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Text: Sports and Entertainment Record
Editor|Sports and Entertainment Wind Cloud Record
Wu Yanshu never imagined that he would usher in the spring of his career at the age of 86.
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The world calls Wu Yanshu an old drama bone, but what she doesn't know is that she hasn't been in the entertainment industry for long.
The peak of her career came after the age of 75.
In the previous days, I had been staying at the Shanxi Drama Theater.
From the moment she entered the theater, she dedicated her entire youth and enthusiasm to the stage.
"People have to have their own careers, especially women, and I think even if your husband is very good to you, you have to be independent. ”
That's her point of view.
So much so that whether she got married or had children, she didn't stop.
Retirement, too.
Because she still loves the stage, she will return to the theater to participate in rehearsals whenever she has time.
It was not until the age of 65 that he retired completely.
It's not that she can't act, but to take care of her sick husband.
Her husband suffers from emphysema and needs someone to change his oxygen cylinder on time to keep him breathing.
So in order to take better care of her husband, she chose to leave the stage she loved.
It's just a pity that the husband's life only lasted until 2007.
"It is recommended to use electric shock to save lives"
This is the doctor's advice when her husband's life is in crisis.
Wu Yanshu chose to refuse.
On the one hand, she felt that it was better to let her husband go in peace than to let him live in pain, and on the other hand, she was not afraid of death.
She has seen too many births, old age, sickness and death.
Father's, mother's, husband's, three partings have already numbed her, and that's why she is not afraid of death.
Playful, she is not even afraid of death, but she is afraid that she has no value.
In 2010, she was taken to Beijing by her daughter.
The family reunion should have been happy, but because she couldn't find the value of her existence, she was not happy.
"My daughter has to work, my grandson has to go to college, everyone else is busy, only you are more depressed. Wu Yanshu said.
It was Zhang Jizhong who saved her from the dire situation.
At that time, he was preparing to film a new version of "Journey to the West", and the other actors were all set, but the person who played Vilamba Bodhisattva couldn't find a suitable one for a long time.
When he was anxious, someone recommended Wu Yanshu to him.
So he contacted her and invited her.
It's okay to stay at home, so Wu Yanshu simply agreed.
After entering the crew, she reacted:
Why didn't you choose to film?
Drama and acting are one family, and since you can be comfortable on stage, you can naturally be in front of the camera.
In this way, she began to break into the film and television industry and became a "new actor".
When other post-80s actresses were lamenting the "mid-life crisis", Wu Yanshu had just begun to ride the wind and waves.
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Wu Yanshu, who has just set foot in the film and television industry, the conditions are difficult.
low salary,
There is no broker,
Even the business has to be docked by itself.
If she was another female star, she would have been complaining for a long time, but she enjoyed it.
"I did my best to play this role well, I just love it, I don't want anything. ”
Have a good attitude and think openly.
However, her most popular point is her humility.
When filming a certain TV series, she followed the bus with the crew to pick up and drop off the group performance.
And because there were many people and few lounges, the director gave her a stool and let her sit in the corner of the set.
Coincidentally, the group leader sitting next to her was the group leader of the group performance.
The group leader saw that she was old and dressed plainly, and thought that she was also one of the group performers, so he yelled at her.
One will ask her to take a tissue, and the other will ask her to serve tea and water.
"I'm still a newcomer, and I'm already an old extra. Wu Yanshu thought to herself.
So she does what she asks her to do.
When did the group find out that her identity was not simple?
heard the director call her senior, and heard her speak a lot of lines under the camera.
The disdainful gaze turned directly into admiration.
With a super high memory, Wu Yanshu shines in this drama.
So much so that later, as long as there is a suitable character who wants to say long lines, the director will find her as soon as possible.
However, although there are many scripts that come to the door, they are all small roles, and what really made Wu Yanshu out of the circle was the 15-year-old "No Two Love Letters".
is different from the previous dramas, this drama was found by Wu's predecessors on their own initiative.
The hero and heroine are decided, but one of the central characters in the play (an eighty-year-old man) has not been suitable for a long time.
It's not that the requirements are too high, but 90% of the scenes in this drama are filmed abroad, and the elderly are easy to be dangerous when they are old and take a plane.
So their casting requirements were:
"An actress who looks like she is eighty, but is actually sixty years old. ”
That year, Wu Yanshu was 77 years old.
There are dangers in flying, but because of my dedication to acting, I went without thinking about it.
"It looks like it's 80 years old, but it's really almost 80 years old. ”
Her words touched the director's heart.
But what really made the director decide her to star was the wrinkles on her face:
"As soon as I saw her, I thought Grandma was her, and I loved her wrinkles. Now that the old people have no wrinkles and have glossy white hair, I wish there was a textured old lady. ”
As it turned out, the director made the right choice.
When the work was broadcast, the most outstanding was the Chinese old lady played by Wu Yanshu, which directly made her nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
It was also from this year that she frequently appeared in film and television works.
mentioned the "three golds" four times in two years, and successfully won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress.
And it was seen by more people again, that is, "The Golden Years" in cooperation with Liu Shishi.
One of the most admirable clips is the filming of the part where the son jumped off the building.
Because Mr. Wu was 82 years old at the time, the director was afraid that her mood swings would be too great and cause physical problems.
So when shooting, I only thought about taking a symbolic picture of jumping off the building, and then switching to the next scene.
But Mr. Wu disagreed.
She felt that filming like this would be incoherent, so she insisted on filming herself, and it was Mr. Wu's insistence that led to such an amazing scene.
Wu Yanshu's achievements are not insignificant.
And what caused her to achieve this, in addition to strength, the most important thing is her optimistic attitude.
"I didn't think about how old I was, I felt like I could do anything. ”
That's what she said, and that's what she did.
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"Wu Yanshu perfectly proves that what a person wants to do has nothing to do with age. ”
This is Liu Yifei's evaluation of her.
And that's exactly what happened.
The old drama bones in the circle who are the same age as her, which one is not relying on the old and selling the old, and thinks that young people should keep up with their older generation.
Wu Yanshu is different.
does not pretend to be an old actor, but also calls on everyone to learn like young people.
Observe the performances of other young actors on set and learn the rhythm of their memorization of lines.
In his spare time, young people go outdoors, play ball, and go to the basket in three steps.
She has always been curious about the world, and that's why she's in good shape.
Also unlike other older people, she minimizes the amount of help she receives from others.
No matter what happens, she doesn't teach anyone about herself.
When she wanted to go abroad to film, she packed her luggage and booked a plane ticket by herself, got sick and had a fever, and took a taxi to the hospital on her mobile phone.
She doesn't think of herself as an old person, and she thinks that the biggest difference between her and young people is that she has more wrinkles in her skin and much worse memory.
The former is irreversible, but the latter can.
In order to perform no worse than young people, when filming, she will find a place to read her lines dozens of times.
The more you read, the more you remember.
In addition to being dedicated, she is also responsible.
Take your own responsibility, and at the same time, take everyone's responsibility.
Before filming, I always go to the hospital to check my body, and if there is nothing serious, I will enter the group to film.
In her words:
"I have to be responsible for the director, and I fainted in the middle of filming, so how bad the impact is. ”
is like this, no wonder she has no regrets in life.
Favored by parents before marriage, pampered by husband after marriage, and pampered by children after both parents and husbands died.
And now, the audience also dotes on her.
grew up in love since she was a child, which is why even if she is over half a hundred years old, she still has a girl's heart.
Who doesn't envy her life?
Wu Yanshu, the real clear stream of the entertainment industry.
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