Interview with Andy Lau: Don't worry about being abandoned by the times, learn to communicate with your daughter born in the 10s

Diligent and conscientious, affectionate and righteous, and never obedient.

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The protagonist of "Mr. Red Carpet" is called Liu Weichi, Andy Lau's Liu, Tony Leung's Wei, and Stephen Chow's Chi.

The three of them have supported the memories of Hong Kong films for generations, and the memories are like the red carpet at the beginning of the movie, strong and long, extending to the far reaches of time.

From the beginning of the red carpet, there are familiar lights and shadows all the way: the night breeze in Mong Kok, the fireworks in Temple Street, the swords and swords in Causeway Bay, and the guns on the rooftops of Central...... Those lights and shadows are the flowers of the times and the anchor points.

Outside the light and shadow, some people have passed away, some people have fled, some people have collapsed, some people have hidden in the dust, and the only one who is red is Andy Lau.

Millennial magazine reported on him, and he also listed the figures: an unprecedented 292 music awards in 16 years, an average of 18 awards per year.

Now, it is difficult to list the various awards, and even the number of awards itself has become a Guinness World Record. The most intuitive data is who Hong Kong questionnaire wants to be the chief executive, and 32% chose Andy Lau.

He is the king, he is the actor, he is the idol of immortality, he is the spirit of Hong Kong, and finally, he has become a symbol of extreme height.

So much so that during the 2012 Variety Show Street interview, some citizens asked him, "Do you sleep?" and "Do you usually eat?"

Even Xu Anhua, who has known each other for many years, hesitated to ask him before filming "Sister Peach", "Can you wear this dress, can you cut your hair like this? Can you not wear makeup?"

Forty-two years of jewels have covered the light and shadow on the face, which is enough to blur the face. There is no one in the world who knows you, but there are not many people who really understand him.

The most common mistake is to only see his idol-level face, but ignore his condensed acting skills in the world.

In 1982, he filmed "Running to the Angry Sea", and the director was waiting for him at the airport, and he was satisfied at first sight, "very handsome, cool and calm".

What is less known is that he was able to shoot because of Chow Yun-fat's recommendation, and Fa Ge valued him because he was serious as a group performer, diligent in memorizing words, and insisted on the whole process.

When filming "The Story of Deer and Ding", he was hidden by wireless snow and demoted from Wei Xiaobao to a supporting role Kangxi. He checked the history, looked at the portrait, and found that the emperor would never sit upright, and he created an original posture of sitting sideways.

He pondered all the way to act, from a hero to an anti-hero, and finally the grassroots, rivers and lakes, and heroes were deposited in one.

When filming "Heavenly Love", he was still concerned about the hairstyle and had an argument with Johnny To. In the decades since, he has been the actor with the most shaved heads in Hong Kong films.

In the nineties, he took on more than a dozen films a year:

At that time, everyone thought I was an idol, and they didn't pay attention to my acting skills, they only paid attention to my appearance, and they just had to be handsome. At that time, I knew that I had to take on more dramas so that everyone could have the opportunity to know my acting skills.

When filming "Dragon on the Edge", he could shock the audience with one look; when filming "Infernal Affairs", he was already obsessed with speculation about "I am not me"; Feng Xiaogang filmed "Assembly Number", and he once proposed to play Gu Zidi.

Chen Kexin said that he never thought that a Hong Kong actor could play a mainlander well, and To Qifeng said, "How you used to look at him was Andy Lau, but now he can act."

In 2014, 53-year-old Andy Lau played a migrant worker riding a motorcycle to find his son in the movie "Orphaned".

He sharpened ten nails with a file, didn't change his costume for three months, went out to eat with Wu Junru, and still wore the torn sneakers in the play. Wu Jun was surprised, "Why are you here?"

Before the start of filming, Andy Lau observed those who begged for a living under the scorching sun and observed the traces of life.

Wearing an earthen vest, he sat on the beach for seven days and sunburned.

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After decades of ups and downs, the impression of Hong Kong stars has long been solidified, Stephen Chow is a genius and lonely, Tony Leung is introverted and gentle, and Liu Qingyun is full of fireworks in the world, so that reporters recognize him as "Mr. Liu, a citizen".

Andy Lau's impression is equivalent to a "model". He is patriotic and dedicated, acts steadily, has never had scandals, and has been selected as one of the "Top Ten Young People in the World".

A reporter met him in a Tang costume backstage at the Spring Festival Gala, "He stood there, he was the most Chinese."

In the past 20 years, Hong Kong's economy has experienced several fluctuations, and in government propaganda videos and public service advertisements, Andy Lau is the most upright person, "He is a spiritual sustenance, and Hong Kong people feel at ease when they see him."

This is the high place that people are familiar with, and under the temple, he is actually very Jianghu.

He was born in the mountains, grew up in a slum area, delivered takeaway for the set, worked in a glove factory, and after stepping into the showbiz, the roles he received were written all over A, B, C, and D, and the set was the rivers and lakes.

After experiencing the heat and cold, he will repay his kindness, and his values are full of rivers and lakes: right and wrong are handed over to the law, and friends must fully support them when they ask for help.

When he was hidden by TVB, Sammo Hung reached out. In the future, Sammo Hung said that he helped many people when he was young, but only Andy Lau was "on call" after becoming popular.

Wang Jing asked him to shoot "Future Police", he agreed without reading the script, and was ridiculed by netizens as "Andy Lau vs. Pipi Shrimp".

He still spoke for Wang Jing, "I just came out of making the bad movie you said, Wang Jing gave everything for the movie."

Xu Anhua, the director of "Running to the Angry Sea", was preparing to shoot "Sister Peach", but there was no exciting plot, no traffic stars, and no one was willing to invest.

Andy Lau invested and starred, "If you lose, you will lose, and if you lose, you will only lose my salary." ”

His rivers and lakes are affectionate and righteous. Li Keqin's income was bleak and he wanted to hold a concert, so he immediately wrote a check to send him; Feng Delun filmed "Rogue League", and was released by the male protagonist and turned white overnight, and he urgently changed the schedule to save the emergency.

Zhang Weijian did not invest well and was on the verge of bankruptcy, so Andy Lau borrowed money to help him. Zhang was grateful, Andy Lau only waved his hand, "If you learn, you have to teach people, and if you earn it, you have to give it to others." ”

Those feelings lasted for a long time. Ke Shouliang has passed away for many years, and his youngest son directs movies, and he still makes special appearances on the platform; Lan Jieying is down on the streets, and only Andy Lau is the one who helps.

Many details have been remembered for a long time. He attended the press conference with the newcomers, and deliberately stood on the side for a group photo, "so that you will not be laid off by reporters"; at the concert scene, he rarely jumped off the stage in anger, just because the little girl was pushed by the reporter.

In 2017, he toured the country, and the first stop was in remote Hohhot, just because fans wrote "My family is in Hohhot, I am too poor, I guess I will never have the opportunity to go out of my hometown to watch a concert in my life." ”

He acts with a traditional chivalrous style, and the writer Cai Chongda describes it as a "squire":

"He has a lot of Confucianism, very calm, stable, and elegant things. If he sees social disorder and good people are in trouble, he will have a kind of squire's heartache. ”

In the Hong Kong film industry, Andy Lau is the person who is "borrowed the most". When young directors encounter creative bottlenecks or insufficient investment, they will talk to him.

In 2005, 46-year-old Andy Lau launched the "Asian Rising Star Guide" program, giving newcomer Ning Hao 3 million to help him shoot the famous work "Crazy Stone".

Since then, Ning Hao has followed Andy Lau and launched the "Bad Monkey Project", helping Lu Yang to shoot "Embroidered Spring Knife 2", Wen Muye to shoot "I Am Not the God of Medicine", and "All or Nothing" for the Olympic bid.

When filming "Crazy Stone", Ning Hao designed the role for Andy Lau, but failed to do so, and has been looking forward to cooperation since then, cherishing and hesitating, "I feel that he is a man of heaven".

Until the filming of "Mr. Red Carpet" this time, Ning Hao flew to Zhuhai to meet Andy Lau and hit it off. Ning Hao said that this is a special story, and Andy Lau is the most suitable to play.

In the movie, Ning Hao made the national idol fall into the dust and made the big star a small person. The king of heaven wanders between the rivers and lakes, full of real phantoms.

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In Andy Lau's memories, the most common word is "affinity", and the most common comment from reporters who have interviewed him is "thoughtful".

Whether it is the shooting scene or the interview scene, he is gentle and humble, courteous and thoughtful, and takes care of everyone present.

In a certain rehearsal, a female group actor fell, because she was fatter, she was embarrassed, she laughed forward and backwards, and some actresses laughed so much that they jumped to their feet, only Andy Lau walked to help her up, and comforted her.

It is precisely because of his affinity that people often ignore his rebellion. He is actually full of stubbornness in his bones, and the most unwilling to compromise is time.

He rarely mentioned his age, and in an interview he once said, "I am younger than anyone else, and my mental age is only 30 years old", and after saying that, he changed his words, "I am only half of 30, and I must be young forever."

The secret of his resistance to time is that his mind must always be fresh, and without curiosity, it is really easy to grow old.

He chases trends with great self-discipline. When he was young, he only slept one hour a day, filmed all night, and when others were sleepy, he still pressed his legs and stretched his muscles, nicknamed "Liu Tieren".

After middle age, he filmed commercials during the day, filmed movies at night, flew back to Hong Kong after work, and could write lyrics on the plane. He is used to eating while having a meeting, a cup of coffee and a pineapple bun, and not wasting a minute or a second.

He fights the erosion of time in his own way. At the age of 43, he beat Jay Chou to rank first in the survey of young people's favorite idols in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and Jacky Cheung went to his concert to reveal his true feelings:

I remember when I was young, I often wanted to stop and take a break, but when I looked at Andy Lau in front of me, he was doing it desperately, turning on the TV would see him, and I would meet him wherever I went. If today's juniors want to gain a foothold in the circle, they must first look at Andy.

Diligence and self-discipline have become a creed in life, so much so that in the era of traffic stars, he will be puzzled and ask: Isn't punctuality a duty? Isn't it a basic skill to memorize lines seriously?

He has never been worried about being abandoned by the younger generation, and has always maintained communication with young people, and the latest communication object is his daughter, born in 2012, who is born in the 10s.

He said that the younger generation also needs to listen to the experience of those who have come before, and laughed that "after all, we were also the top people of the era."

The times are like arrows, he sails silently, and the same stubbornness is also hidden in the movie "Mr. Red Carpet".

Liu Weichi in the film sleeps in the sleep cabin. The cabin was dark and silent, and suddenly I woke up to the world beyond recognition.

The short video should shout 666, greet the fans and shout Lao Tie, the car can be publicized with only one logo, and the Internet public opinion is like a storm that can destroy everything.

In the film, there is a local pig who was adopted in a luxury hotel by mistake, and finally ran away.

When escaping, the earth pig and the delivery robot met on the narrow road of the hotel, like two times passing by.

However, in the collision of times, Liu Weichi only wants to be himself. He was reluctant to shout 666, unwilling to please traffic in the live broadcast room, and tried his best to regain balance in the chaotic world.

Lau Weichi in the film and Andy Lau outside the film are completely different, and the king just uses the movie to pour out his heart.

We must be diligent and conscientious in our work, be affectionate and righteous, and in the era of radical changes, we should not be conservative, not blindly obedient, and flexibly find ways to adapt.

Those who don't know Andy Lau will eventually understand Liu Weichi.

I love the last scene of "Mr. Red Carpet", Lau Weichi tries to stand on the balance bike that young people love to play. Light and shadow, he clumsily tried to balance.

This is how the wise man adapts to the times.