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| Snow Kong Xueer on Owning Antagonist Roles: “There Are No Small Parts” (Weibo) |
Snow Kong Xueer might have started out winning hearts with pop bangers and synchronised girl group sparkle, but she’s well on her way to becoming one of Chinese drama’s most intriguing villain queens. After first shooting to fame on Youth With You 2 in 2020, debuting with THE9 and enjoying the fast-paced idol world, Snow took a hard left turn into acting. And let’s be honest — it hasn’t always been smooth sailing.
Like many idols who swap the stage for the camera, she got a fair bit of stick in the beginning. Critics knocked her for being stiff or overdramatic, especially during her run in Blossom (Jiuchong Zi) alongside Meng Ziyi. But rather than hide, Snow knuckled down, trained harder, and went in all guns blazing to prove she could handle proper, complicated characters.
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One of her best-loved performances so far has to be Zheng Chuyu in The Prisoner of Beauty (Zhe Yao). On paper, Chuyu is your classic manipulative schemer — the sort who traps the heroine, Xiao Qiao, outside the city for three days and basically engineers a divorce through the aunt. But Snow cleverly dodged the usual “femme fatale” cliché and made Chuyu a cheeky, childlike, almost clownish baddie whose plans keep hilariously backfiring.
Fans couldn’t get enough, nicknaming her “evil peach” — a slang phrase for a woman who seems sugar-sweet but is sneakily toxic underneath. She even pulled off the role of a so-called green tea girl, acting soft and angelic on the outside while actually plotting every move with razor-sharp precision.
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Despite all the trickery, Snow gave Chuyu a sense of hopeless romanticism too, showing a girl who’d happily become a concubine just for her cousin’s love. It was layered, ridiculous, and surprisingly sympathetic — exactly what audiences love in a well-done antagonist.
And Snow didn’t stop there. She’s had a string of memorable side characters: Zhi Yan, the undercover concubine spy in Tales of Dark River (Anhe Chuan); Miao Ansu in Blossom; and Yin Shujun in The Ideal Son-in-Law (Bang Shang Jia Xu). These roles might not have been front-and-centre, but she’s consistently turned heads, showing off a growing acting range that no longer screams “idol transition,” but rather “proper actress with bite.”
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Looking ahead, she’s gearing up for The Jade Trail (Zhu Yu), a historical drama where fans hope she’ll again pull something unpredictable out of her hat.
Of course, fame rarely runs smooth. In 2024, a wave of fans actually protested when Snow was cast as a second female lead in a new drama — they felt she’d already earned first-lead status. But Snow handled it like a pro, giving a calm statement about respecting the craft and being grateful for each chance to appear on screen:
“Being recognised as an actress and meeting audiences this way is a great honour… there are no small roles. Every character marks a stage in my growth.”
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She was refreshingly honest, too, admitting she might not be ready to headline big productions just yet and was purposefully taking smaller but impactful parts to build up her skill. It’s a strategy that’s clearly paying off. Snow has also said she’d love to pop up on relationship-based reality shows like See You Again, Lover, explaining she wants to explore “relationships that aren’t always sweet” — a perfect match for her mischievous on-screen energy.
Whether you remember her as the girl-group idol with slick moves or the cunning green-tea villain who tries to rewrite people’s lives, Snow Kong Xueer is definitely more than a pretty face. She’s proof that if you put in the work and aren’t afraid to play a baddie — with a twist — you can carve out a powerful niche in the drama world. And let’s face it, if being called an “evil peach” is your badge of honour, you’re probably doing something very, very right.
Source: Weibo/Sina