#Cactors

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Wu Jinyan and Wang Xingyue for Harper's Bazaar - July 2024

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BAILU & LUO YUNXI Harper’s Bazaar China 

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gong jun appreciation [53/∞] [x]

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[ENG SUB] 'West Out Of Yumen' new trailer!!

Starring Bai Yu, Ni Ni, Jin Han, Meng Ziyi

YouTube link: youtu.be/jtv3L_pF9g0

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iqiyi: What will you do when your girlfriend is jealous? Ji Shu has a good idea~😚

Catch #ZhuZhengting and #LuYuxiao in #ToShipSomeone on #iQIYI app and www.iQ.com

#cdrama #朱正廷 #卢昱晓 #全世界都在等你们分手 #ToShipSomeone #iQIYI #ToShipSomeoneEP19

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WANG HEDI 王鹤棣 for L'Officiel Hommes (2023) — photographed by Chen Man 陈漫

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An Incomplete History of Zhang Luyi & Chen Minghao's Friendship

Do you like Pangxie's chemistry in Tibetan Sea Flower? Do you feel that they are really old friends? Besides the fact that Zhang Luyi and Chen Minghao are very good actors, they are indeed old friends, and the earliest record that I can find of them working together dates back to 2006. However, CMH was in the 1996 class of acting at the The Central Academy of Drama, while ZLY was in the 1999 class of directing at the same university, so I figured they definitely got to know each other before 2006. So more or less, on Chinese social media, people usually assume that they've been friends for almost 20 years.

Before I dig into the history, I want to mention that some Pangxie scenes are actually improvised by ZLY and CMH on set. CHM has played Pangzi several times, and is insanely good at it, so he knows about Pangzi and the character dynamics inside out. While ZLY is new to the DMBJ universe, he did read all the DMBJ novels before the filming of Tibetan Sea Flower, so he has very insightful understanding of the characters and relationship dynamics as well.

For example, according to an interview of the director, this iconic & funny "拜年/new year's greeting" scene in episode 6 was improvised, and the director just decided to keep it in the final cut. In a BTS footage, Pangxie putting peanuts on Feng's very wrinkled test paper in episode 9 was also shown to be something that ZLY and CMH came up with during rehearsing.

The History

In the first paragraph, I mentioned that they went to the same undergraduate university. Another thing that connects them even more is that they went to the same graduate school - Peking University's School of Arts, and both have the master's degree in arts. ZLY fans sometimes just endearingly call CMH “师哥/shige" because of all of this.

In 2006, ZLY and CMH were in the stage play 琥珀/Amber. Here are some rare photos of 26-year old ZLY and 31 year old CMH LOL:

Both of them continued to do a lot of theatre works, some tv/film roles, and also attended grad school in the coming years. ZLY got his breakthrough leading role in 2014, and started to lead in shows/films.

In 2016, ZLY and South Korean actor Jang Hyuk starred in the drama 新海/New Sea, and CMH was seen sharing the following scene with ZLY. Unfortunately, due to China's ban on South Korean entertainment content in the same year, this drama will probably never see the light of day.

Then, I think some of you already know this, in late 2016, CMH directed the stage play Big D, and ZLY was his lead actor in this play. According to different news articles, the tickets of this play were sold out in either 5, 7, or 8 minutes (LOL no idea why there were such discrepancies, but they were sold out within 10 minutes for sure).

In 2018, they appeared in The Sound which is a very good variety show about dubbing. Celebrities were asked to dub domestic and international shows/films (sometimes in both Chinese and English) to show case their voice acting skills and language skills. What's really funny is that ZLY is one of the typical introverts who can be a clown when he's surrounded by people he's familiar with, but once you put him in an unfamiliar environment, he gets nervous and shy. So after he and CMH entered the room together, he just naturally and subconsciously stood right beside CMH, the one he was most comfortable with, even though he was supposed to team up with another actress (who was off screen). He got really confused for a minute when all the other guests and hosts were questioning why he didn't stand beside his teammate LOL.

Both ZLY and CMH are really very low key actors in c-ent, so you don't see them in public events a lot. The last time that they were spotted chatting in public was during the premiere of the movie Under the Light last September.

Anyways, thanks for reading! I hope this can bring some insight into their friendship. You can tell they are just so comfortable with each other, and shooting Tibetan Sea Flower seemed to be such a fun experience for them. I hope they get to work together again soon in the future!

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Wu Jinyan, Li Meng, Wang Xingyue, Chen Xinhai, Liang Yongqi for The Double promo shoot

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XU KAI & TING TIAN New photoshoot for Wonderland of Love

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gong jun appreciation [54/∞]

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NEW 'West Out Of Yumen' behind the scenes!!!!!

Director: bridal carry her

Bai Yu: sure! You need to believe in me.

(Proceeds to carry Ni Ni in the wrong direction)

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iqiyi: Don’t miss this! What is more exciting than looking Dylan Wang and Bai Jingting play basketball together!🏀

(Credit: Dylan Wang's Douyin account)

#王鹤棣 #DylanWang #白敬亭 #BaiJingting ##iQIYI

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TIAN XIWEI & WANG HEDI

for Tencent Video All Star Night 2023

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LIN YI 林一 & LIU HAOCUN 刘浩存 GLASS VISION X 脱轨 — 2024, dir. Yoyo Lu