Recently, actor Jiang Long appeared in Qingyun Plan Lianmai Live, and the whole live broadcast atmosphere was both relaxed and pleasant, but also thought-provoking.
For the name Jiang Long, perhaps you only learned in the recent hit "Wind Rises Luoyang", the role of Bailang he played almost contracted all the laughs in the play, which is a conciliator to balance the heavy atmosphere of the whole play.
His acting skills are natural and vivid, skillful and solid, full of life fireworks, and his every move gives people a sense of real and unpretentious.
There are also many people who know him in the circle comedy variety show "Annual Comedy Competition", each carefully prepared work, while receiving public praise, but also makes people curious, such an excellent and talented comedian, how did not we see before?
The reason is fully reflected in Jiang Long's live broadcast, as he said, a waist actor like him lacks too many opportunities to be seen.
Jiang Long debuted as a child star, and participated in the first TV series in 2004, but later retired from the show business circle for academic purposes.
Jiang Long officially returned in 2015, and by this year, he had been engaged in the acting industry for 7 years, and his name was not known until this year.
Jiang Long said that every time he goes to fight for a role, he must be prepared for all aspects.
For the role of Huang Shaotian in "Full-time Master", he not only watched the original and stage plays, wrote a character biography, and even bought clothes and wigs in the comics before the audition, trying to get closer to the characters in the comics.
All this is done just so as not to give the director a chance to refuse.
But in fact, this circle will not reject you because you work hard enough, and everyone who keeps working hard has also encountered constant rejection and struggle.
Day after day, ineffective efforts are being made, and the monthly income is not as good as that of white-collar workers, but they still have to persevere with love and enthusiasm.
Just because people can do what they love are really happy.
Jiang Long said that in the days of waiting for the role, the most important thing is to persist and find other ways to recharge yourself.
After all, every time a waist actor gets a role, it is very difficult, and it must be cherished and grasp it when the opportunity comes.
After the live broadcast, the topic of how waist actors survive was on Weibo hot search, and those powerful little people in the show business circle finally got everyone's attention.
Waist actors refer to those actors who have no reputation, no flow and no commercial endorsements, and whose acting remuneration constitutes all income, who have acted in many plays, and are familiar to everyone but cannot be named.
Because they have no commercial value and popularity, they are not qualified to pick scenes and teams, and can only wait for the role to fall on their heads like luck from heaven.
Keep brushing group news, submitting resumes, waiting to be selected to audition, most people are stuck in the audition link, even if they are lucky enough to pass the audition, even if they have entered the group to read, there is also a possibility of being replaced at any time.
They can't feel the cold winter of film and television, because every day that is not recognized is a cold winter for them.
Of course, once they enter the cold winter of film and television, their days are even more difficult.
Even a head actor like Di Li Reba had a nine-month absence from filming, not to mention them.
In this way, it seems that 90% of the actors in the entertainment industry are waist actors.
In the process of checking the data, it was found that such a set of data, according to the statistics of the "First Financial Daily", nearly half of the actors in China in 2019 did not have new works for a whole year, and the crew waiting for Hengdian to start was less than half of the previous years.
The head actor can also be busy with variety shows without filming, busy with endorsement material shooting, and may simply not want to shoot and want to rest more.
But the waist actors who treat the film remuneration as all the income they rely on for survival, they do not want to shoot, but they do not have to shoot.
Today's internal entertainment relies on three film and television platforms to divide the world, almost monopolizing the entire market, actors want to have drama, rely on their own professional ability is not OK, rely on brokerage companies can not, you have to form in-depth cooperation with the platform.
We often say that Ali is an artist, and a goose artist means this.
This model can be traced back to around 2015, when internal entertainment has just rolled up its big wave, and the broadcast mode of the first network background has entered the experimental period, and the network drama has begun to take shape.
With the traditional broadcast mode of the viewing market repeatedly frozen, the film and television broadcast platform ushered in their own era.
Nowadays, almost all film and television dramas on the market are produced by broadcasting platforms, and those not produced by them will also be bought to play the rights.
The traditional certain satellite TV investment association and film list conference have now joined the three major platforms, firmly grasping almost all film and television resources.
If there is no cooperation, there is no drama, even if there is a drama, it is most likely to be ranked in order, and who is the turn is who, regardless of the role fit.
The legendary platform sub-contract system has long been no secret, especially newcomers, who want to play in the platform, most of them must agree to the platform sub-contract.
Under the salary restriction order, the most affected are the small actors who are not paid high, and the platform contract means that they can only get less money than before after they have worked hard to shoot a play.
But in order to have a role to shoot and a stable exposure rate, I had to agree to the contract.
Actors are considered high-paying professions by ordinary people, but in fact they will have greater expenses in order to maintain this profession.
Walking the red carpet requires a makeup artist, a lighting photography team, usually shooting to buy clothes, etc., often thousands, and the earned films are not enough to fill the holes.
There are also agents who broke the news to reporters, saying that the platform signs a play to be divided into eight years, the contract includes N plays, the geometry of the position, and even the endorsement, commercial performance, and contract platform drama must participate in the sharing.
The agent angrily said that the artist may not sign an eight-year contract in his own hands, but the platform has such a lion's mouth.
Head artists can also use traffic to exchange for some right to speak for themselves, and the platform also needs to bind the new transformation and adhesion brought to the platform by the fans of the head artist, and the most shackled can only be small artists.
In such a vicious competition environment, it will only make the head artist more popular, and the waist artist more difficult to move.
But in the face of interests, the platform does not consider the benign development of the industry.
As an actor, 25 years old or so is the limit, if it is not red at this watershed, it will be more difficult to be red in the future.
Whether to choose to fight against the unspoken rules of the entire industry with one person's strength, or even if it suffers losses, it will be exchanged for more opportunities, which invisibly promotes the traditional brokerage company and signed artists to be forced to transform.
How should waist artists survive in many shackles? No matter how much you love your dreams, you are also an ordinary person who needs to survive, how to resolve the psychological pressure brought about by long-term empty windows?
Where should mainland films and television, which have been repeatedly squeezed into living space, go?