Vacation of Love stars Yao Chen as a talent agent rejected by her crush – who also happens to be the singer she is managing (Zheng Yunlong). She becomes acquainted with the carefree Hou Hao (Bai Yu) while on holiday at Sanya, and a bickering romance begins.
Vacation of Love 假日暖洋洋 revolves around the healing romance between top talent agent Xu Keyi (Yao Chen) and the owner of the seaside holiday resort Hou Hao (Bai Yu). Musical actor Zheng Yunlong(The Sound) makes his drama debut playing a top star.
Liu Tao and Yao Chen are featured on the July cover of ELLE. Both actresses saw a career resurgence with Daylight Entertainment dramas Ode to Joy and Nirvana in Fire and All is Well respectively. Photos by Li Qi.
A victim of sexism in her own family, a spoiled youngest son, and a weak father finally freed from his boss spouse all walk into the same show…
From preferential treatment to sons to overly-protected sons to independent women to old people being scammed, All is Well都挺好’s trailer hits so many the hot topics that every episode is already guaranteed to set aflame a million internet forum. The series starring Yao Chen, Ni Dahong, and Guo Jingfei is set to air on March 1st.
Here’s two photoshoots of 42-year-old Ma Yili and 38-year-old Yao Chen from earlier this fall as they promoted their new film. At the press conference, the two were asked about difficulties in finding good roles as an older women. Yao Chen said the two are still considered young actresses while Ma Yili said that “Actresses don’t need to panic … The best period of your life is just around the corner.” It certainly is for the two of them, who has continued to have one popular work after another.
Although the two actresses play mothers in this film, I actually do see an increasing number of lead roles for women above 30 in non-mother roles, probably in line with increasing age of marriage in China. There’s also been a lot more of older woman- younger man relationships in idol dramas. For example, 38-year-old Dong Jie recently starred in an idoldramas opposite 26-year-old Han Dongjun and 31-year-old Zhai Tianlin, 33-year-old Tong Yao (her character is younger) liked 18-year-old Chen Feiyu’s character in Ever Night, the then-42-year-old Yan Ni paired with the then 31-year-old Hu Ge. As the latest and perhaps first crop of idol drama leads from mainland ( Tang Yan comes to mind) grows up, I can easily see many of them starring in rom-coms well into their 40’s and maybe even older.