It can be said conclusively that it is fortunate that Zhao Yazhi played Bai Suzhen, otherwise it is really unimaginable who can handle such a role well. The subsequent Bai Suzhen was almost meaningless, Liu Tao was not that beautiful, Huang Shengyi was too modern, that Sun Moumou was simply joking, and Ju Jingyi couldn't explain it all. After all, there is and only Zhao Yazhi is the most classic Bai Suzhen! Zhao Yongzhi also became the goddess in the hearts of countless post-80s audiences because of playing such a role. Otherwise, if it was only the early "Shanghai Beach", she would not have too high commercial value. Zhao Tengzhi is really a natural beauty that cannot be abandoned. Although she has three sons and is nearly forty years old, the white lady she played is still so beautiful, which is so rare. In "The Complete Story of the White Snake", Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing's first trip to the lake attracted "the local group of rambunctious youngsters, romantic children, crowded over one after another, and they all salivated and praised them". The appearance of the sensational West Lake is an imagination before "Legend of the New White Snake", and an impression after "Legend of the New White Snake". After being tempered by several ancient costume dramas "Moment in Peking" and "Joking about Qianlong", Zhao Yongzhi concentrated and released all her acting skills and charm in this drama. Bai Suzhen, who she plays, has crescent eyebrows like the moon and bright eyes like water.
Not only does she pretend to be "a fairy" and "a person", she also performs Bai Suzhen's "exquisite wisdom" as a lady, "coquettish and charming" as a snake fairy, and "soft but not complaining" as a good wife In this drama, Zhao Lianzhi faced the heavy mother role for the first time, but interpreted Bai Suzhen's dignified and sad family affection for Shilin with sincerity. The heart-piercing grief at the farewell to Shilin was no less shocking to the audience than the eternal separation of husband and wife in front of the Leifeng Pagoda. With the popularity of "Legend of the New White Snake", Zhao Yazhi's fan base spans from children of a few years old to elderly people over seventy years old. The audience's feeling has reached unprecedented unity: Zhao Tengyi is Bai Suzhen who combines traditional virtues! A reporter even conveyed to Zhao Yongzhi his son's childish words "I will only marry a white lady when I grow up". Together with Zhao Lianzhi, there are two actresses, Ye Tong and Chen Meiqi. Ye Tong, who has never been stingy with her sexiness in movies, has been naked in the camera. In addition to being crowned Best Actress at the Academy Awards, she is famous in Hong Kong for her beauty and acting skills. But director Xia Zuhui made the decision to play Xu Xian with Ye Tong after seeing her in men's clothing in "Love in the Blue Sea". A Hong Kong magazine once praised Ye Tong for "always doing 100% in acting". Faced with the difficult cross-dressing, Ye Tong's character of "Xu Xian" and "weak and conservative" and "strength doting on his wife" is in place. The play with Zhao Yazhi is also elegant, natural and unrestrained, and the ear shaping is done brilliantly. Xiaoqing's actor, Chen Meiqi, was 34 years old at the time. But she endowed Xiaoqing with a "chivalrous" spirit of daring to love and hate, coupled with the natural girlishness in her gestures, people ignored her age. Many viewers even loved Xiaoqing more than Bai Suzhen. In fact, before appearing in "The Legend of the New White Snake", several actors including Zhao Yongzhi were very apprehensive about the "(good) Huangmei singing". For the sake of performance, they specially received training in theatrical body, technique and eyes before the filming started. When it comes to filming, the actors not only make the details of umbrellas and walking in daily life close to the ancients, but also interpret the figures and eyes in Huangmei Opera just right.
Coupled with the ancient style and charm of the costume design of this play, it helped several leading actors to bring their classical temperament to the extreme, allowing the audience to truly appreciate the performing arts of "peerless youth". .