After earning 108 yuan a day and working as an extra actor for a year, he decided to leave Hengdian.

　　Cctv news(Reporter Sun Xiaoyuan video
Peng Jun): People who come to Hengdian for a group performance will almost invariably talk about Stephen Chow’s king of comedy. Some people think they can succeed, but they just lack an opportunity.

　　Xiao Jiang, 26, is one of them.

　　A year ago, Xiao Jiang resigned from a company’s customer service job and came to Hengdian from Guangzhou. After renting an apartment for 600 yuan and getting an actor’s license for 10 yuan, I settled down.

　　Since then, like other people who have been drifting in Hengdian for a long time, he has read notices, signed up, and then entered the crew.

　　The first scene Xiao Jiang received was to play an inferno soldier in the fairy sword drama. You need to wear a black robe and a prop hood and follow the "big devil" all the way.

　　He can’t remember exactly how many times he washed it. I only know that when the director calls for the start, he has to follow the crowd and run straight ahead.

　　He stayed on the set for 48 hours in that scene. Before he came, he didn’t know that he could bring a chair. At night, everyone rested on the couch and he could only sit on the ground. It suddenly began to rain in the middle of the night, and my mobile phone was dead, so I didn’t dare to sleep because I didn’t know when the crew would leave.

　　"Only when you say your lines can you touch the threshold of an actor."

　　In Hengdian, there is almost no threshold for group performances, and there are all ages, but there are relatively many young people.

　　"When he first came to the group performance, he was fresh and wanted to show himself, maybe just to get together in front of the camera."

　　It takes skill to rub the camera, provided that you can’t block the route of the starring role. At the beginning, Xiao Jiang will also try to rub it.

　　For example, when playing Jinggangshan, everyone rushed forward. He looked at where the lead actor was going and followed the lead actor. Those who run fast, behind the main actor, will basically show their faces, sometimes the camera sweeps by, and if they are lucky, they can have a close-up.

　　If the group performance can have one or two lines in the play, it will be even luckier.

　　There is a big gap between having lines and not having lines in the consciousness of Hengdian extras. "Those who can speak lines can basically be called little actors, and they have already touched the threshold of this industry."

　　"For example, in the play, saying’ Report to the King, it’s not good, it’s on fire’ is a line, and the salary is 500 yuan a day. The kind with more lines can actually talk about their own pay, and thousands of dollars are possible. "

　　Compared with the salary of ordinary extras of 108 yuan a day and the salary of foreground actors of 220 yuan a day, actors with lines are undoubtedly enviable in Hengdian.

　　In the past year since filming, Xiao Jiang has played many different roles, including policemen and criminals in modern dramas, young students in dramas of the Republic of China, soldiers and disciples of sects in costume dramas, etc., but all of them are just people who can’t recognize the background.

　　However, he also had a highlight moment.

　　In an anti-Japanese drama, he was chosen by the director and played a civilian hero who faced the enemy to the death.

　　In the play, he carried a machine gun, shouted a few malicious words, chug chug … After some shooting, he was unfortunately shot and killed.

　　That time, he got the highest salary since he did the group performance, 500 yuan. This is also the only character who has spoken his lines.

　　"Performing in a group is actually a very wronged thing."

　　Hengdian is recruiting people all year round, but it seems that there will never be a shortage of people. Extras will be divided into multiple categories because of their appearance conditions and role needs.

　　"Foreground extras, male height should be more than one meter seven or eight, female height should be more than one meter six or three, and they have to go through interviews, and only those who are good-looking can be prospects. In addition, there are other categories such as special actors. "

　　In Xiao Jiang’s view, most group performances are just passers-by who can’t see their faces clearly in the play. Because of the difficult conditions and low income, many people are slowly losing patience while waiting for good luck.

　　For example, when the temperature is over 30 degrees in summer, they have to wear impenetrable armor, some of which weigh 30 to 40 kilograms. When it comes to costume drama, you have to wear three or four pieces of clothes.

　　"The clothes performed by the group are basically not washed, and they smell all over the summer." In addition to these, there are still many unrealizable fairness and grievances in Xiao Jiang’s view.

　　"Every time an actor goes up a step, it is different to eat and live, and even whether others are polite and respectful to you. For example, eating, group performances are directly looking for a place, eating a box lunch, and then going up, such as special actors, they have a special place to eat, and the stars are even different. "

　　The fairness lies in that as long as they are extras and do the same kind of things, both men and women get the same money.

　　In addition to 108 yuan a day, extras also have some extra subsidies. Like the morning fee, it will add ten yuan an hour, and if you need to stay overnight, it will also add ten yuan an hour. In addition, if you need to lift the weight in the play or wipe the blood when you are lying down, you will also add money separately.

　　Although in Hengdian, it is not every day that there is a play. Xiao Jiang calculated that his average monthly salary for group performances fluctuated between two or three thousand yuan. Apart from daily expenses and rent, I can’t save much money.

　　Later, I heard that doing martial arts earned a lot, so he tried to take on some roles with martial arts movements.

　　Martial arts are dangerous, and they often fall. In a play, the action design is a passerby who falls from high altitude and just hits the ground, and Xiao Jiang needs to play the passerby who was hit.

　　The camera went through it again, but his ear was also broken. Later, I went to the hospital for an examination, and the doctor diagnosed that the earlobe was cracked and bleeding. Fortunately, the crew bears all the lost time and compensation.

　　Since then, he has never taken up martial arts again.

　　"There is still a long way to go, and there will definitely be some in the future …"

　　Before coming to Hengdian, Xiao Jiang was secretly excited for several days. It felt like he had found a ladder to ascend to heaven. He thought that he would be like Yin Tianchou in king of comedy, playing dead bodies and running in groups, but even though he suffered from white eyes and cynicism, he would eventually realize his dream as an actor step by step.

　　But in the face of cruel reality, he felt a little tired.

　　What he played the most was passers-by walking in the street. When he put on his costume and didn’t even know where to go, he felt like a soulless body.

　　People come and go around, and some people leave in less than a month; Some people have worked for ten years and have become directors from an ordinary group performance; Some people choose to stick to it for three meals.

　　He sometimes thinks that perhaps the biggest gain from coming to Hengdian is to let him see the reality more clearly: it is very difficult for ordinary people to become famous.

　　Although during filming, what everyone talks about most is which group performance is on fire because of what, and how powerful it is now, but in his view, it is only envy, just to find some reasons for being able to persist.

　　But now, he doesn’t want to insist.

　　Once the idea of leaving Hengdian to start a business was born, he was excited again, just as he had come here without hesitation.

　　Xiao Jiang reviewed his short group acting career and summed up some truths: if he wants to be famous as an actor, people will become impatient and even stubborn.

　　Times have changed, and a person has many ways to succeed. He is no longer persistent in expecting that he can be discovered by the director like gold. Even if he likes filming very much, he doesn’t have to fight here.

　　"Life is still a long way to go. In the future, it is definitely necessary to buy a car, buy a house and get married, but in fact, those things, I don’t feel very anxious now. Develop yourself first, I think it will definitely be there in the future. "