Zhang Songwen just sold miserably when he became popular? This time I want to say something for him

The explosive drama at the beginning of 2023 is none other than "Crazy". In the first half month of broadcasting, the ratings of "Crazy" soared all the way, breaking through 3% on the evening of the 29th, which is better than last year's "The World"!

However, throughout the entire drama, the most attractive thing to the audience's attention is not the protagonist Zhang Yi, not the domineering and beautiful sister-in-law Gao Ye, nor the sophisticated Ni Dahong, but Zhang Songwen, who plays the villain.

"Crazy" is a history of sweeping black and the history of Gao Qiqiang (played by Zhang Songwen), he earned enough tears from the audience in the early stage, and he did not live up to the audience's scolding in the later stage.

Evaluate his acting skills in one sentence: others don't act like it, but Zhang Songwen doesn't look like it.

Because playing the villain is too natural, Zhang Songwen has also become the second actor after Wang Yanhui to be asked by the audience to "check".

Zhang Songwen is 47 years old this year, and he has finally mixed up after mixing for most of his life, but at this juncture, his past remarks were picked up, causing a lot of controversy.

Zhang Songwen said: "99.5% of domestic actors have extremely low incomes, just like me, at most only 0.5% of actors, can be called food and clothing, this industry is particularly unhealthy." ”

It is a taboo for actors to sell badly, especially in terms of selling income, netizens have complained: "Since it's so difficult, don't do it, hurry up and change careers" "Don't be deceived, their extremely low standard is not the same as ours"...

The complaints of netizens are reasonable, but in fact, Zhang Songwen is not selling miserably, but the two sides have different cognitions of "actor" and "salary".

Today, Xiao 8 will talk with everyone about the group of "actors" and the problem of "salary".

01 Group actors and actors

When he was surfing the Internet with nothing to do, Xiao 8 accidentally saw a netizen recording his conversation with his child, which he thought was very interesting.

The netizen's child's academic performance is not good, he asked the child what dreams he had, and the child said that he wanted to be a movie star.

Netizens thought that this is an opportunity to encourage children to study hard, after all, being an actor is also going to go to university, such as Chinese opera, Beiying or something.

As a result, the child came directly to the sentence: "I don't need to go to university, when I am 18 years old, I will go to Hengdian as a group performer, and there will be a box lunch to eat."

Although this is a child's fairy tale, it also reflects a common perception: you don't need a threshold to be an actor, you can start with group acting.

Hengdian Film and Television City, located in Dongyang City, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, covers an area of 4,963 acres and gathers more than 200,000 extras.

The group actor is called an actor and is actually a prop, and most people can't even get a line, but they fantasize that they can become the next Wang Baoqiang.

Zhang Songwen said that 99.5% of domestic actors actually refer to the group of actors, including group actors.

They all rely on robbery when they can't grab it, go back to the rental house to sleep and mess around, and if they can't grab it, they go to shoot more than ten hours of plays, and earn a hundred yuan a day, and they can only barely make ends meet.

These group actors are actors, they take on the play, film, get paid, and the workflow is the same as that of the big stars.

But they are not actors either, because they are not doing well, and they are too far from the glamorous actors in the audience's hearts.

This group makes up 99.5% of the domestic actors, and with such a low income, why don't they change careers?

First, because of laziness, I can earn four or five thousand a month by working in the factory, but I am too tired.

The second is hope, people here hold a "gambler" mentality, hoping that one day, they can become the 0.5% standing on the top of the mountain.

02 Thousands of pieces a year

80% of the world's wealth is in the hands of 20% of people.

This is true in all walks of life, and the actor's profession amplifies this, some people can only earn a few thousand dollars a year, but some people can earn millions a day.

Zhang Songwen belongs to the former, his family is not good, after graduating from vocational high school, he went out to work, waiter, maintenance worker, tour guide, he has done all kinds of work.

It was not until he was 25 years old that he regained his dream of being an actor, was admitted to Nortel to study acting, and became a classmate with Zhou Wei.

Zhang Songwen studied very hard and was the first professional all year round, but his appearance conditions were not good, and the crew went to the school to pick people every three forks and five, and never picked him.

For Zhang Songwen, the casting director criticized mercilessly: "He can't be an actor, the first is a dwarf, and the second you look at his brain door, like an ape." ”

After graduation, the other students had places to go, only Zhang Songwen did not film.

He took the initiative and ran more than 300 crews in the first year of graduation, all of which were rejected, and did not get a single role for a whole year.

From his graduation in 2003 to now, Zhang Songwen has been in the circle for 20 years, only playing 24 roles, most of them are long-set actors without a few lines.

The role of "Gao Qiqiang" probably has more scenes than all the roles before him combined.

18-line actress Zhang Haoyue once revealed her salary, she works less than half a year every year, her annual salary can reach 240,000, and she can even get millions when the market is good.

Zhang Haoyue can earn so much, why can't Zhang Songwen do it, is he still selling miserably?

This is really not, mainly Zhang Songwen, this person, special axis. There are already few contracts, and he still has to pick them, and he resolutely does not accept those who do not like them.

In the most difficult 10 years, Monday advised him to take the show and get the money to buy the coal for the winter.

But Zhang Songwen was biased, saying that he would rather die cold than make a bad drama.

The director is not optimistic and picks himself, so for half of the 20 years since his debut, Zhang Songwen has lived a very embarrassing life, and every money must be carefully calculated.

Fortunately, Zhang Songwen can calm down, he can't afford to buy a house, so he has been renting a rural bungalow in the suburbs, and planting flowers and plants in the yard.

Zhang Songwen is still unmarried, which is one of the reasons why he can insist on not making bad dramas for more than 20 years, after all, one person eats enough and the whole family is not hungry, so he does not have to bow to society for life and responsibility.

Zhang Songwen is unfortunate, obviously has strength, but has been buried for so many years.

But he was lucky, at the age of 47, he finally caught fire with his strength, and his salary rose and he was able to buy a house in his hometown.

03 Real actors, "fake" salaries

To be fair, how many people can do Zhang Songwen's persistence in the past 20 years?

Actors are also people, and it is understandable that they want to live a good life and want to be a big star and make a lot of money.

But many people will understand after entering the circle that the money in the film and television industry is not so easy to earn.

Recently, actor Zheng Yecheng is fighting a lawsuit with an agency, and the verdict document immediately let Xiao 8 see the real salary of the actor, and the difference between red and not red is simply a world of difference.

When the actor gets paid, he has to share it with the agency, and each type of revenue share is different, but at least 60% of the company.

In "A Slight Smile is Very Alluring", Zheng Yecheng plays the fourth male "beautiful senior brother", who received 10,000 yuan in 4 months of filming, and only 2,500 a month, which is really not much.

After becoming famous, Zheng Yecheng starred in the film and television drama "Trembling, Abe" in the role of Tang Qingfeng, only need to share 50% with the company, a drama can get 530,000.

Zheng Yecheng was lucky, the ratings of "Abe" were quite high, his salary soared again, and by the time he starred in the role of Mu Le in "Sheng Tang Phantom Night", he could already get 3.2 million yuan.

So Zhang Songwen is right, before the red, Zheng Yecheng was the 99.5% of the people, and after the red, he could squeeze into the 0.5% to be seen by the audience.

But not everyone has Zheng Yecheng's good luck, remember Jiang Jiaen, the heroine of "Chef Fang between Flowers"?

There will be no sequel to this drama, and even if there is, it is not the original cast, because Jiang Jiaen has been forced out of the circle by the company.

Jiang Jiaen signed a contract with Shang Wenjie's company when she was 18 years old, and the money she earned in the first 3 years, she had to share 90% of the company, and 80% to the company 3 years later, and the company lent her 6,000 yuan a month for living expenses, which would be deducted from the salary in the future.

Jiang Jiaen debuted for 3 years, with a salary of less than 60,000, and he doesn't earn more than this money when he goes to work as a waiter, right?

When she decided to terminate the contract, the company claimed 1.5 million liquidated damages from her, when Jiang Jiaen was already depressed, and her parents could only sell the house and pay money to redeem the child.

04 2.08 million a day

There are few actors who can get ahead, but this 0.5% group can earn a sky-high salary of 2.08 million a day.

The more they earn, the more they are not satisfied, from Fan Bayuan, Z Shuang, D Lun to Yuan Bingyan, they take sky-high salaries, but they still have to evade taxes.

What is even more helpless is that a large part of the actors who hold sky-high salaries have no strength at all, and they are not worth that money at all.

Yang Ying gets 80 million for acting in a play, so much money, how many Zhang Songwen can be fed?

The current director casting does not look at strength, but on whether the actor has a topicality, even Du Mitake is going to start filming, and as soon as she debuts, she is the heroine...

The film and television industry is actually a microcosm of society, the salary difference is huge, it is difficult for those with strength to come out, and those without strength can be mixed, which is embarrassing.

Xiao 8 is not so resolute and can't be Zhang Songwen, but Xiao 8 sincerely wishes him to get better and better, and hopes that the other "Zhang Songwen" who have not yet emerged can turn over as soon as possible.