The drama "There are Trees in the South" is over, but the popularity of William Chan has not diminished.

He went to the Hot Blood Street Dance Troupe as a tutor and returned to his old job-dancing.

Dancing William Chan may not be familiar to mainland audiences. But at the earliest, he appeared in front of Hong Kong people singing and dancing.

Later, he drifted into our sight with the northward tide.

But the word "drifting north" always carries some sadness and pain.

Because of leaving home to make a living, there is always some faint melancholy. Even if there are many high-rise buildings where you go, there are only a handful of civilized and prosperous ones.

In recent years, artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan have been going northward, trying to share a piece of the booming entertainment circle in the Mainland, but most of them ended in failure and became the trendsetter in the tide of the times.

But William Chan is an exception.

The album was put on the shelves for one minute and two seconds, with more than 20 million fans in Weibo and billions of TV dramas. ...

In the era when traffic is king, these objective data are the most intuitive proof of the outbreak.

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William Chan seems to be on fire overnight.

20 14, the legendary sword came to the fore. This costume idol drama, which gathered the top flows from Yang Mi and Yifeng Li, ignited that summer vacation and William Chan's life.

The most intuitive change is the soaring number of fans in Weibo. "At that time, my Weibo was bombed to surf the Internet, and the server crashed again. There were 700,000 people asking questions at the same time, and the whole software crashed. "

He began to find that some changes had taken place in himself, and it was positive, positive and upward.

This face that suddenly appeared in front of the public, strange and young, often makes people mistakenly think that he is just a small fresh meat. But in fact, he is 29 years old and has been out 1 1 year.

William Chan was born in a wealthy family in Hongkong. Influenced by his mother, he had a soft spot for Michael Jackson's dancing since he was a child. /kloc-When he was 0/6 years old, he was chosen to dance for Aaron Kwok, and he first came into contact with the entertainment circle.

The day before the dance, he excitedly told his mother that he must watch it on time.

But my mother didn't find him on TV that day, because there were more than 30 dancers, and he leaned back and pulled over, so the camera couldn't catch him at all.

That night, he hid in his room and cried, only feeling wronged and miserable. Only then did he realize that he liked dancing and preferred to dance in the center of the stage.

Two years later, William Chan waited for an opportunity to enter the entertainment circle.

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/kloc-When he was 0/8 years old, his family contacted American universities for William Chan, but he insisted on participating in the Hong Kong trials for global Chinese rookies. In order to convince his family, he assured them, "If I can't win the first place in the selection contest, I will accept the arrangement of studying in the United States."

Fortunately, God is willing. At the end of the competition, 65,438+08-year-old William Chan was able to stand side by side with his idols Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung to receive their awards.

He won the first prize, officially signed a contract with the Emperor, and became the lucky one with half a leg in the entertainment circle.

That is the first good wind in life, blowing in ignorant youth. The proud Hong Kong teenager even joked with his classmates: "Do you want my autograph now? I'm afraid I won't have time to sign for you in the future. "

But no one expected that good luck would come to an abrupt end with the end of the game. From 18 to 22, William Chan waited for four years.

Waiting day after day has given birth to disappointment and sinking. During that time, he smoked and drank, made random friends, and completely exiled himself between grief and depression. I wonder what year it is today.

Until one morning he didn't come home, the eldest brother came to him and handed him a cigarette. He didn't dare to answer it, and the whole person was shaking because his father died of lung cancer.

Smoking is a taboo for the whole Chen family.

I thought my brother would be furious, but I didn't expect him to apologize: "I'm sorry, I didn't chat with you well in these four years, and I didn't help you and guide you, so you will be like this!" " "

At that time, William Chan's hair was oily, he smelled of alcohol and tobacco, and his two big dark circles were shocking. Seeing my brother so depressed and miserable, my brother couldn't help crying, and so did William Chan. ...

The two brothers wept bitterly, apologized to each other and kept saying sorry.

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The next day, my brother woke William Chan up early in the morning, spent a month's income on his personal training class, and brought an instrument for measuring blood pressure and heart rate to run with his brother.

"He wants to prove that I can, and you must prove it." It turns out that my brother is in poor health and has problems with his heart and blood pressure. But in order to help his brother, he threw caution to the wind.

Growth began at that time, and it was a sudden awakening after being injured and confused. Its pain lies in breaking and remodeling, farewell and rebirth.

Later, he said that he found the motivation: "I can't let my family down. I can't let my family cry for me."

In this way, after another year, William Chan joined Zhang Zhiheng and Dennis Mak and officially debuted as a Z member of Sun Boy.

However, this group has not caused an uproar in the music scene in Hong Kong. Two years later, they dissolved silently. William Chan went to the United States to study dance alone. After some devil training, he returned to Hong Kong to release an album and won the Newcomer Award. ...

Dawn seemed just around the corner, but fate played a trick on him again.

At that time, the entertainment circle in Hong Kong was in the fission period of great changes in the times, and the sudden financial crisis plunged William Chan's fledgling career into a trough. The market's investment in the dancer dropped sharply, and he had to transform into a host and actor.

One day he received a phone call: "There is a movie opportunity, you go to see a director, he is the leading actor."

Hearing this, William Chan was very excited: "Wow, I must seize this opportunity!"

Then meet and audition, but from the hero to the fifth man, they all ended in failure.

The pain is a little, but it is not enough to defeat William Chan who broke free from the sinking. He consoled himself by saying, "The film circle is completely new to me. I have to start from scratch."

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The first role is an unknown little policeman in The Eavesdropping Storm, who plays for Louis Koo. He was so nervous that his movements were stiff. Louis Koo ate NG again and again, and finally his stomach was obviously swollen.

And William Chan himself was scolded by the director.

After a difficult first step, William Chan appeared in various low-budget movies-but none of them were the main characters.

In those years, he was Sven love rat in Du Qian, the gangster in Zhazhi, and two brothers with different feelings in Cheating Women. ...

These almost insignificant characters have become a meat cleaver, carving his acting skills and abilities bit by bit, and slowly releasing him from the actor's ignorance.

But at the other end, the black material about William Chan swept in.

The most famous sentence is: "I don't know who William Chan is!"

Not being red became his original sin.

"Many street stalls in Hong Kong have magazines. Once, I went to a convenience store to buy steamed dumplings. I saw that many magazine covers said that I was not good, so I didn't buy steamed dumplings. I left in tears. "

But even so, William Chan never stood up to defend himself, just silently playing those small roles, silently putting himself in the harsh winter of life, dormant, waiting and working hard.

Those who can plant tears in their hearts will inevitably blossom brave flowers.

Because every test of life, in fact, is in their minds, tired their bones and muscles, hungry their skin, chaotic their actions, it is impossible to have patience, it is impossible to gain.

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When we understand William Chan's dark past, we may be able to understand his dedication, humility and courtesy.

It is said in Fanghua that people who have not been treated well are the easiest to identify kindness. Similarly, people who have not been cared about know how to cherish opportunities best.

20 13, William Chan, Hu Jun and Nicholas Tse filmed "War Hero" together. At that time, he often asked these seniors for advice. They told him: if you are given a chance, you should seize it, no matter how big or small it is.

Hu Jun recommended the mainland market to him and even said: You will regret not going north!

Coincidentally, in the last shooting of "Fire Fighting Heroes", the agent brought good news: "There is a mainland TV series called" Four Famous Hunters ",and all the actors who originally played the chase for life stopped playing. Do you want to try? "

William Chan felt the opportunity came, so he didn't ask about the salary, and he didn't consider whether he could adapt to life in the mainland. He plunged into the set and started shooting day and night.

"In the beginning, I had difficulties in listening and speaking, so I had to work hard to adapt. At that time, it was filming every day, which was particularly boring and mechanical. "

We all know the later story.

One hit drama after another, The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man, The Battle of Shushan, The Old Nine Gates and The Tree of the South, supported his popularity, and the variety shows that followed also brought him closer to the audience. At this point, William Chan has achieved a real turnaround.

Many people think he is lucky, but I tend to accumulate a lot of money.

1 1 year is enough to polish a rough jade, remove excess impetuousness and fragility, and forge the most moving part to shine.

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When holding an event in Beijing for the first time, William Chan specifically told the staff: "There is no need to make too much space, I don't have that many fans." .

He is used to being hacked. Even when he was very popular, he suspected that everything was just a dream: "I don't believe it myself. Suddenly there were many things I didn't expect, and suddenly there were many friends who supported me, and suddenly I was very busy. "

Pop-up advertisements often breed pride and arrogance, but what William Chan feels is anxiety. He is always worried: "What if there is nothing behind this scene?"

Because he was once looked down upon and even abused, he is very careful and cherishes everything he has today. Just like a poor child suddenly gets a piece of cake, he must care for it and guard it carefully.

Therefore, William Chan insisted on completing all kinds of difficult movements without physical body double, and lived in Hengdian for seven months, almost driving himself crazy.

His former assistant Zhihu replied that the mainstream shows that:

"On one occasion, he needed to show his upper body when shooting a magazine. As a result, he hardly ate anything three days before the filming. All kinds of fitness, eating muscle powder, just to shoot those 30 minutes ... Because I can't speak Mandarin well, I have been watching Happy Camp. "

The efforts of a public figure are not worthy of being praised as advantages, but can be promoted as his success factor.

Let those young people who love him believe that there is no pain for nothing and no road for nothing.

Personally, I think this is the most positive value of an idol star, and there is no one.

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Choosing to go north is a double turning point in William Chan's career and life, but it is by no means the only factor.

The ancients said that the weather is not as good as the geographical position, and the geographical position is not as good as people. William Chan's "harmony between people" is more like reconciliation with himself and self-realization.

"The world slanders me, deceives me, humiliates me, laughs at me, belittles me, hates me and deceives me. What should I do? "

"Just bear with him, let him go, let him go, avoid him, be patient with him, respect him, ignore him, and stay for a few years, and you will see him again."

Without the exploration of the Hong Kong entertainment circle, there would not necessarily be a blockbuster William Chan.

Growth is a coherent and unified process, with blessings hidden in adversity and sweetness wrapped in bitterness. The only difference is that you can hold on, but you can't.