The movie Red Cliff is a large-scale film and television drama with the theme of Three Kingdoms. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays Zhou Yu and Zhang zhen plays Sun Quan. In the process of shooting, in order to make the actors play better and more freely, everyone shoots in their own local language. Because Tony Leung Chiu Wai is from Hong Kong, it is naturally more convenient to use Cantonese, while Zhang zhen, as an actor in Taiwan Province Province, uses Taiwan Province Mandarin. After the filming is finished, the film will be filmed again.
This shooting method is very common in the film and television industry. This happens whenever actors from the three places on both sides of the Taiwan Straits co-star in the same film and television drama. After all, everyone was born in a different place and used a different language. Even the actors in Chinese mainland have different accents in different places, and the southern accent has its own style. It is only because the profession of actors requires Putonghua to pass, so mainland actors all speak standard Putonghua.
The mainstream media and film and television dramas in Hong Kong are mainly in Cantonese. Even if they can speak Mandarin, they still take away the obvious Hong Kong accent. Although Putonghua is also spoken in Taiwan Province Province, it is obviously different from that in mainland China. Mainland audiences will feel a strong Taiwan Province accent when watching TV dramas in Taiwan Province Province. Therefore, when actors from the three places perform a play together, everyone will say that as long as the performance is in place, language is not a problem.