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Martial arts superstar Zhao Wenzhuo’s path to fame: He is Jet Li’s successor, but he is becoming less and less popular. Why?

Recently, "Brother Who Overcomes Troubles" has become popular.

A group of older brothers over 30 years old competed on the stage, which was interesting and interesting. Many brothers whose popularity has declined have become famous because of it.

Zhao Wenzhuo, the former kung fu superstar, has become a frequent user of hot searches and is the most eye-catching among the brothers.

Zhao Wenzhuo is handsome and capable. Even Jackie Chan once said that he is optimistic about Wu Jing and Zhao Wenzhuo as his and Jet Li's successors.

Today, Wu Jing, who is known as one of the successors of martial arts superstars, is very popular. The "Wolf Warrior" series and "The Wandering Earth" not only allowed him to successfully transform, but also set box office records many times.

However, for Zhao Wenzhuo, becoming famous is a thing of the past, and now he can only rely on one variety show to earn traffic.

Compared with Wu Jing, who has become a top star in recent years, Zhao Wenzhuo's acting career has been in decline, even a bit bleak.

Why is martial arts superstar Zhao Wenzhuo becoming less and less popular?

Zhao Wenzhuo was born in Harbin in 1972. His fellow villager Sun Honglei was just two years old and was too poor to have enough to eat.

Things are changing, and now Sun Honglei is famous for "The Storm", but Zhao Wenzhuo can only show off his face in variety shows, which is embarrassing.

Compared to Sun Honglei, Zhao Wenzhuo's road to fame was to stand firmly on the limelight, and he was very lucky.

Zhao Wenzhuo was born in the world of martial arts. His father is a martial arts coach and his mother is a track and field athlete.

Zhao’s father is an enthusiastic martial arts enthusiast. As soon as Zhao Wenzhuo was born, his father made up his mind to train him to practice martial arts. However, Zhao Wenzhuo has been thin and delicate since he was a child, and he is shy and doesn’t like to talk. Not like northerners.

Father Zhao was very worried, fearing that his son would not be able to practice martial arts because he could not help but fight.

When Zhao Wenzhuo reached the age of 8, his father couldn't wait to send him to a sports school in the city to learn martial arts from his teacher, hoping to make him stronger.

The emperor pays off his hard work.

Zhao Wenjuo grew stronger and stronger, and the more he practiced martial arts, the smoother he became.

In 1982, "Shaolin Temple" starring Jet Li became an instant hit after its release. At that time, the ticket price was only 10 cents a piece, but it actually sold a box office of 100 million yuan.

After watching the movie, many young people shaved off their hair and imitated Jet Li to act cool, which was even more popular than the Young and Dangerous ones that followed.

It is very cold in Harbin in the winter, which is more than ten degrees below zero. In order to stimulate them to run, the martial arts teacher does not allow them to wear more clothes in winter.

Every time we go out for a run, everyone is so cold that they can only run wildly. When they come back from the run, they look like the martial arts masters on TV, with white smoke all over their bodies and a layer of frost on their hats. ice.

Instead of shivering in the cold wind, Zhao Wenzhuo's blood was boiling and he was sweating profusely.

Without telling the teacher, he shaved his hair without hesitation. When the cold wind blew, the bald Zhao Wenzhuo suddenly became more alert.

Seeing that his classmates in the sports school were feeling miserable and leaving one after another, he did not complain about being tired, but decided to grit his teeth and continue to persevere: "People should never let down their choices at any time."

< p> At that time, Zhao Wenzhuo had to get up before dawn every day to practice martial arts. He practiced all day long and could not rest until after nine o'clock in the evening.

When he first entered the martial arts school, his grades were at the bottom because he had no talent. However, due to his hard work, he quickly mastered more than 300 sets of boxing techniques of different schools. He was also good at swords, spears and boxing.

At that time, his parents had high hopes for Zhao Wenzhuo, and began allowing him to frequently participate in various martial arts competitions at the age of 12.

Zhao Wenzhuo lived up to his expectations and won the National Championship Junior Championship and the National College Student Competition All-Around Championship.

In 1900, the 18-year-old Zhao Wenzhuo was not only handsome, but he was also an excellent dancer. After being admitted to the Wushu Department of Beijing Sports University, he became even more energetic.

Everyone thinks that he has a bright future. As long as he concentrates on practicing martial arts, his future will be bright.

Zhao Wenzhuo was rebellious. Not long after he was admitted to the Wushu Department of Peking University, he left the Wushu Department and went to practice aerobics.

People around him didn’t understand, so he found a perfect reason and called it comprehensive development:

Sure enough, after practicing aerobics for less than a year, he won the Best performance at a national aerobics competition.

As a result, people around him were speechless and praised Zhao Wenzhuo as "a genius indeed."

On an ordinary afternoon in 1991, Zhao Wenzhuo, who had just entered his sophomore year, was taking a nap in the dormitory. His roommate shook him awake.

Zhao Wenzhuo, who was disturbed from his sweet dream, was so angry that he jumped up and yelled: "What are you doing? I was sleeping soundly!"

His classmates were not angry, but asked him: "A film crew is coming to school. We are looking for actors. All the classmates have gone, are you going?"

Those were the days when martial arts dramas were popular. Zhao Wenzhuo was handsome and practiced martial arts well, so he had a bright future.

He didn't think much about it, and followed the crowd to the scene, and found that the sequel to the kung fu movie "Fang Shiyu" was being filmed, starring Jet Li, and now there was a lack of a big villain: Admiral of the Nine Gates.

Director Yuan Kui personally went to the Beijing Institute of Physical Education to select actors. Zhao Wenzhuo didn’t think about anything and just did a basic set of double-arm punches.

Yuan Kui was very satisfied with being handsome and capable, so he called him over and asked him: "Do you want to make a movie?"

Zhao Wenzhuo pretended to be reserved and replied: " It doesn't matter."

Yuan Kui was so angry that he asked him again: "If you were to play Fang Shiyu, would you be confident that you could be better than Jet Li? He answered decisively: "Of course."

At that time, Jet Li was the idol in the minds of all martial arts students. Even if he was acting, it was not easy to fight against the idol.

However, Admiral Jiumen is the most important villain. He is vicious and vicious, and he has a lot of fighting scenes. What he wants is this spirit of not being afraid of anything.

Yuan Kui was so happy that he patted Zhao Wenzhuo on the shoulder and immediately said, "You must be the Admiral of the Nine Sects."

In this way, Zhao Wenzhuo reached the peak of his career and partnered with Jet Li From the beginning to the end of the drama, although he is a villain, he is handsome and has attracted countless fans.

Before the filming of "Fang Shiyu" was finished, Zhao Wenzhuo had even greater luck.

At that time, the crew of "Fang Shiyu" and the crew of "Once Upon a Time in China" happened to be on the same set.

The director of "Once Upon a Time" is Tsui Hark, who was having a conflict with Jet Li, who previously starred in Once Upon a Time. Jet Li stopped acting, and the movie lost its leading actor.

In desperation, Tsui Hark found an actor from the Philippines who practiced taekwondo. However, after ten days of filming and several scenes, Tsui Hark was still dissatisfied.

At this time, Tsui Hark heard that there was a handsome martial arts student on the set next door, who was playing a villain and performed very well.

Tsui Hark-zheng was at a loss for the male lead, so he took people next door to watch Zhao Wenzhuo acting.

At this glance, the two of them saw each other.

Zhao Wenzhuo is handsome and capable, no worse than Jet Li, so Tsui Hark simply hired a new guy and let Zhao Wenzhuo replace Jet Li in Once Upon a Time in China.

As a result, Zhao Wenzhuo became the youngest adult actor to play Huang Feihong.

Tsui Hark fell in love with Zhao Wenzhuo, so he went directly to the school leaders and asked them to send Zhao Wenzhuo to play Huang Feihong.

Zhao Wenzhuo was still a newcomer who didn’t even understand the camera practice, so he was assigned another task by the school leader, asking him to play Huang Feihong well and bring glory to the school.

In this way, Zhao Wenzhuo went to the crew of "Once Upon a Time" with a glorious mission, and started working on both sides at the same time, filming night scenes and day scenes.

Zhao Wenzhuo often just finished taking off his makeup here, and immediately rushed to the crew next door to put on makeup and continue the performance. At the most tiring time, he performed for 24 hours in a row for three days.

Later, Zhao Wenzhuo joked in an interview:

After the two plays were completed and he returned to school, Zhao Wenzhuo's life completely changed.

Zhao Wenzhuo has become a big star in the eyes of his classmates who has played the leading role in succession. He is also very proud of himself. He treats guests to dinner every day and threatens to treat all classmates to movies for free.

After the two kung fu movies were aired, the response was pretty good. Zhao Wenzhuo made a name for himself even before he graduated from college.

Subsequently, Zhao Wenzhuo became Tsui Hark's leading male lead, and the two signed a long-term contract.

In 1993, Tsui Hark made a subversive work "Green Snake", in which Zhao Wenzhuo played Fa Hai, and won three nominations at the 13th Academy Awards.

In 1994, Zhao Wenzhuo collaborated with Tsui Hark to co-produce "Once Upon a Time in the Dragon City". Zhao Wenzhuo once again played Huang Feihong and became even more popular.

In the same year, Zhao Wenzhuo graduated from university, and his parents asked him to stay in school as a teacher.

Zhao Wenzhuo, who was once famous, was no longer satisfied with this. After working as a teacher for three months, he resigned and ran to Hong Kong, where he followed Tsui Hark to work in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

The god of luck seems to be particularly favored by Zhao Wenzhuo.

Not long after arriving in Hong Kong, Zhao Wenzhuo had a language barrier and could not understand Cantonese. He was often scolded on the set.

Fortunately, he soon worked with Leslie Cheung and Anita Yuen on the New Year blockbuster "The House of Gold", and received a lot of help from Leslie Cheung.

Many years later, Zhao Wenzhuo recalled:

At that time, Zhao Wenzhuo worked as a fitness coach for Leslie Cheung. Leslie Cheung took him to a party and introduced Anita Mui, who was 9 years older than him, to him.

Soon after, Zhao Wenzhuo fell in love with Anita Mui.

In 1995, it was the time when Zhao Wenzhuo had a double harvest in his love and career.

Anita Mui’s status in the entertainment industry is stable and she is ten times more popular than Zhao Wenzhuo. Many people criticize Zhao Wenzhuo for relying on women to rise to the top.

During the interview, Anita Mui said about Zhao Wenzhuo: "He hopes that one day, people will say that I am Zhao Wenzhuo's girlfriend instead of saying that he is Anita Mui's boyfriend."

Anita Mui's answer was confident and domineering: "Boys are always like this. They always feel uncomfortable when they go out with me, because I am Anita Mui."

But this relationship does not have any good results. They broke up after just one year.

After Anita Mui passed away, Zhao Wenzhuo wrote the words "The love of my life, have a good journey", but was criticized for being staged and hypocritical.

In 1995, Zhao Wenzhuo and Tsui Hark continued to cooperate and filmed "Knife". This film received two nominations at the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In addition, he starred in "Once Upon a Time" again, which received a good response.

For a time, Zhao Wenzhuo was in the limelight and was hailed as Jet Li's strongest successor.

But Tsui Hark’s weapons consultant broke the news to the media:

In 1998, Zhao Wenzhuo terminated his cooperation with Tsui Hark, signed with another company, and went to film the TV series "Mulan" with Anita Yuen. 》.

Since then, Zhao Wenzhuo has been in the TV industry. Although the TV series such as "The Storm" and "The Beauty" have received good responses, his popularity has been declining.

Moreover, the news about Zhao Wenzhuo playing a big name and making a big show has never stopped. The peak event was undoubtedly the breakup between Zhao Wenzhuo and Donnie Yen in 2012.

In 2012, Donnie Yen starred in "Special Identity", and he recommended Zhao Wenzhuo to the crew.

However, not long after joining the cast, the crew issued an announcement accusing Zhao Wenzhuo of being a big name, asking for excessive prices, and unilaterally kicked Zhao Wenzhuo out of the crew.

The announcement stated bluntly:

Zhao Wenzhuo specially held a press conference to clarify the matter, and also pointed the finger at Donnie Yen, accusing him of being a drama tyrant and randomly changing scenes.

He is a good second male lead, but all his scenes were deleted by Donnie Yen.

Zhao Wenzhuo posted a large number of messages on Weibo, crying that he was being excluded, which caused people in the industry to take sides, and eventually developed into a dispute between Hong Kong and mainland actors.

Qin Lan, Yang Mi, Mao Ning, Luo Jiaying and others were also implicated and scolded heavily.

The worst ones are Shu Qi and Feng Xiaogang.

At that time, Shu Qi sided with Donnie Yen and was implicated. Indecent photos were widely circulated. She had no choice but to quit Weibo. Feng Xiaogang supported Shu Qi and was criticized for "protecting Shu Bao".

Donnie Yen said bluntly in the interview: "I don't have the energy to continue to be entangled with Zhao Wenzhuo.

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The performance of the two parties was clear.

Some people couldn't stand it and stood up to scold Zhao Wenzhuo:

Since then, Zhao Wenzhuo has never taken any more The works that have to be produced.

Whether it is Donnie Yen who broke up at the beginning, or Wu Jing, who is as famous as him, they all have a place in the entertainment industry.

True or false, outsiders. We don’t know, but there is a saying that applies to everyone in the entertainment industry: if morality is not matched, there will be disaster.

Only when the spring breeze is successful, can you be calm and do things in a low-key manner.