There are many famous directors in the Chinese film industry, but the director who has let his wife play the heroine for decades may be the only one left, except for Jiang Wen.
On May 11, Jia Zhangke forwarded the role editing video of his wife Zhao Tao on a social platform, and released a trailer saying that "Sister Tao will play a well-known woman in the 70s", revealing that Zhao Tao will once again play the heroine of his own movie.
Well-known directors and powerful actors are both husband and wife, but also perennial partners, and the mutual achievements of Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao have always been a good story in the Chinese film industry.
Netizens saw Director Jia's trailer and speculated that Jia Zhangke's new movie will be led by Zhao Tao, and as always, it is a movie with "Tao".
Some people also sent their blessings, hoping that the new film would help Zhao Tao win the Cannes Award, making her the next Chinese actress to win the three major European film festivals.
Since Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao got together because of the drama, almost every film directed by Jia can see Zhao Tao's figure, and most of them are heroines, and the two can be described as the "divine eagle heroes" in the film circle.
Zhao Tao also gained a lot from starring in Jia Zhangke's films, and in the second year of her debut, she was nominated for the best actress at the Cannes Film Festival for the role of Jin Qiaoqiao, a dance artist in the movie "Ren Yao", but unfortunately she missed the award in the end.
Then to 2015's "Mountains and Rivers" and 2018's "Children of jianghu", Zhao Tao has also been nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress.
Although Zhao Tao has won many awards, she has never had a real weighty "Best Actress" to prove herself.
Perhaps because of this, Zhao Tao is very persistent about the Cannes film queen, and "Children of the Jianghu" is already her fourth time since "Ren Yao", "Twenty-Four Cities", and "Destiny of Heaven".
From nomination to award, Zhao Tao has walked this road for eighteen years, but Zhao Tao, who believes that he "must be able to do it", has never been able to do so.
With zhao tao's frequent failures, some viewers questioned her strength, and also felt that Jia Zhangke let his wife do the starring role no matter what kind of heroine he shot, in fact, he was blindly selecting people, which affected the quality of the film to a certain extent.
Before his debut, Zhao Tao did not receive professional acting training.
She graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy, worked as a dance teacher after graduating in 1998, and was only selected by Jia Zhangke to star in the movie "Platform" in 2000.
Zhao Tao's unpolished but spirited performance was well received, and "Platform" also won the Best Asian Film Award at the Venice International Film Festival.
In fact, Zhao Tao's first impression of Jia Zhangke, who is both Bole and her husband, is not very good, and she also mentioned in the interview program that she was afraid that Jia Zhangke was a liar when she first filmed, and even brought an anti-wolf flashlight.
Despite a small episode, the two were attracted to each other, married in 2012, and have been in love ever since.
Although the two have not been recognized by all fans along the way, Zhao Tao actually interprets many roles in Director Jia's films quite well, and not winning the award is not necessarily because Zhao Tao is not good enough, after all, whether he can win the award is also very important.
Leaving aside the identity of the director's wife, Zhao Tao as an actor is not unworthy of Jia Dao's resources, and mutual achievements and mutual appreciation may be the best mode for the couple to get along.
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