Read Wolf Daddy Li Baotian: The brightest light is in the dark

Read Wolf Daddy Li Baotian: The brightest light is in the dark

In June 2012, the TV series "Clown Daddy", which was planned and starred by the famous performance artist Li Baotian, was broadcast on CCTV, and the ratings were all the way to the top.

In the face of good repercussions, Li Baotian, who has always been strict, thanked many people, especially praising Li Yu, the son who played the male number two in the play.

Li Yu smiled almost bitterly and happily: this was the first time that his father praised him in public, and Li Yu waited for his father's praise for more than twenty years.

Li Baotian is a famous "wolf father" in the entertainment industry. Since Li Yu abandoned painting and art against his will, he has been called "the second generation of the most miserable star": all the way, not only can not rely on the strength of his father, but also by his father's "harsh rebuke", the relationship between father and son has become estranged.

But years later, when Li Yu transformed from an avid layman and an obscure actor into a unique actor, he found that the most grateful person was his father. It turns out that he has been accompanying himself with his unique fatherly love, just as the brightest light is always in the dark....

Ice water confrontation: The famous father persuades his son not to return to school and practice art

In the summer of 1988, when the weather was hot, Li Baotian's servants returned to Xuzhou by train from Beijing. As soon as he entered the house, before he could catch his breath, his son Li Yu said to him, "I want to quit acting." Li Baotian was a fat punch to his son, slapping Li Or's ass like a raindrop.

But let him scold, Li Or still did not show weakness: "You kill me, I don't want to paint, I want to act." Ben ran out of the house without turning back.

In March 1971, when his son fell to the ground, Li Baotian named his son Li Yu, or the meaning of literary style. He hopes that his son will grow up to be a cultured and connotative artist.

Li Baotian is good at painting, he has been "planning" Li Yu to develop in the direction of painting, from childhood to Li or tell the story of Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Van Gogh, but also personally painted a good mi character grid, forcing Li Yu to write.

8-year-old Li Yu copied Van Gogh's famous painting Sunflower, Li Baotian looked at it with a smile, and hung the painting in the living room as long as his relatives and friends came, he would show off.

However, for the painting path that his father chose for himself, Li He, who has a lively personality, does not like it. In order to let him sit down, Li Baotian did not beat him less, but when he grew up, Li Yu found that sitting in front of the canvas every day was a particularly boring and tedious thing.

During the winter vacation of her sophomore year of high school, Li Yu went to Beijing to visit her father. At that time, Li Baotian was participating in the TV series "Shi Soul", and he followed his father to the crew to observe. Watching his father, who had always been silent and silent, suddenly change like a person in the spotlight, laughing and scolding, and full of energy, Li Yu was surprised and curious.

Seeing that Li Yu was full of interest, the director arranged for him to participate in a small role. He was so excited that he couldn't sleep one night.

The wonderful feeling of novelty and excitement that had never been felt that night made Li Yu deeply like acting. After returning from Beijing, Li Yu flipped through many of the acting books that his father had put at home, and he was fascinated by them.

Because of his obsession with love, Li Yu did not want to spend any more time and energy on painting and learning that he did not like, although he knew that he would be scolded by his father, he still firmly expressed his thoughts to his father. As a result, as he expected, his father began to beat him without asking.

The next morning, at the breakfast table, Li Baotian said to his son coldly with a black face: "Dad is a person who acts, he has insomnia and stomach pain for many years, and it is enough for our family to suffer alone. Li Yu shook his head: "I don't paint, I want to be an actor."

Li Baotian was furious, flipped the table upside down with a wave of his hand, pointed at Li Yu's forehead and said sharply: "You are vanity, just your appearance, who wants you to go to the crew?" You don't say I'm your dad and ruin my reputation. Father's harsh words deeply stung Li Or. He hit back: "Rest assured, I am on my own, I will never ruin your reputation, and I will never ask you."

When he was about to graduate from high school a year later, Li Yu resolutely took a simple luggage and went north. Before leaving, Li Baotian did not have any blessings or advice, but left only a word for his son: "One day, you will regret it."

The most tragic "star second generation": "Wolf Daddy" stumbled all the way in the shadow

Soon, Li Yu rented a house in the basement of Beijing and began to work in various crews.

Li Yu is full of passion, but his size is only 162cm, black and thin, and he is obviously inferior in the cast pile. Usually, he waited for a day, and all the actors were selected one by one like cabbages, leaving him alone on the ground.

Because there was no source of income, the money Li Yu brought from his family was quickly used up, and he had to be hungry and full.

Once, when he was so hungry, he called Li Baotian. The phone was quickly dialed, and Li Baotian fed several times over there, but Li Yu couldn't say a word. After waiting for a while, Li Baotian said, "Is it a mistake?" He hung up the phone.

In fact, from the abnormality that the other party did not hang up the phone and did not speak, he had already guessed that it was Li Yu's phone. He knew that Li Yu had not encountered any difficulties, would not bow his head to contact him, and could not help but be anxious.

But his son's personality is not to hit the south wall and not to look back, he decided to ignore it, let his son reflect on the wall, and honestly go back to study.

Hearing the busy voice on the phone, Li Yu's tears fell down one by one: no money, no drama, and his father's side could not open his mouth, where should he go? But no matter how difficult it was, Li Yu gave himself a rule: never rely on his father Li Baotian.

When he was cornered, Li Yu had to lower his dreams, even face and dignity. When the assistant director comes to select the extras, he will be the first to rush up and ask, "Is there a suitable role for me?"

Once, he was really selected to play a Qing bingjia who was stabbed to death by an arrow, and he put on the costume beautifully and listened to the arrangement of the assistant director: "Your position is here, as soon as the male protagonist finishes his lines, you immediately fall to the ground and play a dead man, do you understand?" Li Yu nodded frequently.

When the filming officially began, Li Yu listened to the male protagonist finish his lines and fell to the ground with a whimper. Suddenly, when the male protagonist rode past him, the horse was frightened and kicked him in the stomach, and he couldn't help but shout.

The director who was sitting on the side stood up and shouted: "Can people make a sound when they are dead?" I'm sick. Li Yu endured the pain and stood up to compensate the director. However, the director involuntarily changed people.

Walking out of the set, Li Yu sat on the side of the road and wanted to cry but couldn't cry. At this time, he missed his father very much, no, rather, hoping that his father would help him. In the evening, Li Yu, who really couldn't stand it, wrote a long letter to his father, begging him to give himself a chance.

At that time, Li Baotian was already a household star. In 1988, he won the Best Actor Award at the 8th China Television Drama Feitian Awards for "Ge Treasurer".

Three days later, Li received a reply from his father, which contained only one script. After casually flipping it open, Li Yu was stunned: her father wrote dense notes in the gaps in the script and even under each line, including the understanding of the role and the idea of the performance.

Looking at the script, Li Yu's disappointment was quickly replaced by shock: he never thought that his father had put so much effort into a role. Thinking about it again, I only wanted to act, but I never wanted to act, and I was ashamed.

Li Yu decided to change her mind, figuring out each role like a father and using her thinking to win the role.

After that, no matter where she was filming, Li Yu went to see how the role should be performed, and then found an opportunity to take the initiative to communicate with the director, actors and staff.

His change has an effect, once the director was annoyed by the crying scene of a mass actor who was not in place, Li Or said on the side: he should not cry directly, he should cry while cooking, to reflect that he has bitterness in his heart. The director immediately asked Li Yu to come.

In this way, Li Yu got his first role. The director felt that Li Yu had a good understanding, and since then, some characters have often come to him: and through the director's introduction, he often participates in some other directors' plays.

A year later, Li Yu's drama slowly opened. Once, Li Baotian, who had never met his son, went to Hengdian to shoot a scene.

On that day, Li Or received a job from a passerby and walked again and again. Two extras next to him pointed out: "This man is sick, has no dialogue, does not show his face, and learns to walk with big names." Li Baotian's eyes were red when he saw it: his son's stupidity to the play made him see his own shadow.

Just when Li Baotian was stunned, some workers recognized him, the director immediately came to greet him, and many actors also gathered around, while Li Yu stopped where he was, looked at him from a distance for a while, and then buried his head in the script.

Li Baotian smiled awkwardly and said, "You guys are busy yourself, I'll come and see my son Yi Li or." Upon hearing this, everyone was amazed, and the director was embarrassed: "Why didn't you say it earlier... Or, give him a different role?"

Li Baotian waved his hands one after another, walked out of the encirclement, and pulled Li or outside to eat a meal. At that meal, the father and son ate silently, as if they had a lot to say, but they couldn't say it.

After Li Baotian left, the rumor of Li Yu's "second generation of stars" spread in Hengdian, and everyone was surprised but also full of strangeness: "Guarding such a star father, Li Yu why did he get up from the bottom!"

Li Baotian's friends accused him of being too cruel to his son, but Li Baotian just smiled, did not explain, and did not change. For this reason, Li Yu is known as the "second generation of the most miserable stars" in the entertainment industry.

But after returning from Hengdian that time, Li Baotian sent his son a van Gogh sunflower that he copied himself."

Under the sun, the warmth of the sunflowers glowing yellow made Li Yu look at it for a long time, and he clearly remembered that when his father taught him to paint this painting, he said: Sunflowers represent hope.

After reading the father's love and the brightest light in the dark, Li Baotian's relationship with his son eased somewhat. With his own efforts, he came to prominence in TV dramas, and qiu Qianzhang, who he played in "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", was affirmed by his peers.

With the development of Li Yu's acting career, there is more common language between him and his father, but they are still so polite.

One day, Li Yu came home after filming and found a chinese opera enrollment brochure pressed under a bowl of miscellaneous sauce noodles left by his father on the table.

Li Yu's five flavors are miscellaneous. A few years ago, he once applied for the Chinese opera, and when he was brushed off during the three tests, he felt particularly uncomfortable. A friend asked him to ask his father for help, but Li or did not open his mouth, and Li Baotian never offered to help.

In this way, the Chinese opera has become a cinnabar mole in Li Or's heart, and pain and love coexist. Even if the relationship between their father and son slowly eased, the two would never mention these two words. But after so many years of glacial confrontation, my father silently put this paper in front of him.

Li Yu was moved. After the trial and error in the show business circle, Li Yu gradually understood his father's bitter heart. In the past, in public, Li Baotian was reluctant to let reporters take pictures with his son, and whenever this happened, Li or always walked away with hatred.

When a reporter asked them to take a group photo of their father and son, Li Yu would carry a gun and a stick: "My father's wrist is too big, I dare not stand with him." Only now did he understand that the father was actually painstaking in doing so: taking the initiative to remove the aura from his son's body, and intentionally letting the audience know Li He's play, rather than the father behind him.

On this day, Li Baotian returned home very late. He took out a thick pile of information from his bag and gave his son a little emphasis: "This question has been tested many times." "This question should be open to thinking, don't be limited..." Li or saw his father's gray hair under the lamp, a little sad.

He asked, "Dad, are you particularly sorry that you didn't choose the path you designed in the first place?" Li Baotian's eyes were a little moist: "At the beginning, I wanted God to reward you with a bowl of stable rice to eat, who thought that you were obsessed with acting." Your way is still your own way. ”

In his father's words, there were vicissitudes that could not be concealed, and Li Yu looked squarely at his father's eyes for the first time: "Dad, I'm sorry." I'm the one who bothered you. "You don't hate Lao Tzu." Li Baotian stood up and walked out of the study door with his hands behind his back. His father's back was a little hunched, and Li Yu's nose was sour and he fell into tears.

After a year of hard study, Li Cheng was admitted as a director at the Central Academy of Drama.

School life, simple and beautiful, Li Yu met Chen Yanlin, a Nanchong girl 16 years younger than him, and soon fell in love. When the news of Li Yu's love reached Li Baotian's ears, Li Baotian's attitude was clearly opposed to his son's love.

But eight months after falling in love with Chen Yanlin, Li Yu and Chen Yanlin registered their marriage in Beijing. Because of Li Baotian's opposition, the relationship between father and son fell into the ice of history.

In June 2009, Chen Yanlin became pregnant, and Li Yu pushed away most of her work at home with her wife, buying vegetables, laundry, cooking, and taking good care of her.

These changes of his son, Li Baotian did not think so on the surface, but in his heart, he was intertwined. Perhaps, living is like wearing shoes and drinking water, comfortable self-knowledge, cold and warm self-knowledge.

Just like his son insisted on taking the road of acting, he loved this career so much, and now he has not come out? Why do you have to be an unreasonable father every time?

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2010, Li Baotian finally dialed his son's phone: "Boy, Dad spent the Spring Festival at your house this year." Li Yu was overjoyed and rushed to agree.

Li Baotian knocked on the door, and his daughter-in-law smiled and welcomed him into the house, "Dad, you change into a pair of comfortable cotton shoes." The couple was very busy in the kitchen, watching their son smile and touching his daughter-in-law's belly from time to time, the happiness overflowed into words, and Li Baotian's eyes were moist.

After the meal, the daughter-in-law brought fruit and said, "Dad, soon you will be promoted to a grandfather, and I have to ask you to give your child a name." Li Baotian looked at the red strawberry and smiled: "My heart is as sweet as this strawberry now, the girl will call it strawberry, and the boy will call it Guoguo."

In March 2010, with a loud baby cry, Chen Yanlin gave birth to a chubby baby girl. Li Baotian hugged his granddaughter and loved it.

The birth of the little strawberry added a lot of joy to the family, and Li Baotian said happily: "Before, I was a stubborn old man. Now with his granddaughter, the old man wants to start changing and strive to be a qualified grandfather. On the side, Li Yu and his wife laughed at their humorous father.

The birth of small strawberries made Li Baotian slowly begin to change. No matter how serious he is in front of his son, as long as the little strawberry calls out to his grandfather, Li Baotian will immediately smile and smile.

Li Baotian often rode a horse for the little strawberry at home, and the little strawberry was naughty, and also climbed on Li Baotian's knee to pluck his grandfather's beard.

There is also such a soft and warm side of his father's personality, Li Yu deliberately ridiculed his father: "When I was a child, why weren't you so good to me?"

Li Baotian laughed while kissing the little strawberry: "Who made you a stinky boy, of course, there is no my little strawberry Jin Gui.... Since then, Li Baotian has often taken his son to film.

The first time Li Yu really cooperated with his father to act was to star in the TV series directed by An Zhanjun< the policeman Li Jiuju >, Li Baotian played the father, and Li Yu played the son. It is reasonable to say that they are father and son, and Li Yu should be handy in acting, but he did not expect that this would become a disaster for Li Yu for three months.

After getting the script, Li Baotian and Li Yu had a disagreement about the understanding of the role. On the set, Li Yu was often eaten by his father.com. As a result, Li Yu felt great pressure as soon as he played with him, and played Li Xiaoshan in a daze.

But it was in this play that Li Yu really saw his father's acting skills.

There is a scene in which Li Baotian, played by Li Baotian, has just learned that his wife has cancer, and he does not dare to tell her the truth, and he has to force his face to be happy.

Li Yu only saw his father cooking noodles in the kitchen, and while cooking, he asked his wife: "The noodles are cooked, lay down an egg, right?" But as he spoke, the tears flowed down the ground.

Li Yu watched this scene of his father's performance on the side, and he was also moved to tears, but he did not want his father to see it, so he rushed to the side.

Inspired by his father's performance, Li Yu also quickly entered the role. In the cooperation, Li Yu further felt and realized that his father was different.

I also slowly read the unusually strong love behind the "wolf father"-style father education method.

Yes, when he went against his father's wishes, abandoning painting and art, more than ten years later, when he transformed from a fanatical layman and an obscure actor into a unique comedian, he found that the most grateful person was his father, who had been accompanying himself with his unique father's love, just as the brightest light was always in the dark.....

In 2012, the CCTV hit drama "Clown Daddy", Played by Li Baotian, Zhao Qingshan implemented a rigid and soft education policy for his daughter Zhao Xiaoping, and while loving in every way, severely suppressed her daughter's dream of learning drama, and even beat her hand, making Zhao Xiaoping run away from home under grievances.

In this regard, Li Baotian frankly said: "The father beat Xiaoping because he loved his daughter too much, knew that the actor's road was not easy to walk, and was afraid that his daughter would be hurt, so he forbade his daughter to learn drama."

But Xiaoping also has her own dreams and rebellion, so it is inevitable that the two will clash, which is also the embodiment of love. And that's exactly how he gets along with his son in real life.

This time, in the < clown father >, Li Yu's acting skills were outstanding and won continuous praise from the audience.

Li Yu said in an interview: "Thank you for my 'wolf father'. It was his stick education that made me step by step to this day, and he made me understand what is down-to-earth and what true love is. ”

Li Baotian on the side had tears in his eyes and clasped his son's hands tightly.