Originally Posted by
tennisrocks
A few interesting info I found:
I went around digging past articles on him and it seems that he will play a boy turn bad, really bad in the tv series "Jan Shen", the car racing story. Apparently he gets really jealous and turned really evil.
When told that he seems to be the next Lu Yi, Zhen Yu answered that he doesn't want to be labelled as anything, that's why he tries to take on as much different roles as possible.
When he first auditioned for 7 Swords, he said, "Holy cow, when I first went into the room, it was filled with so many guys, I thought the entire actor community was there!"
The first thing director/producer Tsui Hak told him to do for the audtion was throw him a sword and told him to play with it. He was so nervous and surprised by the request, but then he eventually passed it since he has dance/martial arts background.
He said his favorite scene for 7 Swords was the Sunflower scene he did with co-star Wang Li Kun. He said although he was asked to do 7 takes the entire time barefooted no less, and after filming both his feet were puffed and swollen, it was all well worth, because he loved that scene. He said the dance movements combined with martial arts was breath-taking and beautiful.
Since he had a lot of interactive/intimate scenes with actress Wang Li Kun (Yu Fang), of course at the beginning they were both very shy toward each other, that's why the director asked them to hang out after filming. They did, and both went out a few times for dinner or meals. And since they were both new at the place they filmed and had no clue where everything was, they had a good time exploring together and in the end a big plate of Chicken something helped bonded them. I'm guessing 'cause they both love that dish or something.
Presently he is filming a modern idol type of series.
By the way, the semi pairing of Zhen Yu and Li Kun gained them quite a lot of new and devoted fans. They loved the chemistry between the two.