Xiuren acting, also divided into three, six and nine

The fairy ancient puppet "Heavy Purple" has been broadcast more than halfway, and Douban has not yet opened a score, but judging from the wind comments in the public opinion field, the audience's tone is not optimistic: the IP age is too old, the storyline can no longer keep up with the current aesthetic, and the special effects and makeup can also be picky.

Among these comments, there is also a very conspicuous point, in the front row of hot comments with more than 1,000 likes on Douban, one of them reads: "Yang Chao's acting skills are really poor, too bad." ”

After graduating from Rocket Girl 101, Yang Chao riveted and "furious" on the road of actor transformation: since his debut in 2018, there have been 7 heroine dramas broadcast alone. S-class fairy puppet "Heavy Purple" was originally an important bargaining chip for Yang to surpass the road of transformation, but judging from the current wind comments, it is difficult to say that she has "successfully transformed", and many netizens have commented that Stellar Gravity's "Seven Times of Auspiciousness" seems to be her "last chance".

At the same time, another online drama with "Xiuren" as the protagonist has also been launched recently. Bi Wenjun, the actor of the ancient puppet "Nine Skies Cold Night Warmth", was born in Lehua Entertainment and ranked 10th in "Idol Trainee" in 2018.

The "101 Idol" draft has been popular for nearly 5 years, which has brought a new way of playing the fan economy to domestic entertainment and also sent a group of young artists. The market decides the way out, and many of them, especially the "seed players" who are lucky enough to get the position, have gone to the best choice for domestic entertainment artists to become famous - acting.

As a result, the new face of "Xiuren" in film and television dramas has become an enduring topic of controversy in the public opinion field, and the audience has almost become accustomed to them being among the new generation of actors, and they are not sensitive to the poor acting skills, and they are also tolerant of qualified performance.

It's just that the debut results and the actual performance of the actors are not completely linked: the showmen retired from the singing and dancing stage and rushed to the scattered crews in Hengdian will also find that the places they go to have different levels and get different evaluations.

First Echelon: The end of idols is the "transformational" actor

In the interview session of the first issue of the variety show "Infinite Beyond Class", Er Dongsheng asked INTO1's Zhou Keyu a question that almost every idol's acting skills variety show will be asked: "If an actor can only choose one of the two to sing and dance, which one do you choose?" ”

Zhou Keyu's answer is "currently choosing actors". He mentioned that when he first started singing and dancing, his dream was to enter a group and hold a concert, and now that the goal of forming a group has been achieved, the concert may be held in a few months, then after the dream of this stage is over, you can start the next stage of dreams.

This answer is almost the "essence version" of the 101 draft idols in recent years.

The domestic idol market development system is not complete, and after their debut, there are not enough stages and music source lists that are well-known enough for these performers. At the public level, the domestic audience's memory of the drama roles has always been higher than that of the singing and dancing stage, and it is almost an inevitable path for showmen to choose to act and extend their professional lives - even the three members of the national group TFBOYS, only one of them is more focused on music when they become adults, and there are even fewer "showmen" who choose to continue to sing and dance on the stage after graduating from the draft group.

The debut place in the 101 series draft is determined by the audience vote, and the popularity of the contestants is caused by many factors, and some people will choose not to sing and dance after leaving the group.

A more special example is Yang Chao, she was not a fan of singing and dancing strength during the draft, and Rocket Girl 101 was repeatedly criticized for dragging down the group, and it is logical to choose acting after graduating from the group.

What's more, the domestic idol culture is transplanted from Japan and South Korea, and in the context of the Japanese and Korean entertainment industry, the status of actors is much higher than that of singing and dancing idols. Their own idols strive to go to a "higher place", which also belongs to the "beautiful" expectations of fans, and many idols who debuted in the draft have participated in film and television works, and fans will happily bring the prefix of "actor" to the prefix and commentary.

Therefore, in terms of idol-transformed actors, the "show people" who ranked in the first echelon were also born: most of them came from the debut group of the draft, and after graduation, they wanted to gain a foothold in the highly competitive domestic entertainment. At the same time, due to the high debut ranking, high popularity or high-quality distribution of the company's resources, the first-tier performers will always directly become male and female protagonists.

Yang Chao's former teammate Wu Xuanyi, the first TV series broadcast after the dissolution of the group, is a head web novel IP adaptation such as "Douluo Continent", and the male protagonist of the partner is the top Xiao Zhan.

Fan Chengcheng and Zhai Xiaowen contacted the delayed IP drama that was "bet on treasure" at that time, the former was partner Wang Anyu starring in "Left Shoulder with You" (adapted from the online article "Saye"), the latter starring in "Jixing Gaozhao" (adapted from the online article "Heavenly Official Blessing"), and the partner was Zhang Linghe, who became popular last year with "Canglan Tips" and was included in the ranks of "to be exploded".

What is more special is that some of the debut team members were originally actors or studying in the acting department, and if they were only labeled as "showmen", it would be a little awkward.

One of the most typical examples is Yu Shuxin, who debuted in 2015 with a small supporting role in "New Border City Prodigal Son", and in 2020 "The Next Stop is Happiness" "Cai Minmin" has a small splash, plus the agency behind Huace is a well-known film and television company, and when she graduated from the group, she returned to the career path of an actor again.

Second echelon: qualified "supporting roles" with visibility

Show people acting is a phenomenon, and film and television companies participating in the draft have long been a phenomenon. Between phenomena, there is naturally ghosting. In the later stage of the draft, not only traditional idol agencies, but also many original film and television companies entered the game.

Most of the trainees sent by these companies, except for those who have certain dance skills, have only received short-term singing and dancing training, and belong to the type of "future planning is acting" that fans can see at a glance. Zhao Xiaotang, who debuted in "Youth with You 2", acted in Chen Kaige's movie "Blossom in the Dust" before participating in the show.

On the other hand, because "idols lack of stage" has increasingly become a "consensus", the attention of the draft debut group is also declining almost year by year, but the debut contract of the draft troupe is strictly controlled by the platform, if the final destination is acting, then the purpose of participating in the draft competition is not to debut, but to borrow the traffic of the platform draft gold plating - entering the group two years earlier and not letting the idols delay the career planning of newcomers in the entertainment industry seems to be a more cost-effective choice.

Poison Eye once appeared in a previous article "Post-101 Era: Pu Man Enters the Draft? It was mentioned that some companies' plan for trainees is to "send them to act immediately after the competition", and in the later stage, there are already many companies competing for the "card slot" spot, and the requirement is to try to stay until the final, but it is best to be 1 or 2 places worse and cannot debut.

In this way, the showmen can not only gain popularity through the draft, increase their chips in the casting stage of film and television dramas, but also bypass the idol-singing and dancing activities that they originally need to participate in, and focus more on acting training and the life of the actor.

It is precisely because of this that the second-tier performers are limited by failing to debut or have a low debut ranking, and it is often difficult to play the protagonist of a high-quality IP drama in the team, and playing the protagonist of a small-cost sweet drama is also a plan, but more people choose another path - in IP dramas with traffic starring and a decent team, they play outstanding supporting roles.

As long as the drama becomes popular, if the supporting roles are not small and the setting is bright, it may be a strong public recognition opportunity. As early as 2015, when "The Pretender" was broadcast, it brought Liu Yijun, Wang Ou and other important supporting roles in one fell swoop; At the beginning of this year's blockbuster "Crazy", the protagonists Zhang Yi and Zhang Songwen became popular on social platforms, and Gao Ye, the actor of "sister-in-law" Chen Shuting, was also frequently searched, and recently appeared in an advertisement for Xiaomi mobile phones.

Last summer's popular "Star Han Splendid" was jokingly called the show party, male No. 2, male No. 3 Li Yunrui and Yu Chengen have all participated in "Creation Camp 2019", and the outstanding female partner He Zhaojun is Chen Yihan of "Creation 101".

In the idol dramas "Qing Qing Daily" and "Light Me Up, Warm You" broadcast at the end of the year, the female partners "Yuanying County Lord" Liu Lingzi and "Ren Di" Zeng Keni are from the same brokerage company Awakening Oriental, both of which are finalists in "Youth with You 2".

The public's unfamous part of the show is not easy to carry preconceived notions such as "idols are not good at acting". Supporting roles are not the core of the public's scrutiny of acting skills, and the scenes are not heavy, as long as the plot lovers have highlights, the acting skills of the idols will not be greatly delayed, but are more acceptable to the audience.

Less pressure, sometimes it is easy to make results, and important project supporting roles other than the protagonist are a safe choice and a cost-effective choice.

The third echelon: no matter how big or small, work is done

The achievements and recognition obtained by second-tier performers from film and television dramas often do not match their program rankings, and the companies and resource integration capabilities behind them have played a very important role.

Chen Youwei, who debuted in the 8th place in "Youth Has You 1", is the brokerage company behind the veteran film and television company Ciwen Media. Luo Yizhou, the first group in "Youth with You 3", signed under the banner of Yaoke, and entered the group "Houlang" as one of the leading actors during the group, the screenwriter of this drama is "An Home" screenwriter Six Six, and the heroine is the head 95 flower Zhao Lusi.

In contrast, the native brokerage company does not have so much energy, or the show person who is not very popular by the native brokerage company, even if he wants to act, after leaving the resources of the platform, it is not easy to access the high-quality team.

At the same time, the cold winter of the film and television industry has fully arrived in the late stage of the draft, and the first thing that the platform and film and television companies cut is the mid-waist project, and these are often the film and television resources that the showmen can share.

The male and female showmen who could have access to idol dramas, in the face of the same drama with more monks and less porridge and fierce competition, in order to have a job continuation and not a long-term empty window, they can only lower their stature again, to act in small-cost accounting dramas, or directly to act in micro-short dramas.

In the debut group of the "Qing" and "Chuang" series, Zhang Zining acted in the short drama "There is a Peach Blossom Demon Next Door"; In the short drama "Night Love" broadcast in July last year, the male director Li and the female protagonist Liu Xuning are both debut showmen; "Youth with You 2" did not debut, which made many viewers feel a pity, Jin Zihan, broadcast a short drama "My Half of My Boyfriend" in August last year, partnering Chen Xinwei, Zhang Haolian and other Lehua colleagues, belonging to the "company drama gift package"; Zuo Linjie, who debuted in "The Name of Youth", acted in the short drama "Heartbeat Love"; Mu Ziyang of "Idol Trainee" also acted in the short drama "Please! The Great Hero" ...

However, although the account-sharing dramas and short dramas can maintain the "uninterrupted" work, they are also easy to "step on the thunder": the publicity and audience range of short dramas are obviously inferior to IP dramas, and it is difficult for idols to obtain further traffic by starring in short dramas, and such dramas tend to cost less, and the service road and set are not very exquisite, and it is easy to leave a "black history out of the circle". Luo Zheng, a contestant of "Idol Trainee", played the male protagonist in "Spring Pillow Starry River", and was included in the blacklist of "ugly men in ancient costumes" at that time.

There are not many idols such as Cai Xukun and Liu Yuxin who still insist on "making music", and choosing to "act" is just a road that idols go to after being pushed to the front of the stage by the draft. Compared with the abruptly stopped draft, the drama market has not changed so drastically, but it has also caught up with a series of transformations to reduce costs and increase efficiency, at this time, these lucky and unfortunate performers undoubtedly have to let go of many things and flutter in not too many choices.

Unfortunately, the chances have decreased, but fortunately they have had additional exposure, and there are still equal opportunities among the limited options.

It's just that even the show people are internally divided, the acting skills are high and low, and the short drama and the big IP protagonist can be a starting point, just going up and one down. In the final analysis, "where to come from" is a story of the past for showmen, and after choosing the path of acting, "where to go" is the direction they should think about.