History Trivia / TheUntamed

** Around the time ''The Untamed'' aired, the actors for Lan Sizhui, Jin Ling, and Lan Jingyi are 20, 22, and 24 years old, respectively; although their characters are only around 15 to 17 years old.
** Inverted with Wang Yibo, who was in his early twenties while Lan Wangji is in his early-to-mid thirties. Although this is played straight in the flashbacks, where Lan Wangji is a few years younger than Wang Yibo's actual age during filming.
* PlayingGertrude:
** The actress who plays Madame Yu was born in 1989, making her around 29 during filming, only '''''two''''' years older than the actress playing her daughter (Xuan Lu), and her ward-of-sorts (Xiao Zhan), both of whom were 26-27 while filming. Xiao Zhan and Xuan Lu are also examples of DawsonCasting, since Wei Wuxian is supposed to be around 15 at the start of the series, and Jiang Yanli only a few years older.

* DoItYourselfThemeTune:
** Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo (the actors for Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, respectively) sang the ending song of ''The Untamed''.
** Xiao Zhan, Wang Yibo, Wang Zhuocheng (Jiang Cheng), Liu Haikuan (Lan Xichen) and Yu Bin (Wen Ning) also sang their respective character songs.
** Chen Zhuoxuan (A-Qing) sang alongside Sun Bolun in the Yi City theme song "Gu Cheng".
** Although Zui Xue is the lead singer, Zheng Fanxing (Lan Sizhui), Guo Cheng (Lan Jingyi), and Qi Peixin (Jin Ling) sang some lines in their collective character song.
* DyeingForYourArt: A mild example. In the canon of ''Mo Dao Zu Shi'', Lan Wangji is taller than Wei Wuxian. However, Wang Yibo is a few centimeters shorter than Xiao Zhan, so he wears pumped footwear to make him appear as tall as the latter.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Implied; not for the series but for the Nanjing concert -- one of the final promotional events of ''The Untamed''. The concert lasted for two days (November 1 and 2), and majority of the cast appeared on the second day and gave their own performances to promote their characters... with the exception of Zhu Zanjin (Jin Guangyao) and Wang Haoxuan (Xue Yang), who only watched from the backstage when their characters' theme songs were performed on stage. After some digging, a few fans speculated that this was because they were the only actors who weren't affiliated with the company that sponsored the concert, hence why they were sidelined. The entire situation is explained [[https://twitter.com/ZhuLiuHai1/status/1190996865996558338 here]] and [[https://twitter.com/ZhuLiuHai1/status/1190996877136683008 here]].
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: Downplayed; in the scenes where Fairy would chase Wei Wuxian, the crew got a hard time getting the Husky to chase Xiao Zhan unless they baited it with sausages.
* [[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Xuan Lu was already a huge fan of the novel long before she got cast as Jiang Yanli.

** Some of the voice actors from the donghua and the audio drama adaptations of ''Mo Dao Zu Shi'' return in the LiveActionAdaptation to dub over the actors playing the characters they voiced. There's Lu Zhixing as Wei Wuxian, Bian Jiang as Lan Wangji, Qiao Shiyu as Wen Qing, Tang Shuiyu as Jiang Fengmian, and Qiu Qiu as Wang Lingjiao.
** Other voice actors from either adaptation are also lending their voices in the ''The Untamed'', but they're not playing the characters they previously voiced. For example, Wang Kai [[note]] Lan Xichen's audio drama VA [[/note]] voices Jiang Cheng, Su Shangqing [[note]] Jin Ling's donghua VA [[/note]] voices Jin Guangyao, Chenzhang Taikang [[note]] Lan Sizhui's donghua VA [[/note]] voices Xiao Xingchen, Liu Sanmu [[note]] Nie Huaisang's donghua VA [[/note]] voices Xue Yang, Liu Cong [[note]] Lan Qiren's donghua VA [[/note]] voices Wen Ruohan, and Zhao Yi [[note]] Jin Zixun's audio drama VA [[/note]] voices Nie Mingjue.
** Creator/HikaruMidorikawa and Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa, who voiced Jiang Cheng and Lan Xichen, respectively, in the Japanese dub of the audio drama will return to voice the same characters in the Japanese dub of the live-action drama.

* StarMakingRole: Simply put, ''The Untamed'' serves as a major popularity boost to most of the actors, ''especially'' for Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo. By the end of 2019, both had already become two of the highest-rated actors in China.
* ThrowItIn: In an interview, some of the cast members mannerism or improvisations made it into the show.

* {{Corpsing}}: During the scene where Lan Wangji gives Wei Wuxian a piggyback ride, upon a closer look the audience can see that Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo are already laughing.

** The actress who plays Madame Yu was born in 1989, making her around 29 during filming, only '''''two''''' years older than the actress playing her daughter, Xuan Lu, and her adopted son, Xiao Zhan, who were both 26-27 while filming. Xiao Zhan and Xuan Lu are also examples of Dawson Casting, since Wei Wuxian is supposed to be around 15 at the start of the series, and Jiang Yanli only a few years older.

* {{Playing Gertrude}}:
** The actress who plays Madame Yu was born in 1989, making her around 29 during filming, only '''''two''''' years older than the actress playing her daughter, Xuan Lu, and her adopted son, Xiao Zhan, who were both 26-27 while filming. Xiao Zhan and Xuan Lu are also examples of Dawson Casting, since Wei Wuxian is supposed to be around 15 at the start of the series, and Jian Yanli only a few years older.

* [[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fan]]: Xuan Lu was already a huge fan of the novel long before she got cast as Jiang Yanli.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor:
** Jin Guangyao is one diabolical, even if tragic, villain in the series (the fact that the character underwent AdaptationalVillainy also helps), but Zhu Zanjin is the exact opposite of him. He even expressed in a few interviews that he actually wanted to play one of the good guys, such as when he stated that originally wanted to play Lan Sizhui.
** While Jiang Cheng isn't a villain, he -- to put lightly -- has several rough edges. Wang Zhuocheng, the actor who plays him, is described by many as a complete softy.
** Nie Mingjue is one of the more aggressive characters in the series and never smiles at all throughout the entire drama. His actor, Wang Yizhou, on the other hand, could be described as a giant teddy bear. So much so that all the other actors call him ''da-ge'' aka "big brother", just like how Nie Huaisang refers to his character!

** Nie Mingjue is one of the more aggressive characters in the series and never smiles at all throughout the entire drama. His actor, Wang Yizhou, on the other hand, could be described as a giant teddy bear. So much so that all the other actors call him ''da-ge'' aka "big brother", just like how Nie Huaisang refers to his own brother!

** The actress who plays Madame Yu was born in 1989, making her around 29 during filming, only '''''two''''' years older than the actress playing her daughter, Xuan Lu, and her adopted son, Xiao Zhan, who were both 26-27 while filming.

* Playing Gertrude:
** The actress who plays Madame Yu was born in 1989, making her around 29 during filming, only <i>two</i> years older than the actress playing her daughter, Xuan Lu, and her adopted son, Xiao Zhan, who were both 26-27 while filming.

* EnforcedMethodActing: To properly convey Lan Wangji's emotions in the scene where Wei Wuxian fell to his death, Wang Yibo had to imagine that it was his own motorbike that was falling down the cliff. This even becomes a bit of a running joke in the fandom.

** A small example; in the scene where Lan Wangji carries Wei Wuxian despite the latter's protests Wang Yibo was supposed to carry Xiao Zhan ''bridal-style''. However, the screenwriters changed it to him piggybacking the later because he didn't have enough strength to bridal-carry Xiao Zhan, who's both older ''and'' taller than him.

** Jiang Cheng's eye-rolling wasn't directed, he just did it because it fit the situation.
** Lan Jingyi's actor says that when he dropped his chicken wing it was something he and Lan Sizhui's actor thought would be funny and it was kept in the final cut.
** Nie Huaisang's actor was told to dust of Jin Guangyao's hat, but he accidentally touched the blood on it. The director liked it and kept that for the final cut.

* StarMakingRole: Simply put, ''The Untamed'' serves as a major popularity boost to most of the actors, ''especially'' for Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo. By November 2019, both had already become two of the highest-rated actors in China.

*** Most notably, Xiao Zhan, Song Jiyang, Wang Zhuocheng, Ji Li, Guo Cheng, and Qi Peixin originally auditioned for the role of Xue Yang. They were cast instead as Wei Wuxian, Xiao Xingchen, Jiang Cheng, Nie Huaisang, Lan Jingyi, and Jin Ling, respectively; although Song Jiyang managed to briefly play Xue Yang ''pretending'' to be Xiao Xingchen.

* DawsonCasting: Around the time ''The Untamed'' aired, the actors for Lan Sizhui, Jin Ling, and Lan Jingyi are 20, 22, and 24 years old, respectively; although their characters are only around 15 to 17 years old.

* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: Downplayed; in the scenes where Xianzi would chase Wei Wuxian, the crew got a hard time getting the Husky to chase Xiao Zhan unless they baited it with sausages.

* [[PromotedFanboy PromotedFan]]: Xuan Lu was already a huge fan of the novel long before she got cast as Jiang Yanli.

* PromotedFan: Xuan Lu was already a huge fan of the novel long before she got cast as Jiang Yanli.