Wang Wufu is the most special actor who plays Zhu De so far, and is also the most suitable Zhu De actor in the eyes of Zhu De's family and the audience. He began to play Zhu De in 1980, and has been playing zhu de for 41 years, his acting skills have conquered three generations of audiences, he is a national first-class actor who has won all the awards of Chinese TV dramas, and is known as "the first judder-type actor in the country".
Wang Wufu
In 1948, Wang Wufu was born in Tianjin to an ordinary worker family, the eldest of the 4 brothers. Because my father was ill for many years, the family was supported by my mother's meager income as a painter. In order to work early and earn money to support his family, at the age of 13, Wang Wufu was admitted to the Tianjin Renyi Children's Theater Troupe.
Wang Wufu, who just entered the troupe, actually did not like to learn acting, but he did not like it, and he still practiced the basic skills seriously and slowly fell in love with this profession. Just as he was about to present himself on stage, the troupe disintegrated.
But fortunately, after the Beijing Military Region Comrades-in-Arms Drama Troupe heard about the disintegration of Tianjin Renyi, it immediately came to recruit people, and 18-year-old Wang Wufu was lucky enough to be selected again, and since then he has never left the Comrade-in-Arms Drama Troupe, in which he has played roles such as soldiers, workers, and peasants, silently polishing his acting skills.
At the age of 29, Wang Wufu married Wang Shengli, a singer of the Comrades-in-Arms Song and Dance Troupe, because of their limited income, their lives were hard, but they were also very happy.
Wang Wufu and his wife and daughter
Wang Wufu had been running the dragon suit in the first few years of the troupe, and the harsh reality made him somewhat unacceptable, and he gradually had the idea of giving up. After Wang Shengli realized this, he bought a pot of Junzilan and came back and said to her husband, "You see, this Junzilan is still a seedling, and it will take a long time for it to grow up and bloom with buds." I think you are now like this pot of Junzilan, to succeed you still need to accumulate and precipitate. ”
Wang Wufu only then understood his wife's good intentions, and he felt remorseful at the same time when he was moved. Since then, he no longer complains about the world, and works harder to play each role well, and gradually he becomes the backbone of the performance in the troupe.
In 1979, the troupe decided to plan the drama "Pingjin Decisive Battle", to find a special actor to play Marshal Zhu De, Wang Wufu was recommended to audition, did not expect the director to directly shoot him, which made him excited.
After returning home, Wang Wufu told his wife the good news, and Wang Shengli was also very happy to say: "Don't say, look at your eyebrows and face shape, really like Mr. Zhu, how come I didn't find it before?" ”
But Wang Wufu had no bottom in his heart: "Mr. Zhu is highly respected, can I play his old man well?" What if the act is smashed? ”
Wang Shengli encouraged him: "Why not? Maybe our family can really produce a 'Mr. Zhu', then I am the 'Marshal Lady'! ”
With the encouragement of his wife, Wang Wufu devoted himself to the study of the role. Wang Wufu is a native of Tianjin, in order to practice Mr. Zhu's Sichuan dialect, he specially went to find a Sichuan person to practice dialects, and the other party taught him a few words of Sichuan dialect every day.
After careful preparation, the drama was well received when it was performed in 1980, and was invited to perform in Zhongnanhai, and was affirmed by Yang Shangkun, Song Renqian and other central leaders.
After that, Wang Wufu was unable to receive anything, and began to play Mr. Zhu in many film and television dramas and dramas, and his acting skills conquered more and more people.
In 1984, Wang Wufu once again played Mr. Zhu in the stage play "Song of the Chinese Revolution", and Mr. Zhu's wife Kang Keqing also came to watch the performance, she has been holding a telescope to watch Wang Wufu's performance, and she can't stop praising: "It's like it!" It's like! ”
After the performance, Sister Kang came on stage to shake hands with the actors one by one, she was smiling when she shook hands with others, but when she shook hands with Wang Wufu, the smile on her face disappeared, and her whole body was trembling, and she grasped Wang Wufu's hand tightly and could not say a word. Afterwards, other actors said to Wang Wufu: "You acted too much like Mr. Zhu, which evoked the memories of Sister Kang." ”
Kang Keqing
Sister Kang also specially entrusted someone to bring a message to Wang Wufu: "As revolutionaries of the older generation, we must learn from their revolutionary spirit and inherit and carry forward their glorious revolutionary traditions." This sentence became the motto of Wang Wufu's career and made him remember it. And in the future, every time he plays Mr. Zhu, he must first consult his family.
In 1984, on the Qingming Festival, Wang Wufu and his wife went to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery to worship Mr. Zhu, and after going there, he found that Mr. Zhu's tomb did not even have a tombstone, only a simple urn, which was the only object left in the world by Mr. Zhu in his life!
Wang Wufu couldn't bear it any longer, and he "pounced" and fell to his knees, tears streaming down his face. His wife also choked up and said to him: "Even if you peel off the skin and lose the flesh, you must also play Mr. Zhu well!" ”
Wang Wufu nodded vigorously: "I will not disappoint you, let alone disappoint the people of the whole country!" ”
From then on, as long as Wang Wufu played Mr. Zhu, he would take his wife to BabaoShan to have a spiritual dialogue with Mr. Zhu.
Wang Wufu has encountered many difficulties in filming, in 2005, when filming the TV series "Eighth Route Army", it was winter, but it was summer scenes, and the director required them to include a piece of ice in their mouths before each time they spoke in order to avoid fog when the actors spoke.
In this way, countless times a day with ice, wang Wufu's periodontitis broke out, and the entire gum bed was unbearable and itchy. But he persevered and finished shooting.
Told Wang Wufu that this is not nothing, when filming "Long March", he almost took his life. When filming the scene of the snowy mountain, the crew filmed on the snowy mountain at an altitude of 4800 meters, and in order to create a realistic effect, the crew also used a blower to blow snow on the actors.
Once Wang Wufu did not stand still during the shooting, he fell to the ground and rolled into a mountain stream more than 30 meters deep, when he woke up, he found that his whole body was injured, and his two knees were swollen high...
But no matter how hard the filming is, Wang Wufu always reports good news and does not report worry, never tells his family about crying tired, and makes his family feel that he has always been happy and relaxed when filming outside.
What makes Wang Wufu most uncomfortable is that he has been filming outside for many years and has not been able to take care of his family. Wang Wufu once performed in Zhongnanhai, his father died of illness, and his mother did not tell him the news until after the performance was over, in order not to affect him, which also became a regret in his life.
Because there were still performance tasks at that time, the troupe only gave Wang Wufu a day and a half of leave to deal with his father's affairs, and he hurried back after handling them.
In 2007, when filming the 80th anniversary of the founding of the army, "Jinggangshan", Wang Wufu's mother underwent two surgeries in four and a half months, but the family also kept him in secret, relying on his wife to take care of him alone at the bedside.
Therefore, Wang Wufu once said with emotion: "When I made achievements, I most wanted to thank my family and brothers, without their support, there would be no success for me." ”
Of course, Wang Wufu himself is also very filial to his mother, and after every scene, he has to fly back to his hometown in Tianjin from the set for the first time to visit his mother. And the mother would always say hello to him in advance, and if the plane was delayed, she would be worried.
In order not to let his mother worry, Wang Wufu would always deliberately say that the time of the plane taking off was two or three hours late, and sometimes he had arrived in Tianjin, but in order not to let his mother see through, he would first walk around the neighborhood for a while, and then go home when he should be home.
On November 17, 2012, Wang Wufu was selected as one of the "Top Ten Filial Piety Stars" in the "Sixth Selection of Filial Piety Stars in Chinese Performing Arts" co-sponsored by the Chinese Ethics Society, Guangxi Satellite TV, Hubei Satellite TV, Henan Satellite TV, Shaanxi Satellite TV and Xinjiang Satellite TV.
In the past 41 years, Wang Wufu has portrayed more than 70 classic roles of Mr. Zhu and won numerous awards:
In 2006, he was nominated for Best Actor at the 8th China Changchun Film Festival for "Taihang Mountain", and in 2007, he was nominated for Best Actor at the 12th China Telecom Huabiao Awards for this film.
In 2007, he won the Outstanding Actor Award at the 26th China Television Drama Feitian Awards for his superb acting skills in the TV series "Eighth Route Army".
In 2008, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 9th China Changchun Film Festival for My Long March.
In 2008 and 2009, he won the Outstanding Actor Award of the 20th Golden Star Award for Television Dramas of the People's Liberation Army, the Outstanding Contribution Award for 20 Years of Military Theme TV Dramas, the Audience's Favorite Actor Award of the 24th China Television Golden Eagle Awards, and the 20 Years Outstanding Contribution Award issued by the China Television Artists Association in 2011 for his outstanding performance in the TV series "Jinggangshan".
Despite receiving so many awards, Wang Wufu's most important thing is the "Honorary Citizen of Yilong" awarded to him by the Yilong County Government of Sichuan Province, Zhu Laozong's hometown in 1999.
Because he has starred in Mr. Zhu, Wang Wufu also has a high popularity among the people, but he takes Mr. Zhu as an example everywhere in his life and always strictly demands himself.
Once he went out to take a taxi, the driver recognized him and said that he would not charge his car money, but Wang Wufu still insisted on giving, he said: "I am not Mr. Zhu, not to mention, if Mr. Zhu takes the car, he will also pay." ”
Wang Wufu's film and television dramas are all red main themes, and the remuneration is far from being comparable to those popular film and television dramas, and in more than a year from 2006 to 2007, he participated in the TV series "Admiral Xu Shiyou", but only tens of thousands of pieces of remuneration.
Over the years, there have also been many advertisers who have invited him to shoot advertisements and go to the cave, but he has refused, because he feels that he is a special actor who plays Mr. Zhu, and he cannot use mr. Zhu's aura to seek personal interests and discredit his old man.
Because they often filmed in the old revolutionary areas, Wang Wufu and the children there formed a deep relationship, the old areas are economically backward, the children's learning conditions are very difficult, Wang Wufu and his wife often take the initiative to buy them tables, chairs and stationery, and in the summer vacation they also took them to Beijing to see the Great Wall.
Wang Wufu, who is now over seventy years old, said that playing Zhu De is the most important and valuable thing for him, he has been busy for decades, and he will continue to be busy with it in the future, without complaint or regret.