In the eyes of the collaborators, she is a newcomer who is covered up by the label of the rich second generation, and the onlookers are more waiting to see when she has had enough fun and goes back to inherit the family business. Yao Anna, who was born in the C position, but worked the road to acting, what kind of results can she make? At the moment, all conclusions are premature. Author |Edited by Ang Lee |Wu Cheng has been hotly discussed because of his acting skills in "Ice Hunting", and Yao Anna, Huawei's "second princess" who bravely entered the entertainment industry, has recently been on the cusp. Two days ago, she finally responded to the audience's questions through Weibo, using "very lucky" to accept well-intentioned criticism and suggestions. She also used "respect for all likes and dislikes" and "the future will be long, and it will continue to grow" and other descriptions of the first online drama she starred in. 
Screenshot of Yao Anna's Weibo.
In fact, the crime suspense drama "Ice Hunting" was just a low-cost account-sharing drama when filming began in October 2022. At that time, "Hurricane" had not yet been broadcast, and although "Brother Qiang" Zhang Songwen was a recognized acting school in the industry, he was not very popular. thought that an online drama would not receive much attention, but the situation has long been different after a year, so that "Ice Hunting" has accumulated a lot of popularity and expectations before it was broadcast.
With a similar theme, the same male protagonist (Zhang Songwen plays the big drug lord Huang Zongwei) is in charge, and with the blessing of Gao Qunshu, a leading director of the mainland police and bandit crime theme who has directed a series of word-of-mouth masterpieces such as "Conquest" and "The Wind", even if it can't replicate the smash hit of "Hurricane", "Ice Hunting" should be good, right? 
Ice Hunting" launch poster.
As a result, "Ice Hunting" ushered in a wave of bad reviews soon after it was broadcast, and the audience's dissatisfaction was mainly focused on Yao Anna's acting skills. Since then, director Gao Qunshu and starring Zhang Songwen have all come out to "respond" to the audience's questions, but they have not been able to calm the voices on the Internet.
Since deciding to step into the entertainment industry three years ago, the outside world has not stopped questioning Yao Anna's "hard" entry into the entertainment industry. Huawei's identity as the "second princess" is not eye-catching enough, even if she graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree, she did not save her debut honor. Some people describe her debut as C-position, why can't she "be a princess"? From being out of ** to acting, she always got more boos than support. And her own response is: she is lucky enough, but she will work hard to pursue her dreams and ideals. 
Ice Hunting" stills.
Hard work seems to have become Yao Anna's "medicine" to resolve the doubts of the outside world, and her efforts have also been affirmed by co-directors such as Gao Qunshu and Chen Jianying. At present, it seems that Yao Anna has indeed worked hard enough, and she has come up with the brushing mode in the exam, and she will act a lot if she can't act, and maybe one day she will open her mind. During the broadcast of "Ice Hunting", she has entered the crew of "Benevolence Club" and started a new wave of efforts.
For Yao Anna, I have to admit that her basic conditions for being an actress are poor (the "voice and table shape" are not outstanding), but the family background provides a reliable guarantee for her efforts, that is, she can work this road without worries. The acting industry naturally requires talent, but sometimes, people who work hard may be able to find their own way out in time.
Not long after the broadcast of "Ice Hunting", Yao Anna, who played the female policeman Zhao Younan in the play, was arched to the topic C position because of her acting skills. Netizens have intercepted her performance clips in the play, and relayed to start a "performance complaining conference". Some people say that she went undercover to get information about drug dealers and pretended to be a "young lady", which made people play; Some people imitated the scene of her arrest with a gun in the play and hung up the hot search topic of Yao Anna's chicken-eating acting skills; Some people complained that her expression in her lines seemed to be spicy and tongue-in-cheek, and she felt that it was very uncomfortable to watch "Ice Hunting", "I am afraid of missing Zhang Songwen, and I am afraid that Yao Anna will appear". 
Screenshot of Ice Hunting.
Compared with most people who lack acting skills, the audience's dissatisfaction with Yao Anna is multi-layered, but she can be the heroine with poor acting skills, and at the same time partner Zhang Songwen, who has both word-of-mouth strength, began to discuss acting skills with comments such as "the power of capital" and "can the princess go back to inherit the family business". In addition, there are not a few speculations about Huawei's investment in the filming of "Ice Hunting".
However, the bad reviews of Yao Anna did not show a one-sided trend, and some people said that she had a kind of honest cuteness, not playing a big beauty, but starting from the role that suits her, ......
Yao Anna as Zhao Younan.
This is not the first time Yao Anna has fallen into the ** Shura field. On the day of her debut at the age of 23, the voices about Huawei's second princess "hard" breaking into the entertainment industry to play tickets have not stopped. On the one hand, the public lamented the amazing power of capital to "do whatever it wanted", and on the other hand, they waited for the second princess to go home after being frustrated.
Her first solo single "Back Fire" was complained about by a ** big V, saying that her new song has reached "90% of the domestic idol level is ugly". With the resources in place and the songs carefully selected, it seems that Yao Anna is indeed not the material (to be a singer) at present. 
black fire》mv
Popular fans also had mixed reviews of her first single, and the dance exercises and tidbits related to the song were edited, disseminated and recreated by netizens. Some people look forward to it, some people think that the MV is good-looking, and some people in the industry think that she "sings like reading a script", which is a disaster. At that time, responding to various questions in interviews became Yao Anna's daily routine after her debut.
Before "Ice Hunting", Yao Anna had more than one electrocution experience, and she achieved certain results. Her 15-minute short film "A Cliff Rises by the Sea" won the Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Short Film Awards. Short film director Chen Jianying described Yao Anna as "a kind of inner strength" in an interview, and film critic Liu Min commented that Yao Anna's heroine Niannian's personal temperament is close to the style of the film, and she harmoniously completed the big screen ** performance. 
A Cliff Rises in the Sea" stills.
In the TV series "Going to a Windy Place", Yao Anna plays the role of Xie Qin, the daughter of a small non-staple food shopkeeper, with few scenes but a kind of straightforwardness and cuteness, and was commented by netizens as "acting naturally and not collapsing". It seems that as long as it is not a more difficult and complex subject matter, and there is no partner of the protagonist to compare, Yao Anna is not completely unrecognized.
In the seven-unit story of "Tomorrow's Survival Guide", a collection of realistic science fiction stories produced by Bilibili, Yao Anna plays Zheming in "Coloring the World", similar to Xie Qin, and is also a character that is not enough to arouse heated discussions among the audience. 
Stills from "Going to a Windy Place".
Stills from Tomorrow's Survival Guide.
In the eyes of the public, Yao Anna, the "princess" who has a strong family background and has been favored since childhood, is a person who can't even resist her father Ren Zhengfei, and all roads lead to Rome, and she has to choose the farthest one that may not be able to reach. But in the eyes of her collaborators, Yao Anna actually has a big contrast with her own dazzling label.
When director Gao Qunshu mentioned the reason why he chose Yao Anna to star in "Ice Hunting" in an interview, he said that he took a fancy to the other party's simplicity, without any traces of acting training, without the temper of the rich second generation, without plastic surgery, without makeup when he went to the group, he spoke directly without pretentiousness, and his fresh short hair was very in line with the character characteristics of a female policeman. 
Screenshot of Gao Qunshu's Weibo.
And director Chen Jianying also gave a similar evaluation, saying that when she chose for the idea of "A Cliff Rises by the Sea", her criterion was "a newcomer like a blank piece of paper", and after seeing Yao Anna, she saw another Yao Anna outside the legend of the outside world, "I don't think she has any background, or I think she is an actor, an artist, or a star, no." ”
At least one thing is clear, the consensus of most collaborators on Yao Anna is that she works hard enough.
In the eyes of director Gao Qunshu, Yao Anna is a hard-working young man. Her performance wasn't great, but she passed. As a small-budget production, Gao Qunshu's original plan for "Ice Hunting" was an all-amateur drama, and Yao Anna was set before Zhang Songwen. At that time, Zhang Songwen, who was invited to star in this drama, had not yet gained momentum in the "Wind and Waves", and no one could predict that "Brother Qiang" would explode in "Hurricane". Partnering with Yao Anna, Gao Qunshu said that Zhang Songwen had no opinion on the other party, and wanted to see how he trained Yao Anna to act.
Ice Hunting" stills.
Born as a non-professional actor and acting with her true nature, Yao Anna meets Gao Qunshu's positioning of Zhao Younan: a stunned young man, a new policeman who has just entered the workplace but wants to enter the front line to make contributions. Before filming, he told Yao Anna that filming this scene would be very hard, and the other party immediately said that he was very hard. In Gao Qunshu's view, many young actors now no longer have the quality of "being able to endure hardships".
10 days before the start of filming, Yao Anna went to the criminal police team of the local police station to experience life, even so, her actions after the start of the film still made Gao Qunshu not satisfied. So he invited a retired coach from the Secret Service to give guidance, and told the other party to start from Lizheng like training a recruit, and to record the whole process for 8 hours a day, and not to be lazy.
Ice Hunting" stills.
Gao Qunshu commented on Yao Anna's hard work in an interview with the Beijing News: "You said that there are a few actresses who can run without makeup all the time, and they can run in the mountains, and the male stand-ins can't outrun her." We initially used a male stand-in to shoot the running scene, but he ran too slowly, I said why are you running so slow, he said he was going to be tired and couldn't run. I said Yao Anna, you can try to run by yourself, and she ran slowly, faster than the stand-in. After that, all the action scenes were played by Yao Anna herself.
Ice Hunting** Some viewers expressed satisfaction with Yao Anna's running scenes and some of the fighting scenes in the play, and felt that she looked very handsome and cool. The gun-wielding arrest that was described as a chicken-eating acting act was designed and directed by the Secret Service coach, and even after hard practice, it still didn't do it well, but it was in line with the actual situation.
In the short film "A Cliff Rises by the Sea", director Chen Jianying affirmed Yao Anna's efforts. She cut her character's hair short, read the script carefully and fed back her understanding and feelings to the director. As her first big-screen role, Yao Anna worked with the director to make the character fuller, substitute herself into the story, try to write letters for the character, and prepare more subtext and design for the character.
A cliff rises by the sea" poster.
The short film was filmed in Yibin, Sichuan, and the shooting period was 5 days, and Yao Anna went to the filming location four or five days in advance to survey the location with the main creator. Many of the filming scenes were abandoned areas, so she followed the crew to walk and shoot in the ashes and dilapidation, and ate roadside stalls together when she was hungry.
A scene of riding a bicycle to avoid the rain in the cold rain, the complex camera scheduling requires Yao Anna to rush into the rain again and again to complete the shooting. There is no indoor lounge on the scene, Yao Anna is wearing a very thick costume, and once she gets wet in the rain, the weight begins to follow, and the crew with tight funds has no other costumes that can be replaced.
A Cliff Rises by the Sea" stills.
So the question is, can you work hard enough as an actor to succeed?
Gao Qunshu, the director of "Ice Hunting", shared his theory, he feels that acting has no talent, it is enlightenment, and enlightenment requires accumulation. He believes that Zhang Songwen's success stems from his early experience of life, and actors like Sun Honglei, Zhang Yi, and Wang Qianyuan have all had similar tempering. Actor Zhang Songwen once said at an awards ceremony: "You can see the leafy branches, but it is his root system that supports the leafy branches." You should never look down on yourself, don't be afraid of the faults in you that others seem to be shortcomings, you have to believe that you will shine as you deserve. ”
Ice Hunting" stills.
For Yao Anna, it is unknown whether Zhang Songwen's experience as an actor can be replicated in her, but at least the senior actors provide her with a template for reference: endure the loneliness of the years and months, and after a certain stage, everyone is not fighting for resources and relationships, but still has to work hard and stick to the original intention.
Before her partner Zhang Songwen starred in "Ice Hunting", Yao Anna's performance in other film and television dramas did not cause such a big "disgust". If she follows the route of supporting role Xie Qin to polish her acting skills, and like many actors, she saves enough small roles and then takes the lead, maybe her reputation will be different. There is a time difference between the filming and broadcasting of "Ice Hunting", and no one can predict that there will be a phenomenal "Hurricane" in the middle, Zhang Songwen himself never imagined that one day he would become a traffic leader, which directly led to "Ice Hunting" being taken with a magnifying glass**. Ice Hunting" Douban has a score of 47, now down to 45, Gao Qunshu also posted on Weibo, saying, "It's higher than I estimated, I estimate 4."3”。Although the score is low, the popularity value of the show Tencent** station exceeded 29,000, which shows the benefits of using Yao Anna as the starring role.
Ice Hunt" popularity.
The heat has not faded yet, and Yao Anna once again spread the news of joining the group. This time it is in the medical drama "Benevolence Club" with Xin Zhilei and Bai Ke. The outside world commented that her "although her acting skills are controversial, it does not affect Yao Anna's love for acting and good resources at all".
For a newcomer, Yao Anna's resources are really good. The rumor of "not yet qualified but partnered with Zhang Songwen is most likely to rely on the identity of Huawei's second princess" has not passed, and the opponent actors in the new work are still not small. Xin Zhilei, who played Li Li out of the circle in "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-wai, and the sister in the variety show "Flowers and Youth Silk Road Season", which was launched almost at the same time, also earned a lot of audience popularity; Not to mention Bai Ke, he is already the first husband actor in domestic entertainment.
Benevolence Club" took a group photo.
It is reported that there is no shortage of drama partners in Yao Anna's series of works to be broadcast, such as Yang Lixin in the movie "The Grandmaster Sun Lutang", Wang Zhiwen, Ni Dahong, Wang Jinsong in the TV series "Night and Dawn", ......
As a rookie actor, being able to film so frequently, and partnering with different types of powerful seniors, does make people can't help but have a guess: Yao Anna, who is not from a professional class, may have used the brushing mode in the exam in the entertainment industry, after all, she is a Harvard graduate, and her learning ability is undoubted, and frequently playing tricks with old drama bones is equivalent to the small town problem makers frantically brushing questions in order to sprint to colleges and universities, but Yao Anna is still a novice hard mode of brushing difficult problems. Compared with going to a professional college to study acting courses, direct practice is a better way for Yao Anna who wants to walk faster and more steadily on the road of acting. At present, it seems that the co-actors, including Zhang Songwen, Xin Zhilei, Bai Ke, etc., all have their own acting experience, and it is rumored that Mr. Zhang Songwen, as the acting director, has a lot of teaching fees before "Hurricane" came out of the circle.
Stills from "Hurricane".
The benefits brought to her by Yao Anna's label can only be speculated by the outside world, at least one thing is certain, industry insiders are full of curiosity about her as an actor. Zhang Songwen collaborated with her on "Ice Hunting", saying that he wanted to see how Gao Qunshu trained Yao Anna. Yao Anna and Zhang Songwen had no rivalry in the early stage of the filming of the series, but Zhang Songwen would go to the scene to watch Yao Anna when she was filming.
It is unknown whether this curiosity has contributed to Yao Anna's more opportunities to cooperate with the drama bones to a certain extent. But compared with many newcomer actors who have a sense of existence from small-cost ancient puppet dramas, Yao Anna's starting point now seems to be really smart, if she works hard enough and can withstand all kinds of evaluations and doubts from the outside world, maybe improving her acting skills is not an endless thing.
Screenshot of Yao Anna's Weibo.
It is not without reference to improve acting skills by brushing questions, and it is this trick that Hong Kong TVB uses in the process of cultivating newcomers. Many of the actors who signed with TVB came from different beauty contests, and some came out of wireless training classes, but they would "play tricks" for a long time, or shuttle through different studios in TV City.
For example, Charmaine Sheh's acting skills and lines in her early works were also questioned, but now she has long become an acting school, which shows that TVB's rigorous training in a large number of acting modes is effective. In the latest issue of "Infinite Transcendence Class", Xiang Zuo talked about his experience as an actor, saying: "Someone once told me, I'm really embarrassed, if I can't shoot you, it's hard to explain to your parents." From the time I was 18 years old to the present, no one has ever given me the space to act, including all the directors and producers in Hong Kong, China, and I feel like I am really like a wasted person. ”
Screenshot of "Infinite Transcendence Class".
Whether it is the second generation of stars or the second generation of rich, the specific troubles may be different, but withstanding their own pressure and working hard in a seemingly favorable background and environment may be a "shortcut" to pursue their dreams.
An actor is a passive profession, even if it is a hot or talented actor, how many long years are behind the moment of being recognized and praised, and how to find ways to polish himself, most of which are unknown bitter blood and tears history. As for whether Yao Anna can gain more from the brush-style performance of constantly learning from her predecessors, everyone is waiting to see.