Author/Sihan Editor/Fei Clown
Today, it is the closing night of "The Character of actors", and 8 newcomer actors have reached the last moment of the final and have the opportunity to star in iQiyi's customized drama.
Before taking on the name "Actor's Character", the show was seen by the outside world as an actor's version of "Idol Trainee" produced by iQiyi.
In fact, "Idol Trainee" is indeed the force that originally promoted "The Character of an Actor". It made iQiyi discover that there is a group of young actors, even if they become popular through the talent show, will still choose film and television performance work after the show ends. "Where are their exits?" How do they prove to others that they are OK? ”
On the one hand, Yang Chaoyue and Zhou Jieqiong, who are idols, quickly take over film and television work after becoming popular, and on the other hand, newcomer actors who can't see a way out come to variety shows to use the "love bean"way to win more attention and job opportunities, and at the same time, in the illusory aura of idols, they look forward to having the strength to abandon these and support everything.
This kind of twist between the two professions of love beans and actors has been seen in Zhang Yixing, who read "The Ragged Crowd", and Qu Chuxiao, who sent out microblogs to scare private meals. And the latter, with a sentence "the difference between relying on popularity to hit the list and relying on serious acting to survive, I hope you can understand", completely punctured the emperor's new clothes.
However, more newcomer actors have not yet shouted the confidence and opportunity of "not operating" like Qu Chuxiao, and they have to firmly grasp the little traffic in hand while resisting Aidou's life. Just like these three newcomer actors who came out of "The Character of the Actor", the protagonist of our story.
I'm not "love beans"
A year ago, when the Emperor Entertainment agent brought the application form for "Idol Trainee", Ma Ruihan's first reaction was "The kind of singing and dancing, I don't go!" ”
Since the age of 5, Ma Ruihan, who has acted for 17 years, is a student in the acting department of the Communication University of China and has always been "not cold to love beans". He agreed to participate in "The Character of an Actor" because he imagined that the show would be like "The Birth of an Actor" to "fight with the gods" and take the work PK.
Like Ma Ruihan, the 25-year-old Cha Jie is also very resistant to singing and dancing, "(The actor) should be acting, just make this thing clear." 」 ”
According to the market demand, 1cm lingyu arranged training for its own artists in different subjects, Cha Jie only took acting classes, and the song and dance courses were not once visited. "But now there are no acting classes, basically song and dance training." My boss sometimes advised me: You have to be able to sing and dance, and I say no, you have to fight with him. ”
He also has times when he can't be sharp. After the broadcast of Zha Mingdao's first play "Assassin Biography", 1cm leading the organization of the main actors in the play formed an ancient boy band "Mr. Assassin", which released a single, a national roadshow, and a concert in Beijing Gongti.
"At that time, I was particularly rejected, and I didn't like this kind of nonsense. Filming is just a good filming, what a moth. Later, the boss "brainwashed" Cha Jie, telling him that this was only a form of publicity for the work temporarily, and in order to facilitate everyone to move together, he was willing to accept it.
Now, Chajie, who accepted the setting of "Mr. Assassin", still needs to convince himself in his heart that the boy band life was just a life experience and attempt as an actor.
"The Character of Actors" producer Tan Na found during the interview that there are not a few newcomer actors like Cha Jie and Ma Ruihan who reject the Love Bean route.
"Some people come and say, I never go to the draft because I think I just want to be an actor. Some people would come to the interview with tears in their eyes and say that I finally had a chance to participate in the actor show, not to participate in a talent show like singing and dancing. ”
In fact, the origin of the birth of "The Character of an Actor" is a phenomenon that iQiyi found when operating "Idol Trainee": many newcomer actors still go to film and television dramas to act after the show even if they come to participate in idol programs.
One fact that these young people who aspire to be actors cannot ignore is that Aidou is naturally easier to gain popularity than actors, and thus win more acting opportunities - after all, Aidou is more sticky with fans and has stronger traffic driving force. Just like Mr. Assassin, the boy band that made Cha Jie reject some in his heart, objectively speaking, he actually greatly increased the exposure rate of the members and achieved a win-win situation between the promotion of the work and the business of the artist.
Had to be accomplished by traffic
Reaping popularity like love beans is not exactly a happy thing. On this issue, Chen Yixin, who fled from SNH48, may be the one with the most say.
Recalling the experience in the girl group, what makes Chen Yixin feel the most tormented is that her value seems to be all pinned on the love of fans. Going out to play can not be at ease, always thinking about finding someone to help her take pictures, how to take a good picture, and has been worried about fewer people who like themselves.
After the termination of the contract, Chen Yixin carried liquidated damages debts and had no university degree, and once could only work in bakeries and hot pot restaurants. But she is no longer a bean lover, but she has strange happiness.
"People will think I'm weird because I'm extra enthusiastic alone." When describing the scene to the Entertainment Capital Matrix Blowfish Film and Television Archive (ID: htysda), Chen Yixin's tone became excited: "You can feel that they are very happy to enter the restaurant, you are very enthusiastic to introduce the dishes to them, and then they will also feel, wow! Good mood today! Then you also feel in a good mood! ”
In helping customers order such a trivial matter, Chen Yixin has received a more direct, fast and stable two-way emotional feedback than between idols and fans.
Under the impact of idol culture, young actors with good appearance conditions are often involuntarily "loved" by fans. The love from the fans is surging and fanatical, but in the object of this love, it often seems very distant and empty. Cha Jie has more than 2 million Weibo followers and tens of thousands of retweets on each Weibo. In the initial popularity ranking of "The Character of an Actor," he sat in the most imposing chair on the top — but Chajie said he was insecure.
"The fans are actually quite ..." Chajie paused, trying to find an appropriate description. Pretty blind. (Fan likes) There is no foundation, there is no reality. ”
For Aidou, popularity is the most authoritative report card, and Aidou draws on the so-called blind likes of fans and the ensuing momentum to make a living. But for actors, their job opportunities are directly chosen by people in the industry, but at this stage, the industry pays special attention to popularity and fans. Therefore, popularity is more like a second-hand business that may break at any time to actors.
Chajie sometimes sat there and fantasized, what is it that makes him popular? He hopes that this popularity is supported by his own ability. "Popularity, say no is a thing." You're popular now, so what will you have when you're not popular? You still have something. But if you don't have anything, you have nothing. ”
However, the paradox of fate is that sometimes what you don't want to pursue will become the straw.
"The Character of an Actor" has a netizen voting mechanism, and the top players in the popularity ranking can unlock the tutor score they have obtained in the additional test, otherwise they can only compete with others with the "naked score" of the formal assessment. When Chen Yixin faced the elimination crisis, it was the extra points unlocked by the popularity vote that saved her back - which surprised her: after two years of stopping activities, she thought she had gradually been forgotten by the public.
In fact, the first play after transforming into an actress is also inextricably linked to the traffic she once had.
Chen Yixin, who was working as an assistant director at the time, had a modest internship salary, and Beijing's high cost of living and the debt were weighed on her at the same time. Training in improvisation as a director with her colleagues had already touched on her old pain, but one of the most naïve thoughts prompted her to take the step of transforming into an actress: "If I had learned to act, maybe it would have made my life a little better." ”
After deciding to become an actor, the first role Chen Yixin received was the heroine of the web drama. "In fact, I don't want to choose me, I want to choose a heroine who may have traffic." The casting coincided with the "Creation 101" fire, and the director knew Chen Yixin's former identity as a girl group, and felt that this might be a hot topic that could attract attention, so he gave her the opportunity to audition.
Chen Yixin's appearance and personality are very in line with the role setting, and after comprehensive consideration, the director finally decided on the heroine. But no one knows, if it were not for the original director's consideration of traffic, she would not have been lucky enough to get this suitable role for herself without acting experience.
Even Ma Ruihan, the "drama maniac" who seems to care the least about traffic, has to make careful calculations for the sake of heat. After the final of "The Character of an Actor", he only went home for a day before rushing to Beijing to go to the interview site of another variety show.
"I just came out of 'The Character of an Actor', and it was still a bit of a heat. If I am at ease studying in school at this time, then this program will be in vain, really just participated in a program, it is a pity. Ma Ruihan is even ready to postpone graduation, "Now if there is a chance, I will not go to the graduation drama." It has to go out, or it may break again. ”
"Broken again" - Ma Ruihan's last "broken" was in the year of the middle school entrance examination.
Ma Ruihan first worked with Yu Zheng Studio in "Beauty and The Heart", in which he played the son of Dou Yifang (Lin Xinru). Later, he continued to play some juvenile roles in the main drama until he began to shift his focus to school homework before the middle school entrance examination. "If you quit three or four times, you won't be called again, it doesn't matter."
In the age of traffic, this "cut off" is frightening.
Logically self-consistent rules of survival
Ma Ruihan did not have a high evaluation of his appearance, "It used to be okay to have long hair, but now it is too much like a primary school student." After the broadcast of "The Character of an Actor", he said that he wanted to cry in front of the camera to look better, but finally failed. He sent a screenshot of the video of his facial features crumpled into a circle of friends, followed by two grinning expressions behind the copy.
"I'm not the kind of person who sucks powder, unlike Ding Yuxi and Aze (Su Zelin), they are really quite handsome." Ma Ruihan can say this very calmly, perhaps because of the maturity given by more than ten years of filming experience. "I don't want fans, I just want fans."
He hasn't acted with Aidou yet. In his impression, those people will go to the youth idol drama, and he positioned himself as a "young boy in the main drama".
Ma Ruihan misses the time when he shot the movie "The Unknown Generation", when he played a small policeman in the police station, often eating on the set with Ren Suxi and Zhang Yu, "eating and eating and starting to talk about performance!" But I like them. ”
As a member of the "Unknown Generation", Ma Ruihan is not hostile to actors who rely on popularity to survive. "It's fair, we all wrap things in our own fists, it's just that the things he wraps are called popularity. Now his fist is bigger than yours, knocking your strength down, you just have to admit your fate. ”
Chajie said, "This is competition, but it is not a competition of strength and strength, but a competition of strength and something else, and that is it." ”
"I often say very conceited things." Ma Ruihan imagined that if he met Aidou, who could not act, he would help him as if he were helping his classmates in the show. 'I want them to get a little bit stronger so that the game will be interesting.
This is Ma Ruihan's "openness" precipitated by more than ten years of filming, and more newcomer actors have not yet fully become accustomed to the rules of this industry.
Ding Yuxi, who Ma Ruihan said was "quite handsome", was the first place in the final of "The Character of an Actor" and has always been liked by mentors and audiences. He once offered to give up his vote extra points to his partner on stage, because "her notes and attitude during rehearsals are definitely much more than mine." ”
In a sense, Ding Yuxi has become a beneficiary of popularity, but he is still confused as to why the good actors in his eyes have not been seen.
This 95-year-old boy who graduated from the Department of Directing has starred in two plays, and compared with many actors of the same age who are still working as special appointments and background boards in various crews, he is very lucky.
"The possibility of this era is too great, and many scenes are suddenly on fire." Like "The Promotion of the Princess Princess", no one expected such a drama to be fired. Ma Ruihan told Blowfish Jun that there are indeed some companies that will shoot a play with the goal of signing new people.
"I let you act in this play, and you sign our company." I don't need you to have traffic, what I need is this drama to bring you to the fire. What if our drama is on fire, it's like picking up treasure. Just like ChaJie, he also "inexplicably" signed an agency in the crew of "Assassin Legend".
Such a "first play", the role is the same as the Love Bean Draft, it is a way to accumulate traffic. It's just that compared to the Love Bean Talent Show, film and television works or programs that can show acting skills such as "Actor's Character", it seems to be more able to protect the dignity of the newcomer actor's performance.
At the final scene of "Actor's Character", He Jiong released a data: according to incomplete statistics, 59 newcomer actors in the program received a total of 50 episodes and 3 movie invitations after the program was broadcast.
Producer Tan Na said to PufferFish Jun in a warm tone, "The market wants to give newcomer actors a chance, they are not bad." She hopes that between the so-called traffic artists who cut pictures and use stand-ins at every turn, and the down-to-earth newcomer actors, the latter's shining points can be seen.
Ding Yuxi opened a live broadcast on the eve of the final broadcast, and the youth network drama he starred in ended on that day. Fans asked him what works he would do next, and the corners of his mouth rose uncontrollably, "There will be, and I think it will be very good." At that time, it could not be revealed that as the first place in the final, he received a ticket to iQiyi's customized drama "The Secret of the Future".
This may be a victory for strength, or it may be a victory for another traffic. Blowfish Film and Television Archives (ID: htysda) met another newcomer actor who failed to qualify in the backstage of the final, and he knew that thanks to the exposure of this show, his career would not be as passive as before, "With this experience, I will have more opportunities to choose than before." ”
While grasping the tail of this heat, Ma Ruihan planned another path that did not need traffic so much: he hoped to make a literary film, "rushing an award." Because this kind of play is easy to use new people. ”
He was still waiting for an opportunity, like Qu Chuxiao's encounter with The Wandering Earth. "This is fate." Heaven says you are going to be famous, you are famous, and God says you have to wait. ”
For the hot word in the film and television industry, "traffic failure", Ma Ruihan has not heard his fellow actors discuss this topic, but he has thought about it privately. "This market will transform, because reincarnation is the norm in this world." He uses the analogy of the resurgence of mimes, and when it comes to professionalism, he seems particularly confident.
The credit bankruptcy waiting for the flow and the market to re-establish healthy actor evaluation standards may be the "life" he hopes. However, waiting for the waves to come in the direction you want is never reliable.
But fortunately, compared to the short appreciation period of love beans, the actor is obviously less afraid of the years. In this protracted battle of flow and ups and downs, these newcomer actors who refuse to be love beans may not mind becoming the next good actors called the late bloomers.