Sometimes I wonder what Yu Zheng is thinking because he seems to just needs attention and creates new topics of discussion. Last week he caused backlash on actress Li Meng who he cast as the antagonist princess in his drama The Double with a very long and overly wordy spiel about her pros and cons. She was not the first actress cast for the role of Princess Wanning but when the original actress has a scheduling conflict and he happened to be dining with Li Meng, he offered her the role. He said she behaved weirdly on set at times – insisted on looking for missing items until she caused everyone to be late, didn’t like period costumes and complained about all the accessories, no boundaries with other actors and just drank their water, sometimes didn’t memorize her lines and needed to be hounded by the director to do so. He basically called her for acting like a child, but then said he like that when she was called out she would take the criticism and change. She also delivered an amazing acting performance so Yu Zheng was overall happy to have worked with her. Talk about a backhanded compliment through his entire grand speech lol.
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Wow what a way to be a double edged sword for her. Like what the heck. If the actress or anyone did the same for him I bet he’d flip out. Whoever works with him must fear for their lives at least their careers. I literally mean actors and crew alike. It’s Like working for Jekyll and Hyde lol
If what he said is true I think it was a way for her to get into the character. Everything he described was what Wanning would have done.
Yes, I thought the same. All the thing describe Princess Wanning to a tee!
This is his M. O. He throws every single actor he works with, under the bus. Would it kill him to keep these things in-house? I don’t understand why he does this. Anyone who works with him must be prepared to be cannon fodder for whenever he has his mood swings. Smh.
I think it's a power trip. He likes to remind actors his influence over them.
True.
I can see why Yu Zheng said what he said. There are many top artiste that are worse then Li Meng. One never knows what goes on behind a smiling face. Li Meng has talent and I can see Yu Zheng working with her in more projects. She may not likely be lead actress as I doubt she can pull many good investments. But who knows.
Li Meng is infamous for her diva behaviour for a long time, I am quite surprised she knows that but still behaves so on The Double set. Part of me thinks she feels as long as she can delivery a good role in the drama and Yu Zheng still wants her, why should she please everyone. Definitely a Diva. Maybe she does have a strong backer that allows her to behave as such...
One thing for certain, we will see more of her working with Yu Zheng. Hope she temper her nature and learn, Good teamwork makes Good working environment. She does not live on her own in life...there will be always people around her. She need not annoy everyone. Every human are equal, no one is better then another.
Makes sense to me. She might have financially worry-free background for her to somehow behave at whim (from some ppl's perspectives) on set. Perhaps she just doesn't care or has no financial stress to worry about whether she has more or less work to do. It seems she only minded how satisfying her working conditions would be and how well she could perform on set. That didn't look like what a person in a desperate need to land more jobs for bread would behave. It appeared to me she just didn't care, and consistently does not care at all. But all these are purely my speculations.
I'm taking YZ's comments about her as positive compliments rather than exposure of her weakness to the public. I'm taking that as defense of her to keep it open for future work with her.
Li Meng's Princess Royal was a pivotal antagonist in The Double and her acting was equally mesmerizing like the ML WXY. TD was a huge success from the perspectives of production costs and expectation. I can see more not fewer opportunities for YZ to collaborate with LM in the future. This is my take, different from other comments here.
Yes, I too think her behaviour does not sound like someone who is worried about her rice bowl. People under stress can sometimes behave out of normal...but based on previous year, reports of her not being a good team player have to floating around. One would expect she would change for better but she still carried such bbad habits on The Double set.
But it is quite my speculation too. We will know if she ever get cast in future Yu Zheng's projects.
sometimes i think this is how yu zheng controlled or gaslight his actors, being hot and cold with them, remember zhao qing and yu zheng criticism about her weight? he only praised them if they bring him the return benefit. did yu zheng ever apologized about his plagiarism? cant remember.
He paid a big fine and have apologised to Qiong Yao...
Yu zheng loves to gaslight his actors, criticising then paraising them. Remember his comments about Zhao Qing's weight? Probably that's how we controlled them. Yu Zheng also love all kinds of publicity probably, good or bad as long is it brings hype.Did he ever apologized about his plagiarism? Last i heard he seemed to be ignoring it.
Yes supposedly Yu Zheng mentioned all these while he was addressing criticisms hurled against her being a diva and all that. But one wonders why he revealed all these things that happened on set. My guess is that he was frustrated too and at the same time he still value her talents.
Anyway he has been known to attack actors like Deng Wei, Zhao Lu Si…. Is it because they are not keen to join his agency?
Not a fan of C-dramas, but I did watch Love Like a Galaxy with all that hype when it aired. This dude Yu Zheng sounds like a real douche constantly on power trip.
I too would hate to work with a seemingly "diva", low level crazy, or narcissist...no matter the level of acting. There are always people who have both talent and a cordial pleasant personality to work with.
Yu Zheng likes all the attention on his in house actors, he is probably bitter she is getting more acting praise than Wu JInyan. Someone should remind him of the rumors on WJY behavior so he can shut up. We know everyone is awful only his artists are well behaved /s.
It's not a lie that Li Meng has better acting skills than Wu Jinyan. LOL.
AGREE.
Li Meng is known for being difficult to work with. She exasperated the director of Bad Kids with her behavior, and got called out on TV for it. She's admitted her reputation is preventing her from getting work.
Yu Zheng might actually help her out here by acknowledging the truth to the gossip his peers are hearing, and saying her acting skills make up for her behavior.
If I was her, I'd never want to work for him ever again. Jeez.
Imagine bringing out this out into the open. The guy is a nightmare but unfortunately there is no one to stop him. Total trash.