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Feng Shaofeng is passionately loved and vehemently hated. It is widely agreed among fans that he is a handsome young man. He is loved since he has starred in some television series as good lead guys. He is hated because in some other televised dramas he appeared cheap and bad.

But off screen and in an interview with me， Feng Shaofeng is definitely a good young man: handsome， his face vivid and expressive， modest， profound and even philosophical.

A native of Shanghai， Feng was probably born to be an actor. He showed special interest in acting while he was in the kindergarten. He grabbed a top prize in a national story-telling competition for preschoolers. Teachers at the Shanghai Children’s Palace were impressed with his talent. So the prodigy began to learn how to act. He entered a drama troupe of the palace and began to appear in many plays. He entered Shanghai Theater College in 1997. Upon graduation， he declined a job offer to work as a teacher at the alma mater and signed up with Shanghai People’s Art Theater.

That marked the beginning of extreme love-hate emotions on the part of his audiences. Feng Shaofeng never seeks to confine himself to one special category of characters， the men you hate or the man you endorse. He wants his characters to differ from each other and he wants new characters. Once he puts paid to one drama， he prays to start a new character that he can study and interpret anew. In fact， he regards such interpretations are the greatest pleasure entitled to an actor.

He believes that there must be something an actor and his characters have in common. Of course he is talking about himself and about the good guys he acts as in television dramas. You don’t have to be a bad guy in real life when you try to act like a bad guy in a television drama. But you have to be a good guy in real life when you act as a good guy in a drama and want to convince your audience. There is something you can’t pretend to have if you don’t have it already.

With a busy work schedule， Feng spends quite a lot of time at Hengdian World Studios， Asia’s largest filming location in central Zhejiang. He regards Hengdian his second home. So he shuttles between Hengdian and Shanghai quite frequently. It was during one of the shuttle trips between Shanghai and Hengdian that he had a car accident. It occurred on his way from the studios to the airport. The first thing he said after he came to in hospital was that “don’t drop me from the cast. I will get better pretty soon”. He did get well pretty soon， for fortunately he was not badly hurt.

Although he has a lot of hobbies， he puts them away whenever he is busy working. In spare time he plays basketball and takes photographs. He explains his hobbies this way: photography captures beautiful moments in life and playing basketball enhances friendship.

Feng believes in opportunities. He does not try to let audience see how great he is as an actor. He wants to act his age in the characters he interprets. He keeps a very low profile as an actor. And he dedicates to his career and he wants to ripen as a good actor able to masterfully act as all kinds of men. That is probably why he can live peacefully with the love and the hate he inspires in the audiences.#8194;