Portraying the part of any character created by Chang would be tough, notes Wei, but Qiqiao is the most complex, the most degenerate, and the most unvarnished, none of which could possibly be more different from Wei's Peking Opera "good-girl" roles, or from her own easygoing personality.
魏海敏表示，演出張愛玲筆下的人物本來就很難，何況曹七巧是其中性格最複雜、最扭曲、也最赤裸的一個，這不僅和京劇中的青衣美學背道而馳，也和她自己隨性爽颯的個性完全相反。忘我，無我