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Look back
The weather-beaten face in the mirror is a true portrayal of Ouyang Fenqiang today. The temples have long been dyed with the traces of time, and the body is much plumper than back then.
Looking back on the past, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.
The handsome and chic boy who was once known as "Bao Erye" now has only distant memories left. Although some people ridiculed him for his current appearance, Ouyang Fenqiang didn't care, just smiled indifferently.
He understands that this is the mark of the ruthlessness of the years, and it is also a testimony of the hardships he has experienced.
What makes him happiest now is to be able to reunite with his family and enjoy the joy of family. Be able to unswervingly abide by the promise of "love only one person in your life" and take good care of your beloved wife; can unswervingly work tirelessly for the theater career, this is already his biggest regret.
Ouyang Fenqiang's life can be described as ups and downs and magnificent. From an unknown young actor, he stood out step by step, and became a household name "Jia Baoyu"; encountered a career trough and family changes, and fell to the bottom of his life several times.
But he never gave up, and always worked hard and faced it positively.
Now that he is re-examining his life trajectory, Ouyang Fenqiang is relieved. He realized that even though life was short, as long as he could maintain his inner peace and cherish what he had now, it would be the greatest happiness.
The retrospective of the origin of Jia Baoyu's corner
Back in 1987, when the famous director Wang Fulin began to prepare for the filming of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", the crew encountered a thorny problem: the actor who played the soul role Jia Baoyu had not been determined.
At this juncture, actor Zhang Yuping, who is Shi Xiangyun, strongly recommended a Sichuan actor - Ouyang Fenqiang.
At that time, Ouyang Fenqiang worked in Emei Film Studio, born in a simple working family, and his family was poor.
never thought that one day he would be able to have anything to do with such a heavyweight classic masterpiece, so when the crew invited him to Beijing for an audition, he didn't pay too much attention to it in his heart, and planned to treat this "just go" as a publicly-funded tour.
It was only under his father's severe reprimand that Ouyang Fenqiang reluctantly left for Beijing. Unexpectedly, a casual meeting with Wang Fulin shocked the director.
Ouyang Fenqiang, who was originally suspicious and dressed casually, showed an otherworldly demeanor as soon as he opened his mouth to talk, just like Baoyu in the book walked out and conquered Wang Dao in an instant.
In this way, Ouyang Fenqiang was confirmed to play this important role and entered the crew. But in fact, he knew very little about "Dream of Red Mansions" before, and the other members had been studying hard in the training class of the crew for many months, and their understanding of the original work was far beyond Ouyang Fenqiang's ability.
This made him frequently ridiculed by Chen Xiaoxu, the "Lin Daiyu" in the play, in the early stage of filming.
In the process of the rivalry between the two, it is not uncommon for them to be incompatible. Once, Ouyang Fenqiang really couldn't tolerate Lin Daiyu's "careful eye" plot arrangement, and blurted out on the spot: "You are really stingy! If Baoyu really marries you, he will definitely have a nervous breakdown."
Chen Xiaoxu was furious when he heard this: "You can't appreciate her beauty at all, you are just a vulgar person, you are arrogant, Daiyu will never have any feelings for you!" In the face of such mockery, Ouyang Fenqiang was speechless, realizing that his grasp of the role was indeed too superficial.
The story of Ouyang Fenqiang's bold plastic surgery for the character
In the process of filming "Dream of Red Mansions", Ouyang Fenqiang gradually realized that there are indeed some gaps between his appearance and the role of Jia Baoyu.
In order to help him adjust his image, director Wang Fulin once asked a makeup artist to install a silicone fake chin for Ouyang, but the effect was not ideal, and the filming work was affected to a certain extent.
Once, the prosthesis fell off unexpectedly, causing Ouyang Fenqiang to show his original round face, which caused laughter at the scene. He was ashamed at the time, seeing that he was gradually unable to perfectly interpret the role of Jia Baoyu.
By chance, Wang Fulin learned that there was a doctor in Chengdu who was a soldier, who seemed to be engaged in plastic surgery. Although the domestic plastic surgery medical technology was not mature at that time and there were certain risks, in order to fit the character image as much as possible, Wang Fulin still asked Ouyang Fenqiang for advice.
Unexpectedly, Ouyang Fenqiang agreed without hesitation. As the first actor in the history of Chinese film and television to publicly admit to undergoing plastic surgery, Ouyang Fenqiang thus showed his determination to pursue his career.
On the day of the operation, the crew was very nervous, for fear that anything would go wrong. Fortunately, everything went smoothly, and the doctor specially gave Ouyang Fenqiang a suitable time to recuperate at home after the operation.
But to this day, whenever he encounters a rainy day, Ouyang Fenqiang will feel a faint pain in the silicone jaw installed back then, as if he has traveled through time and space and returned to the difficult years when he was desperate for the role.
He has no regrets, but deep down he always has lingering feelings about that episode. That decision became an important turning point in his fate, and it was also the best footnote to his persistent pursuit of the role of "Jia Baoyu".
His son died early, and Ouyang Fenqiang had a hard time at the trough
The 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" became a sensation, and Ouyang Fenqiang's career took off and became famous. Soon, he and his first girlfriend Conley finally became married. The marriage between the two can be said to be matched by "Dream of Red Mansions".
At the filming site, Kang Li was attracted by Ouyang Fenqiang's diligent and tenacious character, and the two met and accompanied, and their relationship deepened day by day.
Soon after the marriage, Conley became pregnant. Although the two had been waiting for a long time, after the birth of the child, doctors diagnosed the new baby as if struck by lightning, and the new baby had a serious congenital heart disease that urgently needed surgery.
As novice parents, Ouyang Fenqiang and Kang Li are naturally at a loss and have no idea where to start.
When he has free time, Ouyang Fenqiang will go to the streets and bargain with some small traders and hawkers to fight for every penny of small profits. Once, just because the price was a few cents apart, he had an argument with a vegetable vendor, and the two sides got into a fight.
Hearing these mocking words, Ouyang Fenqiang was so embarrassed that he burst into tears on the spot. He never expected that fate would slap him so badly.
What's even more heart-wrenching is that despite the best efforts of the parents, this hard-won child finally died at the age of three months.
This bad news is undoubtedly a permanent pain in Ouyang Fenqiang's heart, and he is full of remorse and feels that he owes his wife and children.
Although his wife Kang Li never blamed him in the slightest, the pain of guilt followed him like a shadow, torturing Ouyang Fenqiang all the time. It was not until 1996 that the two ushered in a new hope of life---- and their second child, Ouyang Wenxin, was born.
This healthy and lively girl gradually calmed the pain of the two, like a ray of sunshine piercing the long darkness.
A retrospective of friendship and nostalgia with Chen Xiaoxu
During the filming of "Dream of Red Mansions", the friendship between Ouyang Fenqiang and Chen Xiaoxu, who played "Lin Daiyu", can be said to be from suspicion to deed and sympathy.
The crew members often see this pair of "Bao Dai" groups walking side by side, or talking for a long time on the side, and the two are indeed the best footnotes to the marriage in their previous lives in front of the screen.
However, the beginning of the friendship was quite contrasting. Chen Xiaoxu secretly sneered at the newcomer Ouyang Fenqiang, thinking that he was just a young man who was "milky and unartistic", which was extremely inconsistent with Baoyu's image.
She was angry about Ouyang Fenqiang's appearance, and even publicly mocked that he was simply a copy of a Japanese politician.
In the face of such a straightforward humiliation, Ouyang Fenqiang was naturally embarrassed at that time, and he also lost all his good feelings for the role of "Sister Lin". Until there was a rival scene, Ouyang Fenqiang finally couldn't bear it anymore, and scolded Lin Daiyu's "careful eye" plot as simply pathological.
In the face of such mockery, Ouyang Fenqiang was speechless, realizing that he had indeed not truly understood the inner character of this character. For this reason, he began to study the original work of "Dream of Red Mansions" day after day, and gradually deepened his understanding of the characters.
In this way, as the filming of "Dream of Red Mansions" progressed, the two went from suspicion to friendship, from reluctance to intimacy, which can be described as sympathetic to each other.
Until many years later, when the news of Chen Xiaoxu's death due to illness came, Ouyang Fenqiang was extremely sad, as if he had lost the most important bosom friend in his life.