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nisakomithis was a 3000 word article about jun's early life i translated for lia 5 years ago
1. i do not purport this translation to be accurate
2. i have not edited this translation at any point - it was casually done for a friend and i don't have time to review it now
3. but it kind of reads like a drama so just remembering the article tickles me
“Young Ip Man” Wen Junhui: Finding a husband for his single mother
In June 2010, “Ip Man” was released, in the movie acting as young Ip Man was Wen Junhui, who not only had outstanding acting, but his Wing Chun (martial arts) fit the mold (were authentic). This child star was active on screen from age 2, at age 4 already felt the burden of raising a family, and at age 8 learned to play, like the role he was acting, to find a “father” for himself. When his new family was about to add a new member, his drama life let him put down his heart’s tumult/confusion/disorder (lit: haze) to embrace his younger brother’s birth.
Acting not only achieved Wen Junhui’s dreams, moreover turned his single-parent family into a complete and happy home.
4 year old child became a pillar, the fake/not real drama propped up the broken family.
June 1996, Wen Jun Hui was born in Shen Zhen. When he was two, his parents, due to estrangement/discord, agreed to divorce. Since then, Wen Junhui lived with his mother, Wang Jie.
One day near the end of 1998, Wang Jie took Wen Junhui to a park near his school. The just over two years old Wen Jun Hui appeared exceptionally cute, round face, big eyes, and when he smiled he had two deep dimples. At this time, a fashionably dressed young man walked over, and Wen Junhui not only was unafraid of this stranger and called him “shushu” (lit: uncle, term used for older men around your parents age or younger) but played a game with him. With a hand on Wen Junhui’s head, the young man said to Wang Jie, “I’m a performing arts company representative, your child is very cute, right now we’re looking to film an advertisement for a real estate company, are you willing to have your child try it out?” When she heard the drama star was Cheung Ka Fai (Nick Cheung, famous actor from Hong Kong), Wang Jie was so surprised she couldn’t believe it.
At the studio, Wen Junhui not only did not cry or make a fuss (was well behaved), but was even a little showing off (specifically of children, to play up in front of an audience). He flitted about, sitting on Nick Cheung’s lap for one moment, the next running around everywhere, his cute appearance making Nick Cheung like him an incredible amount.
Despite the first shoot going very smoothly, Wen Junhui’s later performances did not go as well. In the second audition, the director told him, “This is your mom, call her ‘mom’.” Wen Junhui looked at the strange woman in front of his eyes and shook his head fiercely. “She’s not my mom.” “In the advertisement, she is your mother. Quickly call her mom.” But no matter how the director tried to explain to him, Wen Junhui refused to speak. Standing on the side watching her stubborn son, Wang Jie was anxious/worried to death. “Son, this is acting, quickly call her mom.” Who would have known two-and-a-half-year-old Wen Junhui would suddenly be heard crying.
On the way home, Wang Jie was angry, she ignored her son on purpose. The aggrieved Wen Junhui grabbed his mother’s clothes and asked, “Mom, why aren’t you replying to me?” “Son, mom is very angry because someone else gave you an opportunity but you gave it up.” Even though the young Wen Junhui didn’t understand, he saw his mother’s angry appearance and knew he had done wrong.
Once home, the sensible/thoughtful Wen Junhui was anxious to turn on the TV, hugging the television, the people rushing inside kept calling “mom” “grandfather” “grandmother”…Wang Jie looked at her son and her heart immediately softened. “My son, we don’t have the background. If you want to act, you have to grasp every opportunity.”
Ever since then, the previously uninformed about acting Wang Jie, when Wen Junhui filmed advertisements, began to pay attention to the director’s instructions. When there was free time, she would communicate with the staff of the studio, asking for advice on acting techniques and methods, and go home to teach her son. She told him, “Acting is not just facing the camera and demonstrating emotions (lit: joy, anger, sorrow), more importantly, you have to move someone with true feelings. Acting is like living, you have to smile naturally, cry naturally, you have to smile from the bottom of your heart and cry from the bottom of your heart. Only when you’re moved yourself can you make other people feel moved.”
In June 2000, Wen Junhui filmed his first drama “Watching the Truth (???)”, during which there was a scene where he searched for his father in a park, requiring him to run around a lot and scream and cry under the hot sun when it was nearly 40 degrees Celsius. Wen Junhui shouted until he was hoarse, skinned his elbows. Wang Jie watched with her eyes, the pain in her heart.
After the director yelled cut, Wen Junhui with one hand wiped away tears, with the other hand held his mother’s hand, eagerly asking her, “Mom, did I act well?” Wang Jie held back her tears, forced a smile, gave him a thumbs up, and said, “My son, watching you cry made mom want to cry, you acted so well!” But with tears, Wen Junhui said, “Mom, where’s my dad? I also want to find him.” Wang Jie froze, her son tried to shift his character’s sentiments, extending them off screen to his own life, giving her mixed feelings so that she didn’t know what to say.
After that, Wen Junhui also filmed the drama “Flying Dragon Special Unit”. In the drama, Wen Junhui acted a child who lived with his mother, while his father was a jewel thief who could not return home. In his real life/outside of the drama, Wen Junhui often asked his mother, “Mom, everyone else has a dad (to accompany them), where did my father go?” Seeing her son’s longing eyes, Wang Jie told him a beautiful lie, “Your father is working at a faraway place, so he can’t come home often.” Wen Junhui blinked his large eyes, leaned close to his mother’s ears, and whispered, “Mom, I understand, dad is also an international thief, right?” Seeing her son unable to distinguish between drama and real life, Wang Jie felt warmth.
Wen Junhui’s sincere performance earned him a good reputation, with many drama and film directors extending invitations to him. But Wang Jie was worried. In reality, she was in a management job at a company, and while she earned a small salary, it was enough to support the two of them. But now Wen Junhui was busier and busier filming, and spending time with her son was impossible, but she could not feel assured leaving her son to be minded by someone else. With the happiness she felt every time she saw her son after finishing filming, Wang Jie made a big decision. She quit her job, now spending all her time accompanying her son while filming. Just like that, the young Wen Junhui became the family’s backbone.
In 2004, Wen Junhui filmed 35 episodes of the drama series “Cross Border Daddy”. He played the son of the male lead, Zeng Cheng, whose parents divorced and now lived in a single family household with his father. When the director gave the role to Wen Junhui, Wen Junhui confidently told him, “Director-Shushu, I’ll definitely be able to act this part well because this drama is so much like my life, I have a single mother, Zeng Cheng has a single father.”
Because he had similar life experiences to the characters, Wen Junhui was especially into the drama, he used his own feelings to try to figure out and understand Zeng Cheng’s encounters. During that time, the drama’s smart, well-behaved/well-mannered, Zeng Cheng was just like real life’s Wen Junhui. Her son’s growth made Wang Jie super happy. But not more than a few days later, Wang Jie found her son had been living too deeply in the drama, already as if living and acting were melted together.
Originally, in “Cross Border Daddy”, the eager Zeng Cheng who wanted the warmth of a family, took the initiative to find his father a girlfriend. Wen Junhui, inspired by the script, also wanted to find himself a father, which gave Wang Jie both humour and distress. After the divorce, it wasn’t that she never thought about remarrying, but she worried that the man would be bad to her son, so this matter was put aside.
February 14th, after filming for his drama, Wen Junhui returned home with his mother, on the way he saw many people holding roses. He curiously asked, “Mom, why are so many older sisters holding flowers?” Wang Jie laughed and said, “Son, today’s Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s day you have to give roses to your girlfriend.” When Wen Junhui heard this, his face sank and said, “I hope mom can also receive flowers, I hope mom can find me a dad.” When she heard this, Wang Jie sighed heavily.
En route, mother and son were buying groceries. Right after Wang Jie paid, she turned her head, and her son had disappeared. She was so anxious she didn’t even take her groceries, immediately searching everywhere. Her son was always very sensible, never ran off, it wasn’t because something bad had happened right? The more Wang Jie thought about, the more and more frightened she became. After the divorce, her son had become everything to her, she was able to endure life’s difficulties and setbacks, but she could not stand any mishaps happening to her son.
Just when Wang Jie was so anxious (lit: fire burned her eyebrows), Wen Junhui came running from the distance. Wang Jie saw her son, the weight dropped from her heart/shoulders, immediately felt the fire ebbing from her forehead. She pulled Wen Junhui and scolded, “Where did you run off to? Why didn’t you say anything to me?” Wen Junhui was breathing happily, timidly held out his hand from behind his back. “Mom, happy valentine’s day!” Wang Jie was stunned. In her son’s hands was a single blooming rose. Wang Jie’s tears immediately flooded out, she seized her son and choked out, “You’re really mom’s good kid.”
In Wang Jie’s circle of friends was one name with the surname Feng, was especially compatible with/hit it off with Wen Junhui, the two of them often playing together. Once, Wen Junhui ventured a proposal, “Feng-Shushu, why don’t you be my father!” When Mr. Feng heard this, he laughed and said, “It would be great if I had a son like you!” This made Wen Junhui excited, and he could not help but say, “Then you should marry my mom!” Seeing the sincerity in Wen Junhui’s eyes, Mr. Feng could not longer joke about it.
After returning from Mr. Feng’s home, Wen Junhui started lobbying Wang Jie again, “Mom, I think Feng-Shushu is amazing, you should marry him!” When Wang Jie heard this, she thought that he was once again mimicking the television dramas to find her a boyfriend, so she laughingly said, “Your Feng-Shushu is great, but he’s younger than mom by three years, he’s handsome and he’s rich, why would he fancy your mother?” Wen Junhui shook his small head and said, “Feng-Shushu likes me, he wants to be my father. Mom, I definitely have to see you two get married.”
Since then, Wen Junhui was like the drama’s Zeng Cheng, using matchmaking parent approach, creatively studying and applying the techniques on his mother and Feng-shushu. He would often say good things about each to the other person, increasing the goodwill of the two, on weekends as soon as he had time off, he would pester Feng-shushu, deepening the father-son dependence/relationship. Mr. Feng is from Henan, normally does not speak a lot, but was very good to Wen Junhui. Wen Junhui often went to Mr. Feng’s house, every time he slept, Mr. Feng would always tuck him in and make sure he was asleep before sleeping himself. Sometimes, Wen Junhui went to record/film, finishing up only at 3 or 4am, but Mr. Feng always waited for him to call it a day, and then would call a taxi to take him home. Seeing Mr. Feng and her son’s relationship being so strong/good, Wang Jie was very moved.
One day near the end of 2005, Wen Junhui filmed once again to 3 in the morning, Wang Jie called Mr. Feng. “Are you sleeping? We just finished recording.” “You guys wait, I’m coming to pick you up.” At 4 in the morning, Mr. Feng, piggybacked a sleeping Wen Junhui back home. In the elevator, Wang Jie gratefully said, “Thankfully you’re here, my son’s grown, I can’t piggyback him anymore.” Mr. Feng looked at Wangjie and seriously said, “God seems to have destined Junhui to be my son, for his sake, for a son’s sake, let’s get married.” Wang Jie had been waiting a long time to hear those words, she looked at Mr. Feng, and looked at him carrying her son. In the course of their interactions over the past year and more, she and her son were already deeply attached to Mr. Feng, and in her heart, they had already been one family for a long time. In early 2006, Wang Jie and Mr. Feng held a grand wedding.
Soon after Wang Jie and Mr. Feng got married, she was pregnant. She happily told her son, “Huizi (nickname), mother will give birth to a little brother for you, okay?” She didn’t think Wen Junhui would stuffily say, “I don’t want a little brother!” Wang Jie laughed. “Then I’ll give birth to a little sister?” Wen Junhui stood up and shouted, “I don’t want a little sister! I don’t want anything!” Wang Jie froze. “Huizi, mom has a little baby, you’re not happy?” “I’m not happy! If I have a little brother, you and dad won’t love me anymore…” Wen Junhui then began to cry. “No, that won’t happen, you are mom’s child, whether or not there’s a little brother, mom will love you the same.” Wang Jie hugged her son, she understood him, his childhood’s single-parent experience gave her son a very fragile heart, and he was afraid of the little brother who dropped from the skies would take away his love.
Although the couple told Wen Junhui about the advantages of having a little brother, they had little success. At this time, Wen Junhui received an offer for a new drama. Considering her son’s mental and emotional condition, Wang Jie refused the invitation. But she looked at the script and found that Wen Junhui’s character had a little brother, so she changed her mind. Her son often did not distinguish between drama and real life, why not let the drama show him the benefits of having a little brother?
During that time, Wen Junhui and his drama’s little brother actor became inseparable, playing together, eating together, coming up with mischievous ideas to prank other people together, and getting punished together. At a time when Wang Jie wasn’t mentioning the matter of the little brother, she could tell that her son was already slowly changing. After finishing Wen Junhui’s scenes, he happily said, “Mom, you definitely have to give birth to a little brother for me, having a little brother is amazing!” Seeing her son’s eager/expecting eyes, Wang Jie laughed heartily.
In the second half of 2006, Wang Jie took Wen Junhui to Hong Kong to film “The Pye Dog”, at the time she had already been pregnant for six months, her stomach was large, and movement was very inconvenient. Before leaving, dad called Wen Junhui over to him and charged him with a responsibility, “Son, you’ve already grown up. This time leaving, you’re the only man, you have to take care of/protect your mom.” The ten-year-old Wen Junhui seriously nodded his head. Mother and son left, Wen Junhui carried the backpack, held the luggage, and the small boy who used to have the nickname “Naughty Star” suddenly became a young man.
Wen Junhui’s drama in Hong Kong filmed for a year, Wang Jie supported a 7 month pregnant stomach, every day accompanying him back and forth between the set and the hotel. Wen Junhui felt his mother’s swollen legs and feet, and with distress (lit: heart pain; so like worrying, feeling bad), said, “Mom, you’ve really worked hard! I will film very well.” Wang Jie smiled. “Huizi, even though your little brother hasn’t been born yet, he can hear everything. You’re a great model for him.” Wen Junhui directed his voice at his mother’s stomach and proudly said, “Little brother, in the future I’ll teach you to act!”
Yangyang. Wen Junhui didn’t go out to play anymore, as soon as he finished school, he would come home and lie beside his little brother’s cradle, and could not look at him enough. When Yangyang was almost a month old, Wen Junhui recorded an advertisement, the him who normally didn’t talk much spoke endlessly about how great his little brother was, so that everyone in the studio/all the crew knew he had an adorable little brother. After only a few days, the director called Wang Jie. “Let’s have your family’s Yangyang film an advertisement with Wen Junhui.” Just like that, his little brother only a month old, Wen Junhui wore his mirror.
Other than acting, the thing Wen Junhui liked the most was making his brother laugh, every time after he finished filming, he would retell what happened on set to Yangyang. Dad would smile and say “Yangyang can’t understand.” But Wen Junhui said, “Yangyang is very smart! He might look like he can’t speak clearly, but he can understand everything!”
Through Wen Junhui’s propaganda about film and television, when Yangyang was just over three years old, he had already filmed two TV series. Now, Wen Junhui was not only an older brother, but he was Yangyang’s teacher. He imitated Wang Jie’s tone of voice, and said to his little brother, “Acting is not just facing the camera and demonstrating emotions (lit: joy, anger, sorrow), more importantly, you have to move someone with true feelings. Acting is like living…”
In 2008, Wen Junhui gave an outstanding performance in “The Pye Dog”, and won the Hong Kong Film Awards nomination for best new actor award, becoming the first mainland (China) actor to receive this nomination.
In early 2010, Wen Junhui was hired to be part of the “Ip Man” cast, playing young Ip Man. “The Legend is Born: Ip Man” was released to widespread praise. Today’s Wen Junhui, after experiencing life with growth, has become on one hand mature and confident, and at the same time accomplished his dreams with his career, bringing him a unique happiness in life.
1. i do not purport this translation to be accurate
2. i have not edited this translation at any point - it was casually done for a friend and i don't have time to review it now
3. but it kind of reads like a drama so just remembering the article tickles me
“Young Ip Man” Wen Junhui: Finding a husband for his single mother
In June 2010, “Ip Man” was released, in the movie acting as young Ip Man was Wen Junhui, who not only had outstanding acting, but his Wing Chun (martial arts) fit the mold (were authentic). This child star was active on screen from age 2, at age 4 already felt the burden of raising a family, and at age 8 learned to play, like the role he was acting, to find a “father” for himself. When his new family was about to add a new member, his drama life let him put down his heart’s tumult/confusion/disorder (lit: haze) to embrace his younger brother’s birth.
Acting not only achieved Wen Junhui’s dreams, moreover turned his single-parent family into a complete and happy home.
4 year old child became a pillar, the fake/not real drama propped up the broken family.
June 1996, Wen Jun Hui was born in Shen Zhen. When he was two, his parents, due to estrangement/discord, agreed to divorce. Since then, Wen Junhui lived with his mother, Wang Jie.
One day near the end of 1998, Wang Jie took Wen Junhui to a park near his school. The just over two years old Wen Jun Hui appeared exceptionally cute, round face, big eyes, and when he smiled he had two deep dimples. At this time, a fashionably dressed young man walked over, and Wen Junhui not only was unafraid of this stranger and called him “shushu” (lit: uncle, term used for older men around your parents age or younger) but played a game with him. With a hand on Wen Junhui’s head, the young man said to Wang Jie, “I’m a performing arts company representative, your child is very cute, right now we’re looking to film an advertisement for a real estate company, are you willing to have your child try it out?” When she heard the drama star was Cheung Ka Fai (Nick Cheung, famous actor from Hong Kong), Wang Jie was so surprised she couldn’t believe it.
At the studio, Wen Junhui not only did not cry or make a fuss (was well behaved), but was even a little showing off (specifically of children, to play up in front of an audience). He flitted about, sitting on Nick Cheung’s lap for one moment, the next running around everywhere, his cute appearance making Nick Cheung like him an incredible amount.
Despite the first shoot going very smoothly, Wen Junhui’s later performances did not go as well. In the second audition, the director told him, “This is your mom, call her ‘mom’.” Wen Junhui looked at the strange woman in front of his eyes and shook his head fiercely. “She’s not my mom.” “In the advertisement, she is your mother. Quickly call her mom.” But no matter how the director tried to explain to him, Wen Junhui refused to speak. Standing on the side watching her stubborn son, Wang Jie was anxious/worried to death. “Son, this is acting, quickly call her mom.” Who would have known two-and-a-half-year-old Wen Junhui would suddenly be heard crying.
On the way home, Wang Jie was angry, she ignored her son on purpose. The aggrieved Wen Junhui grabbed his mother’s clothes and asked, “Mom, why aren’t you replying to me?” “Son, mom is very angry because someone else gave you an opportunity but you gave it up.” Even though the young Wen Junhui didn’t understand, he saw his mother’s angry appearance and knew he had done wrong.
Once home, the sensible/thoughtful Wen Junhui was anxious to turn on the TV, hugging the television, the people rushing inside kept calling “mom” “grandfather” “grandmother”…Wang Jie looked at her son and her heart immediately softened. “My son, we don’t have the background. If you want to act, you have to grasp every opportunity.”
Ever since then, the previously uninformed about acting Wang Jie, when Wen Junhui filmed advertisements, began to pay attention to the director’s instructions. When there was free time, she would communicate with the staff of the studio, asking for advice on acting techniques and methods, and go home to teach her son. She told him, “Acting is not just facing the camera and demonstrating emotions (lit: joy, anger, sorrow), more importantly, you have to move someone with true feelings. Acting is like living, you have to smile naturally, cry naturally, you have to smile from the bottom of your heart and cry from the bottom of your heart. Only when you’re moved yourself can you make other people feel moved.”
In June 2000, Wen Junhui filmed his first drama “Watching the Truth (???)”, during which there was a scene where he searched for his father in a park, requiring him to run around a lot and scream and cry under the hot sun when it was nearly 40 degrees Celsius. Wen Junhui shouted until he was hoarse, skinned his elbows. Wang Jie watched with her eyes, the pain in her heart.
After the director yelled cut, Wen Junhui with one hand wiped away tears, with the other hand held his mother’s hand, eagerly asking her, “Mom, did I act well?” Wang Jie held back her tears, forced a smile, gave him a thumbs up, and said, “My son, watching you cry made mom want to cry, you acted so well!” But with tears, Wen Junhui said, “Mom, where’s my dad? I also want to find him.” Wang Jie froze, her son tried to shift his character’s sentiments, extending them off screen to his own life, giving her mixed feelings so that she didn’t know what to say.
After that, Wen Junhui also filmed the drama “Flying Dragon Special Unit”. In the drama, Wen Junhui acted a child who lived with his mother, while his father was a jewel thief who could not return home. In his real life/outside of the drama, Wen Junhui often asked his mother, “Mom, everyone else has a dad (to accompany them), where did my father go?” Seeing her son’s longing eyes, Wang Jie told him a beautiful lie, “Your father is working at a faraway place, so he can’t come home often.” Wen Junhui blinked his large eyes, leaned close to his mother’s ears, and whispered, “Mom, I understand, dad is also an international thief, right?” Seeing her son unable to distinguish between drama and real life, Wang Jie felt warmth.
Wen Junhui’s sincere performance earned him a good reputation, with many drama and film directors extending invitations to him. But Wang Jie was worried. In reality, she was in a management job at a company, and while she earned a small salary, it was enough to support the two of them. But now Wen Junhui was busier and busier filming, and spending time with her son was impossible, but she could not feel assured leaving her son to be minded by someone else. With the happiness she felt every time she saw her son after finishing filming, Wang Jie made a big decision. She quit her job, now spending all her time accompanying her son while filming. Just like that, the young Wen Junhui became the family’s backbone.
In 2004, Wen Junhui filmed 35 episodes of the drama series “Cross Border Daddy”. He played the son of the male lead, Zeng Cheng, whose parents divorced and now lived in a single family household with his father. When the director gave the role to Wen Junhui, Wen Junhui confidently told him, “Director-Shushu, I’ll definitely be able to act this part well because this drama is so much like my life, I have a single mother, Zeng Cheng has a single father.”
Because he had similar life experiences to the characters, Wen Junhui was especially into the drama, he used his own feelings to try to figure out and understand Zeng Cheng’s encounters. During that time, the drama’s smart, well-behaved/well-mannered, Zeng Cheng was just like real life’s Wen Junhui. Her son’s growth made Wang Jie super happy. But not more than a few days later, Wang Jie found her son had been living too deeply in the drama, already as if living and acting were melted together.
Originally, in “Cross Border Daddy”, the eager Zeng Cheng who wanted the warmth of a family, took the initiative to find his father a girlfriend. Wen Junhui, inspired by the script, also wanted to find himself a father, which gave Wang Jie both humour and distress. After the divorce, it wasn’t that she never thought about remarrying, but she worried that the man would be bad to her son, so this matter was put aside.
February 14th, after filming for his drama, Wen Junhui returned home with his mother, on the way he saw many people holding roses. He curiously asked, “Mom, why are so many older sisters holding flowers?” Wang Jie laughed and said, “Son, today’s Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s day you have to give roses to your girlfriend.” When Wen Junhui heard this, his face sank and said, “I hope mom can also receive flowers, I hope mom can find me a dad.” When she heard this, Wang Jie sighed heavily.
En route, mother and son were buying groceries. Right after Wang Jie paid, she turned her head, and her son had disappeared. She was so anxious she didn’t even take her groceries, immediately searching everywhere. Her son was always very sensible, never ran off, it wasn’t because something bad had happened right? The more Wang Jie thought about, the more and more frightened she became. After the divorce, her son had become everything to her, she was able to endure life’s difficulties and setbacks, but she could not stand any mishaps happening to her son.
Just when Wang Jie was so anxious (lit: fire burned her eyebrows), Wen Junhui came running from the distance. Wang Jie saw her son, the weight dropped from her heart/shoulders, immediately felt the fire ebbing from her forehead. She pulled Wen Junhui and scolded, “Where did you run off to? Why didn’t you say anything to me?” Wen Junhui was breathing happily, timidly held out his hand from behind his back. “Mom, happy valentine’s day!” Wang Jie was stunned. In her son’s hands was a single blooming rose. Wang Jie’s tears immediately flooded out, she seized her son and choked out, “You’re really mom’s good kid.”
In Wang Jie’s circle of friends was one name with the surname Feng, was especially compatible with/hit it off with Wen Junhui, the two of them often playing together. Once, Wen Junhui ventured a proposal, “Feng-Shushu, why don’t you be my father!” When Mr. Feng heard this, he laughed and said, “It would be great if I had a son like you!” This made Wen Junhui excited, and he could not help but say, “Then you should marry my mom!” Seeing the sincerity in Wen Junhui’s eyes, Mr. Feng could not longer joke about it.
After returning from Mr. Feng’s home, Wen Junhui started lobbying Wang Jie again, “Mom, I think Feng-Shushu is amazing, you should marry him!” When Wang Jie heard this, she thought that he was once again mimicking the television dramas to find her a boyfriend, so she laughingly said, “Your Feng-Shushu is great, but he’s younger than mom by three years, he’s handsome and he’s rich, why would he fancy your mother?” Wen Junhui shook his small head and said, “Feng-Shushu likes me, he wants to be my father. Mom, I definitely have to see you two get married.”
Since then, Wen Junhui was like the drama’s Zeng Cheng, using matchmaking parent approach, creatively studying and applying the techniques on his mother and Feng-shushu. He would often say good things about each to the other person, increasing the goodwill of the two, on weekends as soon as he had time off, he would pester Feng-shushu, deepening the father-son dependence/relationship. Mr. Feng is from Henan, normally does not speak a lot, but was very good to Wen Junhui. Wen Junhui often went to Mr. Feng’s house, every time he slept, Mr. Feng would always tuck him in and make sure he was asleep before sleeping himself. Sometimes, Wen Junhui went to record/film, finishing up only at 3 or 4am, but Mr. Feng always waited for him to call it a day, and then would call a taxi to take him home. Seeing Mr. Feng and her son’s relationship being so strong/good, Wang Jie was very moved.
One day near the end of 2005, Wen Junhui filmed once again to 3 in the morning, Wang Jie called Mr. Feng. “Are you sleeping? We just finished recording.” “You guys wait, I’m coming to pick you up.” At 4 in the morning, Mr. Feng, piggybacked a sleeping Wen Junhui back home. In the elevator, Wang Jie gratefully said, “Thankfully you’re here, my son’s grown, I can’t piggyback him anymore.” Mr. Feng looked at Wangjie and seriously said, “God seems to have destined Junhui to be my son, for his sake, for a son’s sake, let’s get married.” Wang Jie had been waiting a long time to hear those words, she looked at Mr. Feng, and looked at him carrying her son. In the course of their interactions over the past year and more, she and her son were already deeply attached to Mr. Feng, and in her heart, they had already been one family for a long time. In early 2006, Wang Jie and Mr. Feng held a grand wedding.
Soon after Wang Jie and Mr. Feng got married, she was pregnant. She happily told her son, “Huizi (nickname), mother will give birth to a little brother for you, okay?” She didn’t think Wen Junhui would stuffily say, “I don’t want a little brother!” Wang Jie laughed. “Then I’ll give birth to a little sister?” Wen Junhui stood up and shouted, “I don’t want a little sister! I don’t want anything!” Wang Jie froze. “Huizi, mom has a little baby, you’re not happy?” “I’m not happy! If I have a little brother, you and dad won’t love me anymore…” Wen Junhui then began to cry. “No, that won’t happen, you are mom’s child, whether or not there’s a little brother, mom will love you the same.” Wang Jie hugged her son, she understood him, his childhood’s single-parent experience gave her son a very fragile heart, and he was afraid of the little brother who dropped from the skies would take away his love.
Although the couple told Wen Junhui about the advantages of having a little brother, they had little success. At this time, Wen Junhui received an offer for a new drama. Considering her son’s mental and emotional condition, Wang Jie refused the invitation. But she looked at the script and found that Wen Junhui’s character had a little brother, so she changed her mind. Her son often did not distinguish between drama and real life, why not let the drama show him the benefits of having a little brother?
During that time, Wen Junhui and his drama’s little brother actor became inseparable, playing together, eating together, coming up with mischievous ideas to prank other people together, and getting punished together. At a time when Wang Jie wasn’t mentioning the matter of the little brother, she could tell that her son was already slowly changing. After finishing Wen Junhui’s scenes, he happily said, “Mom, you definitely have to give birth to a little brother for me, having a little brother is amazing!” Seeing her son’s eager/expecting eyes, Wang Jie laughed heartily.
In the second half of 2006, Wang Jie took Wen Junhui to Hong Kong to film “The Pye Dog”, at the time she had already been pregnant for six months, her stomach was large, and movement was very inconvenient. Before leaving, dad called Wen Junhui over to him and charged him with a responsibility, “Son, you’ve already grown up. This time leaving, you’re the only man, you have to take care of/protect your mom.” The ten-year-old Wen Junhui seriously nodded his head. Mother and son left, Wen Junhui carried the backpack, held the luggage, and the small boy who used to have the nickname “Naughty Star” suddenly became a young man.
Wen Junhui’s drama in Hong Kong filmed for a year, Wang Jie supported a 7 month pregnant stomach, every day accompanying him back and forth between the set and the hotel. Wen Junhui felt his mother’s swollen legs and feet, and with distress (lit: heart pain; so like worrying, feeling bad), said, “Mom, you’ve really worked hard! I will film very well.” Wang Jie smiled. “Huizi, even though your little brother hasn’t been born yet, he can hear everything. You’re a great model for him.” Wen Junhui directed his voice at his mother’s stomach and proudly said, “Little brother, in the future I’ll teach you to act!”
Yangyang. Wen Junhui didn’t go out to play anymore, as soon as he finished school, he would come home and lie beside his little brother’s cradle, and could not look at him enough. When Yangyang was almost a month old, Wen Junhui recorded an advertisement, the him who normally didn’t talk much spoke endlessly about how great his little brother was, so that everyone in the studio/all the crew knew he had an adorable little brother. After only a few days, the director called Wang Jie. “Let’s have your family’s Yangyang film an advertisement with Wen Junhui.” Just like that, his little brother only a month old, Wen Junhui wore his mirror.
Other than acting, the thing Wen Junhui liked the most was making his brother laugh, every time after he finished filming, he would retell what happened on set to Yangyang. Dad would smile and say “Yangyang can’t understand.” But Wen Junhui said, “Yangyang is very smart! He might look like he can’t speak clearly, but he can understand everything!”
Through Wen Junhui’s propaganda about film and television, when Yangyang was just over three years old, he had already filmed two TV series. Now, Wen Junhui was not only an older brother, but he was Yangyang’s teacher. He imitated Wang Jie’s tone of voice, and said to his little brother, “Acting is not just facing the camera and demonstrating emotions (lit: joy, anger, sorrow), more importantly, you have to move someone with true feelings. Acting is like living…”
In 2008, Wen Junhui gave an outstanding performance in “The Pye Dog”, and won the Hong Kong Film Awards nomination for best new actor award, becoming the first mainland (China) actor to receive this nomination.
In early 2010, Wen Junhui was hired to be part of the “Ip Man” cast, playing young Ip Man. “The Legend is Born: Ip Man” was released to widespread praise. Today’s Wen Junhui, after experiencing life with growth, has become on one hand mature and confident, and at the same time accomplished his dreams with his career, bringing him a unique happiness in life.
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