TVB is both a dream factory and a sweatshop.
TVB, which is about to usher in the 53rd anniversary of Taiqing, has cultivated countless pawnbrokers and Hua Dan in the past few years, and sent excellent Hong Kong dramas to the audience, and countless green leaf supporting roles are indispensable in these works.
In recent years, under the superposition of multiple factors such as TVB's "restructuring", high-level changes, external environmental impacts, and the influence of Japanese and Korean dramas, many actors have left the nest and gone north, and many supporting actors have not been renewed because of salary and other issues.
Nguyen Tak Hoon
Recently, another artist told the media the truth about his departure from the nest.
Ruan Dehao, who played "Li Shimin" in "The Legend of The Tang Dynasty Double Dragon", originally earned a monthly salary of HK$60,000, but after Le Yiling took office. TVB suffered a "restructuring" and was notified to change it to "one show a year", which means that after a year, the annual salary is only more than 1,000 Hong Kong dollars. This reply made him stunned, so he decided on the spot not to renew his contract and directly left the nest.
Ruan Deheng once starred as Ouyang Lingwen (Mr. Mak) in the film "Color Ring" directed by Ang Lee.
According to him, he joined TVB in 2001 and earned HK$60,000 a month at its peak, but in 2004, the company changed its system to count only one performance per year, and his annual salary suddenly plummeted to more than HK$1,000. "In the K-100 years, every week there was a big K that we called, and the rest of the small K, and the monthly salary was almost 60,000 Hong Kong dollars. After filming "The Legend of Datang Shuanglong" back to Hong Kong, it began to transform, saying that the company is so grateful to you, I think this year's performance is very good, saying that the company decided to raise my salary by fifty Hong Kong dollars, that is, to add me fifty Hong Kong dollars, I only have more than one thousand Hong Kong dollars a year and then add fifty Hong Kong dollars, which is my income for one year, and then I stay! ”
After leaving TVB, Nguyen Duc Chun went to the mainland to develop, although the results were not very satisfactory, but the salary will still be higher than that of wireless.
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TVB is a place where talent is produced, and in the same way, it is also a place where talent is buried.
Many green leaf actors, although we are familiar with their faces, but we can't say their names. And their working years range from a few years to twenty or thirty years.
Warm red
Just recently, veteran supporting actor Wen Yuhong also announced that she would not renew her contract with TVB and officially left the nest. As for the reason for leaving the nest, she also directly admitted that it was because of the halving of salary and the addition of many additional conditions.
Wen Yuhong, a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, has been working in TVB for 30 years, which can be said to have dedicated her entire youth, she participated in the filming of nearly 100 TV series, although she has always appeared in the form of supporting roles in the series, but also left a lot of unforgettable performances.
For example, The "transgender person" Hong Tianfei in "Forensic Record", as well as Pu Yang Shuyun, played in "Acts of the Apostles", she is as sparkly as She Shiman in the opposite role. Her face can be seen in episodes such as "Demon 2.0", "WishIng For Mom", "Benevolent Decoding 2" and so on. She said that she would rest for a while after leaving the nest, but unfortunately she would not be seen in TVB episodes again.
Also regrettable is Liu Jiang, the actor of "Teacher Lin" in "Golden Night Building".
Liu Jiang
After serving TVB for nearly 40 years and filming more than 300 TV series, he officially left TVB in January this year and returned to TV City alone to pack up his things. The reason for leaving TVB was also a salary cut, from HK$60,000 per month at its peak to HK$7,500.
In terms of young students, Ao Jianian, who had an excellent performance in "The Gangster", also left the nest at the beginning of this year. As a golden supporting role of TVB, Ao Jianian has brought his acting skills to the extreme over the years, created a number of wonderful roles, and has been nominated for best supporting actor many times, and his "rib boy" in "The Pride of the Righteous Sea" is the most impressive. At the beginning of this year, he officially announced his departure from the nest after filming the drama "Guys Do Big Things" with Ouyang Zhenhua, Ma Dezhong, Wan Qiwen and others.
Ao Jianian also left the nest at the beginning of this year
Lin Shijie, who has a wonderful performance in "The Ultimate Confession after Eighteen Years", also left some time ago, saying that TVB asked him to change his one-year "6show" contract to guarantee a salary of 12,000 Hong Kong dollars a year, "even the rent is not enough".
Xue Ni, Yang Xiuhui, Gu Minghua... Green leaf actors, large and small, have also left TVB this year.
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In fact, tvB has not been able to retain people in recent years, the biggest reason is that the artists' income is too low, and even the normal life of some green leaf actors cannot be guaranteed. Coupled with TVB's high-intensity shooting work day and night, sometimes a drama can be quickly completed in just two months, and the income and payment are not proportional.
Ma Guandong
And tvb's low salary is also a bit unbelievable. Ma Guandong, who played the second odd doctor "Gu Xichen" in the earlier hit "Those I Loved", worked in TVB for 14 years, and he said that he had experienced days without money, a loaf of bread was eaten in two meals, all of which depended on the help of his mother and sister.
Zhu Mimi, who continues to play the "second sister" in "Top Gun Sister 2020", also said that her salary for this shooting is not even enough for fuel. There is also Yang Xiuhui, who played the deaf-mute Jia Qian in "The Ultimate Confession after Eighteen Years", who also revealed that in the first few years of entering the industry, she did not make a lot of money, and the worst time was to eat a lunch box for a few meals or eat for two days.
Ma Guoming was interviewed after winning the Emperor, and frankly said that there is no benefit to getting the Emperor, and TVB will not increase your salary... These are all direct responses to the problem of low salaries of TVB actors.
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Although many green leaves have left the nest this year, there are countless actors who still hold on to their dreams here.
Fang Shaocong, who played the murderer "Fever Fever" in "Iron Detective", has been joining TVB for 10 years, and there are seven to eight Hong Kong dramas filmed every year, which are basically small roles in running dragon sets.
Fang Shaocong
Before that, he had once made a name for himself in the drama "Stunt Man" with a role called "Sticky Rice", precisely because he did not find a stand-in that time and personally starred in a "burning man" scene.
Despite this, he still did not have many opportunities to perform, and he received very little commission for filming, so he only lived on the basic salary. He couldn't make any money at TVB, so he went out to deliver part-time, and when he went to deliver, many viewers who knew him also encouraged him to stick to his dreams, which made him feel very warm.
In fact, many artists who have left TVB still miss the days of working here.
In their memories, the glory of Hong Kong drama has never gone away, countless days and nights, they have suffered a lot, and they have been injured many times. For example, Mai Changqing," who was terminated by TVB a few years ago, was asked to be really beaten by a martial artist during filming, and as a result, he was punched, his nose was bleeding, and his left ear was even more hearing impaired. But he still said: "Thank you TVB for looking for me to shoot a movie, the weapons I now rely on for a living are all obtained from TVB." ”
Such a hard work, but they have persisted for countless years, supporting them to go on, in addition to the desire for fame, more is love, which also has feelings for TVB.
For example, Liu Jiang, who decided not to renew his contract, said that he did not sleep for two nights after making up his mind: "I still cling to the company and colleagues, and I must have a bottom line as a person, I can only say that the company has been very good to me for many years." ”
Over the years, seeing more and more old artists leaving TVB, I can't help but feel sorry. I would like to ask, without these gold medal green leaves, can TVB have the glory of that year?