In recent years, with the decline of the Hong Kong circle, in addition to some supporting roles who boldly came to the mainland to develop, or who had savings earlier, the situation of many TVB supporting roles has become passive and difficult. Recently, TVB golden supporting actor Cao Yonglian suddenly appeared unwell and was sent to the hospital during filming, and everyone knew that his heart and kidneys had problems, but he did not dare to rest in order to make more money, and has been filming, resulting in major physical problems, which is painful.
The 56-year-old Cao Yonglian has filmed many classic works on TVB for 27 years, but most of them have starred in supporting roles, although they have won the best supporting actor, but the popularity and curry position can only be said to be in the middle. As we all know, the salary of TVB artists is not high, and Cao Yonglian can only rely on more scenes to support a family of four, which eventually leads to physical inability to eat.
Because of the decline of TVB, many artists have left one after another, and the reduction of artists has also made more opportunities for left-behind artists to work, and artists like Cao Yonglian, who are not paid much themselves, can only increase their workload to make money. Recently, some netizens found that the 62-year-old supporting actor Xian Haoying appeared in two popular TVB dramas at the same time.
Xian Haoying played the "Thief King" in "The Amazing Case" and the "Traffic Sheriff" in "Guys Do Big Things". Xian Haoying can still insist on high-prolific dramas at his current age, presumably to make more money, and for TVB, there are really fewer and fewer gold medal supporting roles left behind.
There are also some supporting roles in TVB "can't stand" to choose to change careers, like the 47-year-old Ao Jianian was once a TVB gold medal supporting role, "Yihai Haoqing" in the role of "rib boy" made him a big fire. But Ao Jianian has hardly received a play since 2016, and he has no choice but to go out and find a part-time job to make money.
A Hong Kong show recorded the current situation of many Hong Kong supporting characters, and when Ao Jianian showed his resume in it, everyone was surprised that he had done about a thousand part-time jobs, including porters, tea house handymen, etc., and he also had truck plates and tram license plates.
Because there is no strong education and professional knowledge, many supporting artists leave the entertainment industry to find jobs that are not necessarily easier than ordinary people. In the end, Ao Jianian chose a job as a food delivery and earned 10,0003 in two weeks, and he was very satisfied.
Wu Weile, known as "ATV Tse Ting Feng", chose to change careers as a bus driver, and the reason he gave himself was that he had 4 children to raise at home. He is not very famous, and it is difficult for him to support his family by being an artist in the Hong Kong circle.
A big reason why many supporting artists choose to leave TVB is because TVB and many of its artists are signed, and these artists can only wait for TVB's work during the signing period, and cannot take over the work privately. TVB itself does not pay these supporting artists high, and if the workload is small, they will not even have money to eat in minutes.
Like the 72-year-old Liu Jiang struggled to survive to the position of nominating "Emperor of Vision", but last year he announced that he would leave his old owner TVB. In the TVB service for almost half of his life, he had an average salary of more than 10,000 yuan per month, but last year he was told that he could only receive 21 performances a year, and the average monthly salary was only about 5,000 yuan, and he had no choice but to leave TVB.
Therefore, TVB has many first-line artists who take advantage of their fame to negotiate conditions with TVB, turning the contract with TVB into a partial contract, that is, while maintaining a contract with TVB, they can take over other jobs, like She Siman in 2011 with TVB to sign a head contract, began to come to the mainland to test the development, or like Luo Jialiang Lin Feng, directly left TVB to develop in the mainland.
Not every Hong Kong artist who comes to the mainland to develop can mix as well as Charmaine She, but many of their incomes are better than in TVB, because there are many opportunities for development in the mainland, and even if they do not shoot, they can do other work, such as commercial performances and live broadcasts. Second, in addition to the first-tier cities, the housing prices and consumption levels of the second- and third-tier cities in the mainland are not as high as in Hong Kong, and some second-tier cities in Guangdong have become the gathering places for many Hong Kong artists, such as Guo Shaoyun and Li Yaoxiang who chose to buy houses in Shunde and Zhongshan.
Although these TVB supporting roles are not very famous, they can still receive some small commercial performances in the mainland, like TVB's "royal adulterer" Zheng Jiasheng who came to the mainland to participate in some small performances in bars and night shows, one can get six figures of remuneration, but also more than 100,000, life is not a problem.
For many TVB artists, their choices are also the reason for their different future fates, but no matter how they choose, their purpose is to survive.