When her love life gave her lemons, Tang Yan went and made herself come career lemonade. The Chinese acting world is constantly on the look out for pretty actresses to stay popular in the leading lady status, a spot occupied not just by acting talent but more by having a likable aura onscreen. That’s basically Tang Yan’s entire MO in a nutshell but she struggled in mediocrity for years until the convergence of a very public breakup with ex-boyfriend TW-actor Roy Qiu went her career skyrocketing thanks to public sympathy for her tearful brokenhearted plight.
Tang Tang not only went on to have one hit drama in 2014’s Perfect Couple with Wallace Huo, she just delivered an unprecedented back-to-back-to-back three win streak in the beginning of 2015. First came My Sunshine with Wallace Chung, followed by Lady and Liar with Hawick Lau, and finally The Legend of Fragrance with Li Yi Feng. Not only are all three dramas entertaining enough and very watchable in my opinion, the C-audiences also agree and all three have done gangbuster television ratings. It’s hard enough to have one hit drama, to have all four of her last dramas be hits makes Tang Yan a bona fide C-drama Queen.
The media and netizens are also totally jelly over Tang Tang supposedly “owning” all the male gods in her stable. All I have to say is “you go girl!” If her real love life is currently empty then have tons of smexy male actors to romance onscreen is a nice alternative in the meantime. Of all the hotties she’s been acting with recently, my favorite of the pairings is her with Wallace Huo.
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Lady and the Liar is such an addicting show... and I loved My Sunshine (though admittedly, the younger counterparts' plotline had me more interested most of he time).
She and Wallace were smoking on screen, I could feel the heat emitting from their hot chemistry on screen, lol. The latter part of the drama was pure fan service between the two. Wallace being all perfect lover, smooth and sexy and then dropping his cute smile, now and then, to send us into overdrive *fans self*
Some of their interactions, felt so real, almost like intruding on a real couple. Gosh loved the pairing. Never was a Tang Yan fan before, still not, but at least now I'm not avoiding her dramas. My Sunshine, however, put me right dead center of the Wallace love train - choo, choo, all aboard.
Can I buy a ticket for that love train? I rewatch some of those later eps again just to watch Wallace be in love with her. Nothing else.
I would like a ticket on that train too please. :-)
Lady and Liar was such a mess, but in a hot and addictive way. I loved it, in spite of the bad editing of scenes and sometimes illogical plot.
My Sunshine was good, but didn't manage to hold onto my attention for long. Suitable for marathoning I guess.
After Perfect Couple, and now Lady and Liar, I'm a 路人转粉 fan of Tang Tang!
Just finished Lady and the Liar too, which I thoroughly enjoyed (moreso for Hawick though lol). My sunshine was a bit of a fast forwarding watch for me in parts.
Not to mention her next project is with Rain!!! ;)
Congrats to her.
Damn, Cdramas are upping their game. I can't remember enjoying this many of them in a given year... and it has barely begun.
haven't seen the two series bu will try to watch them as soon as i have time..
i do not like her stiff performance in my sunshine.. i wouldn't have finished the series if not for WC.
I haven't watched any... now which one should I see? I vaguely remember one where she is; actually I can't remember anything.
If I only have time to watch one of them- which one would you guys recommend? Puh- leez. I really do have time for only 1 drama.
My Sunshine has got to be my most favourite out of the three, and it wasn't even a drama that I noticed until it aired and I watched it because I was bored. As for Lady and the Liar, I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes of it unfortunately. The Legend of Fragrance was my most anticipated one (coz of Li Yifeng) however, I knew I was going end up skipping a lot of the scenes which I did and will continue to.
It is especially awkward seeing her intimate scene with the male lead since he's her real life bestie's husband. I had to skip this drama even though I do like them both.
She's finally getting her chance to shine! Always loved her and her choice of projects, basically watched most of her dramas. My favourite pairing is also her with Wallace Huo. She totally deserves the level of popularity and attention she's getting now, so happy for her! Way to go girl!
Of all her male leads, I do love her with the 2 Wallace the most. She quite comfortable w/ Huo, so it inevitable that they had such chemistry. As for Chung, their chemistry in 'My Sunshine' worked for me (some may argue otherwise, but damn they look so good together).
Wallace Chung on the other hand needs better leading ladies. He has yet to really have one where fans can ship them together both on/off screen, because when that happens it just meant that the chemistry is there. Look at Huo, he's got so many actresses that fans want to ship him with. Tang Yan is the 1st actress that I want Chung to repeats screen time.
Love her! And she seems really nice in RL too <3 You go girl!