Recently, 61-year-old Jet Li's recent photo exposure shocked netizens! It is obviously the age of Hua Jia, but it looks more like an 80-year-old man. Jet Li, whose face is covered with wrinkles, looks so old that it is hard to believe that the old man in the photo is the "kung fu emperor" Jet Li!
Perhaps everyone's impression of Jet Li is still in the "Huang Feihong" period, handsome and upright, what has he experienced now that he can be so old?
In fact, in recent years, there is often news of the death of Jet Li, and even the foreign media will expose the news of his death. The last time it was exposed was in November 2023, and the media was so accurate that he died on November 2.
However, netizens chose not to believe this news. Jet Li's good friend Xiang Tai also expressed helplessness and responded: "Jet Li, how many times have you died?" I sent you away again! " Although he was teasing Tai, he also clarified Jet Li in the end, saying that he had just said hello to himself in the morning.
Although the news of Jet Li's death is false, he is really not in good health. In the early years, I had a problem with filming, and then I was diagnosed with thyroid disease, which is difficult to cure and can only rely on drugs to maintain my health.
Because of these diseases, Jet Li gradually retired from the entertainment industry and began to believe in Buddhism. In recent years, I often see pictures of him going to temples to offer gifts to Buddhas. At that time, he didn't seem to be in good health, and he needed help when he walked.
Looking back on Jet Li's acting career, we can say that he is a lot of childhood heroes of the post-70s and post-80s generation. However, behind his youth fame, Jet Li also made a lot of efforts.
Jet Li was born in Beijing in 1963. His parents were both ordinary workers. His father died at the age of 2. Because Jet Li was very active when he was young, he was favored by the coach when he was at school and was sent to Beijing Shici Sports School to study martial arts. At that time, Jet Li did not graduate from primary school, left his family to learn martial arts at an early age, and cultivated his hard-working character.
During his study, Jet Li himself was very good, coupled with his diligence and studiousness, he became a leader in his class. Later, in participating in the national martial arts competition, 11-year-old Jet Li won the all-around champion and became popular all over the country. At that time, Jet Li was invited to perform all over the country, and even visited more than 40 countries on behalf of China. At that time, US President Nixon shook hands with young Jet Li and took a group photo.
Later, Jet Li withdrew from martial arts because of injuries, and in 1980 director Zhang Xinyan invited him to star in the movie Shaolin Temple. Because of his martial arts skills, and the appearance of Jet Li is also very good, the film created a box office miracle after it was broadcast. At that time, the box office was only 10 cents, but the film finally sold 160 million yuan, which shows how popular the film is.
At that time, many young people were influenced by Jet Li and came to the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts and dream of becoming heroes like Jet Li. Some of these followers have really succeeded, and that is Wang Baoqiang. Wang Baoqiang once posted that he was shocked by Jet Li's Shaolin Temple when he was 8 years old, and has since started his movie dream. Now, after years of efforts, Wang Baoqiang has finally realized his dream.
Jet Li, who has influenced a generation, has created many classic characters since the Shaolin Temple. Heroes such as Huang Feihong, Fang Shiyu and Huo Yuanjia have become his masterpieces.
However, a large number of martial arts plays also left Jet Li sick and even received a national third-level disability card. While filming the movie Shaolin Temple, Jet Li suffered serious leg injuries and underwent seven hours of surgery.
Although Jet Li completed the shooting of Shaolin Temple in the later stage, he never recovered from the injury. Later, there was another accident while filming Huo Yuanjia, which caused him to fall from a height, leaving serious injury to his body again. Later, in the interview, Jet Li broke his body in a place every time he made a movie, which also gave him the idea of quitting the circle.
In 2006, Li Lianjie began to reduce production after making the film Huo Yuanjia, and the last film with a lot of martial arts drama was King of Kung Fu, which cooperated with Jackie Chan. At that time, the confrontation between the two "Kung Fu Kings" also became the biggest attraction of the film.
Later, although Jet Li was still able to film, he had very few martial arts plays, and many of them were just guest appearances and became addicted to acting. Compared with his achievements in movies, Jet Li's love life has also attracted a lot of attention. So far, Jet Li has married twice, the first with his elder sister Huang Qiuyan.
Huang Qiuyan and Jet Li were seniors in the same school. Huang Qiuyan took great care of her younger brother at school, which made Jet Li mistake it for love. They married in 1987, when Jet Li was only 24 years old.
After marriage, the couple had two daughters, but it was when Huang Qiuyan was pregnant with her second child that Jet Li met his current wife, Lizhi. The two met as a result of filming the movie Dragon at the end of the World. At that time, Li Zhi was born as "Miss Asia" and was very stunning both in figure and appearance. Even Ni Kuang, a talented Hong Kong scholar, rated Li Zhi as "a beauty not seen in Hong Kong in 50 years."
Jet Li was also attracted by Lizhi's beauty and even chose to divorce Huang Qiuyan despite his pregnant wife at that time. Later, when Jet Li reviewed his relationship with Lizhi, he said that he could not be famous for the sake of Lizhi, or even die for her. Huang Qiuyan saw that he was so persistent that she finally chose to divorce. In order to make up for his ex-wife, Jet Li left all his American real estate to Huang Qiuyan, and the custody of his two daughters was his own.
After his divorce from Huang Qiuyan, Jet Li did not marry Lizhi immediately. The two made a "ten-year agreement": they promised to get married if they were still in love ten years later. In 1999, Jet Li and Lizhi kept their agreement to get married in Los Angeles. On April 19, 2000, Jet Li's eldest daughter Jane was born, and the youngest daughter Jetta was born in 2003. The family of four moved to the United States to live.
After marriage, Li Zhi devoted all his energies to his family and gave up his acting career. But with no business experience, she owed a huge amount of debt due to the failure of her investment. At that time, Jet Li had to come out to film in order to help her pay her debts, and he made six films within two years. Not only that, in order to support his wife, Jet Li also said that he had handed over 2 billion of his property to his wife Lizhi and had 100% trust in her.
As soon as I pacified my wife, I didn't expect that my youngest daughter Jetta had a problem. Jetta developed depression at the age of 7 and even extreme suicidal thoughts at the age of 12. This made Jet Li and his wife very helpless and didn't know how to help their daughter. Later, under the treatment of drugs, the little girl gradually came out of the haze of suicide.
Jet Li once mentioned in his book that the biggest sense of security for his daughters is to give her all his property. Today, Jet Li's health is getting worse and worse. Because of thyroid disease, Jet Li can't do strenuous exercise and always needs to take medicine to keep him alive.
In the interview, he also mentioned that he had been very indifferent to life and death, and told his wife Lizhi about his future. It means that everything is simple, there is no need to erect a monument, there is no need for funerals, and it doesn't matter if trees are buried at sea.
In the twilight of heroes, which role do you like best played by Jet Li?