On April 12, "Mahanshan" Cheng Yu recent video.
In the video, he is seen wearing a brown vest jacket, and the 64-year-old is still energetic. Although there are many wrinkles on the face, the smile is particularly cheerful. Compared with more than 10 years ago, that heroic appearance is still the same.
Many netizens commented on the following likes, saying that he is a real old drama bone, and the classics of the roles he has played are worth savoring.
That's true.
A peer once commented on him, "Watching Cheng Yu act, it feels like he is playing himself." In his own words, he just doesn't look like an actor. ”
But who would have thought that such an excellent actor, the original career ideal was to be a coachman.
His idea was so simple that he never wanted to come around the literary and art circles. But there has always been a gap between the script arranged by heaven and the future he envisions.
Cheng Yu's life is destined to deal with the screen.
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Cheng Yu was born in 1957 in Harbin, northeast China.
The cold weather and the cheerful laughter of the locals have cultivated his heroic spirit of not being afraid of heaven and the sunny and generous man's heart.
As a teenager, he dreamed of becoming a coachman.
The reason is very simple, the coachmen can live very purely every day, there is no fame and fortune, there is no fighting, just sell their strength.
But times have changed.
After graduating from junior high school, Cheng Yu went to the countryside to join the team, and in 1973, he went to the repertory theater for an interview. Originally, I just wanted to try my luck, but I didn't want to be admitted unexpectedly.
"I think you're a good fit to play the bad guy, so you might as well stay."
In this way, he embarked on the path of an actor.
At first, it was just a small fight in the drama industry, and then I gradually received an invitation to tv series. Because his appearance is angular and very distinctive, he has made many viewers remember his appearance as soon as he appears.
In 2002, Cheng Yu participated in the "Supreme Interest" small test knife, and later played "Xu Da Ma Stick" in "Lin Hai Snow Field". The characters he has created are classic and lively, and the characters in the novel are interpreted little by little.
So real, so intimate.
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"Field of Hope", "Honor", "Legion Years", "Xi Linmen", he served as a police chief, played a bully, and worked as a simple worker and peasant.
Three hundred and sixty lines, each of which tasted under its observation and performed the essence.
In 2011, Cheng Yu won the Huading Award for Best Supporting Actor for the TV series "Cliff", which was the highest praise for his artistic career and the greatest pride of his life.
What is puzzling is that although his acting skills are high, he never dares to challenge blindly, and will only choose the most emotional roles to interpret.
"I never experience life because I never act out life that I don't understand. I don't think that actors playing unfamiliar roles is to challenge themselves, you know, all roles are alive, I don't have the ability to challenge a living role, I have to find the factors related to me in that person. So as soon as I saw that it was a historical drama, I wouldn't take it, because I felt that I didn't know about those historical figures, I hadn't seen how they lived, and I didn't want to lie. ”
Because he didn't want to lie, he also set a rule for himself, that is, he didn't wear makeup when acting.
Because whether it is a wrinkle or a defect, it is a gift from God to himself. Excessive embellishment will only hinder the audience's understanding of the character, but it is counterproductive.
In 2003, Cheng Yu won the Best Actor Award at the 23rd Feitian Awards for "Field of Hope".
Holding the trophy and looking at his peers on the stage, he said the sentence firmly with his eyes, "I am very grateful to the audience, thank you for being patient enough to watch this play." I have such an ugly face and a pair of small eyes that I don't want to see myself, and you think I'm good at acting, but I don't think so. ”
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After talking about careers, let's talk about feelings.
In the days of running around in the Harbin Repertory Theatre, in addition to honing his acting skills, he also gained a pretty beauty.
The other party's name is Han Xuesong, and she is a girl with a lot of ideas. One of the two became actors and the other became directors, both of them crawled and rolled in the literary and art circles, and the true feelings never dissipated for several years.
At the age of 35, he married Han Xuesong.
After marriage, his wife gave birth to a baby son for him, and the family of three lived a relatively stable and steady life.
Over the years, although Cheng Yu has been playing continuously, he has never had a scandal, "I can't get along with the entertainment industry, acting is not like doing business requires costs." People told me to act in a play, I took a school bag to the crew, I just need to play this role, the bag is filled with money and go home, where is there any mess? ”
Think about it, if the stars can be like Cheng Lao, maintain a humble and down-to-earth heart, how can the water of the entertainment industry be so mixed?
This may be the gap between the old drama bone and the "little star".