Wanning94:
In entertainment industry, seriously, there are numerous cases of artists, who 'Looks pretty and do nothing'. What's the use of having pretty face, if an artist can't act or fails to give right expressions and don't use his/her own voice in drama?
For an actor, the most essential requirement is the acting competence. If he or she performs theater plays, voice and voice acting is also very important. Depending on the way of filming, sometimes it is not required to use his/her original voice in a drama or movies.
I can distinguish certain english accents. In general I tolerate to actor's voice and accent which speaks other language than my mother tongue. With the experience of watching dramas produced in my home country, I can see there are a lot of good actors/actress in term of acting but their voices are quite irritating to hear. Moreover, there are also geographical linked accents. It is very odd to watch a drama where most of family members have for example northern accent but one of the kid has southern accents. Thus I totally understand the issue of dubbing in cinema industry. One day when the industry uses/require only direct filming and sound recording, the actors who can not speak the language well or have a nice voice or convey emotion with his/her voice would have trouble. Then probably they would have more motivation and driving force to improve their voice.
In such a big country as China, there are many people, ethnics whose mother tongues are not Mandarin (as compulsory for Chinese dramas) or Cantonese (as mainly used in Hong Kong dramas). Thus speaking correctly the required languages and then conveying drama content together in the voice is challenging. For costume dramas, requirement for proper speaking of Madarin is even higher. Thus, I appreciate actors who can use their own voice in drama. It is bonus point for me. I am fine with those who can not use their voice (especially if he or she doesn't have academic training in acting, or comes from some corners of the country)
For example many people (or haters)have critized Zhao Liying for using voice actor for her role in the coming The Legend of Shenli. I read her explanation is she tried to record her voice for the role 2 times. But she and the production team did not find it suitable/optimal for the role. They thought that another voice would bring better result for the character, thus bringing the best experience to the audience.
Another example is many critized Yu Shuxin's voice. She usually uses her voice in her drama. She even dubbed some cartoons. However, many audience (both Chinese and international one) finds her voice irritating and drop or abandons her dramas. In her latest drama, Sword and Fairy which she made her voice almost similar to the voice of the character in the game, many people just rated the drama low because of her voice. So the drama and she got punishment for being loyal to the original plot/game.