On April 18, Tam uploaded a clip of "The Long Night" on social media for the first time. In the video, he plays and sings himself wearing a plaid shirt and holding a guitar, and his voice is also a little vicissitudes. On April 25, Tan Yaowen sent another selfie with a friend, although the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes were obvious, but the status was still online.
For the name Tan Yaowen, many post-80s may not feel strange. As a "royal villain", many people have watched his plays, but they do not know that he is actually a singer.
At the age of 19, Tan Yaowen made his debut for participating in singing competitions and became a disciple of Mei Yanfang. Unfortunately, he released five records in a row, and he did not catch fire.
In order to make a living, he left the record company and signed a tvb, turned to ATV, and ran a dragon set for several years before winning awards by relying on the villain role, and then went to the mainland to develop, and his career finally improved.
After a brief explosion of popularity, he once again fell into a situation of obscurity and was suppressed by his peers. In his emotional life, he and his first girlfriend gathered less and more for the sake of their careers, and it was difficult to continue the frontier.
Although he has experienced the hardships of life, Tan Yaowen has seen it very openly: "Life has come to different stages, and you must know how to give up." I've learned not to hold things too tightly and not to cling to them as much as I used to. ”
Tam was born in Hong Kong in 1969. Suffering from family hereditary adensia, in order to make a living, he went to become a martial artist at the age of 19, once performed acrobatics in the show, and also danced with Jacky Cheung.
In Hong Kong, martial artists specialize in practicing martial arts, playing roles such as thugs and minions in movies. In the movie, it is often necessary to fight with real guns and crawl and roll, although this profession is very hard, but there is no shortage of superstars such as Hong Jinbao and Jackie Chan. Tan Yaowen sometimes wonders if he will be next.
Fortunately, in the same year, Tam Yiu-man signed up for the 7th Hong Kong Rookie Singing Competition with the mentality of trying it out. As Hong Kong's former "star-making factory", the popularity of the competition is no less than today's talent shows such as "Children of Tomorrow" and "China's New Rap".
Tan Yaowen may not have thought that with the song "Refuse to Play with Fire" by Zhang Guorong, he actually won the championship, and even defeated the third runner-up of the year and now The Queen of Heaven Zheng Xiuwen, whose strength is evident.
Not only that, Tan Yaowen was also a proper little fresh meat when he was young, and his voice and appearance were exactly like Zhang Guorong, so he was also placed on the high hope of "Zhang Guorong's successor".
The judge of the rookie singing competition that year was Mei Yanfang, who also attached great importance to Tan Yaowen, and even directly accepted him as his second disciple, and since then Tan Yaowen has become a disciple of Grasshopper.
And How much Mei Yanfang "loved" this little apprentice back then. Every time I fall in love with other men, I always take Tan Yaowen with me. When Tan Yaowen recalled this period, he also said: At that time, he was the light bulb of the teacher, and he had done it twice, both of them were the same person, very tall and handsome, and the person was also very good.
Choosing a good master is equivalent to more than half of success, just as Dai Sicong is to Chen Xiaodong. Unfortunately, Mei Yanfang adopted a "stocking policy" for Tan Yaowen's apprentice, and to some extent, although she respected Tan Yaowen, it also made him sing a single style and a mediocre word-of-mouth response.
In 1988, immediately after winning the award, the company made his first album for him, but it did not make a splash. Then four more were introduced, but one still failed to catch fire. Many years later, Mei Yanfang talked about this past and frankly said that among all her disciples, the person she was most sorry for was Tan Yaowen.
The young and vigorous Tan Yaowen thought that he could make a splash, but unexpectedly he ushered in the "head of the stick" at the beginning, and just expired with the record company. Records did not sell well, he did not make any money, discouraged, he even came up with the idea of quitting the entertainment industry and finding another way out.
Later, Tan Yaowen signed a contract with TVB to transfer to theatrical development. Participated in dramas such as "Dao Ma Dan" and "No. 1 Imperial Court", but unfortunately the drama red people are not popular. With Ouyang Zhenhua and other old predecessors in front, who will pay attention to an obscure supporting role?
Tan Yaowen, who ran the dragon set on TVB for five years, finally met his own Bole Chen Jiashang in 1998, and Chen Jiashang's "Truant Weilong" and "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er" are classics in Hong Kong films. Tam was also invited to participate in the villain "PushPin Hua" in his film "Beast Cop".
I have to say that Tan Yaowen is a strong faction, and he has played the role's viciousness and neuroticism very well. With this role, he overpowered Zeng Zhiwei, Zhang Jiahui, Fang Zhongxin and others to win the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards and the 4th China Hong Kong Film Golden Bauhinia Awards for Best Supporting Actor.
In 1999, Tam Yaowen played the unscrupulous villain Wise Jie in the ATV TV series "Across the Sea". At that time, this drama series made ATV's ratings exceed wireless, and the role of "Wise Jie" was even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, when Tan Yaowen often encountered citizens who scolded him for "throwing the street" when he walked on the street.
Two years later, Tan Yao won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor again with his outstanding performance in the movie "Pupil of the Beast" starring Gu Tianle and Wu Yanzu.
Tan Yaowen, who had been unsuccessful after winning the Film Emperor twice, was finally going to survive, who knew if this was the case.
He is still not recognized by the company's top management. Tan Yaowen said with a bitter smile: "Once after winning the award, when filming a play, the company's senior management came to visit the class, and it was very happy at that time, but unfortunately the senior management did not come to visit himself, but just by the way, people came to visit an idol protagonist in that play." ”
At this time, he suddenly realized: It turned out that the handsome man must be adjusted as the protagonist, and I understood that I was not handsome enough.
Weighing it up, Tan Yaowen felt that it was time to leave, and at this time, just when a mainland company extended an olive branch to him, he came to the mainland.
Tam Yiu-man, who developed in the mainland, has finally received attention for his acting skills, and his name can be placed in the first row of the bulletin board. In the words of Tan Yaowen: "Really very happy, the first box says Tan Yaowen, when eating, everyone always calls me "Tan Brother"" ".
In 2002, he played the role of Shen Shijun in "Half Life", and circled a group of fans in the mainland, and the development of his career can be described as booming.
However, just when everyone thought that Tan Yaowen had finally taken off and become the next superstar like Zhang Guorong, history repeated itself. During the period, he took over many dramas, but the ratings were mediocre.
In 2005, Hu Ge became popular with "The Legend of the Paladin Sword". In fact, the male protagonist of that year was looking for Tan Yaowen, and the director also said that Hu Ge's ancient costume was not very good. But Hu Ge finally impressed the crew with his own efforts and won the role of "Li Xiaoyao"; while Tan Yaowen could only take a back seat and mix a supporting role in the play.
After that, Tam Yiu-man returned to the Hong Kong film industry to sign the Emperor and began to run back and forth between Hong Kong and the mainland. He said: "I tried to schedule 30 episodes in two months for a drama, sometimes a dozen scenes a day. I was very demanding of myself, so I made myself very hard. ”
Although the money is a lot of money, but there is no masterpiece that can be handed out. The performance of bad dramas such as "Every Day has Joy" has made him the title of the king of thunder drama. In the face of reporters' doubts, he said: In order to live, there are still some things to overcome.
In 2015, with the film "Let's Stop War", Tan Yaowen won two awards at the New York Film Festival "Best Actor" and "Best Supporting Actor" at the San Diego Independent Film Festival.
In 2016, Tan Yaowen participated in "Ip Man 3", playing a supporting role in the street bully "Ma Whale Sheng", and had a fight scene with the "king of boxing" Tyson and Zhen Zidan. Speaking of the scene where he was beaten by his idol Tyson, he said that he felt like Tyson was like an oncoming sports car, and even wanted to use the US dollar to bribe people to help as a stand-in, but no one really wanted to do it, and he could only be silently frightened.
When asked if he was unbalanced when he was already a movie emperor more than a decade ago, and he is still playing a supporting role, he said: "Before, I would feel that there were so few scenes or not to act, but now I don't think so, because you are just an actor, you should not, when people invite you, it is already a kind of respect." ”
Even when filming the supporting roles, he still has high requirements for himself: "Even if you have to get up at 3 or 4 a.m., it's no problem." However, when the scene is finished, the whole person will fall into a state of disorientation. ”
Different from the hot blood when filming, Tan Yaowen in private is low-key, never hyped, and is a good man who loves his family and his wife.
The only love affair in the circle was in 1995 with actor Chen Zhijing because of the drama. It was just that at that time, the two people's star luck was flat, and Chen Zhijing, who was a bit "superstitious", also specifically looked for Mr. to point out.
Who knew that after reading the "data" of the two, He asserted that the two could not be together for three years. So the two announced that the relationship was over and decided to continue the frontier after three years. The evil thing is that after the separation, Tan Yaowen really caught fire with movies such as "Beast Xing Police" and "Across the Sea". Unfortunately, although the career has improved, the two are not in touch because of the gathering of less and more feelings, and Chen even publicly stated that there is not even a passion for kissing between the two.
Tan Yaowen also tearfully talked about the breakup experience with Chen Zhijing: For the first time, I knew what it meant to have a fate.
It wasn't until 2003 that he met his current wife, Fiona, an outsider. The two have been married for more than ten years, Tam Yaowen has never made a scandal, and can be said to be the first actor in Hong Kong to have no scandal.
Speaking of his wife Fiona, he praised his wife for being great: "I was filming outside all day, in order to take care of the family, before opening a beauty company, she closed her own company, full-time as a housewife, taking care of children, every day is very hard. ”
The 51-year-old Tan Yaowen is still active in the film industry, using his acting skills to contribute one masterpiece after another to the audience, and he no longer pays attention to the supporting roles and protagonists, and every time he shoots, he requires himself to do his best.
He said: "Strong and indomitable is also the spirit of Anita (Mei Yanfang), to be enthusiastic about the work, meticulous, every time there is a performance I will carefully prepare very delicately." From her I learned perseverance, motivation and persistence. ”
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