During the National Day holiday, the main theme film "Mekong River Action" won the top three in film placement, attendance, and box office. The good reputation allowed this bloody film to break out of the small fresh meat siege and inject rare male hormones into the current film.
The plot of the movie itself is quite good, but what attracts many fans more is Peng Yuyan’s rough and black man’s shape, unconcealed masculinity and bursting hormones.
In fact, looking back at Peng Yuyan’s growth history, you may not know that he also had an inspirational experience from fat scum to male god. After graduating from primary school, he was less than 150 in height but weighed more than 70 kilograms. In middle school, he was nearly 160 in height and his weight soared to 75 kilograms. Fortunately, in his third year of high school, he realized his obesity problem in time and decided to lose weight through exercise.
When Peng Yuyan lost weight successfully, he quickly turned from a fat boy into a handsome boy next door. When Peng Yuyan first debuted, he had a baby face and no 8-pack abs. For a long time, he was a slender and gentle flower man.
Many people think that it is no problem for him to rely on his appearance to eat. But he did not, but started a completely different kind of open life, and it is sports and fitness that have made today’s national male god Peng Yuyan.
The 2011 release of "Roll Over, Ashin!" opened the door to a new world for Peng Yuyan, who has always been an idol – not only won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor nomination, but also embarked on the road of a muscular male god. It can be said that because of this play, there is today’s abdominal male god.
The film describes Ashin, who has an excellent athletic talent since childhood, being deeply attracted by gymnastics by chance and gradually stepping into the world of gymnastics. However, under the opposition of his mother, Ashin withdraws sadly. Finally, he is determined to pursue his dream again, and with the encouragement of friends and family, he finally reaches the sky. At 1.82 meters tall and with a beautiful male face, Peng Yuyan plays a gymnast. Before the filming started, many people were not optimistic about it, but when the movie came out, they knew they underestimated Peng Yuyan.
There is such a line in the movie: "There is only one chance to turn over, you just have to do your best." For the role of Ashin, Peng Yuyan, who has zero foundation, spent half a year eating and sleeping with gymnasts, and achieved the state of one-year training for ordinary people in two or three months. The degree of effort is simply not too hard, simply put – beyond ordinary people.
The first time Peng Yuyan met with Ashin’s real prototype in the gymnasium in Yilan, he was beaten up. At that time, Ashin himself asked Peng Yuyan to try his skills, but Peng Yuyan practiced on the horizontal bar a few times, and his hands were worn out.
The coach next to him didn’t say a word. He used scissors to cut off his scratched hand skin, tied it with a bandage, and asked him, "Can you hold it? Gymnastics is not something that anyone says can be practiced. If not, go back to your Taipei to shoot idol dramas."
Of course I can’t go back to Taipei! Peng Yuyan was ruthless to himself and started a high-intensity training of more than ten hours a day for eight months. In order to motivate himself, he also made bets with the crew, such as practicing backflips. If the film is successful, the director will invite him to dinner, otherwise he will invite him. As a result, he invited many days for meals, but even if he invited him to dinner, he tried not to touch greasy and high-calorie food.
In order to get the body of a gymnast as soon as possible, Peng Yuyan maintained high-intensity training while also being very restrained about things. He could only eat a small amount of staple food and boiled vegetables every day, and he relied on boiled chicken breasts and egg whites for fullness. "I will vomit, no one will be so crazy" he laughed at himself!
From the male lead in idol dramas that everyone loves to see his face, to the movie actor who talks and acts like what he looks like with his strength, Peng Yuyan spent half a year proving himself to be a real actor with a "Ah Xin", "Roll Over! Ah Xin" also made him shortlisted for the Best Actor at the 48th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, which was the first time he was so close to the Best Actor.
Peng Yuyan said that this experience is very valuable to him, and while he is young and enthusiastic, there are still many roles to try. No matter what the outcome of this attempt is or how difficult the process is, it is a good exercise.
"If you only have one chance to turn over in your life, you must do your best." This line in the movie is also a portrayal of Peng Yuyan himself.
There is an idiom in China called water comes naturally, which means that wherever water flows, there will be channels, but without channels, there will be water flowing. Peng Yuyan’s efforts are like digging one channel after another for himself. His efforts and hard work have won him a good reputation and many film contracts.
In 2013, "Guild Wars" made Peng Yuyan and Zhang Jiahui two old fresh meat set off the climax of "muscle warfare". Shooting "Roll! A Xin" has been trained to 6% body fat, and by "Guild Wars", it has become 3%. Clear muscle lines, developed arm muscles, thick back muscles, bronze skin, and an inverted triangular figure are enough to make fans scream.
Peng Yuyan’s muscle training is also a quick success, and he received satisfactory results in three months. "I get up at seven o’clock every morning and start practicing until noon, then take a shower and eat lunch to make up for it, and start the same practice in the afternoon. I get soaked in several clothes every day. Exercise for two or three hours every day, and practice boxing for four or five hours."
When practicing indoors, it includes the process of reducing abdomen, building abdominal muscles, and sculpting abdominal muscles. Every day, parallel bar leg lifts, leg lifts, abdominal curls, pedal in the air, and side curls are all commonplace. Ordinary people can also do these exercises.
In addition, the crew also took the actors to outdoor training, such as lifting tires and pulling chains.
In order to play this harder and tougher role, Peng Yuyan hired a professional fighting coach to unlock new skills: MMA (mixed martial arts), Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, lock skills…
In order to find the most authentic feeling of a boxer, Peng Yuyan trained for 2-3 hours a day and practiced MMA mixed martial arts, Muay Thai, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for 4 hours. It is said that he was beaten by his coach for more than 200 punches every day.
Peng Yuyan once said that he enjoyed such devil training very much. He said: "Boxing has always been my favorite. I spent two months practicing every day, and now when I go back to Taipei, I still find boxers to fight. This is a good way to relieve it, and it is good for future action movies."
A little sweat, a little gain, Peng Yuyan finally won the Golden Horse Award and the Academy Award with "Guild Wars", director Lin Chaoxian bluntly said "I didn’t see the wrong person".
It is because of his participation in "Guild Wars" that he has reversed the image of the "gum advertising man" in most people’s minds.
I wonder if 28-year-old Peng Yuyan ever imagined that there would be so many action movies waiting for him in the future, and one of them was even "Huang Feihong".
In the movie "Huang Feihong’s Hero has a Dream", Peng Yuyan performed the most beautiful Huang Feihong in history, and it was also his hardest play ever.
"I grew up watching the movie Huang Feihong. All boys have a dream of kung fu. I am very proud to play such a national hero, but I am also afraid." It was this fear that made Peng Yuyan willing to put himself at the lowest level and start from scratch.
In order to present the Huang Feihong we finally saw, Peng Yuyan spent a whole year practicing martial arts, spending a lot of effort on movement, appearance, and inner state, and finally the whole spirit was integrated into Huang Feihong’s world.
Peng Yuyan started training for eight hours a day. Peng Yuyan tortured himself half to death just by pressing his legs and pulling tendons. He did lessons according to his schedule every day and had to review his room before going to bed at night.
Because of "Wong Fei Hung", Peng Yu Yan was shortlisted for the Hong Kong Academy Awards for Best Actor. Although he lost in the end, "Wong Fei Hung’s Hero Has a Dream" is an extremely important work in Peng Yu Yan’s acting career from any perspective. Peng Yu Yan said that everyone will have highs and lows. If I can do it from not knowing kung fu to playing Wong Fei Hung, you can do it too!
In 2015’s "Breaking the Wind", Peng Yuyan played a professional cyclist who rode all the way, almost three and a half times around the earth. Later, they learned that Peng Yuyan also fell in love with cycling in real life, and then they felt… "There is simply no better candidate than Peng Yuyan!"
Don’t think it’s easy to play a cyclist. For this movie, Peng Yuyan rode every mountain in Hong Kong. Two months before the movie started filming, Peng Yuyan conducted special training under the guidance of Hong Kong cyclist Qiu Duoming. He rode for 6 or 7 hours a day, and at most, he rode for 200 kilometers a day.
I have been practicing since March and April, and I have been shooting all the way to the end of October. "The specific training content includes: riding an average of 120 kilometers a day for a consecutive month, 10 kilometers in the morning physical training, 60 minutes of balance training; 80 kilometers in the afternoon road sprint training and endurance training, and 3 hours of light aerobic training in the evening.
Ten days before the start of filming, Peng Yuyan returned to Taiwan for pre-shooting special training with other actors and riders. In addition to the 10-kilometer field ride every day, he also went to the gym to continue practicing. Director Lin Chaoxian directly called him "Physical Demon".
Because of the serious practice, Peng Yuyan joked that his body has reached the level of automation: "Even when I sleep, my whole body is doing aerobic breathing, burning calorie, and speeding up perspiration."
For the movie "Breaking the Wind", he trained for a long time according to the standards of professional athletes, and finally obtained a certificate for the use of a bicycle track.
It is worth mentioning that the performance of "Breaking the Wind" made Peng Yuyan the first Chinese Goodwill Ambassador of the Tour de France in 112 years.
This is because during the filming, Peng Yuyan actually traveled across many countries and cities for cycling shooting, traveled around the world and met many friends, including the Italian car king Rui Costa! It is said that the car king took the initiative to take a selfie when he saw him, and even uploaded it to social networks, making Peng Yuyan a celebrity in the European cycling industry as "Chou Ming" (the character in "Breaking Wind") on the spot.
Now fitness has become a part of his life, even if he is busy late at work, he has to go to the gym to rest after exercising!
Peng Yuyan said that when he is in a bad mood, he will do what he wants to do, find something that makes him happy, think I just go to exercise, and sports will make him happy. If you practice for a few more hours, you may not be better than others, but if you don’t practice, you will definitely lose. Your time is limited, don’t live for others.
Someone once asked Peng Yuyan what he relied on for his current success, and he said, "Probably luck." Liang Jiahui on the side corrected him, don’t keep talking about luck, everything you are now depends on your hard work!
Peng Yuyan said: "I just don’t have talent, so I fight with my life." Step by step, Peng Yuyan walked very steadily every step.
As Gao Cheng said in "Soldier Assault", every time he does a small thing, he grabs it like a life-saving straw. One day I look at it, wow! Good guy! He is holding a towering tree that I have already looked up to. Why isn’t Peng Yuyan like this?
This is Peng Yuyan’s counterattack from a chubby boy to a muscular man. Life is like a play, and play is like life!
