Wu Mengda is 68 years old this year and is affectionately known as Uncle Da by fans.
It should have been the age of "retirement", but now Uncle Da is still active in the entertainment industry, and he still has tv or movies released every year.
It can be said that Wu Mengda is an evergreen tree in the level of these old drama bones among Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, although he has not cooperated with his old partner Zhou Xingchi for many years, his current popularity has not diminished.
【1】 When he came to Hong Kong at a young age, he was a classmate of Chow Yun-fat
Born in Xiamen, Fujian Province, Uncle Da followed his parents to Hong Kong at the age of seven, and was admitted to the Hong Kong TVB Artist Training Class at the age of 20, where he was in the same class as Chow Yun-fat, Ren Dahua, Lin Lingdong and others.
After graduation, they signed a contract with Wireless as a basic actor, but they got very few opportunities, and almost all the roles they got were dragon runners.
At that time, Zhou Runfa was also like him, just running a dragon set, in order to attract the attention of the company's leaders, Zhou Runfa would deliberately appear in front of the top management in the company.
Of course, this is the extraordinary means of the extraordinary period, and the tall Zhou Runfa was really appreciated later and became famous in the TV series "Shanghai Beach".
And Wu Mengda, who has no advantage in stature and appearance, has mostly made cameo roles in nearly a decade.
It was not until he starred in the role of "Hu Tiehua" in "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" in 1979 that he gradually attracted attention.
[2] Young people make mistakes and think bitterly
However, the young and unruly Wu Mengda owed a huge gambling debt because of gambling, and he was also facing a situation of no drama to shoot at work, and under great pressure, he once wanted to take his life.
Fortunately, after thinking about the pain, Wu Mengda finally learned to think quietly and study acting. Ten years of grinding a sword, and finally in 1985 he took over the TV "New Za Master Brother", in which he cooperated with Liang Chaowei, and his acting skills were finally appreciated by the producer.
In the 80s, it was a golden period in Wu Mengda's life, although he starred in supporting roles, but his film contracts continued, and when he was busiest, he slept in the company and had no time to go home.
"Rogue Tycoon", "Laughing Proud of the Jianghu", "Book of Swords and Vengeance", "Gestapo Heroes", "Mislabeling Reference" and other films are all works of that period.
【3】 Partner Zhou Xingchi ushered in the golden age
In 1989, Wu Mengda cooperated with zhou Xingchi, a newcomer who had just received attention, and began to co-star together in the TV series "He Comes from the Jianghu" and other films.
The first film they worked on was "Gamble Saint", which won the Hong Kong box office in 1990 and transformed the acting lives of Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda.
Through this film, Zhou Xingchi changed from being called Star Boy to Star Master. Not only was Stephen Chow nominated for the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, but Wu Mengda was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
It can be seen how much this film means to the two of them, and it also marks the beginning of an era of hegemony in the Hong Kong film industry.
Since then, for more than a decade, Stephen Chow's film works have always been indispensable to a royal supporting role, Wu Mengda.
"Truant Weilong", "Deer Dingji", "Death Judge", "Shaolin Football", "Trick Expert", "Jigong", "King of Comedy" and other films are their most classic representative works.
In an interview program, Uncle Da was asked what kind of a state it was when he was busiest, and the host described whether he played with Andy Lau in the morning, Xingchi Zhou in the afternoon, and Zhou Runfa in the evening.
Uncle Da said that this is often the case.
[4] The old man's acting skills are mature and his professionalism is admirable
Recalling Uncle Da's second golden age, the supporting role of movies in the 90s, is the era of Wu Mengda, who became more popular because of Stephen Chow, and Chow's movies were more exciting because of him.
Nowadays, Uncle Da, who is already in the ranks of the elderly, still loves the industry of acting. And he is more serious about filming, he once said that when he got to the set, he basically stopped reading the script, because he had already written down the lines including his opponents.
This is the spirit of professionalism, and Uncle Da has taught the younger generation a lesson with his actions.
As Andy Lau said, the most basic cultivation of an actor is to be on time or to arrive at the scene in advance.
Therefore, like Uncle Da, Andy Lau and other senior artists, what reason do they have not to be popular for a lifetime?
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