Xu Jinjiang's life is full of drama. When he was young, he wanted to be a painter, but by accident he became an actor. After becoming a nationally renowned actor, he resolutely chose to pick up the paintbrush and devote all his energy to art in the later years of his life.
Hong Kong actor Xu Jinjiang is him, and painter Xu Jinjiang is also him. He integrated these two identities into his life and finally made him who he is now. No matter whether he is an actor or painting, he is always serious and responsible, and goes all out to achieve no regrets in life. What is rare is that he still maintains a sincere heart after experiencing life's ups and downs.
became an actor
Xu Jinjiang can like painting and is related to his father. As a medical family in Mudan City, Heilongjiang Province, his father had hoped that Xu Jinjiang could study medicine like him, and in the future, Xu Jinjiang had no interest in this, and Xu's father had nothing to do. What Xu's father didn't think of was an arrangement made by him, but Xu Jinjiang's life has never been entangled with painting. One year when Xu's father wanted to go to Hong Kong to practice medicine, he left Xu Jinjiang in Guangzhou and asked him to worship his friend Guan Shanyue, a master of the Lingnan School of Painting, and follow Guan Shanyue to practice painting. The Lingnan School of Painting is a school that focuses on field experience. Xu Jinjiang followed Guan Shanyue to many places to sketch from life. Xu Jinjiang likes this kind of life. Guan Shanyue is very pleased with his talent in painting. Unlike Wuxin studying medicine, he worked extremely hard to study painting and successfully entered the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, which is one of the "Eight Academies of Fine Arts in China". Xu's father was very supportive of Xu Jinjiang's life path. After graduating from
, Xu Jinjiang went to Hong Kong to develop. He originally wanted to make a big difference on the road of painting, but he was quickly thrown into the cold by life. He held a small exhibition in the banquet hall of a hotel in Hong Kong, but no one paid any attention. Compared with the setbacks in dreams, what is more cruel and sad is that his father passed away this year. Without his father's blessing, Xu Jinjiang had to take on family responsibilities. This year Xu Jinjiang was 20 years old.
In order to make money, Xu Jinjiang, who is tall and strong, has worked as a model and nightclub singer, so he had to temporarily put down his paintbrush. What Xu Jinjiang didn't expect was that his sister secretly enrolled him in the 10th TVB Artist Training Class. As a result, he was admitted as soon as he went for the exam. He became a classmate of Andy Lau, Liang Jiahui, and Wu Jiali.
Xu Jinjiang soon realized the huge gap between different lives in the same class. After graduation, his classmates Andy Lau and Liang Jiahui became popular, but he often didn't even have a chance to run the game. Many years later, Xu Jinjiang said frankly: "Everyone has their own strengths. Some are handsome and some have good physical shapes. I can't perform their drama, but my drama is difficult for others to control." But when will Bole discover himself At that time, Xu Jinjiang didn't know how long it would take to wait for a play road that could be controlled. The waiting process of
was long enough, and Xu Jinjiang waited for 6 years. At that time, he felt hopeless to live in Hong Kong and planned to immigrate to the United States and go to his grandfather abroad. What Xu Jinjiang did not expect was that he was eating in a hotel before getting on the plane. Two strange men sat down beside him and asked him if he would like to make a movie? These two people are the famous Hong Kong directors McDonald and McDonald's brothers. Facing the invitation of McDonald and McDonald's brothers, Xu Jinjiang decided to fight again in the Hong Kong film industry. McDonald and McDonald's brothers arranged for Xu Jinjiang the role of policeman Li Xiangdong in "Province Hong Kong Flag Soldier 2".
For Xu Jinjiang, the process of shooting "Province and Hong Kong Flag Soldier 2" was not smooth, and even Xu Jinjiang was scolded by McDonald almost every day. At that time, Xu Jinjiang always had the idea that "heroes are always invincible". He was shot on set and everyone else fell down immediately, but he stood up immediately. For this reason, McDonald had to give him many demonstrations. However, Wan Ziliang and Wang Xiaofeng who were also on the set gave Xu Jinjiang a lot of encouragement.
Fortunately, I won this battle. With "Province and Hong Kong Flagmen 2", Xu Jinjiang became famous in the Hong Kong film industry, and the number of play appointments began to increase. Xu Jinjiang bid farewell to his own dragon-like era. In an interview with the media many years later, Xu Jinjiang will star in "Province Hong Kong Flag Soldier 2" as an important turning point in his life, "They changed the trajectory of my life and changed my destiny. I don't know. If I go back to the United States, maybe I will become an artist. But if I stay in Hong Kong, I have become an actor."
everything is right
once became famous, the young and energetic Xu Jinjiang has After the swelling stage, he began to spend money uncontrollably, and then he was going to Macau. HeGo directly by helicopter. He couldn't get a car on the road on a rainy day, so he bought a luxury car and drove home with a temporary card. When there was a traffic jam, he left his car on the road and went home by himself, so that the police found his car on the road and called him to ask him if it had been stolen. However, this life did not last long. Soon Xu Jinjiang suffered a huge blow. With the advent of the economic crisis, the stock crash caused him to bankrupt his family. Xu Jinjiang’s car was dragged away by the bank, the house was taken away, and the family rented. In a small house. At that time, Xu Jinjiang didn't dare to stay in one place for one more day. People would say that it was not the actor Xu Jinjiang? Xu Jinjiang cannot eat at food stalls and fast food restaurants every day. For this reason, Xu Jinjiang has to go very far every time he eats.
Faced with the crisis of life, Xu Jinjiang had to make money again. At that time, he played any role, as long as he could make money. He worked so desperately to make 13 movies a year, often so tired that he burst into tears in the hotel, but he had no other way to make money.
In such a period, with the establishment of a film classification system in Hong Kong, a wave of tertiary films swept the Hong Kong film industry, but Xu Jinjiang unexpectedly became the representative male star of the tertiary films in Hong Kong.
At that time, McDonald wanted to make some achievements in the tertiary film market, and was preparing to shoot "Jade Fu Tuan: The Treasure of Evil". McDonald found Xu Jinjiang and gave him three roles to choose. Originally, Xu Jinjiang chose Kunlun, a smaller-scale Grand Theft Auto in the movie, but McDonald persuaded him to play a very large-scale Quan Hon. McDonald said to him: "You are a good actor, you should try You haven't played a role, and it's a very self-transcending role." Considering that an actor should be multi-faceted and to make money, Xu Jinjiang agreed to appear in the film. But the most important reason Xu Jinjiang said many years later: "Because I believe in him, he led me to make my debut."
Even when shooting tertiary films, Xu Jinjiang still insists on his own bottom line and gentleman manner. He never took the opportunity to account for actresses. It’s cheap. Before kissing, he brushes his teeth and does not eat odorous food. If he reacts, he will immediately ask the director to call "card". Before touching the other person’s body, he will be recognized by the other person. Because of respect for the actress, he is known as the "third level" The male star with the best reputation in the film". Ye Yuqing, Li Lizhen, Shu Qi and Weng Hong who have worked with him all spoke highly of him.
When the company contract with McDonald's expired, under the introduction of Zhou Yunfa, Xu Jinjiang signed Wang Jing's company. Wang Jing still arranged a large number of third-level films for Xu Jinjiang. Xu Jinjiang’s strength lies in the fact that even if he shoots a tertiary film, he can be nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards for his outstanding performance in the movie "Erotic Men and Women". There was a popular saying in Hong Kong film industry at that time: "Gunfight movies think of Chow Yun-fat, comedy movies think of Stephen Chow, kung fu movies think of Jackie Chan, who is Xu Jinjiang. They are the four kings of Hong Kong movies." Director Wang Jing said bluntly: "Action Jackie Chan is the number one, and Xu Jinjiang is the first." Although the shooting of a third-level movie has brought Xu Jinjiang a certain degree of social recognition, it has also brought him controversy. This kind of controversy broke out after he published a nude photo in 1997. Xu Jinjiang can ignore social disputes, but he has to care about the attitude of his family. At that time, Xu Jinjiang felt very wronged. His family did not object to the third-level film. Instead, he tried a pioneering art but was rejected by his family. Xu Jinjiang recalled, “At that time, the newsstands on the street were all the covers of this incident. My sister was afraid to tell her boyfriend that this was her brother, and my mother didn’t understand. But I just wanted to have an episode in my acting career. I didn’t expect that in a society like Hong Kong that is very open, it’s actually very conservative. I didn’t hurt anyone.”
In such a special period, Master Guan Shanyue gave Xu Jinjiang the only support. Guan Shanyue was Xu Jinjiang. He wrote the title of the book "Xing Shen Ji", and highly praised Xu Jinjiang's portrait as "both form and spirit".
Now looking back on this past, Xu Jinjiang said frankly: "Art and pornography are the first line of difference. If you are a pornographic person, what you see is pornography. From the perspective of an actor, I don’t care what other people say. Once you accept the script, don’t be afraid of it. , Or don’t shoot. Besides, do I have negative news in my life? Nothing at all.” In Xu Jinjiang’s view, “everything is right, everything is best.” On the contrary, he is more grateful to McDonald and Wang Jing. The grace of appreciation.
Fighting with depression The wave of
tertiary films quickly faded, and the wave of costume films rose, and Xu Jinjiang began to frequently participate in the shooting of martial arts films. In order to perform well in "YiXie Xun in "Tale of the Dragon and the Dragon", in order to make the character more realistic, Xu Jinjiang just rolled his eyes artificially for more than ten episodes. In the end, in order to make more attempts and better development, Xu Jinjiang decided to shift the focus of his career from Hong Kong to the Mainland, and from movies to TV series. After the transformation of
, through his years of hard work and solid acting skills, Xu Jinjiang slowly changed the audience’s prejudice against him as a "three-level male star". He has portrayed a series of classic roles such as Ober, Drifter, and Moon Worship Master. From 2000 to 2013, he filmed as many as 36 TV series.
Just as his career and reputation were getting better and better, his fate made a joke for Xu Jinjiang.
Xu Jinjiang is sick. The high-intensity work of
gave Xu Jinjiang a sense of confusion. When he plays the most, he has to shuttle through multiple crews at the same time. Sometimes the same scene, changing into a different dress, is another play, which makes Xu Jinjiang feel "can go crazy". What makes Xu Jinjiang unforgettable is that he was filming in Hengdian one year. He filmed from summer to Chinese New Year. When the whole film and television city was gone, there was only one crew. What’s even more terrifying is that these TV shows have similar types and repeated roles. Xu Jinjiang discovered that “sometimes my roles are confused. Hey, where am I? Which role am I?” This made Xu Jinjiang start to doubt himself. Said "I don't know where I am, I can't find Xu Jinjiang. Is this me?"
Xu Jinjiang's nervous system collapsed. He suffered from severe depression. When the media conference was held, he could not control his emotions and cried bitterly. In tears, he said, "I have acted many people, but they are not me." Xu Jinjiang did not want to exist only in the role. Many viewers can't believe how can Xu Jinjiang, who has been looking so masculine, got depression? The arrival of
depression made Xu Jinjiang unwilling to film again. He approached Wang Jing and said to him: "I don't want to film anymore, I can't film anymore." Xu Jinjiang stopped taking the film, but he had to fight depression and was seriously ill. At that time, he even opened the window of the hotel to jump down. Fortunately, his wife woke up in time and caught him. The wonderful thing about
life is that the things he loved when he was young saved him. Once Xu Jinjiang participated in an event to commemorate the master Guan Shanyue, and met Guan Shanyue's daughter at the event. The other party encouraged Xu Jinjiang to pick up the paintbrush again.
When he picked up the paintbrush again, the familiar feeling struck him. Xu Jinjiang found that he had never let go of painting deep in his heart. He decided to spend the rest of his life to complete the dream that he did not accomplish when he was young. Seeing Xu Jinjiang’s love for painting, his wife and actor friends prepared a studio for him. Everyone sang and sang at noon and drank tea in the afternoon to paint. Xu Jinjiang’s condition began to get better and better.
See myself, see the world
Although he once loved acting, painting made Xu Jinjiang find himself. Xu Jinjiang said frankly: "I used to be acting other people, not Xu Jinjiang himself. Now I can take up a paintbrush and talk to myself and draw my heart." A reporter asked Xu Jinjiang: "Brother Xu, do you think being an actor and an artist? What’s the difference between painters?” Xu Jinjiang didn’t know how to answer at the time, but now he wants to understand, “Being an actor is constantly consuming one’s own life, because life is very irregular, and artists and painters cultivate their minds every day. Extend your life and make yourself healthier. My current state is considered even." When encountering difficulties, he would motivate himself with what Master Guan Shanyue said to him. He still remembers what Master said to him. "For doing things and for art, you have to be down-to-earth and innocent. There are no shortcuts. You have to look more and think more. As long as you are willing to give, there will be rewards. Don’t care what others say, because you are not him, so he It's not you."
Xu Jinjiang now enjoys the life of devoting himself to artistic creation. The well-known art critic Ji Taiping commented on him: "He has a high degree of professionalism in painting and has a professional foundation. There are many people in the Chinese entertainment industry who play calligraphy and painting, but some people just use their fame to make hype. Xu Jinjiang is not like that, it is considered a high level. "In fact, he has indeed achieved some results. China Post once issued a set of Xu Jinjiang-themed stamps, and his profile is "Chinese contemporary calligraphy and painting masters." In 2014, he was invited to participate in the Bisson Spring International Art Exhibition in Paris, France. Professional collection magazines wanted to buy his paintings at a price of "28,000 square feet". Even a pair of works that he carried with him was photographed by collectors on the spot. Threatened to bid 800,000 to buy it. But Xu Jinjiang is reluctant to sell, he willTreat your own work as your own child.
On November 21, 2015, Xu Jinjiang held a solo painting exhibition titled "Xu Xu Danqing Like Jinjiang". That day, 400 friends from the entertainment industry including Hou Yaohua, Weng Hong, Zhang Jizhong, Zhang Fengyi, etc. were present, and the media reported it with "Alarm Half an entertainment circle" to describe the charm of this exhibition. That day, Xu Jinjiang cried. He remembered the years when he held a work exhibition in Hong Kong when he was 20 years old. He said to everyone that day: "Art can bring people a lot of imagination, and give people spiritual and soul sustenance. I want to use my limited influence to realize a bigger dream with everyone."
Friends together invested 6 billion yuan to open the internationally renowned "Xu Jinjiang Art Center" to provide young artists with a larger and more stable exhibition venue. On the road of art, Xu Jinjiang does not want to achieve success alone. Some people questioned that Xu Jinjiang Art Center would lose money. In the face of doubt, Xu Jinjiang responded positively: “If you lose, I will film and support it.”
Xu Jinjiang now bids farewell to depression, and engages in artistic creation quietly. In an article he wrote to himself, he wrote: "The dream of film, the dream of painting, the dream of art, there are many dreams I have not realized in my heart, and then I feel that I am a happy person. In fact, I also want to express that life is everyone’s dream show, and in the process, I will see myself and the world!"
