TVB dramas have been popular for an era and have accompanied countless people in their childhood.
The fashion dramas it produces are one of a kind, and many costume dramas are also enlightening works for many mainland audiences, such as "The Condor", "The Condor", "Xunqin Ji" and so on. In those years, in addition to being attracted by the ups and downs of the plot in the drama, we were also fascinated by the fashionable and beautiful female Hong Kong stars.
TVB's Hua Dan, there are like Gigi Lai, Li Ruotong, who are so gentle and elegant that they are astonishing at first sight.
There are also those like Guan Yonghe , Liang Xiaobing which are not stunning at first glance, but they look comfortable and get better and better the more you look at them.
But there are also some actresses who always play beauties in dramas, but it is difficult for people to get beautiful actresses. Let's take a look at those Hong Kong stars whose appearance is more controversial.
1, Guan Baohui
Guan Baohui is a native of Hong Kong. She graduated from the Drama Department of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts at the age of 22. She was recruited by TVB because of her outstanding performance in her graduation work.
This also means that, unlike those actresses who were born as Hong Kong sisters, TVB chose her because of her superb acting skills.
Her appearance is definitely not a beauty in the traditional sense. Her eyes are not big, her eyelids are double, and in most cases they look like single eyelids. She has a relatively long atrium, cheekbones are slightly high, and her mouth is slightly rounded.
But she has a good temperament. She can show the royal sister side in modern dramas, and her role as a white-collar worker is enough to convince the audience. But once you get into a costume drama, the small flaws in your facial features will be infinitely magnified, but she has also played many costume beauties.
The most impressive one is Mu Nianci in the 1994 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". Her appearance in the play is actually quite beautiful, with two neat ponytails and several red hair ribbons embellished with big hair. The red clothing echoes from beginning to end. But because her face is already long, the proportions of her face look even longer without the bangs.
In addition, the great beauty Zhu Yin plays the role of Huang Rong in this version. Even Liang Wanjing who plays her mother-in-law Bao Xiruo is also a well-known classical beauty in Hong Kong circles. In comparison, her charm is even less impressive. .
Later, mainland actresses such as Jiang Qinqin, Liu Shishi, Zhao Liying and other actresses all played the role of Mu Nianci. They were all beautiful beauties in ancient costumes. After comparing multiple versions, she was labeled "the ugliest Mu". "Nian Ci" label.
After "The Condor", she played Lin Shiyin in "小李飞刀". Anyone who has read Gu Long's novel knows that Lin Shiyin is a weak and delicate beauty, full of sorrow and misery for half her life. This version of her character has been adapted, and her personality is impulsive and irritable, and she will be very cold and ruthless in the later period. Such a persona is inherently unlikable, and her appearance is also not eye-catching. It is hard for people to believe that this is the cousin who made Li Xunhuan decadent.
In the 2000 Lin Jiadong version of The Blue Blood Sword , she played He Hongyao . This later-stage paranoid and vicious woman was actually a beautiful and beautiful saint before being deceived by the scumbag Golden Snake. The original work is borrowed from it. He Tieshou said, "My aunt was so beautiful back then."
But her appearance is far from "so beautiful"!
She has a very distinctive appearance, and her acting skills are also very good. She can play ordinary roles with ease, but she has repeatedly challenged the characters in the original novel who are famous for their beauty. No matter how thick the Hong Kong drama filter is, they can't close their eyes and call her beautiful.
2, Xiang Hailan
Xiang Hailan was the champion of "Miss Hong Kong" in 1998 and the third runner-up of " Miss Chinese International " in 1999.
She is an academic master, perhaps because Hong Kong people particularly admire the type of beauties known as "highly educated strong women". They always give the green light when they participate in beauty pageants.
With the title of beauty, she attracted the attention of the audience as soon as she debuted. TVB also praised her very much. The roles assigned to her were all leading heroines, and they were the kind of roles that are famous for their beauty, such as the "Four Beauties" Yang Yuhuan, one of the most beautiful women in the martial arts world, Shen Bijun, the most beautiful woman in martial arts, Chen Yuanyuan, the famous prostitute who made Wu Sangui furious, etc.
Yang Yuhuan was a beauty in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, beauty was considered to be round and round. In the mainland versions, there were plump beauties like Zhou Jie and Lin Fangbing who gained weight for their roles and looked photogenic.
And Xiang Hailan created a tall and slender figure, a thin version that would be blown away by a gust of wind. In addition, her face is long and her cheekbones are relatively high. Neither her figure nor her face have the round and round charm of a Tang Dynasty woman.
In Huang Rihua version of Xiao Shiyilang , the role she played as Shen Bijun, the most beautiful woman in the martial arts world, was much more plain and simple compared to Yang Guifei. She did not have a head full of pearls and green blessings. Her face was long and sunken. The bug becomes more obvious.
Her love rival Feng Siniang was played by Shao Meiqi in this drama. At that time, Shao Meiqi had not yet had hair. If the two of them were in the same frame, her "number one beauty" would be quite unconvincing.
"Yang Guifei" once hit a ratings boom, but Shen Bijun's popularity has waned a lot, but her resources have always been very good, and she is still a beauty even if she is soy sauce. Precisely because of her unparalleled resources, it was once widely rumored that she was the niece of Xiang Huaqiang and a "connected household".
Although this statement was later denied, her continuous performance of a peerless beauty did arouse the audience's aesthetic fatigue, and gradually the audience stopped paying the bill.
In 2008, some media selected the top ten ugliest Hong Kong ladies based on complaints from netizens. Xiang Hailan was prominently on the list. The main faults were: " shoehorn " face, slippery shoulders, and thick lines.
She herself admitted: "She is really not beautiful, especially her face is too pointed and thin." Fortunately, she has an outstanding temperament, and this is probably what it means to have a poetic and calligraphic spirit.
3, Yang Yi
Yang Yi's starting point is not high, she started by playing soy sauce and acting as a maid. In 2002, Michelle Ye , who was one year younger than her, began to play the female lead, and she slowly climbed to the level of playing her maid.
At that time, TVB was full of talents, and it was difficult for her to get ahead without a background. But her acting skills were good, and after a few years, she was taken seriously by TVB, and she began to be played by heroines.
During her soy sauce period, she was graceful, graceful, delicate and elegant, with quite a classical charm. Later, when she took the lead, her face was completely different from before. Her face was more slender, her nose was towering, and her whole temperament became sharp.
It’s no wonder that the roles assigned to her were all villains.
The "treacherous concubine" Yao Jinling in " Palace Scheming " made her the queen of TV in one fell swoop and became the leading actress of TVB. After that, most of her roles were that of a royal sister.
In "The Harem", she played the role of a middle-aged lady who also made Zhu Jianshen fall in love with Wan Zhen'er who was 17 years younger than her. At this time, we will find that she has taken the acting route instead of the appearance route.
After all, with this appearance, it is more convincing to say that she is a beloved concubine who captivated the country and made the little emperor swoon over her, but it is more convincing to say that she is a concubine who went dark and met demons and killed them.
4, Xu Zishan
Xu Zishan was the 2004 "Miss Hong Kong" champion. She studied ballet since she was a child, and later switched to Hip Hop and Jazz due to an ankle injury. With these gimmicks, she should be a great beauty with outstanding temperament and appearance.
But in fact, she is also an actress who is highly praised by TVB but has always had controversy over her appearance.
She looks very fashionable, or in popular terms, "high-end". She has slightly upward double eyelids at the corners of her eyes and very thick lips. Her facial features alone are quite beautiful, but when put together they make her very tough, fierce and aggressive. In addition, she has a big frame, which always makes her look strong and manly.
Because she entered the circle with the title of Miss Hong Kong champion, her rise to the top is not that fast. In the second year after her debut, she collaborated with Deng Cuiwen and Wu Meiheng in " Women Are Not Easy to Be ". She is the youngest, but in terms of appearance alone, she is at the bottom of the show.
Her facial features are so strong, it is very inconsistent to wear ancient costumes, especially the sausage mouth will be obviously exposed.
In " Four Famous Boys", she played the female lead Sang Zhiyan, a killer who lurked around Qingqing as a doctor, and finally fell in love with Wuqing. Although this is a character with a complicated heart, her appearance is too much like a cross-dressing boss, making it difficult for people to get involved in the play and figure out the character's mental journey.
Of course, her acting skills are still good. If you put aside those beautiful women who are set to play villains or sassy characters, they are very brilliant. For example, Tuotuo in "Jinyiwei" has a strong aura and is very touching.
It is said that when filming this movie, the director was thinking about what kind of actress to play Tuotuo so that she could look better than Donnie Yen. Later, he happened to see Xu Zishan attending an event, and the idea immediately emerged She could see how she looked when she created this character, so the director immediately contacted her.
5, Wu Meiheng
Wu Meiheng was born in Guangdong and moved to the United States with her parents when she was 6 years old. She has participated in many beauty pageants since she was 20 years old, and has won the title of "Miss Chinatown USA" and the runner-up of "Miss Chinese International".
She should be a typical series that foreigners think is so beautiful, right? As for domestic audiences, half of them get her looks and the other half don't.
Her three courts and five eyes are not standard. She has a long center and high cheekbones. When she first participated in the beauty pageant, she was only in her early 20s and looked very mature. Later, when she started filming movies and TV series, she no longer looked girly.
So if she plays a dignified and generous role, it will complement her temperament, but if she plays a slightly different role, it will look very inconsistent, and there will always be an aura of resentment towards the woman.
In "It's Hard to Be a Woman", she plays the lead female lead Gao Zhiling. The second female lead Deng Cuiwen is 6 years older than her and 8cm shorter than her official height of 172cm. However, since they are in the same frame, her advantage is not obvious.
In her early years, she was also highly regarded by TVB and was assigned many important roles. She has played the roles of many beautiful women such as Yu Ji, Wen Yi/ Wen Qian, Mei Fei, etc.
encountered good modeling and good character design, and the character she created was dignified and dignified, with the appearance of a married woman. When someone's appearance is not very friendly, he looks old-fashioned and has a grimace and a mean look on his face.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the mainland's film and television industry was still underdeveloped. Hong Kong dramas were the source of our joy, so a large number of Hong Kong stars also had filters here. No matter whether they were really handsome or fake, they were all superstars. In addition, their acting skills are online, and they can let the audience take on the role in whatever they play, so that everyone's focus is not on their appearance.
But now I look back and find that those Hong Kong actresses who were highly praised by TVB and often played the role of peerless beauties in dramas were actually not as stunning as their characters rendered, and some of their looks were even in everyone’s aesthetic blind spot. .
On the other hand, looking at the mainland female stars of the same period, there are also some who are stunning, such as Chen Hong, Jiang Qinqin, He Qing, etc.
