2018 is known as the "first year of idols", in addition to the mushrooming of variety shows, there are also many TV dramas that have brought many "idols" on fire.
If the hottest male star of the year is selected, Zhu Yilong will definitely be able to rank in the top three. The popularity of the web drama "Town Soul" made Zhu Yilong's popularity soar overnight, and "Teacher Ju" became a new idol in the entertainment industry unstoppable.
Between June and July, his popularity continued to rise, and for 29 consecutive days he won the first place in the Artist New Media Index. For a time, business cooperation and scripts came pouring in, and in half a year, Zhu Yilong brought economic income to the company accounting for 23.88% of the total revenue of the entire company in 2018, which can be said to be a veritable "small gold mine".
But in fact, unlike many debut boy band and girl group idols, Zhu Yilong has worked hard for 10 years to have such achievements as today. Over the past many years, Zhu Yilong's experience is almost contrary to the word "idol", he is not a traffic idol, he is an actor.
Zhu Yilong, who was born in Wuhan in 1988, has been pinned high hopes on by his parents since he was a child, and when he was a student in his youth, it seems more appropriate to describe him as a teenager than the word "rebellious".
He didn't have any dream of stardom since he was a child, nor did he have the idea of learning acting, and if it wasn't for his mother's insistence, he never even considered becoming an actor. Then, in 2006, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy.
In college, Zhu Yilong participated in many works. In April 2009, he participated in the movie "Regeneration Edge", and in July of the same year, he participated in the male lead of the suspense film "Blood Deep House". In 2010, after graduating from Nortel, Zhu Yilong played Zhu Changxun in the Ming Court Drama "Concubine Daming" and starred in the digital suspense films "Rouge Robbery" and "Deep Doubt".
The movie "Rouge Robbery" also scored 7.8 points in Douban, which is undoubtedly an "excellent" achievement for Zhu Yilong, who has just graduated.
In September 2011, Zhu Yilong starred in Asia's first IMAX 3D film "Legend of Daming Palace", in which he played General Junshi. In October, he played the national hero Sun Rubai in the first anti-war TV series that reflected the Eastern Qiandong region, "Wind and Rain Fanjing Mountain". In November, he played the wild man in the TV movie "Wild Man Hunting". In February 2012, Zhu Yilong participated in the costume TV series "Wang Yangming".
In July, he portrayed the protagonist Jiang Xinbai in the digital love suspense movie "Voyeur". In October, he played Hai Dongsheng in the period drama "Strange Doctor Wen San". At the beginning of 2013, Zhu Yilong participated in the Lunar New Year movie "Love Not NG" directed by Zhu Shimao.
Until 2018, he starred in many film and television drama roles, but none of them made a big splash. Until June 13, 2018, Zhu Yilong starred in the fantasy drama "Zhen Soul", in which one person played Shen Wei, the black robe envoy and the night zun triangle. On June 17 of the same year, he won the 2018 Weibo Movie Night Weibo Popular Actor Award.
Then, he finally caught fire.
When people suddenly receive huge attention, it is easy to get lost, and there are countless examples of such as the entertainment industry. Coupled with Zhu Yilong's good-looking skin bag, many people naturally feel that with such a heat, the next thing should be to take over advertising endorsements, shoot idol dramas, set up concave people on variety shows, and then count the money to be soft.
But surprisingly, he didn't. There are too many people who have become famous and get carried away, but Zhu Yilong has not. In the six months after "Town Soul" was swept away by the explosion, Zhu Yilong appeared very calm, and even in the interview, he seemed a little restrained.
He is ambitious, but not for the "fame" of Vanity Fair, but for the pursuit of his own inner art. Ten years of precipitation, so that his current mentality is calm enough, enough composure to deal with a night of popularity or fall to the bottom.
Not happy with things, not sad with himself, he passed through the impetuousness of Vanity Fair, and the leaves did not stick to the body.
Douban saw such a passage describing Zhu Yilong: "Everything you experience is nourishment; always follow your own rhythm; you are strong in self-examination and grow in tempering." He maintained his usual calmness and elegance, modest but not humble, confident and not ostentatious. "
In Zhu Yilong's dictionary, there is nothing "overnight fame", and some are just "thick accumulation and thin hair".