After hearing of the Mulan 2018 remake, I thought about how Liu Yi Fei's already "too old" to play a very young character. Liu Yi Fei was 22 years old while Vicki Zhao was 33 years old back last 2009. Yi Fei is entering 31 next year.
So why did I wish Yi Fei took the role of Mulan over Vicki? I thought a much younger Yi Fei could have handled the role of Hua Mulan better and the age would be a bit near. Mulan was probably 15-16 years old when the story took place. Vicki is already twice her age for the role of Mulan!
Back in 2013, we have a 19-year-old Suzy Bae who PULLED OFF the role of Dam Yeo Wool or how Yi Fei was only 19 during Return of Condor Heroes. So why did they get a much older Vicki to play Mulan when Yi Fei was very much young and available to play a character who's in her late teens? In Suzy's case, her character of Yeo Wool was probably 18 years old - which was a marriageable age during those times.
Jerry Yan could play as General Weitai considering that he's ten years older than Yi Fei. Mulan was just a small fry while Weitai was already a top-ranking officer. I think they could have given a bit of the Chin Han x Brigitte Lin type of chemistry for the older people.
As said, if you're going new school then you have to keep giving new talents a chance to play the younger roles. It's like this: Super Sentai and Kamen Rider is getting more and more new talents I'm no longer familiar with and that's a good thing. Older talents will sooner or later have to go behind like how 80s TV drama actress Leanne Liu now plays motherly and antagonistic roles to make way for new talent.
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