The movie "Volunteers: Heroes Attack" was released, and Zhang Songwen's video on the set also flooded the Internet.
I saw that he began to perform without anger:
"Times are different, the situation has changed, and the Chinese people have stood up!"
For a while, the audience was boiling, and the director also gave a thumbs up.
Netizens were also stunned, because Zhang Songwen frowned and pointed angrily, restoring the domineering attitude of Wu Xiuquan, the first Chinese diplomat.
This performance can naturally be a god, and what is more exciting is the comments of netizens.
"In the future, at the United Nations, when you see me Zhang Songwen, remember to put your head down and be a person."
The praise of the message is all praise for Zhang Songwen's god acting skills.
As Huang Bo said: "When you become famous, you are surrounded by good people." ”
Zhang Songwen became famous, and his critical eyes became less and replaced by appreciation.
But before becoming famous, Zhang Songwen survived 20 years of no one cared about alone.
Zhang Songwen was born in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province in 1976, his father was a soldier and his mother was a village doctor.
He entered society very early and began to work as a teenager to earn money.
Before embarking on the road of acting, Zhang Songwen worked many jobs.
He worked as a printing shop worker, beverage salesman, air conditioner installer, hotel waiter, and hotel manager.
At the age of 19, Zhang Songwen returned to his hometown to become a tour guide.
Zhang Songwen worked hard almost all year round, and in the era of an average salary of 500 yuan, he was able to earn 20,000 yuan a month.
In this job, Zhang Songwen deals with a variety of different people.
This gave him the opportunity to observe life and accumulated valuable experience for later performances.
Zhang Songwen has been working as a tour guide for 5 years, and although the salary is not low, it has never been an interest.
In a chat with a friend, the friend asked him what his dream was, and he blurted out: "I want to make movies".
Immediately afterwards, he added: "It is estimated that it is also unlikely."
But his friend encouraged him and said:
"How is it impossible, isn't Zhang Yimou also a movie that he only started learning at the age of 28? It's never too late to have a dream. ”
This cliché sentence, Zhang Songwen listened to it.
He left no way for himself, resigned and went to Beijing to pursue his movie dream.
When he ran to Beijing, he found that the directing department did not enroll students that year.
However, a teacher told him that "the guide does not divide the family", and he can apply for the acting major of the Beijing Film Academy.
In order to stay in Beijing, he agreed.
Because he did not have any professional foundation, Zhang Songwen made a big appearance in the examination room and had to prepare for the defeat.
However, things suddenly took a turn for the better, because the teacher's later question hit his heart.
The title goes like this: You are a tour group, going to an island. What should you do if you can't walk in the event of a typhoon?
At that time, other characters were robbed, but the tour guide was not cared for.
Zhang Songwen thought, Am I not a ready-made tour guide?
So he starred in his true colors, and in the teacher's surprise, Zhang Songwen took out his tour guide card from his bag and began his own performance.
The teacher and the teacher next to him said something that Zhang Songwen still remembers:
"Look, I've always emphasized to you that performance comes from life, and this sentence is really vividly ah, today."
Zhang Songwen was successfully admitted, but the embarrassment was still to come.
While other students were practicing their lines and honing their acting skills, Zhang Songwen, who spoke Cantonese, was practicing Mandarin hard.
Because the teacher gave him a death order: he must practice Mandarin well within four months, otherwise he will drop out of school.
In order to overcome the problem that his tongue could not be curled, he held the stone in his mouth and spoke until blood bubbles appeared in his mouth.
The kung fu paid off, Zhang Songwen could not fight talent, so he worked hard and successfully graduated with the first grade in the professional course.
Embarrassingly, it was useless for him to have good grades and could not reach the threshold of casting for the crew.
In the two years of study, countless crews have chosen people, but Zhang Songwen has not been selected once.
This means that he missed countless opportunities to become overnight.
Similar embarrassment, Zhang Songwen has experienced too much.
During his years at the Beijing Film Academy, Zhang Songwen did not make a single play.
In three years, Zhang Songwen was rejected more than 800 times, and none of the crew hired him.
Also embarrassed was his classmate Zhou Wei, the two of them ran the crew audition together, and the assistant director mocked them in public:
Not suitable for being an actor, one looks like a dwarf, brain-like, like an ape, and the other has a sausage mouth.
Although the words are ugly, they are not unreasonable.
Isn't the unspoken rule of the entertainment industry "appearance is justice"?
But Zhang Songwen has his own persistence, even if he is humiliated, he will not give up easily.
In 2004, Zhang Songwen set up a "crash course in acting" for the Guangdong local sitcom "Riding the Dragon Express" and served as an acting teacher himself.
After the broadcast of "Riding the Dragon Express", Zhang Songwen "conquered" people in Guangdong with his funny roles in the play.
It is a pity that Zhang Songwen's drama is not popular.
For many years afterward, he remained unknown.
I went to run the crew as usual, auditioned for the play, and was rejected as usual.
His classmate Lin Jiachuan, the actor of Tang Xiaolong in "Crazy", once had the same situation as him.
The two met by chance in the same play, one as an assistant director and the other as a scene note.
When helping others move equipment, Lin Jiachuan suddenly asked Zhang Songwen: "Can't we be actors"?
Zhang Songwen was deeply touched, and he felt the entanglement and hesitation in Lin Jiachuan's heart, but he pretended not to hear it and didn't say anything.
In order to persevere, he encourages himself to be confident:
"You must be confident, in this world where it is difficult to trust others, if you don't even believe in yourself, then who else do you want to believe you?"
Although Zhang Songwen "believes in himself", his livelihood is still a problem.
When he was most difficult, he had to borrow money from Monday Wai.
Even so, his vision for the play is still very high, and he refuses to bend his waist for Wudoumi.
One year, Mr. Zhang shivered in his rental house in Beijing because he couldn't afford briquettes for heating.
But he told Zhou Wei that he had just rejected a drama that paid a lot but he didn't like it very much.
Monday Wei said that he fully understood.
He took this play so that he could live comfortably, but that was not what he wanted.
Zhou Wei spoke his heart:
"Are we short of coal? What we lack is the heart that can sit on the cold winter days. ”
Can't be the star, Zhang Songwen will go to the trick.
In 2008, Zhang Songwen starred in the costume drama " Bing Sheng " directed by Zhang Jizhong .
In the crew, he is known as "Iron Man".
He wears armor weighing 35 kilograms every day, and wears it for more than ten hours.
Every time he took off his armor, his hands were swollen like a steamed bun.
But this does not affect Zhang Songwen's play at all.
Every shot, every tiny movement, he carefully studied and performed just right.
In order to restore the characters in the play, he spent a lot of time studying historical materials.
Director Zhang Jizhong who has always been strict also praised him.
He has made cameo appearances in many well-known movies such as "Jingwu Fengyun", "Four Famous Catches", "Great Shanghai" and so on.
It's just that although his acting skills are online, he has no connections and resources, and he is still not seen.
Once he was even left in the desert and left unattended.
While seriously playing small roles, he looked for opportunities, but he could not escape the fate of rejection.
Ironically, he gradually gained some fame, but not as an actor, but as an acting teacher.
Although he is not a "big name", he has many big-name students, such as Lin Zhiling, Li Feier and others, and the title of "star godfather" is all over the place.
Later, he complained in a variety show: If someone asks me to film, who will be an acting teacher?
In 2016, Zhang Songwen ushered in a turning point.
He starred in "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" directed by Lou Ye, which caught fire and won several Best Supporting Actor awards.
But what really made Zhang Songwen out of the circle was "Hidden Corner", a scene of eating clouds in the film, which became his highlight work.
In order to play the feelings of a father who lost his daughter, he went on hunger strike for three days and stayed up late continuously to achieve the most authentic state.
Later, it was the well-known "Crazy", which directly pushed Zhang Songwen to a new height, and he became the acting responsible and uncle at the top of the circle.
He has become a frequent visitor on the hot search, and many people come to pick up the airport at the airport, and his comment section is full of praise.
In the entertainment industry where fame and fortune are paramount, his status is completely different.
On the red carpet of the film festival, there were big directors talking and laughing with him.
Everyone at the event asked him to stand in position C.
The scenes filmed before the fire were obviously only supporting roles, but now they are promoted as the protagonists.
Vanity Fair is everywhere in the world.
Zhang Songwen, who was unattended at the time, was hailed as a god overnight, and netizens picked up his "old materials" one after another, and praised him fiercely.
He lamented: "Now there are all good people around. ”
On September 20, he won the Golden Panda Award for Best Supporting Actor in the Film Unit for "Never Stopping".
At that moment, his tears almost burst out of his eyes.
This award is too important for him, and it is an affirmation of his 20 years of hard work.
He stood on the stage and said the words he had held back for a long time:
"I'm actor Zhang Songwen."
In the years when he needed to be "held" the most, Zhang Songwen took a long sad road.
Today, gold is finally shining.
Netizens later discovered that it turned out that Zhang Songwen's acting skills had been online.
From this point of view, Zhang Songwen really does not need to be held.
Because he is not a god, but a real actor.
Author of this article | Mu Xiaoxiao & Xiao Cheng
Responsible Editor | Light emerald
Curated | Small could