Wang Xuexi is a powerful actor favored by the fifth generation of directors, and he vividly portrayed the masculinity of men or soldiers in film and television dramas such as "Yellow Land", "The Great Military Parade", "Military Secrets", "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" and other film and television dramas, especially in the movie "Mei Lanfang", which made his popularity soar.
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Wang Xuexi, born in Beijing on March 19, 1946, is a Chinese director and actor.
Wang Xuexi was born in Beijing. Since childhood, he has enjoyed singing, dancing and sports. His boyhood was spent in an atmosphere of vigorous re-education by workers, peasants, and soldiers. At the age of 14, he came to Changchun unit 7311 as a soldier and worked as a worker after returning to the city. A film by Wang Ping, a famous director of Bayi Factory, "We Are All The Eighth Route Army", took him to the road of art. Wang Xuexi was later admitted to the Air Politics Repertory Theatre. In the stage drama performance, Wang Xuexi has strong imitation ability, high understanding, and willingness to endure hardships, and the 80-year-old old man who picks up the rags in the drama "Nine·One Three" makes him stand out from the supporting roles, and then starred in the drama "Far Clouds and Near Clouds", "Triumph in the Midnight", "Fifteen Moons" and so on.
Wang Xuexi set foot in the film industry in the early 1980s, and in 1984, at the age of 38, he participated in Chen Kaige's films "Yellow Land" and "Forced Take-off". "Yellow Land" is a classic of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema, forming a new image in the style and language of the film, and director Chen Kaige and photographer Zhang Yimou have embarked on the road to fame from here. Wang Xuexi played the Eighth Route Army soldier in northern Shaanxi in "Yellow Land", Wang Xuexi was actually in contact with movies at that time, and had been acting in stage plays more before, "At that time, Chen Kaige also just graduated from film school, I remember when shooting the first shot on the mountain, I had to run up and down with my backpack, tired and disgusting, I thought that the film was really not done by people, I couldn't do it, and I would still act in stage dramas in the future." But Chen Kaige's performance dispelled Wang Xuexi's thoughts, and he also felt a little warmth, "Seeing Kaige coming from far away and shaking hands with everyone, he hugged me and said, 'Xuexi, thank you'." Wang Xuexi said that Chen Kaige "knows that it is not easy to shoot a scene, and he can complete this task and cherish it very much." ”
In 1986, Wang Xuexi and Chen Kaige cooperated again in "The Great Military Parade", playing a company commander who practiced nearly 10,000 kilometers of military posture for the National Day military parade, but gave up the opportunity to appear at the last moment. Although it has been two years, in fact, "The Great Parade" has already set a shooting plan as early as the filming of "Yellow Land". In 1996, he directed "Sunbird" and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 22nd Montreal Film Festival and the Artistic Innovation Award at the 5th University Student Film Festival. In 1998, he won the outstanding actor of the Beijing University Student Film Festival with "Red Suit". In 2000, he won the "Huabiao Award" outstanding actor and the Outstanding Actor Award of the Film Performing Arts Society for "Forever Together".
Subsequently, in "Lanling King" and "Pure Land", he served as an outstanding starring role in these films, Wang Xuexi's performance style was simple and calm, he created a group of mature, upright and reserved men, and his figure became an indispensable highlight in the film "Away from the Age of War", "Let the World Be Full of Love", "Phoenix Qin", "Cradle with Rudder" and "The Day Of Leaving Lei Feng". In 2006, he also cooperated with Yan Ni, Sha Yi and Yao Chen in the sitcom "Wulin Wai Biao", playing Guo Furong's father Guo Juxia in the play.
In 2008, Wang Xuexi and Chen Kaige cooperated again after 22 years, starring in the movie "Mei Lanfang", playing Mei Lanfang's early rival Thirteen Yan in the film, Wang Xuexi's image was simple and upright, and he always played a tough guy-type positive character, which made his role in "Mei Lanfang" Thirteen Yan particularly special, the difficult place is mainly in Peking Opera, "Peking Opera is Tong Zi Gong, I went to school to learn drama, older than the teachers, seven or eight-year-old children lie on the window to see straight music." "Thirteen Yan is a martial arts student, Wang Xuexi practiced a big knife and almost got injured, but he once again played the specialty of learning things faster, after four months of special training, the moves on the stage have plates and eyes, and the words and deeds are full of peking opera taidou style. In addition, his old Beijing dialect added a unique charm to the role of Thirteen Yan, "Filming with Chen Kaige was pleasant and painful, the first day of filming, twenty or thirty shots, it was not right when it was dawn, and the director felt that 'this is still like you'." Wang Xuexi tried various tones to find the feeling of Thirteen Yan, and finally the old Beijing cavity of "small voice talking" brought out a smell of jianghu that made Chen Kaige nod and say yes. Wang Xuexi also won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role.
From "Yellow Land" to "Mei Lanfang", the cooperation between Wang Xuexi and Chen Kaige has been lost for 22 years, in these 22 years, Wang Xuexi has not been idle, rehearsing dramas, filming movies, acting IN TV series, he feels that he has lived a very full life, but still people continue to ask him "Where are you going, why haven't you seen any movement?" In the era of a drama performed by the Air Politics Literary and Labor Troupe for a year, Wang Xuexi was very calm, and later realized that going out to take on a play was the best way to exercise his acting skills, and he also complained that he understood too late. People's fate is quite strange, many people do not know that De is "Overlord Farewell" Chen Kaige is indeed the first to find Wang Xuexi, but investors feel that Zhang Fengyi has sung and thinks that he is more suitable for acting. After "Farewell to the Overlord", Wang Xuexi also had a period of silence for more than a year, at that time he did not dare to mention this matter with Kaige, he knew that Kaige was also very embarrassed, "If I really acted in "Farewell to the Overlord" many years ago, I may not have acted well at that time. ”
In 2009, he filmed the movie "October Siege", playing businessman Li Yutang. For this film he won best actor at the 4th Asian Film Awards. On January 24, 2013, Wang Xuexi starred in the anti-war TV series "Grandpa's War of Resistance" and held its first media exploration class in Hengdian. Wang Xuexi plays a noble prince "grandpa" who has returned from studying abroad in the play. Wang Xuexi played the role of "Dr. Wu" in "Iron Man 3", playing against Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow. On July 11, Jay Chou's self-directed and self-starred movie "Rooftop Love" premiered, Wang Xuexi played the role of Lei Ge in the movie, the president of the Jiali City Residents Association, and was the leader of rent collection in the entire urban area.
In 2012, he cooperated with Chen Kaige again, starring in the movie "Search", playing Shen Liushu. In April 2015, he starred in the action movie "Equator", in which he played Song An, a high-ranking civil servant sent by the mainland. In November, he directed the film "Gentle Bullet", which was Wang Xuexi's first time as a director. In April 2016, he starred in the Republic of China youth blood action legend "Rules of the Game" directed by Gao Xixi.
In 1969, Wang Xuexi was introduced to his wife Sun Changning and established a romantic relationship. In July 1971, the two registered their marriage. After marriage in November 1973, she had a son, Wang Daqing. Later, because Sun Changning often traveled abroad on business, Wang Xuexi was busy at work, the two sides rarely contacted each other, their feelings gradually became indifferent, and the personalities of the two sides were quite different, and quarrels often occurred. The relationship between the two has broken down, and the relationship between the husband and wife has survived in name only, so they sue for divorce and divide the joint property of the husband and wife. In March 2010, Wang Xuexi filed a divorce lawsuit seeking a divorce from his wife, who had been married for 39 years, and the Xicheng Court in Beijing had formally accepted the case. On the morning of June 22, 2011, after filing a divorce lawsuit for the second time, Wang Xuexi finally reached a mediation agreement at the Xicheng Court in Beijing, and the two parties voluntarily dissolved the 40-year-old marriage relationship. The picture below shows Wang Xuexi and his son Wang Daqing
Celebrity divorce is not a rare thing, but because Wang Xueqi is over the age of flower armor, and is a late-time movie emperor, it is particularly eye-catching. Some netizens criticized him for abandoning his wife's late festival, believing that "Wang Xuexi just won the Best Actor Award of the Hong Kong Film Critics Association film emperor and the fourth Asian Film Awards with "October Siege", and the reason for the divorce is inevitably suspicious, and more netizens said that the marriage is not false in name only, and another new marriage is the driving force of this matter. There have long been rumors: Wang Xuexi and Fan Bingbing's two years of cooperation works include "October Siege", "Wheat Field", "Jin Daban", etc., almost there is a king and a fan, and there is a king. The two have cooperated many times, first husband and wife, then father and daughter, both of which are highly contagious, and the relationship between the two is not ordinary in private.
In Wang Xuexi's stage drama performance, he has strong imitation ability, high understanding, and is willing to endure hardships. Looking back at his film experience, he joined the army at the age of 14 in order to enter the Bayi Factory to act in war movies, and has been careful and low-key since the film for thirty years, and finally won the Asian Film Awards Film Emperor, the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the Best Actor Award of the Hong Kong Film Critics Association. Wang Xuexi's performance style is simple and calm, and he has created a group of mature, upright and reserved men. Wang Xuexi appeared in the TV series as a righteous soldier and Biaohan, in "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" with a bold image that impressed countless female audiences, in "Mei Lanfang" with the Peking Opera Taidou appeared in people's awe, in "Wheat Field" looming like a glimpse, these classic images are still fresh in people's memories.