Some people can become popular all over the world with a protagonist, six-year-old children with Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West", Zhao Wei with Xiaoyanzi in "Huan Zhu Gege"...
We know that the success of a film and television work is definitely not only the credit of one or two protagonists, a good film and television is inseparable from many supporting roles. And some people may not be able to go from supporting roles to protagonists in their lifetime, and the harvest is only the audience's "familiarity" word.
However, some people have also achieved great success with supporting roles, such as Lin Jiadong, who ran the dragon set for thirty years, and finally won the film emperor this year after being nominated for the Academy Awards at the age of 50. And Lin Jiadong's acting history is a typical "film supporting role history".
This year's best actor shortlists are very strong, and the other inductees are Leung Ka Fai, Yu Wenle, Wu Zhenyu, and Ren Xianqi.
And Lin Jiadong, the appearance is not as handsome as Yu Wenle, nor as deep as Wu Zhenyu's audience, there is no Liang Jiahui world famous, but it is with diligence, all the way to the end, and finally came to today.
In 1988, at the age of 21, Lin Jiadong quit his clerical job and went through two experiences before being admitted to the 15th wireless artist training class.
However, the teacher of the training class saw him on the first day and said, You are not in good shape, and you can only succeed by working your own. ”
Indeed, his appearance has no advantage, and Lin Jiadong is well aware of this, so he is prepared from the beginning to rely on diligence and hard work to forge the acting skills to break through the world.
In the first few years of TVB, he wasn't brilliant, and mostly ran dragon suits.
Finally, in "Criminal Investigation File II", the criminal played by Lin Jiadong made the audience begin to have a certain impression of him.
In the same year, due to the successful imitation of Jacky Cheung in "Entertainment Transfer Student", TVB executives noticed that this big egg that had been staying for 7 years was scattered. Soon, under the routine of TVB commercialization, a thick male screen image was created for him.
Lin Jiadong also squeezed into the ranks of popular young students with these roles.
Yuan Chengzhi in "The Green Blood Sword";
Ding Li in "New on the Beach";
Fang Youwei of "Tea is Hometown Strong";
In 2001, he made up his mind to leave TVB to move on to the film industry.
It took him 7 years to become a popular student in TVB from dragon set, and now he has to play a small role again.
He has successively played a role in "Sentient Drinking Water" and "Love Jun Like a Dream", and later ushered in "Infernal Affairs".
Despite not having many lines, his performance is impressive!
However, the sharpness of Andy Lau, Liang Chaowei, Huang Qiusheng and Zeng Zhiwei is too strong, and Lin Jiadong really cannot stand out.
A huge turning point was his appearance in Underworld.
The Dongguan Boy he plays is no less aura than the other actors in the film, Ren Dahua, Liang Jiahui and Gu Tianle.
The egg rolls in "Banishment" are strong, fierce and fierce.
The pickpocket shock wave in "Wen Que" is introverted and deep.
Especially the criminal police officer Gao Zhiwei with multiple personalities in "Detective".
Some people said of this film: "Ten years of the galaxy, "All in the Detective"" .
Although he is still not the protagonist, he has been affirmed by the outside world and named a gold medal supporting role!
The reason why Lin Jiadong can get so many opportunities on the big screen, in addition to his own strength, is also attributed to one person, Andy Lau. After he left TVB, he met Andy Lau through a friend's introduction and became the only actor signed by the film company founded by Andy Lau at that time.
In 2004, he went north to shoot Feng Xiaogang's "No Thief in the World", and Andy Lau also brought him, which made the mainland audience have an impression of him.
Therefore, when he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and delivered his acceptance speech, he especially thanked Andy Lau.
Lin Jiadong is not the kind of actor who is the same, he can control different types of roles.
From the dragon set to the emperor of the film, Lin Jiadong used it for 30 years.
For some people, life is a 100-meter race, but for Lin Jiadong, life is a marathon, he used 30 years to reach the first end, but I believe it is definitely not the real end.
Hard work pays off!