Beijing Satellite TV would begin to air on Jan. 7, Saturday, the 68-episode period drama “Xin Ru Tie” (Iron Heart), starring Nie Yuan. The series story is about a young thief who claims he is the kidnapped son of a millionaire family missing for years.
Nie Yuan is the winner of the Most Popular Actor Award of the China Student Television Festival. The drama, which also stars Shu Chang and Jiang Tao, is Nie Yuan’s return to television, China Christian Daily reported.
Preparing for the Role
To prepare for his role, which is a thief, Nie Yuan had to wake up for training. The actor considers the complex character he is portraying challenging, a big departure from his previous movie roles which were restrained. The thief character he portrays is an emotionally driven roughneck that the actor said he had to let go of himself to immerse in the role, China Daily reported.
Zhang Guoqing, director of “Xin Ru Tie,” describes the TV series as a fast-pace drama but with suspenseful twists. He attributed the different approach to the drama to the production learning the production skills of classic American crime dramas.
Movie Roles
Nie Yuan, who started his movie career in 1997, starred as Tang Sanzang in the 2011 film “Journey to the West,” as Zhao Yun in the 2010 movie “Three Kingdoms,” as Li Ke in “Zhen Guan Chang Ge” in 2007 and as Hu Fei in “Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain” in 2006. As a youth, because he was into vices and got into fights, his parents enlisted him in the People’s Liberation Army.
After Nie Yuan completed his army service, he enrolled at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and starred in 2000 in the TV drama “Wrong Carriage, Right Groom” with his first girlfriend, Huang Yi, an actress.