The TV series "Tieu thanh dai su" (The Great Story in a Small Town), starring Huynh Hieu Minh and Trieu Le Dinh, is receiving attention when broadcast on CCTV-8 and the Tencent platform.
In which, the audience was surprised when athlete Tran Mong appeared as a guest. Tran Mong was born in 1994, is a leading Chinese women's table tennis athlete, who has won major titles such as Women's Singles World Cup (2020), 2 Gold Medals at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics (women's doubles and team) and Women's Singles Gold Medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics...
In particular, Tran Mong is also known as the cousin of famous actor Huynh Hieu Minh, who is also the male lead of "Tieu Thanh Dai Su".
According to QQ, it is not uncommon for athletes to venture into acting, being guests to star in television or film. Previously, Ton Duong and Vo Dai Tinh also appeared in domestic TV series.
However, unlike the usual "dream collaborations" of works with sports themes, this time Tran Mong participating in "Tieu Thanh Dai Su" was completely a coincidence.
The female athlete shared that on a visit to her cousin Huynh Hieu Minh at the film studio, she was accidentally asked to play a guest role.
Tran Mong shared about his experience of becoming an actor on his personal page: "Unexpectedly, I had the opportunity to participate in a TV series. For the first time entering the film set, acting with so many actors, I am both very excited and feel extremely honored. This is also an extremely special experience".
Audiences are familiar with the image of Tran Mong's horsetail hair on the competition field, but in this movie, the character Tieu Tran - a resident of Nguyet Hai town - whom she plays - appears with a "mush head" hairstyle.
Although he does not have acting experience, Tran Mong scores points thanks to his natural expressions, true to real people, making viewers not feel awkward.
Tran Mong's image is also commented to be very suitable for the 1980s setting. She wore a striped shirt and a retro-style jacket. Some viewers commented that if you don't pay close attention, it is even difficult to recognize Tran Mong in this appearance.
Tieu Tran in the movie is a table tennis master. In a movie scene, the characters Du Thanh Dien and Giai Xuan Lai are successively defeated by Tieu Tran. After that, official Trinh Duc Thanh (played by Huynh Hieu Minh) confidently takes the field, loudly declaring that if Tieu Tran wins, he will write a letter of introduction to bring her to the city's sports school.
Huynh Hieu Minh and his cousin Tran Mong really had an interesting confrontation on screen. The scene became even more humorous when Tieu Tran used a razor blade as a racket to challenge Trinh Duc Thanh but still won.
Tran Mong said that the film crew atmosphere was very cheerful, but the actors were still very professional: "The first second they were still exchanging and teasing, the second after they started filming, they immediately got into the role and switched to a very fast state.
Little City" is adapted from Chu Hieu Quan's literary memoir "City of Chinese Farmers", which won the Zhejiang Provincial Arts and Culture Award.
Taking the prototype from the process of farmers in Wenzhou (Zhejiang) building Long Cang city, the story is set in the 1980s in Binh Xuyen district, when Nguyet Hai town was established.
The film tells the story of grassroots officials Ly Thu Binh (Trieu Le Dinh) and Trinh Duc Thanh (Hoang Hieu Minh), leading farmers to reform, raise funds and build a modern city on the coastal alluvial grounds.
