On the set in 2014, Andy Lau finished queuing up to get a lunch box and squatted on the side of the road with the group actor to eat. At this time, a male star who played a big name walked in front of him, and after watching the dishes, he scolded angrily: "This box of lunch is also for people to eat?" Not even a place to sit! ”
It all started in 1998. A migrant worker named Guo Gangtang tragically lost his two-year-old son, who was abducted while playing. Since then, Guo Gangtang has embarked on a long journey to find his son.
He rides a battered bicycle and travels south and north, hoping to find his precious son. For more than a decade, Guo Gangtang has been looking for the whereabouts of his child and has never given up.
He plastered leaflets searching for his son all over the streets of the province, went to welfare homes and stations in various places to investigate, and posted search notices everywhere, hoping to ask for a little clue about his son.
The arduous road to find his son made Guo Gangtang physically and mentally exhausted, but he had no intention of giving up. This indomitable father touched many people.
One day, a young female director named Peng Sanyuan accidentally heard Guo Gangtang's story. She was deeply moved by Guo Gangtang's indomitable spirit, so she decided to put this story of finding children on the screen, and also wanted to arouse the attention of all walks of life to the abducted children through the movie.
Peng Sanyuan began to contact investors, and she decided to name the film "Orphaned". She encountered some resistance in the process of contacting investment, the most important of which was the choice of male lead.
Peng Sanyuan wanted to ask Andy Lau, a superstar at the level of "Heavenly King", to play this Guo Gangtang role, but investors thought that this type of role was not suitable for Andy Lau's identity.
But Peng Sanyuan did not give up, she directly contacted Andy Lau himself and sent him the script and story outline to read.
Unexpectedly, Andy Lau was very interested after watching it, and agreed to play this role without saying a word.
He said that this is a "meritorious thing", will not ask for any salary, and offered to invest in film production.
In order to fully enter the role, Andy Lau made a lot of trivial preparations. He deliberately went to the beach to bask in the sun and tanned his skin.
He repeatedly washed his face with coarse salt water to roughen the skin on his face, and he deliberately did not shave his beard, dyed his hair white, and even deliberately polished his nails with a file to make it very ugly.
When the film officially started, Andy Lau's whole person had completely changed into the appearance of a middle-aged peasant, with ragged clothes and a face full of vicissitudes, which was completely different from the image he usually presented on the screen.
When he walked down the street, passers-by did not even recognize that it was Andy Lau himself. In order to fully enter the role physically and mentally, Andy Lau lived an extremely hard life on the set.
He did not want any special care, ate simple box lunches with the group performers, and lived in the most humble conditions.
He rode around on a battered motorcycle during the day to train himself to ride bumps.
Once, when the crew was filming from City A to City B, Andy Lau actually rode a motorcycle all the way to follow the crew, and only arrived at his destination breathlessly in the evening.
When filming the scenes, Andy Lau also insisted on not using a stand-in. There was a scene where a village woman slapped him hard, and Andy Lau kept encouraging the group actor to give his all, until half of his face was swollen, and the scene was successfully filmed.
Andy Lau believes that only real fights can make the audience empathize. On the set, Andy Lau will not have special requirements, and all he eats is an ordinary box lunch.
One day, at noon, after an actor got the boxed lunch, he saw that there was only rice and some greens in it, so he complained loudly: "Just order things like this every day, this is not for people to eat!" Saying that, he was about to drop the box lunch on the ground.
At this moment, his afterlight caught a glimpse of Andy Lau who was eating silently in the corner, and he was immediately ashamed and left angrily. From then on, he no longer dared to complain openly about the problems with the meals.
With Andy Lau's full dedication and the joint efforts of the crew, "Orphaned" was finally successfully completed. After the film was released, the film received wide acclaim.
The audience was not only full of praise for Andy Lau's role of Guo Gangtang, but also moved by the touching story of a father looking for his son.
At the Huabiao Awards that year, Andy Lau won the Best Actor Award for this film. As for the prototype character Guo Gangtang, after the release of the movie, his story has also received more attention from all walks of life.
After many helps, one day 24 years later, Guo Gangtang finally got his wish and found his son who was abducted that year. After the two fathers and sons recognized each other, Andy Lau also specially sent a video to express his blessings.
For Guo Gangtang, this is undoubtedly a happy ending.
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