Anonymous · 1mo
Sorry this got so long but I had to share my thoughts on the quote you shared and had to split my asks up lol!
The quote and interview you mentioned in the last ask are so incredibly sweet. I had heard the quote before but did not know about the part where he was so happy to hear a fan getting married and living a happy life. he is just so🥹 I have always found it so endearing how sentimental and empathetic he is. I also think it’s what I love about hearing him discuss his acting process. The way he describes the characters he plays. how he views them as friends he says goodbye to once the show ends. you can tell at times he even feels a little protective of them like I remember him being #1 wwx defender in some of those bts clips! Was there a way that he described a character that maybe gave you new appreciation for that character? Maybe from an interview or from one of his letters?
omg no worries at all!
xz is SO in touch with his own emotions, and i've always thought he's incredibly, highly emotionally-intelligent. not just in regards to his own emotions, but to others' as well. he knows when to say what, how to act based on different situations, he'll slide in and offer an out to people who are clearly struggling. it's so admirable, and makes me want to be more like him :')
it 100% lends itself to his creative processes, and i love seeing it come through in his characters! as picky as he is about his endorsements, he's just as, if not more, picky about his characters, which is how i know that every project he does sign on, it's one i can believe in and look forward to. he's #1 wwx defender forever 😭 the post he made about returning him to the one he loves... sigh, xz, you romantic.
100% the way he spoke about shiying! spoiler alert for The Longest Promise when he died the first time, originally, the script had him saying something along the lines of "don't miss me/don't be sad". but xz sat down with the director and said that it doesn't feel right, that shiying wouldn't say something like that. he argued that he /would/ want his beloved to miss him, that when he's in his final moments, he would want to know his love was worth it. it's also in this moment that i realized just how much xz cares for his characters and wants to do right by them. since then, he's done this with a lot of his projects – sat down and really looked at the dialogue and offered suggestions when things don't feel right. i think it's so rare! i know if it was me, i would just recite the lines, assuming that the writers know best, but xz always takes it one step further and /becomes/ the character.
