The bookstore porter wants to be an actor.
In fact, Wang Kai has been interested in acting since he was a child. At the peak of his high school study, he read Thunderstorm in the textbook, so he organized his classmates to shoot a drama "Doing Nothing". While others were brushing the questions, he rolled up his sleeves to play Zhou Ping. "At that time, my heart was bigger than anyone else, and my desire for expression was particularly strong."
Although he had an "actor dream", he was not born in an artist's family, and he was not well guided and trained. On the contrary, no one has ever been optimistic about his acting dream, including his parents.
Wang Kai's father is a sports fan and wants his son to fulfill his unfinished wish, so Wang Kai started playing football at the age of 5. After a number of diving champions came out in his hometown of Hubei, his father planned to let his son learn diving. Mother wants him to study hard and go to college. Wang Kai wants to learn acting. He wants to take the Chinese Opera exam like Zhao Wei! "I want to take an art school, but my mother doesn't agree. As it happens, when the pressure of the college entrance examination for senior three is high, Xinhua Bookstore has changed its boss, which can benefit its internal staff. The work of Xinhua Bookstore is a good iron rice bowl. When my mother gave me this job, I went straight to work. "
However, Wang Kai is not happy. Her job is stable but boring. Girls are responsible for standing at the counter and boys are responsible for moving books. It's like seeing life in 20 years at a glance. And the actor's dream, which is already very ethereal, seems even more out of reach. But the boring job gave him a lot of private space, so he didn't have to be controlled by his parents at school. During that time, Wang Kai participated in many TV activities. Finally, one day, he had the opportunity to shoot an advertisement in Beijing. At that time, the advertising director saw that Wang Kai had a good image, so he asked him whether he was in Chinese opera or Nortel. It was the director's careless words that inspired everyone's confidence in Wang Kai's life.
Finally, without telling his parents, he secretly quit his job in Xinhua Bookstore and went to Beijing to study acting alone. At that time, the first school he knew was the Beijing Film Academy, because Princess Zhu Huan was popular all over the country, and he knew there was this school in Zhao Wei. "Never Satisfied" ignited Lu Yi and let him know about Shanghai Theatre Academy. "Carry Love to the End" let Li know about the Central Academy of Drama. "Although these were far away for me at that time, I wouldn't know until I tried."
Later, he found that Chinese opera rented a place in Beijing Institute of Education and held a training course for four months. By the way, the tuition fee is more than 10 thousand, and the class has been started for two months What are we doing? No money! Why don't you go home in disgrace? Definitely not. But they said, you can come if you want, and you can't pay less for more than 10 thousand tuition. At that time, it was 2000 yuan, and more than 10 thousand yuan was not a small sum. Wang Kai can only call his parents. Parents also figured it out, at least the children still want to learn something, instead of quitting their jobs and fooling around outside. To Wang Kai's surprise, at the critical moment, his father, who had always opposed his dream of becoming an actor, extended a helping hand.
Wang Kai has benefited a lot from this short two-month training. He loves and works hard. In 2003, he was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, where he was a classmate with Hans Zhang and Mary.
Since then, Wang Kai has been full of ambition. "When I was in college, I felt that my appearance was not bad, my professionalism was excellent, and I was quite confident." Sure enough, just after graduation, I was signed by one of the most prestigious brokerage companies in China at that time. The envy of classmates and the relief of family members, Wang Kai even happily planned what role he could shoot, what kind of play he would play and what kind of road he would take, as if his popularity was just overnight.
In 2006, at the company's 12 anniversary celebration, the boss introduced seven newcomers, including Zhao, Tsui Hark and Zhang Jizhong, and praised them repeatedly on the stage, but the cruelty in reality made people shine at the moment, but after stepping down, it was basically impossible to shoot for nearly a year. The company that signed the contract is very famous, and artists can attend large and small parties and walk all kinds of red carpets almost every day. However, Wang Kai has to pay for all the expensive clothes and cosmetics. "Walking on the red carpet with a smile, but on second thought, the pocket is cleaner than the face. It's the feeling of being fat in the face, which seems to be getting farther and farther away from the essence that I want to be an actor. This should be the lowest point in my life. " Wang Kai said that he was depressed during that time. He used to play games day and night and doubt life.
Playing "sissy" has become "black history"
Desperate, in 2007, Wang Kai played a small role in the TV series "Tiger Cave", which was regarded as "officially entering the entertainment circle".
In 2008, he took on another play called Invincible Ugly Woman, in which Wang Kai played the sissy "Chen Jiaming" because she was very thin. Red-rimmed glasses are his standard, with exaggerated colors such as red and purple, and sometimes even with the same exaggerated accessories such as leopard scarves. Moreover, the character in the play is full of demon when he speaks with his blue finger up. Although Wang Kai didn't like it very much, he gritted his teeth and persisted in acting for four seasons. "To tell you the truth, this role created a precedent in the history of China TV series at that time. At that time, there were no such characters as sissies in mainland TV dramas! So I am the first person to eat crabs and feel that I should give myself courage. " For more inspirational stories of celebrities, please pay attention to Mijian Story Network.
This is two years, nearly 200 episodes. A sissy character in everyone's impression was successfully created by him. But at that time, many people didn't understand why Wang Kai played sissy. In fact, he is also forced to make a living. Besides, even if the newcomer has a chance, it's good. He has no choice at all.
Only he can understand the blessing and curse of "sissy" to Wang Kai. When Ugly Woman Invincible was broadcast, Jia Ming by Dia left a deep impression on the audience and was also a sensation. Even when Wang Kai returned to his hometown in Hubei, neighbors came to watch, but he vaguely felt something was wrong, especially when his parents looked embarrassed but worried. Finally, one day my father couldn't help asking, how did you play such a role? It turns out that parents always feel that life is like a play, fearing that their son in life will be like Jia Ming, and even once doubted his sexual orientation. Helpless and filial, he patiently explained to them again and again that it was just a role need.
Being labeled as "sissy", "Jiaming" has simply become the "black history" of Wang Kai. Because of this drama, he has just made his debut and achieved one goal in life: he can stay in Beijing, have money to eat and continue filming. However, it was widely criticized ... After the "Jiaming" storm, Wang Kai didn't want to play sissy any more, so he pushed all the roles of the same type away, but because his role was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, no other role ever looked for him. In the next eight months, Wang Kai didn't perform any drama, and he was at the end of his tether.
Just when Wang Kai thought his acting career was coming to an end, in 20 10, director Zhang Jianxin boldly invited him to participate in an era drama "Educated Youth", which was produced by Hou Hongliang, a great god who is now a "mountain shadow". At this point, Wang Kaicai, like a newcomer, gradually accumulated popularity and got rid of the image of "sissy". Wang Kai said that he really didn't know how long he could live without the bold use of director Zhang Xinjian.
In Hou Hongliang's eyes, Wang Kai has never been an idol of small fresh meat. "He is a very serious and down-to-earth actor and knows exactly what he needs. My first collaboration with him was "Educated Youth", which was filmed in the ice and snow for seven months. Many young actors didn't stick to it, but he stuck to it. "
At that time, for this rare opportunity, Wang Kai really worked hard. In order to create the effect of snowstorm, he also asked the crew to move a blower to blow on his head in the weather of MINUS 40 degrees Celsius! When shooting the next scene, Wang Kaigang was lying in a snowstorm, and his face was immediately covered with a thin layer of ice and snow, and his hands were numb with cold. "It is no exaggeration to say that I have encountered all natural disasters except earthquakes. I have been sunburned and frostbitten. " When I smiled and told my parents about these "little pains", my son's efforts and despair made them secretly cry. But thankfully, heaven rewards hard work, because my son finally met the noble people in life in this play!
20 13 because of Hou Hongliang, Wang Kai was able to advance in Peiping without fighting, and finally ushered in a new peak of his career. Played by Fang, Fang's younger brother, and played by Liu Ye, it made people shine as soon as it started broadcasting. Due to the topic that the seven best actors compete on the same stage, everyone only remembered Fang Weimeng after the broadcast of Beiping, which failed to make Wang Kai famous. However, "no war in Peiping" became a turning point in his career. Wang Kai became attached to director Kong Sheng and Hou Hongliang's team, and then signed a contract with Shandong Film and Television, which led to the later The Pretender.
The transformation tough guy "Nirvana in Fire" became famous in World War I.
After seeing No War in Peiping, the director thinks that Wang Kai's acting skills are excellent. When preparing Nirvana in Fire, he thought that his image and personality were quite suitable for the King of Scenes in the play.
Later, Wang Kaicai learned that "Nirvana in Fire" is a large-scale costume legend TV series based on Haiyan's novel of the same name. The friendship between Wang Jing, Xiaojing Yan and Lin Shu deeply touched Wang Kai, while Wang Kai was more of a brotherhood than a love between men and women. He cried after reading the script at that time. "I have read so many scripts, and none of them made me cry so many times like nirvana in fire. You said that in this society, who else is willing to work for a person who doesn't know how to live or die? No, Wang Jing is my ideal personality, so being able to complete such a role in the play has a feeling that my dream has come true. "
There is a scene that Wang Kai remembers very clearly. He confronted the "mother princess" and said, "Why do you all know that Mei Su Chang is Xiao Shu, and I am the last one to know?" When filming, Wang Kai took the script to Kong Dao and said, How should this play be performed? How do actors combine the lens language to show their inner pain, regret and all kinds of particularly complicated feelings to the fullest? Because in both cases, Wang Kai is very headache and helpless. Later, Kong Dao said to him, "Go first according to your own feelings and thoughts."
Wang Kai read the script again, but he couldn't help crying. His tears kept falling out. He couldn't help it. The director said, don't be emotional, keep it, or it will be gone later. Wang Kai has been very uncomfortable to endure. When the official shooting started, he walked from the door to the mother princess, only a dozen steps, but it felt like five thousand years. Afterwards, everyone said that he played well!
Little-known is that in order to change his lanky "Nianpao" appearance, Wang Kai began to work hard to shape the tough guy image of "King Jing" long before filming "Nirvana in Fire". From simple jogging to basic standing long jump and push-ups, to contact weight training, including dumbbells and barbell bench presses. While constantly gaining weight and shaping lines, Wang Kai also recovered his masculinity through sweating.
In Nirvana in Fire, Wang Kai is handsome, not only getting rid of the former "sissy" image, but also paying great attention to depicting the inner firmness of the characters in his interpretation of Wang Jing, and shaping the role of Wang Jing into a forbearing and determined role through cold eyes.
2065438+In mid-September 2005, after the broadcast of Nirvana in Fire, the ratings soared. By June 5438+1early October, the number of hits on the internet reached 330 million, ranking first among 50 major cities in China. Subsequently, the play will be broadcast in the United States, South Korea, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries and regions.
At the same time, with superb acting skills, Wang Kai, who is not the leading role, has also become a hot "small fresh meat" in China. Crowds of fans in Weibo are scrambling to become his "Princess Jing", and even Wang Kai himself is a little uncomfortable. At one time, the fans who picked him up at the big airport scared him into the toilet. Some netizens said that Wang Kai's experience can be described as "grinding a knife in ten years and becoming famous once"!
However, Wang Kai under the screen is 33 years old this year. His career is smooth sailing, but in life, like ordinary people, he also has many troubles. For example, every time he comes home, his mother urges him to find a girlfriend quickly and even introduces his friend's daughter to him. On hearing this, Wang Kai became very big and stopped immediately. My parents were forced to say, "Can you give me a grandson first?" This made Wang Kai laugh and cry: "How can I have grandchildren if I don't get married?" Wang Kai has a younger sister who is married and has children. No wonder his parents are worried about his marriage.
After 65,438+00 years of hard work, he finally became a popular idol. Wang Kai said that many people have had dreams, but most people dare not give up too much and work hard for their dreams, and he is a person who dares to give up many things. "If I hadn't left firmly at the beginning, I might still be a porter in the bookstore!"
tough guy