01. The Most Beautiful Daji
Fu Yiwei’s acting career begins with an accidental experience when he was 14 years old.
In 1964, Fu Yiwei was born in a wealthy family in Harbin. His enlightened parents have always respected Fu Yiwei's hobbies and personal choices, and their well-off family background allowed Fu Yiwei to avoid hunger and cold in his childhood, allowing him to enjoy all the beauty in the world as he pleased.
With the love of her family, Fu Yiwei grew up like a little princess and became a famous beauty from all over the country.
Time flashes to 1978, when the little princess Fu Yiwei became a 14-year-old junior high school student. One day, Fu Yiwei went to school as usual. Unexpectedly, he found that the whole class was excitedly talking about the recruitment of actors for the "She Came from the Mist" crew. Some of the girls' faces showed eagerness to try.
"Do you think I can succeed in the interview with the crew?" A girl asked her deskmate in a low voice.
The classmate smiled and said: "No problem, we will go with you after school."
Perhaps it was the enthusiasm of the students that aroused Fu Yiwei's curiosity, and Fu Yiwei took the time to follow countless people with dreams. Behind the people, they ran to the set to watch the fun.
However, Fu Yiwei’s appearance is too outstanding. As soon as she arrived at the audition location for the crew, she was invited for an interview by the enthusiastic staff. The interviewing teacher was shocked when he saw it. He asked Fu Yiwei a few simple questions and decided that Fu Yiwei would play the role of "Xiao Man".
After the movie was aired, Fu Yiwei’s role as Xiao Man was well received by the audience. Fu Yiwei, who had never been exposed to acting before, opened the door to the entertainment industry by accident.
In the 1980s, it was not easy to become a professional actor, but this was not a problem at all for Fu Yiwei. In 1982, Changchun Film Studio was recruiting students. Fu Yiwei made simple preparations and signed up for the election. As a result, he stood out from more than 6,000 competitors based on his outstanding appearance and officially became a professional actor.
After entering Changying Film Studio, Fu Yiwei was full of firepower and created many film industry myths one after another. In 1986, Fu Yiwei, who was only 22 years old, won the Changying Studio Xiaobaihua Best Actress Award for "Female Soldier Waltz", and then successfully won the Special Award of the 6th Golden Rooster Award for the feature film "We Veterans". The 9th Hundred Flowers Award for Best Feature Film and many other awards.
With the blessing of many awards, Fu Yiwei has continued to have film appointments, and his reputation in the industry is also growing. It happened that the costume drama "Feng Shen Bang" was being filmed at that time. After the director heard about Fu Yiwei's name, he made a special trip to invite her to play the role of Daji.
Fu Yiwei readily agreed to the director, as if he was just taking a trip. She probably didn't know at that time how significant "The Legend of the Gods" would leave in her acting career.
However, this ease was ruthlessly broken when he first arrived on the set. Fu Yiwei belatedly discovered that in order to highlight King Zhou's innocence, the costumes arranged for the character of Daji were all extremely revealing.
Fu Yiwei quits and is clamoring to resign. When the director heard this, he became anxious and hurriedly assured Fu Yiwei that the costumes would be revised, so Fu Yiwei reluctantly stayed.
Unexpectedly, the costume episode has just ended, and new problems are coming one after another. It turned out that after Fu Yiwei got the script, he found that Daji's image was too negative. Fu Yiwei was worried that this role would make the audience dislike him, so he once again considered quitting.
But the filming of the TV series is about to start at this time, and rash withdrawal will cause huge losses to the film studio. Fu Yiwei was in a dilemma and couldn't help but talk to his best friend about his worries.
After listening to Fu Yiwei quietly, my best friend felt sad, and said with a smile that in the world of actors, there are no bad roles, only actors whose acting skills are not up to par. Even in a villainous role, a good actor can bring out the inner brilliance of the character.
Fu Yiwei's words made her suddenly enlightened. She immediately decided to star in "The Legend of the Gods" and relied on her stage experience to create a vivid image of Daji that was different from the past.
Fu Yiwei discovered that Daji in previous dramas was mostly shown as the negative image of a fox demon.
In order to avoid a facial expression, Fu Yiwei used facial expression changes and eye play to highlight Daji's cute and innocent side during the performance.
Audiences who have long been accustomed to the traditional image of Daji suddenly discovered that Daji in "The Legend of the Gods" often has a wave of eyes, full of charm and a hint of childlike childishness, even when she is angry, she seems to be angry. It's a screen classic that makes people both love and hate it.
The wonderful performance made Fu Yiwei's version of Daji known as "the most beautiful Daji". In the following thirty years, "The Legend of the Gods" has been remade many times, and countless first-line actresses have reinterpreted the role of Daji, but no one has left an indelible impression on the audience like Fu Yiwei.
Relying on the role of Daji, Fu Yiwei became a god in one battle. The directors who approached her almost crossed the threshold, and various film offers were even accepted. Fu Yiwei looked at the thick invitation letter and sighed softly. The flourishing career not only did not bring any joy to Fu Yiwei, but made her emotional world extremely sad.
02. "The Fallen Poisonous Concubine"
Long before filming "The Legend of the Gods", Fu Yiwei had a warm family. Her lover's name is Yang Xiaodan, who is her colleague at Changying Film Factory.
The same career interests should have allowed the two to live out their lives as a couple of gods in the eyes of outsiders. However, due to the 9-year age difference between the two and the instability caused by their acting career, the two spent less time together and separated more after marriage, and their sworn love gradually faded away.
Just five years later, Fu Yiwei couldn't bear this nominal marriage, so he filed for divorce and focused all his energy on acting.
Fu Yiwei is really blessed by God, and he has made great achievements as soon as he puts some effort into his acting career. During that time, Fu Yiwei not only created the classic Daji, but also starred in Xue Baochai in "A Dream of Red Mansions", Abahai in "Nurhachi", and Chen Yuanyuan in "Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan". All of them were amazing.
But the great success in career cannot make up for the emptiness in the heart. As Fu Yiwei said in an interview with the media: "Compared with career success, I want to have emotional support. I am not a person who is used to working alone, and I really hope that I can find a shoulder to rely on as soon as possible."
The marriage that Fu Yiwei was looking forward to became a reality in 1992. Fu Yiwei, who was at the peak of his career at that time, accidentally met Gao Gao, a teacher at the Beijing Dance Academy. The two soon fell in love and got married hand in hand, leaving behind a legend of a golden boy and a beautiful girl.
The following year, Fu Yiwei gave birth to his son Gao Lenan, and took another full year off before returning to the entertainment industry. Even so, Fu Yiwei's status as a first-line actress is still untouchable.
In 1994, Fu Yiwei took on the first cross-strait historical drama "Tang Taizong Li Shimin" after his comeback. The film crew offered Fu Yiwei a salary of 400,000 yuan in one go. Fu Yiwei's status in the film industry can be seen from this. generally.
However, the filming experience of "Tang Taizong Li Shimin" was really not a pleasant experience for Fu Yiwei. As one of the leading actors, Fu Yiwei has a very heavy role. Sometimes he even shoots for three days and three nights in a row, which makes him extremely exhausted.
There are many actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan who play with them. In Fu Yiwei’s view, these Hong Kong and Taiwan actors always join forces to isolate and exclude themselves. This made Fu Yiwei once lamented, "Actors are really not human beings." 's life".
As a result, as soon as the filming of "Tang Taizong Li Shimin" ended, Fu Yiwei immediately quit the entertainment industry and plunged into the business field, intending to continue to write new glories as a businessman.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to make money in business. Firstly, Fu Yiwei didn't know the ropes of business, and secondly, he had no professional team to assist him. He relied entirely on his own preferences and ran rampant in the business field.
For example, if she likes Brigitte Lin, she goes to represent Brigitte Lin’s husband’s brand. Unexpectedly, that brand had not opened up in the local market at all, Fu Yiwei had no distribution channels, and consumers did not buy the product itself. As a result, Fu Yiwei lost all his capital in one fell swoop.
Business failure indirectly affected Fu Yiwei’s married life.
The husband felt sorry for the money he had lost and couldn't help but blame Fu Yiwei and said: "If you leave a good actor and quit, what kind of business are you going to do?"
Fu Yiwei was extremely disappointed by her husband's indifferent attitude. The two broke out into a fierce quarrel, which wiped out the couple's relationship over the years.
In the end, the former golden boy and girl came to the end of their marriage due to long-term quarrels and cold violence. In 2000, Fu Yiwei became single again. She shifted the focus of her life to business. She participated in some variety shows in her spare time and lived a free and comfortable life.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. In 2016, a piece of news from the National Narcotics Control Office broke Fu Yiwei's seemingly peaceful life. It turned out that Fu Yiwei was reported by Chaoyang people for allegedly allowing others to take drugs. After police review, Fu Yiwei's urine test was positive for methamphetamine.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves. Netizens were stunned by the news of Fu Yiwei's drug abuse. The media circle was moved by the news and rushed to interview Fu Yiwei, hoping to get first-hand news about the most beautiful Daji in the past who was involved in drugs.
The familiar spotlight turned on, and the cold detention center replaced the gorgeous stage. Fu Yiwei looked back on the past and couldn't help but shed tears of regret.
She told reporters that after the divorce, she seemed to be living a good life, but in fact she was very empty inside. That's why she wanted to take drugs to relieve her loneliness. Now she thinks about it and regrets it very much.
Having said that, emptiness and loneliness cannot be a reason for taking drugs. Fu Yiwei may have had such a smooth journey that she knew that if she got into drugs, she would be a bad artist, but she still knowingly committed the crime, hoping that the good luck that accompanied her along the way would continue to protect her and turn the bad luck into good.
But this time, the miracle did not happen. Drugs completely ruined Fu Yiwei's career and turned Fu Yiwei from the "most beautiful Daji" in the hearts of the audience to a "fallen poisonous concubine". Even if Fu Yiwei later made a special trip to apologize to the public for this, he was unable to win the public's forgiveness.
Not only that, due to the influence of drug-related misdeeds, major film crews have blacklisted Fu Yiwei. Even the drama appointments that Fu Yiwei had previously negotiated were all urgently replaced. Now Fu Yiwei has no acting skills. But there are no more scenes to film, and I can only occasionally get some rare "appearance" opportunities at private parties of celebrities circulated on the Internet.
Thinking back to the 1980s and 1990s, Fu Yiwei is the childhood memory of many Chinese people. Her every move and smile in the camera makes people's hearts flutter, and the role of Daji in "The Legend of the Gods" is even more exciting. Fu Yiwei's battle to become a god led to several remakes of "The Legend of the Gods" over the years. Only Fu Yiwei's version of Daji is recognized as a classic.
It’s a pity that all this was ruined by drugs. After the drug abuse incident, Fu Yiwei was banned from the entire Internet almost overnight, and there was no drama to film. All the glory in the past seemed to have become a joke, and Fu Yiwei's life of high and low was mercilessly witnessed.
Obviously he had a plan to win, but he made a mistake at the crossroads of life and regretted it for eternity. Fu Yiwei used his bleak experience to once again prove that drugs are a forbidden area that artists must not touch. Otherwise, even if he is as amazing as Fu Yiwei, he will only destroy his good cards in the end.