Ma Shaohua, a 66-year-old people's artist: born in a Peking Opera family, playing a great man, eating leftovers, and taking the bus
Can you imagine an actor who played three great men, but few of whom knew his name; a man who had been poor all his life, who had never had a scandal, and who only worked hard for art?
He is Ma Shaohua, a neglected national actor.
Hearing this name, everyone must not have any impression, but when it comes to Deng Xiaoping's actor in "Deng Xiaoping at the Turning Point of History", everyone must be very familiar with it.
His ordinary is a fresh breath of the entertainment industry, and his frugality is the representative of the entertainment industry.
Just such an ordinary person who can no longer be ordinary, what is his origin?
In 1955, Ma Shaohua was born in a Peking Opera family in Guizhou, his father Ma Junhua was a descendant of the Qi sect of Peking Opera, his mother Wang Yun was engaged in Peking Opera education, His grandfather Wang Wu was the founder of stand-up comedy, and the seven sisters in the family were all well educated in tradition.
Born in such a family, he has received good performance training since he was a child, and now he has accumulated decades of accumulation, which can be described as an old predecessor artist.
But his frugality is really impressive.
Every time he has dinner with friends, the rest of the meal, seeing that there is no one to pack, he will take the initiative to pack it back and eat it with his wife, and this behavior of his has been cultivated since childhood, how much to eat, how much to eat, how much to eat, and how much to do, and the excellent quality has persisted for a lifetime.
This is not that Ma Shaohua's family is not well-off, but it is relatively rich, after all, several generations are artistic masters, from the small horse Shaohua is better economically than many children of the same age, perhaps it is such an environment, Ma Shaohua was also mischievous when he was a child, spending money indiscriminately.
His father did not coddle him, because he was too wasteful, he was beaten by his father, and from then on, in Ma Shaohua's heart, there was such a concept - extravagance and waste would be beaten.
In that era, many people ate is a problem, he realized the seriousness of the problem, others can not eat enough, and he himself wasted food, the heart is very unpleasant, since then, he has developed the habit of frugality, this insistence, is a lifetime.
At the age of 14, he became a literary and artistic soldier, but he was not only a literary and artistic soldier, shooting guns, standing guard and guarding the sentry, and physical training did not fall.
However, Ma Shaohua, who has a higher ideal for art, gave up the iron rice bowl at the moment of resuming the college entrance examination, and decided to try it, in case he was admitted, his future road would be good.
In the end, he was admitted to the theater as he wished.
However, in that era, the iron rice bowl was a serious job in the eyes of his fathers, even if the family was engaged in art, but he did not want to be so stable for a lifetime, because he wanted to go to college, and his parents had an unpleasant time.
During his college years, Ma Shaohua, who had excellent academic performance, made the most of the limelight, however, after graduating from college, reality still beat him back to the Guizhou Repertory Theatre with a mallet.
Decades of dragon set career, let him accumulate a good performance foundation, is the gold will always shine, finally, in 2001, ushered in a turning point in life.
In 2001, directed by Bao Zhifang, "Twenty Years of Wind and Rain" was selected as an actor, and the lucky Ma Shaohua was selected to play the role of Sun Yat-sen, whose superb acting skills and aura paved the way for his future interpretation.
Slowly, he became the royal actor of Sun Yat-sen, such as "Towards the Republic", "The President of the Commoners", "Xinhai Revolution" and so on.
The prosperity of the cause has also been imprinted in everyone's heart.
He not only played Sun Zhong, but also played Deng Xiaoping in "Deng Xiaoping at the Turning Point of History", and was also a favorite actor of the audience.
In the mouths of many directors and crew members, Ma Shaohua is a proper drama maniac, and his inspiration and efforts for the characters are also obvious to everyone.
Because he was too focused, when filming "Deng Xiaoping in the Turning Point of History", for more than five months, for the drama, he not only lost a lot of weight, but also fell ill nearly ten times. It is such a dedicated actor, affectionately called "drama idiot" by the crew.
In 2007, Ma Shaohua also played Chen Yi in "Blood Persistence", which can really be described as a great professional, and the interpretation of these great people is vivid and wonderful.
Ma Shaohua has a strong sense of enterprise, but in marriage and family, he is also a good husband.
And his wife for decades, love as ever, thrift is the faith of two people. Ma Shaohua once said that he was not frugal, and his 96-year-old mother had to keep an account for buying an egg.
As you can imagine, such an actor, even if he is thrifty, travels on weekdays are basically buses. He said: There are many people on the bus, there are many ordinary people, they are the source of art.
People's Artist, for the People, Ma Shaohua is one of them.