Actor: My Entertainment Era

As the number one young actor in mainland China before Zhang Yuanjun's rise, Huang Xiaoming is undoubtedly one of the most famous actors in mainland China in terms of popularity alone. For a period of time, the word "one" could even be removed from the list.

Moreover, Huang Xiaoming is definitely a representative of long-lasting popularity. Looking at the other three people who were rated as the four little fresh meat with him back then, only Tong Dawei still maintains a good exposure. Yin Xiaotian and Nie Yuan basically cannot play the leading role now, and do not get the exposure they deserve.

Looking at Brother Xiao Ming's career development, it is no exaggeration to say that he is the template for the male protagonist, with his handsome appearance, fame at a young age, continuous output, top connections in the circle, successful behind-the-scenes capital transformation, and the blessing of awards.

It can be said that, apart from marrying a wife with a not-so-good reputation, Brother Xiao Ming has almost reached the ceiling of domestic male actors and has everything he should have.

But a very cruel fact is that in the past two years, no one has asked Brother Xiao Ming to film a movie.

There are fewer and fewer scripts suitable for Huang Xiaoming on the market, and investors are increasingly paying attention to young actors in their twenties and thirties, as well as the so-called traffic - yes, everyone is criticizing traffic, but everyone is using traffic.

The Ming Cult has been in decline until now and has basically no traffic.

In the past, Huang Xiaoming might not even take a role even if the producer gave him the script, but now Huang Xiaoming has to beg the producer to give him the role.

Because he is no longer young, and because he has no traffic.

This is Huang Xiaoming's dilemma, and also the dilemma of many middle-aged actors.

Some people would say that middle-aged actors like Huang Xiaoming and Li Bingbing have started their own companies and are now bosses. If they don’t have any roles to play, then they don’t have any roles to play. It doesn’t affect their ability to make money.

You can't say that. They are bosses and have become a lot of capital in the entertainment industry, but they are still actors. Actors have to face this evaluation system: whether someone wants you to act, and whether you act well.

Unless you completely retire from the entertainment industry like Ren Quan and Zhou Jie and really stop acting, the public will naturally not view you as an actor.

To get rid of the dilemma of middle-aged actors, one is to create a pie for oneself, but few actors in the circle have this ability; the other is to start over and actively strive for opportunities like a newcomer.

Can't save face?

If you lose your job, would you avoid interviews at new companies because you can’t save face?

Huang Xiaoming is now trying to get a role for himself.

Liu Yifei was also troubled when she got the list of candidates for the best actor, as there were many excellent actors.

As for unfamiliar actors, Liu Yifei did not rule them out at a glance. Instead, she found the actor's works online and spent some time watching them.

The first TV series she watched was Jin Dong’s. It’s nonsense to say that he is not handsome. Liu Xiaoli really likes watching his dramas.

But Liu Yifei discovered that Jin Dong always plays the role of an urban male elite!

And they all play the same domineering boss!

How does this allow the film industry to see your plasticity?
Next is Mark Chao, he can almost be seen as a reduced-profile version of Huang Xiaoming, with Schrodinger's acting skills. The lower limit of his acting skills is similar to Xiaoming's, but the upper limit is not as high as Xiaoming's. If Xiaoming meets a good role and a good director, he can really win the Best Actor Award, while Mark Chao's most recent marketing of his acting skills was playing a mute father in the terrible drama "Midnight Diner", marketing his "plastic surgery-like acting skills", but that performance can only be regarded as above-pass or good from a professional point of view, far from being enough to be called "textbook-like acting skills".

A similar situation also occurred in the later "Article 20", and the same was true of Zhao Liying's performance in it. You can't say that she acted badly, but the audience could see that she was performing very hard, which detracted from the performance.

After looking around, Xiao Ming is really the most suitable person for the role of middle-aged Zhang Tingyu.

When Zhang Yuanjun came back in the evening, he saw the two children playing together. Liu Yifei was holding a notebook and reading and marking the materials in her hands. Liu Xiaoli was watching TV and glanced at the children.

"Hurry, Dad is back." Liu Xiaoli urged the two siblings to pick up their father.

"Ah, hahaha!" Every day the two siblings were very happy to see their dad coming home from work, and they would go to the door to greet him, shouting "Ah, ah." Zhang Yuanjun first picked up the eldest child, touched him, kissed him, and put him down. Then he picked up the second child, touched him, kissed him, and put him down again. Then the two of them went to play aside.

Liu Yifei glanced at the three people at the door and said with a smile: "One day the two little ones will sell you out, and you won't even know it."

"You sold me out and I didn't even know it." Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile.

Liu Xiaoli, who was sitting on the side watching TV, pretended not to hear.

Liu Yifei glanced in her mother's direction and said with a smile, "Save these nice words for your daughter. They are useless to me."

Zhang Yuanjun saw Liu Yifei working, glanced over and said, "What's there to choose from? It's just Xiao Ming."

"I'm choosing the actors, so stop interrupting." Liu Yifei pushed her husband away.

Zhang Yuanjun walked away and saw her daughter riding her tricycle and her son leaning against his grandmother, watching TV with her and eating his feet.

"You're so young and still watching TV." Zhang Yuanjun grabbed his son and said, "You're still sucking feet."

Zhang Yuyi didn't want his father to hold him at this time, and twisted his body to get down.

Zhang Yuanjun put him down and said, "Go play with your sister."

"Ah ah ah ah."

"Since your sister won't let you play with her tricycle, why don't you play with your own?" The two tricycles are exactly the same, but the two siblings can tell which one is theirs. "It's okay, Dad will take you to play."

Zhang Yuanjun dragged his son's tricycle over, loaded it onto a small trailer, put his son inside, and sat in the front to play with his son.

Liu Xiaoli said: "He is quite comfortable, lying inside, holding a water bottle, like a retired veteran cadre."

Isn’t it? Zhang Yuyi was lying inside with her legs crossed.

After taking her son for a walk, Liu Yifei naturally had to take care of her daughter. She said, "Now you know that having twins is not easy."

Zhang Yuanjun took his daughter on a ride and sighed, "I don't get to choose. Sit tight, sister. The ride is leaving. Didi."

The next day, Liu Yifei fed back her casting results to the crew, who then notified the actors.

With the end of the Spring Festival, the smoke of the Spring Festival movie season has finally dissipated.

"Detective Chinatown 2" and "Operation Red Sea", which was the least favored film beforehand, stood out and took the lead in the entire schedule, but the winner is still unclear.

Guo has proved with his actions that he really can't act, let alone direct, but he is stubborn as always, blaming the failure of the movie on the theater's scheduling on Weibo: "It's OK, I'm quite content. Although the movie is scheduled either at 6 am or 12 midnight, the only one or two shows a day are still full. I laughed when I read the comments, mainly because of the two extremes. Those who have seen it all say it's good, and those who haven't seen it all criticize it. This life is what I want and what I think, everything is the best arrangement, I am grateful."

Does this sound like what Wang Jiawei said two years ago, “I like it”?
It's normal for a director to protect his own film.

But from then on, Guo Degang never mentioned anything about filming, as if he had calmly accepted his incompetence in the film and television industry.

Zhang Yuanjun still trains 6 days a week, 8-10 hours a day, and while training, he also has to balance the work of "Swan Elegy" and "Dying to Survive". In places where the audience and fans can't see, Zhang Yuanjun is busy every day, and it's not easy. (End of this chapter)