The old drama bone Dong Yong never expected,
He has been acting as a policeman and soldier for more than 20 years, but he became popular with the sentence "Annie" in "Flowers".
After becoming popular, 56-year-old Dong Yong said in an interview:
"One of the things I want to do now is which unit wants me, the kind that has a retirement salary and labor insurance. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar.
As we all know, actors are a high-income group, which is not refuted, and cannot be refuted,
Dong Yong, as a veteran actor who has been acting for decades, how can he still care about that pension?
Therefore, some netizens commented, saying:
"You want to take advantage of any good thing and any cheapness, these people. ”
But some netizens said:
"It's true, it's honest, and you can't understand it when you're old. ”
Some netizens thought deeply, saying that this is Dong Yong's "advanced metaphor".
As the saying goes, "Listen to the sound of the drum, listen to the sound of the voice",
Only by understanding Dong Yong's previous experiences can we understand why he wants a formal unit.
Although he is talking about his own situation, what he tears apart is the fig leaf of the entertainment industry round and round.
01
As early as many years ago, Dong Yong said in an interview about the remuneration of some actors,
He saw with his own eyes that some actors just count numbers when filming, saying one, two, three, four, five, six,
And definitely not one more word, or one less word.
However, such an actor took away millions, or even tens of millions, of salaries.
When Dong Yong said this, his face was not angry,
may have acted diligently all his life, but he has never received so much salary.
Li Chengru, who is also an old actor, also helped on the side, and said with some schadenfreude:
"I'm very happy today to have witnesses. ”
The reason why Dong Yong gritted his teeth so much when he talked about these things was mainly related to his experience,
Many people may not believe that he is not from a professional class with such superb acting skills.
He, like actor Yu Rongguang, studied Peking Opera Wusheng when he was young.
In 1978, Dong Yong, who was only 10 years old, was influenced by his elder brother and also embarked on the road of opera and was admitted to the China Academy of Drama.
After 7 years of hard study, he became a Peking Opera actor at the Hangzhou Peking Opera Company.
It was also in the year of participating in the work that Dong Yong entered the dubbing crew of the movie "Yue Yun" by chance.
and played a "golden soldier" in it, which was his first electrocution in film and television dramas.
Since then, Dong Yong has become interested in film and television drama performances, and four years later, he played "Yue Yun" in the TV series "Man Jianghong".
This incident made Dong Yong find self-confidence, and in 1991, he resolutely quit his job at the Peking Opera Company.
became a self-employed actor, which is why he now does not have a unit.
02
After leaving the Hangzhou Peking Opera Company, Dong Yong became a dragon actor.
Because of his martial arts background, he also worked as a stand-in for a period of time.
But a year later, not only did he not make a name for himself, but he also got a wound.
Under the persuasion of his parents and older siblings, he could only give up being an actor and opened an advertising agency instead.
became a small boss.
Dong Yong recalled this experience and said that he didn't know what it was like to be Party A at that time.
Every day, we should nod and say good things to customers, if customers are not satisfied, we must also ask for design changes.
A few years later, although he made some money, he found this life too boring.
In 1996, Dong Yong, who was already 28 years old, became a North Drifter and rented a house in Peony Yaoju in Beijing.
Start chasing your dream of being an actor again.
Because of his age, his appearance is not distinctive, and he is not from a professional class, Dong Yong has no opportunity to act at all.
can only do chores in the crew, and no one needs him to play tricks.
So Dong Yong watched others act while doing chores, and when he met a good actor, he followed suit.
After a while, he really figured out some doorways, and sometimes he squatted on the set to watch, more anxious than the director:
"What is this acting, it's not as good as me, I'm better than him when I go up to act. ”
After all, he still doesn't have a chance to act.
Until one time, Dong Yong was an assistant director in the crew of "Divorce", starring Ge You,
Here he met a good buddy, and the good buddy told him,
There is a director named Lin Daqing, who is looking for an actor who can speak Zhejiang.
So under the recommendation of a friend, Dong Yong successfully entered the crew.
In this play, he has 4 episodes, and after filming, the crew will follow the standard of 4,000 per episode,
Directly gave him 16,000.
After Dong Yong got the money, his first thought was that it was too easy for actors to make money.
So in order to make more money, he became more determined to become an actor.
Dong Yong recalled that at that time, he was completely out of the way.
Anyway, in a strange city, no one knows him, he just wiped his face and took out a shameless spirit to fight.
In order to find filming, he needs two thousand six a month's phone bills.
And that's not even counting going out to dinner with friends, going socializing, etc.
That year, Dong Yong earned 100,000 yuan by virtue of his generosity and good popularity, which was 2000 years ago.
For the average person, this is already a very high income,
But when he went home for the New Year, he settled the accounts, but found that he only had 10,000 yuan left.
In the end, he gave 5,000 to his family and kept 5,000 for himself.
It is these experiences that make Dong Yong feel that acting must be done well.
Otherwise, he is sorry for such a high salary, so he hates those actors who read numbers during filming.
03
Although the actor's income is high, his job is extremely unstable.
Dong Yong thought that he had 5,000 yuan to spend, but when he went to Beijing the next year, he was stunned.
Because for almost a year, he didn't receive a play,
At the end of the day, there was only 10 yuan in his pocket, and he put the 10 yuan in his pocket and was reluctant to spend it.
During that time, Dong Yong basically relied on the help of his friends, who often called him and asked him to come over for dinner.
It made him very embarrassed, but if he didn't go, he would be hungry.
The person Dong Yong was most grateful to at that time was Liu Dan, who had just become popular with the "Xiangfei" in "Huanzhu Gege",
Liu Dan got a fitness card and would take Dong Yong to the gym every day.
When her boyfriend came to pick her up for dinner, she also pulled Dong Yong along,
Relying on the help of friends, from the beginning of the month to the end of the month, the 10 yuan in Dong Yong's pocket did not move a cent.
The only thing that made him ashamed was that he tried all kinds of ways to escape the rent during this period.
A friend asked him:
"What are you doing with that 10 dollars? ”
Dong Yong said:
"You can't spend it, as long as you have these 10 yuan in your pocket, you have a bottom in your heart. ”
"Bottom", just two words, seems to have become the criterion in Dong Yong's life,
Life must have a bottom, and acting must also have a bottom.
When he is shy in his pocket, he can go against his will and take on some plays that he is not willing to act.
But as long as he has a little money in his pocket and a little money in his pocket, he dares to slap the table and mercilessly refuses the scenes he doesn't want to act.
Therefore, if you want to be a good actor in the entertainment industry, you also need very harsh conditions.
It is necessary not only to have good acting skills, but also to have the confidence to refuse and the right to choose.
This alone has "killed" a lot of good actors.
It wasn't until later that Dong Yong met Li Chengru, who was at the peak of his actor career,
With the help of Li Chengru, his career as an actor officially entered the right track and became a police professional.
Later, he also played a lot of upright and righteous soldiers.
04
may be in the eyes of many people, Dong Yong is already a winner in life, but for him, it is too early to say that he will win or lose in his life at this time.
Because he still has a lot of things to do, and a lot of responsibilities to bear,
Don't look at him now that he is 56 years old, but his daughter is only 9 years old, and he even said that he still wants to have another son.
With children and daughters, such a life can be considered complete.
The reason why Dong Yong wanted a child so late was mainly because he had been divorced once.
And the reason for the divorce is also related to his career as an actor.
At that time, Dong Yong was wandering alone in Beijing, and he and his wife had been separated for a long time.
Although his career improved later and he took his wife to Beijing, he was busy with work for a long time.
is either socializing or filming, and invisibly ignores his wife.
If you want to have filming, filming a good movie, socializing is unavoidable,
Dong Yong has an upright personality, speaks quickly, and even drinks quickly, as soon as others raise their glasses, he has already raised his neck and lowered his stomach.
So every time he drinks with someone, he is the first to drink and lie down.
When he woke up the next day, Dong Yong's first thought was:
"Where am I?"
After a long time, he himself couldn't stand it a little, and every time he woke up in a strange place, he would think:
"It would be nice to wake up in your own bed. ”
Once, he got drunk again, and the next day he woke up to the surprise of finding that he was really at home this time.
It's just not in the bed at home, it's under the bed.
Because his wife really couldn't hold him, she could only stuff him with a pillow and a blanket.
Dong Yong himself can't stand it a little, not to mention his wife,
In 2006, although Dong Yong tried his best to keep him, his wife still left him.
ended their marriage of more than 10 years.
Until the end of 2014, after being single for 8 years, Dong Yong, who was 46 years old, was urged by his brother and sister-in-law.
married Zheng Jiayan, an actress of the Zhejiang Peking Opera Troupe, who is a colleague of her sister-in-law,
In the second year of marriage, Dong Yong had a daughter, and finally became a father when he was almost 50 years old.
05
Dong Yong is almost 60 years old now, but the burden on his shoulders is still very heavy, and he doesn't dare to rest.
Because he has parents to support and daughters to raise,
If you want your parents to live well in their old age and your daughter has confidence in her future life, you need a lot of money.
So Dong Yong has been filming.
But I don't know since when, the actor's salary is no longer linked to the acting skills, and I began to look at the popularity and traffic of the actor.
Although Dong Yong has acted for decades and has rich experience, he is deeply loved by many audiences.
But his salary is not very high, and his income is not as good as that of some current Internet celebrities.
So this year, after Dong Yong became popular with "Flowers", he also fell into hesitation.
There are many people looking for him to film now, not because of how good his acting skills are, but because he is also popular now.
On the one hand, he thought that if he should take this opportunity to make more money, he would not worry about his family's life in the future.
But on the other hand, he felt that this practice was against his original intention, and he still liked himself when he was young.
As long as he can support himself and has money in his pocket, he dares not to take on the show,
But now, he is old and young, and he has a lot of considerations and fetters invisibly.
So in an interview, Dong Yongcai said that what he wants most now is to have a unit.
At his own level of consumption, those pensions are completely sufficient.
And Dong Yong also said frankly:
"The artists I admire, they're all theater people, they all have units, you know?"
In fact, in the final analysis, what Dong Yong envies is not the pension, what he envies is that it is actually a better working environment.
He doesn't have to worry about life, he can act wholeheartedly, all from the perspective of pursuing art.
Dong Yong's public job search in the interview also seems to imply,
An actor like him who acts in a low-key manner and has no popularity and traffic, in fact, the salary is not as high as everyone thinks.
There is no way to compare with those current traffic actors.
And combined with his experience, it can also be seen that a self-employed actor like him has to rely on himself for everything.
Although the income is higher than that of ordinary people, the usual expenses are not a small amount.
And he lives in first-tier cities such as Hangzhou and Beijing, and wants his family to live well and his daughter to live well in the future.
There's still a certain amount of pressure.
A "Flowers", let the audience see not only Dong Yong, but also 91-year-old You Benchang,
An old artist like him has only become popular at this age, and he has only been noticed by everyone.
Is this a blessing or a sorrow?
Dong Yong's sentence in an interview:
"I'm 56 years old, how many more years can I play, how many more suitable roles can I have?"
not only expressed his own sadness, but also tore the fig leaf of the entertainment industry.
An old actor with superb acting skills and a lifetime of acting, but in the end, he was worried about his pension.
To choose between professional ethics and bread,
This has to be said to be a kind of irony.