People who like to watch spy thrillers are no strangers to Liu Yunlong. In China, he is known as the "spy movie first person". So much so that in an awards ceremony, Zhang Guo Li also teased him on the spot: the actor's career on the main spies, agents, undercover three roles, the two live in a courtyard for more than a decade, it is not seen.
But because of the long years of focus on filming, Liu Yunlong has been very "mysterious", but his work, but the red "street".
Liu Yunlong was born in Jinan, Shandong Province, his parents originally named him "Liu Yongqing". Later, because his grandmother dreamed of the word "yunlong" in a dream, the family also thought the name was good, so they renamed him Liu Yunlong.
As a child, Liu Yunlong was a person who was not willing to be ordinary.
Perhaps it was the context of the big time, at that time, he, like many children around him, admired heroes, loved soldiers and was full of a sense of justice. Because of the same ambition, so the young him, it is easy to mingle with the partners around him. In his youthful days, he used to go out and "fight" with his friends for the sake of "righteousness".
The most serious time, head 5 stitches, face was 5 stitches.
These special experiences have made Liu Yunlong at that time, very much like to watch the movie and television drama of those "Jianghu righteousness".
Possibly because he watched more, he became interested in acting at an early age, thinking that one day he would be able to be one of those "positive characters" on TV. Before learning to act, Liu Yunlong began to learn to play the guitar and sing at the age of 16. Because of his good image, he was soon touring around Shandong with a performance team.
Liu Yunlong enjoyed his time as a performer.
But the "hero's dream" in his heart didn't let him go on like that. Later, he took the entrance examination, and got the acceptance notice of the Central Academy of Drama, Shanghai Opera House and Beijing Film Academy at once. And in the BeiJing exam, because of the good performance, in one fell swoop to take the BeiJing image and professional double perfect score. He is one of only two students in the history of BeiJing who scored full marks in image, the other being Zhou LiJing.
After weighing his options, Liu Yunlong chose to report to the Beijing Film Academy. He was 21 years old that year, and the road to acting had just begun.
Because the test scores were too "dazzling", Liu Yunlong, who entered the university, has always been with a halo. Not only is the teacher in his favor, but also because of a meter eight big man, straight body, clean face. A lot of girls in the school had "liked" him.
When he was in school, he was so famous that in his sophomore year, he managed to take over the movie "Youth Without Regret", which was written by Wang Shuo. In the movie, he was cast with the justly popular Zhang Fengyi and Shi Lan. Although very youthful, he had some of his own understanding of acting at that time.
Campus days are always short, Liu Yunlong graduated from BeiFang and because of his excellent grades, he was assigned to work at the Central Experimental Drama Theater. Although as a student, he had excellent grades and was a popular schoolboy. But when he arrived in the drama theater, everything had to start all over again.
Without the "halo", he had to start with some small roles.
For Liu Yunlong, who is used to hearing praises, those days are hard to bear. He also said he became an actor to play the "big heroes" on stage one day.
But in the theater, everything seems to be a long way off.
A year later, when young people like him were still struggling to polish their acting skills, he left the theater, intending to go out on his own. A lot of friends around him advised him to hold on a little longer, there will always be a day of reckoning, but he felt that the "bitter" persistence, is meaningless.
So at the age of 26, through keen observation, he chose to go south from Beijing to Guangzhou to start the electrical appliances business, and also opened an advertising company. Because he was in the "wave" of economic development, riding the wind of the times, Liu Yunlong soon had a harvest.
And the free period of doing business, he also became a singer.
He released an album, "I Never Asked for Your Whole Life," and also took home that year's Top Ten Golden Melody Award for one of his songs, "Always Trying to Keep the One You've Loved". In those two years, his career success made him very prosperous, but this kind of life did not make him satisfied.
Because in his heart, he still has a dream of being an actor.
Liu Yunlong once again returned to Beijing, once again began his acting career. Although he was still "unknown", he began to work hard to get himself a variety of performance opportunities. Later on, with the broadcast of a series of movies such as "Phoenix", "Guardian of Peace" and "Director of Public Security", Liu Yunlong, as an actor, gradually gained some fame.
The two years of filming, perhaps has not been able to play their own satisfied role. Liu Yunlong, has not been idle. Relying on his previous savings, he also opened a film and television company of his own. In his ninth year back in Beijing, he filmed the TV series "The Secret Calculation", which had a good reputation and ratings. A drama, Liu Yunlong completely fire.
It is worth mentioning that in that drama, he was not only a director and actor, but also a producer and executive producer, which was the first movie he made after he opened his company. At that time, because of the work's great fire, Liu Yunlong was instantly in the limelight. Many people thought that he would take advantage of the heat to produce another new work, but he unexpectedly stopped. For filming, he has always had his own speed. Together with the movies he starred in or participated in, Liu Yunlong had been working at the rate of one or two productions in a few years.
And most of the dramas he has been involved in have been "guaranteed" in terms of quality.
But the deadlines for each of his productions were so long that it took a few years after the last one for another one of his works to make it to the big screen. So in the eyes of many people, he is not famous. And he rarely does endorsements, commercials, or variety shows, so many people are slowly forgetting about him. Because of the subject matter and his high demand for his work, as well as the lack of co-star traffic and the long production cycle, it makes him go against the mainstream movie and TV production in the market.
Many people in the industry were reluctant to work with him, and some producers even accused him of being isolated and out of touch to his face.
But he didn't think so, and continued to revel in the world of "creativity". Early acumen gave him the right to be spontaneous. No one to give him as a producer, he became a producer, no one to give him investment, he used his own savings to film and television drama. But it's also the fact that he's been immersed in his own work that's caused him to suffer a lot of skepticism as well.
His big screen debut, "East Wind and Rain," received a lot of negative reviews.
Despite the fact that he remained as refined as ever during the production process, he reportedly "scolded" and cried Fan Bingbing during the filming process because of the needs of his character. But the first reaction of many people after watching the movie was: Liu Yunlong, too narcissistic.
Because under the camera, his character is too perfect. In fact, from the first movie and TV drama "An Zaitian" role, said he "narcissism" of this voice, never stopped. But he is not moved, "King of Legends", "Broken Thorn", "Strait" ...... he has never stopped.
Still portraying all kinds of "heroic characters" in movies and TV dramas, fulfilling the "heroic" dream of his childhood. Liu Yunlong carefully polished works "kite" online. Like the original "dark calculation", his work was once again well received. Even the People's Daily has issued a special article praising the work: only with faith can the kite fly high.
The core of "Kite" is faith; and the spy movie is Liu Yunlong's faith. Although at that time, there were many voices that said he was narcissistic and too self-centered. But as the heat of the movie and TV drama faded, everything returned to calm. He also said in an interview:
In order to evoke the scarce ideals of this era, he is to portray the perfect man who cannot be seen in life. Although this also suffered a lot of setbacks, but he had the choice to stick to the bottom, so he never compromised. After a film and television drama, he took over all the comments, little by little to polish the characters, works, so that he played the character, more comprehensive and profound.
In the world of "spy drama", he is still moving forward.