Text: Ji Ren Editor: Jia Fangfang
Source: Marriage & Family Magazine
How sought-after can an old drama bone be in demand? Just look at Tian Xiaojie.
Among the popular dramas broadcast recently, Tian Xiaojie is present in all four of them.
In "When the Stars Shine", he plays the heroine's father, gentle and reasonable, and only wishes his daughter peace and security.
In "Harbin 1944", he played the role of the revolutionary predecessor Lao Duan, who would rather die after being captured, and the sentence "I am not the first, nor the last" was loud, and people burst into tears.
In "Live Surgery Room", he is Xie Ning, the boss of the group, who is not only a businessman who values fame and fortune, but also a father and philanthropist who understands righteousness.
In "Faint Fire", he incarnated as the old criminal policeman Chen Guoying, with gray hair and a half-fat body, and let people enter the play as soon as he opened his mouth.
In these four dramas, Tian Xiaojie portrayed each character distinctly and fully, even if she watched it at the same time, she would not jump the scene. Needless to say, the phrase "one man with a thousand faces" is truly embodied in him.
Tian Xiaojie's first popular role was forensic Chen Mingzhang in "The Silent Truth". This complex character, nicknamed the "old fox", was played by Tian Xiaojie, and her eyes seemed to be able to see through the screen.
Forensic Dr. Chen, who came out of the book, won a large number of fans and sisters.
There is never a shortage of examples of late bloomers in the entertainment industry, but there are not many treasure uncles like Tian Xiaojie who became a monk halfway and only opened up after the age of 50.
Director Feng Xiaogang once commented on him: "He is a rare sober person in the entertainment industry, he loves acting work, and he doesn't treat work as life." No matter how big or small the role is, it can stand up and is a character! ”
In the play, Tian Xiaojie can be upright or unfathomable.
In life, Tian Xiaojie is a romantic and considerate model husband, and his wife is Jiang Shan, the national goddess of the year.
The combination of Tian Xiaojie and Jiang Shan is a middle-aged remarriage, but the degree of affection between the two is simply sweeter than the first love.
When the two confessed their love in a high-profile manner, many people said that Jiang Shan lowered her value and fell in love with a little-known supporting role. It wasn't until "Uncle Treasure Tian" became popular that everyone sighed in hindsight: The vision of the goddess is really high!
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After three trials and errors, I embarked on the road of acting
Tian Xiaojie's career as an actor started late, but she got married very early.
He was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, into a family of quyi artists. Both parents work in the theater, and the mother is a Gan opera actress. Tian Xiaojie has been exposed to it since she was a child, and she is interested in acting and talented.
However, his grades were not satisfactory when he was studying, and he did not get into the art schools in the province. After graduating from middle school, Tian Xiaojie enlisted in the army as a literary soldier.
Later, after being discharged from the army, he found an "iron rice bowl" in an auto repair shop. Tian Xiaojie once thought that life would go on so simply, but when she was 28 years old, the wave of layoffs came.
With no background and no qualifications, Tian Xiaojie was laid off in the first batch. In order to make a living, Tian Xiaojie found another job as a truck driver.
After a year of uneventful life, Tian Xiaojie found that this was not the life he wanted at all.
So, at the age of 29, he made a bold decision: to apply for the Central Academy of Drama.
In the winter of 1998, Tian Xiaojie carefully cared for the flame of dreams in her heart and set off for Beijing.
Tian Xiaojie always remembered that when preparing for the exam in the lecture hall of Chinese opera, many young people couldn't help but muttered sideways when they saw him: "This kind of person still comes to the exam?" ”
Back then, he was dry and thin, his appearance was not good, and he was old, so he was not outstanding no matter how he looked at it.
To his surprise, the examination process went unexpectedly smoothly. The acting teacher who has read countless people almost saw Tian Xiaojie's potential at a glance.
Although she started late, Tian Xiaojie received the first script in her life when she was a freshman - the TV series "The Years of Burning Passion".
In the play, he plays the heroine's first boyfriend Xie Feng.
Perhaps because of the experience of enlisting in the army, Tian Xiaojie's temperament in military uniform is particularly prominent. Xie Feng has also become the "white moonlight" in the minds of many female audiences.
After filming this drama, Tian Xiaojie got a salary of 15,000 yuan, which was almost enough to pay for his living expenses for four years in college.
With this work, Tian Xiaojie can be regarded as a successful entry into the industry. Since then, he has received many film contracts intermittently, but there are not many scenes, and the people have been tepid.
During college, Tian Xiaojie met his first wife, Zeng Ping. After 4 years of love, the two entered the palace of marriage.
But it's a pity that Tian Xiaojie was in her 30s when she graduated, and after starting a family, she just wanted to work hard for her career, and the two gradually became estranged in getting together less and leaving more.
During that time, Tian Xiaojie gave most of the time to the crew. Polishing over and over again in different roles, he gradually found a way to perform, and also felt the joy of acting.
Looking back, it was those unknown days that provided ample fuel for his later outbursts.
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It's not that it doesn't explode, the time has not yet come
In 2010, the TV series "Before Dawn" was broadcast, and the intelligence agent Li Bohan played by Tian Xiaojie amazed countless audiences.
This role was recommended by Lin Yongjian, who served as one of the male protagonists of the play, to audition. Lin Yongjian has watched his plays and has always admired him very much.
Tian Xiaojie lived up to expectations, and scared everyone on the set when filming.
It was a high-energy scene in which Li Bohan injected himself with addictive drugs, and the director gave enough space for Tian Xiaojie to play freely.
Tian Xiaojie, who had done her homework, curled up in the back seat of the car and straightened up, trembling and pulling out the needle, with an almost morbid crazy expression on her face.
The director behind the monitor was stunned, turned his head and said to the director of photography with a suspicious expression: "Is this kid really sucking?" ”
Being able to perform this kind of fake and real effect is enough to prove how much effort Tian Xiaojie has put in.
The role of Li Bohan has also been recognized by the audience. At the awards ceremony of the 16th TV Series Magnolia Awards, Tian Xiaojie won the first gold award in her acting career.
But after a small peak in his career, there was a trough of five or six years. During the downturn in her career, Tian Xiaojie and Zeng Ping divorced.
has not filmed for nearly two years, Tian Xiaojie is almost desperate. He didn't expect that he would be "unemployed" at the age of almost 50.
Later, when he talked about this time, he could easily joke: "At that time, if there was an online car-hailing, I would have run an online car-hailing service." ”
In 2016, Tian Xiaojie and Jiang Shan met. Both of them have been married, and they are peers, and they talk very speculatively.
At that time, Tian Xiaojie was still an "anonymous person", but Jiang Shan was a well-known national goddess. After the scandal between the two of them, many people were thinking that Jiang Shan was not worthless, saying that she lowered her value.
Until 2020, the online drama "The Silent Truth", adapted from Zijin Chen's novel, was broadcast, and Gao Kai went crazy and became popular all over the Internet. Tian Xiaojie became popular for her interpretation of "Old Fox" Chen Mingzhang, and was especially loved by young audiences.
"Lao Chen is too charming to wear glasses!"
""The Silent Truth" is obsessed with Forensic Doctor Chen, a treasure actor, how did I find out!"
When her career took off in middle age, Tian Xiaojie also felt very lucky. But even more fortunate than this, he married the goddess Jiang Shan.
In 2020, Tian Xiaojie publicly celebrated Jiang Shan's birthday on Weibo, and affectionately called her "little puppet".
Jiang Shan also replied generously in the comment area: Thank you, shopkeeper!
This show of affection caught netizens off guard, who said that middle-aged people don't understand romance?
It was only at this time that everyone came back to their senses, it turned out that in 2018, the object of Jiang Shan's public love on the stage of "The King of Crossover Singers" was Tian Xiaojie!
This relationship visibly nourishes two people. Jiang Shan's happiness can't be hidden, and Tian Xiaojie has a sense of satisfaction with a double harvest of family and career.
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The taste of middle-aged love is bitter first and then sweet
In fact, when Tian Xiaojie was able to hold a beauty, she also went through a test.
When the two first came into contact, Jiang Shan always turned a blind eye to Tian Xiaojie's overtures, because she had her own concerns.
In her first marriage, Jiang Shan had a daughter, Gao Yixin. After divorcing Gao Shuguang, she took her daughter with her to raise her.
As a mother, she doesn't want her emotional state to affect her child's growth.
And her daughter Gao Yixin is also worried about her mother. It's not that she doesn't want Jiang Shan to remarry, but she hopes that her mother can marry a "mature man" and reap happiness.
The standard of "maturity" may seem simple, but it is not so easy to achieve.
Tian Xiaojie decided to save the country and took the initiative to contact Gao Yixin.
Tian Xiaojie is a very delicate person and knows how to get along with juniors. He treats Gao Yixin as his own daughter and often cares about helping her study and life. It didn't take long for Gao Yixin to recognize him.
Later, before he officially confessed to Jiang Shan, Gao Yixin took this "quasi-stepfather" he liked to visit his grandfather's house.
Once born and twice matured, Tian Xiaojie unknowingly mingled with all of Jiang Shan's family. Later, Jiang Shan's parents took the initiative to call their daughter to persuade them that it was time to consider finding a companion for themselves.
In this way, the two came together logically.
There was a failed relationship, and both of them cherished this hard-won fate very much.
One year, Jiang Shan celebrated Tian Xiaojie's birthday on Weibo, and Tian Xiaojie replied with a family photo of the three of them, and also specially captioned: "The whole family." ”
Not to mention, the sweetness of this family is indeed a bit "sloppy".
After marriage, Tian Xiaojie loved Gao Yixin even more, and once posted on Weibo to celebrate her daughter's birthday, and affectionately called her "little brain axe" when shouting.
Last year, someone met Tian Xiaojie in the mall to accompany Gao Yixin shopping. The father and daughter walked together and laughed all the way, not biological, but better than biological.
Although Jiang Shan is famous, she is very low-key and does not show up on weekdays. Many fans will also run to Tian Xiaojie's comment area, urging him to take a look at the life of the goddess.
In Tian Xiaojie's eyes, Jiang Shan is not only her wife, but also the "teacher" on the road of acting. He likes to exchange acting experiences with Jiang Shan, discuss roles and scripts, and achieve mutual success through sharing.
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Love your career and enjoy life
After becoming popular at the age of 50, Tian Xiaojie's film appointment can be described as soft. Although he still plays a supporting role, what he is best at is filling the role in the "gaps" and turning the ordinary into magic.
In 2022, Tian Xiaojie will play the villain Ding Shenghuo in "The Gate of Rebirth". People don't talk much, their gestures are imposing, and a look at each other makes people's hearts cold.
After watching it, netizens were circled one after another:
"He's too handsome to play a villain! A handful of love! ”
"It's really scary for an old actor to play a bad guy, and I'm worried that the protagonist will be killed."
"Tian Xiaojie, Uncle Treasure!"
Seeing Tian Xiaojie getting more and more popular, who dares to say that our Goddess Jiang has no vision?
In recent years, the two low-key veteran actors have reduced the frequency of public shows of affection, but they can often see the news of each other's visits.
When Tian Xiaojie's filming of "The Top Priority" was completed in 2022, Jiang Shan specially rushed to the crew to visit the class.
The director and Jiang Shan are also old acquaintances, and jokingly asked why she didn't agree to invite her to play the role of a doctor in the play, Jiang Shan replied: "I'm afraid of scaring Tian Xiaojie." ”
During Jiang Shan's filming of the TV series "Hou Lang", some people also met Tian Xiaojie to visit the crew, and also accompanied Jiang Shan to eat together, talking and laughing, and very emotional.
During Jiang Shan's musical performance, Tian Xiaojie and her daughter Gao Yixin went to the scene to cheer her on.
Now, regarding the acting career she loves, Tian Xiaojie just wants to do her best to shine.
"Ensuring that I don't waste myself and maximizing my abilities is what I want to do most at the moment."
has acted in so many dramas this year, and his strength has been tested by the market again and again, and he has become a veritable "golden supporting role".
Seeing that the lover who had never met with talent finally walked to the center of the stage step by step, Jiang Shan was also very happy for him.
Tian Xiaojie mentioned in an interview that his wife once told him: "You can do what you like and live well in this industry, you are the happiest person." In this regard, Tian Xiaojie deeply agreed.
In addition to filming, he is also willing to enjoy daily life.
Go to the park to watch the square dance, infinitely close to the living conditions of ordinary people.
I have nothing to do at home, tidy up the house, and clean up. Just like his name, Tian Xiaojie is a person who loves cleanliness and likes to see the spotless appearance of the home.
With such a person who understands life, it is no wonder that Jiang Shan is getting younger and younger.
Meeting the right person at the right time is a godsend.
When people reach middle age, they can live a life of left-handed career and right-handed love, what is not satisfied?
Like + watching, may all people be able to join hands with love and accompany each other for a lifetime.
Resources:
Beijing News: "Tian Xiaojie: Jumping out of "fame and fortune" can become a mortal in the entertainment industry"
Best Scene: "Tian Xiaojie - Screen Villain"
Film and television monologue: "Tian Xiaojie: Chen Mingzhang is a character born in "negation"
Lu Yu has an appointment: "Jiang Shan, Gao Yixin: The Gift of Life"
Tian Xiaojie Weibo