In the past few days, the 58-year-old Hong Kong actor Tao Dayu has been circulating photos of commercial performances and singing, which is quite desolate.
In the 1990s, the once popular TVB master milk killer starred in the series of police dramas that set a TVB ratings champion that year - "Criminal Investigation Files", and he starred in the male protagonist Zhang Dayong.
Today, Tao Dayu, who has few plays, has changed from a red star who was fascinated by a large area to a star, and has fallen to the environment where he performs and sings on some opening occasions and nightclubs, and the environment in which a certain business opens to sing is a simple stage on the side of the road.
Not only on the spot, but also on the online social account, Tao Dayu's fans are not many, weibo fans are only a little more than 210,000, and the interaction data is also very small. Nowadays, all these things make people lament the contrast between his past glory and today's present.
Mention Tao Dayu, for many Hong Kong drama fans is a very familiar one.
After he came out of the wireless training class, he joined TVB, and initially ran dragon sets in various dramas, including Liang Chaowei, Andy Lau starring in "Deer Ding" as a disciple of the Heaven and Earth Society, and Zhou Runfa's version of "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes" in running dragon sets.
At that time, Tao Dayu and Liu Qingyun had a good relationship, and also starred in the classic Hong Kong drama "Big Time" in 1992.
Liu Qingyun plays Fang Zhanbo, and Tao Dayu plays Ding Yi crab (there is a wounded person on the head in the picture below), which is also a villain role that he began to become famous.
In the same year, Tao Dayu also starred in "The Imperial Court of No. 1" with Ouyang Zhenhua and others, which also made several films one after another, becoming one of the classic dramas.
Until 1995, Tao Dayu ushered in the most important work in his life: "Criminal Investigation Files", he starred as the male protagonist, case solving detective Zhang Dayong, this quite righteous, a dashing casual male role, at that time not only circled a lot of male fans, but also fascinated many housewife fans.
Tao Dayu also got the title of "Master Milk Killer" because of this, and when he goes out so far, he will also be surrounded by some housewives to take a group photo, which shows Yu Wei at that time.
In the 1990s, when hong Kong dramas were mentioned, there was a place for Tao Daewoo, because the popularity of this drama and this character was beyond imagination.
At the same time, in the play, detective Zhang Dayong, played by Tao Dayu, and Gao Jie, a female journalist played by Guo Keying, have a full sense of CP and have become a classic screen couple in TVB dramas, leaving a deep impression on countless fans.
But people are easy to drift as soon as they are red, and after filming three consecutive "Criminal Investigation Files", Tao Dayu and TVB fell out because of the contract, and were poached by ATV at that time.
This incident also gave another male star who was in the ascending period at that time the opportunity: Gu Tianle, who took over Tao Dayu at the time, starred in "Criminal Investigation File 4" in 1999, playing the male protagonist Xu Fei, handsome and compelling, which was the peak of his appearance.
Tao Dayu, who went to ATV, was also highly valued at that time, starring in the ATV drama "Across the Seas", playing the male protagonist Rich Businessman Li Zhaotian, and performing another scene of enmity and hatred. The play has also become another classic work of Tao Dayu.
In 2004, Tao Dayu returned to TVB, but the golden age of the entire Hong Kong drama has gone, and no matter how it is performed, it is difficult to return to the peak of the old days.
After the work can not keep up with Tao Dayu, the popularity gradually declined, with the increase of age, once the male lead can not play, suitable for the supporting role will not be more. One of the more cruel points of the entertainment industry is that once people are not popular, there will be less drama, and many actors who have played male number one, and then play supporting roles, the psychological gap is very large, often difficult to accept.
In 2009, Tao Dayu also left TVB again and chose to develop in the mainland, but "the water and soil are not satisfied", there has been basically no drama in recent years, and in 2019, he played a "Prequel to Detective Detective" and played the villain.
As we all know, the salary of TVB actors is not high, many people take the same salary as office workers, and even some people choose to leave TVB because of salary cuts, and many actors rely on a certain reputation to attend some commercial activities or endorsements to earn money.
Therefore, Tao Dayu, who does not play much today, chooses commercial performances to sell singing, which is also a choice for many Hong Kong actors to "beg for life". As long as there are still people who remember him, as long as the people off the stage interact with him, no matter how many fans there are, they must also be carefully managed and maintained.
Tao Dayu himself is not shy about the current commercial performances, and he himself has also posted videos of performances in nightclubs on social platforms. In the video, you can see the large screen in the background of the stage, playing Tao Dayu's classic work "Criminal Investigation Files" and Zhang Dayong's character introduction.
Because there is no more well-known work, Tao Dayu relied on the first "Criminal Investigation File" that began in 1995, "Eating the Old Book" has been eating for 26 years, and even his video works on a certain platform also mentioned "Criminal Investigation Files" and "Across the Sea", asking everyone which role they prefer.
Once, Tao Dayu, Ouyang Zhenhua and Zhang Weijian took a group of photos together, and they were all flourishing and were also the top pillars in Hong Kong dramas.
But with the change of the times, their popularity is no longer, and their works are few and far between, and people are middle-aged, and even old (now Ouyang Zhenhua is 60 years old, Tao Dayu is 58 years old, zhang Weijian is 56 years old), and it is even more difficult to win more attention.
Happily, they are reluctant to "retire" at this point.
This year, Ouyang Zhenhua has starred in a new drama "Guy Remembers to Do Big Things", Zhang Weijian returned to the stage on "Chasing the Light", and Tao Dayu also acted in the new drama "Female Forensic Doctor JD".
Still insisting, it means that there are still opportunities, isn't life just climbing uphill again and again?
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