After a long four year hiatus from Taiwan idol dramas, Ady An is headed back to the island where she was last seen on the small screen in a little known monster hit called Autumn’s Concerto, which made amnesia and a certain little Xiao Xiao Bin popular. Since then Ady has been starring in C-drama after C-drama, a good mix of period and modern fare, and raking in the dough doing so. This time she was lured back by her former agency which is bankrolling a production and supposedly she lowered her standard asking price to do this more as a favor. The drama was scheduled to start filming in February of 2013, but Ady was confirmed since late last year but the production had a heck of a difficult time finding her male lead. The part was offered to Jerry Yan, who said he would consider it but never followed up, and Bolin Chen, who declined immediately since he has a packed movie schedule this year. Apparently Show Luo said no because he doesn’t want to play yet another rich chaebol heir, while Joseph Chang, Eddie Peng, and Mike He all said they were too busy. After months of getting rejected by one A-list male actor after another, the production of the upcoming Marry a Rich Husband has finally landed their leading man in Mike He, who apparently changed his mind. So I guess this means Mike is still not ready to enlist in the army? Currently Mike can be seen on television in the drama Spring Love, which might be one of THE worst dramas I have ever ever ever watched. Ever. It is horrendous and defies explanation for its sheer awfulness (there are long lost twins and girl in a fat suit and random deaths and……..trust me it’s just that bad). My affection for Mike is thisclose to getting flushed down the toilet completely, but news of this pairing perks me up considerably. I don’t love Ady but I do like her when she’s playing perkier characters rather than the suffering girlfriend/wife type. This drama isn’t the typical rich man/poor girl set up, instead the heroine is the rich daughter of a wealthy pig farmer from Southern Taiwan (the countryside), who crosses paths with a sophisticated chaebol heir from Taipei. They have the same wealth but completely different upbringings and fate throws them into a proverbial pig pen together and hijinks ensue. With Mike onboard, the drama is scheduled to start filming at the beginning of April and will air on GTV when its completed.
The drama has the rich chaebol heir played by Mike quickly falling into dire financial straits when his family enterprise goes belly up. He travels down South to find odd jobs and finds himself at the mercy of the rich daughter of the landowning pig farmer, who rather relishes tormenting this formerly arrogant city boy who mocked her less sophisticated ways. I actually think this sounds quite cute, and Mike and Ady will be a new pairing that I’m willing to give the benefit of the doubt to. The second leads are both C-actors – baby-faced Fu Xing Bo (last seen playing the youngest 7th son in the upcoming Saving General Yang movie) and rising starlet Dong Xuan.
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Ahhhhh. Spring Love... MH must have been drunk when he signed for that thing. Could watch "only" 4 episodes then said ciao. Maybe that's why he now wants to do this drama: He needs to salvage his image before enlisting.
Totally he sucks in Spring Love. My hair just stood up!
LOL Spring Love is quite good to watch actually. It's my first time watching Mike play a naïve role and I think he's done a good job.
I feel like it's a sad attempt by HIM service, the company of Mike He and the leading lady of that drama to promote their new "idol group", which the leading lady belongs to. I feel like Mike He just agree to do it for a favour and earn some dough...
I think Mike should follow on the steps of Wu Zun and Jiro Wang and leave HIM. It's not like he has had any good projects ever since he joined the company (if memory doesn't fail me, he did SH before HIM signed him, right?). He just keep playing the same kind of roles over, and over and over again. And his acting is not getting any better either... If he really wants to grow as an actor and improve, he needs to step up his game. Soon.
Is this second lead Fu Xing Bo the same guy as the guy who acted as 以 欢 's hopelessly arrogant boyfriend in the ongoing Taiwanese drama A HINT OF LOVE? Incidentally this is an interesting show worth watching. (I surprised myself too when I marathon rest of episodes after the first!)
yeah, I love A Hint of Love. Much better than I expected. Been staying up every night to catch it.
Where can you watch "A Hint Of Love" with English subs? I couldn't find it on Viki nor anywhere else. Is is under another title?
Nope its a different guy. The guy in hint of love is Danson Tang
The plot sounds like a Thai lakorn - which is not a compliment. And Ady An? Uff. Pass.
It's interesting though that Chinese actors are getting more exposure in Taiwan, especially with the success of dramas like Zhen Huan. I hope that in the future we can see lots of interesting collaborations.
In addition, my guess is that a Chinese company is investing in it, and therefore, it comes with rules that at least 2 of the actors are from China etc etc. I thought that is how it works? I don't really read that much details about dramas to know.
Aww, I really like Ady An. I've only seen her in Autumn's Concerto, but the premise for this drama sounds pretty cute, so I'll be tuning in.
Me too. I think she's incredibly beautiful (one of the most beautiful C/T actresses). Her beauty is comparable to Vicky Zhao who I also think as on of the most beautiful actress that I love the most. However, I still hate her character in Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre. She's the worst Zhao Ming ever! Although that's probably not her fault.
And I love Mike He. Although perhaps I would love this drama more if Jerry Yan is the male lead. Anyway, I really love the description of this drama. If it's up to me I would never make my heroine a downtrodden poor girl. She would be a force to recon with.
Really looking forward to watching this one.
I thought he would finally o to army... But this drama sounds good. I try not to watch his crappy dramas... to continue to like him lol But I like Ady An, always thought she looked like Barbie Hsu. I think the pair is good.. Hopefully the drama will be too.
I really liked Ady An in Autumn's Concerto and am glad to see her do another drama.
Thanks for the opinion on Spring Love...saves me the trouble of checking it out!
I really like Ady too especially if she's in a perky role. I feel like she gets typecasted sometimes since she does play the mature, torture gf/wife roles well.
Looking forward to this pairing and seeing if it sparks something different. I'm really not a big fan of Mike. I liked SH but it's wasn't my favorite per say. I just feel like he's an uneven actor. But I wish him the best in this one. I don't know what is up with Spring Love.
i always have been a huge fan of mike and loved him dearly, but the last couple projects of his i haven't watched at all, mostly because they never seemed entertaining enough to me.
Aww yayyy! I've got such a huge soft spot for Ady An and I'm glad she'll soon be back in the TW dramasphere. That girl can cry buckets. As for Mike, I haven't seen him in anything since Sunny Happiness, which, I think you and I both deem as cracktasticly good. So Imma cross my fingers for this one and hope that it turns out to be decent!
ooo. I really like Ady! exciting. but indeed, all my goodwill towards Mike is rapidly being washed away. he'd better redeem himself with this!