(Pan Binlong.) Photo/Courtesy of respondents)
Previously, the third season of the variety show "I Am an Actor" ended, and actor Pan Binlong won the championship.
In the show, Pan Binlong has played the image of 5 fathers, and in his own words, "Daddy Bumped" to the final championship podium.
Also that show, Pan Binlong was once assigned to the "undesirable" group, but he still infected the mentor and the audience with delicate handling and strong empathy.
When asked about Pan Binlong, what is the biggest trouble of being an actor?
Pan Binlong replied: God does not appreciate food.
"I'm not a genius who appreciates food and eats, but I rely on hard work."
For many years of acting career, Pan Binlong has long been accustomed to "no choice", "those who have the right to speak are all head actors, I am below the waist." ”
Many artists will claim to be working hard in the entertainment industry, but in fact, a "three noes" actor like Pan Binlong, who has no traffic, no heat, and no appearance, is really working hard.
It's on fire
On March 6, Jia Ling's work "Hello, Li Huanying" exceeded 5 billion yuan at the box office, becoming the second highest grossing film in Chinese film history. On the same day, Pan Binlong won the finals of the third season of "I Am an Actor".
Then Jia Ling sent a Weibo, "We are all North Drift, you and I support each other, it is not easy to get to today, male Dapan, female Xiaofei, today have proud results ..."
But the fact is that nearly a month has passed, Zhang Xiaofei mentioned in Jia Ling's Weibo has received commercial endorsements from international first-line brands, and Pan Binlong, who is also Jia Ling's close friend, seems to have returned to that ordinary name.
The three words "Pan Binlong" returned to plainness after a brief period of "boiling" on social media.
Before "I Am an Actor" went viral, Pan Binlong felt that he wanted fire, dating back to 2005.
After 7 years of military career, Pan Binlong went to Study Chinese Opera to become a North Drifter, and was brought to the Spring Festival Gala by his mentor Feng Gong through a sketch called "Bus Concerto".
Among the sketches and Pan Binlong are Feng Gong, Yan Xuejing and Wang Baoqiang. As the least well-known actor, in the process of several program reviews, the director team wanted to replace Pan Binlong, and it was Feng Gong who insisted on leaving Pan Binlong's role.
Before that, Pan Binlong took over the work of some special actors, and played a concierge with a few lines in "Wang Ye Arrived" starring He Bing and Jiang Shan.
Arriving at the stage of the Spring Festival Gala is both long and fast for Pan Binlong, and it is enough to inflate himself.
After the Spring Festival Gala, Pan Binlong believed that he would definitely be signed by the professional literary and art academy troupe to become a guaranteed professional actor, and for this reason, he even pushed off the invitation of the TV series "My Regiment Leader My Regiment".
Pan Binlong floated, floated straight, and then was beaten by reality.
"That play gave me a role in 40 scenes, I didn't go, who knows that the play ended up on fire, not to mention 40 scenes, the actors in 4 scenes were all on fire."
"As a result, the chickens and eggs were beaten, the drama was missed, and there was no theater group that wanted me."
For Pan Binlong, there was another highlight before the Spring Festival Gala, when he performed the dance "Reading Tomorrow" as a soldier of the People's Liberation Army at the double-support party in 1999.
At that party, there was also a dance work called "Lychee Fragrance", and the dancers were called Sun Li.
That time, Pan Binlong was also on fire, but within the whole army, his influence was very limited.
In 2018, Pan Binlong partnered With Zhang Yu and Ren Suxi to star in the movie "The Unknown Generation", Pan Binlong played a small character with feelings and righteousness, the robber "Li Haigen".
He won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 10th Macao International Film Festival for this role, but compared with the other two leading actors, in public opinion and topics, Pan Binlong is more like the real "unknown generation".
After more than ten years of playing in the show business circle, I only got an award for the best supporting actor, and many people gave up long ago. Dapeng once commented on Pan Binlong, "In the matter of acting, I rarely see anyone more shaft than him."
"There's no actor who doesn't want to be on fire, and for a long time I was thinking, how can I be on fire?" Pan Binlong said.
Curve saves the country
"Pancake Man", "Demon Bell Bell", "Relief Grocery Store", "The Unknown Generation"... These film and television works are not obscure works in terms of box office and influence, not listed together, almost no one will remember, these works have Pan Binlong, he is always the forgotten one.
Film and television are not fire variety show fire, good evil is also fire.
Film and television actors participate in variety shows, maintaining popularity is the more common way at present, even Actors such as Sun Honglei, Huang Bo, Deng Chao, who take acting skills as the label, also continue to maintain their own popularity through variety shows, which allows them to have the extension and guarantee of popularity in subsequent film and television works.
Pan Binlong has also been on variety shows, playing Cao Cao, played by Too Much Hewei, in "Sound Immersion", interpreting Cao Cao's "Imperial Fan" through sound; known as the Great Devil King in "Happy Comedian", repeatedly praised by mentors; imitating Sun Nan, Huang Bo, Lin Zhixuan in "The Hundred Changes of Big Coffee Show", and being rated as face-changing imitation by netizens...
But is he on fire? Apparently not.
The closest time to the fire between Pan Binlong and the variety show was "Love Laughing Room".
It was a small-cost program of Heilongjiang Television Station, due to the small amount of program funds and the lack of big coffee to help, the program team found Pan Binlong, who was "short of clothes and food" because of expansion.
At that time, Pan Binlong, in his words, opened his eyes every day to think about how he lived, and rented a small room of less than 10 square meters with his wife, and his wife's biggest wish was to "live in a house with a toilet in the house."
Wedding celebrant, business event host, and even rehearsal chorus for primary and secondary schools, as long as money is given, Pan Binlong will go. This is still the skill that teacher Feng Gong taught himself.
As one of the original creators of "Love Smile Conference Room", Pan Binlong met Cui Zhijia, Qiao Shan, Xiu Rui, Zhang Yiming, Zhang Zidong and others.
"Love Laughing Room" caught up with the period of great development of the Internet, and the rise of social media has allowed this former TV show to have a larger audience, and for the first time, Pan Binlong has experienced the feeling of "rising fans".
"A day is more than 1,000 fans, clicking, reading Weibo every day, I still enjoyed it at that time."
Among the people in "Laughing Room", Pan Binlong is the oldest, and he and the young people explore the feeling of comedy together, which is completely different from the former army stage and campus. Because of this, in the free collision and brainstorming, the show is on fire, and the people in it are also on fire.
Due to different concepts, the show was eventually discontinued, and the laughing brothers of that year also fell apart, and after a few years, Qiao Shan has become the male protagonist of many films such as "Sewing Machine Band", "King of Bath", "Two Tigers" and so on.
And pan binlong three words, or that person's name.
"People are going to be red, you wear sunglasses mask hat, you can be recognized." People are not red, standing in the pile of people, others do not know you. Pan Binlong said.
Because his appearance is not prominent, the resume information cast by Pan Binlong has been thrown into the trash again and again. For a long time, he did not have the opportunity to choose a role, and the work was in a state of not being rejected.
Once, he went to the door of the North Film Studio to hand over information, and he had an opportunity to enter the crew as an assistant director, and it was not easy for him to come, so he was more diligent.
"I did the work of the on-site director, I also did the work of the on-site producer, and I also followed the on-site props to find a way, and the director was not satisfied with me."
The director said to Pan Binlong: "What does the assistant director do? The assistant director is a hound of the director. ”
"Since then, I've flown out as soon as the director says anything."
After being a "hound" several times, Pan Binlong found that being a "hound" was not what he wanted.
"I don't have a position for myself, but I know that the current state is not what I want and I still need to work on. The motivation behind it is that I have to live, I have to live, I have to live well, I have to live with quality, I have to let my family and I live happily. ”
Later, we saw Pan Binlong, who played one small role after another on the screen, and in the eyes of the audience, those roles were supporting roles and dragon sets.
For Pan Binlong, this role is not only his ideal, but also his life.
Silly boy visits the market and makes one more show
Before accepting the invitation to record the third season of "I Am an Actor", Pan Binlong underwent a psychological construction.
"Take the guy who eats by himself to fight with people, you have to think about it."
"A lot of people go to variety shows like this to seek transformation, but I don't need to transform, I want more people to see me."
Soon Pan Binlong found the logic of self-consistency, "After groping for so many years, filming this multi-drama, through a variety show to let yourself go back to the furnace and learn it, it is not impossible." He consoled himself with this.
So Pan Binlong took "I Am an Actor" as a classroom, a class with 33 students, and every performance segment will have teacher comments, which is a rare opportunity.
"To participate in this show, you can't have too strong a winning and losing heart." Pan Binlong frankly said that he does not have too many expectations of himself in his daily life, because he can't stand the gap of "the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment", do a good job in front of him, and leave the rest to others to judge.
In the show, Pan Binlong was assigned to the "Not Expected" group, and Pan Binlong felt somewhat surprised.
"I've been acting for so many years, how come I'm still not expected at all?" Anyway, this is also in line with my attitude towards life, I want to surprise people, I don't want to give people a gap. ”
With the recording, Pan Binlong's mentality was further adjusted, becoming "silly boy visiting the market, playing more and making a profit".
In the variety show, Pan Binlong played 5 completely different father figures before and after, the father who lost his child in "Dear", the father who supported his daughter's dream in "The King of New Comedy", the father of the rebellious stepson in "The Long Day", the father of the autistic son in "Ocean Paradise" and the selfish father in "Skyscraper".
Before playing the clip of "Long Days on Earth", Pan Binlong stayed up all night, and after waking up, he found a place to nail a nail for a morning.
"I hope to increase my tiredness and my familiarity with the environment, the way to act is to have no tricks, it is to experience and observe, to put myself into the role." 」
As a result, Pan Binlong performed very well, impressing the audience and judges, and gradually began to appear Pan Binlong's name on social media, and the hot search also arrived as promised.
At the scene of the championship, the mentor Zhang Ziyi said something like this: "When I did not step on this stage, I did not know who Pan Binlong was, I hope that everyone will know him, and through him I can know more such obscure good actors." ”
Zhang Ziyi's words did not sting Pan Binlong, but made him feel very happy. "The purpose of her saying this is to tell the audience that I don't know her and that I can win the championship not by relationship, but by ability."
This time, is Pan Binlong really on fire?
Searching for the three words "Pan Binlong" in social media, the hottest is that he starred in the "Dear" clip in "I Am an Actor", in which Pan Binlong not only performed the restraint of the character at the dinner table, but also improvised a Qin cavity, humming out the pain that was held in his heart.
After everyone left the table, Pan Binlong hid in the room alone and cried and vented, even if the director shouted the card, Pan Binlong's tears still couldn't stop flowing down.
Zhang Songwen, the instructor in the audience, noticed this and immediately held out his finger: "The latter section is the best!" ”
This performance conquered the mentor and won the praise of the audience, which was only Pan Binlong's first appearance in "I Am an Actor".
But even if he finally wins the championship, in the eyes of many audiences, Pan Binlong is still just the actor who plays the comedy.
Pan admits that he has created many comedic roles, but does not consider himself a comedian.
As he mentioned in a Weibo post during the show's announcement: "I'm an actor, I'm an actor, I'm an actor, and important things are said three times." ”
"Comedy is an appearance, the actor is the root, I want people to think I'm an actor, that's all."
In the weeks after winning the third season of "I Am an Actor", Pan Binlong seemed to return to the state of that half-cooked face.
Many people often say that gold will always shine, and the wine aroma is not afraid of the deep alley, but for the strange entertainment circle and the industry atmosphere where traffic is king, Pan Binlong may be destined to be a footnote in this era.
But he didn't recognize it, he had been waiting for an opportunity, even if this opportunity was not just by his own persistence and efforts.
Some institutions have made an analysis, and the commercial value index of the three young artists who participated in "I Am an Actor" at the same time as Pan Binlong was as high as 86.27, 84.07 and 78.84 respectively, while Pan Binlong only had 68.88, which is still the data after rising 518 places from the previous month.
What can an acting variety show bring to the champion? Especially for non-idol, non-traffic actors like Pan Binlong? Perhaps the results are far less than one might think.
"I still have a sense of crisis, I still want to live, I have to keep acting, I keep creating characters to offset my sense of crisis."
"I also want to be a big male protagonist, and I also want to act in idol dramas."
"I also want to know how to do it without obscurity, but I would prefer to have a topic in the business, rather than the trivialities of life, but this is difficult, not something I can decide and control."