The old version of "Water Margin" can be said to have left a very deep impression on thousands of audiences, and the character modeling in order to match the right actors, the director team can be described as a lot of effort, today we come to talk about the actor Zhou Yemang who played the 800,000 forbidden army god leader Lin Chong.
In the story of "Water Margin", Lin Chong is an alternative among the many good men in Liangshan, and his mental journey and transformation of being forced to Liangshan are also the most colorful part of "Water Margin", so Lin Chong's casting has also attracted much attention.
In the end, the director team decided to let the actor Zhou Yemang play, who graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy. Zhou Yemang's version of Lin Chong did not disappoint the audience, and his interpretation of Lin Chong was polite and kind, but he was somewhat content with stability and perfection, and won the recognition of many people.
At that time, Lin Chong's casting was quite controversial, and even Zhou Yemang himself was very surprised, because most of his previous roles were Gongzi Brother or small capitalists, and he admitted that he felt that he was not very compatible with any role in "Water Margin". Zhou Yemang recalled that when the crew told him to try makeup, he also thought that the role he was going to try was Ximen Qing. ”
Zhou Yemang was born in 1956, in other words, when he played Lin Chong, he was actually around 40 years old. There is a certain gap with Lin Chong's age of about 35 years old in the original work.
However, Zhou Yemang, with his unique elegant temperament, played an impressive Lin Chong, showing lin chong's stoic and introverted side, and also showing the unique wisdom and wisdom of Lin Chong. In fact, in the original work, the image created by Lin Chong is still a military general, and there is not much embodiment of his elegant side, so to speak, Zhou Yemang sublimated this point.
Zhou Yemang's initial career in art was not smooth sailing, perhaps you can't imagine that the people who initially blocked him were his parents, so Zhou Yemang lost his hand with the stage he loved for the first time as a worker, and he would not give up lightly when he had a dream, so Zhou Yemang secretly entered the Shanghai Theater Academy behind his family's back, and since then he has done his favorite job.
In 1982, he graduated from the Acting Department of Shanghai Theater Academy and joined the Shanghai People's Art Theatre. In 1985, he voiced the role of Yang Qilang in the 18th anniversary TVB drama "Yang Jia Jiang" directed by Li Tiansheng. In 1986, he participated in the costume myth suspense drama "Xin Fourteen Niang" directed by Xie Jin and played Feng Ziping and began to debut.
In 1990, he first starred in the drama film "Boudoir Love" directed by Zhang Nunxin, and played Chen Youhuang; then he co-starred in the "Aman" series of film works directed by Zhang Gang with Zhang Zizhong and Du Qingzhi, and played Aman.
Subsequently, Zhou Yemang successively starred in a number of movies and TV series. Until 1996, he starred in the CCTV large-scale TV drama "Water Margin", thus laying a deep impression in the minds of the audience and becoming the most classic role in his acting career.
Later, Zhou Yemang starred in many popular dramas, playing the role of Chen Kevin in the love drama "Men Are Not Difficult to Marry". There is also Lin Xiangrong in the historical drama "The Big DyeIng Room" that he participated in with Hou Yong and Luo Gang, and with his superb acting skills, he interpreted this very character-like Lin Xiangrong very well and achieved great success.
And he also played the role of Cumminson in the later "Long Hate Song", and his lazy and decadent performance in the play portrayed the psychology of a very emotional, but also very helpless marginal aristocrat. He also won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Zorin Dramatic Arts Award for his wonderful interpretation of this role.
Zhou Yemang is not a single actor, his career has touched many fields, not only acting, but also in dubbing and hosting, he is also absolutely no1, absolutely worthy of the title of showbiz miscellaneous. Do you still remember dad's voice in Growing Pains? That is Zhou Ye Mang's voice, very penetrating, and the subsequent 007 series Bond's voice is even more unique to Zhou Ye Mang.
Zhou Ye Mang is very dedicated, he is a well-known desperate Sanlang in the circle, has never been slightly injured in the line of fire, in a filming Zhou Ye Mang suddenly felt unwell, but in order not to delay the shooting of the work, he gritted his teeth and persevered, after filming before going to the hospital for medical treatment.
Zhou Yemang, who is very successful in his career, is also very enviable in terms of family, and Zhou Yemang once had two marriages. The ex-wife is Xi Meijuan, a national first-class actor, a year older than him, and the two have a son named Xi Nan, and this relationship lasted for ten years and ended.
Happy families are the same, unhappy families have their own misfortunes. Zhou Yemang's marriage to Xi Meijuan lasted only a few short years, and the reasons may be manifold, but in my opinion, there are two factors that cannot be ignored:
On the one hand, Xi Meijuan put all her mind into nurturing the next generation, while ignoring the care for her husband. This is actually not to blame Xi Meijuan. It is reported that not long after the marriage, Xi Meijuan became pregnant, but Xi Meijuan, who was a mother for the first time, neglected to protect the fetus, and a miscarriage occurred a month later.
On the other hand, perhaps Zhou Ye mang felt that Xi Meijuan was too famous, and the pressure with her was too great, which led to the end of the marriage. Zhou Yemang is a late-blooming actor, almost no one remembers him, and with the birth of his son, the marriage between the two has come to an end.
Soon after the divorce, after a friend introduced Zhou Yemang to Wang Zhixia, she is also an actor, Zhou Yemang's current wife can also be regarded as a Qiong girl. He has starred in Qiong Yao's drama "Qingqing Riverside Grass", "Crescent Moon Gege", "Xueke", etc. many times, and in the family emotional drama "Family Property", he played Jia Nailiang's aunt and uncle, and his performance skills and professional quality of the actors were praised by the whole crew. Although the two gather less and leave more, they live a sweet life after marriage and are a model couple envied by insiders.
Zhou Yemang and his wife Wang Zhixia are both famous stars in the circle, and we have been touched by our years of artistic experience and stage image. Wang Zhixia was not inferior to her husband at all. In 1982, he co-produced the first film "Chunlan Qiuju" with Guo Baochang. Since then, the film has continuously cooperated with a number of big-name directors, including Zhang Guoguo, Pang Hao, Ding Yinnan, and Wu Yigong. The ones that impressed us the most were "Revenge Girl", "Moon Shanghai", "A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes" and so on.
Wang Zhixia's appearance meets the aesthetic standards of that era, fair skin, angular facial features, a bit of European and American style, the face is full of heroism, she and Chen Chong, Liu Xiaoqing and other actors belong to an era, but in the 80s, Wang Zhixia did not become a big star, maybe Chen Chong, Li Xiuming's looks are more popular.
Wang Zhixia and Zhou Yemang both belong to the showbiz circle of powerful old actors, the two lived a very plain life after marriage, but very happy, a married Wang Zhixia married to the second marriage of Zhou Ye mang, the two combined relatively late, many people are curious, the two have no children after marriage, Xiaobian searched on the Internet, and did not find any signs of the two having children, may have met each other when they have passed the best reproductive age, so there are no children, but because of the fate, it is also good to have an old companion.
Nowadays, although Zhou Yemang has gradually faded out of the audience's sight, he has not left, but is still active on the stage of the drama, perhaps he has never been popular, but it is also a success to have a role that has always been talked about by the audience. Finally, I also wish Zhou Yemang all the best in the future.