The Untamed Photobook Add-On Booklet Cast Interviews [5/9]
LiuHaiKuan
One month before we started training, I had always been diligently exercising. My body weight was 145 jin [1], I even had a trainer, and I felt that my condition was quite good. After we started training, I was disgusted by how my body shape was too broad and I was not skinny enough, I thought, “Let’s lose another 5 jin [2].” But when I saw Lan Wang Ji, I realised that I was too big-sized. Yi Bo and Xiao Zhan have very small faces. Xiao Zhan’s face is already narrow, and with his two tufts of hair, it looks even narrower.
I then decided to lose another 5 jin, and after that I got a little addicted and lost another 5 jin. Now, I weighed 130 jin [3], and ever since we had started I had lost a total of 15 jin. A few days ago when I measured my chest, it was 93 cm [4] while before we started it was 110 cm [5], and I was especially miserable.
When we started training, I realised that all the actors are especially good-looking. During our breaks in between filming, I asked Xiao Zhan, “Ah Zhan, how heavy are you?” He said, “I’m 130 jin.” I said, “Okay, then I’ll try losing weight to 130 jin…” I hope the audience can see that I really respect this role and diligently want to portray their ideal Lan Xi Chen. [6]
TN:
[1] Approximately 87 kg or 191 lb
[2] Approximately 3 kg or 6.6 lb
[3] Approximately 78 kg or 172 lb
[4] Approximately 36.6”
[5] Approximately 43”
[6] I’ve always known that the actors were specifically told that they had to be slim in order to look good in the guzhuang costumes, but the extent to which Liu Hai Kuan took this and how much he worried about it really pains me. And I know that despite everything that’s going on with #bodypositivity, it’s a part of the show biz, but he is already such a beautiful person the way he is and how unhappy he was with the way he looked is just a little depressing.
ZhuZanJin
The one I interact most with in the show is Lan Xi Chen. Hai Kuan Laoshi is also very much like Lan Xi Chen, that is, very elegant and refined, and he doesn’t like to talk much. My personality is actually more extroverted, and we are like fire and ice: he is ice, I am fire. For example when we joked privately, I would always go “HAHAHAHA”, laughing uncontrollably, but he would quietly and calmly go “en”. But in the end we eventually switched, when he told me a joke, I would go “hehe”. We would tease and joke with on another very often.
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