Liu Haoran takes the cover of LEON China and LEON Young for the March 2019 issues! He is the first artist to appear on the covers of both magazines for the same month.

There are two covers that were released for the main LEON China - one for Louis Vuitton, and one for Tiffany & Co.'s Save the Wildlife collection. I'll post the photoshoot for the Save the Wild cover in a separate Tiffany & Co. post as I didn't want to clutter this one too much (and I think that one is deserving of a post on its own as it's for a fantastic cause). 

The LEON Young cover was sponsored by Puma (Haoran is one of the brand spokespersons for the brand in China). Both shoots were taken in Japan, and I swear this was the fasted turnaround ever - the covers were revealed about a week after Haoran came back from the trip. 

Admin note: Translations on HTTYD3 interviews, Tiffany interviews, etc. (at the very least, written translations) are coming soon - struggling to try and catch up. There's just been so much Haoran content lately which is GREAT!).

Admin note: We're back! Thanks for your patience - we were having some technical issues with the blog and I've also been having some personal real life stuff. I mentioned this on Twitter but in case you missed it: I'm going to be taking a break from subs for a while (unless something new comes out like the HTTYD3 stuff). Will continue to translate interviews and update on the Twitter account! Appreciate your understanding! (Subs on older videos will be back! Just need some time.) 

This is a shorter chapter but does a good job of showing both Haoran's playful and more introspective side! Three more to go~

Chapter Five - Cold

We are traveling back in time, via a May 2016 interview that Liu Hao Ran did with The Paper. If you haven't seen the news yet, Liu Hao Ran's 2016 webdrama With You has been picked up by Shenzhen TV for its summer primetime slot after already making it on air a couple of months ago via Zhejiang TV. Although Shenzhen TV is considered to be a second tier satellite TV station, it's still the first time a webdrama has been aired in the primetime slot. Not to mention - this is a webdrama from two years ago. 

At the end of January 2018, Liu Hao Ran filmed a photoshoot for Bazaar Men and was featured on the cover of their March issue. Which means we got an interview along with it. Because Liu Hao Ran has had six magazine features in the first half of 2018 alone (and with the exception of the VogueMe interview which was conducted in March, the rest of the interviews were all done in December 2017/January 2018), the content of them aren't going to differ very much since they all center around his recent acting experiences.

We continue to get more Liu Hao Ran content out of Paris from Chinese media outlets - this time from Sohu and iFeng Fashion. Both media outlets released both a video and an article containing the interview, so I thought that I would provide both english subs and a written translation. We should be getting at least two more interviews in the next couple of days...stay tuned! 

As always, you can find updates and short translations on our Twitter, and follow our Youtube account for the most up to date subbed videos.

Liu Hao Ran has spent the past week in Paris on the invitation of Louis Vuitton to attend their show for Men's Fashion Week (for the second time). Although we only really got to see him when he left China and the day of the Louis Vuitton show, there should be a lot of content coming out in the next couple of weeks and even months (fans in France saw him doing different photoshoots and strolling around Paris). 

It was his first "official" appearance since February and we wanted to make sure it was documented, so this is mostly a picture recap/compilation plus the translation of the Haibao interview near the bottom of this post. You can also find more pictures and news that came out over the last few days over on our Twitter account. Unless it's something big, we will usually have updates (including short translations) over on Twitter instead of here.

Next date to look at - June 28. Zhihu announced that there will be something special with new brand ambassador Liu Hao Ran, though it's unclear right now what that will be.

And yes, we are keeping an eye on rumors of Liu Hao Ran's next project. His team is ridiculously good at keeping things secret, but Novoland: Eagle Flag should be wrapping up very soon (something Liu Hao Ran also confirmed in the Haibao interview) and there is a lot of curiosity - not just among fans - on what his next project will be. As soon as we see anything that sounds even decently reliable, we will share. The only thing we know at the moment for certain is that Detective Chinatown 3 has officially been slotted for Chinese New Year's in 2020, so filming will take up some time on Liu Hao Ran's 2019 calendar.

In 2016, right after web drama With You aired its last episode, Liu Hao Ran released a hand written letter to his fans. In it, he thanks them for their support and encouragement and shares his thoughts on fan-given gifts.

Because this is a pretty short letter, I also included a translation of a letter that the primary agent at his company posted on Weibo on the very last day of 2016 - the two letters go very well hand in hand with one another. As always when I read something from his company, I'm astounded by how much they truly seem to care about him as a person, and how much they support him. They just really, really get him. It's just so rare that young actors have such great, understanding management teams - not just in the Chinese entertainment industry, but in all entertainment industries as a whole.

Note: Nuan Yang is the name his fans go by. It literally means Warm Sun, and I'm not sure exactly how they came up with it, but I'm guessing it has do with his bright and sunny image.

Although Nirvana in Fire 2 wasn't the ratings hit that it should have been (yes, I'm biased), it was still heavily discussed online by those who loved it. Though there were still a good chunk of people who felt that Liu Hao Ran was too young - the Chinese audience is way too used to seeing thirty year olds play twenty year olds - his performance as Xiao Ping Jing was largely praised. In late January (right as NiF2 was finishing its run), there was a discussion topic in the NiF2 group on Douban that basically asked: Which other Chinese actor could have successfully pulled off the role of Xiao Ping Jing? 

The Dome Studio (山下学堂) is a new performance school/studio founded in 2017 by prominent Chinese actors Chen Kun and Zhou Xun and director Chen Guo Fu, with the intent of encouraging actors and those who are interested in performance to grow and continue to refine their craft. As part of their promotional campaign, the Dome Studio started a series called “An Actor’s Sense of Happiness” and leveraged the three founders’ extensive celebrity networks to invite various well respected actors to share their perspective, which includes Jackie Chan, Tong Li Ya, as well as veteran actresses Mei Ting (the empress in NiF2), Liu Min Tao (Wang Kai's mom in NiF), Jiang Xin, and Huang Lu. 

Liu Hao Ran has been the youngest (by far) to be interviewed. When the transcript (and the audio) was released, Liu Hao Ran was filming in the snowy mountains of Xinjiang for Novoland: Eagle Flag, and it had just been revealed by one of his teachers at the Central Academy of Drama on Weibo that he had been filming night scenes every single day in the freezing cold. The monologue was first recorded, and then later transcribed into text by The Dome Studio. You will notice the first part of his response is the same as what he had written in The Eye of the Storm’s preface.