In 2000, the year at the turn of the century, Wang Shuangbao, a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi, was a little depressed.
Before he was lonely and unknown, he was popular all over the country for starring in a TV series, but because the criminal he played was too realistic, everyone regarded him as a real murderer.
Walking on the street, someone behind Wang Shuangbao will point out: Wasn't Dong Lei arrested? Released so soon?
Go to the market to buy vegetables, and the aunt does not dare to sell the vegetables to him.
Take a taxi and the driver will not hesitate to refuse to take him.
It was hard to take a few advertising endorsements, the endorsement fee was not obtained, and finally it was not done,
Because the advertisement he shot was immediately strongly opposed by the audience as soon as it was released, and even some viewers said why they had to find a criminal to shoot the advertisement.
The audience rejected it, and the TV station had no choice but to withdraw the advertisement.
Wang Shuangbao cried and laughed, he didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, but in terms of performance, it was true that his role, even in the history of Chinese crime-themed film and television dramas, was also ranked first.
As soon as he was not careful, he created the classic.
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Wang Shuangbao was born on January 1, 1965, to an ordinary family in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.
Xi'an has been a brilliant spirit since ancient times, and it is a treasure of heaven and earth. Wang Shuangbao is a native of the northwest, with the arrogance that the northwestern people cannot erase, and the style of acting is atmospheric and bold, which has become the most obvious personality characteristic in his future.
Contrary to Wang Shuangbao's personality, Wang Shuangbao's parents were very conservative in their thinking, and they firmly believed that people must have a skill to support themselves, so they sent him to the Peking Opera Troupe to learn some housekeeping skills.
Entering the troupe, Wang Shuangbao's voice conditions were average, and he could only learn to be a martial artist.
Those days were very bitter for Wang Shuangbao. Unlike other children, who are accompanied by their parents, he gets up early every day like an ascetic, practicing exercises, rehearsing plays, performing, working, eating, and sleeping.
Because he was a martial artist, only a good fist and foot kung fu was the guarantee for his future appearance on the stage, so Wang Shuangbao never slackened in practicing martial arts.
Wang Shuangbao's parents were superstitious and once took him to see his face.
Because he looked like a cheekbone, cold eyes and thick eyebrows, and a wrinkle was deeply embedded in his face, it was a bad look, in the words of a fortune teller.
When he doesn't smile, Wang Shuangbao makes people afraid, but when he laughs, he is even more maddening.
As everyone knows, it is precisely because of this "evil appearance" that Wang Shuangbao has become popular in the future.
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In 1996, Wang Shuangbao was 31 years old. This older young man suddenly ushered in an important turning point in his life.
This year, a suspense documentary drama called "The Great Hunt of Xi'an" began filming in Xi'an, and Wang Shuangbao was selected to play Wang Zhixin, a thief who made leverage for murderers Guo Zhenping and Wei Zhenhai.
Although there are not many lines and few shots, Wang Shuangbao still does his best to shape the character, which makes him leave a good impression on the director and his peers.
At that time, there were not many actors with local characteristics, and Wang Shuangbao, who was experienced in the stage, began to turn to the screen to develop, which also laid the groundwork for him to become popular all over the country.
Sure enough, the following year, in 1997, Wang Shuangbao received his first starring TV series "12.1 Shooting Case".
The TV series is based on real events -
On December 1, 1997, the "Xi'an 12.1 Shooting Massacre" shocked the whole country, and a police gun lost inside the public security bureau caused murders throughout the country.
Faced with the murderers who still go unpunished, the Ministry of Public Security issued an order that the case must be solved as soon as possible, and the case was successfully solved on April 1, 1998, and the suspect Dong Li was a native of Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province, who had committed as many as 11 murders.
This Dong Li is the character prototype of the criminal "Dong Lei" played by Wang Shuangbao.
In this drama, "Dong Lei", a small county town born in Shaanxi, dropped out of school in the second year of junior high school to work in Xi'an.
Because he was discriminated against, he had the idea of revenge against society, and later introduced, he spent 500 yuan to buy a Type 64 pistol and began his crazy crime journey.
Dong Lei's killing was random, and when he was building a dam by the Yellow River in Shanxi, he was dissatisfied with the boss's behavior, and kicked the boss brothers one down the Yellow River, and one strangled and thrown into the Yellow River.
He was hired to kill in Tianjin, and after being arrested, he broke four ribs and jumped out of the car during his escort. After killing people in the south, he was relieved to drink and sleep in the small hotel next to him, watching the police investigate and handle the case.
He killed a taxi driver for training, and then found the owner of his renovation company to kill him.
His mantra is "One two is not counted as killing, five or six is nothing, ten eights are flowering, and it is better to kill him a hundred times in a row to set a world record!" ”
In the face of such a complex bandit as Dong Lei, Wang Shuangbao, who has never been a male protagonist, is very nervous, afraid that he will lift a stone and drop it on his feet.
In order to portray this role well, Wang Shuangbao chose the stupid bird to fly first, studied the script without sleeping, designed actions for himself, and practiced micro-expressions.
In the end, the kung fu did not pay off, Wang Shuangbao interpreted the cold-bloodedness, indifference and dove of an inertial murderer in a real and vivid way, and after the TV series was broadcast, this inconspicuous Xi'an Hanzi became popular overnight.
Dong Lei, this role is too realistic, and Wang Shuangbao has also become a childhood nightmare for many viewers.
The shot of Dong Lei holding a gun to the camera, looking back now, can't help but be creepy.
So far, "12.1 Shooting Case" has a rating of up to 9.3 on Douban.
And Wang Shuangbao, also because of this drama, suffered the kind of treatment we mentioned at the beginning.
The name "Dong Lei" was even used by the Xi'an people to scare children: "If you don't eat well, Dong Lei will come and arrest you!" ”
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Because of this role, Wang Shuangbao has his depression.
Although it has become famous, "Dong Lei" is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and many viewers cannot get out of the "12.1 Shooting Case", resulting in the next 4 years, Wang Shuangbao has no drama to play.
At the same time, he who can be called "the peak of his debut", also because of Dong Lei's fire, almost limited his own drama path to a very narrow range: murderer.
This greatly affected his performance future, making him labeled "bad guy professional".
What to do? Wang Shuangbao turned his heart sideways, since he couldn't play anything else, then I would continue to play the bad guy.
In 2003, director Li Yang found Wang Shuangbao and asked him to star in "Blind Well".
"Blind Well" is prepared for Wang Shuangbao by a villain named "Tang Chaoyang".
Although this Tang Chaoyang is not as vicious as Dong Lei, he is also a master who kills people without blinking. As long as he can earn money, he can do anything.
Playing Tang Chaoyang, Wang Shuangbao also made some efforts, but because of the role of "Dong Lei" before, he was at ease in "Blind Well".
At that time, Wang Baoqiang, another leading actor in the film, was still very young, and Wang Shuangbao's Tang Chaoyang was a proper acting role in the whole film.
He portrayed this criminal whose "conscience was extinguished and bad to the bone" into a three-dimensional and plump, three points into the wood,
Also because of his outstanding performance, "Blind Well" allowed Wang Shuangbao to return to the peak of his career, he not only rejuvenated his career, but also won the best actor at the 2nd Bangkok International Film Festival with Wang Baoqiang and Li Yixiang, becoming a real film emperor.
Now Wang Baoqiang, who is also a film emperor, talks about the experience of "Blind Well", and is still grateful for Wang Shuangbao's promotion and help, although the fame of the two is not at one level now, but in Wang Baoqiang's heart, Wang Shuangbao will always be that kind "brother".
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When "Blind Well" won a number of international awards such as the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, Wang Shuangbao's classic image of "villain" has become internationally renowned, and his acting skills have also been recognized by the public.
Wang Shuangbao, who has some resources, also wants to change his "bad guy" image and broaden the next drama road.
So in 2006's "Ink Attack", he played a farmer, and in the 20 episodes of the 20-episode police drama "Western Police" in 2008, he played a criminal police captain.
But leaving the soil of playing the "bad guy", Wang Shuangbao is like a soldier on the battlefield who lost his gun, it is difficult to play, and the role is unforgettable.
It was not until 2009 that Wang Shuangbao ushered in another "bad guy" image, the brother-in-law, that it changed.
The previous work made Ning Hao look at this professional villain with explosive acting skills, originally he wanted Wang Shuangbao to appear as a policeman in his New Year film "Crazy Racing", but because of Bardo's joining, Ning Hao let Wang Shuangbao make a duo with him.
Since then, the brother-in-law and Bardo have become popular characters on the Internet, and the two golden sentences in the film have frequently appeared, especially the sentence "No guts, where there is production" once became a hot meme on the Internet.
After that, Wang Shuangbao and Ba Duo became tacit partners, and the two worked together on seven or eight film and television works to enjoy the audience.
After that, Wang Shuangbao participated in "No Man's Land", and even acted in the thriller "Horror Game", "Midnight Train", and the anti-war drama "Legend of the Predator Team".
His suspense film The Lost Secret of the Manas is also scheduled to be released this year.
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After playing a bad guy for 25 years, Wang Shuangbao, now 56 years old, is more and more gentle the more he lives, and is a veritable "warm man"
After 2010, Wang Shuangbao's film and television works were significantly much less.
First, as he grew older, he deliberately reduced his working hours and spent more energy with his family.
Second, after a busy half life, Wang Shuangbao frankly said that he also wanted to take a break.
Don't look at Wang Shuangbao's fierce spirit on the screen, in life, he is actually a gentle and kind warm man.
Wang Shuangbao's wife rarely appears in public, but she is Wang Shuangbao's most important person and the person who cares the most.
The two had been colleagues in the troupe and had formed a family because of the same career experience. Even after becoming famous, Wang Shuangbao was very good to his wife, and he always carefully balanced the relationship between career and family, trying not to let his affairs affect his wife.
When it comes to his wife, Wang Shuangbao is always a little shy.
"You see that I look fierce, in fact, I am a wife who is strict, and my friends around me all know that I am afraid of my wife... In fact, I am not really afraid, we are hurting her. ”
A sentence of "We are hurting her", I don't know how many families yearn for happiness.
Recently, Wang Shuangbao also followed the trend and played live broadcast, in which his face was already covered with wrinkles, and even one of his front teeth was missing.
However, Wang Shuangbao, who was full of smiles, seemed to be very kind, probably because of the nourishment of a better life.
Thank you to this obscure villain professional for giving us so many wonderful characters.
In an interview, talking about performance, Wang Shuangbao said:
"The actors are centered on the script, see the audience as the supreme God, can serve God, and it doesn't matter if they play the front and back, mainly because they act well, they can't live up to God's expectations!"
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