Recently, actor Zhang Jiayi, who is popular with the audience, has launched two TV series in a row, but one of the TV series "Happy Parents" caused controversy.
In this family comedy, he plays Liu Xiangshang, a father. When he was in the same frame with his children, he was criticized for looking more like a grandfather.
Especially standing with Fang Qingzhuo, who plays his mother in the play, they don't look like mother and son at all, they are obviously a couple.
Therefore, many netizens commented: "Teacher Zhang Jiayi, please take a break and stop pretending to be young."
The public also suddenly realized: It turns out that pretending to be young is not the exclusive domain of older actresses, and many male actors also do it. One after another forced their way back into the ranks of "young men", but each one seemed more disobedient than the other.
1. Zhang Jiayi
This is not the first time that Zhang Jiayi has "pretended to be young". As early as 2017, he, who was born in 1970, has been starring in "young men" that are inconsistent with his actual age at the age of 47.
In "Born in the Brightest Days", he and other actors of the same age, such as Jiang Wen and Guo Jinglin, wrote the life journey of four brothers in Beijing Hutong from their youth to their forties.
He plays the role of Guo Xiaohai, the second son of the Guo family, from a 20-year-old to a middle-aged uncle, which attracted a lot of comments from netizens.
Zhang Jiayi also said in an interview that when he learned that he would start acting as a young man in his early 20s, he hesitated and refused because his age was really not suitable.
But when he learned that his partners were Guo Jinglin and Jiang Wen, he felt relieved: "After all, we have to act young together."
And in the same year, "Mine!" In "Physical Education Teacher", although he played the role of Mark, an uncle facing a mid-life crisis, he was paired with Wang Xiaochen as CP by the crew.
The woman was born in 1988. They are 18 years apart in age. The shots of them in the same frame look very eye-catching.
Now, at the age of 54, he has come up with "Happy Parents Group", partnering with Chen Hao, who is 8 years younger than him, and the scene is also very inconsistent.
Although Chen Hao rarely shoots movies, he takes good care of himself, so he and Zhang Jiayi play a couple who have no sense of cliché at all.
Coupled with Zhang Jiayi's current state, he indeed lacks the suaveness when he played Song Siming. Not only is his face full of wrinkles, but he also looks tired.
Therefore, it is not without reason that he was ridiculed by the audience this time.
But before that, Zhang Jiayi was indeed an excellent actor, and had created many classic images:
For example, Song Siming in "Snail House" mentioned above, Zhou Yi in "Cliff", and "White Deer Plain" Bai Jiaxuan, Diao Dashun in "The Stage"... can be said to be extremely malleable.
But he chose a role in a life drama that was too different from his actual age, which made him laugh.
2. Chen Jianbin
Chen Jianbin, who is the same age as Zhang Jiayi, is also a good actor with outstanding acting skills:
His works such as "Ten Years of Marriage", "Qiao Family Courtyard" and "Three Kingdoms" have all left a deep impression on people.
Especially the role of "Yongzheng" played in "The Legend of Zhen Huan". Although
was also questioned by the outside world as being "too old" at the time, he held the role with his skillful acting skills and produced a different chemical reaction. It is still a rare good work today.
Indeed, Chen Jianbin once bumped into Korean star Zhao In-sung when he was young, but his flowering period was extremely short.
When he appeared in "Ten Years of Marriage" at the age of 33, he basically had a strong "uncle flavor".
In 2006, Chen Jianbin started playing the lead actor Qiao Zhiyong at the age of 36 in "Qiao Family Courtyard" at the age of 19.
Although his acting skills are mediocre, he really doesn't look like a "young man" in terms of his appearance.
Then came "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and the same problem still existed.
However, the excellent acting skills, solid script, and excellent production team finally made up for the shortcomings of age and allowed the 41-year-old Chen Jianbin to usher in another peak of his career.
After that, he became obsessed with his own creation and turned into a director. He wrote, directed and acted in works such as "A Spoon" and "The Eleventh Chapter".
has also won awards and good reputation with film and television works such as "Army Paradise" and "Chinese Relationship".
But Chen Jianbin also chose to join the "army of pretending to be young" in 2020, when he was 50 years old.
He challenged to play the role of "Diamond King" Li Honghai in the TV series "Don't Think Too Much If You Love Me", and staged a "unparalleled love" with Li Yitong, who is 20 years younger than him, which caused ridicule from the crowd.
When he asked his friend with a pout on his face: "I just want a pure relationship, why is it so difficult?", many netizens commented: "Is Chen Jianbin short of money? Why do you want to play 'Father and Daughter Love'?" "
Even the heroine Li Yitong came forward to reveal the secret in the later stage, saying that when she received the script, she thought she would play a father and daughter, but she did not expect that she would play her husband.
In addition to forcing the show to be young, the plot of the drama is also very cliché: for example, the male protagonist pretends to be poor and only wants to find true love; after marrying the female protagonist, he wants to divorce and faces the company's listing; pretending to be a couple and then discovering true love...
Fortunately, this drama After that, Chen Jianbin never took on similar works again. He has been acting in suspense dramas. His roles in "Thirteen Years of Ashes" and "Trident" were well received.
3. Wang Zhifei
Wang Zhifei, who is 5 years older than the above two, is also recognized as an experienced actor:
In his early years, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Golden Eagle Festival for his participation in the military drama "Out of the Encirclement", and later participated in successive roles. Works such as "The Wind Moves the Clouds and the Stars Do Not Move" and "The Fission of the Qin Empire".
Although Wang Zhifei has never been a big hit, his acting skills are remarkable and he has abundant resources. He can produce many works every year and continue to "dominate the screen".
Especially in recent years, he has repeatedly made his mark with supporting roles in popular dramas:
For example, in 2021's "Sweeping Crime", he played the villain Gao Mingyuan vividly.
After that, Wang Zhifei successively produced works such as "Happiness to Ten Thousands of Houses", "War of the Roses", and "Stalker". Although the roles were not big, they had a strong presence and became one of the "gold medal supporting actors" recognized by the audience. .
But as early as 2012, he also "pretended to be young" in the business war drama "Eastward is the Sea".
The male protagonist Zhou Hanliang in the drama, like Qiao Zhiyong in "Qiao Family Courtyard", also needs to start acting in his early 20s, which has a huge age span.
In addition to the fact that he was 47 years old at the time and interpreted the role with a sense of age, the most annoying thing for the audience was that he also called Sarina, who was only 3 years older than him, "mother" in the play.
At that time, because of this role setting, the producer also received a lot of doubts, and the director had to explain:
"Sarina is a 'professional mother', and others are used to calling her mother. If you ask her to play Wang Zhifei's wife, it will be awkward." !"
But hasn't the director ever thought about replacing the character "Chow Hanliang" with a suitable young actor in his youth?
4. Chen Baoguo
Chen Baoguo, a 68-year-old "veteran drama star", is even more of a palace-level actor - the roles he created in his early years such as the gangster Glass Flower, Quanjude shopkeeper Yang Mingquan, and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi are all extremely classic.
And he was so dedicated that he even put buttons in his eyes to make "eyeballs" in order to get a good shot of the "glass flower" image, almost causing permanent blindness.
Hard work pays off. Chen Baoguo has won numerous awards for many years in his career and is deeply loved by the audience.
However, he was also suspected of "pretending to be young":
In 2001, at the age of 45, he challenged to star in the role of Bai Jingqi in "The Mansion Gate". In addition to his childhood and teenage years when he was a young actor, Chen Baoguo started acting at the age of 18. It’s also stressful.
This is because Chen Baoguo is only 1 year younger than Bi Yanjun, who plays his father, the same age as Zhang Fengyi, who plays his master, and 2 years older than Liu Peiqi, who plays his third uncle.
Therefore, it is equivalent to acting against a group of "elderly people of the same age" despite an age difference of more than 20 years.
Moreover, time is not forgiving. Even the most skilled makeup artist cannot hide the traces that time has left on Chen Baoguo's face.
However, the wonderful plot of the play and the acting skills of many actors still made the audience ignore the inconsistency in the age of the male protagonist.
In 2015, 59-year-old Chen Baoguo produced another peasant epic drama "Old Farmer", and won the Magnolia Award for Best Actor for this drama.
His role as the male protagonist Niu Dandao is the male protagonist throughout the entire drama. The story line of the entire drama spans 50 years.
In other words, Chen Baoguo also plays the "young man" again in the play, from a young man to a married man. Although his acting skills are adequate, I have to say that it still feels a bit incomprehensible.
After all, the image of rural youth in my impression must be at least like Xia Yu or Liu Ye, right?
5. Zhang Luyi
And what do you think of a boy in ancient costume?
Maybe it’s Li Bi played by Yi Yang Qianxi, or Liu Haoran’s version of Bai Long?
But Zhang Luyi, who was 40 years old at the time, took on the challenge of playing the role of 13-year-old Ying Zheng in the historical drama "Fu of Da Qin", which made netizens unhappy: "The death of a person is not worth his life!"
In fact, Zhang Luyi is a good actor. He attracted attention after starring in the TV series "Three Brothers". In the same year, he also produced the spy drama "Red".
His temperament is also very unique, giving people a cold and elegant feeling, so he later appeared in film and television works such as "He's Coming, Please Close Your Eyes" and "The Devotion of Suspect X", which were all amazing.
But no one expected that the 2020 "Da Qin Fu" would make Zhang Luyi ridiculed by the crowd and labeled as "forcibly pretending to be young".
In the play, it can be seen that he tried his best to restore the innocence of a teenager, but he seemed even more "ridiculous".
In addition, Xin Baiqing, who plays the father, and Duan Yihong, who plays Lu Buwei, are both only 7 years older than Zhang Lu.
Especially Zhu Zhu, who plays his mother, is even 4 years younger than Zhang Lu. The shots of the two of them in the same frame do not reflect the "deep love between mother and child" at all, but instead give off the feeling of "an old husband and a young wife".
Therefore, no matter how outstanding his acting skills are, when the audience sees this "young man" with deep nasolabial folds and a pair of big bags under his eyes, they still instantly want to be persuaded to quit.
As for the controversy caused by pretending to be young, Zhang Luyi still insists on going his own way.
In 2022, he was officially announced by the TV series "Flowers of the Hidden Sea" and will play the role of Wu Xie, the male protagonist in the big IP "Tomb Raiders".
This role has long been adapted into movies and TV shows. It has been interpreted by Zhu Yilong, Lu Han, Hou Minghao, Zeng Shunxi, Yang Yang and other "fresh meat" before.
But among the various versions, Zhang Luyi may be the most dramatic.
6. Zhang Fengyi
Zhang Fengyi, who is the same age as Chen Baoguo, also became famous at a young age. In his early years, he starred in "Camel Xiangzi", "Farewell My Concubine" and "Peace Era" and won many awards. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the "fresh meat" of the first generation.
Zhang Fengyi focuses on good figure, tough appearance, delicate acting skills and strong plasticity.
In recent years, he has also contributed excellent acting skills in works such as "In the Name of the People" and "Mountains, Rivers and Moonlight".
However, as early as 2013, 57-year-old Zhang Fengyi took on the challenge of playing a young man in his early 20s in the period drama "Time is Like Gold". The difference between his actual age and his actual age was more than 30 years, which was shocking.
It can be seen that the post-production has tried its best to cover up the age of the actor through retouching and filters, but it still feels that Zhang Fengyi really does not look like 20 years old. Even saying that he is 40 years old is very objective.
The heroines Zuo Xiaoqing and Yan Bingyan in the drama are no longer young, but standing next to Zhang Fengyi still feels very inconsistent.
Zhang Fengyi didn't take this seriously, and even confidently stated at the press conference of the drama that he had no pressure to "pretend to be young"...
It seems that these "old drama stars" are indeed confident, The main focus is to "leave young actors with nowhere to go", but has this approach considered the feelings of the audience?
