C-actress 23 Year Old Li Geng Xi Becomes the Youngest Best Actress Winner at the 2024 Golden Rooster Awards

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• She's pretty and i thought wang yibo will win this time. Maybe next time he will.

• Actresses and actors should be judged only for their acting skills. Both college education and interviews are irrelevant, petty things. The only thing that matters is their ability to portray the characters and convince the audience with skills. Unfortunately, c-ent suffers with too many going overacting route and viewers slowly stop buying this kind of performance.

  • Agree with you, college degree means nothing if you don’t have the acting skills to back it up. I can see why she won, her acting in the movie is impressive, especially compared to the likes of most young c actors. I wonder if peng yuchang got something too from this movie

  • Unfortunately, some uneducated or ill-spoken C actors can't act either. LOL.

• I bet there are hundreds of thousands of kids in China failing their college entrance exams. Seeing one of them who actually made it regardless must be soothing. The girl's an actress, ffs. And it seems she found the career that suits her, so her haters should just stop being guided by their envy.

  • That's not what desperate illiterate means.

    It never did and then Yibo's team tried to move the goal posts to wash him. It always meant someone who had no desire to improve themselves, you know, like Yibo.

    Of course, Nena, one of the chief Yibo stans here, who made sure to fight hard to wash his racism, is going to do the same for this too. If Neba here is ok with racism, what's a little illiteracy.

    • Please stay away from the internet and go get help.

    • @Nena but they are not wrong. You did defend his racism and you are defending his ignorance, trying to twist the original version of what DI means.

      Typical Yibo fan, nothing out of the ordinary. It's not working of course, considering that even his fans in China openly talked about money exchanging hands for this nomination and then worried if enough was given for a win. Well, obviously not. Still he hasn't worked in two years, maybe this will finally get the directors to stop rejecting him.

      You can of course still cheer him on. I mean people are fans of even worse people. But at least try not to play dumb.

• I remember her as the miscast heroine in Sword Snow Stride. Glad she found an acting path that suits her that is much more prestigious.

• I hardly watch Chinese movies nor have I watched LGX before so I won't retort C-netz's opinions on her acting and of her not deserving the win. When the award nominees list came out, C-netz already said they think both WYB and LGX don't deserve the nomination.

  Anyway it should be pretty much known already that getting nominated and winning any of the Chinese acting awards depends fully on money and connections, save for the Flying Apsaras Awards.

  • forreal? so this girl bought the prize? i heard she's a nepo baby, but i also heard she did really well in this movie (i haven't watched it.)

    • @Coralie Yep, she's a complete nepo baby. From the info I gathered over at weibo, C-netz think her acting is just average, not that bad but not deserving of Best Actress award either. There's also a video going around where she went up to receive the award and someone from the audience stands shouted 黑幕 which basically means the award is rigged. Now the word is that her side rigged this award by removing other actresses who delivered more impressive acting in the current eligible batch of movies from the nominations so that her performance will appear on par with other nominations for this BA award, and therefore make her win seems less jarring.

    • @Lilith
      Can you tell me who those eligible candidates are?

    • I'm not sure, these are words from C-netz. I do know that the movie YOLO (female lead Jia Ling) is notably missing from all nominations in this Golden Rooster Awards. Some C-netz were also saying Zhou Xun also had a movie or something.

    • @Lilith
      I might have some bias since I watch la vida and enjoyed it. But from what I know, yolo is not received well by the movie critics, mostly because the expectations is high for jia ling’s second movie, and they thought it’s not unique enough since it was sort of remake.

      I don’t know about zhou xun movie tho, I haven’t checked it out

• there are so many talented, acclaimed actors who don't have a college education or don't thrive in academic settings. it sounds silly and for all their “hopeless illiterate” criticism, conversely ignorant and elitist, to say an actor is undeserving of an award just because they failed an unrelated exam a few times when all that matters is if they gave a good performance. i feel bad for her and hope she isn't too bothered over the irrelevant criticism and continues to put out good work!

  • I think some people are trying to wash the original meaning of "hopeless illiterate". It doesn't refer to a person with low education, it refers to a person who doesn't have any will to improve his lack of knowledge.

    • But why is this the case for Li Geng Xi?

    • @Nena I already said it. Those people used it on her with the intention of washing the meaning behind the phrase. They first blurred the meaning to another, then subsequently wash the original person who's nicknamed the Hopeless Illiterate by saying things like "We shouldn't judge people by their education levels."

• She has a passion for acting and education is possibly not her forte. Not everyone is fortunate to be born smart nor have all the reaources to be smart.

  Besides that, I honestly don't like her performances as an actress so pleasantly surprised she won best actress award.

• Yibo is building what exactly, considering he hasn't worked in almost two years and he keeps getting rejected? Lol bus stans will finally have to face reality soon.

  Good on her, congratulations. She actually earned her nomination and win. No money involved.

  • Why people keeps rejecting Yibo? despite his popularity

    • We don't know if he got rejected or he just being picky. His fans said not because he got rejected but he likes to try another goal lol. But we can guess its because too risky to casted him with his fans always made troubles too create fanswar on crews and to his co-stars if they not give their master favor.

    • I think the guy has an enormous army of crazy fans and crazy haters (both categories can be found in this blog too...) so I guess they stay away. I mean there is a ton of good looking, talented enough young actors, why pick one who has a gift for attracting loonies.

    • @Nena, all you said applies to Xiao Zhan too. XZ got a huge army of crazy stans and haters too. But one has to wonder why there's a long line of projects waiting for XZ to say "yes" and this doesn't happen to WYB.

• She is like a Zhou Dong yu. Both shine more in genres other than idol dramas. As someone said before : a miscast in sword snow stride with absolutely no chemistry with Zhang Ruo Yun

• personally i don't care if someone is illiterate or does poorly academically. like others mentioned, what matters is if they got innate talent and will put effort into portraying their roles well. everything else is not important.

  there's this african singer who sings chinese songs really well - Bao An - and he's literally a security guard. he's an amazing singer. illiteracy doesn't negate talent...

  • I too stay by that. I know of many who are bad at studies and gave up early, pick up other skills and excel in them. Everyone is different. Focus on your strength.