Actor Wu Kangren is really popular,
The large-scale erotic drama he presented in the new drama "At This Moment",
was called "sexual tension" by netizens.
In fact, this "drama face" actor
Over the years, he has already become a god with his acting skills,
The drama road is wide and wild, and everything is played.
He used to be the warm-hearted male second flower Takuya in "Next Stop, Happiness",
The amorous mother Sang in "The Beginning of the Lights",
Lawyers and prosecutors who have played justice alive,
also presents the obscene and perverted villain to the core.
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Large-scale performance in the new drama "Here and Now".
"In My Life" starring him has also been on the Internet recently.
Gao Jiayue, a 40-year-old man, returned home with nothing,
An ordinary story of mutual understanding and reconciliation with a family member
But it has resonated with countless audiences,
On Douban, more than 30,000 people scored a high score of 8.9.
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"In My Life" is a story about home
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Air Force Guo Zhen (left) in "A Handful of Green", lawyer Wang Yu (middle) in "The Distance Between Us and Evil", and Ma Sang "baby" (right) in "The Beginning of the Lights". He won the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor that year with "A Handful of Green".
In real life,
He has worked at the bottom and worked more than 50 jobs.
debuted at the age of 27 and became a god with his acting skills in ten years,
Won all kinds of awards.
Recently, Wu Kangren came to Xiamen to participate in the Golden Rooster Film Festival.
One also came to the scene,
chatted with him about the ten years that he has been running wild on the road of being an actor.
Editor: Zhou Tiancheng
Editor-in-charge: Chen Ziwen
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Wu Kangren gave an interview
Unlike most actors and stars, Wu Kangren does not have an agent, and he does all the interviews and communications himself. When I saw him at the hotel, he had a tired look on his face, and asked him if he had rested, and he shook his head sincerely.
He has been filming desperately for more than ten years, and he has been in the phenomenal Taiwan dramas of the past few years, the drama road is wide and wild, prosecutors, lawyers, sexual assault, mother Sang, narcissist... has performed everything, won two Golden Bell Emperors and various award nominations. It was only after "In My Life" that he decided to give himself a vacation.
Gao Jiayue in the play is dark, thin, casual, and always wears a wide floral shirt and slippers. Wu Kangren in front of him has returned to his normal body shape and fair complexion, wearing a suit and leather shoes, only the occasional cunning expression is still a shadow in the rare play.
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2016 "Termites" Extreme Weight Loss (Part I)
2021 "The Love I Didn't Talk About" Gain Weight (II)
As an actor, his image changes with his work. In 2016, when filming "Termites", he went from 70 kilograms to 56 kilograms and almost suffered from anorexia; In 2017, when filming "Narcotic Storm 2", he quickly gained 85 kilograms, so fat that he "walked a little Kaka"; In 2021, he filmed "Hua Lantern 2", he shaved his leg hair and practiced walking with high heels, just to play the amorous mother Sang "baby".
Last year, "Fudu Youth" was launched, and he played a Malaysian low-level hearing-impaired young man Abang, in order to get close to the character, he was thinned and tanned again, until he could integrate into the low-level workers in Malaysia without any flaws. This role also earned him a nomination for Best Actor at this year's Golden Horse Awards.
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Goh Kang-yan plays a hearing-impaired youth at the bottom of Malaysian society in "Fudu Youth".
Nicole, the producer of "Fudu Youth", and Wu Kangren have worked together for several years and have formed a friendship of mutual trust. Wu Kangren in her eyes has an incredible seriousness and dedication to filming. Wu Kangren exposed himself to the scorching sun in Malaysia, and Nicole felt nervous. "I'm Malaysian, and I can't stand this kind of exposure. I asked him, 'Can you guarantee that you don't get sick if you do this?' He said, 'No.' And then continue to dry, we can't do anything about him. ”
There was also a scene where Wu Kangren ran so hard that he fell to the ground. That time he was seriously injured, and everyone advised him to go to the hospital quickly, but he said that he would not stop filming for anything. Three days later, the wound was suppurated and inflamed, and he also developed fever symptoms, and Nicole saw this, "tricked" him into the car and went straight to the hospital.
But all this, Wu Kangren didn't seem to care about it, in his eyes, this was just doing his duty as an actor. "Actors have to act well, and we don't have to worry about the rest."
The following is Wu Kangren's own statement.
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Frustrated, Gao Jiayue dreamed of his funeral
The story of "A Lifetime of Life" is simple, I would say, it is a story about "home".
Gao Jiayue, a middle-aged and frustrated man, from the high-spirited of his youth to the depressed will of his middle-aged people, from 20 to 40 years old, may never have received a successful applause. He opened a restaurant, but it didn't taste good; His girlfriend, who has been with him for more than ten years, no longer loves him; The story of him wanting to die, but not having the courage to go home.
Some people may call him a loser, but I don't think so, Gao Jiayue is very "handsome", behind this handsomeness, you can say that he is too selfish, self-righteous, and too unwilling to face reality, but he is actually extremely kind.
So I substituted my own imagination of "good people". I have the impression that a really good person may not be too polite to you, and may be able to provoke you with a word, but he actually cares about you.
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After Gao Jiayue returned home, he and his nephew, who was in high school, had a story of helping each other and redeeming each other
I had already made two films last year ("Fudu Youth" and "I Wish People Were Long"), and I didn't expect there to be such a TV series. But the director and producer said that they were willing to wait for me, and I had the opportunity to cooperate with old actors like Sister Guimei and Brother Xixiang, and I had to participate in such a drama.
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and the old drama bone Xixiang play a father and son
The old drama bones have their own ideas about the script, so the entire script is communicated and adjusted during filming. For example, in the original script, my father always spoke loudly to Gao Jiayue's eldest son (Taiwanese, meaning yelling), but in the first scene, I felt that Brother Xixiang was the most gentle to me. That kind of gentleness gives people the feeling that he protects his second son, but the most favored in his heart is actually the eldest son.
Maybe it's because my appearance at that time was too similar to him, right? The same thin, swarthy. So I secretly followed him, and learned from him with his feet crossed and smoked. The result is a very subtle chemical change.
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Yang Guimei, who is also an old drama bone, plays Gao Jiayue's mother
Sister Guimei's own life experience is already very rich, and it is almost natural for her to treat our sons and give birth to some different, very life-like lines.
They are very comfortable under this framework, and as juniors, they actually take all this as reality. Dad is silent, so we talk more; Mom talks a lot, so let's just listen to her quietly.
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Wu Kangren (first from right) in childhood, his mother and brother
I myself am a single parent, my family is not large, and I have an older brother. I have more or less the memories of the Gao brothers' crazy childhood play. When we were children, we spread quilts on chairs, turned off all the lights, and got into it with toys, like a secret base, and we were the only two brothers left in the world.
Later, the parents separated, one followed the father and the other followed the mother, and it was normal to be alienated as they grew up. He sends me messages very easily, and he never breaks his line, you know? Maybe Leo is like this, very face-saving. But sometimes he has a problem, and he calls him directly, and I know, oh, he's trying to talk to someone.
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Teenage Wu Kang-yan (middle)
Because I am a single-parent family, I came out to work at the age of 14 in order to support my family. The first job was to do the welding of the electrical box, the first day of work, my goggles have not arrived, I am young and do not understand the operation specifications, so it is so hard. When I came back from work, my eyes were white and I felt like I was going blind.
I've also done it on construction sites. At that time, the safety awareness was not good, there was no helmet, and the protective net was not erected, so I flew around and shuttled between the scaffolding of ten or twenty floors, and now I think about it is actually very dangerous, and I may fall down carelessly, so I have to say goodbye to the world.
If it is really broken down into the types of jobs, it may be far more than the "50 jobs" known to the outside world. Just talking about catering, I have done Chinese food, Western food, outfield, infield, dishwashing, vegetable cutting, and Western food can be divided into iron plates, steaks, and simple meals, all kinds of food.
Therefore, Gao Jiayue's scenes of cooking noodles in the play are many from real experience. I've been holding knives since I was a kid and I'm very good at it.
I wasn't discovered until I was 27 years old, when I had just quit my job as a bartender at a bar to work at Starbucks. At that time, filming "Next Stop, Happiness", as a supporting role for a newcomer, the salary was actually very low, the hourly salary was about 95 Taiwan dollars (equivalent to about 21 yuan), plus the installation and transportation, I may get it less than ordinary office workers, and I was a little stretched at that time. I also asked the manager of Starbucks: Can I continue to work here?
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The work "Next Stop, Happiness" in the rookie period played the role of the male supporting actress Takuya Hana
But there are benefits to entering the industry late, and I also have friends who entered the industry early, some of them started as idols, and they broke away from life earlier, which is not easy. Even if they want to live like ordinary people, it is difficult for others to see them through the eyes of normal people.
I started the industry late and lived as a normal person for longer than them. There are more than them, and that is the time of time.
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The brothers in "Fudu Youth".
Acting in "Fudu Youth", because I have to go on a diet to lose weight, I start counting every morning when I get up, how long I have to eat (laughs). In fact, it's not thin for the sake of thinness, black for the sake of black. I lived in Malaysia for about a month and a half, and it was about the same as it is now, white and tender, in my early 70s. But as soon as I got to that land and saw the gap between "them" and "me", I felt that it was over, I had to go in this direction.
Chen Zeyao plays my younger brother and also acts as my translator. Malaysians are ethnically complex and linguistically diverse. At that time, we really went to work like those low-level migrant workers, and learned how to kill chickens in the market, how to pluck chickens, and break down a chicken.
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Go to work and kill chickens like local laborers
Before having in-depth contact with these low-level workers, they will bring a lot of perspectives that belong to their own class. For example, are you poor? Are you having a hard time? Are you homesick?
We often look at things with our own understanding, and after talking to them in depth, we realize that we understand it completely wrong.
When we really know someone, we may find that they are having a good time. He told me that he had been away from home for more than ten years and had not been back once, and that he regularly sent money back by way of underground currency exchange. He told me how old his wife and children were and that his daughter was in college. But he would secretly tell me a secret that he had another wife here.
Another person shared with me that he can earn RM80 at work today, but he can earn $5 more in his next job. Is the weight of the five pieces in his heart the same as the weight of the five pieces in our hearts? The answer, of course, is different.
Chan and I spend a lot of time with each other. We first learned professional sign language, and then we learned how to simplify, to add simplification to the dynamics of life, and later, we could compare from the left and the right at all times, and we could speak with our mouth shapes and even expressions. We want everyone to believe how two brothers who are not related by blood, one who can speak and one who can't speak, have been dependent on each other for more than 20 years.
Once, when I rushed into a local public toilet, a cleaning lady scolded me in Malay. I didn't understand again, so I grabbed Aze and asked him to translate, it turned out that what the aunt said was: My toilet was just cleaned and you rushed in like this, do you know how dirty you are?
From that moment on, I felt like I was really like (the character).
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In order to play the amorous "baby", practice walking and dancing in high heels
Many people have asked me about the standard of taking on the show, but it is not so serious. Sometimes it's because I'm familiar with the director, sometimes it's because I'm free, and sometimes it's because the salary is high (laughs). Yes, that's practical. "The Beginning of the Lights" came to me halfway through filming, and I happened to be free. Director Lian Yiqi laughed and said that if the role was thrown to him anyway, he would find a way by himself.
Indeed, once I took on the role, I would take my own time, find my own teachers, and figure it out on my own.
I think it's very important to have fun, first of all, you have to have a playful heart; Responsibility is another point – it's been my attitude towards work since I was a child.
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"She and Her Her" plays the misogynistic and perverted villain Du Junru (above)
"Imitation Criminal" plays the prosecutor Guo Xiaoqi who adheres to justice and idealism (below)
In the past ten years, I have made myself quite tired, but I also did it on purpose. I deliberately let myself be able to get in touch with more characters in recent years, and I am constantly releasing movements. I have a more pessimistic idea, I don't think that the life of an actor can last so long, and people can't be on the waves forever.
I always hope that at some stage, I can reach a position where I feel that I have "done it", and it has nothing to do with what people think of me or what awards I have won. After filming "In My Life", I suddenly felt that I had done it, because I saw a different version of myself.
When the audience watches the play, they may feel that "he is different this time", but we know too well our performance and our own ability. We know in our hearts that in fact, they are all the same, but the director is different from the camera; It's just that today it's the left face, tomorrow it's the right face, the hair is a little longer and shorter, and the way you figure out the character is a little bit more out or a little more restrained, it's just these differences. Therefore, it is not easy for an actor to see a different version of himself, but it is also a very fortunate thing.
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For the role of tanning, thinning
My 2022 is very exciting, I have finished 5 films in less than a year, and it seems that I have done something that others can only do in three years, and I feel very down-to-earth. That kind of steadfastness makes me feel that I don't have to race with myself like this.
I'm 40 years old, and I've been thinking about "inheritance" a lot in the last three or four years. The entertainment industry is too fast, and the relationship between people is during the filming period, and the connection may be broken after the end. I really like working with my seniors, I often look at them from the sidelines, they might find it a little weird, and I look at them when I'm not filming.
I often think that if I can learn a little more from them, I must tell younger actors when I have the chance. When they're struggling with themselves, or can't figure it out, tell them that this is how everyone comes through.
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In "Lifetime", Wu Kangren, Zheng Yuanchang (middle) and Lin Zhexi (right) jointly performed the three brothers of the Gao family
My teacher once said something to me, probably one that I would bring into the coffin. He said that there are a lot of actors who can play well, and there are very few actors who can help other opponents play well.
(One strip: Are you working in this direction?) ）
I am now.
People say that forty is not confused, it is a lie, our forty years old in our era, the head is not good, there is still a lot of confusion. It's not easy to find your niche. Who are you? What are you doing? Is what you're doing valuable and rewarding?
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In daily life, car repair is one of the few hobbies
Acting is certainly a great job, but there can be a lot of suffering before you feel like it's great. The salary is low, you can't wait for the film, no one watches the film, some people criticize you, and some people bully you. And after experiencing this kind of thing, for me, this positioning is very clear now, I am just an actor, actors act well, and we don't care about the rest.
As an actor, the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction comes from the applause of the audience and the affirmation of friends in the industry, which is the most honest words.
For example, when "Fudu Youth" was screened at the First Film Festival, one of the judges asked someone to bring me some words two weeks later, and he saw the details of the (performance) that no one had ever mentioned to me before, and it really inspired me. This is a very delicate and precious moment as an actor.
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With cats
After completing several titles in a row last year that satisfied me, now is a break for me. I don't have many casual hobbies, and my favorite things to do are nothing more than repairing cars, watching cartoons, reading scripts, and raising cats. It's great to have a pet, and to take on a life to get along with yourself for a long time, that connection will be very close. We are too vulnerable to injury as human beings in real life, and this connection is healing for me.
Many viewers will empathize, and they may see a certain character and think that this is me. Those characters have similarities to me, but none of them are me. In my daily life, I am quiet and a little serious. I think it's a good thing to keep the audience a little unfamiliar with the real me.