CCTV's FengMi Reporting: YM & Her Male Co-Stars

Must give a BIG thank you to Mango_cake for her wonderful FengMi's posts. Otherwise, this blog wouldn't survive. 

CCTV (China Central Television Station) is the biggest broadcasting organ in China whose tentacles reach the most remote parts of China.  This TV station is a government entity that usually airs no nonsense programs and proper news. 

 Mango_cake:

Funnily, even CCTV, the official TV station in China, is a total FengMi shipper! I think I mentioned the subtle bits they did before, but awhile ago they were SUPER OBVIOUS in a news piece they did on Yang Mi--during her DMGD celebration press conference, they asked YM for her opinion on many of her male costars.

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YM's other popular co-star, Hu Ge.

Yang Mi actually just gave pretty generic, professional, media-tailored answers to all of them but it's hilarious how biased CCTV is!

First they show two of her series as a kid; obviously YM doesn't remember her male costars much! Then there's a quick section on HG...I have to laugh at how anti-GeMi CCTV seems to be: "After growing up YM's representative series was CP3 with HG, but the two did not have much chemistry. When talking about him, Yang Mi only briefly and lightly touched upon him." Then CCTV sticks a big "NOT FAMILIAR/STRANGERS" caption on the screen. Despite the fact that, in the interview, what YM actually says is simply that they haven't seen each other in a long time, but they did have lots of fun working together.

Then CCTV goes into full-blown shipper mode and starts posting clips of FengMi in the HFCQ/MingYun press conferences + HFCQ series clips (please let this be a sign that CCTV is broadcasting it soon?!). All while saying: "In 2010 YM and FSF started to work together...FSF became the most important male costar in Yang Mi's life...the two became the most popular onscreen couple." The big caption they put for FengMi is, "FAMILIAR/HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING". When in reality, YM jokes "Aren't you guys sick of seeing us together repeatedly?", then goes into full-out "let me crush the FengMi rumours" mode, saying: "Actually our personalities are very different, some of our opinions we can never agree on! Really the most familiar/understanding things we say to each other are our onscreen dialogue. We do really have a lot of familiarity onscreen."

Then they ask her if she feels jealous after FSF praised LYF (his Hong Men Yan costar) at the movie's press conference awhile ago (info was posted in his thread). However, I actually have to thank this reporter for asking such a ridiculous question! Because her answer is rather suspicious...now wouldn't you expect YM to answer something like, "Why would I be jealous, we're just friends." EXCEPT SHE DOESN'T SAY THAT. Instead YM goes, "Yes, I saw that [interview]."--so she's been paying attention to all his news, huh?!--"Nah, I won't be jealous, because actually me and Liu Yifei are good friends; including now, we still have very good relations; *cute laugh* So, who cares what he says? *giggles*"

YM: who cares what he says? [in response to FSF's praise of his White Vengeance's co-star]

Hmm...really now? Doesn't that sound more like the way she would answer about a boyfriend rather than just a mere friend?? The reason she's not jealous is because he's just praising one of her good friends? Anyhow, then they ask her about Tony Leung and Nic Tse (male actors she will work with/would like to work with), but again it's very brief.

Oh CCTV, way to be obvious...the segment on FSF was practically longer than all the other guys combined! And they seemed to totally disregard YM's positive comments about HG/neutral comments about FSF, seemed like they were going "Lalala we're only hearing what we want to hear and interpreting everything you say in a FengMi light!" And here I thought CCTV was supposed to be the more unbiased, straight-laced TV station, not a gossipy station!