road to fame is not ordinary
In 2002, Wan Ziliang was experiencing the biggest hurdle in his life, when Wan Ziliang's mother was inseparable from people to take care of him because of diabetes, but what made Wan Ziliang most helpless was that the monthly medical expenses were as high as 200,000 yuan.
At that time, the salary of Hong Kong stars was not very high, not like the "sky-high salary" in the entertainment industry now, and where to "engage" these 200,000 yuan has become the biggest problem.
There is no good way, Wan Ziliang can only keep receiving various activities, and the whole person is almost spinning.
When Wan Ziliang recalled this "hurried" life, he said with a smile
"Several times I felt that I couldn't hold on, but every time I thought that as long as I got through this hurdle, there was nothing I couldn't get by."
Wan Ziliang in front of the camera seems to have precipitated a heavy life experience, but these fluttering words are far from his bleak life experience.
Wan Ziliang is actually surnamed Hu, and unlike the public imagination, he was not born in a rich and noble family, on the contrary, his family can be said to be destitute, and the Hu couple who did not even eat gave Wan Ziliang away.
Fortunately, the Wan couple are good people, and in order not to let the people around them point fingers at this "new son", the family went to Hong Kong.
Until Wan Ziliang was 19 years old, he was admitted to the training class of Hong Kong Television Station with excellent results, and remained as an actor of TVB.
Soon Wan Ziliang ushered in his first role in his life - sword god Xie Xiaofeng, and this "Sword of the Third Young Master" made Wan Ziliang knock on the stepping stone of the entertainment industry.
But if you want to say that what really makes Wan Ziliang popular, it is still "Rogue Tycoon".
The lineup of this drama can be described as quite luxurious, Liu Ruoying, Zhou Haimei, Zheng Yuling, etc. are all matching for Wan Ziliang, once the drama was broadcast, it directly became a dark horse in the ratings at that time, and the ratings were overwhelming and won the ratings year.
After meeting his Bole Cai fame, Wan Ziliang jumped into the hot Golden Horse actor, although his appearance is not outstanding, but the "underworld temperament" of that body is very eye-catching.
So Cai Yangming found Wan Ziliang to star in "Big Brother" and invited him to play the role of Wu Jincheng, who is based on a "murderous" triad boss.
No one expected that Wan Ziliang would play this "black boss" on fire, and anyone who watched it felt that this must be the black boss himself.
Wan Ziliang lived up to expectations and won the Golden Horse Film King by relying on the role of Wu Jincheng.
It may also be that the image of "Big Brother Sopranos" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and every role that follows is not bad, and Wan Ziliang embarked on the road of "Big Brother".
On the road of the eldest brother, Wan Ziliang also pulled Stephen Chow with his hand.
Introduced Stephen Chow to Li Xiuxian until the release of "Thunderbolt Pioneer", so that everyone knew Stephen Chow, the "acting genius", and Stephen Chow also relied on this movie to get the Golden Horse male match.
The ungrateful Stephen Chow was also on the podium, mentioning this big brother who had helped him, not only praising his acting talent, but also giving him the opportunity to "reborn".
Although the two did not have any intersection in the future, Wan Ziliang did let us see the image of a chivalrous big brother.
Going to the sea to do business, bankruptcy and debts
But the good times did not last long, and the "big brother" who used to act as a traffic password on the screen was quickly "washed" to the shore by the tide.
In 1991, the "factory period incident" completely chilled Wan Ziliang to TVB, it turned out that when filming on TVB, Wan Ziliang, who was restricted by the factory period, was on a T-shirt.
In big red letters, he wrote the begging for the factory date from the commander of the chicken feathers, and also went to the parade in Minghuang, not shy away from reporters at all.
This trick made the top management of TVB hate it with itchy teeth, where can this "anti-bone" be tolerated.
In 1995, Wan Ziliang left TVB, and even under TVB's intentional or unintentional suppression, Wan Ziliang could not receive any decent drama, so Wan Ziliang simply stopped acting, and all roads led to Rome, so Wan Ziliang "went to the sea to do business".
Wan Ziliang, who had pondered for a long time, decided to start in the clothing industry, and while doing business, he also listened to the advice of his friends and invested in many industries.
The results were not satisfactory, Wan Ziliang's investment was almost completely lost, and the clothing business that wanted to develop in the mainland was also "yellow".
In the end, he had to sell a house in Hong Kong, and not only that, but Wan Ziliang's first "short marriage" also failed.
Although everything is not very smooth, but the days always go by, Wan Ziliang met his second wife, Guo Liming, a sister of China Southern Airlines 17 years younger than him, on the downhill road of his life.
In 2002, Wan Ziliang and Guo Liming entered the palace of marriage, although the days after marriage are not very rich, but they do not worry about food and clothing, Wan Ziliang also welcomed his first child at the age of 45.
I thought that life would get better, but I didn't expect that in 2007, Wan Ziliang was diagnosed with diabetes, which made Wan Ziliang difficult, and he always had to take on the responsibility of supporting his family as a man.
But unexpectedly, the disease is getting more and more serious, to the point that it is necessary to inject insulin, Wan Ziliang's little wife is very distressed when she sees it, but what can be done?
In 2021, Wan Ziliang appeared in a small bar in Shanghai, and the former big brother sang a song "Into a New Era".
Only those who know Wan Ziliang understand the meaning of this song to him, and the longer people live, the less they understand the meaning of life.
But only this big brother has been living very soberly, and Wan Ziliang lived very well in the first half of his life.
So when a reporter with a "good thing" gossiped and asked him, will he regret falling to this point now?
Big Brother smiled at the camera and said such a sentence
"What is the downfall, I have hands, feet and brains, and I have three meals in any way."
Yes, what's the downfall, no matter how Wan Ziliang was once a well-known figure on TVB, even if it is not as good as the previous scenery days, but a performance can take how many people can't earn money in a year.
Moreover, Wan Ziliang donated money in Wuhan epidemic and Henan flood, and the total amount of large and small is more than one million.
Big Brother's loyalty and courage are impressive, which also shows that Wan Ziliang is not as downcast and miserable as said on the Internet.
Not to mention that there are wives and children at home, as long as people are content, they are a good life.