Usually, when we watch TV and movies, we often see leading actors, co-stars, starring, special stars, friendship cameos and the like. So, what's the difference?
Leading actors, co-stars, and special stars were originally all in the category of Hong Kong film and television, and later slowly used by the mainland to subdivide the actors. In general, it is the concept of the protagonist and the supporting role.
Lead actor
The lead actor is generally used in film and television dramas, and is the first protagonist of the whole drama, and the main actor in the main role.
However, some TV series will also have two leading actors.
Lead actor Basically the whole plot is written around them Starring Almost every episode has their share, if there is no starring role, the story of the lead actor will be very monotonous, but because it is different from the supporting roles, the starring actor will also have a good ending.
Some TV series, in order to increase ratings, listed more popular stars who only appeared in a few episodes as leading actors.
For example, the leading actor of "I Am Not a Medicine God" is Xu Zheng, and the leading actor of "Detective Chinatown" is Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran, who are the two male protagonists.
Starring
Generally, after the appearance of the lead actor, the huge lineup of the main actors comes to the front. Sometimes the main actors are extraordinary, the crew can not weigh, but also use the words "in no order, in order of last name".
Although this is the performance of the crew not to offend people, it also proves that the film lineup is strong; The director or producer is very popular in the industry.
For example, in "The Founding of the Nation", which has a strong cast, there are more than 100 leading actors.
Co-starred
Multiple more famous people join forces as the protagonist, and sometimes play the role of supporting roles, which is similar to the essential meaning of "starring", which actually refers to the combination of "starring" and "starring".
For example, in "Surging Crowds", Andy Lau, Xiao Yang and Wan Qian co-starred
Special appearance
Refers to the film and television drama, in order to increase and ensure the box office or ratings, invite famous, the same level of actors or please a higher level than the starring level of actors to assist or play supporting roles.
1. Add more points of view to the work, and you can also use their name to attract traffic box office and ratings in the early stage of publicity.
2. In order to praise the newcomer, the director will find a more famous actor to set off the other party, so as to achieve the effect of making the audience curious and impressed by the newcomer.
There is also a kind of "friendship cameo" that is not mentioned in the stem. In fact, there is not much difference between the actor of the "friendship cameo" and the "special appearance", only two points of difference.
For example, Hu Ge in "Hello, Zhihua".
Friendship appearances
Friendship performances are also called friendship cameos, generally supporting roles, less drama, or directors and some big-name friends, the film remuneration is more friendship price. Most of them come to the show out of friendship. There is a big difference between the price and the special appearance, and it is really out of friendship to participate in the performance.
If a famous actor who has dealings with the director or cast members agrees to play a nondescript role, "friendship" is usually added. If a famous actor who has dealings with the director or cast members agrees to play a nondescript role, "friendship" is usually added. Or I don't know whose friend agreed to star in any way, and the word "friendship starring" will also be added in this case. In either case, in the same TV series, if a big-name actor appears in the same degree as the protagonist or even higher than the starring actor, the audience will feel that it is very worth the price.
For example, Liu Jialing in "Macau Storm 3" is a friendship star.
There are some movies that are ostensibly starring big coffee, but in fact, they are "hanging sheep's heads, selling dog meat", and the big coffee just specially starred or just made a cameo to go through the motions, and when the audience was excited to watch it, they found that their favorite actors appeared in the movie for no more than 5 minutes.
For example, by netizens called the number one bad film in 2021 - "The Sun Never Sets", many viewers walked into the cinema for "special appearance" Shen Teng, what they did not expect was that Shen Teng's role in the film added up to less than ten minutes, and the way of appearance was even more bizarre, and it was actually a "paper person" identity.
Therefore, after understanding this knowledge, everyone can go to the movie to distinguish the roles of each actor.