How dedicated can TVB actors be? There was such a topic two days ago.
The Taiqing drama "King of Fighters" is being broadcast, starring Li Yaoxiang can lose 20 pounds for a crazy fitness scene of less than 1 minute, and Zhang Zhenlang also began to lose 40 pounds more than a year before filming began...
In order to reflect the authenticity of the characters, they seem to be able to eat any pain and overcome any difficulty. Sometimes I even suspect that they are not actors, "roll kings", superhuman.
"Volume" for Survival
Why do TVB artists have to be so dedicated?
In fact, the reason behind it is very simple, if you don't fight, you may not have food to eat.
At the "Thousand Stars Awards Ceremony" at the end of last year, the eldest sister Wang Mingquan also took the lead in pleading with TVB to pay a little more. Indeed, many Hong Kong artists earn their income from the salaries of tv stations.
Friends who know the entertainment industry know that compared with internal entertainment, Hong Kong entertainment's remuneration and work are far less and easier than those in the mainland.
And most of TVB's artists come from the bottom.
Chen Xiaochun came from a poor background, Chen Hao once went door-to-door to sell water heaters in order to pay off debts, and many famous Hong Kong sisters also embarked on the road of acting because of family reasons... The bright acting career in the eyes of others is the only way for them to survive.
It is not easy to know how to cherish, so for them, only by daring to fight can they earn a place for themselves.
Since the opening of the stage, most of TVB's artists are from the TVB Artist Training Class, and since the opening of the stage, hundreds of Chinese film and television production teams and performing arts stars have been trained from here, many of whom are earlier students, who have long become the only superstars in the Chinese performing arts industry.
Most of them are actually from non-science classes, they have not received systematic performance training, and some of them are only in the half year of experience in the wireless artist training class.
The first 3 months of study, the last 3 months of internship, during the internship will go to the crew to run the dragon set, according to the set of remuneration. During this time, they received the most bitter and tiring hellish training. I remember that Hu Xing'er also said in an interview before that TVB trains artists very strictly, like entering the Shaolin Temple.
According to the rules of TVB, under normal circumstances, artists must run at least two or three years to have the opportunity to play supporting roles, and the protagonist must have five or six years of experience.
Even a rich second generation like Lin Feng has to start from the little prison guard in "Genesis", and there is no back door to go.
This plot has been played in Stephen Chow's movie "The King of Comedy". In the film, Yin Tianqiu is said to be a "dead runner", and Yin Tianqiu's explanation is: "Actually, I am an actor. ”
It is said that drama comes from life, and I believe that such a thing has appeared many times in Zhou Xingchi, who is also a wireless actor.
For many young artists, this must be a long and difficult process, many people can't stand it and change careers, but there are not a few who insist on waiting until the "daughter-in-law becomes a wife".
For example, in 1976, Zhou Runfa also gave Wu Weiguo a dragon set, and in 1980, Huang Rihua began to run a dragon set for Zhou Runfa, and in 1983, Zhou Xingchi gave Huang Rihua a dragon set, and today's Zhou Xingchi has long been called "Star Master".
Ouyang Zhenhua also revealed that because he was not handsome, the training class instructors asked him if he was interested in turning behind the scenes, or advised him to change careers to be a sports group reporter. It was not until the last moment, because someone did not sign the contract, that he was signed wirelessly as an alternative.
Who admitted that after many years, he became the anti-bully of TVB and produced so many classic dramas.
These experiences are "wealth" that they can't learn from film school, because they have experienced it themselves. What TVB is best at is to depict the lives of small people.
The life of the little person does not have the domineering president in the industrial sweet drama, nor is it the silly white sweet who does not have the troubles of life, but the ordinary people who are busy walking on their own trajectory every day, and the picture may be a happy.
Therefore, the classic line "Being a person, the most important thing is to be happy" is deeply engraved in the hearts of everyone who has watched Hong Kong dramas.
"Volume" for the work
Perhaps it is this kind of training experience that makes them feel that it is normal to suffer for the role.
In an environment where many actresses strictly control their weight and hope to maintain their beauty forever, Hu Xing'er once gained 40 pounds for "Fat Field Happy Event".
"It's been two months to eat at home, and the more you want to gain weight, the more you want to eat, the more you don't want to eat, and you want to throw up when you see it."
In fact, everyone knows that for thin people, gaining weight is more difficult than losing weight. Later, when she arrived at the platform period, Hu Xing'er, who could not increase no matter how hard she tried, had to consult a doctor, and finally used the nutritious milk for anorexia patients to gain weight.
Hu Xing'er's "open-mindedness" made me see a cute He Meitian on TV.
When I was a child, I always thought that this actor was specially found by a fat girl to play, and her every move was so real and natural that for a long time, I didn't know that this person was Hu Xing'er.
Until later, after acting in this play, she successfully lost weight and became a beautiful Hong Kong sister.
Not to mention that in "Gong Xin Ji", Yang Yi's palm mouth play was really beaten throughout the whole process, and even his mouth was swollen and broken;
Wang Haoxin slapped himself nineteen times in a row; Xiao Zhengnan drank swill water for the play... These actors are really daring to fight.
Even the shape is "rolled"
Another characteristic of TVB's stars is that their appearance is particularly deceptive.
When you're young, you may not think they look so extraordinary, but as soon as you reach the age of 4 or 50, the gap comes out. I think this group of Hong Kong artists has a kind of self-discipline "volume" for appearance.
They take this profession as more important, and they give themselves to the camera, from professional ability to appearance, they can't make mistakes. There is no distinction between men and women at this point.
The 66-year-old Zhao Yazhi has not changed even the arc of his bangs in the past 20 years;
Zheng Shaoqiu, 74, drank a cup of mulled wine every day before going to bed, saying that after cooking the wine in this way, he could volatilize some alcohol, there was no burden on the stomach and intestines, and the next morning he got up with a very good makeup on his skin. (Am I usually drinking fake wine??) ）
On the 50th anniversary of his debut, he held a concert, and the 8-minute singing and dancing did not even take a breath.
Andy Lau also said in an interview that he only eats seven minutes of food per meal, and has not drunk ice water for more than 30 years, and only drinks warm water in the summer.
Zhong Hanliang ate with Guo Qilin in the show, and he was full of only a piece of bread and a piece of fish. On self-discipline, you can not lose Shu Qi.
Including several brothers in the Greater Bay Area, even if they are old, they are still fresh and decent, and they are also outstanding when more than thirty male artists stand in a row.
You don't seem to see their fatigue at all, they are always not discouraged, they are hanging on to a spirit.
I only hope that today's showbiz circle can have a little threshold, so as not to hurt the hearts of these people who are really acting and acting as actors.
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