Ng Man-tat collaborated with Stephen Chow for the first time in 1989, playing a father and son in "He Came From Jianghu". After that, the two began a "father-son relationship" that lasted for more than ten years.

Before meeting Stephen Chow, Ng Mang-tat was a well-known supporting actor in TVB. He became popular for playing small characters and became the target of major directors competing for the role.

The young Ng Mang-tat is very smart. He can remember his lines after reading it twice. He will understand it once the director tells it once. He is one of the best supporting actors.

Because he became famous too early, he quickly got lost in the world of fame, wealth and women, and his life became indulgent, focusing on fun.

Sometimes, he looks forward to getting off work early every day, and then going out to have fun, gamble and play cards with his friends, and enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by others.

The decadent life made him intoxicated, but it also caused his reputation to deteriorate. No one dared to use him anymore. Even Junior Brother Du Qifeng laughed at him as "rotted on the wall".

Until 1980, Ng Man-tat was in debt of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars and even thought about committing suicide. However, he was awakened by his friends and began to brainwash him and study acting seriously.

The ups and downs in the early years gave Wu Mengda a deeper understanding of life and a new understanding of performance.

From then on, he regarded himself as a real actor, began to respect his opponents, took every role seriously, and did not miss any dialogue or look, which gradually opened the second spring of his career.

In 1985, Ng Mang-tat collaborated with Tony Leung Chiu-wai in "Brother Xin Zha". He carefully studied every dialogue and thought while watching it, conquering the audience with a "swearing, but very cute" way. , also impressed the director.

Ng Man-tat is 9 years older than Stephen Chow. When the two first started working together, Ng Man-tat treated Stephen Chow as a child, and the two were very in tune with each other.

Whether it is their attitude towards performing or their preference for food, the two have many similarities and have gradually developed into a "father and brother" relationship.

At that time, the two lived very close to each other, and they often got together to discuss scripts, family matters, and relationship issues. The elder Ng Man-tat could often solve some of Stephen Chow's problems.

On the movie set, both of them achieved great results. They discussed the shooting effects, acting skills, and occasionally quarreled, but new ideas kept emerging, and the final effect was very good.

As time goes by, once the two people act in a scene, the director will directly say: "You two can handle the scene by yourself, I will not participate."

After the filming, the two People will go to the supermarket and buy the abalone they like.

At that time, the cheapest canned abalone in Hong Kong cost more than 100 Hong Kong dollars. Due to financial constraints, the two often bought one portion each and shared one portion after returning home. They had a tacit understanding.

At that time, Ng Man Tat was Stephen Chow’s friend, his teacher, partner and father.

It is precisely because of this close relationship that many years later, when Stephen Chow became a director, he became furious on the set and cursed. Only Ng Meng-tat came forward to mediate to solve the problem perfectly.

Once upon a time, Stephen Chow asked his mother, Ling Baoer, to buy a house. As a result, her mother was worried about the money and hesitated to miss the purchase period, causing Stephen Chow to lose millions. He even got angry at his mother on the phone.

As soon as Ng Man-tat saw him, he said to him: "How to treat others? Does the family need to be tolerant?

It wasn't until Stephen Chow felt ashamed and took the initiative to call his mother to apologize that Ng Man-tat stopped Preaching.

Stephen Chow is an overly serious person. In order to achieve the ideal shooting effect, he will change the shooting techniques, scripts, lines, and even the originally scheduled actors at any time.

Just after filming "Shaolin Football", Stephen Chow invited Law Kar-ying to be a guest. As soon as Law Kar-ying heard that it was Stephen Chow's work, he immediately put down all the work at hand and concentrated on studying the script.

On the day of filming, Luo Jiaying came to the set early and tried to put on costumes and makeup; however, it was not until before the movie started that Stephen Chow said to Luo Jiaying: "Brother Jiaying, I'm sorry, all your scenes have been deleted. "

Wu Mang-tat had a similar experience with Stephen Chow.

While filming "Kung Fu" and "Yangtze River No. 7", Stephen Chow called Ng Man-tat and invited him to star in a play. For the highlight, Ng Man-tat also rejected the contracts for these two dramas.

Unexpectedly, before filming started, he was notified that the actor would be played by Ng Man-tat, causing Uncle Tat to suffer heavy losses. Although they were slightly unhappy, the two did not get to the point where they would never get along until death.

When Stephen Chow started filming "Kung Fu" in 2004, he invited Sammo Hung to be the martial arts director; unexpectedly, Stephen Chow "wooed him." The "extreme" character broke out again. The day before yesterday, he reversed the verdict several times, causing Sammo Hung to get angry and leave angrily.

After that, it was Ng Mang-tat who came forward and negotiated between the two, so that no more misunderstandings were caused.

Because of "Kung Fu", there were rumors of discord between the two for the first time, but in fact, the two did not have any conflicts.

It’s just that Uncle Da is in poor health and is no longer qualified for the high-intensity work in Stephen Chow’s movies; Stephen Chow has always been a person who lives “outside the world” and rarely takes the initiative to contact others. The two gradually Alienated, finally like a stranger.

There are rumors that Ng Mang-tat and Stephen Chow once collaborated on the pager business, but eventually the business failed and the two were competing for talent.

A few years later, Wu Mengda accepted an interview and personally clarified that "this is false news, and the two have never done business together."

At the same time, Wu Mengta also said, "Although there is no contact, our feelings have not changed."

Why no contact? In "Thirteen Invitations", Xu Zhiyuan and Wu Mengda analyzed that it was just a kind of adult social interaction, with fewer and fewer contacts. In the end, they did not know how to close the distance and could only drift away.

When filming "Kung Fu", Ng Man-tat had just completed surgery, and his body could not bear the high-intensity work, so the two had to regretfully miss it;

While filming "Mermaid", it happened that In the summer, the weather in Hengdian was too hot, and Ng Man-tat's body couldn't bear it, so the two had no choice but to miss it again;

When filming "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", Stephen Chow invited Uncle Da again, but Uncle Da was ill again. , they could only refuse again;

Since "Shaolin Soccer" in 2001, the two of them have not cooperated for 20 years, which has become a regret for Stephen Chow, Uncle Da, and their fans.

In the 2011 "A Date with Luyu", Uncle Da said: "He is still alive and I am not dead, so there will definitely be opportunities for cooperation.

But now, Uncle Da passed away, and there was no possibility of cooperation between the two.

In "Fifteen Years of Migratory Birds Waiting for You", he wrote: Maybe what we missed will make us remember so many memories.

Time flies so fast, Stephen Chow is getting old, Uncle Da is gone, they can never go back to that era and can't wait any longer.

A netizen said, after hearing Uncle Da. Upon hearing the news of his death, I felt like I heard Uncle Da say, "Xing Zai, let's work together again," and Xing Zai replied, "Okay, okay."

From being successful to becoming strangers, Stephen Chow and Stephen Chow. There is no hatred or discord between Wu Mengda, some are just natural results of adult interactions, and some are just "even if they don't contact each other, they will miss each other"

This may be the best ending.