<h1>Introduction——</h1>
Everyone knows that many stars have their own stand-ins, and many stars in the entertainment industry have made their debut because of their stand-ins, and have achieved achievements through their continuous efforts, so that the public is familiar with the stars.
For example, Zeng Zhiwei once served as a stand-in for people because of his personal appearance, and Zhang Jin was also a martial arts substitute, specifically completing some difficult and dangerous martial arts dramas for others. And today I want to talk about Du Yiheng, who once gave Andy Lau the king of heaven as a royal stand-in, he is an all-round artist who can sing and dance, has danced with Jacky Cheung, Zhang Guorong, has released albums, and has opened concerts with tens of thousands of people.
In 1978, a child named Du Yiheng was born in Chengdu, Sichuan. At that time, he was still in his infancy, how could he not imagine that he would one day become a stand-in for Andy Lau, the king of heaven, and thus debuted, stepping into the entertainment industry to start an 8-year-long stand-in journey.
Just like fate, Du Yiheng, who is 17, likes to perform and has also participated in some small performances. Until 1999, at the age of 21, Du Yiheng participated in a parody show "Happy Story" of Central Television, and won the championship in the show, and became famous ever since.
Because of his resemblance to Andy Lau, Du Yiheng began his own performance path by imitating Andy Lau when he was young. What makes him most proud is that he once sang at the Chengdu Gymnasium, but it was precisely because of an incident encountered at the concert that he doubted himself and also made him have new plans.
Originally, when singing at the Chengdu Gymnasium, the host never said that Du Yiheng was invited to appear, but said that he invited the mysterious guest to appear. And when he appears, everyone will cheer in surprise: "Andy Lau, Andy Lau." It turned out that everyone thought that he was Andy Lau, not Du Yiheng, and the aura of the star covered up his own light, so that Du Yuheng began to think about whether everyone said that he liked it was because of Du Yiheng or because of Andy Lau. So he secretly made up his mind that in the future, he must have his own works, his own albums, and open an exclusive concert belonging to Du Yiheng, so that everyone can wave a glow stick to listen to him sing.
The idea was like a seed that took root in my mind and grew into a tree in 2003. Du Yiheng took out all his savings, and borrowed more than 700,000 yuan from his friends to make an album, but the result was very unsatisfactory, and he directly lost a mess. In order to pay off his debts, he sold his house and car, and sold all the valuable things in the family, because of an "immature" act he became a person with nothing.
One day, Du Yiheng received a phone call, and the end of the phone said that there was a big movie that needed actors, and he was specially asked to audition. This call came too soon, Du Yiheng did not say anything rushed to the set, but did not expect that this is not a role that can show his face, but a stunt actor, specifically for the male number one to complete some dangerous actions, and this male number one is The King Offila Andy Lau.
It is said that the assistant director said to him at that time: "The young man's stand-in is doing well, and he may have the opportunity to have a role in the movie in the future" Du Yiheng began his 8-year-long stand-in career, for a future, perhaps, there is a chance, he is hard-working, spending half a year learning from other people's three-year courses, desperately honing his acting skills, completing every stand-in shooting, thinking that one day he can have a role in the movie, but he did not expect that this road would be so difficult.
Du Yiheng had tasted the feeling of being used as a stand-in by others, so he finally plucked up the courage to introduce himself to the director Mao Sui, but the director told him: "Xiao Du, you are acting well, but your appearance is not suitable for the next time, next time." ", Cheng also Andy Lau, defeat also Andy Lau, because too much like Andy Lau, resulting in Du Yiheng has no drama to shoot, can only be a martial substitute.
Some people say that imitating Andy Lau is the same as being a stand-in for Andy Lau, what is the difference? Aren't they all living in and out of Andy Lau's shadow? But this is completely different for Du Yiheng, in his view, imitation is just makeup, the similarity in appearance is entertainment, and Wu Ti is a film art, which needs to pay a lot, although it is for Andy Lau, but it is an actor in the movie, even if it is only a flash, just a few seconds of back.
During the filming of a scene in nagasakapo in the movie "Three Kingdoms of the Dragon Unloading Armor", Du Yiheng needed a horse to save Ah Dou, and there were a lot of martial arts scenes, requiring hundreds of people to stab him with a long knife at the same time. If it was only one or two, it might still be possible to dodge and not let yourself be hurt, but there were too many people, and everyone didn't know where to stab, so they could only stab together at the same time, which made Du Yiheng unable to dodge, and his hands were full of blood. The director immediately shouted the card, went to see Du Yiheng's injury, and used a flush to find that the skin in many places on his hand was gone, but the scene was still filming, Du Yiheng could only endure the pain and simple treatment to continue shooting, until the director shouted the card, the scene was all filmed, he had the opportunity to go to the hospital.
There was even a martial arts scene on the circus, because it was too intense and fell directly off the horse's back, and the horse stepped on the ribs, almost hurting the heart, fortunately it was not a big problem. Du Yiheng said that as a Wuti injury is a common thing, there are three ambulances at the scene every day, a martial arts line dozens of Wuti will be sent to the hospital every day, there have been programs exposed Du Yiheng injury photos, the scene looks very painful.
Until one time, One of Du Yiheng's good buddies Wei Yibo was an assistant director in Director Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly", all the roles have been fixed, only 9 days away from filming, and there has been no suitable actor to play the "Hun Bandit" Old Fourth.
So he sent Du Yiheng's photo to the director Jiang Wen to see, and Jiang Wen read it and said, "Let him come." So the two sides agreed to meet at about 10 o'clock in the morning in huairou halfway up the mountainside, after meeting Jiang Wen did not mention the audition, but simply asked Du Yiheng if he had filmed? Will you ride a horse? Du Yiheng frankly said that he had never filmed a scene, and had always done Andy Lau's movements, a stand-in for martial arts, and could ride a horse.
Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, Jiang Wen asked Du Yiheng to have lunch together and went to the horseback riding audition in the afternoon, but Du Yiheng refused, because at 12 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, he was going to record a variety show of "Happy Dictionary", and he had promised the other party, so he could not go, nor could he be late.
When the program was recorded, it was already 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Du Yiheng received a call from Wei Yibo, the other party informed him to come directly to the crew, at that time Du Yiheng was blinded, he did not audition, how was he selected?
Later, because of his superb acting skills in "Let the Bullets Fly", everyone instantly remembered him, and in the same year, he also filmed "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", and since then he has started his own actor's road, cooperated in shooting a number of films, successfully got rid of the title of "Little Andy Lau", became himself, and became Du Yiheng.
As Du Yiheng said: "I am very grateful to Jiang Wen, without him, I don't know where to fight now." "Fighting here means being a stand-in.
In 2018, Du Yiheng won the Best Actor Award at the Vancouver International Chinese Film Festival for his film "Doufa Five Lakes Town", and in the same year, "Crazy Bull" won the Best Actor Award again.
The following year, he won the Best Actor Award for Online Film at the 11th Macao International Film Festival with "Di Renjie's Blood Vine", and Du Yiheng walked for 10 years from a stand-in to a film emperor, which made everyone remember his fame.
Speaking of Du Yiheng, in addition to thinking that he was once Andy Lau's royal stand-in, the most eye-catching thing is his love story with Andy Lau's ex-girlfriend Yu Kexin.
There have been many media reports of a series of scandals such as the secret marriage of the two, but according to Du Yiheng himself, he and Yu Kexin had only met twice at that time and were not familiar at all.
Because Yu Kexin wrote a book called "Love Sea starry sky", it was bought by director Deng Jianguo to prepare for filming, and Du Yiheng was invited to act. All the gossip photos were all taken by Yu Kexin to sign the copyright, taken at the time of the development conference, when Du Yiheng's wife was also present, obviously there were many people in particular, but the two people's same frame photos were still taken as a hype point, by various hype, and it was as if it were true.
In fact, in 2005, Du Yiheng married his wife Ya Ya, the feelings are particularly good, for the media hype news, the wife Ya Ya believes that this is a fake news that catches the wind and shadows, she believes in Du Yiheng's personality, choose to trust each other, the two think there is no need to clarify, it is not worth spending time to do this thing.
In 2001, when his father died in a car accident, Du Yiheng recorded the MV of the first song of his life, "Chinese Soul", in Beijing, and his mother did not tell him that his father had died until he finished his work. In 2009, my mother did not have any warning, and she never woke up in the morning when she went to bed at night, this time Du Yiheng was filming in the theater, and he was also not present, and he did not see them for the last time when his parents died. This became his eternal pain, and every time he mentioned it, he would be sad and cry, and his wife and maid took care of him during this time, accompanied by Du Yiheng's side, and let him stand up again.
Now du Yiheng debuted more than ten years ago, zero scandal and wife feelings are as good as before, is a pair of "fairy lovers" envied by many people in the circle.
Du Yiheng said: "When I was young, I wanted my parents to live a good life when I was young, but now I just want to be a good actor. ”
May Du Yiheng's family be happy, and at the same time continue to shine in his acting career and make more and better movies.
<h1>Write at the end</h1>
If there was no Du Yiheng who was so desperate at the beginning, there would be no Du Yiheng now.
Yi Ye Qianxi once said: "There is no so-called overnight fame, some are just made into steel", no one can succeed casually, and everything behind this is unimaginable to us.
Written by: White Gardenia
Source: Variety show "There is a protagonist please", "Ma Lan Blossom"
Image source: Baidu variety show "Ma Lan Blossom" (infringement is deleted)