Of course, the real Nick Cheung is not "scum" at all.

Off the stage, he is an actor without a shelf. No, now he doesn't have to be shouted. He would tease himself with "Slag Hui Hui".

However, on the stage, he is an amazing actor with four seats and seven materials.

In fact, Nick Cheung's looks are not dominant in the entertainment circle. He is short and thin. In the Hong Kong film industry, which is rich in handsome guys, his appearance is really too ordinary.

But this is Nick Cheung, who won ten best actors.

Does he have a backer? Who is the sponsor?

The answer is yes, all his supporters are "desperate".

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On April 19, 2009, the 28th Hong Kong Academy Awards was held in the Grand Theatre of Hong Kong Cultural Center.

That night, the competition for best actor was fierce, and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Yam Tat-wah, Donnie Yen, Louis Koo and Nick Cheung were nominated at the same time.

In the end, Nick Cheung beat Tony Leung Chiu Wai and others and won the first best actor in his acting career with the film Witness.

It takes less than a minute to walk from the guest seat to the podium, but Nick Cheung has been walking for 20 years.

That day, Nick Cheung, who has always been inarticulate, spoke for three minutes, and finally he said:

"I hope everyone will remember that the best actor in the 28th Academy Awards is Nick Cheung."

This year, Nick Cheung turned 40 years old, and the artists who made their debut together were already in semi-retirement, while Nick Cheung just ushered in the "golden age" of his acting career.

The competition rules in the entertainment circle have always been very clear, either excellent or out.

Nick Cheung is neither as handsome as Chow Yun Fat nor as handsome as Tony Leung Chiu Wai. In the film and television circle with limited resources and cruel competition, if he can't get out, he can only get a little chance by fighting hard and constantly fighting hard.

There is a shocking scene in "Anti-Drug" with Louis Koo and Liu Qingyun.

Five years later, when the two brothers met again, he stared, his lips did not move, and slowly squeezed out the sentence through his teeth:

"Five years, do you know how I came over in these five years?"

Show all grievances, sadness, resentment and incomprehension to the fullest.

In the movie "Night arrival", he played a mute. Because I didn't recognize my daughter, I could only sneak a few glances behind the door.

At that time, his lips trembled and tears swirled in his eyes, but he wanted to say it silently, with tears in his eyes. Nick Cheung became a veritable old opera singer.

In fact, if an actor wants to conquer the audience, there is nothing but acting.

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In the 1980s, Hong Kong Wireless Artist Training Course was the largest star-making factory.

At that time, if you want to break into the entertainment circle, you will basically take the wireless exam. Stephen Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau and others all came out from here with a trained background.

But Nick Cheung wasn't. Before he became an actor, he was a policeman.

Nick Cheung always wanted to be a "real policeman" with a gun, but he was turned down. He thought, "What's the point of being a policeman who can't shoot?" In desperation, he simply resigned.

Introduced by a friend, Nick Cheung entered the entertainment circle.

At this point, Li Xiuxian is preparing to shoot "Thank you, Sir". Considering Nick Cheung's experience as a patrolman, let him be the second person.

However, from such a high starting point, Nick Cheung does not have a bright future. After two or three plays in succession, he is still a nobody in the entertainment circle.

After that, Nick Cheung had to start a long walk-on career in order to stay in the circle.

In "Together through thick and thin", I played a walk-on for Master Xing; Give Ekin Cheng a walk-on in "If there is love in heaven"; Because she is short of1.7m, she often works as a body double for actresses.

In 2003, Nick Cheung once starred in a movie called "Gambling God Will Overcome Heaven", which tells the story of an actor who just entered the entertainment circle and was full of hardships to get a role, which was also the most real situation in Nick Cheung at that time.

During his days as a walk-on, most of his roles were human sandbags, because there were no special effects and no body double. They are all real battles. Once, before he was ready, the other party kicked him.

Because he was often beaten, everyone nicknamed him "the beaten man."

Later, Nick Cheung recalled: "I was beaten every night, really, very hard.

At midnight, I hid behind the generator car with a lunch box, crying and eating. Before I finished eating, I heard shouting:' Good! "get to work!" I had to come out with tears and start being beaten again. "

Nick Cheung's success was hard-won. If you compare him with Tony Leung Chiu Wai, they are two different worlds.

They are only five years apart. They all walk-on at TVB, but Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who looks like a melancholy prince, won an Oscar in his twenties.

Eight years after his debut, Nick Cheung is still a cheap minority role.

In an interview, he said:

"In the most painful years, I made many movies, but no one saw him and no one knew him. At first my mother would pay tribute to him, but later even my mother didn't want to see him!

In nearly 80 films, he played a small role that others didn't want to play and tasted the unbearable hardships of others. However, his reward for his youth and passion is often just a few lunches.

Nick Cheung often hides and cries alone. At the most stressful time, he went to Africa alone and worked as a restaurant waiter for eight months. But in the end, out of his love for acting, he decided to return to the screen.

Nick Cheung later figured it out. Because he didn't have the luck to become famous overnight, he took out the courage that he had been desperately trying.

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At the end of 1990s, Stephen Chow became the originator of Wulitou movies, from red to purple. Director Jing Wong has taken a fancy to Nick Cheung and intends to make Nick Cheung "the second Stephen Chow".

Later, in almost two years, Jing Wong made five films tailored for Nick Cheung in one breath, all of which were exaggerated and humorous.

Nick Cheung tried his best to act, and he pondered over every joke for a long time.

Helpless, Master Xing's aura is too dazzling for the audience to tolerate Nick Cheung.

At that time, in "King of Thousands of Kings 2000", Nick Cheung was the male host, and Stephen Chow was only responsible for guest appearances, which lasted only eight minutes, but the film propaganda was all around Star Master, and even the poster Star Master was C.

In front of Stephen Chow, Nick Cheung suddenly became the "most nonexistent" man, and only he knew it best.

200 1 He and Michele Monique Reis collaborated on The Perfect Lover, which created the "lowest box office in a single day" in the history of Hong Kong movies, with a box office of only 2,000 yuan on the first day.

You know, at this time, Nick Cheung has been debuting 12 years, and things have changed, but after so long, his acting career is still so bleak.

Perhaps, the road to comedy is destined to belong only to Stephen Chow.

After learning from a painful experience, Nick Cheung decided to split and reorganize himself and "transform" again. Since then, even if there is no movie to shoot, he will never take comedies again.

And this change, Nick Cheung finally ushered in the road to noble Du Qifeng's interpretation.

Yam Tat-wah once said that Du Qifeng has the ability to "bring back the dead" actors, and Du Qifeng seems to be his last bet on Nick Cheung.

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In 2004, Nick Cheung, who bid farewell to comedy, starred in the Du Qifeng film The Big Event, in which he was a policeman.

Before the film began, he asked Du Qifeng how to create the role. Du Qifeng asked him, "Have you ever seen a hungry German shepherd? Act like that. "

In the whole movie, Nick Cheung seldom speaks. Most of the time, he just runs, chases, kills, hides and repeats the sentence "I can't believe I can't catch these bastards".

After the film was released, Nick Cheung, who plays "Zhang Zhiheng", caught the audience's attention for the first time. It turns out that he can not only spoof, but also shape the image of a tough guy.

The cooperation with Du Qifeng opened another window for Nick Cheung's performance, and Nick Cheung, who saw hope, worked harder than before.

In 2006, when filming Exile, Nick Cheung piled up a lot of flammable materials and poured a lot of wine because of the need of the plot. Although the staff put out the fire outside, alcohol had penetrated into the skin at that time, which was extremely painful.

In 2007, when filming the film "Red River", the location was in the remote Red River in Yunnan, in the high temperature of 40 degrees.

In one scene, Nick Cheung was asked to walk barefoot on the asphalt road, because his feet were "baked" many times, and the blood bubbles were smoothed out the next day, and the whole soles of his feet were covered with blood.

In 2008, when he met the film Witness, which rewrote his fate, Nick Cheung took his efforts to the extreme.

In The Witness, he played a one-eyed killer. In order to show that ferocious feeling, his face was covered with all kinds of super glue, which looked creepy.

This film directly pushed Nick Cheung to the top, and he won several best actor awards in succession.

It's been 20 years since The Beaten Man and The Best Actor.

Although he didn't become the "second Stephen Chow", he made himself the only "Nick Cheung" by working harder than others.

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Some people once stood at the peak and began to get carried away. However, under the aura of the film emperor, fame and crowds flocked to Nick Cheung's performance, and his awe and initial heart were never washed away.

He said more than once that I was never satisfied with winning the best actor, but had higher requirements for myself.

After the reign of the emperor, Nick Cheung rose to a certain height.

When filming "Night Fall", in order to show the ferocity of a abnormal mute killer, he was exposed to the sun for a long time, resulting in peeling all over his body. The director saw him and said, "I thought I saw a ghost."

Nick Cheung played a boxer in Guild Wars. At that time, at the age of 45, he had nine months of intensive training in order to quickly become a standard boxer.

Besides going to the gym to exercise every day, it is more important to control your diet. "At first, I didn't eat salt, oil and sugar, but I ate 2 to 30 eggs a day in the middle to increase protein.

I only ate rice for 3 days before filming, and my muscles were swollen by starch.

In the final stage, you need to dehydrate. Every time you drink water, you just wet your mouth and dry your body to make the lines stand out. "

That's not enough. During the official shooting, the action actor accidentally kicked his little finger off and turned it into an "S" shape. At that time, everyone advised him to have an operation and rest.

Nick Cheung refused directly, saying that if he stopped filming, the loss of the whole crew would be great, and the muscles he worked so hard to build would be in vain.

In order to shoot normally, Nick Cheung chose to turn off the needle and take painkillers to fight the pain.

As soon as the analgesic effect is over, it will be very painful, but he still insists on playing that trick.

Later, with this film, Nick Cheung beat Tony Leung Chiu Wai again and won the Oscar for Best Actor for the second time.

Now, Nick Cheung has passed his fate, but he is still acting with his life.

Many people often ask Nick Cheung, why are you still fighting when you are full of honor and old age? Nick Cheung's answer is:

"My deductive career has no peak! I will keep running, keep running, wherever I go, and one day I really feel tired and don't want to play. Where is my peak and where is my end! "

When I saw this scene, I was deeply moved by Nick Cheung.

Don't give up at the bottom, and don't set limits at the peak. Such a Nick Cheung gives us reason to believe that although Hong Kong films have lost their former "glory", Nick Cheung's "golden age" continues.

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In fact, every time I write a character, I don't want everyone to envy how awesome he is, but I hope that we can see a hope and learn a spirit through his experience.

Just like Nick Cheung, today he is one of the "Top Ten Actors" with a halo, but he used to be a nobody in society like you and me.

In the whole process of pursuing his dream, if he hesitated a little, once he gave up, he wouldn't be Nick Cheung today.

Life is destined to be a process from low to high, as Nick Cheung wrote in his blog:

"Have you ever tried swimming in the sea in the dark? Then you slowly see a little light from a distance. "

In fact, life is like this. On the way forward, we will all be disappointed, depressed, lonely, helpless, and even once doubted ourselves.

But after being confused, we will slowly see that light, which is enough to illuminate our future and life.

No matter what your present situation is, I hope you can gain a kind of strength after reading Nick Cheung. In the future, whether it is smooth sailing or bumpy everywhere, we must strive for the "light" of life.