Zhang Songwen: He was rejected by the director 84 times in three years, and was ridiculed as a dwarf eating leftovers. At the age of 46, he still couldn't afford a house.

On April 4th, 219, on the premiere day of A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind, everyone in the audience praised Zhang Songwen's acting skills.

This day is a watershed in Zhang Songwen's life, but he has been waiting for this day for 2 years.

Speaking of Zhang Songwen, perhaps in the hearts of many viewers, he doesn't have a name yet, but only a code name for his role.

He is the self-abased Tang Yijie in A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind,

Xiao Yang Gu's father Gu Jianhua in Summer on the West River,

Cao Zhiyuan in Decisive Fight, and

Zhu Chaoyang's father Zhu Yongping in Hidden Corner.

The man in front of me was dressed in a shabby gown and hung on the gallows by hemp rope.

As soon as the voice of giving orders fell, I saw the board under his feet suddenly break, and

the man was violently hung in the air.

The man in the picture is Zhang Songwen.

This is a clip that happened in The Pioneer. In order to better restore the whole process of hanging,

Zhang Songwen was hung by a hemp rope and photographed repeatedly for 4 or 5 times.

By the time the last shot was taken, Zhang Songwen was speechless.

With all his strength, he raised his hand and pointed to the rope, and the staff quickly stepped forward to untie it.

after it was untied, everyone was shocked.

Zhang Songwen's neck was red and swollen with hemp rope, and he started coughing and shortness of breath ...

After a short rest, someone asked him: Why do you work so hard?

Zhang Songwen replied, "As long as my physical limit can withstand it, I will try my best to finish the performance and do my best."

Of course, he didn't just say that, he did it anyway.

In order to better explain the feeling of walking lameness, he will put a pointed stone in his shoe and say to the staff with a smile:

After that, he limped into the crowd and started shooting the next scene.

Even in the role of a walk-on, Zhang Songwen is never ambiguous.

As we all know, a walk-on is the background wall of the protagonist. It is reasonable to say that as long as the performance is over, you can take the money and leave.

But Zhang Songwen told himself: "There have never been small roles, only small actors."

So, before he became famous, Zhang Songwen's walk-on was extremely difficult.

On one occasion, Zhang Songwen needed to play a passerby who was eating. In order to better interpret the role,

Zhang Songwen went to the assistant director and asked, "What's his name, what does he do and how old is he?"

The assistant director said impatiently, "Why do you have so many questions? Just eat."

After a while, Zhang Songwen began to ask again, and the assistant director said directly, "Let that man leave!"

Some people may ask: Why does Zhang Songwen work so hard? Why are you working so hard? Why do you want to compete with yourself?

I think only he knows how difficult it has been.

He never wanted anyone to walk the road again, but all this was hidden in his past.

Zhang Songwen has two famous stories.

When he was young, he and Zhou Yiwei ran a crew together. One day, they came to a place called Confused Hotel for an audition.

Just when they entered, they happened to meet the director and several bosses sitting on the sofa chatting.

They are discussing what kind of people can't be actors.

As soon as Zhang Songwen and Zhou Yiwei came in, they became their negative teaching materials.

So, the assistant director pointed to Zhang Songwen and said, "Look, people like him can't be actors."

The investor asked with a puzzled face, "How can it be seen that it can't be done?"

"This man looks like a Cantonese. First, he is a dwarf, so short. Second, he has a big forehead, like an ape."

Then the assistant director went on to say, "This tall man can't do it. His mouth is like a sausage. They are as bad as two peas in a pod."

Before his voice fell, Zhang Songwen and Zhou Yiwei wait for a while stood quietly in the same place, just pointing at the assistant director.

before the audition, they kicked him out.

When he left, Zhang Songwen thanked the assistant director politely and asked, "Excuse me, do you still have our photos? In case there is a suitable role in the future ... "

But before Zhang Songwen finished, the assistant director chimed in and said," You can't even be an actor. "

After turning around and leaving, they got on the elevator and were abruptly silent for five minutes. No one thought of pressing the first floor.

After a relative silence for a while, they smiled at each other and encouraged each other: Tomorrow will be fine.

This is Zhang Songwen's first story, and his second story is "buying a house".

This year, Zhang Songwen is 46 years old, but there is still no one acre of land of its own in China.

when he was the poorest, let alone buying a house, even food and shelter became a problem, and he was worried about the rent for next month every day.

Zhang Songwen is also one of the few actors who dare to be honest with the media about his income:

When these two stories are added up, some people may feel sorry for him, and think that this is a theater fool who is desperate to realize his dream.

But in fact, Zhang Songwen, who has lived as an ascetic monk for 2 years, has no grievances in his heart.

In his heart, he always feels that he is lucky and happy.

Since childhood, Zhang Songwen's motto in life is: Do what God wants and listen to destiny.

For him, this is not a pessimistic fatalism, but he knows that "doing one's best" is the first.

And people around him are trying their best to protect his young heart.

Zhang Songwen's parents are soldiers and his mother is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, so his parents' busyness made him lack of companionship since childhood.

Zhang Songwen, who is idle and bored, often goes to play with Uncle Lu, the gatekeeper of the cinema.

Uncle Lu is very kind to Zhang Songwen, like a grandson, and often secretly lets him go to the movies.

Perhaps it was from that time that Zhang Songwen planted the seeds of "movie dream" in his heart.

In addition to often watching movies, Zhang Songwen sometimes walks the streets with her mother to save lives.

One day, Zhang Songwen and his mother came to the middle of the mountain in the village to see an old woman.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Songwen saw the old woman lying on the bed, dying.

However, after examining the grandmother's health, my mother said to her with great pleasure:

"Your body has recovered very well, so you can get well without taking medicine. You can get more sunshine."

Hearing his mother's words, Zhang Songwen was puzzled. On his way home, he asked his mother,

"Will grandma get better if she gets more sunshine?"

Mother said, "Actually, grandma is dying. The reason why I let her get more sunshine is that people will be happy if they get more sunshine."

After hearing her mother's words, Zhang Songwen seemed puzzled ...

However, she wanted to protect Zhang Songwen's mother all her life, but she died early ...

At the age of 13, Zhang Songwen's mother was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer.

In order to treat his mother, his father spent almost all his family savings.

Young Zhang Songwen is even more at a loss. Besides going to school every day, he will dig herbs for his mother everywhere, just because he heard someone say that some herbs can cure his mother ...

Every morning when he gets up, the first thing Zhang Songwen does is to open the curtains. He wants to let the sun shine in and make his mother happy.

But fate is so cruel. After two years of treatment, my mother passed away.

After his mother left, Zhang Songwen has been very decadent. As long as he returns to the familiar environment, his mother's figure will always be in his mind.

Every time he comes home, Zhang Songwen will stay in the yard and stare blankly at the lush trees at the door besides talking with his father in the house.

So, after finishing vocational high school, Zhang Songwen left his hometown and got on the train to Dongguan. He was 16 years old this year.

In order to make a living, Zhang Songwen has done a lot of work: printing factory worker, beverage salesman, air conditioner installer, hotel waiter, hotel manager ...

It was not until he got a tour guide certificate and became a tour guide that he completely settled down.

He took tourists all over the scenic spots in Guangdong, visited the mountains and rivers in China, and sometimes took them to Thailand.

Five years later, Zhang Songwen became the "manager of the domestic department". In that era when the average salary was less than 2,, Zhang Songwen's monthly salary reached more than 2,.

One day, a female colleague in the unit asked Zhang Songwen, "What is your dream?"

At this time, he had already lost his edges and corners by reality. Without thinking, he directly replied, "What dreams can I have at my age? It must be to get married and have children."

Unexpectedly, this female colleague asked again, "What do you want to do most?"

In an instant, the words of his female colleague rekindled his long-buried dream of being an actor. However, he had no confidence in himself and said in despair,

"What I want to do most is to lie in bed and watch movies every day."

Hearing this, the female colleague went on to say, "Then you can go to Beijing University and engage in film-related work."

But Zhang Songwen thinks this is his most distant dream: "That's impossible, the movie is too far away from me."

"how impossible? Zhang Yimou also went to school at the age of 28. "

This remark by a female colleague rekindled Zhang Songwen's hope, so he quit his job as a tour guide, sold more than 3, pieces of furniture at home to his colleagues at a low price, and then went to Beijing.

this year, Zhang Songwen was 25 years old.

Living up to expectations, Zhang Songwen was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy and became classmates with Zhou Yiwei, Che Xiao and others.

Because he is an older student, Zhang Songwen always makes a lot of jokes. When many students see him, they will respectfully say, "Good teacher."

However, Zhang Songwen is still exposed to the light of old age. Because of his enthusiasm and old age, he successfully became the monitor.

But the problem of Putonghua has become the biggest bottleneck in Zhang Songwen. Even the teacher warned him: "The Putonghua exam at the end of the month is no better, so go home!"

In order to overcome this difficulty, Zhang Songwen has made great efforts.

He washed the pebbles and put them under his tongue, forcing himself to roll it up.

In this way, Zhang Songwen's pronunciation is gradually standardized, but the gap between him and others is slowly widening.

While others are practicing the script, he delays practicing because of correcting his pronunciation.

However, in order to catch up with others, Zhang Songwen made a great effort to contact all the scripts he had left behind, and his spare time was also used to hang his voice.

Everything comes to him who waits, and Zhang Songwen graduated in the first year of the year.

After graduation, Zhang Songwen once again encountered setbacks, that is, there was no drama to shoot.

If you want to ask who has the most experience in running a cast, it must be Zhang Songwen.

In 23, Zhang Songwen ran 36 production crews in one year, 28 in the second year, and 2 in the third year.

Day after day, year after year, Zhang Songwen was rejected by the director 84 times in three years.

In the next ten years, Zhang Songwen got very few opportunities. Fortunately, his salary as a teacher in Nortel can simply support his life.

In order to save money, Zhang Songwen will go to the vegetable market to buy food at 7: 3 every night.

Because the food market closed at this time, although all the leftovers were leftovers, for him at that time, cheap was the first.

So, during that time of poverty and poverty, Zhang Songwen ate all leftovers, which, in the words of vendors, was: "That pile of rotten vegetable leaves was not eaten by pigs."

He can't remember how long he hasn't sent money to his father, but his father broke his heart for him in his hometown, and he wanted to send his son the last bit of light and heat before he retired.

So, he called Zhang Songwen: "Song Wen, why don't you come back? I can help you find a stable job through connections."

The result is obvious. My father's request was rejected by Zhang Songwen, but he continued:

"I have saved a little money, 13, yuan, or you can buy a house first."

What my father doesn't know is that 13, won't even buy a toilet in Beijing, but he still wants to protect Zhang Songwen's dream with his love.

Zhang Songwen's mother passed on the compassion of saving the world, while his father gave him laissez-faire tolerance and support.

This may explain why, in the depressed 2 years, Zhang Songwen still insisted on her dream even if she couldn't get the play.

This may also explain why he can put down his dignity and set up acting remedial classes in the small courtyard of rural bungalows.

This may explain more. He can make a fortune completely by becoming the godfather of stars, but he didn't.

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Fortunately, Zhang Songwen, who has been groping for many years, finally let everyone see that there is such a good actor with the help of Director Tang in A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind.

Therefore, a good actor should not be like this from beginning to end, nor should he be mediocre.