In the 2014 Oriental Satellite TV program "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" selection competition, four judges sat on the stage: Feng Xiaogang, Song Dandan, Wu Junru, Liu Yiwei, after the contestants performed, the judges pressed the lamp, and the green light passed the red light.
A famous player wore patched clothes and stepped on a pair of cloth shoes, claiming to be Meng Zhichao, a child star as a child.
Everyone was wondering, hadn't heard of this name, Feng Xiaogang looked at him dressed up, and had a flash of inspiration: "You are playing the Sanmao of "Sanmao Wandering". Meng Zhichao took off his hat, revealing three strands of iconic hair on Guangguang's head, and he was indeed three hairs.
But this performance of selling strength and feelings did not impress the judges, Meng Zhichao did not pass, and Song Dandan, who was shouted "mother" by him but refused to recognize each other, pressed the red light key and said flatly:
"I can't let him play Sanmao again!"
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, choose one out of ten thousand small three mao</h1>
When the crew of "Sanmao Wanderer" selected the actors, Meng Zhichao was only 9 years old, a native of Shanghai, and was in the second grade of Hetian Road Primary School. Meng Zhichao has a beautiful appearance and a clever personality from an early age, and his mother feels that her son has artistic talent, so she sent him to Shanghai Yindu Art School to study acting.
Yindu Art School is quite famous, Meng Zhichao said in the interview, Sun Li, Yan Yikuan are his classmates in the school, don't look at them are now a first-line big name, Meng Zhichao can be earlier than their fame, in Sun Niangniang has not yet entered the threshold of the showbiz, Meng Zhichao is already a well-known little star.
At that time, there were many little boys who came to compete in Sanmao, so many that Meng Zhichao could not remember clearly, in the Anhui Satellite TV program, he said that it was 6,000 people, and when he participated in the "Super Visit" with Zhang Yishan and Zhang Zifeng, he said that it was more than 7,000 people. When it came to "Laughing proud of the river", the good guys were directly "more than ten thousand small actors at that time".
Anyway, many competitors must not have run, Meng Zhichao also recalled that there was a parent with a lot of money at that time, directly carried a sack of money, "bang" a sound to shake the crew desk: "Let my son play Sanmao, this money sponsors you!" ”
Fortunately, the production team of "Sanmao Wandering" is a backbone, did not bend for money, and chose three children in a thousand choices, meng Zhichao is one of them.
The three children were very spirited and also photogenic, and the director hesitated, ready to do the styling first, and asked: "Who wants to shave their head?" ”
The cold glittering razor scared off the two competitors, while the brave Meng Zhichao carried it down with a strong will, and with a glaucoma glittering scalp and a head full of blood foam, he became the little Sanmao in the play.
People who have watched the TV series "Sanmao Wandering" must be impressed by Meng Zhichao's performance. Sanmao is a poor child, wandering around at a young age to seek a living, lacking food and clothing and often being bullied, but he has a kind and upright heart, which is very cute.
Meng Zhichao portrayed Sanmao vividly and became a well-known child star, but he did not expect that this would be the only classic role in his acting career.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, the baldness crisis</h1>
Meng Zhichao is in 1995 to act in the drama version of "Sanmao Wandering", because of the great success, in 1999 and made a sequel, or Meng Zhichao starred, still widely acclaimed, which gave him great confidence, but also brought good resources, in 2003, the star-studded TV series "Cornucopia" found Meng Zhichao, he played Zhang Weijian's younger brother in the play, that is, the brother of the richest Shen Wansan Shen Wansi.
This is a costume drama that requires shaving your hair and wearing a wig sleeve and gluing it with special glue. But it may be that the quality of the hair cover at that time was not good, coupled with the improper operation of the makeup artist, the glue was not cleaned during the process of tearing the hood every day. Meng Zhichao was only 16 years old at the time, and it was when he grew up that his hair follicles were severely damaged and occluded, and his hair was widely lost, and he saw that there was a risk of baldness.
Adolescent teenagers are the time to love beauty, not to mention that Meng Zhichao is still determined to stand in the show business circle, how important is the image, where to bear this? In order to regain a hair, Meng Zhichao embarked on a difficult road to seek medical treatment. Hair loss this matter said big, said small is not small, is really a stubborn disease, Meng Zhichao chose artificial hair transplantation, stitched hundreds of stitches on the head, and then careful conditioning, only to slowly save the image of the top of the head.
In fact, after growing up, Meng Zhichao's appearance is OK, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and there is a kind of sunny handsomeness of the boy next door. His homework was also good, and he was successfully admitted to the acting department of the Shanghai Theater Academy, but because of his hair, after graduating from acting, he went to Japan to study choreography and suspended filming.
But the showbiz circle has always been full of talents, the back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, the best years to withdraw from this circle, and then want to come back to talk about how easy it is.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, where should a child star who is not red go from here? </h1>
Meng Zhichao returned to the public's vision, that is, the "Smiling Pride Jianghu" that he participated in in 2014, and he reappeared with the image of Sanmao, obviously, in order to awaken everyone's memory and make a smooth comeback.
However, it is obviously inappropriate for an adult to play Sanmao as a child, and Sanmao's innocence, cleverness, and cuteness are gone, appearing deliberate and artificial.
What is even more ridiculous is that meng Zhichao, at the request of the program group, suddenly shouted "mother" to the judge Song Dandan when he appeared on the scene to introduce himself. But apparently the program team did not communicate with Song Dandan in advance, causing her to be confused and dazed. It turned out that Meng Zhichao had played Song Dandan's son in the 2004 urban comedy "Jackie Chan of Daddy and Mother", but the helpless drama was not popular and not red, how Ren Meng Zhichao reminded, Song Dandan could not remember.
This scene is really embarrassing and embarrassing, although Liu Yiwei joked and said: "I will give your mother a face", but Song Dandan obviously did not want to admit this feeling, not only refused to recognize each other but also ruthlessly brushed off Meng Zhichao.
Afterwards, many people were indignant for Meng Zhichao, thinking that Song Dandan played a big card, too snobbish, if "Family with Children" Xia Xue and Liu Xing's actors Yang Zi and Zhang Yishan came, Would Song Dandan not recognize them as his "children"?
Think about it, this is the real human nature, the poor in the downtown no one asks, the rich in the mountains have distant relatives. It is common to be with the red top and white, worship high and low, and it is still so between relatives, not to mention who is red and who plays the entertainment circle.
Song Dandan has acted all her life, the small actors she cooperates with do not know how many, which can be remembered so clearly, even if it is Yang Zi, Song Dandan also said that she is not good-looking and is not suitable for acting.
But Yang Zijian relied on his own efforts to develop from a child star to a new little flower, Zhang Yishan also broke out of his own fame, try to ask excellent people, who will not recognize it?
And like Meng Zhichao, who has no improvement and is lonely and nameless, he has long been forgotten in the corner of time. Recreating the shape of a child star is a wrong choice, because with the passage of time, the lively and cute appearance of childhood has long gone, and forcing this bowl of cold rice will ruin his classic role.
Meng Zhichao is obviously not willing, he has filmed several more plays, mostly web dramas, there is not much repercussions, and he is still trying to flutter and wander in the show business circle like Sanmao.
Today's Meng Zhichao is 34 years old, looking at his social platform, he has obviously become a mature young man, although the road to acting stopped at the glory of childhood, but his love of life has never been extinguished.
Image source Meng Zhichao Weibo
In fact, it is rare for child stars to grow up and continue to be big stars, and many of them are invisible. But so what? For example, Zhao Xinpei, the actor of the red child in "Journey to the West", if you want to talk about popularity, he is much stronger than Sanmao.
But Zhao Xinpei was not obsessed with show business, he was admitted to the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Peking University, and later entered the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, received a doctorate, and is now the chief technology officer of Beijing Agricultural Management Technology Company.
There is really no need to act this way, child stars this bowl of cold rice, have the ability to fry hot fried delicious despite frying, if not able, it is better to simply give up it, let the once delicious taste stay in the good memories.
Author: Linglong Xin