Speaking of he Guorong, netizens who must like Hong Kong dramas must be very familiar with him. He is the "imperial foreigner" in TVB drama. He is seen in many Hong Kong dramas, such as "Forensics record", "The Deer and the Cauldron", "Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre" and other TV series.
He Guorong, who is originally from Australia and studied medicine at university, originally had a bright future. As a result, his classmates became infatuated with Cantonese songs and occasionally had the opportunity to serve as a driver for Leslie Cheung during his performance in Australia. He Guorong was even more eager to live in Hong Kong.
After graduation, he Guorong went to Hong Kong, where he taught English in a business school while studying Cantonese hard. At that time, TVB was looking for foreigners who spoke Cantonese at the job fair. Recommended by friends, he Guorong met with TVB executives. He Guorong, who is handsome and tall, speaks good Cantonese, so he immediately signed up to become the first foreign artist in TVB.
He Guorong realized his dream, but the dream is often beautiful, but the reality is bony.
He Guorong has shot hundreds of TV dramas on TVB, and no matter how many lines and shots he plays, he can interpret them very well.
In the TVB play, he Guorong became a "king's foreigner" and a "professional household of foreign superintendents". Like TVB licorice artists, their acting skills are completely convincing, but the pay is astonishingly low.
Many netizens said that those who love acting but are willing to play soy sauce in TVB TV dramas for many years are well-off, otherwise it would be nice to fill their stomachs with the remuneration offered by TVB. People like Lin Yili and Deng Zifeng are the standard rich second generation. I have been a green leaf for many years, thanks to my thick family background.
TVB has how stingy, in fact, everyone is very clear, TVB founder Shao Yifu adhering to the "can use 1 yuan to do 2 yuan things, absolutely will not invest 1 yuan more."
TVB front-line artists can actually get tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars per episode, but Deng Suiwen said that such opportunities will not be more than twice a year. Although a TV series can get hundreds of thousands of dollars, it still has to deduct all kinds of expenses, and in the end, it doesn't get that much.
Ma Guoming worked hard in TVB for many years, but it was only in recent years that he could afford to buy a house and dared to marry. He once said that a month of filming in the mainland would cover his income in Hong Kong for half a year.
But there are several people in TVB who can achieve the position of one elder brother and one elder sister, and even those who have become one elder brother and one elder sister, because of their high expenses and unsatisfactory income, they also look for opportunities to leave TVB after they become famous.
On the other hand, the general artists are paid on a package basis, and the basic monthly salary of the contracted artists is not high. In particular, there are very few newcomers or three, four or five-line artists.
Cai Shaofen said that when she first entered the industry, when the heroine shot a TV series, a 20-episode TV series could only get 20,000 yuan.
Zhu Yin said that her monthly salary at TVB was 8000 Hong Kong dollars, which was not as much as the average office worker in Hong Kong.
TVB is not only stingy in salary, but also stingy in welfare and other aspects.
Chen Honglie, who died of a heart attack while filming "beating one's own people," worked for TVB for decades and died suddenly at work. TVB also refused to pay a pension, and TVB executives said they "can't break the rules."
He Guorong is an artist below the third line, his basic salary will not be much, and because of the image of a foreigner, he does not often get a chance to be a guest star or walk-on. You are lucky to get 10, 000 to 20, 000 Hong Kong dollars a month.
Therefore, many artists like he Guorong often work as building security guards, porters, or construction workers, so that they can not only increase their income, but also adjust their time without delaying filming.
There are also some artists who do not even have a basic salary. They are called "hourly workers" who are paid according to the number of appearances. Therefore, the income of artists working in TVB cannot be compared with that of 208people in the mainland.
He Guorong, 58, is still strapped for money even though he has made hundreds of TV dramas. Perhaps the economic situation is not the absolute reason why he Guorong chose to commit suicide, but it is also one of the key factors. I don't know if he regretted not changing his profession earlier and became a doctor after graduating from medical school. His life may not be so stressful.