65,438+07 years ago, a movie "Fat Cats Find Their Relatives" starring Gaowa Siqin, Zheng Zeshi, Bao Xiqing and Hao Lei. Zheng Zeshi, an award-winning Hong Kong film actor, was introduced to the mainland audience.

The film tells the story of the protagonist "Fat Cat" who unfortunately became mildly mentally retarded after suffering from an illness in childhood, and the family was unable to support the other four children, so the mother gave them away separately.

More than 20 years later, in order to fulfill her mother's wish, Fat Cat embarked on the road of finding relatives alone.

What many people don't know is that due to the shortage of funds in the later stage of the cast, Zheng Zeshi's salary has not been paid, because he voluntarily gave his part of the salary to Gaowa Siqin, so as to have a confession to his friends.

Before coming to the mainland to shoot this self-directed and self-directed TV series, Zheng Zeshi had won the Best Actor Award for the film Why I Have Me, and became the best actor before Chow Yun Fat.

Why do you want to mention brother Fage here?

In fact, at the beginning of his career, Zheng Zeshi and Chow Yun Fat were very good friends. My early career in performing arts was directed by Fage.

It's just that Chow Yun Fat came from behind and became a big shot in Hong Kong's entertainment circle, but he also drifted away because of the identity gap.

Later, due to investment failure, Zheng Zeshi was heavily in debt, and once owed more than 80 million yuan. In order to pay off his debts as soon as possible, he worked hard for more than ten years and almost disappeared from public view.

At the beginning of this year, after the outbreak of the epidemic, in the face of his wife's high treatment costs, he was originally very poor, and simply donated 500,000 to Wuhan.

Compared with millions of traffic stars, I think the gold content of Zheng Zeshi's donation of 500,000 yuan is not generally high.

Zheng Zeshi, who was in his prime, would have had a completely different life if he hadn't owed huge debts because of his investment failure.

Zheng Zeshi was born in an ordinary family in Shantou, Guangdong Province, and has many sisters, so his financial situation is not very good.

In the third year of high school, he was admitted to a key middle school in Hong Kong with excellent results, but soon dropped out of school. In order to reduce the burden on his family, as the eldest son, he worked as an apprentice in a jewelry store so that his younger brother and sister could go to school.

Working day after day, he can only get a meager salary. Zheng Zeshi is not satisfied with this. He wants to earn more money and let his family live a better life.

1972, Zheng Zeshi, who was 2 1 year-old, signed up for an actor training class despite the opposition of his family. Fortunately, he became a member of the wireless network.

In our impression, stars are the kind of people who are good-looking, and Zheng Zeshi's ugliness doomed him to play only some walk-on roles for a long time.

Because of his obesity, he is more suitable for comedy, so TVB arranged for him to be a "long-term guest" in the programs hosted by Chow Yun Fat and Cora Miao.

It sounds like a good job, but in fact, Zheng Zeshi was asked to play the clown, which was purely an interesting guest role. But for Zheng Zeshi, it was a major turning point in his life.

In this way, he and his future boss Chow Yun Fat became good friends. It is said that Fage liked talking about acting at that time, which benefited the newcomer Zheng Zeshi a lot.

"At that time, I was just a nobody, and Chow Yun Fat was in power. But he was very kind to me. I still remember that every time at noon, he would say,' Fatty, let's eat together!' I'm a big eater, so he eats like a pig with me, and he won't let me pay for a meal over 10 yuan. "

However, the relationship between the two people has gradually alienated. Many people thought that after Chow Yun Fat and Chen Huilian got married, Zheng Zeshi was embarrassed to bother them again.

But a few years later, Zheng Zeshi said, "Chow Yun Fat is my acting teacher. He went to Hollywood to develop and become an international superstar. The distance between us is getting bigger and bigger, and the contact is getting less and less. He is too big, and I am too far behind him. "

In any case, we will meet many people on the road of life. Some people are destined to be passers-by in life. It is important to learn to cherish and live up to each other.

After several years of walk-on career, Zheng Zeshi also slowly gained a foothold in the film and television circle.

1980, he got an electric shock for the first time on the big screen, and began to make the film "Grey Spirit". In this film, he is not only an actor, but also a director and producer.

Then he was nominated for the Best Actor Award in the Hong Kong Film Awards for his outstanding performance in "Lost in Soul".

1985 Perhaps he tasted the sweetness of being a director, and Zheng Zeshi began to plan, direct and star in his first film, Why Have Me.

This is his first appearance as a "fat cat". This is the embryonic version of the TV series "Fat Cat Finding Relatives", and it is also the first time that he has never acted in a comedy.

As a result, the film brought him back the winner's trophy and ushered in the highlight of his career.

It is worth mentioning that Zheng Zeshi also invited Chow Yun Fat, who was already a mobile phone, to cooperate, and Fage's performance in the film was also quite classic. Previously known as box office poison in the literary film industry, he also turned over with this film.

When Zheng Zeshi was the most popular, Maggie Cheung was invited to be the heroine of the film and starred in The Fat Cat's Wandering.

During this period, he cooperated with Lv Liangwei in the gangster film Lame Howe, which was known as the godfather of China.

And films such as The Emperor of Shanghai, The Dragon and Tiger Brothers of Four Families, The Legend of Heroes after the Disaster in 1949, both of them performed brilliantly.

After that, he won the Best Actor Award again for "Three Injured Policemen".

While the career is climbing, love comes unexpectedly.

Zheng Zeshi met his lover, now his wife Lin Yanming, a beautiful woman 14 years younger than him, and they came together because of this drama.

She has played supporting roles in films such as Eye on the Eye 2, I Love You, and Dragon in Prison. 1992, she and Zheng Zeshi starred in The Burning Beard in My Totoro.

After marriage, there is a son and a daughter, and the family loves each other and is plain and happy.

Later, even in his most difficult time, his wife did not leave, and their feelings were both ordinary and sincere.

The turning point of fate occurred in 1994, when Zheng Zeshi was 43 years old. When people reach middle age, it is undoubtedly a great tragedy of life that they are old and young.

It turned out that he started a film company with his friends, but he was in debt of 80 million because of investment failure.

At that time, this was an astronomical figure, which was enough to make Zheng Zeshi lose everything and return to before liberation overnight. After mortgaging the luxury house and luxury car, the family can only move back to the slums and live a poor life.

Some people say that it is good for you to be an actor, so why invest?

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that they are so eager for material things because they are afraid of poverty from an early age. Money is not only a number, but also something that allows them to settle down.

Therefore, having more money makes you feel more secure.

As the saying goes, the wind knows the grass, and adversity sees the truth.

At the worst time, Zheng Zeshi artists also took the opportunity to cancel the contract and demanded to pay all the movie fees, which made Zheng Zeshi worse.

In order to pay off his debts, Zheng Zeshi took on all kinds of movies, including romantic movies, and even a small character with only a few words, even though the salary was only a few thousand dollars.

In order to save money, he squatted in the crew to eat box lunch and instant noodles, saving every penny to pay off debts.

Finally, it took him 10 years and finally paid off all his debts in 2004.

Just in the entertainment circle, ten years is enough to change the world.

At the same time, Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung Chiu Wai have already become classics, while Zheng Zeshi has lost the aura of best actor and can only play soy sauce in some bad films.

Zheng Zeshi, who is over 60 years old, is old. He is too old. ...

Even a few times, someone misinformed the rumor that he was "dead". He was ill, had diabetes for many years, and grew old overnight.

The physical condition today is not as good as before. I lost 30 pounds a year, and even the "signature three chins" were gone.

It is said that his wife was very ill and the medical expenses were high, but Zheng Zeshi still lent a helping hand when the country was in trouble and donated 500,000 yuan as much as possible.

Even though his temples are gray now, the 69-year-old has not stopped to make money by filming.

In these years, in addition to the distressed wife who gets along with each other day and night, it is good to be accompanied by three or five friends.

In the most difficult moment of his life, Andy Lau and Felix Wong Yat Wa helped him, which he still remembers.

In the 20 17 movie "Chasing the Dragon", Zheng Zeshi's lard boy blocked a shot for the detective mayor played by Andy Lau and said, "Save a place for me and I will accompany you in the next life."

Although it's just a line, it's also Zheng Zeshi's voice.

Sometimes I feel that life is like riding a roller coaster, and the ups and downs are unreasonable. We can never predict what the future will look like, nor can we change the past. We can only cherish this moment.

Just live up to each other and live up to this life!