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The China TV series Song Gong Ci starring Vic Zhou and Tamia Liu is playing on the big screen, which has caused a lot of heated discussions on the Internet.

Ironically, 43-year-old Tamia Liu plays a girl of 15 years old.

Although Tamia Liu's own maintenance is not very bad.

But on the screen, the audience clearly felt the "vicissitudes of life."

In fact, it is not uncommon for middle-aged and elderly actresses to play young girls in film and television circles.

For example, the first Simon menstruation, a couple of plays played by Yang Junjun and Vincent Chiao, is really ugly.

Liu Xiaoqing, who plays a young professional, is over 60 years old, and often plays girls aged 16~ 18.

Zhou Xun, who is in her forties, plays a teenage girl in Mr Right.

Ruby Lin, a girl in her forties, has grown into an old woman in various TV programs.

Carina Lau, 55, plays a young man in love in his twenties.

etc ......

The teenage roles played by these middle-aged actresses are also called "goddaughters" by netizens.

The reason is that some male characters who are much younger than them are even 20 years younger than them, and even call them girls at once.

This is the problem.

Are middle-aged actresses really absolutely unsuitable for teenage girls? Why are some middle-aged actresses so keen on playing young? Why did the producers agree to let them play the role of teenagers?

To be sure, an old actress is really unfit to play the role of a girl, no matter how good her acting is and how to stay young.

Why is this?

Aging is a natural law. Many times, only under the control of the photographer's excellent lens angle, the makeup artist's honor and the star's facial expression will the star say "young photos" in the press release.

But what about shooting? Can you handle these?

Makeup is a big problem. You said that if it is a normal part, the makeup artist can dress you up as a girl.

What if the script needs to reflect the changes in your life, for example, you are a young girl who begs for a living? Do you mean make-up for beggars or girls?

Put on beggar makeup and you will suddenly become a middle-aged man in front of the camera.

With a girl's makeup, a beggar who is clean in vain, the audience can't 100% have a bad review.

No matter how good the actor's acting skills are, it can't make up for the disgust that this extreme disharmony brings to the audience.

Being a photographer is also difficult. When you say you need a close-up, you have to adjust your angle, and you have to worry about the feelings of the actors who perform with you.

Later, I took a good photo, but it showed your wrinkles and the photographer had to look for it again.

Why bother doing so many things?

Some middle-aged actresses are keen to play girls for three reasons.

First of all, when I was young, I always played the role of a trophy without acting skills.

When people reach middle age, their acting skills have not been honed, and their roles are very narrow.

After all, most of the middle-aged female characters in film and television need certain acting skills to control.

Relatively speaking, girls' personality will be easier to express their feelings. After all, a girl has no more experience than a middle-aged woman, as long as she can sell her feelings.

In this way, it has become one of the few characters who can control their eye-catching acting skills.

This is just a pity in the eyes of the audience.

Second, they can't go beyond their own thoughts.

Some women find it hard to accept their aging, especially for stars, fans and the public, which have been praised for more than ten years.

Suddenly forced to admit that they are old and no one takes care of their beauty, this psychological gap makes them unwilling to admit it.

Ruby Lin is a typical example. She once admitted on the show that she could not accept her mother who played the heroine.

Third, interests.

Quite simply, in the film and television works market, the heroine is not too old, and there are few film and television works with middle-aged heroines as the core.

If there is, it usually starts from girlhood.

Of course, it is impossible to compete for resources through the position of the protagonist. Where are the girls? Interest is the most important thing when playing, regardless of consistency.

So is the producer.

You said that if a female character, in the script, is a story from teenager to middle age, then the girl and middle age need two actors? Pay two actors?

One movie has already hurt the budget of the whole drama. How much money can you leave for filming after two more movies?

And it is also very troublesome in scene allocation.

If this girlhood scene only takes up a little bit, you said it would be uneconomical to find another actor.

If there are many scenes in girlhood, you may not find an ordinary young actress, and invite those who are famous or have a reputation for acting, and the budget is tight.

Let's do it with one actor.

But as we all know, it is much easier to pretend to be old than to pretend to be young. You said it would be bad if a young actress was allowed to play from a teenager to a middle age.

On the other hand, countless examples tell you that only two words can describe it.

Awkward.

I just hope that I won't see middle-aged actresses playing girls in the future, and at least take care of the audience's emotions.