TW & C dramas

Tencent’s S-plus Budget Female Lead Top Billed Period C-drama The Way You Back Initially Offered to Zhao Li Ying May Go to Tang Yan After Her Blossoms Shanghai Resurgence

OMG if this leading lady switch happens it’s such a downgrade, or maybe not purely from the drama storyline standpoint. Tencent has a S-plus budgeted period drama (set in Republic era China in Shanghai Bund) titled The Way You Back (Chinese title Yu Lan Hua Kai Jun Zai Lai or When the Magnolia Blooms He Will Return 玉蘭花開君再來) that is female lead top billed with a strong female empowerment storyline. It was supposed to star Zhao Li Ying but industry gossip says it may now go to Tang Yan who is angling hard for it, after she got a career boost thanks to the hit drama Blossoms Shanghai. The switch may also be due to Zhao Li Ying wanting to do a C-drama with Zhang Yimou who reportedly is considering his first television directorial debut. I find Zhao Li Ying a billion times a better actress than Tang Yan but the drama is a Shanghai based story and Tang Yan is a Shanghai born hence why she was suitable in Blossoms Shanghai and may also be right for this role if she gets it.

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  • If a project goes from Zhao Lying to Tang Yan based on one hit show, she didn’t even carry, then Zhao Lying should reevaluate her relationship with Tencent. Tang Yan is in NOT in the same league as Zhao Lying. You can’t change my mind😄

  • I read about Zhang Yimou is looking into filming a C-drama...is it more confirmed now? I am very interested in who he will pick as his lead actress...

  • To me, tangyan and yangmi are still very limited actresses considering their experiences. ZYL although weak in trying to convince she can fight, but her Range is better.

    • I too agree... In that Group, I feel Liu Shishi is better at fighting scenes. In that Group, Ni Ni, Liu Yifei are also not bad. Unsure if NiNi can fight?

  • I thought that TangYan is one of 80er line top actresses with ZLY, YM and LSS, no?

    But agree with the comments above about her acting. Why not Liu Yifei? She's popular too and more popular than TY nowadays.

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