In the recently released new film "Crime Scene", there is a face who is not strange but not unfamiliar, but it is not familiar to say that it is familiar - Li Cansen.
The reason for this is that he has participated in more than a hundred movies, each of which has a brilliant performance, but he has never been an actor known to the mainstream public, on the contrary, he is a well-known alternative supporting actor in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
In the movie, he almost plays the role of a small citizen, villain or pervert.
This is also in line with his personality - Lee Chan Sen is a typical Hong Kong grassroots youth, as long as there is a meal, he is not afraid to play a supporting role.
Born in a estate, Lee Chan Sen dropped out of school after his second year of secondary school, and went with his father to the fruit pen of Yau Ma Tei to transport fruit, and later to work as a plumber in a village estate in Sai Kung.
In 1996, Li Cansen, who was playing skateboarding on the street, met director Chen Guo, who happened to pass by, although he did not have a handsome appearance, but his maverick and unscrupulous temperament attracted Chen Guo, so he was invited by Chen Guo to star in "Made in Hong Kong", playing a low-level youth abandoned by his parents.
It turns out that the director did not look at the wrong person, and Li Cansen, who has no acting experience, is talented, and won the "Best New Actor" award at the 1998 Hong Kong Film Awards for his wonderful performance in the play, and was nominated for the Best Actor at the 34th Golden Horse Awards.
Poor, struggling at the bottom, mixed between the city, if it were not for director Chen Guo's appreciation of him, perhaps he is still a small who survives in the cracks, and he will not have today's achievements, so he has always regarded Chen Guo as a teacher.
Over the years, Chen Guo has looked for Li Cansen to make many movies, with the support of mentors, and many directors who were in the limelight in Hong Kong at that time also loved to find him to act, such as Liu Weiqiang's "New Ancient Puzzle Boy", Chen Jiashang's "Beast Criminal Police", and the representative works of them are Chen Musheng's "Swat Police New Human" and Zheng Baorui's "Dog Bites Dog".
"SWAT New Humanity" found some of the most popular film newcomers of the year: Wu Yanzu, Feng Delun, Nicholas Tse, and Lee ChanSen, staging a story of a young undercover police fighting an international crime syndicate. The pace of the film is bright and hot, with the participation of popular idols, and the blessing of old drama bones, word of mouth and box office double receipts, earning more than 15 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, not only becoming the big box office winner of the year, but also the sixth highest-grossing film in Hong Kong.
How popular is this movie? ——The following year, the sequel "SWAT New Human 2" was launched, and the newcomer Wang Chen Guanxi replaced Nicholas Tse as the first male lead, and the relationship was also very delicate; at the Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony this year, the golden lineup in "SWAT New Humanity" 20 years ago was reunited again, staged a memory killing, and then created the climax of the award ceremony that night.
In "Dog Bites Dog", Li Cansen and another lead actor, Chen Guanxi, contributed a very amazing performance at the same time. Unfortunately, in 2008, the nude photos scandal occurred, and this movie helplessly became a victim, and its influence was greatly weakened.
Affected by SARS, coupled with the decline of Hong Kong films, Li Cansen, who is not a first-line celebrity and has no backstage support, is facing the problem of no drama to shoot. During that period, Li Cansen had the idea of helping people repair toilets because he had almost no income.
But in the end, it was because I couldn't let go of the actor's baggage.
Full of enthusiasm for acting and unwillingness to act without drama and even anger with nowhere to vent, Li Cansen can only continue to pick up bad films, buy drunk all day, night pu, negative news one after another.
In 2003, Li Cansen, who was in the process of "unemployment", met a friend who played skateboarding together as a child, and the two set up a clothing brand together, dealing in trendy men's clothing and street clothing.
He and Chen Guanxi, who also do the tide brand, are very iron and iron friends.
As for feelings, the emotional history of his hardcore friend Chen Guanxi we all know very well, in fact, Li Cansen is also the same as Chen Guanxi, once very careful, made a lot of girlfriends, especially in the whole day to buy drunken night Pu that period of negative news-ridden period, girlfriends change one by one.
But later, he married Liang Zhiying, who was also an actor, and he accepted to be a good husband and a good father.
Although the tide brand business is running well, over the years, Li Cansen has been insisting on acting, and this year he was nominated for the Academy Award for Supporting Actor with "Fallen Man". His origins may be humble, but his acting skills are the capital that he has always established in the show business circle.