Wu Yanyi, elegant and old

"Thank you director, thank you for my" daughter "Xi Meijuan, this honor belongs to all the great mothers."

Some time ago, when Wu Yanzhen was wearing a cheongsam, he elegantly walked to the podium of the Beijing International Film Festival, and the actors on the stage were all moved.

This is her first film trophy, with a "Mom!" "The movie, who was already 84 years old.

Standing on the podium, Wu Yanxuan's attitude is in sharp contrast to her age. It is humble to like a newcomer -in fact, since she officially filmed film and television dramas in 2010, Wu Yanxuan has only entered the circle for 12 years.

But unlike the newcomer's incidence, this is a "newcomer" in the Famous Field.

Today, today's title of "Girls" and male stars enjoying the title of "brother", Wu Yanxuan responded to the media about her age about her age more than once.

She loves her white hair, beautiful wrinkles, no more young body, and a long time.

When someone asked her how she looked at her years before she became "famous", Wu Yanyi said:

"I just have another opportunity to work, I cherish it."

Lane 73

In 1945, Shanghai, No. 73, Shanzhongli.

This is an alley that condenses the unique charm of the old Shanghai. The beautiful girl who comes and go, wearing a cheongsam, holding a paper umbrella, walking in the hall, graceful.

There are only two villas in the entire alley. Suddenly, one of the girls' heads on the wall of one of the villas.

The girl looks good and ancient, and this is the 7 -year -old Wu Yanyu. This year, she followed her father's work and just came to Shanghai.

Wu Yanyi was born in Guangzhou and is a lady of the eight classics.

Her father was studying at Waseda University in Japan in his early years, and he was an alumni with Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. After returning to China, Wu Father did business, and later joined underground work, and moved to Sun Yat -sen University to teach.

Wu Yanyu's mother was also a rare female college student during the Republic of China. She mainly studied Chinese literature in the university and also studied the very popular domestic professional major at the time -teaching women how to become a good wife of an old era.

Since childhood, Wu Yanxuan has received extraordinary etiquette education by her mother:

When eating, the bowls should be raised, the little finger is slightly raised, and the chopsticks are taken in one third; when drinking water, the hand should be raised and the outside of the cup can not let people see the teeth; Carrying with a handkerchief with you, when you meet a sneeze on the road, cover your nose immediately with a handkerchief ...

But the background of Wu Yanyu's childhood life is not only severe.

The elegance of Wu Yanxuan has been infiltrated into the bones

Wu Yanxuan was the only only daughter of that era, because his father told his family: "Many children are suffering, you don't need to have too much." He was distressed that he had no interest in the "Chuanzong succession" in feudal thoughts.

The new idea of ​​his father was intertwined in this family with the old trend of his mother, and left deep traces on Wu Yanyu's body.

When Wu Yanzheng was 7 years old, his father opened a import and export trading company called "Yunhua" in Shanghai, and the family moved to Shanghai.

In Shanghai, she was read by Zhendan Primary School. At that time, she was a church school.

In the second grade of elementary school, she went to the theater with her family. She watched Mei Lanfang singing and played "Luo Shen".

It was the second half of Mei Lanfang's Maskosuke. After the victory of the Anti -Japanese War, Mei Lanfang dedicated his life to the stage.

As soon as the curtain on the stage opened, Mei Lanfang hadn't appeared yet, and the roar of the audience was crazy. By Mei Lanfang's loud voice, every time he sang, he drumped up the stage, which was admiration and respect for the people on the stage.

Xiaoyanhuan did not understand the bad family hatred and the good drama of the country at the time, but just felt that "how can this man perform so well."

In Shanghai in the past few years, Wu Yanzhen followed the elders in the family and watched many "everyone" scenes: Cheng Xiuqiu of "Cheng Pai", Zhang Junqiu of "Zhang Pai", Zhou Xinfang of "Qi Pai" ...

In the age of all flowers, the art of opera art that had been tempered for thousands of years on the Central Plains land, silently infused her.

Mei Lanfang's "Luo Shen" stage photo

Later, his father's work changed to the Shanxi Medical College. Since then, she has followed her father and settled in Shanxi.

When Wu Yanzheng went to high school, his father often took her to watch the drama of the Shanxi Dialai Theater.

In those years, she had watched Zhu Lin's "Cai Wenji" of "Queen of Chinese Drama", and she also watched the drama performance artist's "Dragon Solit" and "Tea House" ...

When watching "Tea House", when the three elderly people sprinkled paper money, the climax on the stage was overwhelming, and Wu Yanzheng in the audience was full of tears -she did not fully understand the connotation of the story, but simply was simply by the atmosphere on the stage and the emotions of the actor's emotions. Shock.

At that time, becoming a drama actor became a seed that was buried in Wu Yanzhang's heart.

So (middle) "Tea House" stills

In 1956, 18 -year -old Wu Yanzheng graduated from high school. She happened to see the Shanxi Diagram Theater recruiting students. She was irritable and immediately reported her name.

The "Signage Theater" also caused a small storm at home.

At that time, the identity of "actor" was still the "three religions and nine streams" that were not recognized by the public. The conservative mother was naturally difficult to accept.

Fortunately, Wu Yanzhen and his father's "alliance", he told his mother: "If you go out of the champion, you will let her try it."

Who knew this trial really made her pass. 1 role

In 1959, 21 -year -old Wu Yanxuan starred in his first movie "Song of Langua".

This is the first movie role in her life, and the only movie role in the first half of her life. In addition, she focuses on the stage of the drama. The drama career is entangled with the name of a martyr: Liu Hulan.

Wu Yanzheng's "Song of the Water" stills

When I was admitted to the theater, Wu Yanxuan didn't know that the post he had taken the test was set for the role of "Liu Hulan".

At that time, she was thin and small, her face was round, she looked very capable, and she was very similar to Liu Hulan's image, so she easily entered the theater.

It's just that it looks like it is not enough to support a flesh -and -blood character.

Because Wu Yanzhang's growth background is far from Liu Hulan, the first two years of the theater, Wu Yanxuan has been tasting frustration--

She won't play.

"I don't stand on the stand, there is no place to put my hands, and she doesn't know how to put her feet. She doesn't even know how to do it." She didn't realize her real suffering, and she felt fake.

Therefore, the theater simply sent Wu Yanyu to Liu Hulan's hometown, Yunzhou West Village, Luliang City, Shanxi Province.

For half a year, Wu Yanzheng lived in a fellow house next to Liu Hulan's house. Every day, he went to the ground and cook with Liu Hulan's mother every day.

Mother Liu told Liu Hulan's story with Wu Yanyu while doing her work.

When I first arrived in Yun Zhouxi Village, it was winter. It was very cold. Wu Yanzheng slept on the cymbal and had a little experience in a cold.

She couldn't bear to report to the theater, and felt that she "since I was here, I must adapt to this environment and understand it thoroughly." Wu Yanzheng burned water to drink.

This is the local earthwork. More than 60 years have passed. Wu Yanxuan also clearly remembers the taste of the bowl of radish skin and experienced the sincerity and enthusiasm of the local farmers to people.

From that moment, she was determined to play "Liu Hulan".

Wu Yanyi (middle) plays Liu Hulan

How many stories are between "determination" and "success to achieve", Wu Yanxuan is now unclear.

She only remembered that this drama was arranged for three years, and after coming to power, she began a national tour. At most, she played 5 "Liu Hulan" a day. From 5 am, she went down at 10 pm and performed for a month.

In addition, she also played other repertoires, but the most fulfilling performance is "Liu Hulan".

On March 19, 1965, the Shanxi dialect theater where Wu Yanxuan was located received a notice to report to the Great Hall of the People.

This year, Wu Yanyu was 27 years old.

I never thought that in the middle of the performance, the dean suddenly ran to the background to announce: "The Prime Minister is here!"

As soon as the words landed, everyone was stunned, and Wu Yanxuan was naturally smashed by the good news.

After performing the show, the Prime Minister walked to the background, and all the performers stood in two rows. Wu Yanzheng stood in the middle position as the heroine.

She watched the Prime Minister walking towards her, and then went to the side and then to condolences. Wu Yanzheng stood in a stay, watching the prime minister's back, until the colleagues next to him patted her.

Wu Yanzhen blushed, and hurriedly shook hands with the Deputy Prime Minister.

The matter has passed 57 years, and the scene of the scene at that time was still vivid. This was the highest honor she remembered for a lifetime.

Wu Yanyi shakes hands with the Prime Minister

In fact, in the early years, the life of the theater was not easy.

Unlike several living assistants in the current stars, in those years, the drama actors said that they were just "unit employees."

In winter, in order to store supplies, their actresses also need to go to Yuci to carry Chinese cabbage to Taiyuan. For more than 20 kilometers, a person must carry 9 cabbage.

In the car, they held the cabbage basket and did not dare to sit down. When they got out of the car, they carried the cabbage basket and walked back to the theater. "But I didn't feel bitter at the time, I just felt that we should be." Wu Yanyi said.

She transformed these sweet and sour memories into a part of acting, and proudly said, "It's like I play a person who picks a vegetable basket in the play. Although there is nothing in my basket, the heavy sense of my acting must have."

Wu Yanyu said that life is particularly important for actors.

4 goodbye

Since entering the theater at the age of eighteen, Wu Yanxuan has dedicated his youth and enthusiasm to the stage.

Marriage and daughter did not delay her career. She toured, curtain, and enjoyed the applause of the entire theater according to her step by step. Mainly work. "

After many years, she has always adhered to her own point of view. She emphasized more than once: "People must have their own career, especially women, even if your husband is very good to you, you have to be independent so that you will have a one to have one. Plant your own beliefs, your own spirit. "

In 1993, 55 -year -old Wu Yanxuan retired from Shanxi Dialai Theater -as a director.

As early as the late 1970s, because there were a lot of actors in the Shanxi Theater and too few directors, the leaders decided to cultivate the director from the actors and chose Wu Yanxuan.

At that time, Wu Yanxuan was unwilling. She felt that she prefers acting than guiding. But obeying the order was the request of public officials at the time, and she did it for a long time in the director's post.

The director of the drama troupe cannot be acting. At that time, the role of each scene was allocated by the art committee. If the director went to be an actor, it was equivalent to "grab the actor's rice bowl". Wu Yanxuan had to let go of her dream, but she did not complain about the heavenly people: "Being the director's experience, let me analyze the role more confident. So when the experiences experienced, there is no waste."

Wu Yanxuan, who was the director of the director (third from left)

After retiring, she couldn't get idle because she still had love for the stage, and she still returned to the theater from time to time to participate in the row.

In 2003, 65 -year -old Wu Yanxuan retired from Shanxi Dialai Theater -she needs to take care of her sick husband.

Wu Yanyu's husband suffered from emphysema. Wu Yanxuan needed to replace the oxygen cylinder on time to maintain his breathing until 2007, the husband died.

At the last moment of his life, the doctor suggested to use an electric shock to rescue. Wu Yanxuan and his daughter decided to give up treatment, and did not want her husband to suffer unnecessary pain.

Wu Yanzhen has always been not afraid of death, which may be related to her father working at a medical school.

In the early years, with his father, Wu Yanxuan had seen too many old and sick: "You cry in heart, they can't go back, why do they do that? Hurry up to deal with their funerals, then put in their own jobs correct."

When her father died before Wu Yanzheng retired. After her husband died, she returned to her home to take care of her old mother until her mother died at the age of 94.

In 2010, 72 -year -old Wu Yanxuan was in Shanxi and had no relatives.

After three parting of life, Wu Yanyi waved again and bid farewell to the city that had lived for most of his life.

The daughter who lived in Beijing received her with her and lived with herself and her children.

Since then, the gear of fate has rotated again, loading the courage of the elderly, and will eventually mesh with dreams-

When a person is lighter and restrained and objective, her life will be fearless.

As Wu Yanzhen said, "What are you afraid of, just do it, so old, die when you die."

When a person faces life and death, it will usher in a new life.

2 spring

How did Wu Yanyi enter the entertainment industry?

It was Wu Yanxuan, who lived in Beijing in 2010, was unhappy.

The daughter was going to work, and the grandson had been admitted to the university. Wu Yanzhen could not find the value he existed in this house.

"At this age, you are not good for anyone to disturb anyone. Everyone is busy. Slowly, you are more depressed."

She was like a flower that was removed from water, and she witnessed the day after day.

At this time, Zhang Jizhong, who had worked at the Shanxi Dialai Theater, was preparing a new version of "Journey to the West". He found Wu Yanxuan and invited her to make a guest appearance in the corner of the Blue Po Bodhisattva.

Wu Yanxuan had nothing to do with it, and agreed.

In 2011, Wu Yanxuan (right) starred in the new version of "Journey to the West"

In this crew, Wu Yanxuan met some crew coordinated. She suddenly realized why she didn't make a movie?

Now that you can perform well on the stage, you can naturally play in the "square box".

After the crew of "Journey to the West" came out, Wu Yanzhen, an experienced and good acting, was famous in the entertainment industry, and gradually, began to send her some trial invitations to her. Mom and grandma.

Wu Yanyi is also very satisfied: "I am at this age, I have not played it except the supporting role."

In 2017, Wu Yanzheng starred in "Fall in Love"

In a TV series, a character has a line with nearly two pages. Such a drama, the drama actor is more masterpiece, and the deputy director of the crew found Wu Yanxuan.

Wu Yanzhen had no agent at the time, so he went with the crew to pick up the crowd actor's bus. At the scene, because the lounge was not enough, the deputy director moved Wu Yanyu a stool and put it in the corner of the set. Coincidentally, the organizer of the masses was the organizer of the masses.

"Group head" is a little girl. When she saw Wu Yanxuan, she asked her to ask for a paper towel. Later, she kept calling Wu Yanxuan, thinking that this was an ordinary mass actor.

Wu Yanxuan first arrived, chose obediently, thinking, thinking: "I'm still a newcomer, people are already an old mass actor."

Until she was invited to the camera, she said the long line.

Wu Yanzheng's eyes in the corner never changed to admiration. After getting off the stage, the "group head" ran over and held her hand excitedly, and shouted "Teacher Teacher" in his mouth.

Wu Yanyi remembered the scene and said, "I think it is particularly cute."

Wu Yanxuan, who was old, wandered in various crews like this, took a small character one after another, and won the respect and favor one after another by strength.

Wu Yanyi in "Love Date"

Until 2015, a deputy director who had worked in cooperation found Wu Yanyu and told her that there was a movie that the director and starring actor were kept secret, but they needed a actress who looked like 80 years old and actually 60 years old.

Wu Yanzhen asked why, the deputy director said that 90 % of the dramas were filmed abroad, fearing that the elderly could not take a plane when they were older.

That year, Wu Yanzheng was 77 years old, and she went without saying a word.

She couldn't English, her daughter registered an electronic dictionary on her mobile phone, and she rely on it to make simple translation. During the filming, she was playing alone abroad, and she was never afraid of losing into strange land- "I thought that I couldn't find the way this place. What's more, the grandson also installed the positioning app on her mobile phone, always paying attention to her grandmother's whereabouts.

This movie is "Beijing Meets Seattle's Best Love Book". Wu Yanxuan played an old Chinese lady in it. Although she had a laughed, she always had the shame of the girl.

As a sequel to a well -known movie, after the movie was launched, many people ridiculed that the movie was suspected of being a dog tail, but no one said that the role of Wu Yanxuan was not good. This role was so smart that it seemed to be tailor -made for Wu Yanxuan.

Her cried red nose, the wrinkles that laughed at, all talked about the profoundness and beauty of time.

In 2015, Wu Yanzheng starred in "Beijing Meets Seattle 2"

In fact, the director Xue Xiaolu also fancy Wu Yan's wrinkles.

In the interview, Xue Xiaolu said: "As soon as I saw her, I felt that my grandma was her, and I liked her wrinkles. Now the elderly have no wrinkles, and the white hair with light is combed. Mrs."

The wrinkles that were avoided by actresses were not afraid of it, in Wu Yanzhang's view, it was also a gift to her.

Wu Yanyu said: "If my face is still smooth, you will feel that those characters are not credible, and wrinkles form the story of my life."

Because of this "Beijing Meeting Seattle's Best Love Letter", Wu Yanxuan was called "grandma" by many people. In the future, her play is endless. At most, she can make 10 plays a year, some movies, and TV series.

In 2018, Wu Yanzheng starred in the movie "Animal World"

In 2017, with the movie "Relocation", Wu Yanzhen won the best supporting actress of the Golden Rooster Award.

Standing on the podium, she said, "I am 79 years old, and I have won a national award for the first time." The words were humble, but the voice was not humble.

In 2017, Wu Yanzhen won the best supporting actress of the Golden Rooster Award

In 2020, 82 -year -old Wu Yanzhang participated in the TV series "The Golden Years", playing a grandma who was a male light and daughter.

When shooting his son jumping from the scene, the director was worried that Wu Yanxuan was too old to bear such a big emotional ups and downs. He wanted to only shoot the shaking of the curtains to metaphorize the plot.

But Wu Yanzhen did not agree. She felt that she was here to shoot. Naturally, the performance of the actor could more intuitively convey the feelings in the camera.

When I arrived on the set, the director asked Wu Yanyu again: "Grandma, shoot the curtains or shoot you."

Wu Yanzheng didn't go back and walked in: "Taking me."

In 2020, Wu Yanzheng starred in "The Golden Years"

Over the years, she is like a female head of the rivers and lakes. She has moved to various studios, laughing and scolding is life, and there is a story in singing and playing.

When the camera was built on her, the audience could easily see the imprint of the times and see the shadow of the people she had met.

The second spring in Wu Yanzheng's career is coming.

In 2021, Wu Yanzheng starred

50 times lines

Wu Yanzhang's "retirement and re -employment" was praised by many people as a model of "elegant and old -fashioned "--

The clothes are well -dressed and successful, and your hands are raised, which perfectly interprets what "elegance will never be out of date."

But throwing the problem to Wu Yanzhen herself, she waved again and again: "I just have another opportunity to work, I cherish it."

She never held herself with the "old drama bone". On the contrary, in Wu Yanzhang's view, at this stage of employment, the biggest help to her is just a young man.

"Young people don't have to be aligned with the older generation, because the things we have contacted are different and the times are different. Instead, we are old, and we must learn from young people."

Due to the long -term habit of performing on the stage of the drama, when she first started performing a TV series, she unconsciously put her inner monologue into the performance, and the lines she read seemed to be procrastinating.

Wu Yanzhen observed the performance of young actors on the set and learned the rhythm of the lines with them. "The performance also needs to keep pace with the times."

Not only that, she and her cooperative young people are very harmonious. After leisurely, she also played basketball with young people and made layups in three steps.

She did not imprison herself because of her age. "I haven't thought about how old I am, and I think I can do anything."

Wu Yanyi is playing basketball

On one occasion, Hou Minghao, who played her "grandson", sent a circle of friends. The content was a picture of a motorcycle.

At first glance, Wu Yanzhen was startled, and he was too unhappy to think about this child.

She just wanted to send a message to condolences to the "wounded", and suddenly remembered that this may be some kind of online language, so she turned to "ask Du Niang" first. The result shows that "falling into the pit" is "very obsessed with a certain thing. "the meaning of.

She was relieved, thinking that she couldn't ask, or she would make a joke.

The search engine in the mobile phone is the anchor point for Wu Yanyu to explore the world. In the year of 想, she still wants to be curious about the world in front of her. This is the source of her good state -with curiosity, even if she is 80 years old, she is young and disappears. Even the 20 -year -old is an old man.

Nowadays, Wu Yanyu's play is getting more and more, and she is going out to go out.

But she will not entrust her affairs to others: air tickets, she book on her mobile phone; sick, she goes to the hospital by a car.

She also raised a "travel frog" on her mobile phone. Recently, the frog did not send her a new photo, so she turned and spoiled "Elimination".

In Wu Yanzhen's view, the only difference between himself and young people is that the memory should be slightly inferior, and you should pay more attention to your body.

In order to let herself not drag her legs on the line, she put forward her lines in the script and read it 50 times. "Now there is no previous memory, you can remember it twice before."

In order to allow her body to support the entire shooting cycle, she stipulates that she will conduct a medical examination once in half a year. If she needs to shoot for a long time, she will check her body before entering the group. Come on, how bad. "

In 2022, 84 -year -old Wu Yanxuan showed "a word horse"

She maintained the right and decent age, with her desire to explore the world, and fully enjoy her elderly life:

"It's inevitable, you are worried about it, don't you worry about it? Rather than worrying about becoming old, it is better to welcome happiness."

1 doubt

Today, 84 -year -old Wu Yanyu has a new confusion.

In her role, there is no exception to the stereotypes of the elderly: the grandmother of the male light and the girl, the great mother, and the stubborn old lady, wait quietly in the cold years, wait quietly ...

These characters do not see the attributes of men and women, occupations, personality, etc. in society. There is only one identity, that is, "old man".

Like treating children, with the current care of young people's high care of the elderly group, they are out of date, vulgar, and cannot keep up with the times.

It seems that such a play is called "real old man", but Wu Yanzhen refused to accept it.

She did not understand that there were old people like her in the world: smart, jumping, understanding the Internet heat stalk, and happy life alone.

She is just an actress, and she happens to be 84 years old.

In an interview, Wu Yanxuan shared his plans in recent stages proudly:

She is going to learn a driver's license. She wants to have a car belonging to her, and she also has a new journey that belongs to her.

She said that the driver's license was canceled, and Wu Yanzheng would always be on the road.

Part of the reference materials:

1. "Southern Character Weekly" ｜ Wu Yanyu wrinkles are part of life

2. "Daily New News" ｜ 84 -year -old Wu Yanyu's best heroine in life

3. "Kefan Listen" ｜ "Grandma of National Grandma" Girl Heart Wu Yanzheng interview

4. "Lu Yu has a one -day trip" | Wu Yanyu: Age is a rumor

5. "ELLE MEN New Youth" ｜ Wu Yanyu: I am "new and old"

6. Xinhua Daily Telecom ｜ "Gold Medal Supporting Acting" Wu Yanyu: 84 years old, still young and elegant life

7. Beijing News ｜ Wu Yanyi: 82 years old still acts, the director sees my wrinkles

Picture source: network, show screenshot

15 / SEP / 2022

Source: the most character

Edit: Sanfu

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