{"id":1803,"date":"2015-08-28T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T03:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2020-08-21T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:38:41","slug":"filming-chinese-tv-drama-marry-to-the-west-with-wei-ren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/filming-chinese-tv-drama-marry-to-the-west-with-wei-ren\/","title":{"rendered":"Filming Chinese TV Drama &#8220;Marry to the West&#8221; with lead actress Wei Ren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Marry-to-the-West-on-set1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1807\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set2.jpg\" alt=\"Alfred and Wei Ren on set2\" width=\"1469\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set2.jpg 1469w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set2-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1469px) 100vw, 1469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently flew back to Beijing, China&nbsp;to work on a feature film tentatively titled \u300a\u76d7\u5893\u7b14\u8bb0\u300b &#8220;The Lost Tomb&#8221;. We are in pre-production at the moment. As fate would have it, a good friend of mine, <strong>Wei Ren<\/strong> was also in Beijing filming a Chinese TV drama called<strong>\u300a\u6d0b\u5ac1\u300b<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Marry to the West<\/strong>&#8221; . She is one of the lead characters and her character is entangled in all kinds drama. &#8220;Marry to the West&#8221; filmed in the US and in China. She recommended me to the director for a scene they were shooting. Wei and I had worked together on my short film &#8220;Retrieval&#8221; which was also shot in Beijing and where she also played one of the leads.<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;Marry to the West&#8221; we ended up shooting a dramatic scene where I have to deliver some news to her. Even though the scene was very serious, it was super fun filming with a friend on set. Even though it&#8217;s &#8220;work&#8221; it really makes it feel like you are just having a good time and spending an afternoon with your friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Marry-to-the-West-on-set1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1805\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Marry-to-the-West-on-set1.jpg\" alt=\"Marry to the West on set\" width=\"1142\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Marry-to-the-West-on-set1.jpg 1142w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Marry-to-the-West-on-set1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Marry-to-the-West-on-set1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Marry-to-the-West-on-set1-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The filming pace of Chinese TV shows is very fast. We knocked out the scenes very quickly. It was fun to be a part of the production. We had lunch with the director and the rest of the cast and then I headed back to Tong Zhou which is where our pre-production office is in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1806\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set.jpg\" alt=\"Alfred and Wei Ren on set\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently flew back to Beijing, China&nbsp;to work on a feature film tentatively titled \u300a\u76d7\u5893\u7b14\u8bb0\u300b &#8220;The Lost Tomb&#8221;. We are in pre-production at the moment. As fate would have it, a good friend of mine, Wei Ren was also in Beijing filming a Chinese TV drama called\u300a\u6d0b\u5ac1\u300b &#8220;Marry to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[45,759,908,90,120,924,866,1170,1189,965,1010,897,1184,1187,1188,1026,1185,1186],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acting-projects","category-entertainment","tag-acting","tag-actor","tag-actress","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-filming","tag-filmmaking","tag-friends","tag-fun","tag-la","tag-on-set","tag-retrieval","tag-tv-drama","tag-tv-series","tag-us","tag-wei-ren","tag-marry-to-the-west","tag-1186","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alfred-and-Wei-Ren-on-set2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eMwQ-t5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}