Can you imagine an acting star working at the door of the trash room? When
mentioned celebrities, what everyone thinks of is the glamorous airport show and the top traffic supported by thousands of fans...
However, there are some people who entered the circle for their dreams, but they failed to achieve the so-called success. Most of them are called "old opera bones" and have been "green leaves" for decades to set off the popular protagonists.
Car Paul, a strange name, a familiar face.
He used to play the role of Yachai with his friend Shi Jieqiang in "The Dead Officer", one is a fat dragon and the other is a thin tiger. Paul Che said that Shi Jieqiang has been helping him, knowing that he is in financial difficulties, and he will be notified as long as he has a job, but the other party died of diabetes last year, which made him very sad.
Cha Paul has experienced two marriages. In his second marriage for many years, he married a foreign domestic helper in a friend's house. Now the two have become grandparents.
However, Paul Che has not given up his dream of acting as an actor. As long as there is a notice, he will ask for unpaid leave to act in the act. He has been in the industry for more than 40 years and has not stopped.
Che Paul has never had a long-term job. He said that he only has a primary school degree and can only do some coolies. Now his job is "market supervision" and maintains traffic at the entrance of the garbage room in Tung Yick Market in Yuen Long every morning.
His appearance is too recognizable. Many people know that he is an actor, but they also understand that he can't make much money from acting and understand his choice.
Che Paul thought he would miss the protagonist all his life, but he did not expect that a micro-film "The Old Man and the Dog" would make him shortlisted for the "Best Actor" at the July Taipei Film Festival. This is the closest thing to the life of Che Paul. Once.
However, after experiencing the ups and downs of his life, he has no expectations for this award. He smiled and said, whether he wins the award or not, he will continue to work in the trash room. Paul's job of "market supervision" is to ensure smooth traffic near the vegetable market. He stands next to the garbage room and directs the vehicles to ensure that the road to and from the garbage room is smooth.
Is this job hard? You can imagine that the summer is over 30 degrees high and the air is filled with various smells of garbage, and the car Paul has to stand from 6 am to 8 am, and then continue to work from 12 noon to 2 am. Work like
is neither difficult nor easy.
Paul Cha has worked as a "street supervisor" for half a year. Before that, he worked as a temporary handyman for 12 years. He was fired a year ago. During this period, he took over a micro-film "The Old Man and the Dog" before he moved to a new position.
For this micro-film, Paul Cha said: "Shao Zhongheng (former TVB Xiaosheng) asked me to audition. When the director looked at me, he said that I was very unlucky, just like the role. In fact, it was because before the audition, I It was raining and riding a motorcycle. I saw a servant standing in the middle of the road with a puppy. They didn’t move, so I took refuge. As a result, I fell off and the motorcycle pressed my foot. I was injured. Going to make a movie on the flip side, the director thinks I'm very into the movie. "
Cha Paul made his first actor at the age of 59. Unexpectedly, he was shortlisted for the "Best Actor" of the film festival.
He said that on the day of receiving the news, he went to bed very early, went to bed more than 9 o'clock, woke up to go to the bathroom at 11 o'clock, and looked at the phone with such a message. Many people congratulated him on being the leading actor. Paul Cha said, At that moment he thought he had won the actor, but think about it, it's not April Fool's Day on April 1. Why is everyone joking?
After seeing it clearly, I realized that everyone was blessing him, and he felt very warm.
"I felt a surprise, maybe my deceased mother blessed me, then I can be my ancestor. In fact, the second is whether I can win the prize. If I succeed, of course I have to thank many people. I am not afraid of losing. The finalists have been known all over the world, and I am famous! I believe many neighbourhoods will be happy for me.”
Recently, Paul Che began preparing to attend the film festival. He has asked the company for leave and prepared three sets of clothes. Official departure in July.
went to the local area this time. In addition to participating in the movie, he also had a special task, which was to find his biological father.
Cha Paul revealed that his father died before he was born, and his mother never talked about his father. He was also afraid of his mother’s sadness, so he never asked who his father was.. After mother
passed away, he discovered from the relics that his father was originally from Taiwan and there were 10 siblings in the family, so when he went to the local area this time, he hoped to find relatives and friends on his side and recognize them.
Che Paul came from a single-parent family, and he faced the first setback in his life when he graduated from elementary school.
At that time, he took the entrance exam for middle school and received a test paper full of answers. He thought he was lucky and directly handed in the test paper.
However, when the school started on September 1, he did not receive the notice. When he went to the school to ask, he found out that the school was going to check whether he was honest... The
test failed, and the enrollment time passed, so Paul Che couldn’t find him. To school.
In fact, you can still enter school if you try to find it. However, at that time, Hong Kong's economy was booming and many people didn't care about studying. So Paul Che started working at the age of 12 and had done many occupations. As long as he could make money, he would do it.
When he was 19 years old, Paul Che was working as a "ticket tearing" at "Lee Theatre" (a famous performance venue in Hong Kong, now rebuilt), because a brave performance of chasing thieves changed his fate.
It turned out that the "ticket ripper" had to take care of the mortgage work. One night, they were robbed while depositing the money. The other party robbed Lee Stage's income all night. Paul Che chased forward without even thinking about it, although he didn't chase in the end. Arrived, but left a good impression on colleagues. The
company praised him for his bravery. At that time, the company’s head Chen Shufen (later Leslie Cheung’s agent) asked him what he wanted. Che Paulo directly said that there was no future for tearing tickets and wanted to learn stage work, so Chen Shufen arranged for him to do it. Stage control".
has a promising job, and Paul Che also knows how to improve himself. At that time, he saw that his colleagues were promoted, so he ran to ask his boss what his shortcomings were. The boss told him that he did not have enough education and English Not good enough, so the company has no way to promote him.
Cha Paul worked hard to learn English, and he chatted with foreigners when he was playing at night. Now he communicates with his wife from the Philippines in English, and there is no obstacle between them.
car Paul’s efforts can be seen.
After learning English, Paul Che can not only get a promotion, but also get another job opportunity.
He left Lee Theatre and went to the Art Center to do stage control. There are many foreign stage plays in
Art Center. The staff must understand English, otherwise it is difficult to carry out work.
car Paul got one opportunity after another with his own efforts.
Gradually, Paul Che walked from behind the scenes to the front. Under the introduction of director friends, he performed the first movie of his life-the 1979 American TV movie "Spider-Man".
"Spider-Man" came to Hong Kong for the first time. The crew asked Paul to be a thug, stood behind the big mad demon and just did it. At that time, the reward was already very high, 800 Hong Kong dollars a day. At that time, Paul Cha felt that filming was very simple and easy to make money. So two years later, Paul Cha decided to become a full-time actor.
The first movie he filmed after he turned into a regular employee was "You But Me" produced by Selina Zhou. The name "Car Paul" was born at that time.
He revealed that the actors at the time liked to use stage names. Selina Zhou also called him a name, and she also took several names for him to choose. One of them was "Car Paul". He thought of his English name as Paul , So I chose this name.
As a result, such a use is forty years.
Che Paul witnessed the prosperity of Hong Kong movies. During the heyday of Hong Kong movies, he had filming every day and the money came easily. However, later Hong Kong movies declined and many people were unemployed.
Cha Paul is a green leaf actor, but he is highly recognizable, and he was paid attention to by TVB because of his humorous performance in the movie.
At that time, two television stations in Hong Kong asked him to act, including the current TVB and the predecessor of Asia Television "Lie De".
He recalled this way: "TVB’s "Dream of Bean Sprouts" asked me to perform, so I invited two TV stations to talk together. I met Li at two o’clock and TVB at four o’clock. Who knows after the two o’clock talks, the other party said they would sign a contract immediately. I pushed down TVB, but I believe it had already angered their senior management." At that time,
was the pinnacle of Cha Paulo’s career.While filming on TV and picking up movies at the same time, the young and frivolous man is inevitably a little frivolous in dealing with people.
He said: "At that time, my working attitude was not good. After the night shift, the director asked me to start the day shift. I would lose my temper and say no. I was so scared that the director immediately asked for a substitute to help me shoot. There are many directors who are afraid of me and don't know when I really won't start working." Paulo said that because of his poor attitude, the TV station was unwilling to renew his contract after filming for a few years.
was the first low point in his career at the time. He was very hesitant. Fortunately, there were many friends in the circle. "Fire Cloud Cthulhu" Liang Xiaolong helped him and gave him a job opportunity, and Paul Che returned from an actor behind the scenes. Handyman.
In those few years, Cha Paulo had a stable income and had a good time, but he still liked acting, so he joined TVB as a special actor, filming "Deer Tripod" and playing "Fat Touduo" in it.
Now, when it comes to Fattouduo, many people will recognize him.
Che Paul is flexible. At the celebration banquet of "The Deer and Ding Ji", he took the initiative to chat with Li Tiansheng, the producer of the show, to see if the other party knew him, because he bought coffee for the other party when he was working at Lee Theatre.
Li Tiansheng is a very good elder. He knew that Paul Cha wanted to act, so he applied for a contract actor for him. Since then, he has become a part of TVB.
Until 2003, TVB converted him to an artist with an annual salary of only 2,000 Hong Kong dollars, and Paul Che left the TV station.
He believes that the figure of 2,000 Hong Kong dollars is a humiliation to him, so he resolutely does not renew the contract. The year of
was the low ebb of Cha Paulo's life. In addition to being unemployed, his granddaughter died in a car accident, making him worse.
In his most difficult time, the former TVB spokesperson Zeng Xingming helped, contacted reporters to interview him, let the outside world know his difficulties, and then sent help.
Two years ago, Paolo Cha’s mother passed away and his family was in financial trouble. The Artists Association helped him handle his funeral.
Therefore, he has always been grateful to Zeng Xingming for keeping the other side's kindness in his heart.
After he left TVB, he continued to work. He believed that as long as he was willing to give, he would never starve to death.
Occasionally, he will participate in the filming work, play some small roles, can make money, can also fulfill his acting dream, at this moment, he is happy.
