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Host: Yang Mi is going to cry again!
Watching that scene just now, what did you think of? Did you think of the behind-the-scenes events again?
YM: No...
When we filmed that it truly felt genuinely heartbreaking,
and, actually, that line "I love you" was added by FSF impromptu;
it wasn't originally in the script.
Host: Ahhh...no wonder I thought that line sounded a bit...
so realistic, so moving! YM: No, no!
Watching it right now, the line he added was indeed quite...
Just now watching it myself, I would still be, still be quite touched.
Makes me suddenly have the feeling of wanting to cry.
Just, when faced with the person you love above all,
and have to separate, perhaps separate for a very long long time,
don't even know if you will ever meet again, at that time,
you really can't think of any really fancy speech to say;
perhaps in the end you can only say to him,
"I hope you can eat well, sleep well, take care of yourself."
Host: "As long as everything is well with you, I will feel content?"
YM: Yes, "as long as everything is well with you, I will feel content." Yes, that's right...
Host: I don't know why...I always have a feeling, that Feng Shaofeng, or is it 8th prince;
and Yang Mi, or is it Qingchuan; the two of them always seem to have a kind of,
a very strange type of "fate/destiny".
What do you think about that?
(Repeated lines after commercials)
YM: It's...only "alright" I guess...(laughs)
I think that my feeling towards Shaofeng...really it is just good friends, that type.
Actually in real life he is *extremely* good to me. This is a definite thing.
I...for example when I was filming, once I had a fever of 40 degrees (Celsius),
still filming while I was sick, and then that time,
because the two of us live in the same neigbourhood, so he carried all these small bags and big bags,
and came to visit me at my home, and then he just put down all the stuff,
didn't say much, just said "I'll let you have a good rest" and then he left.
Just things like that. Perhaps when I am feeling really hot, or something like that,
he would get people to buy ice water for me, when we were filming.
Now I don't know if he is this caring and considerate towards everyone,
but I just know that he really is so good to me.
Just in terms of good friends, he really is extremely good to me.
Host: Now why do I keep asking FSF-related questions today,
it's because everyone is too absorbed in watching the drama,
*so* many people want you two to be a couple!
You have also heard a lot of these type of things, probably?
YM: So many! Everyone is saying "Be together! Be together! Be together!"
To be honest a lot of people around me even say, "Why don't you two just be together then!"
Yes, a lot of people around me...are like that. Host: Your good friends, very close friends?
YM: Yes, they say that type of thing.
Host: Have your mom and dad said these things too?
YM: My mom says, "When can you bring a boyfriend home?"
And then she goes, "Just like 8th prince, that type, is quite good!"
Host: Your mom likes FSF too, is that right? YM: *Extremely* likes him!
My dad says she--says my mom will often go on the internet to look up his info and stuff like that.
Host: Searching up FSF's info?
YM: Yes...and she very much likes the feeling of Qingchuan and 8th prince together.
I think this is the very first time this kind of thing has happened during my acting career, actually.
Host: You mean that your mom likes your male costar so much?
YM: The first time--yes, the first time! Even *I* think it is so strange,
Because before I have also filmed a lot of projects, in those I also had romances with various other actors,
my mom was never like this. Host: Never had this feeling?
YM: I said, "Is it that my age is getting old now, are you so desperate to marry me off?"
"Look how worried you are about this!"
Host: How did you get the feeling your mom likes him, apart from the fact she researches him on the internet?
YM: She tells me!! Host: What does she say?
YM: She just says, she just feels: "Aiya, *this* is good about 8th prince,"
"*that* is good about 8th prince, *this* is good about 8th prince"
I say, "Looks like you really understand a lot about him huh"
Anyways so she will just keep saying it. Host: What aspects did she say were good?
YM: She says, like, "He's pretty good-looking/handsome, and he also has a good aura/charisma about him,"
"and also gives people a good feeling..." things like that, yes.
Host: Your mom already says it this way, yet you still don't have any feelings yourself??
YM: Speaking the truth...it's just, "alright". Host: "Alright?"
YM: Perhaps it's because of our filming together,
so perhaps sometimes it's also because the people around us always talk about it,
but the two of us, in private, have never discussed the rumours about us.
Maybe he will joke around saying "Aiya, Mi Jie," ["Mi Jie" = "Sister Mi", one of YM's nicknames]
"look, everyone keeps saying this, so in that case how about we--"
And then I say "quququ" [expression loosely translates to "Pffffft", "Whatever", or "Get outta here" jokingly]
Host: He is *just* about to reveal his feelings for you, but always gets cut off by your "quququ"!
Host: How about we make a phone call to FSF right now? [See note #1 in description for context]
YM: How about we not...
Host: You don't want to call him? Audience: We want it!!!
Host: Why are you so nervous to this degree??
YM: Because I don't what what he's going to end up saying!! Because awhile back...
Host: He'll just say his true heartfelt feelings!
YM: He will always get scolded by me, I tell him to "stop always 'chou feng!'" [See note #2 in description for details]
He just keeps--at the slightest thing, he suddenly thinks up some crazy thing
and then just says it aloud, that sort of thing. Host: Think up *what* crazy thing and says it aloud??
YM: He is just, sometimes his personality is like a little kid...
Actually it's me who usually has to "repress/control" him,
My personality is more cool-headed than him. Host: More mature you mean?
YM: More *cool-headed* Host: Oh, more "cool-headed..."
YM: Just sometimes he more easily gets impulsive than me,
So every time he gets impulsive I have to hold him back and say, "Don't 'chou feng', calm down, be cool..."
Host: So you're afraid once he "chou feng", he'll reveal some stuff,
and you will end up having to smooth things over/explain things, is that it?
YM: Yes, yes... Host: Just kidding! There won't be any phone call.
Originally we were going to call FSF live but because he has some other work
we couldn't make the timing work. But just now I was testing Yang Mi, you know,
I didn't think she would get *that* nervous!
So for sure there must be lots of things that she hasn't told us;
next time I will have to individually interview FSF. (laughs)
"Yang Mi's lightning fast rise into fame/popularity, makes people start to happily exclaim how lucky she is."
"There is no doubt, Yang Mi *is* lucky."
"She started acting in TV dramas when she was 4 years old"
"then participated in the major wuxia drama "Return of the Condor Heroes" at age 18"
"acting the role of Guo Xiang."
"The next year, 19-year-old Yang Mi was selected amongst"
"Fang Bingbing, Li Bingbing, Gao Yuanyuan etc. mainland China A-list actresses"
"standing out and rising above the rest"
"winning the role as the lead actress *** Zhao Jun in the major CCTV drama "*** Zhao Jun" "
"In 2008, there appeared the case of both the "Hong Lou Meng" and "Chinese Paladin 3" casts"
"fighting for 22-year-old Yang Mi to act in each series" [See note #3 in description for context]
"But behind her "luck", there are actually many things that a young girl has difficulty expressing:"
"her hard work and unrelenting perseverance."
"In 2010, Yang Mi took on 11 TV/movie projects in one go."
"Her workload has perhaps even surpassed that of Fan Bingbing and Li Bingbing"
"who have the title "super hard worker" in the entertainment industry"
"and she was given the title"
" 'ping ming san niang' by the media" [phrase = "girl that fights with her life to work hard"]
[Clip from "Hou Lou Meng"; scene of a sick Qingwen (Yang Mi's character) on her deathbed.]