During the filming,
In the fourth episode of Journey to the West, Five Elements Mountain, there are four Tang Sanzang, except perhaps an adult. The youngest is Jiang Liuer, who was put in a wooden basin by his mother, Miss Yin, when he was a baby, and was later rescued by a monk. The player is a little girl named Hu.
Hu Qianwen played "Jiang Liuer" when she was five months old.
At that time, the crew of Journey to the West was filming in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, and always used props dolls to replace the infant Tang priest. Director Yang Jie is not satisfied with the effect. After being introduced by the staff of Zhenjiang Cultural Bureau, she found a five-month-old baby girl Hu and began to shoot a wooden basin drifting on the river in the shallows. The effect is always unsatisfactory, and there is no artistic conception of surging river.
Hu Qianwen played "Jiang Liuer" when she was five months old.
Director Yang Jie decided to put the wooden basin with children in the river at 15 meters. For the safety of children, let two divers gently hold the wooden basin below and float to the other side. When approaching the shoal, slowly drag it to the shore with nylon thread tied to the basin. At that time, I didn't pay for the movie, but gave Xiao Qian a doll as a souvenir. Now Hu works in a state-owned enterprise in Zhenjiang.
Hu
The older Tang Priest had several scenes of knocking wooden fish, which was played by Wang Leyan, who was about seven or eight years old at that time. Now Wang Leyan is a well-known music critic, record planner and performance planner.
Wang Leyan plays "Jiang Liuer" who knocks wooden fish.
An older Tang priest was carrying firewood up the mountain and met a fisherman. He traded firewood for fish and set them free. This little actor is Cai Yuanhang. Besides playing the little Tang Priest, Cai Yuanhang also played the young Puyi in the TV series The Last Emperor. Play the young thin sword in the International Nuclear Accident Scale.
Cai Yuanhang's "Jiang Liuer" returns firewood to fish and releases it.
Cai Yuanhang graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and is now the CEO of a communication group. His wife is actress Sun Xi, and they have a son.
Cai Yuanhang and Sun Gan's family.
Before the filming of Journey to the West, in order to find the actor of Tang Priest, Director Yang Jie went to Nortel and Chinese Opera to select actors, and selected Wang Yue from Beijing Film Academy. Wang Yue has appeared in films such as The Girl on the Plate, Xu Mao and His Daughters from Bayi Factory, Years of Fighting, and most of them are bit characters with few scenes.
When Wang Yue was admitted to Beijing Film Academy.
Yang Jie arranged for Wang Yue to go to Beijing Fayuan Temple to experience life, live with monks in the temple and learn Buddhist etiquette and knowledge. Wang Yue works very hard. He felt that the five Buddha crowns made by the crew were not quite right, so he drew the patterns himself. Later, when shooting, Tang Yan's monk's hat was made according to the pattern he drew.
Wang Yue plays the Tang Priest.
The crew first produced an episode of "Black Chicken Country" by filming. After the leader reviewed it, he thought that the Tang Priest played by Wang Yue was not generous enough and asked for a replacement. But Yang Jie thinks that he is a young man who just left school and should be given another chance. In this way, Wang Yue performed several episodes of Guanyin Temple, Stealing Ginseng Fruit and Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, and the performances became more and more in place.
Wang Yue plays the Tang Priest.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Wang Yue proposed to Yang Jie that there was a movie for him to star in, hoping to take care of both sides. But Yang Jie refused on the spot, saying that this place could not be used as a patch. Wang Yue reluctantly left The Journey to the West with tears in her eyes.
Wang Yue plays the Tang Priest.
Wang Yue's movie West to Hundred Batteries Gorge was released 1984. Since then, Wang Yue has appeared in film and television dramas such as Refuge, Young Liu Bocheng, Xuanzang's Journey to the West and Wukong. But the roles he played in these years have been remembered by the audience, except Journey to the West, which only took three episodes. Now Wang Yue is an associate professor at China Theatre Academy.
Wang Yue starred in the movie Westbound Baizhangxia.
Xu from Shandong Repertory Theatre auditioned for the role of Xiaobailong, while an actor from the General Political Repertory Theatre auditioned for Tang Priest. Both of them are different from the roles of the audition. Ruan, deputy director of CCTV and chief producer of The Journey to the West, immediately decided to let Xu play the Tang Priest.
Xu
Xu once starred in the movie Jingbian. At that time, he was thin Yang Jie asked the audience sitting next to him to give him more meat to make him gain weight. Xu looks handsome and handsome, and was recognized by the audience when he filmed several episodes of the pilot.
The film Jing bian starring Xu.
Xu has been filming in The Journey to the West for more than two years. In the middle of filming, he was admitted to Shandong Art College. Xu Huashao told director Yang Jie that the filming would not be delayed, as long as he went to study for a few days after filming, he would get a diploma. Yang Jie asked him what he would do if he could only manage one end. Xu Hua said less, he would choose to play Tang Priest.
Xu makeup
1985 10, the crew was ready to set off for Suzhou to shoot the country of interesting girls, but Xu never returned to the crew. Yang Jie called the Shandong Repertory Theatre and learned that Xu and his wife had gone to school. Yang Jie called the school again and found Xu through the provost, asking him to come back at once. Xu returned to the crew to shoot the drama "Daughter Country" and returned to school immediately after filming.
Xu Hua Shao and Zuo Dafen who plays Guanyin
Yang Jie sent two producers to school, hoping to bend the rules and ensure that the crew filmed. But soon they called from Jinan, and the school leaders asked Xu which was more important, studying or filming. Of course, Xu made a statement and focused on it. Yang Jie reported the situation to the leader. Deputy director Ruan said to him, then change someone else. There are many actors. The man wearing that dress is Tang Priest.
Xu plays the Tang priest.
By this time, more than half of the journey to the west has been filmed, and it is very difficult to change actors and connect with the last one. Just when Yang Jie was at a loss, one day she met a person when she went downstairs in the unit. Yang Jie thought she had a good temperament and stopped him. This is Zhong Ruichi, an actor of the radio troupe. Yang Jie asked him to try it on. Zhong Ruichi, dressed as a Tang priest, has big ears and looks like a Buddha. Everyone is very satisfied.
Zhong Ruichi
In order to test whether Zhong Ruichi can bear hardships, Yang Jie didn't let him play the Tang Priest immediately, but let him put on a mask and play the role of the Dragon King in "The Country of Eliminating Demons and Black Chicken". In this way, Chi became the third actor to play the adult Tang Priest in The Journey to the West, and also the most staunch and loyal Tang Priest. He worked hard, walked the final road of learning from the scriptures with no distractions, and finally got the true scriptures.
Chi plays Tang Priest.
Chi Chu was born in Beijing's five dynasties Peking Opera family. He worked as an educated youth in Heilongjiang, then served as a soldier in Yunnan, and was admitted to China Radio Art Troupe after his discharge. He studied at Shanghai Theatre Academy. After graduation, I went to China TV Production Center and became a professional actor.
Chi plays Tang Priest.
1982, Chi played the second son in the movie Love in the Pen. Since then, he has appeared in film and television dramas such as Golden Late Autumn, This is not a misunderstanding, Harbin under the Night, and Zhi Feng Zhan Ji. After The Journey to the West's great success, he later appeared in TV series such as Journey to the West, Journey to the East, Wu Cheng'en and The Journey to the West. Now he is a very successful businessman.
Zhong Ruichi
Many people think it's a pity that three people play the Tang Priest in Journey to the West. Someone asked Yang Jie, the director, and she replied: Buddhism says that "Buddha has three people", which should probably be on it.
The Tang Priest is played by Hu,,,, Wang Yue, Xu, and Chi.