"Walking with the Phoenix" is undoubtedly called the first big hit ancient puppet drama in 2024, in addition to Zhao Liying and Lin Gengxin's commendable, the golden supporting roles in the play are also amazing.
Xu Haiqiao used a few scenes to interpret a tragic and affectionate Fenglai, for the scene of Fenglai's birth, he worked out for a month, so that the king of charm had a stunning appearance.
In the past two years, from "Flower Thousand Bone" to "Walking with the Phoenix", Xu Haiqiao has always been able to catch up with the hits, which is not luck but strength. He has become a golden supporting role step by step from a railway worker, and at the age of forty, he has a career without marriage and no scandals, although he is only one step away from exploding, but it has been really not easy along the way.
1. From the iron rice bowl to the penultimate one
Xu Haiqiao was born in 1983, a native of Jinan, Shandong Province, and grew up in a railway college. His parents, grandfather, aunt, uncle, almost all his relatives worked on the railroad. He studied in the railway primary school, railway middle school, railway secondary school, and after graduating at the age of 18, he naturally entered the railway department to work.
Xu Haiqiao's first job was in the baggage department of the railway, sitting in front of the computer every day to enter relevant data, and delivering consignment packages to the train in a few minutes when the train docked. Day after day, repeating boring work, just like my own parents, I can see at a glance what life will be like in retirement decades later.
Eighteen or nineteen years old is the age of unwillingness, one day Xu Haiqiao heard the news of the enrollment of Beijing Film Academy on the radio, it happened that "Huanzhu Gege" was very popular in those years, and he also wanted to be a star and an actor. Xu Haiqiao found Nortel's admissions phone, only to be told that this year's enrollment had closed.
Xu Haiqiao waited for another year, and the Shanghai Theater Academy happened to have an examination center in Jinan, so he signed up for the art examination for the drama and prepared a poem by Xu Zhimo and a song by Lin Yilun. Perhaps because of his handsome appearance, Xu Haiqiao, who has no acting experience, was admitted to the play.
He immediately ran to the office of the unit to resign, saying that he was going to college. Colleagues in the unit suggested that he could leave his job without pay, and he could continue to come back to work after graduating from college, after all, it was an iron job bowl and should not be easily thrown away. Xu Haiqiao said proudly, I was admitted to the play, and I will definitely not come back after graduation.
In fact, Xu Haiqiao was the last in his professional grades that year, and after coming to the play, he saw so many handsome guys and beauties, and he began to feel inferior. There are a total of 25 students in the 03 acting class, 13 boys and 12 girls, and Xu Haiqiao is the last in order of results. Every time he does his homework according to the student number of men and women, he is the one who is alone. He was also the one left in the dormitory, and he was the only one in the class who was assigned to another department's dormitory.
The feeling of the tail of the crane made Xu Haiqiao always hide in the back, and he didn't dare to stand in front of him to take pictures, and he didn't dare to go out for interviews and shoot advertisements like other classmates, most of the time he practiced basic skills and honed his profession in school. It is this kind of hard work that has made Xu Haiqiao's professional performance improve rapidly, and he has changed from the penultimate to the male number one in the graduation drama.
However, after walking out of school and starting to interview and look for a job, Xu Haiqiao's challenge has just begun. In 2006, when he was in his senior year, he participated in the "Dream of Red Mansions" draft and won the third place in the Baoyu group, but what he didn't expect was that this draft turned out to be a joke.
Back then, director Li Shaohong wanted to find actors for the remake of "Dream of Red Mansions", and chose the most popular draft method, after all, Li Yuchun in 05 had just created a draft miracle. This draft was huge, and it was launched in various cities across the country, and newcomer actors such as Huang Xuan and Chen Xiao participated in the draft, but they were all eliminated.
finally made it to the national finals, but the results were overturned and re-selected, and in the end, none of these draft winners participated in the leading role. Jiang Mengjie who played Lin Daiyu, Yang Yang and Yu Xiaotong who played Jia Baoyu, and Li Qin who played Xue Baochai were all found by the director himself.
Xu Haiqiao, the third runner-up of Baoyu, didn't know the inside story, so stupidly waited for the crew to start filming in Beijing, with no income and no connections, so he could only go to the bathing center to eat buffet in order to save expenses. After staying up for half a year, Xu Haiqiao finally joined the group "Dream of Red Mansions" to play Liu Xianglian.
This is the first time he has participated in a large-scale film and television drama, and being scolded has become a daily routine, sometimes the director will shout in front of everyone on the walkie-talkie, the extras are good, but Liu Xianglian is not good at acting. Xu Haiqiao, an actor who graduated from a major class, was so ashamed that he wanted to find a crack to get into.
Of course, as we all know, the new version of "Dream of Red Mansions" was scolded after it was launched, and it did not gain the recognition of the audience, Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, Song Yi and many other actors who played supporting roles have become popular, but most of the protagonist actors are tepid, and this "Dream of Red Mansions" did not bring any dividends to Xu Haiqiao.
2. Picked up "Flower Thousand Bone"
Originally, Xu Haiqiao, like many newcomers in Red Mansions, also signed a contract with Li Shaohong's Rongxinda Company, which pressed Yang Mi to shoot Qingwen, who did not have many scenes, and pushed off the female number one in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" for her. Fortunately, the production company was optimistic about Yang Mi back then, and it took several negotiations to lend Yang Mi out, which gave rise to a classic snow.
But fortunately, Xu Haiqiao was admitted to the air politics a few months later, opening the road to comedy for himself. Kong Zheng has produced many comedies such as "The Story of the Cooking Class" and "The Story of the Health Team", Xu Haiqiao is not worried about no filming, but his partners are seniors like Gao Yalin and Hong Jiantao, who have rich experience, solid acting skills, and their own laughs, but he still can't keep up with the rhythm.
In 2010, Xu Haiqiao filmed the story of the military comedy "College Student Soldier", at this time he had been in the industry for two years, and he was still very nervous every time he started filming, and he actually filmed 88 scenes in one scene, so angry that the director said that he would replace him every day.
It was also after this drama that Xu Haiqiao was finally scolded, he thought to himself that as long as he was not replaced, he would act well, no matter what others said. After his mentality relaxed, Xu Haiqiao's drama also improved, and the number of times he was scolded became less and less. But just when he filmed a few comedies and found a feeling in his performance, suddenly there was no drama looking for him again.
Xu Haiqiao was unemployed at home for seven months, failed all the interviews, did not have any job, and his future was dark, and he even had the idea of jumping off the building under great pressure. In order to change the status quo, Xu Haiqiao moved from Beijing to Hengdian, taking on as long as there is a play, and not letting himself stop.
There is a crew in Hengdian every day, starring, supporting roles, and cameos are all opportunities, don't worry about no filming, Xu Haiqiao decided to plunge into Hengdian and never let himself stop. Since 11, Xu Haiqiao has filmed a large number of costume dramas and micro-films, some of which are shoddy, but he has no choice, he is afraid that he will not have a job.
In 2014, "Flower Thousand Bone" was preparing for casting in Hengdian, and this project attracted much attention, almost half of the actors in Hengdian went to audition, and Xu Haiqiao was no exception. The director was very satisfied with him when he met for the first time, and intended to let him play the second male lead.
However, the start of "Flower Thousand Bone" was delayed, and Xu Haiqiao didn't dare to wait for a play that had not yet signed a contract, so he joined the group for other dramas. A few months later, "Flower Thousand Bone" finally started, and when Xu Haiqiao was contacted, he didn't even have an interview schedule.
Fortunately, the director was impressed by him and asked him to record a trial scene, and then gave him the role of Meng Xuanlang. Xu Haiqiao seems to have picked up a big bargain, although he is not the first male or the second male, but the hit of "Flower Thousand Bone" directly changed his career.
Third, after becoming popular
"Flower Thousand Bone" is the first TV series to break 20 billion on the Internet, and it can be described as a mess back then, Zhao Liying and Huo Jianhua directly became the top star, and the supporting actors all became popular. Xu Haiqiao felt the taste of fans picking up the plane for the first time, and as soon as he got off the plane, he was surrounded by fans and surrounded by long guns and short cannons.
In the next two years, Xu Haiqiao's drama appointment was not worried, and all he got was the protagonist script. In 2016, he starred in the costume detective comedy "Bloody Chang'an", and even the ending song and interlude were sung by him.
However, during the filming process, he suddenly realized that something was wrong with his parents, every time he sent WeChat to his mother, he replied by text and never voiced, every time he called, his father answered, and the dog barked at home on the other end of the phone. Xu Haiqiao asked several times to find out that his mother was sick and hospitalized, and he had been given a critical illness notice.
But Xu Haiqiao was the male number one in the crew at the time, hundreds of people were waiting for him to start the film every day, and he took a day off and the crew had to open the skylight, and the venue fees, equipment costs, and labor costs were all money. As an actor, his professionalism made Xu Haiqiao unable to put down work to visit his mother, and he also had to shoot comedies with full emotions.
Xu Haiqiao collapsed in the crew several times, with allergic long bags on his face, and hugged the director and cried several times, feeling that he couldn't shoot anymore. Finally, the crew gave him two days off and asked him to go back to visit his mother. Both mother and son held back their emotions and tried not to cry in front of each other. Fortunately, after half a year of treatment, Xu's mother's body finally recovered.
Since then, Xu Haiqiao has tried to bring his parents with him, juggling work and family. The dividends brought by "Flower Thousand Bone" were exhausted in two or three years, and Xu Haiqiao did not squeeze into the first-line ranks, and returned to the ranks of supporting roles again.
Fortunately, with the fame he has accumulated over the past few years, he can finally choose a good script as a supporting role, and he is willing to be an 'ex-husband' for a goddess like Liu Yifei. In 2021, Xu Haiqiao played two villains and caught up with two hit dramas, one is the ungrateful and unscrupulous Ouyang Xu in "Menghualu", and the other is Rong Hao, who is crazy about love in "Canglan Jue".
The results of these two dramas are very good, which makes Xu Haiqiao regain discussion, although he does not have many scenes, and it is also a rare negative image that he has been in the industry for many years, but his acting skills are very good, and it can be said that he has not let go of a single shot. In a scene of Ouyang Xu eating yam in "Menghualu", in order to achieve the best effect, he ate more than a dozen in a row, resulting in hand allergies.
The sadomasochistic love between Rong Hao and the Chidi woman in "Canglan Jue" has become the biggest unsettler, and he and Guo Xiaoting, the same brother and sister, have also become popular.
In the past few years, Xu Haiqiao has found a suitable route for himself in the entertainment industry, he can't be the big male protagonist who carries the play, and it is not bad to play a supporting role, and he can also get out of the circle if he plays every scene seriously.
With Xu Haiqiao's face, it is hard to imagine that he is forty years old, and he has not had a scandal for many years since his debut, let alone a scandal. Xu Haiqiao once participated in the reality show "My Boy", showing his single life when he was not filming. His life is clean and simple, he eats fritters with coffee in the morning, and he lives like a big boy.
Xu Haiqiao said that he longed for marriage, but he would not take the initiative to pursue others, so he has always been single. Such a filial piety, dedication and handsome boy can be regarded as having a successful career, at least in the 03 class of the drama where he graduated, he is the most popular one. You should have met your love earlier.
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