In 2017, an anti-corruption drama topped the list of TV dramas.
The petty official greed that thought that "one wall, one bed" stuffed with cash was already the climax of the TV series.
But I didn't expect that zhao Gongzi, played by Feng Lei, a professional household of "bullies", was out of the water.
After "stirring up the storm" in "The Name of the People", many years of good people have acted in vain, and they have suddenly been beaten back to "villain professional households". Even the characters who came after me were all bad guys.
"I started playing good guys, but I didn't expect a 'In the Name of the People' to make me the worst villain."
The great success of this play makes Feng Lei once again become a "fighter" among the villains.
From the thick knight in "Little Aunt Duohe" to the powerful "bully" in "The Name of the People", Feng Lei's road to art seems to be a bit bitter.
There is a bit of a taste of "ten years of good people are unknown, and the world is famous for evil people".
But in Feng Lei's acting road, it is not smooth sailing.
He has attended the Spring Festival Gala and entered the literary and art troupe, but he has temporarily left the literary and artistic circles and set up a stall.
But in the end, because Fu Biao lost his way, he returned to the big screen.
This performance is more than twenty years, but finally out of the circle as a "villain".
He also shined in several TV series, but Feng Lei was killed on TV and could not get the Feitian Award and gambled away.
The young and crazy Feng Lei began his own business career in this way, but a nobleman fished him up and returned to the show business circle.
From "evil minority" to "bully", Feng Lei's road to fame is easy but also arduous.
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Feng Lei, who grew up on the sidelines of the stage since he was a child, has long been fascinated by performances.
His parents performed on stage, and the young Feng Lei stared at two big eyes offstage.
It's just that he never thought of embarking on the road of literature and art.
But fate seemed surprisingly good for him.
In 1988, CCTV Spring Festival Gala planned to find a few young and energetic students to perform on stage.
Feng Lei stood out in Beijing City, and when his peers were still playing football and reading comics, Feng Lei was on the Spring Festival Gala.
Feng Lei, who still had no idea about acting, continued to be patronized by the goddess of luck and was specially recruited into the railway literary troupe.
While his peers were still struggling for life, Feng Lei, who was only 15 years old, had already lived a "decent life" early.
Living around a group of actors, Feng Lei mixed with them all day and gradually became interested in acting.
But it was also from this time that Feng Lei's luck began to plummet.
During the period of study in the cultural troupe, Feng Lei held several big dramas in his hands, but the dramas he filmed could not be broadcast.
At the beginning, Feng Lei, Song Dandan and Li Baotian filmed a TV series, but it could not be released due to the theme.
After that, he and Chen Baoguo filmed a TV series called "Red Dust".
In the play, Feng Lei plays a clown.
The young Feng Lei still wears shawl hair and wears it at the forefront of fashion.
Now he wanted to vilify him, and for a moment, Feng Lei couldn't accept it.
But Feng Ma, who has been a literary and art worker all her life, said to him: "You are called an actor, you are beautiful just a beautiful person, and you can only be called an actor if you act well."
It was this remark that completely awakened Feng Lei, and from this point on, the mold of a good actor was born.
But Feng Lei's determination to play ugly and his hard acting did not make this TV series successfully released.
That year, Feng Lei won the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination with the role in the play.
However, it was missed because the TV series could not be released.
All the actors involved in "Red Dust" cannot participate in the award.
This disappointed Feng Lei, believing that a bunch of good artists had been stifled.
This year, Feng Lei submitted his resignation to the Cultural and Labor Corps and turned around and began to do business.
At that time, although Feng Lei was young and arrogant, he did not know anything about business.
Feng Lei, who did not have a skill, eventually chose to sell clothes on the street, and the stall owner next to him was named Wu Xiubo, who was not yet the "scumbag" in principal Wang's mouth.
At that time, Wu Xiubo was not famous and accomplished, but his voice was big.
Rely on bargaining with big moms to dominate the street stall business.
And Feng Lei also made some money by setting up a stall, which was indeed more painful than taking the 42 yuan of the cultural and labor troupe.
Just when he was preparing to be a businessman for a long time, Fu Biao's appearance pulled him ashore.
At that time, Fu Biao entered the literary troupe because he liked acting, and as a result, he was transferred to the rap troupe, and later fought hard to return to the drama troupe.
While Doing business, Feng Lei went to the cave to act, either to shoot a play in a drama troupe or to make a cameo appearance in a TV series.
After filming, the two always love to chat, and Feng Lei, who is often favored by luck, somewhat despise Fu Biao's personality of "acting everything seriously".
But Fu Biao said, "Brother, I can come back, it took a lot of effort, and I am different from you." ”
A word awakened Feng Lei's suppressed acting dream, which may never have been broken.
It's just that the young and vigorous Feng Lei lacks a reason to start over.
Feng Lei, who was awakened by Fu Biao, decided to start taking the role seriously.
After that, Fu Biao pushed him in front of director Ye Jing and said, "This brother has good acting skills, and I think he can play the role in your play." ”
And Ye Jing just glanced at Feng Lei and said lightly, "Lose weight first." ”
In order to act, Feng Lei lost 30 pounds a month, and finally Ye Jing did not break his word and brought Feng Lei to the big screen of "Laughing Generously".
This black comedy that insinuates the strange appearance of the entertainment industry and takes the celebrities in the circle to "open shabu" not only makes Ye Jing famous, but also brings the actors in the play to the scene.
And Feng Lei is one of them, relying on the Xu Ning in the play, Feng Lei reversed his literary temperament for the first time and began to develop towards evil.
But after becoming famous, Feng Lei began to hide from Fu Biao, afraid of causing him trouble.
Whenever Fu Biao introduced him to a role, Feng Lei would push it away.
But what the two did not expect was that "Laughter and Generosity" became the only play that the two cooperated.
In 2005, Fu Biao, a northern man, died of liver cancer.
Years later, whenever Feng Lei mentioned Fu Biao, he would always cry, feeling that he was not a friend enough to shoot more dramas.
But the stubborn Feng Lei really can't change the personality of "not loving to cause trouble to friends", and his relationship with Zhang Guoli is also such an "unusual" relationship.
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When it comes to Zhang Guoli and Feng Lei, the two have known each other in the early years, but they are not easily connected.
Until many years later, when Feng Lei mentioned Zhang Guoguo again, he would politely call him Comrade Zhang Guoguo.
The relationship between the two also begins when Zhang Guoli was transferred from Sichuan to Beijing.
At that time, Zhang Guoli returned from filming a documentary in Antarctica, and after 140 days of life and death tests, he directly gave up everything he had to work in Sichuan.
In 1989, Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie registered their marriage and came to Beijing to get married.
And that order was given by Feng Lei with the help of Feng Lei, and the two knew each other from then on.
When filming "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview", there was still a lack of an actor in the play, and Zhang Guoguo's phone call was to Feng Lei.
Originally, Feng Lei did not intend to pick up, but when he heard that the filming was in Beijing, he did not delay watching the ball game by himself, so he simply responded.
After arriving at the crew, Feng Lei became a vicious boy who "everyone shouted and beat".
Compared with the childhood shadow of Teacher Feng Yuanzheng, Feng Lei's "evil less" image is too late.
Since then, the name of "evil less" has become Feng Lei's label, and the once literary xiaosheng has become a villain full of evil.
Later, in "The Fragrance of May Acacia Flowers", Zhang Guoguo glanced at Feng Lei again and invited him to play a city gangster in the play.
In the play, for money, he does not hesitate to deceive his relatives, sell national treasures, kill people and goods, and goodness has nothing to do with him.
The people who watched this play at that time were once so angry that They couldn't watch it.
But it also proves his acting skills: real cows.
Originally, Feng Lei should have taken advantage of this heat to go up to the next level, but his temper was very strange.
Although the two were good friends, Feng Lei rarely took the initiative to call Zhang Guoli.
Because in his opinion: everyone is very busy, which is to add trouble to others.
But it is undeniable that Feng Lei, with Zhang Guoguo's recommendation, has changed from a passerby in the eyes of the audience to a "bully" who grits his teeth when he mentions his name.
Since then, Feng Lei has become a villain professional.
Everyone knows that there is a villain in the circle who looks quite good, don't look at feng Lei's "fierce god evil" today.
In the past, his route was still lyrical and small, and his appearance did not lose "small fresh meat".
In the end, he became popular because of the villain, but this was obviously not Feng Lei's goal.
Feng Lei, who wants to play a good person, starred in a good person for the first time in "Little Aunt Duohe", and the reason is that it is not interesting to always play a bad person.
But the audience is trapped in the "bully" role and can't extricate themselves, always feeling that the good people in the play can do bad things in the next second.
In order to transform, Feng Lei began to take on the role of decent, and during the ten years, there was no trace of "bullies".
From the living Lei Feng Xiaoshi in "Little Aunt Duohe", to the Qiao Vice Camp in "Iron Pear Flower", and then to the kind but cowardly big brother "Li Guoli" in "Those Things of Our Family".
Feng Lei wants to reverse his image and prove that he can not only play the villain, but also play the good guy.
But a 2017 drama completely pulled him back from the image of the "right angle".
In "In the Name of the People", Feng Lei, who originally wanted to play the male number one, was directly rejected by the director:
"If you want good people, you ask the audience if they say yes."
In the end, Feng Lei failed to catch the right angle, but he did not even grab a half-righteous and half-evil character, but played Zhao Gongzi, who stood at the peak of power in the play, and became the villain boss.
But outside the play, Feng Lei is a warm-hearted "cute uncle" and often interacts with fans.
When asked: how to always play the bad guys.
Feng Lei cleverly replied: "Dirty work always has to be done by someone." ”
Perhaps the director group saw the particularity of Feng Lei, and in 2020, the sister article "Circuit Inspection Group" of "In the Name of the People" was launched.
In the play, Feng Lei plays Xiong Shaofeng, who is "bad at a glance", and the audience also bites Feng Lei this time or the bad guy route.
But interestingly, this time Feng Lei is one of the few good people in the play.
And his image adds a lot to the reversal of the TV series.
Feng Lei, 46, is still active on the big screen.
In the past two years, his drama path is not limited to the villain, but also found more possibilities.
On variety shows, acting in comedies, the road to acting has become a career that Feng Lei has pursued all his life.
But unfortunately, the 46-year-old Feng Lei is still unmarried.
Even gossip is very rare, but as a powerful actor, Feng Lei once said:
"To let the audience know about me from the play, it would be better if I could feel that I am also very good in life."
Apparently, he set his goal very clearly.
Whether it is a lyrical student in his youth, or a "bully image" who conquers the audience by acting skills.
Feng Lei's appearance explains the meaning of the actor.
On this simple but arduous road, Feng Lei never gave up.
Acting, he's professional.