Yang Zi and Xu Kai's first collaboration in the new drama "Cheng Huan Ji" became a hit before it was aired, and was eagerly anticipated by fans of the two companies and netizens who eat melons. Xu Kai revealed in an interview a few days ago: The heroine of the play, Mai Chenghuan, is set to be a silly and sweet girl with positive energy. 's low EQ answer instantly caused dissatisfaction among the female fans. Shabaitian itself is not a word of praise, but it specifically refers to the heartless heroine in idol dramas. But the series promotion positioning of "Cheng Huan Ji" has always been an urban drama.
It can be seen from the registration information of "Cheng Huan Ji" that the play mainly focuses on the growth line of the heroine Mai Cheng Huan, focusing on the family, love and career of young people. is very attractive to the current film and television drama market. In addition, Yang Zi and Xu Kai are both famous for performing in ancient puppet shows, so on the basis of attracting the original audience, fans will also be the main force of the show's ratings. Not long ago, the drama appeared on CCTV's 2024 film list, which shows that its warm and healing urban drama style is also loved by mainstream platforms.
I believe that with this drama, Yang Zi and Xu Kai can achieve more impressive CVB results, and their performance in the same period will be even higher. Although Yang Zi and Xu Kai have not collaborated before, the atmosphere between fans of both parties is very harmonious, and it seems like a win-win cooperation. However, from the moment Xu Kai said "Mai Chenghuan is a silly and sweet person with positive energy", Yang Zi's fans were dissatisfied with Xu Kai. After all, most actors are more cautious in their word choice during interviews.
And Xu Kai made silly and inappropriate comments about Yang Zi’s yet-to-be-aired role. Either the show is trying to sell itself off, focusing too much on the development of the love story between the male and female protagonists; or it is implying that Yang Zi's acting skills are not up to par, and everything she does seems to be playing a silly and sweet role. No matter what, Xu Kai's low emotional intelligence answer in the interview is indeed worth learning from other actors. However, before the show is aired, large-scale quarrels between actors and fans are likely to delay the show's star-making process and affect the audience's experience of watching the show.
Therefore, fans from both sides tacitly understood this matter and did not make any big noise. Then again, the powerful alliance between Yang Zi and Xu Kai is highly anticipated. As the boss of Xu Kai's agency, Yu Zheng has always admired actor Yang Zi's ability to carry dramas and emotional explosiveness, and told Xu Kai to cooperate with Yang Zi if he had the opportunity. Yu Zheng, who has always been picky about other actors, praised Yang Zi greatly and encouraged his own artists to choose to cooperate with Yang Zi as much as possible.
It can be seen that Yang Zi's reputation in the industry is very good. Although Yu Zheng's speaking style is very polite most of the time, it must be very good to be able to safely recommend his co-actors to his own artists. It seems that Yu Zheng should be behind this cooperation between Yang Zi and Xu Kai. Xu Kai has starred in many film and television dramas since his debut, but the charm of his roles in the dramas is average, and the performance and bonus of starring in the dramas are also very weak. This cooperation with the popular queen Yang Zi should change this situation.
Yang Zi's emotional and conflict scenes have always been great, and she can always catch the audience's attention in an instant. As early as when she was performing in the ancient puppet show, Yang Zi's acting skills were highly recognized by the audience. However, Yang Zi seems to be poor at shaping complex characters. The previously aired "Female Psychologist" was her transformation work. But Yang Zi did not seem to portray the character arc of He Dun. Instead, all the performances were superficial, the performance traces were too heavy, and it seemed that he was not in the same channel as the other actors.
Perhaps it is precisely because of Yang Zi's poor performance in this drama that the final broadcast performance of this drama was very unsatisfactory. also caused a "water injection" scandal during its broadcast, and Yang Zi was dubbed "Yang 800 million" overnight. Although Yang Zi's performance in ancient puppet dramas is great, her true form seems to be revealed in modern dramas. Many viewers commented that Yang Zi acted like she was playing Qiu Yingying. As a popular urban drama produced by Noon Sunshine, was relatively successful in portraying the role of Qiu Yingying.
The character setting is typical silly and sweet, but Yang Zi's unique acting style gives Qiu Yingying a different kind of charm. Under the shaping of Yang Zi, Qiu Yingying's character is not only superficially unpleasant, but also has a deeper loveliness and innocence. This may be the charm of a good actor. However, perhaps because Qiu Yingying left such a deep impression on the audience, the audience felt that Yang Zi's acting skills had not improved at all over the years and could only stay within the comfort zone. The ancient puppet theater circle was the domain of actor Yang Zi.
His appearance in "Cheng Huan Ji" this time was also due to transformation considerations. On the one hand, being trapped in ancient puppet dramas for a long time is really not conducive to the improvement of acting skills. On the other hand, there are already many young and beautiful 95s in ancient puppet dramas. With the influx of flowers, if you don't follow the footsteps of others who have flowers in the same period, you will easily suffer losses in the later transformation. Fortunately, the production company of "The Story of Cheng Huan" is Huace Film and Television, whose popular urban dramas are deeply loved by the audience and have first-class star-making capabilities. It is of great help to the development of actors.
People such as Song Weilong, Tan Songyun, and Yu Shuxin all became popular with the urban dramas produced by Huace Film and Television, so Yang Zi's cooperation with Xu Kai in the film and television drama produced by Huace Film and Television should be a strong alliance. Yang Zi, who has been hindered in the transformation process, will surely be able to successfully reverse the reputation of her acting skills in the minds of the audience with "The Story of Cheng Huan". Although Xu Kai's evaluation of Mai Chenghuan as silly and sweet has connotations of Yang Zi's acting skills and suspicion of backstabbing the crew, Xu Kai's appearance will help increase the audience base of the show.
Although Xu Kai has no shortage of film and television resources since his debut, the evaluation of the heroine of "Cheng Huan Ji" also exposed Xu Kaiwen's blind characteristics in a certain aspect. Perhaps it is because being an actor does not require a high degree of education, so many actors in the entertainment industry give very poor interviews, and they even stutter when they receive an award speech. There are too few people who can speak meaningfully and understand the characters thoroughly. Xu Kai's use of "silly, white and sweet" to describe the heroine made the two of them a little embarrassed when they came together to promote the drama.
After all, Yang Zi has been commented by the audience for a long time that "everything she plays feels like she is playing Qiu Yingying." I must be holding my breath in my heart, hoping to use the popularity of "Cheng Huan Ji" to change the audience's impression. Now that Xu Kai's silly comments are out, Yang Zi's impression of him will be greatly reduced. However, the reason why Xu Kai used "positive energy silly sweet" to describe Mai Chenghuan may not be because of low emotional intelligence, but because the adjective he could think of at that moment was silly sweet.
