Before the drama had come out I was stoked, excited, not only had I read the novel I love dramas where the ML pursues the FL first. I was scared as people said Liu Haocun doesn't do kiss scenes I was really hoping that wasn't true because the title is literally, "Be Passionately In Love". and the novel featured a ton.
But now that the drama has released and there is censored and fake kiss scenes Is very disappointing to me. Trust me I mean no hate to Liu Haocun at all, nor any other actors in this drama. But come on, couldn't we have casted somebody who does kiss scenes? For example I could think of ton of actresses who could play this role beautifully. Lu Yuxiao, Zhou Ye, Zhao Jinmai, Xu Mengjie, Zhang Miaoyi, Xu Ruohan, Tian Xiwei, Zhang Jingyi, even if we could've gotten Wang Anyu with Julia Xiang, not only do I think she could play this role well, Wang Anyu and Julia Xiangs chemistry in Forever Love was amazing. Zhou Ye's character in Everyone Loves Me reminds me slightly of Xu Zhi's character so I feel she could play this role well. Heck, I could even see Zhang Ruonan playing this role well. I could see, Lu Yuxiao, Tian Xiwei, Zhang Jingyi, and Julia Xiang playing these roles so well
Once again I mean no hate towards any of the actors in this drama. The only person I'm disappointed in is the casting director, come on you could do so much better. Not only would the outcome of the drama be better, Liu Haocun wouldn't face backlash for refusing to do kiss scenes. They could've avoided this situation completely. Obviously Liu Haocun and her team willingly took on this roll despite romance and intimacy revolving around this drama so Liu Haocun knew what she was getting into.
At this point I'm glad we even got censored kisses, before the release a lot of people were discussing whether or not there would be kiss scenes, I was scared they would entirely remove them, so at least we got something. Because the storyline itself is amazing I could see if this drama had actual kissing scenes it being as famous as, The Best Thing or even The First Frost. I'm not trying to hate I'm just disappointed in the directors.
