Wu Xiubo: man, forty

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Gone through the run and return, Wu Xiubo's career and the public's cognitive curve does not completely coincide.

At the beginning of his return to the actor, he showed an unusual sense of professionalism, "starving in the industry" was his immediate desire. To sum up why Wu Xiubo's success has not come easily, the collaborators, the environment and the opportunities all have something to do with it. There are too many uncertainties in it.

The only sure thing is, at the critical moment, Wu Xiubo never stops. He overcame the difficulties of the forty year old and found a comfortable and tireless performance in the industry.

On the set, facing the camera, he was confident and full of emotion to say a line, but the moment he took it, he found the line he had said before taking a play.

He woke up in the middle of the night and found it was only a dream.

It was around 2008, and actor Wu Xiubo was repeatedly trapped by the same dream. He's been back in the cast for 6 years. It was a time when he could take a breath in an actor's line. He knows he can afford to live by acting, so he has the opportunity to re-examine his profession.

No matter how many times he has been narrated, the actor Wu Xiubo's experiences have some legendary meanings, even in the Performing Arts industry. At the age of more than 20, he indulged in the world and returned to the actor's career at the age of more than 30. He experienced the freedom of the new year, uninhibited freedom and comfort, experienced turbulent life and flustered taste, but also realized the "struggle for survival and predation, all children's dreams are shattered" cruel.

"When I go to school is hard to read the book, I became an actor after hard to sing, I sing it hard to open a restaurant, I open a restaurant at the same time hard to love, I have a child after diligently acting. "Wu Xiubo describes his life before he was 40 years old." I'm a man who lives somewhere else forever. "

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The 40 year old dream that has long plagued Wu Xiubo seems to be a metaphor for new anxieties in life. Life is long gone, and he is tired of repeating himself. To this end, he experienced a year of thinking, and run for six months, ushered in the TV series "before dawn.".

It is now widely seen as a turning point for Wu Xiubo's career as an actor. But misery did not go away because it was so popular. "Actually, from that day on, I know that my real ordeal has come. Every day is a new obstacle.". "

"Slowly, this stage is over, and when I'm acting, I suddenly think of a feeling I was when I was a child. When we were young, the sprinkler drove through the street. When we were very tired, we quickly rode to the back of the watering truck. "Like when I was a kid, I took the sprinkler, and Wu Xiubo transformed the performance into feelings and finally found a way to be comfortable and not tired in the industry.". "There's so much more than you strong, you ride a bike a sprinkler run that is really a fool, fool. "

No matter how hard facing or abstract problems, Wu Xiubo can always find the appropriate metaphor to describe. In 2012, he once had a book, all of which came from the collation of interviews in the past, and there was no lack of metaphysical content. The nickname "philosophy Wu" doesn't know when to start.

During the interview Wu Xiubo a bit like Schrodinger in the face of the experiment, you don't know if he will meet these problems in what state is to dissect the "hold" and "practice", or have a chat and lost some of their recent. This paradox exists in all the details of Wu Xiubo, but in his body self consistent. He has repeatedly referred to his favorite two books, the adventures of Tom Sawyer and the diamond sutra. A novel about life and adventure, seeking a Buddhist Sutra of inner serenity, which uses maturity to make each part of human body live in peace".

On the question and answer website, some people ask: why do so many people like Wu Xiubo? There is a short answer to the question: he has a worldly sense of success and has the ability to digest this success.

"It's like a French film.""

Even an ordinary room in a hotel can be a stage for Wu Xiubo to show his charm. Put on the clothes the stylist had prepared for him, and his hair that had been pressing in his hat was lowered. Gray bangs on the forehead slightly bent radian, grey and white linen suit all blend into one harmonious whole. Stylist can not help but praise: "like a French movie. "

Two copies are on the table waiting for Wu Xiubo vegetable dish -- one day only meal. This is actually an hour spent during the whole day's TV series. However, Wu Xiubo decided to take advantage of the time.

It was not much space, and it was more cramped because of the simultaneous arrival of several people, and Wu Xiubo was in the right place to communicate with everyone. He was warm and familiar stylist chat, sincerely praise clothing assistant first met on the coat, and don't forget to come back to ask whether the visiting journalists need to eat dinner. He is like in Jan Austin's novel the considerate Western gentleman, thoughtful and meticulous care of every person, don't let any one to become "the wallflower".

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For Wu Xiubo, walking around the full house is familiar. He is singing in a cabaret singer, the restaurant owner once, also as an actor's agent, has ten years time in a toast each other in the environment. These numerous experiences now give Wu Xiubo special charm.

The charm is also the reason for the variety show "happy comedy man" to find Wu Xiubo as the host of the first season. "Wu Xiubo" these three words appear in the program group once again and again brain storming, but seize all people's nerve at once. Director Shi Jianing will Wu Xiubo and George Clunie, Hugh Jackman and other Hollywood mature temperament actor in the same breath. He feels that since Hugh Jackman can manage the Oscar prize stage, why can't Wu Xiubo host a comedy competition program?

At the beginning of the collaboration, the two sides have been making a delicate compromise. Wu Xiubo favors philosophical and poetic expression, while the program group needs him to play the role of host string in some nodes. Shi Jianing described Wu Xiubo as a host of "rough edges". But in addition to the identity of the host, Wu Xiubo, who is on the stage, plays the part of the accompanying company. Wu Xiubo apparently gave the program a big surprise in his second identity. His comprehensive ability, conversation, culture and knowledge improved the whole program. "What makes Shi Jianing feel the most is the sincerity and respect of Wu Xiubo.". "He said," I do what I can to respect, plus a 90 degree bow. He brings the temperature to the stage. ". "

For the complicated occupation and life often make people more aware of the significance of "respect", and Wu Xiubo in the Acting Department of technical education, stage and drama creation more empathy. He was 21 years old in the drama school and later to the directional Weipei Railway Art Troupe, but soon left again. It was the 80s of the last century. He listened to Teresa Teng and Steven Liu and wrote some poems by himself. Not to play pieces, sing good he began singing in nightclubs. In his words, karaoke singing for a living, but to meet the youth singing "the desire to be concerned about". Because of singing, he quit his iron rice bowl and began to float around.

The singing experience left many traces. A few years ago, when the movie "Beijing meets Seattle" broke through 400 million of the box office, a celebration party was held at a KTV in Beijing. A media person present recorded that night the former singers song: "handsome go back", "love song of 1990", "dream". In the interview, talked about his father, Wu Xiubo without thinking cited Japanese songs "Beiguozhichun" two lyrics: my brother resembles the old father, a man to be scanty of words. He felt that these two words almost is the portrayal of his father's generation.

Life Is Elsewhere

Wu Xiubo was a big family that made many people admire. He had a brother who could read books, and his father was a diplomat. He was much more silent than he was. This means that Wu Xiubo was able to sing, dance and draw pictures of his own interests as a teenager...... These varied interests seem to put Wu Xiubo on the path of the actors. Now, however, backtracking, he joked that he was a teenager who had no dreams and did not want to be an actor.

The only time I had an affair with an actor was when he was reading English books in English class. "The English teacher said, Wu Xiubo, I don't know what to say to you, you say you look not too shabby, nor anyone else stupid, if you later became an actor, I want you to play a foreigner, how do you do? "This remark was once forgotten by Wu Xiubo and was suddenly reminded of the film" Beijing meets Seattle ". He was amazed at the magic of life: "someone told me long ago that you might need this knowledge in the future.". "

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"Beijing meets Seattle" sends 45 year old Wu Xiubo "the male deity" the position. The 2013 love movie wasn't a good idea at the beginning of the shooting, but it eventually created more than 500 million of the box office. The film was made second and became a classic of love movies - or a buzzword in the industry - a "IP"".

This, of course, is due to the charm of the role, the movie Frank handsome, warm, "to meet all women's imagination of men."". But Wu Xiubo's interpretation is obviously too idiosyncratic. His personal experiences and roles seem to form some kind of intertextuality. Like Wu Xiubo, Frank is a man who is always trapped in other parts of his life. Even the film's highly prized styling carries Wu Xiubo's personal stamp. Wu Xiubo was grey at the age of 16 and had to dye his hair for a role in many shows. And when he met Frank at the age of 45, grey hair seemed to be a bonus.

It's not easy to summarize why Wu Xiubo is successful. If from the age of 34 back to the actor's business count, to "before dawn" hit, he worked hard for 8 years. He was evaluated by the media as "a absolutely familiar face", he also jokingly said he "was the highest paid actor in the second". He will feel back to acting after four or five years in good condition, "hand total twenty book can be selected". From "an absolute familiar face" to "God", this leap is Wu Xiubo himself never imagined - partners, environment, opportunities for shared about everything. There are too many uncertainties, even if the parties can not tell clearly.

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He has been foretold by several collaborators of such success. In 2007, he and Yang Wenjun two degrees of cooperation, in the TV series "the way" played a lawyer. The lawyer on procedural justice, public anger and inverse. Although he won prominent, has become a target for all the people in the city. Yang Wenjun felt that in this drama, Wu Xiubo will be the lawyer character most incisive domestic actors, almost second to none. Then he saw in the network have occupation lawyer audience, will the TV play and starring Sakaimasa Hito drama "Legal High" (winner is justice) that Wu Xiubo and Sakaimasa Hito are compared, show this confusion and human face complex lawyer occupation.

"Can" shoot come when the rules just happened to "the drama" limited broadcast on satellite channel introduction. The play became a pity in Yang Wenjun's heart. So a few years later, when he heard that Wu Xiubo was sure in "divorce lawyer", immediately put down his hand is preparing the film, promised this drama invitation to see Wu Xiubo again lawyer. While some netizens commented on douban.com, "not" entries: "if the way" was aired on the satellite, early on the popular show wave on both sides of the Changjiang River.

Director Liu Jiang predicted Wu Xiubo's rise at the scene before dawn. He pointed to Wu Xiubo's chiseled face on the monitor and said to the photographer nearby: "look, a new idol is coming.".

This time, the prophecy did not fail.

"I'm starving in this business.". "

Yang Wenjun and Wu Xiubo met in 2004. From "is" to "the way", then to "divorce lawyer", two people in ten years has continued cooperation over 6 works.

In 2003, a good friend, Zhang Jian, when investors took a detective unit drama, "investigation into the case", Wu Xiubo play inside the hero, police thunder. When the film was taken, Wu Xiubo was in a difficult state, but the play finished, and Zhang Jian said cheerfully to him, "wait for the red."! "Wu Xiubo waited at home for two months. He didn't sell the TV show. He didn't get it.". But the play made Wu Xiubo earn 80 thousand pieces and learned how to do behind the scenes work on tv.

In the second play by Zhang Jian, "the very way", Wu Xiubo served as executive producer and producer. As the play started, the character of "No. 1" was delayed. Director Yang Wenjun was in a hurry, Zhang Jian told him, "you meet show, he's also an actor.".

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Yang Wenjun used a near long lens type description to recall that a meeting: Wu Xiubo wearing a suit, wearing windbreaker, wearing a pair of gold rimmed glasses came from the end of the corridor. When he walked up to Yang Wenjun, Yang Wenjun was almost convinced that he was the actor he was looking for.

Yang Wenjun later learned that Wu Xiubo's suit and windbreaker were borrowed from Zhang Jian. "Wu Xiubo is a very careful person, he wants to do one thing, will be prepared to achieve the acme. "Wu Xiubo gold rimmed glasses on his nose is got from Zhang Jian, Yang Wenjun think this pair of glasses and the characters of" field "in particular, and has been used in the shooting. This allowed Zhang Jian to wear only a pair of sunglasses to write during the filming of the TV play.

"Is" the shooting script, still 8 sets, producer Wu Xiubo found a typist, day and night, a sentence to make up. He gave his villain Lv Tianzhuo wrote a vicious line: "a person is nothing terrible, the most terrible thing is that you have never made any achievements in your life, a man."! "

After being famous, the line was dug out by the media and regarded as a warning statement written by Wu Xiubo to himself. However, Wu Xiubo did not think so much at that time, and even less ambitious ambition, he was full of calculations is that the actor can not eat this bowl of rice. After filming "Great Dao", many villains came to Wu Xiubo. He was also the producer of the TV play. He dropped his heart and said, "I see, I'm starving in this business.". "

Yang Wenjun found it futile to discuss Wu Xiubo's acting. His performance style can not be categorized by a series of systematic methods. The way he experiences characters is to speak, act, and live completely as a character. He once called Yang Wenjun and told him that because he was playing a villain, his night was long suffering from nightmares. "There is also a TV drama, his lover died in his arms, his hands under the shooting at the steering wheel force, hand hit fold. "

Yang Wenjun said the scene took place before the dawn of the TV series. This is a heavy play that has been awaited by the entire cast. Shooting is a small hill, very fast, not far away waiting actor heard a huge crash. On credit, he found the voice from Wu Xiubo sitting in the car. He hold the arms of his girlfriend Gu Yejia, tears is wailing: "you know my name is Liu Xinjie, you know I called 031, but you don't know my real name. "Suddenly he began to use the right hand at the core of the steering wheel by hand. One, two, three...... Under the six heavy hammer, his right hand is swollen into Steamed Buns.

Later, many people asked Wu Xiubo, lying in the name of what is called guyejia ear? "I said, what can that be called?" Wu Xiubo, Wu Xiubo. "

"All his experiences have done him.""

Unlike the glamorous characters on the screen, Yang Wenjun thinks Wu Xiubo under the screen is a bit boring. "You see, he is a vegetarian, he drinks too much and he doesn't have any special interests. "

A few years ago Wu Xiubo on show will first talk about "lonely": "if I smoke, playing cards and drinking, and about six love, do not act, too much karma. Acting must first cover yourself up. "

He was in a state like that before dawn. He always sat in the distance and ten metres away, into the group before his "eccentric" so early. In addition to acting, he does not talk to others, the next play non-stop walk. By running, walking, a month after month and year after year, Wu Xiubo in a spectacular self control their weight, more than a dozen years almost every day and fight against hunger.

Now talking about acting, Wu Xiubo often mention the key words are "obsession", "separate hearts" and "sacrifice."". He felt "before dawn" let everyone remember him, opportune, while he was playing the play, not only experience the "down alive" in the drama environment, with the development of children, from a point of view of the father abandoned the "ego".

"My acting is to put aside all the differences, to really enter the role environment, to experience the role of life, to express the role of attitude, which is the purpose of acting. "

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Cai Shangjun, who co - operated with him in the movie "sea of crowds", was impressed by his insight into the characters and the judgment of the script. "" in a corner of the huge crowds of people but ten scenes play, on the road to Cai Shangjun and Wu Xiubo met with the deputy director, to have been talking about, think of the rapid rise in the film and television actor is unlikely to take this little scenes little film. But Wu Xiubo's first words surprised Cai Shangjun. "He said he was in Shanghai for two months and watched more than 60 plays, which he liked best. His understanding of the play made Cai Shangjun feel a wordless understanding. Cai Shangjun felt that there was no need to talk any more. Half an hour later, cooperation set.

The film was set up at a small theatre next to the Chinese opera. Wu Xiubo fans at the scene holding flowers to let Cai Shangjun realize that this low-key appearance of the actor is already quite popular star. When the collaboration was over, Cai Shangjun felt that Wu Xiubo would be able to reach higher heights. "He is experienced, experienced and very sensitive in acting, and he is very low-key. It has something to do with his study of Dharma.". "Cai Shangjun said," after a long period of frustration and depression, people tend to self inflated at the time of fame and fortune. ". And Wu Xiubo's insight and introspection helped him avoid the process. "All his experiences have done him.". "

In the TV series "butterfly crossing the sea", Wu Xiubo acted as a cultural businessman, often followed by an assistant. Wu Xiubo, the producer of the play, simply came to his assistant. The first acting assistant made Wu Xiubo seem to see his twenty Lang when he was a year old. "He's 29 years old, and he's not young, but he thinks he's acting early. In the eyes of the public, my acting age may be relatively late, but for me it might be just because I didn't know what acting was when I was a kid. "

He once recalled his youth in high and vigorous spirits in the book:

"What I want to sing every night is decided by myself. What do people like to do next, but I'm sure someone will give me flowers. Someone will love me and someone will applaud me.". If I turn a somersault and someone clap underneath, I'll flip all the time. "

And over forty, Wu Xiubo wrote another text:

"I didn't expect you to love me forever, I know that I haven't really found that I can not believe I know life and death, life not only drove the machine shouting" start "and" end ", I know there is a sunny afternoon and cloudy day in the morning, I know what I have I need to spend the time. "

Photograph: Li Xiaoliang creative director: Vicson Guevara editor: Li Dian fashion editor: Wu Ruiqi text producer: what talent interview, wrote: jellyfish makeup hair: Si Jun: Yu Haonan: Wu Zhuoxin and Wang Siyu, the fashion assistant location: Trunk Studio

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