Xu Shaoqiang, who once played the role of "Zao Wou-ki" in "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier", died of esophageal cancer in Beijing earlier this month.
In recent years, Xu Shaoqiang's state seems to be old and strong, but he does not leave his mouth for cigarettes and alcohol in private, and his illness may also have something to do with this.
is over half a hundred years old, which should be a happy age, but he often plays "anti-string roles" in big online movies and runs around.
In this regard, some viewers who know him well said that "it is completely self-inflicted", what did he do when he was young?
Xu Shaoqiang came to Hong Kong with his family to settle in Hong Kong at an early age.
Before entering the entertainment industry, he worked as a "white-collar worker" in a stock company.
At that time, this kind of job was a dream for many people, but Xu Shaoqiang felt that such a life was not challenging, and he envied and aspired to become a martial arts movie star on the screen.
Encouraged by his friends, Xu Shaoqiang decided to quit his stable job, sign up for the Shaw Brothers training class, and sign a contract with Shaw Brothers after graduation.
At the age of 17, he made his official debut in the movie "One-Armed Knife", and after that, he signed a contract with "Li's TV" and participated in the filming of many film and television dramas, and became famous.
But the rise of fame is accompanied by forgetting the original intention. At that time, Li's launched a "Silkworm Transformation" that was filmed and broadcast, and Xu Shaoqiang played "Yun Feiyang" in the play.
This drama has set off an unprecedented wave of popularity and drama chasing, and at the same time, it has also been "jealous" by rival companies, who have taken out a huge amount of money and hope that Xu Shaoqiang will quit filming.
Unexpectedly, he was bewitched by money and lost his professional ethics as an actor, so he just left.
In desperation, the producer could only change the actors.
Such a behavior of "selling for glory" is despised by the industry.
But I have to say that Xu Shaoqiang's luck is really good.
In 1992, Stephen Chow's movie "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er" was released, in which Xu Shaoqiang played the villain "Zao Wou-ki".
This role not only saved him from the trough of his career, but also became Xu Shaoqiang's representative role.
He has created countless classic roles, but his love life is also "despised" by the audience.
When Xu Shaoqiang was still a trick actor, he married a girl, and as his acting career became more and more prosperous, he began to dislike his wife in various ways, so he took the initiative to file for divorce.
Soon after, he married another amateur, He Shukuan, and had a son.
But he never thought that during the filming of "Raising Ghosts", he met "Sydney", who was only 17 years old, Sydney is the sister of actor Michelle, who once played Li Mochou in Louis Koo's version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", or Leslie Cheung's first love.
Xu Shaoqiang looked at the young and beautiful Sydney, instantly forgot that he had a family, and launched a fierce offensive frantically.
Under the sweet words and sugar-coated shells, Sydney fell into the "trap", even if her sister Michelle obstructed her many times, she still ignored it, and carried out an extramarital affair with Xu Shaoqiang for many years, and gave birth to a daughter for him.
Over the years, she has lost her career and buried her youth, but she didn't wait for Xu Shaoqiang's "marriage letter", she finally decided to leave with her children.
After Xu Shaoqiang and He Shukuan divorced, they went to the mainland to develop, until 2005, at the age of 55, he married his third wife, who was 30 years younger than him, and the two had a pair of children after marriage.
It may be that he is old and can't help but toss, it may be that the economy is not as good as before, and he has no money to toss, and he rarely has scandals after that.
Now that he has passed away, some people sigh, and some people feel that this is also a major manifestation of the gradual loneliness of martial arts movies.