On July 28, former TVB actor Lin Jiadong accepted an exclusive interview with the media and generously admitted that he was nothing after entering the film industry.
Lin Jiadong, 53, was born in a TVB training class. Although he has a good appearance, his luck is average. In the first ten years of his debut, he played small supporting roles with few roles.
However, he is very passionate about acting, so he is not discouraged and works hard to improve his acting skills, hoping that one day he will get the attention of the audience.
Huangtian paid off. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Lin Jiadong was highly praised by senior executives and had more and more performance opportunities, gradually rising from a supporting role to a leading actor.
He starred in the drama series "Havoc in Guangchanglong" and "Tea is Strong in Hometown", which achieved good reputation and ratings, establishing his position as a niche player on the TV station. His popularity is not inferior to that of his contemporaries Ouyang Zhenhua, Tao Dayu and Luo Jialiang and so on.
When filming the TV series "Wine Is Hometown", Lin Jiadong felt that he had become a machine for copying ratings, so he chose not to renew his contract and signed with Andy Lau company, officially entering the film industry.
However, he was highly sought after on television, but after entering the film industry, he became a little transparent again. For a long time, he played a dispensable supporting role.
It was not until the past few years that he had the opportunity to play the leading role in a movie. With his superb acting skills, he won the Academy Award Best Actor. Last year, he was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for the first time.
Recalling his acting career, Lin Jiadong said frankly that "march" is a word that deceives himself and others. The first brother of the TV station was actually nothing after entering the film industry. No matter how popular you are on TV, you are still a newcomer in the film industry and have no market positioning at all.
Finally, Lin Jiadong also talked about the issue of actors frequently appearing in variety shows.
He said that a senior once reminded him that if he chooses to join the crew, he should not do variety shows. Because filming 10 dramas can create many images, but 20 variety shows only have one image. After the audience is accustomed to the image of actors in variety shows, can they still accept actors playing other images?
To be honest, Lin Jiadong's words may be a bit straightforward, but they are not unreasonable. In the past, TV drama actors did not have as high a status as movie stars in the film and television industry. Once artists established a foothold in the film industry, they were rarely willing to go back to filming TV series.
For example, Stephen Chow , Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau, they all came from TVB, but after becoming first-line movie actors, they never filmed TV series again.
However, times have changed. Today, the boundaries between movie stars and TV drama actors have become blurred. Very few actors only act in movies and not TV series. Even high-ranking movie stars such as Zhang Ziyi and Tang Wei have become more popular in the past two years. Started to swarm into the television industry.
