In the 90s, there was a drama that surpassed "Journey to the West" and "The Legend of the New White Lady". Even because the criminals are busy watching the show, the whole society is a lot safer. It is "Desire" starring Zhang Kaili, Sun Song, Li Xuejian, etc., which was immediately loved by the audience after it was broadcast, setting the second highest rating in TV history. The explosion of "Desire" has also brought popularity to the actors who starred in this drama, such as Zhang Kaili who relied on it to become a "national daughter-in-law", and Sun Song who became the well-known "first generation Chen Shimei". 
Now that more than 30 years have passed, what happened to the actors who were familiar to the audience because of this drama?01 Zhang Kaili (Liu Huifang) Before starring in "Desire", Zhang Kaili was only a young actor who had only debuted for 3 years and was not well-known. But she can play Liu Huifang, which can only be described by an old saying: When luck comes, you can't stop it. At that time, "Desire" was about to start filming, and director Lu Xiaowei was still struggling to find a suitable actress to play Liu Huifang. His favorite Zuo Ling has no schedule, and Yang Qing in the photo has visited him many times but is not at home, and the actresses who come to audition can't look down on him. 
One day, he went to the Coal Mine Art Troupe to look for actors, and the leaders of the art troupe recommended Zhang Kaili to him. However, at first sight, Lu Xiaowei's heart was cold. What he wants is a gentle and forbearant "little daughter-in-law", but the leader of the art troupe recommended him to a hearty and generous Northeast girl. Lu Xiaowei felt that Zhang Kaili's personality was too far from Liu Huifang. However, at noon that day, Zhang Kaili relied on a bowl of noodles to keep him, and successfully got the opportunity to audition for the role of Liu Huifang. It turned out that it was almost noon when Lu Xiaowei wanted to leave that day, and the enthusiastic Zhang Kaili beckoned him to stay for lunch, and gave him a note with his hands and feet. 
Lu Xiaowei saw that she was quite a "good wife" when cooking, so he changed his mind and asked her to audition the next day. After a try, he felt that Zhang Kaili was very suitable for playing Liu Huifang, so he immediately decided to let her play it. After the broadcast of "Desire", Zhang Kaili immediately became popular all over the country and became a "good daughter-in-law" in the hearts of countless mothers-in-law and men. She also won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress and the Chunyan Cup for Best Actress with her outstanding performance in this drama. After becoming popular, Zhang Kaili kept making appointments. But at that time, she was close to 30 years old and an "old girl". Therefore, when she performed in a unit in Shenzhen, and after meeting her current husband Zhang Jianquan, she was reluctant to follow the crew back to Beijing. 
Although the agent told her that her career was in its heyday and that she should focus on her career, Zhang Kaili, who valued feelings more, still did not listen to the agent's advice. After that, Zhang Kaili soon married Zhang Jianquan, quit her job in Beijing, and devoted herself to her husband and children at home. When she reappeared, 10 years had passed since the broadcast of "Desire". After the comeback, because of age and a career gap of nearly 10 years. Zhang Kaili can only play a supporting role in the "mother" category, and she has played "mother" in many dramas such as "The Age of Naked Marriage". But there is a lot of controversy about her acting skills, and some people think that she has a single way of acting.
1. Excessive exaggeration of acting; Some people also think that she is an old drama bone after all, and her acting skills are okay. 
And she may have had a mediocre response because she starred in many dramas in a row, and began to turn her career to variety shows, and successively participated in the recording of popular variety shows such as "Flowers and Boys". In addition to Zhang Kaili's acting skills, which made many viewers feel unworthy of her name, in 2019, she was also accused of false publicity for endorsing the shoes of the elderly, which led to a further decline in word-of-mouth. However, she gave up her career for the sake of marriage, which is also a good bet. 
Zhang Kaili's married life is very happy, Zhang Jianquan worked hard for the family after marriage, and successfully went to the sea to do business, making her the wife of an enviable billionaire. 02 Sun Song (Wang Husheng) After the broadcast of "Desire", Sun Song also became a household name in China, but he was a "scumbag" that everyone shouted at. Wang Husheng, played by Sun Song in the play, is a self-centered mom boy who has no ability to complain. Because he played Wang Husheng too vividly, the audience turned their anger against Wang Husheng to him. As a result, when he goes out and is recognized, he is always stared at, blamed, and sometimes thrown eggs. 
Although Sun Song became popular for "Desire" and won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actor, he did not usher in the first period of his career like Zhang Kaili, but fell into the dilemma of having no drama to film. At that time, many directors thought that he was so popular at the age of 26, he looked good, and he won an award, and the salary must be very demanding, so he couldn't afford it. Therefore, after "Desire", Sun Song did not receive a play for two years. Despite the difficult situation and not knowing what the way out, he never thought of giving up. 
He runs around the crew to recommend himself, no matter the size of the role or the number of scenes, as long as he is willing to let him play, he will accept it. Sun Song stayed up like this for 10 years before he regained attention through film and television dramas such as "A Family in the Northeast". In particular, many people think that his performance in the TV series "Survival Migrant Workers" is very amazing. After "Survival of Migrant Workers", Sun Song's drama road is getting wider and wider. He has starred in many film and television works such as "Wild Flowers Falling", successfully created many characters with different images and personalities, and has also become a highly praised actor. Compared with the bumpy career road, Sun Song's emotional road was extremely smooth except for the initial impact of Wang Husheng's scumbag image and encountered a little twists and turns. 
Sun Song's lover Hou Jilin is also an actor, and the two met through filming in 1996. After getting acquainted, the two gradually developed from friends who talked about everything to lovers, and eventually became husband and wife. Although Wang Husheng in the play is a big scumbag, Sun Song outside the play is a big warm man. After marriage, he took great care of his wife. When he is not filming, he is busy with various housework at home, shopping for groceries, cleaning; When he went out, he was worried that his wife, who had a big personality, would lose everything, so he would put notes all over the house to remind her to pay attention to closing water, electricity, gas, doors and windows. 
Sun Song and his wife have always been very harmonious, the two are both husband and wife and confidants, supporting each other in career and life, and working together. It's a pity that the two, who have been in love for decades, missed the best childbearing age and failed to give birth to children because they were busy with their careers when they were young. Now, Sun Song, who has reached the age of sixtieth year, is more at home with his wife for walks and paintings, and his life is very comfortable. 03 Huang Meiying (Wang Yaru) Wang Yaru played by Huang Meiying in the play is a hard-working person who wants to fall in love with her lover, but she can't stay together, and she still misses it after waiting for many years. Huang Meiying, who is outside the play, is not too reckless, and the first half of her life is also very bumpy. In 1950, Huang Meiying was born in a capitalist family in Shanghai, with no worries about food and clothing, and a maid to serve her.
However, when she was 15 years old, the family changed dramatically: the house was confiscated, her grandfather died, her father was sent down, and her mother fell ill. After graduating from middle school, Huang Meiying was arranged to go to the countryside to participate in labor on Chongming Island. Fortunately, three months later, with the recommendation of her classmates, she successfully joined the literary and artistic propaganda team and got rid of heavy manual labor. Later, with the help of her teacher, she was able to be unaffected by her grandfather and was successfully admitted to the Beijing General Political Art Troupe and became a newspaper reporter.
But Huang Meiying's dream is to become a movie actor like Tao Yuling and Qin Yi. For this dream, she tried her best and worked hard to finally successfully enter Bayi Film Studio. Despite what she didn't expect, her acting career was also full of twists and turns. Her first film was taken off the shelves after only a week of release;Before the second film was finished, the crew disbanded;The third part was filmed but failed to be released in theaters. And that's just the beginning. After that, she filmed many film and television dramas such as "Long Road" and "Deep Love", but she was still unknown. It wasn't until she was 40 years old that she became well-known to the audience after the broadcast of "Desire", and her career development became more and more smooth. After that, she starred in many popular film and television dramas, including "The Family of Gold Powder", "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" and so on.
When she was 55 years old, she won the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress because she successfully portrayed a mother who was under the pressure of life and was obese and haggard in the movie "Peacock". In 2019, the 69-year-old Huang Meiying also cooperated with Xu Zheng and starred in "Embarrassing Mother", playing a mother who was snubbed by her son into flesh and blood, earning a lot of tears from the audience. Speaking of which, Huang Meiying's emotional path is similar to her career path, with twists and turns in the early stage, but after crossing the hurdle, it was smooth. Huang Meiying and her husband Jin Xin met in 1981 when they were filming the movie "Long Road", although the two had mutual affection at that time, no one pierced the layer of paper. A year later, Huang Meiying, who returned to Shanghai for the Spring Festival, took the initiative to ask Jin Xin to meet, but she was delayed and late because she had something, and the two parted unhappily.
After separation, the two did not contact each other for three years. However, God will not let those who are really destined separate. In 1984, Huang Meiying and Jin Xin met again at Bayi Film Factory, this time Jin Xin took the initiative to hold Huang Meiying's hand, and this hand has been held for nearly 40 years. Now, Huang Meiying is 73 years old and has gradually faded out of the audience's sight, and she and her husband have always been in love. 04 Li Xuejian (Song Dacheng) Before starring in Song Dacheng, Li Xuejian had already won the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award with "Jiao Yulu", and he was a veritable double actor.
The reason why he starred in "Desire" is to repay the kindness of the deceased. In the original script, Song Dacheng played by Li Xuejian is a supporting role, and there are not many scenes. But after Li Xuejian starred, the director and screenwriter felt that his performance was too vivid, and they didn't want him to end the scene so quickly. So, Song Dacheng "lived" again, and was upgraded from a supporting role to a leading role.
With his wonderful interpretation of Song Dacheng, Li Xuejian became popular again, and he also won the Golden Eagle Award and the Feitian Award for "Desire". After flowers and applause, Li Xuejian still devoted all his energy to filming, and successively filmed many works such as "Forty Not Confused" and "Water Margin". At that time, Li Xuejian's career can be said to have reached its peak, especially when he played Song Jiang in "Water Margin" too vividly, many audiences knew and loved him because of Song Jiang. However, the greatest test of his life also came. In 2000, while filming the TV series "China Orbit", he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. At that time, the crew decided to suspend filming and let him go for treatment first.
However, Li Xuejian was unwilling, he felt that he didn't know when he would be cured, and he couldn't give up halfway after filming half of the film. In this way, he endured the pain and insisted on finishing the filming of "China Track", and this drama has always maintained 9A super high rating of 0. Since then, Li Xuejian has been battling cancer while filming. In the decades he has been in the industry, he has starred in nearly 100 works and won 33 awards, becoming the only actor in China to win the Grand Slam Best Actor.
In fact, after knowing that he had cancer, Li Xuejian once wanted to give up, because at the level of medical care at that time, not only did it require a lot of expenditure, but the effect was not guaranteed. However, with the full support and care of his wife, he persevered. After Li Xuejian fell ill, his lover Yu Dan gave up his job and accompanied him to see a doctor; When he was filming, he took care of his life in every detail to the crew. So far, Li Xuejian has been fighting cancer for 23 years, and he has publicly said that if he didn't have his wife, he would have been destroyed by the disease, and it was his wife who gave him a new life. In "Fengshen", which was released this year, Li Xuejian played Ji Chang very deeply in the hearts of the people, and many viewers were in tears.
However, some netizens complained, saying that his lines were not clear, and the male duck's voice was difficult to explain. But there are also many people who can't help but be moved by his professionalism and even more impressed by his acting skills when they know that he filmed "Fengshen" with damaged vocal cords and hearing impairment. In November last year, Li Xuejian won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor with "Fengshen". May this veteran artist with both virtue and art continue to shine on the stage he loves. 05 Yang Qing (Xu Yuejuan) After the filming of "Desire" started, Yang Qing, who had returned from nothing, knew that Lu Xiaowei wanted to find her to play the female number one Liu Huifang in "Desire".
Since she had missed it, Yang Qing sighed and didn't pay attention to it anymore, but the director Lu Xiaowei was unwilling to let her go like that, and set the role of Xu Yuejuan for her. Under Yang Qing's vivid interpretation, Xu Yuejuan touched countless audiences;Yang Qing also quickly became popular and became a well-known star. "Desire" is Yang Qing's first film and television drama, and she became famous in a fight. However, what is surprising is that after becoming famous, she did not continue to develop in the entertainment industry.
It turns out that Yang Qing is a famous drama actor, she has been developing in the drama industry before, and she has made great achievements. The reason why she missed meeting Lu Xiaowei many times was because she was preparing the drama "Social Image" in isolation at that time. After the performance of "Social Image", it immediately caused a sensation, and Yang Qing won the Plum Blossom Award, the highest award in the opera industry. After becoming popular through "Desire", many directors wanted to find Yang Qing to film, but she refused. may be because of his love for drama more, or it may be to take care of his family and take care of his young daughter, Yang Qing returned to the drama stage.
Yang Qing has been gone for 10 years, and in the past 10 years, she has not taken on any film and television dramas, but has precipitated and polished herself on the stage of dramas. It wasn't until around 2002 that Yang Qing appeared on the screen again. After her comeback, Yang Qing starred in many hit dramas such as "Little Daddy" and "Divorced Men and Women", and because her interpretation is basically a mother image, she won the title of "Mother Professional Household". With hard work, Yang Qing has achieved good results in both the drama industry and the film and television industry;However, emotionally, despite her efforts, her marriage ended in divorce. Yang Qing's ex-husband is a soldier, the eldest son of her physical teacher when she was in college. Under the deliberate arrangement of the physical teacher, Yang Qing and her ex-husband met and fell in love with each other at first sight.
After half a year of dating, Yang Qing married her ex-husband and soon became a mother. After that, she was busy with work, while trying her best to accompany her children, and seriously managed her marriage. But after a few sweet years, Yang Qing and her husband had more and more conflicts because of their personalities, and finally divorced. Now that Yang Qing has reached the age of sixtieth year, she is still active on the stage, but the focus of her life has shifted to life. 06 Zheng Qianlong (Luo Gang) Zheng Qianlong's father is the famous Kunqu opera artist Zheng Chuanjian, who grew up watching his father's performances, and he also wants to become a performing artist like his father. When he grew up, Zheng Qianlong was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy, and during his studies, he became famous for starring in dramas such as "The Young Generation" and "Don't Forget". After graduation, he was assigned to the Youth Art Theater and starred in a series of dramas such as "The Merchant of Venice" and "The Knife Catcher", and his acting skills became more and more mature, laying a solid foundation for his later acting career.
In the late 70s, Zheng Qianlong began to enter the film and television industry, and successively starred in many movies such as "We Are the Eighth Route Army" and "People to Middle Age", because he had an accurate grasp of the characters in the play, and all the roles he played were both physical and spiritual, which left a deep impression on the audience. In 1990, he played the role of Rogan in "Desire". In the play, Luo Gang is a top student of the Department of Literature of Peking University and Wang Yaru's lover. Zheng Qianlong did a good job of showing Luogang's elegance, gentleness and romance, and thus won the attention of many audiences. After "Desire", he also starred in many film and television dramas such as "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Beijing is the Great Northern Wilderness", especially his role as Lin Daiyu's father Lin Ruhai in "Dream of Red Mansions", which left a deep impression on the audience.
However, in 2004, it was suddenly announced that he was suffering from cancer. After that, Zheng Qianlong was active for 3 years, but he still left his beloved acting stage. The leading actors of "Desire", written at the end, have developed differently in the past 33 years. There are objective factors, but it is more about their choice. Now that some of them have passed away, those who are still alive have basically reached the second half of their lives. I hope that when they look back on the past, they will have no regrets about the choices they made at that time.