Throughout the Q1 drama market, various themes involving cases, idols, families, and cities have come to the scene, and the large screen and small screen are wonderful. Among the dramas, "Wishful Thinking" unfolds the narrative centered on a pair of sisters with different personalities of the Sun family, delicately depicting the emotional relationship of Chinese families with realistic brushstrokes, showing the changes of contemporary urban life and the ups and downs of the people's emotional path, triggering the public's understanding and thinking about life and ideals.
As the starring actor, Mao Xiaotong's younger sister Sun Xiang is an indelible "bright color" in the play, she is simple and kind, loves to talk and laugh, compared to her sister Sun Xin's yearning for the towering urban prosperity, sister Sun Xiang is more willing to the slow life of city fireworks. Mao Xiaotong's performance on the ground awakened the strong human touch in the memory of the hutong, and her combination with Yu Fei "thinking about non-fei" can arouse the enthusiasm of the audience.
Unknowingly, Mao Xiaotong once again has countless fans with solid works and vivid performances that are not bound by a fixed type of role, further enhancing his "national popularity".
Good content broke the circle, and Mao Xiaotong's strength of "heat responsibility" was certified
To measure whether a drama is popular or not, data is the most intuitive answer. As a key support project of the Beijing Radio and Television Bureau, "Wishful Thinking" has attracted much attention since its launch. According to Kuyun EYE data, on the day of the premiere of the eight sets of CCTV on March 9, the peak of live broadcast attention reached 1.80% in the background of the first network, and the live broadcast attention broke 1 for 11 consecutive days, ranking first in the live broadcast attention of all channels in prime time, and the highest rating peak is currently 1.95%, breaking the second corner.
On the TV side, the ratings are hot, and the popularity on the network side is also high. According to Maoyan Professional Edition, since its launch, the highest popularity value of the drama on iQiyi Station has reached 6,500, and it has won the iQiyi soaring list three times. At the same time, the highest popularity value in the history of Tencent Video quickly exceeded 23072, and won the top spot in the Tencent Family Drama List 11 times.
It is worth mentioning that on the basis of the popularity of "Wishes", Mao Xiaotong's personal performance is also very eye-catching. During the broadcast of the series, the character of Sun Xiang has repeatedly appeared in the TOP3 of the Cool Cloud Drama Character Contribution List, and the cumulative contribution of character performance is as high as 63.04%. Mao Xiaotong's comfortable and natural acting skills have been unanimously praised by fans who follow dramas, and have become the "hot responsibility" in the play.
In addition, the "want to enter non-non" CP formed by Sun Xiang and Yu Fei in the play is also full of highlights, which has won the support of a large number of fans on the whole network, and has become one of the main sources of user stickiness in the play. Although the two are brothers and sisters in reality, Mao Xiaotong is young and energetic, and there is no age difference at all as Wang Ziyi as CP of the same age. On Weibo, topics around the duo, such as #Prince Mao Xiaotong's different CP feeling#, #Yu non-emergency contact is Sun Xiang#, etc., have all fermented out of the circle, triggering large-scale discussions.
GIF source: "Wishful Thinking"
Depict "meticulous" and restore the essence of life
Judging from the audience's feedback, Mao Xiaotong and Sun Xiang have become one of the excellent cases of actors and characters achieving and empowering each other in the recent TV drama market. And such an excellent ability to circle fans, on the one hand, thanks to the likable characteristics of the character itself, is very recognizable among the characters, on the other hand, it comes from Mao Xiaotong's own temperament and the role is very suitable, can get its "shape" and its "god".
In the play, Sun Xiang forms diametrically opposed poles with his pragmatic and strong sister. She is kind and cheerful, focuses on the present, and pursues a simple and happy life. After graduating from junior college, Sun wants to work as a milk tea shop employee with a monthly salary of 3,000 in a supermarket, although he has no long-term plan for the future, but in the era of vigorous development of new media, he caught the train of the times and opened his own food public account, not seeking to earn a lot of money, just to fulfill his hobby and experience the fun of sharing food with fans.
As the younger sister of the family, Sun Xiang is an out-and-out representative of the "sweet sister". She is like a bright "little sun", with a bright smile and full of life. At the beginning of the series, Mao Xiaotong made the audience feel the personality charm of this character with his accurate character shaping ability. In the morning, I will carefully prepare breakfast for my family, greet my neighbors warmly in the alley, secretly put snacks in my sister's pocket on the way to work, and meet the aunt who steals in the supermarket, and I will burst with a sense of justice.
GIF source: "Wishful Thinking"
It is not difficult to find that unlike the "sweet girl" in the traditional sense, the public can experience a rare "sweetness" in addition to tasting the "sweet" skin. In the shaping of the characters, Mao Xiaotong did not show the opening and closing, but relied on the delicate and grainy "nuanced" portrayal, allowing the audience to follow the steps of Sun Xiang, experience the essence of life, and thus obtain a kind of healing.
In the play, there are many scenes where Sun wants to coquette with his mother, which makes people feel the reality of life. For example, at the breakfast table, Sun wanted to hold her mobile phone and look at it, and her mother, Li Huilan, was very angry and reprimanded her and asked her to hand it over to the family. Sun wanted to support him, and he couldn't get the money, but Sun Xin generously handed over his share. Mao Xiaotong's natural and plain acting skills vividly interpret the image of an old man hiding behind her sister in her daily life. For another example, in the face of his mother's nagging and scolding, Sun wants to turn into a good daughter, and a hug to dissolve his mother's firepower.
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GIF source: "Wishful Thinking"
It can be seen that in the interpretation of realistic themes, Mao Xiaotong's landing acting skills have great advantages, plain and natural, not impetuous, and make people feel very substitutionary.
Constantly break and rebuild, and use works to continue life
In the entertainment industry, many actors' careers are accompanied by long or short troughs, or besieged by public opinion, or hidden by the company, or trapped by similar roles and falling into deep self-doubt, but Mao Xiaotong seems to have been in balance, she has not climbed the so-called overnight popularity, and film and television resources have almost never been interrupted. Her every step is steady and sonorous.
And all this is inseparable from Mao Xiaotong's clear self-planning and unique vision when choosing scripts. She will not indulge in her comfort zone because of the popularity of a role, but constantly break herself and rebuild herself, and then write her acting life with one completely different role after another.
In "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "clear water comes out of the hibiscus, naturally carved", every smile makes people feel like a spring breeze; In "Splendid Weiyang", the appearance is pitiful, and the inner belly is black Li Changru; Zhong Xiaoqin, the "salted fish girl" who does not know how to refuse and has a flattering personality in "Thirty Only"; "Children of the Qiao Family" in "Children of the Qiao Family", the "good girl" Qiao Sanli, who has an ordinary personality but is tough and independent; He Huan, an investigative journalist in "Ebola Frontline", who is delicate on the outside and capable and tough on the inside... One person has a thousand faces, but his face is shocked.
Today, the wide range of themes in Mao Xiaotong's film and television works can be seen. From court dramas, idol dramas, urban dramas to family emotional dramas and medical industry dramas, she is comfortable navigating different genres, constantly seeking breakthroughs in various gradually formatted roles. And next, Mao Xiaotong's drama path will be broadened again, and in the jianghu conspiracy drama "The Legend of Yunxiang" starring Chen Xiao, the powerful heroine Shu Yanan played by her, acts decisively and neatly, and takes revenge with a knife in her hand. In the urban medical drama "The Heart of the Child" starring Zhao Youting and Jin Shijia, Fang Xiaoran, a doctor in the extracardiac intensive care unit played by her, will continue to create more possibilities for the screen.
Since her debut, Mao Xiaotong has always hoped that each of her roles can show the audience a different side than before, so "change" is her dramatic attitude, which makes her closely connected with the "unknown", which cannot be imitated or replaced. This acting road that was shed out by herself will always belong to only one person.