Recently, the web drama "The Hidden Corner" has received rave reviews, and an actor with a fresh face but superb acting skills has entered the audience's field of vision.
His name is Zhang Songwen.
In "The Hidden Corner", in the first appearance, Zhu Yongping, played by Zhang Songwen, speaks fluent Cantonese, plays cards with a cigarette eyebrow, and the card friends talk about the secrets of fortune and prosperity, while playing cards, proudly showing off his son's achievements, but his speech clearly exposes his lack of concern for his son on weekdays...
This set of more than 3 minutes of performance, lifting heavy weights, instantly supported a full father figure, which was amazing.
In another scene, after the death of his daughter Zhu Jingjing, his wife was hysterical every day, and Zhu Yongping was on the verge of collapse, and only when he was alone did he have the opportunity to show the grief of losing his beloved daughter.
He went to the supper shop to pack, the boss gave three copies as usual, remembering that his daughter was no longer there, he wanted to silently throw away one, and finally ate it alone in his seat.
It's heartbreaking.
Zhang Songwen graduated from the Acting Department of Beijing Film Academy, officially debuted in 2004 in the Guangdong local sitcom "Dragon Rider", and has been in the show business circle for 16 years, participating in many movies such as "Lyceum Theatre" and many dramas such as "Detective Chinatown".
In 2019, Zhang Songwen participated in the film "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind" directed by Lou Ye, and only began to be noticed by more people because of his excellent acting skills.
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However, recently netizens found from an interview with Zhang Songwen last year that this powerful actor in his 40s who has been engaged in acting work for 16 years has not yet had a house.
Zhang Songwen has successfully shaped the image of midlife crisis many times in film and television dramas, but Zhang Songwen said that the audience saw not the mid-life crisis of the character, but the mid-life crisis of Zhang Songwen.
Thirty and standing, forty not confused, forty years old Zhang Songwen is confused about what? Mr. Zhang said he believes most people in their 40s in China should own a property, and he belongs to the kind of people who don't have a house in their 40s.
It should be noted that the property he is talking about is not in a first-tier city such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, but his hometown of Zhanjiang.
In his 40s, he still lives in a rented house, and Zhang Songwen said that this is one of his anxieties, and another anxiety comes to his acting work.
Zhang Songwen explained that his identity is very glamorous - actor, but his work throughout the year, does not have how much money he earns in a month, as the people say. "We are like this, there is income when there is a drama, there is no filming, sorry, there is no income for a year."
Talking about his situation, Zhang Songwen admitted that he may be able to notice that he sometimes really shoots a play a year, or two years to shoot a play.
Zhang Songwen revealed that filming is much better now, and the previous filming was "package price". What is the "package price"? A TV series is like saying 30 episodes, do you want to play this role? Think, now Zhang San, the packaging price is ten thousand, what competitiveness do you have, you can only take the next sentence, I will be nine thousand. ”
Speaking of which, Zhang Songwen said that the industry is so bad that he wants to go to the Labor Bureau to sue them. "How can you imagine that a person who works for four months will take a few thousand dollars. But you might say, what about your whole year? Sorry for the whole year, it is these thousands of dollars, is your entire income. ”
Zhang Songwen has been in this kind of life for more than ten years, so he said that he was very anxious and miserable. Zhang Songwen said bluntly that when this anxiety accumulates to the age of 40, you yourself look down on yourself.
Some people may think that Zhang Songwen's situation is an isolated case in the show business circle. However, Zhang Songwen said that the 99.5 actors in the country are exactly the same as his situation, and at most only 0.5% of the actors are called food and clothing.
For their 99.5% actors, Zhang Songwen said that such people work about 18 hours a day, have extremely low incomes, and are constantly squeezed.
"The industry is particularly unhealthy, but I'm sorry, it seems like no one pays attention to us 99.5 people, so they desperately catch the 0.5% of the people and keep saying that they represent the whole industry."
Actors like Zhang Songwen are known as "waist actors". The so-called "waist actor" refers to the actors who have no fame, traffic, and commercial endorsements, and the film remuneration constitutes all personal income.
Similar to Zhang Songwen, Jiang Yiming is a 20-year veteran actor who participated in the Beijing Film Academy in 2000 and participated in his first work, "The Gate of the Big House".
Jiang Yiming had not made a single play in 15 months. Without the drama, there is no income, but Jiang Yiming still has to pay off the mortgage, he has no habit of borrowing money with friends, so he has to go to the bank and take another loan.
Wang Herun is a new generation of actresses, in her 4 months of unemployment, she ran more than 20 crews to try out one by one. With few opportunities, Wang Herun had to lower her requirements, and the price was almost the number she had when she first entered the industry.
There are actors who are more difficult to survive than Wang Herun. A drama actor wang Herun has cooperated with wants to play a supporting role in a play with an investment of over 100 million yuan, but the film side has given a salary that even "can't even solve the problem of food and clothing", "now good actors are really not on the price."
Liu Shuai is a well-known actor who starred in his first work "Heartbreak Emergency Room" in college, and then entered the entertainment industry. Liu Shuai has starred in many web drama actors and become a signed artist.
However, under the appearance of the glamorous actors, Liu Shuai also had to face the embarrassment of reality - the salary income in 2019 was less than 100,000 yuan. If you don't shoot anymore, you can't pay the rent. He said.
"But you don't know, there are a lot of roles, even if the zero salary has a lot of actors willing to take it, sometimes you are still feeling good about yourself, you may turn around and miss this play." 」 Liu Shuai helplessly said that in order not to miss the opportunity, sometimes he did not make money and acted.
According to the "First Financial Daily" analysis of the acting career data of a total of 9481 actors in the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, the proportion of actors who did not have any works broadcast in 2019 was as high as 65.11%, 20.15% of one work, and the glamorous actors who could broadcast 5 or more works and frequently show their faces in front of the audience accounted for less than 1% of all actors.
For actors, the lack of works broadcast throughout 2019 not only means that there is no exposure for a whole year, but it may also reflect that he has not had a job offer for a long time. Among the actors who did not have any film and television works in 2019, more than 60% of the actors have been more than 2 years since the broadcast of his last work.
In recent years, the decline in the number of film and television drama filings is also squeezing the living space of low-level actors. In the first three quarters of 2019, the number of nationally filmed and produced TV dramas filed decreased by 27% compared with the same period in 2018. The number of films is also decreasing. In the first half of 2019, the number of films filed on radio and television decreased by 391 compared with the same period last year, a decrease of 22.5%.
"'Fan Bingbing' can't represent the actor, and the actor is not as glamorous as everyone thinks." For the current situation of waist actors, director Yu Zheng once said, "The industry's operating rate has declined, and many 'waist' actors have not filmed for a year or two." Yu Zheng said that in fact, 90% of the actor industry is a "waist" actor, they have not filmed for a long time, and the living space has been further squeezed.
According to the "Securities Daily" report, a film and television industry analyst said that film and television is a very prominent industry under the law of two and eight, 80% of the resources are in the hands of 20% of the people, the vast majority of practitioners are at the low end of the industrial chain, they have no choice, let alone a way back.
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