In 1972, an 18-year-old boy directly blocked the door of Beijing Renyi and told the famous Peking Opera actor Dong Xingyi, who was later the fourth Golden Rooster Awards film emperor, that he wanted to worship him as a teacher and follow him to learn acting.
Dong Xingyao, who was "offended", was not angry, but patiently asked the young man what works he had, and the young man said to Dong Xingyi very bluntly: Yes, I have two essays.
Perhaps impressed by the courage of the young man, Dong Xingyi decided to accept him as a closed disciple, so the young man began a decade of learning the basic skills of recitation, voice, lines and so on.
And this reckless young man is Li Chengru, an old drama bone who became a household name later.
Although he learned art from famous teachers, Li Chengru's road to acting as an actor is still bumpy. In 1981, the 27-year-old Li Chengru wanted to play the role of Tang Monk in "Journey to the West", although director Yang Jie admired him, but he was more interested in Xu Shaohua to play Tang Monk, and Li Chengru could only serve as the scene reporter of the crew.
In this way, he stayed in the "Journey to the West" crew for five years, but did not play a role, at this time Li Chengru was also a little discouraged by his acting career, so he chose to go to the sea to do business.
After several ups and downs in the commercial sea, Li Chengru, whose business failed, sprouted the seed of love for performance, fortunately, this fate did not trick him, and finally he became popular with the role of Zeng Keqiang in "Six Groups of Serious Cases".
In the same year, Feng Xiaogang's new movie "Big Shot" was released, in which Li Chengru played a mental patient, only a long shot of 1 minute and 26 seconds, but he had to say 328 words, but he only passed it once.
Later, this long shot also became a classic segment of his acting career, and it established the status of his old drama bone.
If Li Chengru's life is divided into two parts, Li Chengru in the first half of his life conquered the audience with his superb acting skills, then Li Chengru in the second half of his life is countless fans with Geng Zhi's courage and strong empathy for actors.
01 Geng Zhi dared to intimidate Li Chengru
How dare Li Chengru be afraid? As long as there is an unjust thing happening, he dares to come out and tell the truth, and everything without him depends on his status as an old drama bone and the willfulness of a rich man.
When filming the TV series "Qingming on the River", Li Chengru had a rivalry with Hong Kong actor Zheng Shaoqiu, but Zheng Shaoqiu's Mandarin was not so good, the lines were not clear, and he could only use "123" instead.
Everyone present at the time understood Zheng Shaoqiu's move, but Li Chengru, who had decades of line skills, could not bear this and left on the spot.
Last year, in "Actors Please Take Place 2", Li Chengru contributed to the fire of the show with his poisonous and sharp comments.
There are only 8 S cards in total for the four directors, but Guo Jingming chose He Changxi, whose acting skills are not good because of his personal preferences, which makes other actors in the audience wonder: I don't know what is the standard for the director to issue S cards to actors?
The other three directors were not good at Guo Jingming's face on the spot, and could only "swallow their anger", but Teacher Chengru could not sit still, and directly said to his face: I don't like the various ways of turning over my hands for rain and covering my hands for clouds.
Not only questioning Guo Jingming's standards for issuing S cards, but even bluntly saying that his approach was detrimental to fairness and justice, the two people's verbal battles on the side of Er Dongsheng showed a mysterious micro-expression.
This time, even if he came to participate in the recording of "I Am a Special Voice", Teacher Chengru still adhered to the temperament of Being Honest and daring, and did not say harsh words, but he did not expect that even the "Deadpool" Yu Zheng suffered.
May be misled by the controversial evaluation of the outside world for the positive, Chengru teacher sat down to ridicule Yu Zheng, has always used only actors with traffic, which can make Yu Ma have a bitter word, plain back such a big pot.
You should know that although Yu Zheng always likes to do some bo traffic things, he is really quite good in the use of actors, and always gives newcomer actors a chance. Follow-up Yu Mom also explained the reason why people never use traffic stars, but also because it is too expensive to please, I have to say that Yu Mom is too shrewd.
In addition to Yu Zheng, the other two voice judges in the program, Wu Lei and Bian Jiang, could not escape the "claws" of Teacher Chengru, and his fluttering sentence "There are your people here" immediately made several voice judges look very different, and they could only obediently recruit from the truth.
After listening to the intricate interpersonal relationships of the other three mentors, Li Chengru only summed up one sentence: It seems that I am the fairest, and I really don't know.
To tell the truth, the concerns of The sincere Confucian teacher are not unreasonable, and the competitive variety show is most afraid of the nepotism between the tutor and the student, which may lead to the tutor's final decision being unfair.
However, many domestic competitive variety shows will inevitably make such mistakes, either the personnel review is not careful, or the program group deliberately engages in black box operations.
Many mentors, even if they are straight, also turn a deaf ear to these unspeakable "unspoken rules", only Li Chengru dares to put these black box operations directly on the surface, and his "true words" have also torn open the fig leaf of many domestic variety shows!
02 Empathy for actors
Just daring to say that this is not a big deal, because such people abound in the entertainment industry, such as Yu Zheng with a poisonous tongue, the tranquility of his true temperament, and Ye Xuan who is afraid of the world, but these are not enough to make the audience truly convinced.
And why can Li Chengru gain the love of so many audiences? In addition to his daring to say it, it is also because he has a strong empathy for actors.
There is a student named Ma Zhengyang in "I Am a Special Voice", unlike other Mengxin, Ma Zhengyang is an old man in the dubbing industry, with skills and works, but his luck is not too good.
He has competed for two roles in a row, but he regrets not being selected because of the different preferences of the mentor, and it can be seen from his two competitions that Li Chengru still appreciates him.
In the third competition, he chose the role of Ma Weiguo in the movie "Heroes of Fire", and after the audition ended, several mentors fell into a variety of entanglements. In the end, teacher Li Chengru insisted on his own opinion and chose Ma Zhengyang, from here it can be seen that Teacher Chengru still cherishes talents.
On the stage of the first performance of "Heroes of Fire", the three voice actors successfully completed their own segments, and also successfully moved the audience on the scene, but when it was the turn of the mentor to comment, the atmosphere of the scene immediately became solemn.
Xu Jiao commented that the three trainees were a bit too strong, Yu Zheng said that he was not touched by them, even if he liked Ma Zhengyang, he still felt that this clip was very poor, it was not easy for Wu Lei to explain it for the two actors, and was also questioned by Yu Zheng that it was unfair, and in such an atmosphere, Bian Jiang could only hurriedly show his score.
At this time, Teacher Li Chengru stood up and said a few fair words: Voice actors are not easy, because you have to be infected by it to have a physiological reaction, but when your physiological reaction comes, the picture has passed, it does not allow you to work hard, so you have to have some physiological reactions in advance to cater to it.
Perhaps because he has decades of experience practicing the basic skills of his lines, this makes Li Chengru well aware of how difficult it is for voice actors, so when these students who have solid basic skills are questioned, he will stand up and put himself in the shoes of these voice actors.
Dare to say dare but do not lose the heart of understanding, seemingly sharp and serious appearance is hidden under the soft heart, and this sense of contradiction also makes Teacher Chengru suddenly become cute, successfully circle countless audiences.
Compared with the mentors in today's reality shows, they are either the tutors who are blindly crazy and intimidating, but never deeply instruct the students, or the mentors who whitewash the peace and always only show people with scenes, and there are not many good mentors like Chengru teachers who are honest and do not hesitate to teach, I hope he can participate in a few more competitive variety shows and teach those variety shows to "do things"!
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