Blessed with an excellent singing voice, Wu acquired a solid mastery of martial arts fundamentals and played a lead role on stage for the first time at age 16. His teachers saw him as a superstar in the making, but felt bad that he had "missed out on the heyday of Peking Opera."
16 歲第一次擔綱演主角後，就被老師視為未來之星，卻也為他「趕不上京劇最風光的歲月」而惋惜。