When it comes to Zhang Jiahui, what is the first reaction that comes to mind?
I believe that many people will think of "Golden Elephant Golden Horse Double Actor", "Personal Struggle Becomes Legendary" and "Divine Acting" in their hearts, but Zhang Jiahui’s career as an actor has not been smooth sailing. He is not like other celebrities who have been sought after by the public and the company as soon as they debut. We all say that he is a "late bloomer".
Zhang Jiahui loved watching police and gangster movies since he was a child, and he was also deeply influenced by his father who was a police officer, so 17-year-old Zhang Jiahui was admitted to the police academy and became a police officer. After four years as a police officer, Zhang Jiahui wanted to apply to be a plainclothes police officer and was rejected, so he simply quit his job.
Later, Zhang Jiahui mistakenly entered Li *******’s universal film company through the introduction of his classmates, and was appreciated by Li *******. The first play was the male protagonist. But it did not bring Zhang Jiahui the popularity that a male protagonist should have, so he had to go on the run. In the process, he has been playing a small role calmly and diligently.
In Wang Jing’s 1999 film, Zhang Jiahui was the main character, but he was upstaged by Stephen Chow in a supporting role, who was paid millions for only nine days of acting.
Thick accumulation is bound to thin hair, and his persistence and diligence brought him good luck. In the same year, his films finally won him the most important award nomination since he joined the industry – the nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards. At this time, he was already 31 years old, and for an actor, he had waited long enough.
Later, Zhang Jiahui married Guan Yonghe, the head of ATV who had been in love for many years, and his film career also entered a new stage.
If before 2005, Zhang Jiahui’s performance impression was centered on the image of gambling comedies, then in Johnnie To’s performance, he completely turned the audience’s impression upside down. He used the performance power he had accumulated for many years to play a stubborn police officer to shock people, whether it was the character’s emotional transformation or the state of the explosion.
In 2008, it was a major turning point in Zhang Jiahui’s life – he won five Best Actor trophies in one fell swoop with "Witness", including the Golden Horse Best Actor and the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor! The complex psychological state of the characters in the film, the contradictory personality, and the well-controlled emotions of the characters, he portrayed a hateful and pitiful tragic character very well.
Since then, he has continued to break his own records. In 2002, he starred in the role of Mute, and in order to create this role, Zhang Jiahui spent a year exercising his figure and trying to eat food that even dogs don’t eat. Hard work pays off, and Zhang Jiahui’s role as Mute is full of forbearance, unwillingness and anger, which makes us feel what real pain is. The film also won him a nomination for Best Actor at the 49th Golden Horse Awards and Best Actor at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards!
In 2013, it was the peak of Zhang Jiahui’s acting skills. At the age of 46, Zhang Jiahui trained his body like a real boxer and conquered the judges with his acting skills, winning 10 Best Actor awards!
After refining his acting skills, Zhang Jiahui chose to be a director and successfully directed two works and was called one of the few successful horror films by netizens in recent years.
Now, Zhang Jiahui will meet you on April 28th with his third work directed and acted by himself! This police and bandit action drama has invited Xu Jinglei, He Jiong, Yu Nan, Miao Qiaowei, Yuan Hua, Zhang Keyi, Lin Xue, Zhang Jicong, Qin Pei, Ni Dahong and other acting and powerful actors to join. The gloomy and low tone of the film, the hot scenes of car chasing and gunfight, and the human proposition of entanglement between good and evil have all added a lot of highlights to this May 1st only action movie.
On April 28th, the first mainland public film directed by Zhang Jiahui is about to be released. He has won the Academy Award for his police and gangster films. Don’t you look forward to the films directed by Zhang Jiahui, who has a police background and has accumulated a lot of hair?