L’OFFICIEL China (时装) January 2022 issue
What will Yang Mi do in the parallel world? Hold the ‘No sign of happening’ concert? Be a cartoonist? Or open a cat café? Yang Mi didn’t imagine about it. She prefer to just live at the current moment, “I only care about the present self”.
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Every time wrapping up for her drama/film, she would say farewell to her character: Byebye, pls take good care of yourself, good luck.
Yang Mi is always free and easy. Once she said ‘farewell & good luck’, she seldom would think about them anymore. “It’s none of my business and I don’t have to keep thinking about it anymore.” Even in real life too: “The person, whom I had said farewell to, may just disappear.”
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Talking about《Thank you, Doctor》in which its filming underwent 2 yrs of pause & resume. When a character left herself and came back again, she always worried that she couldn’t catch up or connect the story/scene.
She would keep recalling back: How did I act/perform previously? “Because there was a scene filmed half way, and now I had to continue/connect it back again.”
Recall back when she first read the script, she would cry for almost every episode, she thinks that the doctors are being very difficult, “They do not only face the pain & disease, but also the people behind them.”
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“When playing this role, I was totally standing from the perspective of a doctor. Xiao Yan had seen too much separation between love ones by death, and pain & damage due to diseases. If I put myself in the shoes of a patient, I might cry, feel down, but for a doctor, she can’t show too much of her emotion. She has to stay neutral in order to give the correct and professional treatment to the patients. When the issue is very risky and severe or the death is coming nearer, the more she can’t feel emotionally so that she won’t affect the patient’s diagnosis.”
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Talking about romance story line in her dramas:
1️⃣ Thank You Doctor (谢谢你医生)
- Regarding the romance part in “Thank You Doctor”, Yang Mi made a hand gesture and said: “Just a little bit.”
2️⃣ She and Her Perfect Husband (爱的二八定律)
- For “She and Her Perfect Husband”, “Qin Shi thinks that love/dating is a troublesome thing. There are many things she has to deal with; she doesn’t even manage to deal her life or work problems well. How can she love someone? This is the attitude or thought of many people in the society right now.”
3️⃣ Novoland: Pearl Eclipse (斛珠夫人)
- Then, talking about Fang Hai Shi, she is a person who is brave to love, dares to chase after her love and never gives up. “I can’t relate to her. In real life, I can’t do it. So, I admired her.” Maybe only the naive girls would look forward to such love? Yang Mi thought for a while and said, “I don’t know. Maybe. But for the urbanites, love itself is a very difficult manner.”
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Some people like the ‘marry first, love later’ story line, and some people love the ‘cradle-snatcher’ setting. But Yang Mi only agrees out of the recognition of the character.
“I think that love/dating is very risky, uncertain, uncontrollable, and high cost but might not be paid back. It’s better to keep a cat or a dog. Work, rental, or many random things; After work, I am tired and I just wish to have a meal but not coaxing the boyfriend and asked him ‘Are you tired?’. I just want to tell you, ‘I am very tired’. Love is like a topic to learn, it is worth to be dealt sincerely and seriously. But for this kind of people, at the current phase, they do not have the confidence to do such thing and I definitely understand it.”
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The immersive gamers will always put themselves into the characters, Yang Mi said: “Normally I won’t put myself into the 1st female lead who is kind, soft and weak. I prefer the arrogant 2nd female lead who dares to love, and dares to hate.”
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If she can add the video games buff into the real life, she would choose to add resistance first. “I want my rank to be unlimited, and teleport so that I can run away immediately if I can’t defeat them. Add shield, add blood. I saw a buff that can lock the blood — When the blood just left a little bit, it can be immediately locked. Then, I won’t die no matter how. And also adding the resistance against toxic. Just add any buff that can resist things.” Then, regarding hurting people, she is not interested, “I don’t want to hurt people but you shouldn’t think of hurting me too.”
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Many ppl say that — Yang Mi has thick blood (is invincible). She said this is just overly praising her, “I am just defeating the boss/monster (overcome difficulties) and collecting many skills. I never think of me having thick blood. Only me myself know whether I do fail or not, and where I fall down. I will not necessary tell you. I am just trying my best to do my own things and responsibilities well.”
T/N: I personally don’t play any video games, so the terms I used here might not be very accurate 😅
** Buff (video gaming) is a change to a weapon or ability that deems it more viable forgame balance. **
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After finish reading new manga, she will search for new drama to watch, or watch movies. Everyday spending her time fully and wisely. Besides the identity of ‘Actress Yang Mi’, she is still her old self — loves to read manga, loves cat, sometime draws, buys a bunch of CN¥19.90 colourful wigs or hair extensions, style herself beautifully when going out, and always be energetic.
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Last year (2021) before her birthday, her team was filming stuff for her. Yang Mi asked them, “After my birthday, I am 34 or 35 years old?”, her team said 35. She said, “Yes, yes, yes. Next year should be my year of fate.”
“Before 30 years old, I am afraid of ageing. After 30 years old, I become very broad-minded, it’s so broad that I can’t remember my own age, and I need to count it right at the moment. Just like that manga (Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead), you will think that even though tomorrow is going to be apocalypse, you will still face the world motivationally and romantically.”
T/N: Year 2022 is Yang Mi’s year of fate because it is the year of tiger, and Yang Mi’s Chinese zodiac is tiger too.