YY's comment on Zhang Qiling's "fewer expressions" setting

A friend's request.

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YY himself never said Zhang Qiling is a facial paralysis.

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MC asked:

Have you ever feel troubled when a character’s nature was “fewer expressions”?

MC’s lines:

But when you really got this role

The difficulty in acting was like what you just said

Zhang Qiling did not have a lot of expressions

But I thought as an actor

(performance of) expressions is an important way to show your skills

How did you act without expression? Did that bother you at that time?

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YY answered:

I did worry about part of the viewers feeling “fewer expressions” equals facial paralysis, and I was once confused, too. But at the end I still decided to respect the “fewer expressions” setting in the original novel, and tried to restore the original work this way.

YY’s lines:

At that time, I was also a bit confused.

Because during the process of acting

Everybody had their own thoughts about expressions and so on

Yes, I always immersed myself in my own world

and I’d also think “hey, if I act this way…

wouldn’t it become facial paralysis, wouldn’t it be to pretentious/fake?

But when I had such thoughts

I’d go back to read and recall the character described in the book

and I’d feel what I did was right