Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace Director Talks About His Regrets

Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace Director Talks About His Regrets
Zhou Xun Ruyi
Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace 如懿传 may be the top drama online nowadays, but it got off to a shaky start at first as fans criticized many things about it. Director Wang Jun admitted in an interview that he regretted taking on this project despite the drama’s popularity and success. He also issued an apology to the leads Zhou Xun and Wallace Huo.  

I guess this was because netizens have noticed that the actors seemed tired and not at their best when the drama premiered. Zhou Xun had visible eye bags and there were comments that she is too old to play the doe-eyed heroine. 

Wang Jun reveals that, in the process of filming, he was also tired and had wanted to give up several times and the production was taxing on the actors as well. Wang Jun took care to ensure that drama conveyed the proper emotion which led to the snail’s pace of filming. The final production yielded 120 episode total over the course of nine months and the actors tolled 17-18 hours a day just to complete it. 

Zhou Xun Ruyi
Wang Jun shared that he had a hard time deciding on how to film the the pivotal scenes at the start and end of the drama. He admits to sometimes making the crew wait for a decision while he decides on what to do, and it got to a point that he got depressed and was ready to throw in the towel. 

With the feedback that the TV series received initially, Wang Jun admitted that the first episodes of the drama were one of the last ones that they filmed.  He also mentioned that the cast have been filming for nine months by then, resting only three days in between which explains why they were dead tired at the end.  

Zhou Xun Ruyi
It was because of his indecision that filming of the opening scenes were delayed.  He is sorry for how he handled the production and was singing praises, especially towards Zhou XunHe shares that Zhou Xun was a professional throughout. She recited her lines every night, did not need her script during filming and hardly slept.

The drama which was based on a novel was supposed to start from the story of Ruyi and Qianlong’s 6th year of marriage. There was not supposed to be a scene with a 15-year old Ruyi which made up the first two episodes of the drama. Wang Jun thought long and hard about it before deciding to push through with the idea.

He feels that the first few episode depicting their youth will help tie the ending together which is why Zhou Xun ended up playing the role of a young teen. 

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