There is a saying in the "clown" circle in Hong Kong: "Men have eight or two gold, and women have Yu Mulian." ”
Compared with the eight or two gold, the name of Yu Mulian may not be familiar to everyone, but she is actually the gold medal supporting role of TVB's royal "ugly girl", who has been in the industry for decades, participated in nearly two hundred film and television dramas, and is known as the royal "flower queen" of Zhou Xingchi.
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Usually, women want to stand firm and popular in the show business world, and it is difficult not to have a beautiful face, but Yu Mulian is just the opposite. She gives the audience the impression of an "ugly woman", her wide face, collapsed nose, wide mouth, and jagged teeth, even in the vast sea of people is not outstanding.
However, in this way, his unassuming appearance has become Yu Mulian's advantage. And the story of this has to start from when she was young.
In the 1940s, Yu Mulian was born in Guangzhou, her parents divorced when she was young, and then her father remarried and had children, which made Yu Mulian a superfluous presence in the eyes of her father, and she had to live with her mother in Hong Kong.
However, life with my mother was not good either. Yu Mulian's mother, Deng Meimei, was a second-tier star in Cantonese films, bent on joining the upper class, and did not have much warmth for her daughter, who was only 5 years old at the time.
Therefore, the little Yu Mulian was often summoned by her mother as a maid, and when she encountered her mother in a bad mood, she had to be a punching bag. When her mother was filming on the set, Yu Mulian also had to follow behind and serve carefully.
At the age of 10, her mother thought that Yu Mulian could make films to earn money to subsidize her life, so at the age when she should have gone to school, Yu Mulian officially took over the first movie in her life, "Linlao into the Flowers", playing the daughter of the male protagonist.
Since then, Yu Mulian has begun to grope and roll in the film and television circle. At first, she only starred in dramas after working part-time, and later heard that TVB recruited actors, and she was selected by birth as a child star, but she was only part-time, and she had to look around for work.
In order to make a living, Yu Mulian won the opportunity to appear on a number of TV shows, in addition to TVB, she also worked in TV companies such as Li's and Jiayi, which also got a flower name of "Wutai Lotus".
However, what really made Yu Mulian find her acting direction was the TVB situation drama (which is usually called a sitcom) that began broadcasting in 1973 and "Seventy-Three" directed by Ye Jiexin.
In order to play this role well, Yu Mulian also went to the market to experience the life of a fishmonger, and when the series was broadcast, Yu Mulian, who was presented in front of the audience, was covered with fishy fish scales, and played the ugly and despicable low-level citizens, with the intention of shaping this role, Yu Mulian also successfully established the image of "ugly girl" in the minds of the audience.
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Since then, Yu Mulian has officially signed a contract with TVB, and her performance opportunities have gradually increased, but the roles she has been invited to play are almost all servants, cleaning aunts, etc., not only for her to perform the vulgarity and shallowness of the low-level small people, but also to try her best to play ugly on this basis, and Yu Mulian has acted diligently every time and has not complained.
But what woman under the heavens does not love beauty? For herself to play a clown in the film and television circle, Yu Mulian's heart was also shaken at first, she said: "Of course, when I was young, I also wanted to play a beautiful woman, but the longer I entered the industry, the more I found that there were so many beautiful women, but every year I would be replaced, I just want to keep a job to do well, it is better to play a clown wholeheartedly." ”
In this way, Yu Mulian began her acting career mainly playing clowns, and with her honed acting skills and dedicated attitude, she was able to leave traces in many classic Hong Kong films by playing ugly.
For example, in the 83rd edition of "Divine Eagle Hero", she played the grandmother-in-law and co-starred with Andy Lau, the King of Heaven; in the 97th edition of "Tianlong Babu", she played Rui's mother-in-law, which is extremely impressive.
In Zhou Xingchi's "Trick Expert", Yu Mulian's Kuo Tai scratched her head and made a posture, ugly, and said, "There is a request, can you give me a kiss?" It is even more hilarious for the audience, becoming the "Star Lord's Royal Flower Queen" in the minds of fans.
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Unfortunately, although Yu Mulian has left many classic and funny roles with many years of hard work in the film and television circle, her love path is a little lonely.
Perhaps because her parents divorced since childhood and did not feel the warmth of home, Yu Mulian has always resisted marriage and love, and is not interested in starting a family. Although there was no shortage of suitors when she was young, and even some people delivered courtship letters directly to her home, Yu Mulian did not feel romantic at all, but felt afraid.
In this regard, she once admitted frankly in an interview: "I did not give people a chance, nor did I give myself a chance. "I'm afraid to be a hurt woman."
Over the years, seeing that the love path of her friends has not been smooth, it has made her feel even more: "I am free and accustomed to being alone, can I find an old uncle to marry?" There will be no feelings. ”
For Yu Mulian, who looks down on her emotional life in this way, many people are curious about whether she will regret not establishing a family in her old age? But Yu Mulian just smiled and replied: "Fortunately, many friends care about me, and I can live without love." ”
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After nearly thirty years of conscientious filming for the owner, in 2005, Yu Mulian received a service payment of 280,000 Hong Kong dollars, left TVB, and gradually faded out of the film and television circle.
She has never had a family in her life, no partner and children, but in Yu Mulian's view, retirement life is not empty, and she has more worthwhile things to do, that is, to do charity. So she began to run between nursing homes and welfare homes, often volunteering for free.
Later, once, she heard that children in the mountains of Guizhou had to walk a long way over the mountains every day in order to go to school, and the classroom was also "dark, stuffy, hot and small".
So, from her small pension, she donated 80,000 yuan to build a Hope Primary School, called "Yu Mulian Hope Primary School", which provided more than 300 children from poor families with the opportunity to go to school.
Yu Mulian had been doing this silently and had never mentioned it to anyone else. It was not until two years after the school was built that the old owner TVB learned of this matter and invited her to be a guest of the humanistic tourism program "Departure to the World" and went to Guizhou to visit the children who were assisted.
Seeing the primary school she donated to build was welcomed by the children, Yu Mulian was greatly moved, and she asked happily in front of the camera: "My school, is it not beautiful?" "The relief is beyond words.
After the program was broadcast, the praise of the four parties poured out to Yu Mulian, but she seemed very humble: "It is not great to say, but to pay your own sincerity!" When she was a child, she did not read much, which has always made her mind, and this hope primary school not only illuminates the future of the children, but also fulfills the shortcomings in Yu Mulian's heart.
From the age of thirty-three to play the "fish girl", the road of licorice actors, Yu Mulian has been gone for thirty years. The clown she played was deeply rooted in people's hearts, and there was even a detrimental sentence in the anecdotes that "you are really ugly and yu Mulian".
But Yu Mulian is respected, not only because she is a "gold medal green leaf" and "TVB royal ugly girl" who has been working hard for decades and sacrificed for the drama regardless of her image, but also because she has compassion and love, even if she is not rich, she is willing to do her best to help others.
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