Let's start with the movie - after the National Day file in October, the three films that have attracted great attention, "Lyceum Theatre", "First Incense" and "Sand Dune", can see the figures of three Male Actors in Taiwan, namely Zhao Youting, Peng Yuyan and Zhang Zhen.
It is not a coincidence that these three are the best developed Taiwanese actors in the mainland today.
Especially in Zhao Youting, who has just completed ten years of development in the mainland, in 2021, on the big and small screens, he is playing against the actors of the "queen" level - the movie is with "Gong Huang" Gong Li, and the TV series is with "Niangniang" Sun Li, how good the resources are, there is no doubt.
However, unlike the glory of male actors who have reached the front line and even promoted to international actors (Zhang Zhen), the more realistic situation is that the actors in Taiwan (especially those who still have quite works and achievements) who have once focused on the mainland to attack the market have quietly "returned" and have become a trend. The reasons for this trend are complex, but the epidemic is certainly the biggest factor and booster.
Let's elaborate on this individually (the following works only focus on the TV series).
Zhou Yumin
Reflux works: "Reverse Game"
Violation time: 10 years
For taiwanese audiences, Zaizai is really "long goodbye reunion, don't come unharmed?" ”。 The last time he made a Taiwanese drama was in 2011's "The Other Shore 1945" (Taiwanese called "Homecoming"), and this is still a cross-strait cooperation drama. If you want to study the production in Taiwan, you have to go back to the 2009 "Leper Hero" that made Zaizai "very sad". Fortunately, "Homecoming" finally helped him win the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor in the Drama Category, but "Hero of the Leper" did not win the long-cherished wish at the Golden Bell Awards. After that, he devoted himself to the development of the mainland, and the focus was basically on movies.
In fact, when filming this Taiwanese production team's "Reverse Situation", Zhou Yumin had already rested for nearly two years (the "Great Song Palace Words" broadcast in 2021 was completed at the end of 2018). During this period, he returned to his family life, coupled with the epidemic, so he did not come out to shoot a new drama "Reverse Game" until November 2020.
The opening ceremony of "Reverse Game", at that time, it was also called "The Pursuer".
Frankly speaking, a very important reason for the "return" of actors in Taiwan is the relative increase in remuneration. Before the Taiwan drama, the income of the actors is really relatively low, and a fourth- or fifth-line actor who goes to Hengdian to shoot a year of online drama network is large, and the income is much higher than that of taiwan's local first-line actors. In recent years, with the rise of international streaming media platforms in Taiwan, production costs have risen, and the income of actors has increased significantly. Having a good income and taking care of the family is the real reason why many first-line actors return to filming.
"Reverse Game" is iQIYI International's masterpiece of holding its breath to make the platform bigger and stronger, so it has invested heavily. At present, the lineup led by Zhou Yumin is already one of the most luxurious lineups of Taiwan dramas. If iQiyi is willing to do some processing of the terrible scenes that are too real in the play, it is not impossible to broadcast them on iQiyi on the mainland, which can also alleviate the pressure of huge production costs.
"Reverse Game" also gives Zai Zai a lot of performance space, because the entire grand and multi-line narrative series is actually around him alone, which is extremely challenging. At present, the performance of the boy is not bad, and it is more mature than before.
Yang Youning
Return works: "The First Light", "Pick up the move!" Producer》
Violation time: 9 years
Yang Youning's work in the mainland in the past two years has been very intensive, and at one point his works were so many that he was questioned: "Why are his resources so good?" ”。 But more because Shi Tiandong of "All Is Good" in 2019 really made him popular, the next workload will be bursting.
To what extent is Yang Youning's work explosive? After the epidemic eased in the spring of 2020, he went to the mainland to start work and did not return home for 150 days. He did not return to Taiwan until the end of August, announcing that his wife was pregnant with her daughter. In September, the marriage was officially announced, and in December, the birth of the daughter was announced, and the business and family arrangements were orderly and clear.
From 2021 to now, the mainland has broadcast a total of five TV series of Yang Youning (including New Year's Eve broadcasts), which is also the fruitful result of his continuous rotation in the past two years.
The transnational medical aid drama "Breathe Deep Together".
After returning to Taiwan in 2020, Yang Youning, who loves sports, did not forget to participate in a triathlon, and then immediately entered the crew of "Hua Lantern Chu Shang" and played the leader of the criminal group.
When "The First Lights Of Flowers" first began to meet the reporters, yang Youning could not be seen. This gorgeous lineup is also unique for a while.
In the final poster, Yang Youning's position is second only to Lin Xinru. This "Hua Lantern First Up" has been filmed for a total of three seasons, and it will be launched on Netflix on November 26.
Immediately after that, Yang Youning also filmed a mini-series set in the golden age of Taiwanese pop music, "Pick Up the Trick!" Producer", he plays the senior producer of the show and is also the supervising producer of the show, which is his first attempt at supervising production. The series will air in 2022.
How long has Yang Youning not acted in a Taiwanese drama? The answer is nine years, after he acted in the idol drama "Forward to Love" in 2012, the focus of his career turned to the mainland.
The first TV series that Yang Youning filmed in the mainland was Lin Xinru's "Imperial Princess of the World", in which he played Liu Lianxi, the younger brother of the male protagonist Liu Liancheng. And this time, the first drama he returned to the stream was Lin Xinru's big drama "The First Lantern", fate!
Chen Bailin
Reflux Works: The Algorithm of Justice
When Netflix, HBO and other international streaming media have been looking for content opportunities in Taiwan, the hegemon of the film and television industry, Disney, of course, has not waited, and his family will launch the streaming platform Disney+in Taiwan in November, and invite Gui Lunmeng, Chen Bailin and Guo Xuefu to promote.
The reason why I looked for three is because they all performed Disney+'s customized Taiwan dramas. Among them, Chen Bailin and Guo Xuefu starred in "The Algorithm of Justice". This time, the Mickey Mouse family invested heavily in inviting the team Yousong Entertainment (its Sanfeng) who had filmed the fire "Want to See You" to take part in the production.
Chen Bailin played a cold-blooded and ruthless lawyer this time, well, he is quite suitable for such a role.
Guo Xuefu plays Chen Bailin's rookie assistant.
At present, the drama is still in the process of being produced.
Chen Bailin has a nickname, called "Brother Daren", and he knows how deeply rooted the 2011 "Taiwan drama milestone" "I May Not Love You" is. In this way, "Li Daren" Chen Bailin has not starred in a Taiwan drama for ten years. However, during this period, he also made a cameo appearance in "Must Marry a Woman" produced by Sanfeng.
Since the 19-year-old performance of the youth film "Blue Gate" became popular, Chen Bailin's career territory has not been limited to Taiwan, but has become an artist who has developed throughout Asia. When he first debuted, his first work was a TV series called "The Robber and the Angel", and the first starring work was also a TV series, called "Fast Youth", which was a few months earlier than "Blue Gate". After "The Blue Gate", he also made a cameo appearance in the TV series "Evil Son".
Chen Bailin has been a film route for many years, and "I May Not Love You" is one of his few TV drama works, but it has become a masterpiece. In 2016, he also made a cameo appearance in the Korean drama "Monster".
In 2018, Chen Bailin starred in the mainland TV series "Fire King", but this drama was a great failure.
Immediately after, Chen Bailin starred in the mainland fashion drama "Crocodile and Toothpick Bird", which was also a great failure.
Starting in 2021, it can be clearly seen that Chen Bailin has transferred his career back to Taiwan. In terms of movies, the Taiwanese film "Tricky" starring him has received a lot of praise and will be released in Taiwan on November 12. This part of the TV series is this "Algorithm of Justice".
Lin Baihong
Reflow works: "Mirror Forest", "Tears of Vulcan", "The Age of Great Debt", "2049"
Violation time: 6 years
Lin Baihong's career watershed was the movie "Six Lane Cafe", he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2016, and received a lot of attention, so he developed in the mainland as a Golden Horse Award winner.
In the past four or five years on the mainland, Lin Baihong's resources have been very good, but it may be bad luck, and the response to his works has been mediocre.
In this part of the movie, even the "Ice Storm" cooperated with Hiroshi of the Japanese Film Emperor Service Institute was also very miserable.
As for the TV series, "Come to Your World" and "Egg Yolk Man" have a good reputation, but the popularity is not high.
He is also the second male number one of the costume drama "Little Girl Flowers Don't Give Up", but this style is really not suitable for costumes.
After 2019, Lin Baihong began to return to Taiwan dramas, and the word of mouth and response of each one were very good.
The media drama "Mirror Forest" broadcast from New Year's Eve to 2020 has a Douban score of 8.5. Lin Baihong plays Yu Zhiyang, a photojournalist with a story.
In 2021, the two Taiwan dramas starring Lin Baihong were both well-known.
One is the mini-drama "The Age of Big Debt", which is his first male protagonist, which directly attacks the plot of the real living conditions of young people in Taiwan and triggers heated discussions on the Internet. Yang Daqi, played by Lin Baihong, was praised for his acting skills and appearance.
The other is "Tears of the Vulcan God", which has a Douban score of 9.1 and will definitely enter the top of the Douban TV series rating in 2021, a firefighter-themed drama that has triggered the "Vulcan" phenomenon in Taiwan. Lin Baihong plays Zhang Zhiyuan, a firefighter from a musical family, in the play, who is the face of the fire brigade, but also causes psychological trauma due to too much pressure. "Vulcan's Tears" will certainly be the strongest competitor in the Miniseries category at next year's Golden Bell Awards.
He also developed beautiful muscle lines for this.
On October 16, just released three episodes of the future episode "2049" "Perfect Prediction", Lin Baihong played a father who predicted that his children would become murderers in the future.
Zhang Junning
Reflux works: "Story Palace", "Who's Around You"
On October 3, HBO Asia's original dark suspense miniseries "Who's Around You" was launched, which is the new work of He Rundong, whose director has done a decent job and has won the Golden Bell Award, and his old friend Zhang Junning played one of the heroines in the play, and showed off with a capable and beautiful short hair style.
At the beginning of the year, Zhang Zhen was hotly discussed because of his thinness in the movie "Soul Hunting", the heroine Zhang Junning played a female policeman, so she cut her hair short, and "Soul Hunting" and "Who is Around You" were filmed in Taiwan almost around the foot in 2020.
But the earliest refreshing short hairstyle was exposed in July 2020 for a Taiwanese online shopping platform (not wrong, a tough new term) "Future List", in which Zhang Junning cooperated with Wang Baijie and Lan Juntian. In 2021, this platform once again found Zhang Junning to shoot a longer electric speed drama called "List Speed Dating", and the cooperative male stars were upgraded to Wang Baijie, Ada, Leo King of Golden Song Songs, Eggplant Egg and other six people.
From the end of 2020 to 2021, the National Palace Museum in Taipei filmed a very mini drama called "Story Palace Apartment", which tells the story of an apartment becoming an isolated island at night, with nine residents. Zhang Junning appears in the second episode. That is to say, the frequency of Zhang Junning's return to Taiwan in 2020 is really high.
Zhang Junning is one of the best developed Taiwanese actresses in the mainland, and after filming the Taiwanese drama "You Illuminate My Planet" in 2014, the focus of her unemployment shifted to the mainland.
Zhang Junning's first widely watched role in the mainland is Xu Hui in "The Legend of Wu Meiniang".
Zhang Junning encountered a little trouble in 2021 that everyone knows, but it was finally clarified. And her encounter is actually the reason why many practitioners in the mainland now dare not easily use Taiwanese actors, because if the drama is filmed well, you will have an accident, which means that the whole drama will be ruined. Therefore, the epidemic is only the appearance, and the "risk" is the biggest reason now.
Fortunately, on October 13, Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, made it clear that "Taiwan entertainers are welcome to come to the mainland for development, and I hope that more Taiwan entertainers will share opportunities and play an active role in the development of the mainland's cultural undertakings." "It also reassured the Taiwanese actors.
No, Zhang Junning's important role in the movie "The First Burning Incense" is about to be released, and she is also a normal publicity, that is, she really ate the "reassuring pill".
Zheng Yuanchang
Return works: "No Rain in the Godless Land", "The First Lantern"
I don't know if it is a coincidence that After filming the Taiwan drama "You Illuminate My Planet", Xiao zong Zheng Yuanchang and Zhang Junning also "disappeared" on the Taiwan screen for a time, went to the mainland to develop, and created their own business in the brokerage company and cultivated new people.
In the past few years when Zheng Yuanchang has been filming in the mainland, although he has been a protagonist, the influence and reputation of the drama are quite unsatisfactory, and the Douban score of "Hello Joanna" with the best reputation is only 5.0.
In 2020, he played Shen Shijun's TV series "Love Deep Origin" ("Half Life"), Douban 3.0 points, the whole drama is not ridiculed by the group, but "selectively forgotten" by the media and the audience, which is worse than being scolded.
And his reality show "I Am an Actress" as the "class teacher" was scolded by the anecdotes and could only be described as "body without skin", and finally ended hastily.
When the epidemic hit in 2020, Zheng Yuanchang returned to Taiwan to run his own network video program "Unprofessional Kitchen", inviting a large group of friends in the circle to cook, and the response was good, and he also achieved the second season all the way.
The latest "Unprofessional Kitchen" invited Zeng Zhiqiao as a guest.
It turned out that because Zheng Yuanchang and Zeng Zhiqiao both played the protagonist of "No Rain in the Godless Land", which was launched on October 17, Zheng Yuanchang played the god of the wind in the play, originally he only appeared in the first half of the series, but the screenwriter added more scenes to reflect the soul of the character for him after talking to him.
Immediately after, in the "Hua Lantern Chu Shang" released on November 26, Zheng Yuanchang played Lin Xinru's scumbag ex-husband, and when he heard that he wanted to play this role, he agreed to the invitation of producer Lin Xinru without reading the script.
Zhang Rongrong
Return works: "Story Palace", "Third Layout Dust and Sand Confusion", "Reverse Game"
Violation time: 7 years
Zhang Rongrong signed wong Kar-wai on his debut, and was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Award three times before the age of 25, and the starting point is not high. She also got married very early, gave birth to a daughter at the age of 26, and after her comeback, the focus of her career also shifted to the mainland.
Yang Guifei of a "Biography of the Demon Cat" made Zhang Rongrong red at once, and was called "the most beautiful Yang Guifei".
Unfortunately, zhang Rongrong's subsequent starring films in the mainland have not been spared in the street, and they are more than one.
On the contrary, it is a web drama "Once Upon a Time There Was a Spirit Sword Mountain", which once again brought her good reputation and visibility.
However, as soon as the epidemic came in 2020, if Zhang Rongrong wanted to work in the mainland, it would take a month to go back and forth, which was really a bit difficult for her daughter who was only seven years old. So she stayed in Taiwan to shoot.
The first to appear was the mini-series "Story Palace".
Then there is the "Third Layout Dust and Sand Confusion" broadcast in June 2021, Zhang Rongrong plays the female police officer Xu Ziwei in the play, originally the suspense crime drama of this big heroine is very likely to make her a benchmark for a female image in a Chinese detective drama, but this drama has collapsed all the way back, but it is a pity that such a good actor.
However, Zhang Rongrong was not afraid of role repetition, and then acted in "Reverse Game", and appeared in the second chapter of "Reverse Game", still playing a female policewoman, or the deputy director of the substation. What about this character? We'll soon find out.
Because Zhang Rongrong is partial to movies, she disappeared from the Taiwan screen for seven years, most recently to "Dessert Shop Without a Name".
However, just now Zhang Rongrong asked on the social platform whether the weather in Shanghai was cold, it seems that in order to work, she still has to endure the hard cost of a month of isolation. This is also a state of some Taiwanese actors today, that is, although they return to Taiwan to work, there are some important and necessary tasks that the two sides of the strait run back and forth.
Other actors who returned to Taiwanese TV dramas
Magnesium cinnamon
Return works: "Taipei Women's Picture Book"
Violation time: 15 years
Alyssa Ja
Return works: "The Distance Between Us and Evil", "Sin Dreamer", "Mom! Don't make a fuss"
Violation time: 16 years
Lin Xinru
Reflow works: "My Boy", "Those Bird Things They Started", "The First Lights", "Who is the Victim"
Violation time: 4 years
Tang Yuzhe
Reflux works: "My youth is not afraid"
Chen Yihan
Return works: "Those Bird Things They Started"
Wang Dongcheng
Reflux Works: "Because I Like You"
Li Liqun
Violation time: 11 years
He Junxiang
Returning works: Skyscanner
Li Tianzhu
Reflux works: "The Counterattack of the Three Little Pigs"
Guan Lin
Return works: "Waste Money Breaks the Sky", "Me and My Steel Four Walls"
Violation time: 5 years
Hu Yuwei
Re-entry works: Ace Advocate, Dear Adam, She and Her
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