At a public event in 2017, Feng Xiaogang was sharply asked by reporters: "How do you think actors do variety shows across borders?"
The reporter raised this question because the "variety reality show" was already at the "peak of traffic", and cross-border variety shows for actors were not uncommon, and some actors had even been labeled as "variety shows"!
Feng Xiaogang did not shy away from the question, he said:
"Actors' participation in variety shows hurts their performances a lot, first of all, it should hurt TV drama performances, and secondly, it hurts movie performances too much!"
Feng Xiaogang, who opened the chatterbox, mentioned Sun Honglei, who was already a resident member of the variety show "Extreme Challenge" at that time!
"I think Sun Honglei is an actor with a lot of personality and a good texture, but now he shows himself in variety shows and wears all kinds of bright costumes, if he comes back to act, it will have a great impact on the quality of the performance. ”
Feng Xiaogang's "performance texture" also includes the "mystery" of the actors!
It's important for actors to maintain a sense of mystery to help them build their characters to a certain extent!
When actors participate in variety shows themselves without reservation, it happens to destroy the "sense of mystery", and the consequence is that when the audience watches them act again, they will be confused with the image in the variety show, resulting in a play!
Speaking of Sun Honglei, the last work to meet the audience was the TV series "Sweeping the Black Storm" broadcast 3 years ago!
Although the audience who has not watched Sun Honglei's variety show still thinks that his performance is remarkable, those who have watched his variety show think that it will be very dramatic when watching the show.
In addition to Sun Honglei, many actors in cross-border variety shows have now proved that what Feng Xiaogang said is right, and Huang Lei is one of them.
Recently, he was interviewed by Lu Yude, and he blew up that his variety show acting stopped!
and admitted that he has not filmed for 2 years, and he has not played the leading actor for 3 years, and the last time he played the leading role was in the TV series "Xiaomin's Family" broadcast in 2021!
Although Huang Lei has not continued acting in the past two years, he does not think it is a pity, he claims to enjoy the current state very much, believes that life is more important than acting, and now has more time to spend with his family and witness the growth of his children.
Huang Lei said that many things end in a last resort, so he wants to take the initiative to end some things himself.
The variety show "Longing for Life" was the one he took the initiative to suspend the recording last year, because the show is becoming more and more patterned, and I hope that through the pause, I can think about how to make the audience more interesting!
A few years ago, Huang Lei was very popular in variety shows, but he didn't think he had done a lot of variety shows!
For example, he said that "Extreme Challenge" has only been recorded for 4 seasons, but the audience thinks that he has been recording "Extreme Challenge"!
Regarding this point, Huang Lei should be wrong, he recorded a total of 5 seasons of "Extreme Challenge", from 2015 to 2019, it was broadcast for a quarter every year, so it is normal for the audience to think that he has been active in variety shows.
Huang Lei also said that he only kept a variety show "Longing for Life", but what he didn't expect was that the audience was most impressed by his cooking in the kitchen!
Huang Lei, who "took the initiative to pause", bluntly said that he has moved from the front of the stage to the backstage, and is currently the chief producer of the new variety show "Cat in a Box".
Huang Lei is still confident in the new variety show.
However, judging from the audience evaluation after the broadcast of "Cat in a Box", the negative reviews account for the majority!
After Huang Lei's interview show was broadcast, it immediately aroused heated discussions among netizens.
Some netizens said that Huang Lei's "active pause" was too late, and he had lost too much popularity!
Some netizens think that variety shows have a great impact on Huang Lei, and now they see that he only thinks of "chef", and has nothing to do with actors!
Some netizens bluntly said that when watching the TV series "Xiaomin's Family" starring Huang Lei, it was like watching "Longing for Life"!
The comments of netizens have one thing in common: the negative impact of Huang Lei's variety show has appeared!
As netizens said, Huang Lei's active pause is a bit late, it has been 10 years since he first stepped into the "variety show circle" this year!
At first, Huang Lei participated in variety shows, but he was actually accumulating popularity.
In 2014, Mr. Huang Lei, who "has little exposure and concentrates on drama", took his daughter to participate in the parent-child reality show "Where Are You Going, Dad 2", which was his first time recording a reality show, which attracted everyone's attention for a while.
In the show, Huang Lei is a good cook, his daughter is sensible and cute, and he is a "perfect good father" image in the eyes of the audience.
After the show, advertising endorsements for "good father" Huang Lei followed.
may have tasted the sweetness of variety shows, in 2015, Huang Lei joined the outdoor variety show "Extreme Challenge"!
Huang Lei, who is "smart", "calculating", and "high-IQ god operator" in the show, has attracted many fans!
In 2017, Huang Lei struck while the iron was hot and participated in the production of a new variety show "Longing for Life"!
After the first season was broadcast, the audience not only fell in love with this variety show of "slow life and old friends getting together", but also saw Huang Lei's cooking skills!
When the other guests praised Huang Lei's cooking skills in the show, another wave of viewers was fanned by him!
At that time, when it came to celebrities who could cook, Huang Lei would have a place!
In fact, as early as after "Where Are You Going, Dad", Huang Lei had the image of a "good father who can cook", so he founded the kitchen life brand "Huang Xiaochu" in 2015, and cooperated with a website to produce the program "Huang Xiaochu's Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter", but after the broadcast of this program, the popularity was not high and the audience was small.
When recording "Longing for Life", Huang Lei showed his cooking skills in an all-round way, and with the popularity of the show, his self-created brand "Huang Xiao Kitchen" also became popular.
Therefore, the current Huang Lei is also surprised that "the audience only remembers me to cook after watching the show".
After all, he originally hoped to show his cooking skills through the show to consolidate the character of "Huang Xiaochu", and also let his self-created brand "Huang Xiaochu" open up its popularity and achieve product sales!
The hit of three variety shows in a row made Huang Lei "fame and fortune"!
At that time, he was a good father, a good husband, good cooks, smart brains, perfect image, and his popularity reached its peak!
However, when Huang Lei appeared in front of the audience as an actor again, as Feng Xiaogang said, the harm of variety shows to the actors' performances came!
In 2017, the TV series "Late Night Canteen" starring Huang Lei received a bad review, and the Douban score was only 2.9!
The audience commented that this TV series not only has no new ideas, but almost copies the original version, the actors in the play are embarrassed in their acting skills, and Huang Lei is even more playful!
In the later TV series "Little Huanxi" and "Xiaomin's Family", the audience commented that Huang Lei's performance did not make a breakthrough, and he always played some middle-aged men with "broken mouths", plus he has been in variety shows for too long, and he always plays when watching dramas.
In waves of bad reviews, Huang Lei tried to make a change and played the role of Lu Qingshan County Magistrate in the TV series "County Party Committee Compound".
But the audience said that when they saw Lu Qingshan having a meeting, they always felt that he was going to go into the kitchen to cook after the meeting ended.
Feng Xiaogang's evaluation of "Sun Honglei's cross-border variety show" back then was also fulfilled in Huang Lei!
The actors who have enjoyed the "variety show dividend" like Huang Lei, and now their acting careers have been affected by the label of "variety show coffee", and it is difficult to recover it!