{"rewrite":{"id":"r_5dd6f8b3859d4ffc23c5e344","clusterId":"c_fed44a90fc4a95be48181064","slug":"vivant-villain-rinrin-jokes-face-too-famous-to-stay-an-operative","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"VIVANT Villain Rinrin Jokes Face Too Famous To Stay An Operative","summary":"Rinrin, the 43-year-old actor who plays Shinshii operative Zhou Haoran in TBS's Sunday Theater drama VIVANT, drew a wave of reactions with a series of X posts after Episode 19 of Season 2 aired on October 4. In that episode, Zhou stabs Bessatsu unit member Mitsugu Wada, played by Yusuke Hirayama, after Wada is abducted by the Chinese intelligence organization Shinshii and tortured. On October 6, Rinrin shared screenshots of abusive messages on Instagram and thanked viewers, calling the reaction the height of an actor's good fortune. On the afternoon of October 8, Rinrin quote-posted a news item on X and wrote that the face is too well known to work as a Shinshii operative anymore, then asked whether the boss is angry. Kyoko Miyashita, who plays Shinshii boss Han Linxin, quote-posted that reply and wrote that long-haired Zhou is already unrecognizable, so it does not matter, and asked Rinrin to continue public relations as before.","whyItMatters":"The exchange shows the drama's own cast running the post-broadcast conversation in character, with the villain's on-screen boss answering his off-screen complaint as if the fiction still applied.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eRinrin has run an X account since June 2016 but kept to watching for about ten years before posting. The first post came on July 29, before Zhou\u0026#39;s role name was revealed, when Rinrin wrote: \u0026#34;I\u0026#39;ve only ever watched until now, but I\u0026#39;m tweeting for the first time. Watch VIVANT.\u0026#34;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the episode aired, Rinrin kept answering news items and posts by director Yohei Miyazaki in Zhou\u0026#39;s frame of mind. At midnight on October 9, Rinrin posted a photo showing the top of a shaved head, taken inside a location bus, with the note: \u0026#34;It seems like some people are worried about whether this account is real, so I\u0026#39;ll put up a photo that hasn\u0026#39;t been posted anywhere else that definitely shows it\u0026#39;s me.\u0026#34; Producer Kazutaka Iida quoted the post: \u0026#34;So it was real. The person behind this is incredibly kind and a nice guy.\u0026#34;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRinrin also added that hair and eyebrows have grown out, and that a visit to the VIVANT monument in front of TBS went unnoticed. Shungo Takasaki, who plays operative Shen Junyu, answered a reply about the messy room with \u0026#34;Well, well.\u0026#34; Viewer replies included \u0026#34;The Shinshii exchanges are way too cute\u0026#34; and \u0026#34;Han-san really is kind after all.\u0026#34;\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Rinrin joking that Zhou Haoran's face is too recognizable to stay undercover only works because Kyoko Miyashita's Han Linxin answers in character, turning a fan reaction thread into an extension of the show's Shinshii hierarchy.","twitterPost":"Kyoko Miyashita answering Rinrin's operative joke as Han Linxin turns a fan reaction thread into VIVANT's Shinshii hierarchy playing out off-screen.","threadsPost":"Rinrin joking that Zhou Haoran's face is too recognizable to stay undercover lands differently once Kyoko Miyashita replies as Han Linxin, since the boss who ordered the character's cover now exists in the same feed as the actor who plays him.","newsletterBlurb":"The cast of VIVANT is trading jokes on X in character after Episode 19, in which Zhou stabs Wada. Rinrin says the face is too famous to stay an operative. Miyashita, who plays boss Han Linxin, replies that long hair covers it and PR should continue. 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