And guys, we have another queen running around for next year! Tang Wei confirmed this drama back in October and today the drama has begun filming with its main cast. Male lead is Zhu Ya Wen (Across the Ocean to See You) and supporting cast includes the lovely ladies Sun Xiao Xiao and Deng Jia Jia. Empress of the Ming is an upcoming novel-to-drama adaptation of Lian Jing Zhu Yi’s novel 六朝纪事. It’s a palace drama and she will be portraying the character from youth well into old age, first as best friend (grew up together) with the future emperor before becoming his wise and capable Empress, and their love runs solely for 50 years. From the description, looks like she’s playing Empress Zhang Xiaogongzhang who was the spouse of Emperor Xuande, fourth fifth emperor of the Ming dynasty.
UPDATES: added more pics.
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Cast looks solid.
Emperor Hongxi’s empress was surnamed Zhang, whereas Tang Wei’s character name is Sun Ruowei. If we go by the surnames, I think she would be playing the 5th emperor Emperor Xuanzong’s empress instead.
I’ve never read the book to this but I should probably pick it up sometime.
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They didn’t have the character names before so I was merely blind-guessing. Lol. But saw the names this morning, yep, fifth emperor!
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And I just saw my mistake writing Xuanzong. Caffeine-free Monday is totally not working lol.
Thanks Kap!