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In July 2022, when "big melons are constantly being flooded with small melons", there is a "passed-up actor" who suddenly burst out of the "layers of big melons" surrounded by others, relying on his acting skills and strength to attract everyone's attention.
The reason why he is called the "has-been actor" is because he does not speculate on scandals or appear in variety shows, and his "presence" in the entertainment industry is extremely low!
But for such a person with a very low sense of "presence", it turns out that Wang Zha is the one who makes the move. In the recent hit online drama "Outside the Court", he shared the stage with actors Luo Jin and Wan Qian, Still quite outstanding!
In addition to having a very low "presence" in the entertainment industry, this person also made zero contribution in terms of "topicity."
But everyone who knows them knows that this couple is not only talented and beautiful, but also their story, from their school uniforms to their wedding dresses, is even more romantic than the movie.
Since there is "no ambition" in terms of fame and fortune, and "no scandal" in terms of emotions, then where does this person spend his time and energy?
Later everyone discovered that he spent all his time and energy on "playing".
He is not only an actor, but also a skiing champion, a skateboarding champion, surfing, and skydiving. In addition to being good at sports, he can also draw, write, and practice calligraphy. It is said that he is also deeply interested in antiques and magic. There is research.
In this regard, he himself has a summary: Thirty-six tactics are the best way to play.
But his "playing" is not just about simple understanding, but about playing out his experience and skills in each item.
In 2022, at the age of 45, he finally calmed down and produced the work "Outside the Court".
Although this is a web drama, this person's performance in the drama is still smooth and smooth, without any trace of acting. Even the judge Lunan he played was instantly praised by netizens as soon as he appeared on the stage: Sure enough, the actor is the actor!
Although he is so low-key, he is still liked by so many people. What is his charm?
In today’s fast-paced entertainment industry, where people only wish they could not reach the top, how can he be alone and only seek his own “one-third of an acre”?
Today let us take a look at Xia Yu, a Qingliu actor in the entertainment industry, and take a look at his stories and legends.
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In 1976, Xia Yu was born in a "literary family" in Qingdao. Because it rained heavily on the day of his birth, the painter's father named him "Xia Yu". A good sign that "spring rain is as precious as oil, and summer rain flows all over the ground."
Although the name "Xia Yu" has a very auspicious meaning, his childhood was a bit "tragic". In Xia Yu's own words, that is: his parents divorced and he had to live with others.
When she was 3 years old, her parents divorced and Xia Yu followed her father.
Although he was nominally following his father, because his father was a painter and spent all day collecting paintings, he was unable to take good care of Xia Yu, so his father entrusted "this important task" to Aunt Xia Yu.
When following her aunt, although Xia Yu was not very old, she could already understand that her aunt treated her differently from her cousin.
Because of his naughty personality, Xia Yu was often beaten by her aunt. Therefore, at that time, Xia Yu often felt that her aunt was partial and lamented that she was not her aunt's biological child, so she was always beaten.
After growing up, Xia Yu realized that her aunt hated iron and was afraid that he would not learn well.
Looking back now, Xia Yu was not unjust when she was beaten.
When he was 16 years old, Xia Yu was taking the high school entrance examination. While other children were studying hard, he followed a group of children and became obsessed with skateboarding.
Huang Xiaoming, who is also an actor, also has a deep understanding of Xia Yu's skateboarding.
At that time, both of them lived in a community on West Street, South District, Qingdao. Whenever Huang Xiaoming came home from school and was rushing to do his homework, he would often see a group of children skateboarding in the yard. The leader was the one who skated the hardest. The cheerful one is Xia Yu.
Many years later, Xia Yu felt a little ashamed when he recalled this period. He said that at that time, Huang Xiaoming and I lived very close to each other. Later, Xiaoming studied well and was admitted to Qingdao No. 1 Middle School. I failed. It's good to go to Qingdao No. 12 Middle School.
Although Xia Yu's school was not as good as Huang Xiaoming's at that time, no one expected at that time that just one year later, the fate of the two would widen significantly.
In 1993, while Huang Xiaoming was studying hard in the classroom, Xia Yu received a call from her father and urgently boarded the train to Beijing.
On the phone, your father told Xia Yu that he had won an acting opportunity for you, so you came over quickly and asked Director Jiang Wen to meet him.
For Xia Yu at that time, he didn’t know who Director Jiang Wen was, and he didn’t care, but as soon as he thought about not having to sit in the classroom for class, he immediately followed his father’s advice and went to Beijing.
When Xia Yu hurriedly followed her father, she never expected that director Jiang Wen was not there. Xia Yu, who didn't know the cause and effect, could only ask her father: What is going on? Did the director ask me to come?
It turned out that his father had no plans for Xia Yu to act. He just saw the recruitment notice issued by director Jiang Wen in the newspaper, and then he thought about letting his son give it a try.
With the attitude of giving it a try, his father sent a photo of Xia Yu to the crew. Unexpectedly, Jiang Wen did not see this photo at the first time, but Jiang Wen's mother saw it immediately.
Jiang Wen's mother was stunned when she saw Xia Yu's photo. She felt that "this child looks exactly like Jiang Wen when he was a child."
So, because of what his mother said and because of this photo that looked very similar to him, Jiang Wen decided to meet this child named Xia Yu. But by chance, Xia Yu and his father came over. At that time, Jiang Wen happened to be away.
Although they didn’t meet Jiang Wen for the first time, when Jiang Wen saw Xia Yu for the second time, he immediately decided that he would give Xia Yu the leading male role in the movie.
Later, Jiang Wen said that the reason why he chose Xia Yu to play the male lead was not only because he felt that the child looked similar to his own when he was a child, but also because of Xia Yu's "simple and naughty" stupidity.
As for Xia Yu, the reason why he was able to play the "silly and scornful" role of the male lead was because he didn't know how to act at all. desired effect.
Although Xia Yu's first acting experience was full of opportunities and coincidences, it must be said that this performance completely changed Xia Yu's destiny.
Because of this movie, 17-year-old Xia Yu not only became famous overnight, but also won three Best Actors in one fell swoop, including Best Actor at the Venice International Film Festival, Best Actor at the Golden Horse Award, and Best Actor at the Singapore Film Festival. Best Actor at the International Film Festival.
The movie that changed Xia Yu's fate was "Sunny Days" directed by Jiang Wen.
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After filming the movie "Sunny Days", Xia Yu was a little confused for a while.
He said that he had won so many Best Actors at once and he still didn’t realize it.
For a boy who was only 17 years old at that time, these honors and halo were indeed a bit "heavy", but fortunately Xia Yu was still sober. He had always felt that winning these movie awards was actually related to him. It doesn't matter much, it's all the credit of the entire crew.
However, because of the opportunity of this movie, Xia Yu's life took a new direction, and he decided to study acting.
In 1995, Xia Yu was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama with the aura of "three-star actor".
But no one expected that Xia Yu would have the idea of ??dropping out of school after less than two years at the Central Theater. He said that he was under too much pressure and could not continue studying.
It turns out that Xia Yu has been regarded as "the proud son of heaven" in the eyes of everyone since he entered school. The teacher hopes that he can be a "role model", and the classmates regard him with special eyes, as if Xia Yu is "the one with three heads and six arms" "Zha", everyone wants to come and see it.
Especially when there are exams in school, the small stage of the theater will be surrounded by students "three floors inside and three floors outside". Everyone wants to see how much Xia Yu is capable of!
Faced with the disappointment of teachers and classmates, Xia Yu gradually developed a rebellious mentality. He felt that studying was quite boring, and he was even a little depressed for a while.
Fortunately, these days of depression and loss disappeared in his junior year, because Xia Yu's good luck came again.
In 1998, Xia Yu was nominated for Best Actor at the Tokyo International Film Festival for his role as Liu Jinglun in the movie "Peep Show". Public opinion".
At the same time, Xia Yu had another bigger gain this year, that is, he met an attractive girl on campus.
This girl is his wife, Yuan Quan, who has been with him ever since.
Many years later, Xia Yu recalled the first time he met his wife and was still filled with emotion. He said: Romantic, more romantic than movies.
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On the day she met Yuan Quan, Xia Yu was sweating profusely on the campus basketball court.
Just when Xia Yu was struggling to shoot, he suddenly stopped because he saw Yuan Quan who looked like lotus emerging from the clear water.
At that time, Yuan Quan had just come out of the bathhouse, holding a plastic basin in his hand and tying his wet hair with hairpins. Originally, his appearance was nothing special, but unexpectedly it hit Xia Yu's chest. Heart.
Especially when Yuan Quan approached him, the two people's eyes suddenly met. According to Xia Yu's description, the two looked at each other for almost a minute, and then Yuan Quan left, and he didn't know how to play basketball. Hit.
Later, Xia Yu began to inquire crazily and finally learned three key pieces of information.
First, Yuan Quan is one class younger than himself. He is one of the "Seven Golden Flowers" in the 96th class and is somewhat famous in the same class.
Second, Yuan Quan has an introverted personality, is very quiet, and does not like to talk.
Thirdly, although Yuan Quan does not have a boyfriend yet, there are many people who have a crush on her. It can be said that "they are love rivals everywhere."
As the saying goes, if you know your enemy and yourself, you will be victorious in every battle.
Xia Yu was not in a hurry to "take action", but tried every means to create an "accidental encounter".
According to the memories of classmates who knew about it at the time, Xia Yu often dragged her friends to have various "encounters" with Yuan Quan on campus, and then she would drag her friends together to find opportunities to invite Yuan Quan out for dinner.
But at that time, Yuan Quan was focused on his studies and refused Xia Yu's invitations eight out of ten times.
Faced with Yuan Quan's rejection, Xia Yu was not discouraged. After all, good girls are hard to chase.
After almost a year of hard work, Xia Yu finally had the opportunity to take a night tour of the Great Wall with Yuan Quan.
On the day when she decided to go to the Great Wall, Xia Yu did her homework in advance. After learning that there was rain in the weather forecast, Xia Yu was even happier.
He said that when it rains, the girl will definitely feel cold, so I will give her my clothes then. Doesn’t this make me look like a gentleman?
Sure enough, after the two arrived at the Great Wall, before they saw much of the night view, the "timely rain" came down, and the raindrops fell down.
Seeing that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, Xia Yu suggested waiting for the rain to stop before leaving. Fearing that the two of them would feel awkward staying in the car, Xia Yu played a song, which happened to be Aaron Kwok's " I'm a little bit bad tonight".
In this way, neither of them spoke, but they seemed to have said everything.
This time, after the night tour of the Great Wall, Yuan Quan became Xia Yu's girlfriend.
When they learned that Xia Yu and Yuan Quan were in love, everyone around them was envious.
One is a powerful "three-star actor", and the other is a quiet and smart "most beautiful golden flower". Together, these two people are truly a match made in heaven.
In the eyes of many people, once a man and a woman fall in love, their careers will be more or less affected, but this does not happen to Yuan Quan and Xia Yu. Instead, they go hand in hand, each one better than the other.
In 2001, Xia Yu starred in "My Brothers and Sisters", playing the shy youngest Qi Tian.
A year later, he challenged the food drama "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" and became a naughty and playful cook.
In 2003, Xia Yu's career exploded again. With the movie "A Date with the Police", he won the Best Actor at the 23rd Golden Rooster Award. It can be said that he became famous again. "Golden Rooster Movie King".
Compared with Xia Yu as the best actor, Yuan Quan, as the other half, is not inferior.
In 1999, Yuan Quan starred in her first movie "Spring Rhapsody" and directly won the China Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Later, she collaborated with Pan Yueming in "Blue Love" and was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress again.
In 2003, when Xia Yu's career took off for the second time, Yuan Quan not only won the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress with the movie "Beautiful Big Feet", but also won the Golden Phoenix Award for Chinese Film.
Seeing the two equally matched people, many people in the industry felt that Xia Yu and Yuan Quan were simply "model couples."
However, just when the two were enjoying themselves, an accident caught them off guard.
In 2003, Yuan Quan had an accident while rehearsing the drama "The Orphan of Zhao". She fell heavily from the stage and suffered multiple fractures throughout her body.
Xia Yu was worried enough when Yuan Quan was injured, but it happened to coincide with the "SARS period" in Beijing at that time, which made it even worse for caring for patients.
In order to give Yuan Quan better care, Xia Yu made a major decision. He would take Yuan Quan from Beijing to his aunt's house in Qingdao so that more people could take care of Yuan Quan.
Considering that Yuan Quan was injured and could not ride a bumpy ride, Xia Yu stuffed pillows in the car.
In the interview, Yuan Quan was very moved when she mentioned the car full of pillows. She said: I didn’t expect where he got so many pillows.
After arriving in Qingdao, Xia Yu took care of Yuan Quan even more. The two of them had a feeling of "depending on each other." Seeing the two of them at this time, people around them felt that they might have been together for the rest of their lives. They can no longer be separated.
But no one expected that just a few years later, their love would have cracks.
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In an interview in 2005, when Yuan Quan mentioned her relationship with Xia Yu, she used a word called "persistence."
In 2007, when Yuan Quan was interviewed, his attitude towards Xia Yu was more "subtle", and his eyes could not hide the sadness.
She said: "No matter what the result is, in our hearts, it has actually blossomed." The words were full of regret and reluctance.
Not only was Yuan Quan's attitude "subtle", Xia Yu's "interlude" was also shocking, because some media photographed him and Gao Yuanyuan.
The media at the time were all filled with emotion when they saw that the "golden boy" of the past was now a different person.
Fortunately, despite the separation and reunion, Xia Yu and Yuan Quan finally came together.
Just like Yuan Quan said: There are a lot of memories between us, and each has witnessed the growth of the other. If it were another person, these memories might be gone.
In 2009, Xia Yu and Yuan Quan received their certificates. They took a set of wedding photos at their alma mater, and then the two families had a meal together, completing the biggest decision in their lives.
In the eyes of outsiders, a marriage without a relationship is ultimately not satisfactory, but in the eyes of Xia Yu and Yuan Quan, being together is enough.
After getting married, the two had a daughter named "Xia Haha" and hoped that her daughter could "laugh and laugh" every day.
After becoming parents, Yuan Quan and Xia Yu are even more low-key. Unlike other celebrity couples in the entertainment industry, they basically do not interact or appear on shows. They are as quiet as "retiring".
But for Xia Yu, he has changed a lot after having his daughter "Haha".
For another example, Xia Yu seems to be becoming more and more indifferent to his career ambitions. Instead, he is more willing to grow up with his children.
He paints and writes with his daughter, and takes her to play sports. He seems to be more comfortable with these things.
If you look at Xia Yu’s updates, you will find that he shares roughly three aspects of his daily life, namely sports, painting and playing the piano.
Xia Yu has been obsessed with skateboarding since he started skateboarding at the age of 16. Whenever he sees Xia Yu skateboarding in the video, it seems that he is still the trend-chasing boy from before.
In addition to skateboarding, he also likes skiing. Because of his good skills, he also served as a commentator for ski events during the Winter Olympics. An actor became a commentator for skiing. This is simply a "century-old experience" in the entertainment industry. At first sight."
Someone once asked Xia Yu, besides skiing and skateboarding, what other sports do you like?
He said that I like all kinds of sports, including surfing, mountain climbing, and skydiving, but the one I am most proud of is playing table tennis, because the first time I went to Yuan Quan’s house, I played table tennis with him. My father-in-law plays ball, and he is very satisfied with me.
Seeing Xia Yu’s daily exercise routine, many people may think that he is a person who “cannot sit still”.
As everyone knows, when he is quiet, he is more patient than anyone else.
He likes to practice calligraphy and can write in various fonts. He said that writing can calm the mind. People nowadays are too impetuous and not many people can sit down and write quietly.
Seeing the copybooks he posted, everyone admired many of his calligraphy. They all said, "The words are like the person." When you see Xia Yu's calligraphy, you know how quiet he is inside.
Not only can he write a good calligraphy poem, Xia Yu also likes to draw.
He said that his painting was somewhat influenced by his father, but he felt that his level was average and painting was just for fun.
Perhaps Xia Yu paints as he pleases, so when you look at his paintings, you can always see a return to nature's childlike interest and innocence.
Occasionally, Xia Yu would play the piano on a whim, and she would often play to herself at home, feeling unspeakably carefree.
Looking at Xia Yu playing the guzheng and Yuan Quan playing the piano, everyone would probably envy such a "fairy couple".
Xia Yu once said that she and Yuan Quan are the same type of people. They only regard "acting" as a job and have never defined themselves as "stars". Therefore, apart from the need to show their faces for work, they do not Time is about living your own life.
It is precisely because of this calmness and calmness in their hearts that the number of works produced by the couple has never been large, but every time they come out, they will always impress the audience.
Just like some netizens said, although these two people usually keep quiet, if they make a work, they will most likely win an award.
Seeing Xia Yu and Yuan Quan like this, I suddenly thought of a passage by the writer Yi Shu.
"As a human being, you should be quiet in everything you do. Come quietly, go quietly, work quietly, harvest quietly, and avoid making noise."
Maybe they are not like other celebrities. It usually shines brightly, but you must know that in this impetuous and noisy era, it is not easy to protect the pure land in your heart.
I hope you can live a simple and carefree life like them.