Tang Yan Breaks from Candy Roles and Headlines Revenge Period Drama The Princess Weiyoung

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• Yay! I'm looking forward to this.
  I never understood why Tang Yan always played such candy girls.
  Despite people hating on her acting skills... she can actually deliver when it's NOT candy girls.
  The 2 roles that I really liked her in was Chinese Paladin 3 and Xuan Yuan Sword. Especially in Xuan Yuan Sword where she played the powerful demon princess (no candy there!). And yes, she's not the best actress, but I was hooked on that disaster of a drama JUST because of her and Hu Ge's tragic love line!
  So I hope she really delivers in this drama, and that the plot itself doesn't go down the sewer.

  • Exactly!!! I loved her in CP3 and XYZ, but that was three years ago now and since then she's really just stuck to the Candy types which rly frustrates me. Hopefully she can bring back that intensity and power she had in XYZ, this seems like the sort of role which would need it.

    • The drama is changing Weiyoung (Tang Yan's role) to the same type of girl Tang Yan has been portraying lately guys. She's not gonna be the revengeful, strong, powerful character that she's supposed to be in the book. She's going to have men who will protect her, like every other drama she's been in lately.

  • I thought I wrote that. Exactly how I feel girl! I love her when she kicks ass and yes Ning Ke and Yuwen Tou's story broke my heart and made me cry in XYS. And her stunts in Agent X were nothing short of amazing. Its probbly why she got the role for the LMH-WC movie collab. This is definitely something to look forward to. I wonder how she manages her time thou. She's making 3 movies (that I know of) coming out next year. Jia you Tang Tang!

    P.S. I don't get why some ppl bring up names not even closely related to this article. I mean..duh!

• Storyline sounds interesting. This will probably take forever to get subbed too.

• I saw her a bit in Agent X and must say she's really good in badass roles. Her character is some kind of spy and she's shown Actions move there. I think it suit her more. Isn't she also play action role in Lost Tomb? I think it's not that she's always play candy roles but the one that got popular is her dramas when she played candy's role.

  I find Zhao li ying who was the one who always play the exact same candy roles everytime. She's adorbs but the noble stupidity of her characters really annoys me. Really hate her character in Journey of FLower

  • Actually, C-netizens and netizens respond better to Zhao Liying's acting than Tang Yan's... especially in candy roles. In Journey of Flower, ZLY goes through quite a transformation and isn't the same character throughout. Even the producers/directors/writer praised her ability to almost become Hua Qian Gu. And in fact, she's the only actor to have read the entire novel beforehand. ZLY reads the novels of every novel-to-drama adaptation she's ever been in, and I think her characters aren't that easy to play. HQG isn't a simple character neither was Shan Shan imo. They both become strong individuals in the end, and ZLY acts very well to make it seem easy... but, many actresses who have acted the same types of roles aren't so well-received. Like Tang Yan, she can't even do candy roles well.

    • I agree that ZLY acting is better than TY. I dislike TY's character in my sunshine. I like ZLY and think she's a good actress. She can play stupid character but somehow still likable but I don't think she ever play different roles? I don't mean to say that her acting is the problem but all the character she played so far are candy roles. Candy roles do get strong in the end that's kind of the typical roles. I especially hate HQG character because it's so stupid and illogical, I love other character like Sha Jie Jie, Dong Fang, etc. But not HQG. Though we can agree to disagree.

    • Yupp, we can agree to disagree. Although I still think ZLY's characters aren't the same... while Tang Yan's are exact carbon copies. Even the settings, male characters, and dialogue is weirdly alike LOL. I just don't get why Tang Yan keeps choosing to play the same exact characters, even with this drama, the character was changed to be the exact same... so strange. Doesn't she read about fans' response? Lots of people who were her fans are frustrated

    • At least Tiffany Tang is visually more eye pleasing and looks hotter than ZLY. So I wouldn't mind of her being overexposed lol

    • Don't think Tang Yan is more pleasing to the eye. She looks old and plain compared to ZLY. I kinda prefer youthful beauty. Plus, Tang Yan's never won any awards for being a goddess, ZLY's already won two (Golden Eagle Goddess 2014, Asian Goddess 2015). She has the kind of beauty that appeals to most people I think

    • wasnt zhao liying voted by the public as the golden eagle goddess and goddess of asia too? I voted for her, the person in this poster is photoshopped to the max. Shes not hot in person, zhao liying is even better looking in person

    • ZLY looks like a uglier and tragic face version of Lee Young Ae, korean actress. Her V chin is too pointy and looks like Dr.Kim's production. She herself looks like pantomimo character. No sexual appeal whatsoever.
      That Goddess of Asia thing is irrelevant. Chinese Song Qian, and even korean Yoona won it previous years. Only delulu fangirls with no life spend their time on that.

    • ZLY's roles are better though and aren't completely the same every single time. Eg with Shan Shan she matured at the end and didn't rely on the male lead (ZH) every time- and became an independent woman. JoF I thought was okay but I saw most of that in Shan Shan already but then the transformation was amazing and her acting was really good. Plus ZLY doesn't have 5 dramas continuously with stupid and annoying characters. I really like TY and her acting is good but her recent roles are literally the same and really annoying. She's being yelled at on weibo for anything she does even when she took his drama (which isn't candy) but people think she can't act because of her past roles.

  • Have you watched Cuo Dian Yuan Yang? Best Get Going? I even think Lu Zhen is different from Shan Shan and Shan Shan is different from Hua Qian Gu... What I think it is is that these female characters all start young and act similar, but their character all changes. They all have their personalities, own ambitions, and stories. Her character is Cuo Dian Yuan Yang is really different from all of the rest. I don't know why, but she's one of the only actresses who I don't find annoying. Like Sun Li, she immerses herself in these characters, become them, and so maybe that's why you feel that these characters all become familiar cause she's playing them. It's not that I dislike Tang Yan, but I can never finish her dramas because she's not unbelievable at all.

• Nice!!!
  She was fine in MY Sunshine, but I hated her in 'diamond lover' to the bones. I need to erase her character from my head asap!!!

• Started to read the book. Reviews for this book wasn't all that great but I am def interested in seeing how this drama production goes.

• Thats why Raymond wong chose her to play Lee Min Ho's love interest by dropping wang mi.. Tiffany tang is extremely popular in China at the moment

  • Bcos Tiffany is still single whilst Yangmi is married? Hehe the OTP need shipping for the film to achieve greater popularity?

    • No, because Yang Mi had filming conflicts. Angelababy was the first choice, but she turned it down for another movie offer. So, Tang Yan was chosen.

    • Yes... She is single, no boyfriend, popular that's why she is chosen. Good luck!

    • There's no ship to begin with. Lee Min Ho has a gf, Suzy of Miss A. They're a solid couple and Koreans love them. They're not gonna promote Lee Min Ho-Tang Yan ship since that would mean Lee Min Ho cheating on Suzy with Tang Yan. They just chose who was available. In China, there are more popular actresses, Tang Yan just takes a lot of projects and film projects together. Other actresses don't do that so they aren't always available. Yang Mi is currently filming a drama, the Translator, and so she didn't accept.

• I heard Luo Jin, the best friend she ended up with in diamond lovers will be the male lead.

  • Really? Yay!!!!

• FINALLY! I LOVE TANG TANG! But I need her to stop the Candy roles like, you can tell she is not a Candy girl in real life. The only "non candy" role she has played this drama season (kind of) would probably Perfect Couple uggh THANK YOU!!! She can play strong women I am glad they broke her out of that type casting role :) Tang Tang I'M ROOTING FOR YOU!

• She's like Chinese Ha Ji Won. Nobody wants her in candy roles.

  • LOL. I literally laughed out loud when I read this. At work.

    Even as a HJW fan, I was very against her ever taking on any Candy role.

    Tang Yan has always looked like she was made of sturdier stuff to be taking Candy roles. So finally, she takes something else. I had sworn off her after Diamond Lovers but I might give this a go.

  • LMAO, could not make it past episode 4 of 'The Time Before we Fell in Love'.

• Chinese period literature is always (way) more interesting. The plots are more thought-provoking and colourful than recent contemporary reads. I wonder if this (Jin Xiu Wei Yang) is available in English.