In early December, Tainan is still under the heat. It is obviously not a holiday, but there is a line of over 500 people at the Tainan Cultural and Creative Park next to the train station, and people are patiently waiting for the food truck with the foreigner, Huang Qiusheng, to cook the Tainan delicacy lice congee.
Small file_Huang Qiusheng
Born: 1961
Education: Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Diploma in Acting
Representative works.
The Eight Immortals Hotel, The Beast, The Infernal Affairs Series, Headword D, The Fallen
This is the second time Hong Kong actor Huang Qiusheng came to Taiwan this year. In May this year, when he was invited to film the PBS series “Heaven on the Fourth Floor”, he revealed his intention to become a naturalized Taiwanese citizen on Facebook, and many Taiwanese netizens surprised him with their support. Later, he returned to Hong Kong, moved out of his residence for 20 years, and then to Taiwan to host the walking program “make friends in a food truck”, in Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, everywhere people “capture wild Qiusheng “The show has also been featured on Ptt’s Hot Search.
The reason I moved is because I have zero work in Hong Kong and have to save money. “The Hong Kong actor who has won five Hong Kong Golden Awards and three Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, publicly denounced the violence of the Hong Kong police during the Umbrella Movement in 2014, the former friends turned their faces away and were blocked by the mainstream Hong Kong film industry for six years.
You have to be cautious about every choice you make, to
Believe it, take it on, and do it.
**Mixed faces are heretics since childhood
**The only movie star who won an award by third grade film
In the second isolation of Huang Qiusheng in Taiwan soon after the completion of the former secretary-general of the Hong Kong House of Representatives, Huang Zhifeng, Chairman Lam Long-yan, “Goddess of Learning” Zhou Ting, One Media founder Lai Chi-ying and other They were taken into police custody. The dissidents either left Hong Kong or were taken into custody, and the Pearl of the Orient gradually dimmed. My heart aches because the Hong Kong that nurtured me is no longer there. How long is this road going to go on, until it gets dark? “
For Hong Kong artists, expressing a political stance means a heavy price, the BBC reports. While singer Ho Yun-sze says she has made more money independently producing albums and playing concerts than before after the Umbrella Movement, Liu Hui-chan, an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University School of Film, says her case is more unique. Compared to singers, films require more manpower to be mobilized, and the cost after being blocked, is greater.
Ask Huang Qiusheng if this is the low point in his life, “What is the low point? I am now the highest point in my life. So high a wall in front of you, life can only be like a wave upward, the more high. He laughed dryly: “What you have built in life collapses overnight, but that’s how fate is, those who are willing will be carried along by fate, those who are not will be dragged along by fate. “
Why can he be so “daring”?
The fate of the forced, the loneliness of being ostracized, Huang Qiusheng is used to taste. His biological father is British, when he was four years old abandoned his mother and son back to China. Because he was poor and had a mixed face, he grew up being called “gweilo” and “bastard”. “He was bullied by his classmates and used to solve problems with his fists, and was treated as a problem child.
His mother had to make a living as a maid, once working from 3:00 am to 12:00 pm, and her feet swelled up after less than a week of work. As a teenager, he accompanied his mother to quit her job and waited for two hours in the stairwell, when the door opened and threw out a bag of luggage, without pay or a greeting, just like sending out beggars.
Growing up, he worked as a decorator, car repair apprentice, office errand boy, hairdressing assistant, because the education is not high, the work is not long, life is difficult, living in a place of uncertainty, and even almost theft of wind was caught. In order to earn a living, he entered the ATV actor training class and performed in many TV dramas as a supporting actor to make ends meet.
Today may be popular mixed-race face, back then is difficult to position the alien, can only perform erotic films, triads, psychopathic killers, but in 1993 the “Eight Immortals Hotel of human flesh barbecued pork buns” in the murderer, but he won the Hong Kong Film Awards, he is also the only restricted film (then Hong Kong called third-class films) to win awards for film stars.
**Who has never played a bad role in a bad movie
**snicker at the trophy is useless only love books into obsession
But Huang Qiusheng has since fallen into a career low. The first time I saw the film, I thought I was going to get a lot of money. People think you have to charge a lot of money, but will not find you acting. “Once he saw the trophy at home, he was so angry that he threw it away, his mother picked it up and put it next to the toilet.
He was afraid of being poor, so he started to take on what people call bad movies, claiming to be “the person who has acted in the most bad movies in Hong Kong”. In the shadow of the movie star, he forced himself to take films to make money, in 1997 he got hyperthyroidism, taking pills every day, the whole person became fat and deformed, he described himself at that time “eyes are about to fall out, just squint and continue to shoot The first time I saw the film, I was able to win a film award for my role as a middle-aged, blessed detective in “Beast Cop”.
He said he had practiced the “shitting method”. “The script is good role right, if the actor is still not good, then the actor should really die to thank the crime; but the script is bad role bad, the actor should also not let go of a point. Even if it is a pile of shit, you have to grow beautiful flowers on it. “
The play is like life. Bad life, get the script is bad, it is destined to play bad? Huang Qiusheng never give up, take a bad hand also want to play a name, some people say he played a bunch of bad movies, but never perform bad role. Some people describe him as a “bad movie star, supporting cast of the drama”.
Huang Qiusheng often speaks with a kind of old Hong Kong people unabashedly straightforward. Once a reporter asked him to choose which in the movie star and film pay, he replied: “Of course, the film pay. “
The reporter said: “But the movie star has a trophy ah. “
“Trophy? ” he said: “to drink water? “
This time to move out of Hong Kong home, he did not hesitate to throw away many trophies, but more than 10,000 books to fall feet sigh. Taiwan friends who have known him for more than 20 years said that Huang Qiusheng especially love to read books, from coming to Taiwan, do not buy fancy dress watches, love to shop is the bookstore, every time back to Hong Kong always because of the book to make the luggage overweight.
“When I was a child, I did not read, but when I grew up I had the opportunity to read. As long as you read history books, you will know that reality is just a repeat of history. “He said with peace of mind: “That year I said publicly that the police could not be so violent, and when I spoke I knew I would be shut down. I won’t pretend to be innocent and say that I don’t know what it’s like to be a dissident in China from ancient times to the present. “
He recognized early on that he could not be a follower of the crowd. “Everything that exists must be reasonable, there is no need to fight it, but there is no need to change yourself either. “I am what I am, let’s say I am gray, no matter how hard I try, I will not become red,” he said. I am a mixed-race family grew up poor, I certainly know why I am gray, and do not need to pity themselves in particular. “
In 2019 he played the lead role of Chang Rong, who is paralyzed in the lower part of his body, in “The Fallen”, a three-time Hong Kong Golden Award winner, with a line of dialogue in the play: “You can’t choose not to sit in a wheelchair, but you can choose how to sit. “When he was interviewed, he laughed at himself for being explicitly paralyzed in the play, but in reality he was secretly paralyzed. Since the choice of a road, to know its right and wrong, in addition to go to the end, there is no other way.
Even if it’s a piece of shit.
You also have to grow beautiful flowers on it.
**Expect a lifetime of skills to contribute to Taiwan
**For life choices also understand to bear the cost
“You have to be careful with each choice you make, believe in it, take it on, and do it. “Huang Qiusheng said:” Next on …… more in Taiwan to stay longer. “On his birthday this September, he made a wish on the Internet, saying he hoped to contribute his lifelong skills to Taiwan.
“Taiwan has retained a lot of traditional morals, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, ritual, justice and integrity, when I was young, I listened to Taiwanese people say these feel so old-fashioned ah, now I experience very important. “I would like to open a barbecue bun store or start a class to teach acting in Taiwan,” he said. Many people ask me if I want to become a naturalized citizen, if I can have a job in the long term, I will settle here ah. “
Hong Kong, there is no going back. Even if destined to have to be in a foreign country, he wants to be a straight backed foreigner. He told a story: in 2018 he went to the United Kingdom to shoot the film collection “Stranger”, the plane suddenly struck by lightning during the flight, the cabin was a mess, oxygen masks fell, passengers panicked and screamed …… only he quietly picked up the hat to put on, pull the collar of the coat, put the body close to the back of the seat.
“I think I want to really die, but also to die with dignity, I do not want people to see me, when I die also disheveled, full of grimace. “He said:” all people are bound to die. But when you die, you should be proud to say to yourself: this life, I was always at least decent, standing. “
Because, he made a clear choice for life, and also clearly assumed.
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