Chapter 183 (1/2)
The next day, Li Keqin heard about it from Andy Lau.
He had lunch with Liang Kun and asked curiously, ”what's the matter with ah Hua? Why did I go out to shoot MV for a day, and he decided to go to the mainland to open a company with you? It's not a small thing.”
Not long ago, Andy Lau and Li Keqin chatted and said they planned to open a film company in Xiangjiang. As a result, today he said that he was ready to open his company in the mainland, and would also invest in TV dramas and cooperate with Liang Kun.
Liang Kun briefly explained the shooting of TV dramas in the mainland and gave some suggestions to Andy Lau.
Li Keqin also felt that it was imperative for Xiangjiang artists to develop in the mainland. He was still filming TV on TVB last year. He knew what the virtue of Xiangjiang entertainment circle was and blatantly squeezed the actors. Some old TV actors are eating dirt, and the film pay is poor. Li Jiasheng, the third brother among his eight brothers and sisters, is now very miserable.
Li Keqin is angry at the thought of his friend's current situation. He wants to help him decide and leave TVB immediately. He makes too little money.
He said positively, ”if there is a role suitable for my age in the TV series, I have a friend who wants to recommend it. If he is willing to develop in the mainland, you and brother Hua will take care of him. His name is Li Jiasheng. I don't know if you have heard of his name.”
Liang Kun smiled. ”Ha ha, do you know feitianwa?”
”Yes, he played Lei Zhenzi in the list of gods last year. Hehe.” Li Keqin also smiled.
The nicknames of the stars in this film really hurt. Three eyed baby, fire spitting baby and flying baby, is this a God or a teaser?
”Fengshen list” has 31 ratings, ranking ninth in paixiangjiang in the whole year, which is the same as ”the story of leaning on the sky and slaughtering the dragon”, which is slightly better than the purchased drama ”deep rain”.
Li Jiasheng rarely played an important role, and Lei Zhenzi was one of the stars. But his efforts are almost unrequited. He doesn't show his face in the film, and his popularity can't be compared with that of other stars. His film pay is also the lowest among the leading stars, and he is not in the top ten in the whole crew.
Li Keqin felt that his good friend had been miserable. In fact, his bad luck had not yet arrived.
Li Jiasheng, who lives in a parallel world, is very miserable. He is a handsome man with acting skills, but he is not famous until he is about to retire. He has been in the entertainment industry for 30 years and is still only a minor supporting actor. Liang Kun remembers him because he plays too many roles. He is a dragon suit actor used by TVB and a low-level paid actor.
Package artists have a base salary in TVB and a fixed salary every month. In addition, they will be paid according to the number of episodes in TVB. In addition, TVB, as its manager, will draw a percentage from the external work of paid artists. It sounds good. In fact, TVB doesn't let Li Jiasheng play the leading role at all, and gives him a low film salary and base salary.
Li Jiasheng has made many dramas and played many different types of roles. He can play silly boy, pervert, strong x criminal and policeman, and has created many classic supporting roles.
However, TVB never paid attention to him. When he was filming, his nasal bone was broken, and no one asked.
In the new biography of a Wang in 2005, his acting skills were praised by Zhou Runfa, saying that he should win the prize. As a result, he was not invited to attend the Taiwan anniversary ceremony that year.
Li Jiasheng always has a straight stomach. Finally, all his friends around him have prospered. He has not become popular, but he will not be jealous, and he can enlighten himself.
But when it comes to TVB, he will gnash his teeth. ”I chat with 98% of the people in the company, and the other 2% are senior managers. I'm not afraid to offend them when I say so, because they look down on me and don't have me in their eyes. How can they mind what I say?”
In fact, TVB doesn't just pay attention to dragon actors, they don't even pay attention to starring.
As long as there is no butterfly effect, Zhang Weijian will become the backbone of TVB this year because of the fire starring in the monkey king, which has brought a profit of 200 million to the other party. At the highest ratings, it reached 40%, and almost everyone is watching it.
But behind so much revenue, Zhang Weijian got very little money. Later, Zhang Weijian revealed in the interview that he only got 70000 yuan. Among the income allocated to each episode, one episode was less than 3000 Hong Kong dollars.
This is undoubtedly rare for a super popular star.
So when shooting the sequel, Zhang Weijian took the initiative to ask for a price increase, just hoping that TVB would raise the price to 10000 yuan for each episode. Unexpectedly, the person in charge said directly, ”Jianzi, you're stupid? Don't think it's red when you play Monkey Sun. I tell you, it's worthless if you don't stick hair on your face!”
Zhang Weijian shaved his head in a rage, and then he was snowed. He not only quit shooting, but also quit TVB.
How angry is this TV station called ”black heart factory” by netizens? People who haven't worked there can't imagine. By 2018, all the famous actors have gone.
Li Keqin plans to persuade Li Jiasheng to try to go to the mainland. There must be no future in Xiangjiang.
When TVB makes TV dramas, it uses those actors back and forth. If the audience watches more, they will play. For example, in the story of relying on heaven and slaughtering dragons, Wudang school harbors evil and accepts evil. Jiu Mozhi, Weng Wencheng and others are there.
The age of the actors in that film doesn't match the age of the original characters at all. Zhang Cuishan is 51 year old Liu Songren, Yin Susu is 45 year old Mi Xuan, the Persian Saint Lao Zhao, who is old enough to play the Purple Dragon King. Chen Shaoxia, the youngest, is 24 years old, but she looks old. Just after her debut, she and Andy Lau played husband and wife in heaven and earth in 1994.
Li Keqin said: ”my brother has great acting skills, but his character is too straight and easy to offend people. I'll ask him if he is willing to go. It's really not the way to go on like this.”