Someone once commented on Stephen Chow, saying that he left "all his smiles on the screen." Going back to the "King of Comedy" again, it doesn't seem so funny.
Only people who have experienced sadness and loneliness can act well in comedy.
Today, we will interpret another "king of comedy" in Hong Kong - Zhang Weijian.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="350" >: Domestic violence by his father in childhood. </h1>
Zhang Weijian was born in 1965 in the Tenement House on Wuhu Street, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. There are 3 children in the family, the eldest Zhang Weijian, the second Zhang Weiyi, and the third Zhang Weiji. We remember the name of the second eldest, which will appear below.
Zhang Weijian's father is a crew member who works overseas for many years. He not only returned home once in a while, but also abused his family, and Xiao Zhang Weijian was often beaten by his father.
What is even more excessive is that after Zhang Weijian was injured, his father would also use the camera to record his "tragic situation" so that he could take it out at any time to "appreciate".
Such a growing environment has left a huge shadow on Zhang Weijian's childhood. Later, recalling these days, he said:
At that moment, I doubted I was going to die...
When Zhang Weijian was 15 years old, his father, who had been absent from home for many years, cheated and clamored to divorce his mother.
When the man left the mother and son four, he left them the house where they lived at that time. All three children are minors and have no financial income. In order to maintain her livelihood, Zhang's mother sold the property in desperation, and the mother and son four squeezed into the small house they rented.
Such a life, there is no "quality" to speak of, can only be said to be "survival".
▲ In that era without PS, Zhang Weijian's appearance was not lost at all.
It was precisely because of the misfortune of his youth that Zhang Weijian, as the eldest son, was determined to get ahead and let his family live a good life.
The burden of life was prematurely placed on the shoulders of this child. Two years after his parents divorced, 17-year-old Zhang Weijian graduated from high school, he gave up the opportunity to continue his studies and chose to work to subsidize his family. After that, he began to take charge of the family's food, clothing, and housing, and provided for his brothers to go to school.
(Later, Zhang Weijian's younger brother, Zhang Weiyi, went to Canada to study, and the youngest brother, Zhang Weiji, also found a job and became a police officer.) ）
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="486" > two: snowstormed and bankrupt. </h1>
Xiao Zhang Weijian works in the magazine during the day and goes to the restaurant to sing at night. Because Zhang Guorong also occasionally sang in that restaurant at that time, the two met.
Zhang Guorong later recalled the acquaintance of the two and said this:
I knew him more than a year ago, when he was singing in a few-question restaurants. But after singing for a while, I didn't sing it. At that time, I also signed a few questions to ask the restaurant to sing, in order to pull him a hand, but also in order to hope that people would sing to him because they gave me face, so I introduced him to the outside world and said that he was my cousin. In the end, the relationship between cousin and cousin is closer, and it is easier for people to help you.
After hearing about Zhang Weijian's situation, Zhang Guorong was very sympathetic to this young handsome and hard-working young man, and wanted to pull him along, so he called the two "cousins" and "cousins" in a relationship, hoping to use his "face" to help him get job opportunities.
In 1984, Zhang Guorong introduced Zhang Weijian to participate in TVB's rookie singing competition.
Zhang Weijian sang the song "Love Crossover" at that time, and what people did not expect was that this 19-year-old "newcomer" actually won the "Gold Award" and the "Most Prominent Typhoon Award" in one fell swoop.
After winning the championship, Zhang Weijian first signed a record company, and later TVB also threw an olive branch.
In 1985, Zhang Weijian starred in his first film "Crazy Game", officially starting his own acting path.
Dramas such as "Sun Moon Excalibur", "I Love Tooth Rub Su", "Truancy", "Super School Overlord" and so on have greatly increased his exposure and popularity.
But over time, something went wrong. In the years of TVB, because Zhang Weijian took over the role too frequently, and each role he played belonged to the funny role of "gag joke", the audience had "aesthetic fatigue" after a long time, and felt that these similar roles were too boring. In addition, his records also sold mediocrely and did not make a splash.
Therefore, in 1995, Zhang Weijian, who was frustrated in Hong Kong, sold his big house and planned to fight a war and go to Taiwan to develop his career.
He signed up for the "Modernist" record label and began releasing albums.
When he first went to Taiwan, no one knew him when he walked on the street, and after launching a record, it sold well, so the record company hit the iron while it was hot and launched a number of albums for him in one go, with an average sales of 150,000 copies. In such a short period of time, it is an excellent result for a "newcomer". Zhang Weijian was also awarded the "Top Ten Most Popular Idols in Taiwan in 1995" for his popularity (he later won the award in 1996).
After becoming popular in Taiwan, Zhang Weijian released an album while acting, and dekong also hosted several programs, which was eye-catching.
In 1996, seeing Zhang Weijian's career booming, Hong Kong Radio Twi threw an olive branch to him and invited him to star in the Taiwanese qing drama "Journey to the West".
For this good "opportunity" that suddenly came, Zhang Weijian was actually very hesitant. Because he has just become popular in Taiwan, it is supposed to "take advantage of the victory to pursue", and he is worried that if he suddenly leaves at this time, he will "drop powder" in Taiwan.
But this time the wireless station is very sincere, many times to invite, and Zhang Weijian's agent, that is, his brother Zhang Weiyi also continued to persuade, and finally Zhang Weijian still agreed.
▲ Zhang Weijian played the role of "Sun Wukong" in "Journey to the West".
As a TvB's Taiwan celebration drama, this drama is also given enough resources by the wireless side and broadcast at the end of the year. The show received a huge response after its broadcast, reaching a high rating of 44 points when it first aired. It became the number one in the ratings of the top ten Hong Kong TV series in 1996.
Zhang Weijian himself also became popular in Hong Kong again with the role of "Sun Wukong" in the play, and he also won the "Third Place in the Top Ten TV Artists of the One TV Awards" for the drama, and in 1999, he won the "Most Memorable Actor" award at the Ten Thousand Stars Awards Ceremony.
In June 1997, TVB planned to start filming a sequel to Journey to the West. The original plan was still for Zhang Weijian to play the role of "Sun Wukong", but it was just that year that Zhang Weijian's contract with Wireless was about to expire, and he planned to renew the contract, but he did not expect to have a "moth".
At the time of the last signing, Zhang Weijian had not yet become popular, and his salary for shooting an episode of "Journey to the West" was only 3,000 yuan, while the other protagonist in the play, Jiang Hua (playing Tang Sanzang), was paid about 18,000 per episode, a difference of 6 times.
When he signed the contract this time, Zhang Weijian had become a red star in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and his income from filming TV dramas in Taiwan was far higher than that in wireless.
Therefore, Zhang Weijian put forward the request for "salary increase", hoping that the film remuneration would be consistent with his film remuneration in Taiwan.
For this request, the wireless station categorically refused.
Zhang Weijian's demand for a "wage increase" led him to disagree with Zeng Lizhen, a high-level wireless station at the time. In the end, Zhang Weijian not only did not "raise wages", but even did not sign the contract. Even if Zhang Weijian later said that he could also star without remuneration, the wireless station did not want him.
The reason comes down: Zhang Weijian feels that the remuneration is unfair, but the wireless side feels that Zhang Weijian is wirelessly popular, and he should "feed back" to repay the grace of wireless knowledge.
Years later, Zhang Weijian talked about this segment in the radio interview program "Zhiyun Rice Bureau", and he admitted that this incident was the biggest blow in his acting career. In other variety interviews, similar topics have been discussed.
We'll move on.
Zeng Lizhen decided to ban him and not renew his contract with Zhang Weijian. In the role of Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West", wireless stations intend to use "Chen Haomin", who was still a newcomer at that time, to take the lead.
Zhang Weijian's side also received a "comment" from the wireless station, saying "you Zhang Weijian don't make money without hair."
What does that mean? The written meaning is that when playing Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West", Zhang Weijian's face and body were pasted with a lot of "hair", so it was red.
The meaning of the non-written is regarded as homework, and you understand it yourself.
After hearing this "comment", Zhang Weijian was very angry and did not steam steamed He wants to use his own strength to tell the world: Zhang Weijian can succeed even if he does not have "Mao"!
After that, Zhang Weijian left wireless and signed a contract with Feiteng Film Company to shoot TV series such as "Joyful Dragon" and "Short Song Line of Knife Song". But at that time, Zhang Weijian lost interest in filming, and he thought that it was faster to invest in real estate, so he took out all his wealth to buy real estate. However, his luck was not good, and he encountered a financial storm not long after he invested, and by 1999, his investment had brought him to the brink of bankruptcy and was once very desperate.
But there is no way out.
In 1999, "Young Hero Fang Shiyu" starring Zhang Weijian was broadcast on ATV. As soon as the drama was broadcast, it became popular all over the two sides of the strait and three places. The rating reached 24%, directly breaking the rating record of the "ATV" program.
It was also in this year that through the matchmaking of director Wang Jing, Zhang Weijian reconciled with the wireless executives and participated in the "Award Gate Man" program. TVB even arranged for the episode to be broadcast in the finale of "Young Hero Fang Shiyu", which increased popularity and ratings.
In addition, because of his excellent performance in "Young Hero Fang Shiyu", Zhang Weijian also gained and won the appreciation of Andy Lau. When he was on the verge of bankruptcy and desperate, he tried to go to Andy Lau for help. After Andy Lau heard about him, he did not hesitate to give him a check with a large denomination and told Zhang Weijian:
What is learned must be taught, and what is earned must be given to others.
Since then, Zhang Weijian signed up for Andy Lau's "NewMelody" and released the album "I (Not:) is Zhang Weijian", of which the title song "Who You Love Me Like" has received numerous praise.
In 2000, Zhang Weijian took over the ancient costume martial arts drama "Xiaobao and Kangxi" directed by Wang Jing, and the ratings reached a new high.
Then, he starred in popular dramas such as "Clever Little Don't Understand", "Deer Ding Ji (Xiao Bao and Kangxi)", "Young Zhang Sanfeng", "Qi Tian Dasheng Sun Wukong", "Little Fish and Flowers Without Flaws" and so on.
After that, his acting career was relatively smooth.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="351" > three: framed by his brother. </h1>
Zhang Weijian suffered a blow in his career, in addition to his grudge with Wireless, there was another one - his younger brother Zhang Weiyi.
Zhang Weijian can become a well-known artist in the two sides of the strait and three places, and it is inseparable from Zhang Weiyi, who is a behind-the-scenes hero.
Zhang Weiyi was born in 1967, two years younger than Zhang Weijian. Zhang Weijian went out to work at the age of 17, and Zhang Weiyi was given the opportunity to study in Canada under the sponsorship of his brother.
After Zhang Weiyi returned from school in 1991, he first worked for EMI and Starlight Records, and a year later, he began to work as Zhang Weijian's agent.
In fact, Zhang Weiyi studied "mathematics" in Canada, and was the agent of his brother, which belonged to the cross-line.
However, Zhang Weiyi worked hard, and he did his best to assist his brother's acting career. It has won many opportunities for Zhang Weijian.
The brothers occasionally quarrel, for example, as an agent, Zhang Weiyi would ask Zhang Weijian to do so, and Zhang Weijian would "disobey discipline" when he felt that he did not like it, so the two had a conflict. But fortunately, although there are quarrels, the content is mostly about the "direction of development". Between brothers, it doesn't take long for the quarrel to always be reconciled.
In 2005, Zhang Weijian found that his brother's mental state was problematic, so in January 2006, Zhang Weijian gave Zhang Weiyi a separate house in Sheung Shui where the family originally lived, hoping that he would be able to stay away from the disturbances and calm down.
But apparently Zhang Weiyi did not "calm down" at all, in March 2006, Zhang Weiyi fell ill at home, after being sent to the hospital, he was judged by doctors to be "suffering from manic depression".
In the early morning of March 18, 2006, Zhang Weiyi drank with friends at his Apartment in Sheung Shui to relieve his boredom. While drinking, he suddenly lost control of his emotions and began to smash things everywhere, making a mess of the house and refusing ambulance personnel to enter the house.
Zhang Weijian rushed to the scene after receiving the call and joined the family doctor to persuade his brother. It took a lot of effort to persuade Zhang Weiyi to go to the hospital for examination.
While waiting in line for medical treatment, Zhang Weiyi was once incoherent, and also called a friend, saying that he was so hard and wanted to die...
After the onset of his illness in 2006, Zhang Weiyi rarely appeared and no longer worked as Zhang Weijian's agent.
In April 2013, Zhang Weiyi, who suffered from "manic depression," publicly rebuked Zhang Weijian through a Hong Kong weekly magazine, saying that Zhang Weijian had framed him for drug addiction, forbidden him to meet with his birth mother, and deducted his 17 years of due commission and salary, amounting to 20 million Hong Kong dollars.
Zhang Weiyi later said that Zhang Weijian only paid him HK$30,000 a month for living expenses. But I still "can't make ends meet", because I suffer from "manic depression", need to see a doctor regularly, and also suffer from hepatitis B, and there will be "blood vomiting". These conditions all needed treatment, and the high cost of treatment left him desperate.
In response to his brother's accusations, Zhang Weijian responded:
I don't want to mention this family matter again, the family has a difficult scripture, I can only say 'I have try my very best', I really don't want to dwell on this matter.
Zhang Weijian said that his brother is already in his 40s and should learn to "take care of himself".
Zhang Weijian's mother, Yu Jiabi, also sided with Zhang Weijian, and together with Zhang Weijian issued a solemn statement, pointing out that Zhang Weiyi's accusations were untrue.
Zhang's mother commissioned a lawyer to issue a statement stressing that she confirmed as the biological mother of all her sons:
In the past few decades, Zhang Weijian has served every member of the family with filial piety, sincerity and righteousness, and has also set an example with his heart and soul, so that all the family members can establish themselves and walk down the right path. Zhang Weijian has only paid silently, and he has never owed anything to anyone in his family or around him. Promise that as long as there is a day (Zhang Weiyi) "the bird is tired and the wrong way to return", the family still hopes to see "the prodigal son turn back and take the right path".
Since then, Zhang Weiyi has made fewer appearances. One of the more memorable ones was that in June 2013, when the mother of the three brothers drowned in the hotel pool, Zhang Weiyi came forward to deal with the situation and waited for Zhang Weijian to fly back to "preside over the overall situation" (Zhang Weijian was in the mainland and it would take time to rush back to Hong Kong). At that time, although Zhang Weiyi looked a little impatient, he was relatively normal overall.
Unexpectedly, on January 3, 2018, Zhang Weiyi was found unconscious at his home in Sheung Shui, Hong Kong, and when the police arrived, he was dead.
On that day, zhang Weiji, the younger brother who was serving as a police superintendent, found that his brother Zhang Weiyi was "missing", so he went to the door to look for it, only to find that the second brother Zhang Weiyi fainted and fell to the ground, and after calling the police, the police blocked the scene for investigation.
It was later confirmed that Zhang Weiyi fell to the ground while taking a bath, resulting in an accident.
In addition, when others entered the house, there was a line of English characters written by Zhang Weiyi on the wall:
I hate money.
In fact, from the media exposure of Zhang Weiyi's living environment at that time, can only use the word "dirty" to describe, since 2006, Zhang Weiyi has lived in this independent house jointly held by Zhang Weijian and his mother, but he seems to have no intention of taking care of his poor health, and things in the family are piled up everywhere.
As for the brothers' grudges, they also returned to calm with the death of Zhang Weiyi.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="353" >4: 22 years of childless love with Zhang Qian. </h1>
Zhang Weijian is a well-known filial piety and "good husband" in the entertainment industry, perhaps the experience of his youth, which makes him particularly cherish his current life.
His wife Zhang Qian is gentle and considerate, always silently accompanied by Zhang Weijian, and faced the pride or loss of life with him.
It's just that the two have been in love for 22 years and have no children so far.
The acquaintance of Zhang Weijian and Zhang Qian can be traced back to 1997.
That year, Zhang Qian was filming "Divine Capture", Zhang Weijian was filming "Happy Dragon", and two people who were originally unrelated met because the crew was together on the set.
Zhang Weijian thought that this girl's face was round and rolling, and it was very cute.
In 1999, the two collaborated on "The Legend of Chen Mengji".
On the set, Zhang Qian casually sang Zhang Weijian's song and walked past him.
Zhang Weijian asked her:
What do you think of this song?
Zhang Qian replied:
Not good, too cheesy!
So, Zhang Weijian told her that this was his own song. But Zhang Qian still said:
That's it, sing ok.
Zhang Weijian had a good feeling for this girl who was "bold" and dared to say and dare to speak.
And Zhang Qian feels that Zhang Weijian has a very strong aura, he is like everyone's sun, can inspire others,
In fact, as mentioned earlier, 1999 was a very special year for Zhang Weijian.
Zhang Weijian's investment real estate suffered a financial storm, and by 1999, he was on the verge of bankruptcy, and he could only desperately take over the drama to avoid bankruptcy, and the psychological pressure was very high. It was also in this year, after falling in love with Zhang Qian, that he began to transport.
Zhang Qian is really a "Wangfu" woman.
Zhang Qian was born into an artistic family, her taigong Zhuang Yunkuan was a celebrity in the late Qing Dynasty, an important member of the Republic of China government, and one of the founders of the Palace Museum; her father was a Shanghai stage actor and the president of the Jiangsu Changzhou Calligraphy Association; her mother was a dancer when she was young; her cousin was Wu Zuguang, a famous Chinese scholar; and her cousin's mother was Xin Fengxia, the most famous critic of the last century.
Born into this extended family, Zhang Qian began to learn Chinese painting and singing at the age of 6, and her parents wanted to train her to be a big girl.
After establishing a relationship with Zhang Weijian, because Zhang Weijian is busy at work, the two people can only have 2 months to meet in a year.
At that time, Zhang Weijian's "economic crisis" could only invite Zhang Qian to eat food stalls, but Zhang Qian, the "big miss", still silently accompanied her boyfriend.
In 2007, Zhang Qian and Zhang Weijian secretly registered their marriage in Nanjing.
In 2009, the two had a grand wedding at St. Augustine's Church in the Philippines. This wedding can be regarded as an "open marital status" because Zhang Qian is pregnant.
In fact, at the time of the wedding, Zhang Qian was pregnant, in order not to increase the financial pressure on her husband, the sensible Zhang Qian bought a second-hand wedding dress on the Internet, because she was worried about hurting Zhang Weijian's self-esteem, and pretended to sweetly say to him: I like this retro wedding dress!
However, perhaps because it was too tiring to hold the wedding, or perhaps because of physical reasons, when she was 8 months pregnant, Zhang Qian miscarried.
Because of her relatively weak body, Zhang Qian's fetus was not stable when she was 4 months pregnant. At 8 months, Zhang Qian suffered from colds many times, although she was very careful to take care of her body, but she did not expect Zhang Qian to suddenly feel uncomfortable, and after examination, she found that the baby girl in the abdomen had an abnormal heartbeat, although she immediately arranged surgery to cut her abdomen, but she also failed to save the child.
Zhang Weijian, Zhang Qian and Zhang Qian's mother cried until they collapsed.
Because she miscarried near the time of delivery, this incident hit Zhang Qian very hard, and she was sad that she once suffered from depression.
Zhang Weijian stopped all the work at hand at this time and accompanied Zhang Qian all the time.
In 2014, it was rumored that Zhang Qian had another miscarriage, but Zhang Weijian himself denied this rumor, saying:
The second miscarriage was fake, probably because she liked to wear loose clothes like maternity clothes.
In fact, Zhang Qian blamed herself after the miscarriage and felt that she did not take good care of the child in her belly.
In order to get pregnant again, Zhang Qian went to receive treatment and was ovulated for 3 years.
For a female star, how much courage it takes to get an ovulation injection, you can't imagine.
It's not just physical "pain," but also psychological stress and the risk of getting old and ugly.
During the period when Zhang Qian was injected, he was photographed by the media.
Is the woman who is holding Zhang Weijian really Zhang Qian? It can be said that the face is completely different, the beautiful Zhang Qian is blessed, and the whole person looks as if he is very old...
How many sequelae of ovulation needles Zhang Qian can't not know, but she just wants to give her husband a child...
However, Zhang Qian's body was too weak, and she could not get pregnant again after 3 years of injections.
Zhang Qian, born in 1974, is 47 years old this year, and Zhang Weijian, who was born in 1965, is 56 years old. Both spouses are obviously not at the most suitable age to have children. The chances of the two having children again are probably slim.
However, Zhang Weijian comforted Zhang Qian and said:
It doesn't matter if we don't have children, because you are my children!
Later, Zhang Qian stopped the needle.
Without children, Zhang Weijian will share more love with the two most important women in his life.
Recently, Zhang Qian lived in Beijing, while Zhang Weijian lived in Hong Kong with her mother.
His wife, Zhang Qian, has been in Beijing because her life circle has always been in Beijing, and she feels lonely when she goes to Hong Kong, so she continues to stay in Beijing. After the two got married, Zhang Weijian also spent most of the time with his wife to live in Beijing, and then took the time to fly back to Hong Kong to accompany his mother.
Recently, this life has changed.
Because Zhang Weijian's father was a crew member and usually did not go home, Zhang Weijian's mother suffered a lot when she was young to raise the three brothers. Later, Zhang Weijian's father filed for divorce from his mother, and his life was even worse.
Now that Zhang's mother is over eighty years old, although her body is still quite healthy, but because of the accidental drowning in swimming in 2013, her heartbeat stopped twice, although after first aid, she has now recovered, but her body is not as good as before.
Zhang Weijian has always been filial piety, and under the balance, he had to consider his mother first. In 2020, Zhang Weijian returned to Hong Kong to accompany his mother, who was over eighty years old, and because of the epidemic, he and Zhang Qian had not seen each other for a long time.
However, couples often play video to connect with each other.
Today's Zhang Weijian is often photographed dressed casually, accompanying his mother to eat out, participate in leisure activities, fitness and so on.
He has not filmed for almost 4 years, and his figure is slightly blessed, but his spirit is good.
Because he lived in Beijing with Zhang Qian after marriage, he bought 3 houses in Beijing, of which he lived in a mansion of 5,000 feet (about 464 square meters).
In Hong Kong, Zhang Weijian also owns at least 6 properties, of which 3 sets of Jia Heng Bay worth 46.6 million yuan were purchased jointly with Zhang Qian. In 2014, he bought a property in Happy Valley for 40.8 million yuan in his personal name for his mother to live in. There are also 2 small units for rent. At a rough count, Zhang Weijian's total property in Hong Kong is now worth more than 120 million, which is not counting his multiple properties in Beijing.
You see that, right?
Zhang Weijian's investment in real estate is successful, and now he no longer needs to shoot for money, and acting is only for "happiness".
When he is addicted to drama, he will run to make a film and "don't talk about the remuneration". For example, the "Big Handsome Guy" that was launched in 2018 did not talk to TVB about film remuneration.
Unconsciously, Zhang Weijian was more than half a hundred years old and was still a teenager when he returned.
There is no distinction between "tragedy" and "comedy" in this world, if you can get out of "tragedy", it is a suddenly cheerful "comedy life".
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