The new drama "The Story of Chenghuan", which Yang Zi and Xu Kai collaborated on for the first time, has been eagerly awaited by fans and melon-eating netizens from both families. Xu Kai revealed in an interview a few days ago: The setting of the female lead of the drama, Mai Chenghuan, is a positive-energy silly white sweet. This low-EQ answer instantly aroused dissatisfaction among the female fans. Silly white sweet itself is not a word of praise, but it specifically refers to the female lead in idol dramas without a heart. But the promotion positioning of "The Story of Chenghuan" has always been an urban drama.
It can be seen from the filing information of "Chenghuan’s Story" that the drama is mainly based on the growth line of the eldest female protagonist Mai Chenghuan, focusing on the family, love and career of young people. It is fully attractive to the current film and television drama market. In addition, Yang Zi and Xu Kai are also famous for acting in ancient puppet dramas, so on the basis of attracting the original audience, fans will also be the main force of the drama’s ratings. Not long ago, the drama also 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 outstanding CVB results, and their performance in the same period will be even higher. Although Yang Zi and Xu Kai have not cooperated before, the atmosphere between the fans of the two sides is very harmonious, as if they are a win-win cooperation. However, from the moment Xu Kai said "Mai Chenghuan is a silly white sweet with positive energy", Yang Zi’s fans’ dissatisfaction with Xu Kai has skyrocketed. After all, most actors use more cautious words in interviews.
And Xu Kai gave an inappropriate evaluation of Yang Zi’s role that has not yet been broadcast. Either the play is sailing under false colors and pays too much attention to the development of the love line between the male and female protagonists; or it alludes to Yang Zi’s acting skills, and everything is like playing silly. In any case, Xu Kai’s low emotional intelligence answer in the interview is indeed worthy of other actors to learn from. However, before the show is broadcast, the large-scale tearing among actors and fans is likely to delay the show’s stardom process and affect the audience’s viewing experience.
So the fans on both sides tacitly did not make any big noise about this matter. Then again, the strong alliance between Yang Zi and Xu Kai this time can be said to be expected. As the boss of Xu Kai’s agency, Yu Zheng has always admired the actor Yang Zi’s ability to carry dramas and emotional explosive power, 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 and encouraged his own company’s 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 many times, the co-actors who can be recommended to their own artists with confidence must be very good. It seems that Yang Zi and Xu Kai’s cooperation this time should be fueled by Zheng. Xu Kai has starred in many film and television dramas since his debut, but his role in the drama is generally charming, and the performance and bonus of the starring drama are also very weak. This cooperation with Yang Zi, the queen of the explosion, should change this situation.
Yang Zi’s emotional and conflict dramas have always been great, always grabbing the audience’s attention in an instant. As early as when she was acting in ancient puppet dramas, Yang Zi’s acting skills were highly praised by the audience. However, Yang Zi’s portrayal of complex characters seems to be poor, and the previous broadcast of "Female Psychologist" is her transformation work. But Yang Zi does not seem to depict the arc of the character in the corner of Hutton, but all kinds of performances are floating on the surface, and the performance traces are too heavy, as if they are not in the same channel as other actors.
Perhaps it was because of Yang Zi’s poor performance in this drama that the final broadcast performance of this drama was very unsatisfactory. And during its broadcast, there was a scandal of "water injection", and Yang Zi was dubbed "Yang 800 million" overnight. Although Yang Zi’s performance in ancient puppet dramas was great, it seemed to have taken shape in modern dramas. Many audiences commented that Yang Zi acted like Qiu Yingying in everything. As an urban explosion drama produced by Noon Sunshine, Qiu Yingying’s role was relatively successful.
The character setting is a typical silly white and sweet, but Yang Zi’s unique acting style gives Qiu Yingying a different charm. Under Yang Zi’s shaping, Qiu Yingying’s character is not only unpleasant on the surface, but also deeper cute and simple. This may be the charm of a good actor. However, it may be because Qiu Yingying impresses the audience too deeply, so the audience will feel that Yang Zi’s acting skills for so many years have no progress and can only revolve within the comfort circle, and the ancient puppet drama circle is the ruling area of actor Yang Zi.
On the one hand, being trapped in ancient puppet dramas for a long time is indeed not conducive to the improvement of acting skills. On the other hand, there are already many young and beautiful 95 flowers and 00 flowers in ancient puppet dramas. If you don’t follow the footsteps of the same period of flowers, you will easily suffer in the later transformation. Fortunately, the production company of "Chenghuan Ji" is Huace Film and Television, and its popular urban dramas are deeply loved by audiences and have first-class star-making abilities. It is of great help to the development of actors.
For example, 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 dramas produced by Huace should be a combination of strong and powerful situations. Yang Zi, who was once hindered in the process of transformation, must have been able to successfully reverse the reputation of his acting in the eyes of the audience with "Chenghuan". Although Xu Kai’s evaluation of Mai Chenghuan’s silly Baitian has connotations of Yang Zi’s acting skills and the suspicion of backstabbing the cast, Xu Kai’s performance is conducive to increasing the audience of the drama.
Although there was no shortage of film and television resources after Xu Kai’s debut, the evaluation of the female lead of "Chenghuan" also exposed Xu Kai’s illiteracy in a certain way. Perhaps because it was not necessary to have a high degree to be an actor, many actors in the entertainment industry interviewed very unnourished, and even said bumps and bumps when receiving the award speech. There are too few people who can say something and understand the characters thoroughly. Xu Kai’s use of silly Baitian to describe the female lead would make the two a little embarrassed when they combined in the later stage of the promotional drama.
After all, Yang Zi had been evaluated by the audience for a long time as "playing everything is like playing Qiu Yingying". He must be holding his breath in his heart, wanting to use the hit of "Chenghuan" to change the audience’s impression. Now that Xu Kai’s evaluation of Silly Baitian is out, Yang Zi’s impression of him is bound to be greatly discounted. However, the reason why Xu Kai used "Silly Baitian with positive energy" 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 Baitian.