As you may have realised, I 'was' currently watching TVB's edition of 'Empress of China', which circles around the struggles of Meiliang and how she transitions from an innocent and compassionate girl to a bitter and less forgiving Empress. Her role itself offers plenty opportunity to show off some great acting chops in a lot of scenes, but most of the time I feel FanBingBing gives an effortless performance that drags the whole series down. The main reason was because she hardly emoted. She was either a little bit shocked (with her mouth one quarter open) or looking innocent and pure with her eyes wide open and curious. A one dimensional performance for a role that had heaps of opportunity to display one's acting ability. The uninspiring storyline doesn't help much either. If this role was given to Betty Sun (the lead actress from The Legend of Zhen Huan, i'm sure the series will be much better overall). What a pity.
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