Sometimes actors become famous too early, but it becomes a burden and annoyance.
Meng Zhichao, the actor of Sanmao, harvested these things at a young age.
Meng Zhichao is a post-85 born in Shanghai in 1987.
When he was a child, his biggest personality trait was "people come crazy".
Extroverted, he can also swing freely in front of living people.
As long as there is a place where people gather, it can stimulate his desire to perform.
Whether it's a wedding or a party, without his singing and shouting on the spot,
Adults also feel lost a lot of fun.
It is precisely because of his big grin that his family has cultivated him to the path of an actor since he was a child.
And he is a Shanghainese, whether it is the concept or the information received, it is far higher than the children of the same age in other places.
In the third grade of elementary school, he attended Hotan Road Primary School in Shanghai.
In addition to the step-by-step study of cultural courses, he was also sent by the adults of his family to the Yindu Art School to study acting.
At that time, Meng Zhichao was also seven or eight years old.
Maybe I don't have my own opinion on acting,
But the innate desire to love acting still pushed him directly to the throne of the little actor.
In 1995, Shanghai Television decided to bring Zhang Leping's classic comic "Sanmao Wanderer" to the big screen.
Previously, in 1949, there was a movie version of "Sanmao Wanderer".
Nowadays, when the TV version of Sanmao is preparing for filming, director Xu Yinhua's biggest headache is the problem of choosing a role.
At that time, many schools in Shanghai heard about the Sanmao crew choosing roles.
The teachers at the school recommended Meng Zhichao, who loves to perform, to the crew.
It was a huge audition, and director Xu Yinhua had seen almost more than six thousand children before and after.
In the end, Meng Zhichao, who has big eyes, and a child with a round face, as well as two other children, enter the director's eyes.
Xu Yinhua looked at the four children and suddenly said, Whoever shaves his head first will play Sanmao.
Meng Zhichao was not afraid in front of the living people,
As soon as the director said this, he ran to the dressing room and asked the makeup artist to shave his head.
Three times and twice, the makeup artist shaved his head, leaving only three handfuls of hairs on the top of his head.
The director looks left and right, and that's you.
However, the director also told him that he had to lose weight, and Sanmao was a wandering child before liberation, and he did not have enough to eat and wear.
In this way, before the official start of filming, Meng Zhichao lost 15 pounds under the supervision of his family.
In addition to the director's optimism about him, Wang Longji, the actor of the movie version of Sanmao, also said that he was most like Sanmao after seeing him.
Children have the desire to perform, that is a natural thing.
However, when the shooting really starts, how to let him play better depends on whether the adult can lead well.
After all, eight- or nine-year-old children are still ignorant of everything, and without the guidance of adults, some performances cannot be done well.
For example, in the crying scene in front of the camera, because it is said that crying, you have to cry, and you can't cry for a while, and you have to guide the director and adults.
At that time, when filming, Meng Zhichao's mother and grandmother often accompanied him.
Sometimes in order to make him cry, the director, his mother and grandmother stood behind the camera and cried.
Meng Zhichao in front of the camera cried.
Gradually, after having experience, he didn't need the guidance of adults at all, and he could cry a lot.
Many years later, Meng Zhichao said that he was very emotional at that time, and it was easy to shed tears.
So crying is crying, as simple as unscrewing the faucet.
But filming is not just about crying.
Since his parents could not come to see him every day, sometimes the adults in the family were not there, and the director took on the responsibility of taking care of him.
Eat, drink, and sleep, and follow the director every day like a fart.
Sometimes the director comes home and takes him back.
There are other child actors in the crew, so they are very jealous of "Sanmao".
So from time to time I want to tease him.
There is a scene where Sanmao sits in a rickshaw, and the person pulling the car is also a child.
When the camera was shot, the actor did not stop according to the director's request,
Instead, there was a sharp brake, and under inertia, Sanmao fell off the car.
Fortunately, the child was light and did not fall.
Although he will be teased, he is the main actor after all, and there are many scenes, so the staff in the crew revolve around him every day.
So much so that the meals eaten every day are not quite the same as other people's.
After all, he was still a child, and the director would take care of him from time to time.
However, outside of filming, it is well taken care of, and when filming, it cannot be taken care of.
Therefore, Meng Zhichao felt many years later that filming Sanmao's play made him eat most of his life's suffering.
The first is the three hairs on the top of the head, which need to be repaired constantly.
Because the hair grows fast, both heads have to be shaved for three days.
In addition to shaving the head, in order to make the three handfuls of hair more prominent, it is often necessary to use gel water to stick to it.
But Meng Zhichao is still a child after all, and his frequent use of gel water hurts his scalp.
As a result, he later became bald without growing hair.
In addition to the three strands of hair that are not easy to get, there is the fake nose.
The nose that is larger on the outside is attached to the real nose, and the inside is not breathable, and then it will be very itchy.
Especially in the summer, because of a lot of sweating, it is very itchy.
I can't scratch it, so I can only use a toothpick or a small stick to poke my nostrils.
Fortunately, he was still young at that time, although he did not feel comfortable, or was teased,
But the child's play is big, and the happier things are in front of him, and these pains cannot be taken care of.
Sometimes I am too tired to fall asleep directly on the ground.
Therefore, the filming of children is more pure.
However, no matter how happy you are, there are times when you can't help it.
There was a scene in the rain, Sanmao was wrapped in a bamboo mat, and then thrown into the trash can.
There was no rain, and then artificial rain was made with fire trucks.
The raindrops were big and fierce, and the water pressure was strong.
After just ten seconds of shooting, he couldn't hold on.
In the end, I really couldn't shoot it, so I could only change a low water pressure to finish this scene.
After the broadcast of "Sanmao Wandering", it was a fire across the country.
Meng Zhichao, who plays Sanmao, has naturally gained great popularity.
This year, he was only 8 years old.
At that time, many key primary and secondary schools in Shanghai threw olive branches to him, hoping that he could go to school.
Therefore, at the middle school stage, Meng Zhichao naturally entered a key high school.
If there is any activity at school, or if he is asked to perform anything, he will participate.
After filming, in addition to feeling much more mature at once, the pressure to study also increased suddenly.
All the teachers and classmates were staring at him.
If the grades are not good, they will be pointed out behind their backs.
Therefore, after Meng Zhichao went to middle school, he began to consciously and strictly demand himself.
In this way, I am saddled with a lot of psychological pressure every day.
At that time, he even felt that he did not dare to say which female classmate he liked openly.
Otherwise, all the students in the school would come to him and ask him.
In 2003, 14-year-old Meng Zhichao starred in the TV series "Cornucopia" starring Zhang Weijian.
In the play, he plays Shen Wansi, the younger brother of Zhang Weijian.
However, when he first met Zhang Weijian, he did not have the courage not to be afraid when he was a child.
He couldn't even say the words, and slowly grinded in, so that he adapted to the new rhythm.
Because it is a costume drama, you need to wear a hood in the play.
Originally, he played Sanmao twice before and after, so that he was a teenager to the top, leaving only a small amount of hair on both sides of the scalp.
This time, in order to shoot the scene, he gritted his teeth and shaved his hair.
At first he didn't take it seriously, but because he had to apply the hood, the hair follicles were stimulated again.
So when the scene was finished, he suddenly found that he couldn't even grow a little hair.
His family also comforted him and told him not to pay attention to it.
But at that time, it was Meng Zhichao's adolescence, and he was already sensitive, and the fact that he did not grow hair was even worse.
As a last resort, every time he went out, he wore a hat, or he wore a hat and a turban.
As time goes on, the heart disease becomes more and more serious.
He simply declined invitations to many performances.
In the end, seeing that his hair could not grow, he had to go to hair transplant surgery.
More than 300 stitches were stitched on the head, and he underwent 3 surgical hair transplants.
It also made him understand that this may be the price that he has paid for acting and becoming famous early.
Although he suffered from the lack of hair in adolescence, his grades were very stable.
After graduating from high school, he was successfully admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy.
From high school to college, he hardly acted again.
During this period, he starred in only one TV series and one movie.
At the age of 24, he decided to study choreography in Japan again.
On the one hand, during that time he was fascinated by Japanese variety shows.
He was a professional performer and wanted to go to Japan to learn the scriptures.
But on the other hand, the inferiority complex caused by baldness has not yet completely dissipated.
I went to Japan just to change the environment.
In this way, he crossed the ocean and came to a strange country.
There is no problem with professional learning.
And with the elongation of time, the inferiority complex has also dissipated little by little.
After graduation, he returned to China and thought about making a comeback.
In 2014, he participated in the reality show "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" of Oriental Satellite TV.
At this time, Meng Zhichao was 27 years old, and as the post-80s audience gradually grew up when he was a child,
The star aura on his body had actually gradually dissipated.
In 2017, he starred in two films.
One is the comedy film "Sister Treasure Book", and the other is the suspense film "Good Ghost Two and a Half 2".
The latter, in particular, played the challenging White Impermanence.
Many people's impression of him is still Sanmao when he was a child.
So when he played this role, after the makeup, even the staff on the scene were shocked.
But meng Zhichao wants this effect,
He doesn't want people to keep remembering Sanmao, but he hopes to change his label as soon as possible through new roles.
To this end, he put a lot of effort into it during the shooting.
However, the two films he starred in in succession in 2017 did not even have a rating on Douban.
Since 2017, public information shows that he has not starred in any film and television dramas.
It seems that it is still very difficult for him to return to the screen.
He has a talent for acting since childhood, which is Meng Zhichao's strength.
Because of this, he has more opportunities ahead of other peers.
However, there is still some difference between the performance of children and the performance of adults.
Because in addition to acting, many children's film and television drama actors are performing in their true colors when they are acting.
Not acting in itself, but expressing yourself in front of the camera.
The role of adults is different, in addition to having the talent to act, relying more on backstage skills.
In this way, even if the actors in childhood are popular, they may not be able to smoothly star until adulthood.
There are also many objective factors in the middle.
This is also why, after Meng Zhichao's comeback in an adult way,
The movie he starred in did not splash a lot of waves.
In May of this year, Meng Zhichao, who has not been dynamic for a long time, appeared in a short video.
Today, at the age of 34, he looks full of energy.
Importantly, the baldness problem that once plagued him did not exist, and the thick hair appeared young and handsome.
When he appeared, many netizens left messages to reply, and Sanmao grew up that year.
Interestingly, his short video platform account uses the name Sanmao.
It seems that Sanmao's label, at least for the time being, he still has not been able to remove it.
This label is both a testament to his youthful achievements,
But to a certain extent, it has also become a constraint for him to try to surpass himself.
Whether he can get rid of this label is not just something he can say yes.
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