Yang Yang Confirmed as Male Lead for Big Budget Wuxia Period C-drama Zhan Zhao Adventures

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• Sigh

• He does look good in costume dramas and is good in action scenes despite being horrible in acting. At the end of the day these super popular liuliangs may be mocked for their bad acting but the industry will still choose to use them instead of less known actors.

• I hope his acting is decent.
  I'm such a veteran in Cdrama land that decent acting is good enough for me.

  I'm kind tired of seeing people bashing and kicking actors when they do decent jobs.

  I'm so much more worried about the directing, editing and screenwriting. People in China are messing up very badly in these departments.

  People bash and kick the actors but the people behind the cameras and the scenes are left unpunished by their bad deeds just because they do not show off their faces.

  • 💯 true, those bts fuck up even more but then they always get laid off easily compared to the actors

  • I still don't let bad acting slide (and worse when it's a silly romantic drama and the acting can't even show love) but YES the screenwriting, directing, and editing in Cdramas are so bad. I used to not care at all until I became annoyed by bad lighting in dramas and then that was the beginning of going down the rabbit hole of noticing everything wrong with these productions.

    I see webnovel fans argue over casting choices for their favorite novels, but they should worry more about the screenwriting and director. Nowadays originality is dead and all of these adaptations are getting made, but most of them are horrible.

  • @Jiao, agreed. Bad writing and directing are mostly the major culprits to produce subpar C dramas.

  • Horrible color grading, bad costumes, weird camera angles, and bad endings are always bashed by Netizens, if you are a veteran you would know so IDK what you are talking ab

  • That's the price of being the face of the drama/movie as they get the most benefit when a project is success, more fame, endorsement. PLus these Actors demands so much $, at times even more 30 %of the budget(hence the government intervene but they resort to other methods).

    Even when a project is awful, if the actor is good they wont get so much bashing... so the actor should work on their acting and pick project they know they can deliver.

  • everyone has a different perspective of what "decent acting" is. YY is generally acceptable in more stoic characters. it's when he tries to play more complex characters like in Fireworks and Martial Universe that he falls flat on his face. I love his visual though, so I'll still check out his dramas where he plays more reserved characters.

• Zhan Zhao is one of my favourite characters. Kenny Ho is still one of my favourite Zhan Zhao...

  Yang Yang has taken on a iconic role. I hope he will do the character justice. I will leave my judgement when the drama airs...I have seen Yang Yang working hard in the period drama that is waiting to be aired. I will not dismiss him as yet.

  But on a personal note 🤔🤔: I can imagine another liuliang that can nail this character. But..... 😔😔

• I guess Yang Yang is the male version of Yangmi at first he has lots of potential than in recent years he become stagnant,lucky for him,he's still handsome.

• Yang Yang is so handsome,I can't wait to see immortal ascension.

• He can't act to save his life so how did they think to give him a role that requires actual, substantial, skills?

  I am so disappointed in Daylight. The netizens tore this casting apart so I hope they are ready for the disaster when this starts broadcasting. Because he won't get any better than he is now. And that is really bad.

  • Right? It's hilarious that anyone would think this is a good casting. Zhan Zhao is such a classic character and Kenny Ho was amazing in the role.

    All Yang Yang will do is to preen and pose and walk around with a stiff back, like what he did in WRTW.

    • @snow

      Posing and trying to act cool is all he knows how to do. There is no way he can pull off this role unless they dumb it down completely and that would be a crime.

      I don't understand people who care only about him being hot, plot and quality be damned. Just open a magazine and get off to photos then. It's the same thing.

• If I recall correctly, in previous adaptations of this character, he was very upright and stoic. Sigh... Yang Yang can be stoic but in such a boring wooden fashion.

  Will the other Justice Bao characters show up? I liked the clerk a lot.

  • Clerk? Or Strategist? Just curious...

    • The clerk/strategist? Lol. My memory is faulty.

  • You're talking about Gongsun Ce? My parents used to watch the TVB version from time to time and the late veteran HK actor Liu Kai-Chi played him so well.

    • You're right, that's who I was thinking of! Thank you for jogging my memory.

• Zhan Zhao is Chin Chiu in Canto yeah? Huh a story focused on him instead of Justice Bao? How weird…

  And really Ding Yu Xi willing to be 2nd billed to Yang Yang? But then again it wouldn’t be hard for DYX to outshine YY in the acting department so if he plays his cards right, he’ll be the one getting praised in the drama.

  If they wanted a liuliang as ML, I can actually think of a few who can act well, are good looking and have a large fandom to bring in traffic. Best one would be Wu Lei though.

  • Yes, I could definitely see Wu Lei in this role.

  • You are right about DYX running circles around YY so it's possible he is thinking strategically about having a stand out role while still being a supporting actor.

    Wu Lei would have been good but who knows what they were thinking. It's actually a quality crew, it's the Story of Minglan writer. Writing for Yang Yang ha ha. It's funny negl.

• The side profile is exactly Yang Yang's preference. He should tan up a bit to look tough. The pale white skin is not becoming of an enforcer/swordsman.

  • I cannot imagine any liuliangs doing so to be honest... the natural healthy tan skin tone...Love it!!!