In 2000, a "Daming Palace Word" turned out to be a novel.
This historical long-form TV series not only witnesses Zhou Xun's agility, Chen Hong's classical beauty,
It also created a classic Wu Zetian.
As the only female emperor in Chinese history,
There are not a few film and television works about Wu Zetian,
Before there was Liu Xiaoqing, there was Fan Bingbing, but Gui Yalei's version has always been called the best.
When she starred in Wu Zetian, Gui Yalei was 54 years old,
With thirty years of experience in film, and won the Golden Horse Best Actress and Supporting Actress laurel.
Gui Yalei was just right for Wu Zetian,
It accurately reflects the entanglement of a generation of empresses between the roles of mother and emperor.
As an actress, Gui Yalei is also a rare person who takes care of career and family.
At its peak, it was a model of getting married and having children, and continuing to challenge herself after having children and grandchildren.
Gui Yaleiben is a Zhejiang girl born in Changsha,
In 1949, he moved to Taiwan with his family and settled down, when he was only five years old.
Gui Yalei is the eldest in the family, and her parents are busy with work.
Her younger siblings are in her care most of the time, and she is like a little parent.
Gui Yalei has a great sense of family since she was a child, and her parents have also given her a lot of space.
In such a family environment, she has always felt that marriage and family are taken for granted.
At what age to do anything, no matter what work to guard a happy and warm home is their responsibility.
So when she was 18 years old, her relatives introduced her to her, and she agreed without any twisting.
At that time, Gui Yalei was studying in drama school, but her appearance was not outstanding.
Some of her classmates have become big stars, but she has never had the opportunity to perform.
And her blind date Zhang Mengkui is a promising pilot,
The two talked very happily, they were sincere and honest people, and naturally they talked about love,
This is Gui Yalei's first love.
Gui Yalei still did not become an actor after graduation,
She once fell in love with peking opera performances when she was eight years old.
Now after studying acting, I don't have the opportunity to realize my dreams.
Fortunately, she was not an obsessive person, so she went to primary school to become a teacher.
At this time, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, was holding a 'Miss China' contest,
Gui Yalei signed up with the attitude of trying it out, and did not expect to finally win the championship.
However, the beauty pageant champion did not bring any waves to Guialei's life.
She still teaches in school and lives a mundane life.
It just so happens that Qiong Yao's novel "Smoke and Rain" is going to be remade into a movie, and the heroine is being selected.
Gui Yalei's teacher recommended her to go to the audition.
Gui Yalei, who has a love for performance, plucked up the courage to go to the audition site,
As a result, I saw all kinds of beautiful women with exquisite makeup to prepare for the female lead.
Gui Yalei looked at herself dressed in simplicity, and suddenly lost her confidence,
When she auditioned, the test clip was the clip of Yi Ping asking for money from her father in the rain.
It requires strong emotional resonance and has high requirements for acting.
Gui Yalei was a hard-working student when she studied acting.
The whole novel was also well prepared, and the performance was easy to master.
In the end, Gui Yalei conquered Qiong Yao and the producer with her own performance,
She became the first generation of Qiong Yao girls.
Gui Yalei can finally realize her dream of becoming an actor, but her boyfriend Zhang Mengkui does not agree.
He feels that the entertainment industry is mixed, knows some bad people, and has no return.
Gui Yalei reassures her boyfriend and promises him that he will marry her when the movie is finished.
In this way, Gui Yalei made the first movie of her life,
She also obeyed the agreement and married Zhang Mengkui, who was only 21 years old at the time.
However, "Smoke and Rain" brings Gui Yalei more than just the experience of filming,
She also won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, the youngest actress in history at that time.
Gui Yalei wore the cheongsam sent by her husband to receive the award, spoiled and unfazed, and her face was calm.
After winning the award, a large number of films came to the scene, and Gui Yalei wanted to continue filming after being affirmed.
But Zhang Mengkui once again raised an objection, he did not want his wife to go out and show her face,
I want her to be the officer's wife at home.
Zhang Mengkui's career at this time was also getting better and better, and his official position was constantly rising.
But being in the military is inevitably a bit of machismo, and there are requirements for his wife from clothing to makeup.
At that time, short skirts on the knee were already popular, but Gui Yalei's skirt had to go below the knee.
When colleagues from the army came to the house as guests, Gui Yalei deliberately put on a delicate makeup on her face.
But Zhang Mengkuifei let her remove her makeup and come out to receive guests,
How could such a husband let his wife go out to shoot?
Gui Yalei saw that her husband did not make sense, so she went to her mother-in-law to help,
After they got married, their mother-in-law lived with them and was as close as mother and daughter to Gui Yalei.
After the mother-in-law nodded, Zhang Mengkui was not good at disobeying her mother, but she had to return to the three chapters of the Yalei Law.
So every play she's done since then has been written in the contract,
No nudity scenes, no kiss scenes, no overly intimate shots,
Even asked the skirt not to be too short, but Gui Yalei really did it.
Gui Yalei, under many requirements, pays more attention to the expression of acting,
Naturally, he gave up a lot of bo-out scripts, and successively starred in several high-quality literary and art films.
Become a generation of literary goddesses.
In 1970, Gui Yalei won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress again for "Home in Taipei".
At the same time, she won the best actress at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, which was the same for a while.
At the peak of Gui Yalei's career, she became pregnant,
And despite the company's objections, they want to stop working and have children.
In Gui Yalei's view, filming is just work, and running a family well is his greatest responsibility.
In this family, there is not only themselves and their husbands, but also their mother-in-law, but also children.
Although Gui Yalei put her career behind, her films have influenced a generation of filmmakers.
Later well-known directors Ang Lee and Hou Xiaoxian once worshipped her as a goddess.
Gui Yalei gave birth to two daughters, and when the child was five or six years old, she made a comeback,
This time, Zhang Mengkui did not stop her, but supported her to have her own career.
At this time, she no longer wants to play the big heroine who used to be positive and dedicated,
Wanting to challenge some different roles, she took over the filming of "Titi's Diary" and played the heroine's mother.
Gui Yalei's decision puzzled many people, even her husband did not understand why she had lowered her self-worth.
Once you start playing a supporting role in the entertainment industry, or playing a mother role,
In the future, it will be difficult to receive the script of the big heroine,
But Gui Yalei only wants to challenge more roles and hone her acting skills.
There is no consideration of film remuneration or position.
Kung Fu pays off, Gui Yalei won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress with this movie,
The three-time Golden Horse Award-winning actress is almost unprecedented.
Guiare, who was enshrined in the film industry, began to have more space and choices,
She has starred in Jackie Chan's kung fu comedies and also challenged herself to be a film producer.
In 1993, Ang Lee finally made a name for himself in the film industry.
And invited the goddess Gui Yalei to star in the second movie of her life, "The Wedding Feast",
This movie once again made Gui Yalei win the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress,
The film was also shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival, the Oscars and the Golden Globes.
At this time, no one doubted Gui Yalei's acting skills,
The husband also believes that she can take care of her career and family,
Her family became the strongest backing on her dream.
At this time, Gui Yalei's two daughters had settled in the United States.
My husband has also retired, watching the Film and Television Industry in Hong Kong and Taiwan gradually decline,
She made a big decision again and went north to shoot the scene!
This is why there are classic plays such as "Daming Palace Words" and "Orange Red".
Gui Yalei, who grew up in Taiwan, is uncomfortable with the climate in the north.
Her retired husband took the initiative to take on the responsibility of taking care of her and filmed with her.
During the filming of "Daming Palace Words", the crew took root in Hebei,
Chen Kaige often went to pick up Chen Hong and went home with her to shoot the whole play,
Zhang Mengkui also accompanied Gui Yalei to witness the half of Wu Zetian's life.
Guialei has maintained a good figure and elegant temperament for many years,
But in his bones, there is also a self-challenge and the strength to accept defeat.
In 2008, she cooperated with director Li Shaohong again to star in Madame Wang in "Dream of the New Red Chamber".
Like all young actors in heavy costumes,
Wear heavy headdresses and receive etiquette training.
This play was filmed for a year and a half, and there are large paragraphs of literary lines in it.
And the outside world is generally not optimistic about this play, the director itself is Hu Mei, and finally replaced by Li Shaohong.
"Daming Palace Words" and "Orange Red" are both works by Li Shaohong,
After the two cooperated, they also became friends, and Gui Yalei overcame difficulties to come to help.
In 2011, the 67-year-old Gui Yalei starred in "Diet Men and Women 2",
Played an elegant old woman with a beautiful appearance and a lonely heart.
This character likes to dance the national standard dance, although there is only a minute or two of footage,
Gui Yalei, who can't dance, has studied for more than a year.
At this time, Zhang Mengkui did not care that his wife's clothes were tight and short.
Constantly use the radical method to let her learn the national standard dance.
After the movie was broadcast, Gui Yalei, who was nearly seventy years old, not only danced smoothly,
And the body is perfect, the temperament is elegant, and the audience all sighs for her.
As she grew older, Gui Yalei also reduced her work, but she still had works every year.
A feature film released last year, "Sweet Potato Pouring Rice", is Gui Yalei's latest film.
This movie tells the story of the countryside in southern Fujian, and Gui Yalei appeared in the whole process of plain face,
And spent seven months learning Hokkien, always maintaining the standard of dedication and high standards of the film queen.
I have to say that Gui Yalei is indeed a role model for actors,
The double harvest of family and career has also made many people envious.
Gui Yalei and her husband have been married for 56 years, and their love has been so far,
The crown of her career is naturally inseparable from the support behind her husband.
In their spare time, the couple will go to the United States to visit their daughter and grandson.
They have a big villa, only one floor but covering a hundred acres,
Grow your own fruits and vegetables in the garden and enjoy the old age of your children and grandchildren.
Even if you are not in the United States, you will calculate the time to video call your grandson.
At first, Gui Yalei did not agree to the eldest daughter marrying away, but the son-in-law finally touched her after years of hard pursuit.
Unexpectedly, the second daughter also married to the United States.
However, the times are different, and Gui Yalei, who used to have a very heavy family concept,
Nowadays, children are not required to be around to do filial piety, respect each other's lives and give ample space.
Although Gui Yalei is now nearly eighty years old,
But every appearance is still excellent temperament, makeup is decent,
Although old-fashioned but in good spirits, who does not envy such an actress.
| Nancy
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