luv2bafangurl:
This is interesting, because I also heard about this often. What make you said that someone is bad actress/actors other than their limited expressions?
Is it maybe the line delivery ? Line delivery is definitely something that we international viewers can not judge, but most idol actors are dubbed anyway. For me it‘s the other way around, where sometimes I found it jarring if the dubber‘s voice doesn‘t match the actor‘s face/vibe.
Acting should be universal, I always thought that it doesn't matter if the actor is acting in a language you can understand or not, you can still tell if they're a bad or good actor and I don't believe it's completely subjective. Can the actor make a character convincing and disappear into that character, make that character seem like a real person? Or do you just see the actor acting very hard, playing a role, making boring and expected choices when it comes to their facial expressions, how they react and interact with another actor in a scene? Do they have annoying tics or habits that are theirs alone, not the character's, because you've seen them display it over multiple projects? Are they dead behind the eyes? Lights are on but no one's home? Can they generate realistic, naturalistic chemistry or does it feel fake and rehearsed?
I can't speak to Zhou Ye's line delivery because in everything I've seen her in she's been dubbed, a problem in and of itself. She's a Beijing Film Academy graduate, bare minimum her voice and voice acting should be trained well enough for her to be able to dub herself. She used her own voice in Youth in the Flames of War but I don't have any plans to watch that, and I heard she uses her own voice in LMLMV but I haven't started watching that. In a recent show she did, Scent of Time, not only was her acting wooden, but the voice they dubbed her with was weird and didn't match her at all, it was very distracting. These were problems pointed out by domestic viewers (the latter problem is obviously not her fault, but the wooden acting was all her), but international viewers seemed to really like her in that show -- a head-scratcher for me.
For a show like LMLMV, her acting is probably fine enough, I think it shouldn't be much of a stretch for her to play a pretty, young bubbly college student, that was basically who she was a few years ago. But when you put her acting alongside TJC's I'm guessing it's going to look like a mismatch of ability.