"Asian actors don't have Hollywood idols.
But they all worshipped Yang Ziqiong. ”
The Hollywood Reporter
Recently, a movie called "Mama's Multiverse" has doubled its box office in Europe and the United States. The imbd score is 9.0, Douban is 8.8, and foreign media are already pressing oscar nominations next year.
Don't think the title is cursing you. Its wildness just takes care of the wildness of the lead actor Yang Ziqiong herself, and makes Hollywood re-recognize this woman.
From a Hong Kong superstar at the end of the last century to a Hollywood, Yang Ziqiong has been red for more than 30 years, and at the age of 60, she still stands at the forefront of Chinese actresses. Quentin and a host of other international directors are her fans.
Unfortunately, Chinese faces don't have many good opportunities in Hollywood, and Yang Ziqiong still plays soy sauce in various blockbusters that require Asian faces most of the time. And "Mama's Multiverse" is her first starring role after 25 years of entering Hollywood, and it burns at one point.
Multiverse
The Hollywood Reporter was pertinent: It was all she deserved.
The Hollywood Reporter
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"If Yang Ziqiong refuses,
This movie may be yellow."
In "Ma's Multiverse", Xiulian, an American-American immigrant played by Yang Ziqiong, opened a laundromat in the United States and is a middle-aged woman with a bunch of bad things.
The daughter is rebellious, the husband is incompetent, the work is boring, and she often hurts her brain to file taxes.
But suddenly one day, her husband transformed and said that he was "your husband in a parallel universe", and there are countless parallel universes like this. This also means that there are countless versions of Xiulian at the same time.
Some Xiulian are kung fu superstars, some are opera singers, some are cooks, some are women with fingers like hot dogs...
But he didn't have time to give Xiulian a physics lesson, because there was a big villain who was planning to destroy the world, and only Xiulian could save all of humanity.
Multiverse
Who do you think of in such a plot? In fact, "Mom's Multiverse" was originally "Daddy's Multiverse." The director wrote the script with the goal of inviting Jackie Chan to star - an ordinary person suddenly has unlimited power, which sounds very Jackie Chan.
But it was written that they felt that the role of their wife was more interesting, so they switched the protagonist.
From male protagonist to female, Yang Ziqiong is the first choice. Daniel, one of the directors, even said, "There's no one else in this world who can play this role." If Yang Ziqiong refused, the movie would probably be yellow. ”
As soon as she received the script, Yang Ziqiong immediately became interested in this story. She loves challenges and likes to try different roles.
But becoming Xiulian is not simple for Yang Ziqiong.
Xiulian of different parallel universes has hot dog-like fingers
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It's harder than playing a heroine
It's a fader
Looking back at Yang Ziqiong's past works, she will always be a must for two types of Asian characters in Hollywood: an elegant and restrained woman and a highly armed beating woman. Xiulian is precisely the opposite.
In order to play a middle-aged "little citizen", she first corrected the elegant posture that oriental actresses must maintain. Not only did she practice a tired and feeble posture, she also used props to make her body bloated.
No makeup, in addition to the addition of age spots on the face. This caused Yang Ziqiong to almost collapse when she first saw herself in front of the camera, "It was so terrible, I consoled myself, 'Very good, this is definitely not you'." ”
More difficult than the appearance is to play a "short man in action".
Although there are still a lot of action scenes, she is always asked: can you not play so cool? Don't do it so perfectly.
This is the first time in decades of her career that Yang Ziqiong has been asked for this request. She must relearn how to use the average middle-aged woman's level of action to show inexperienced action scenes.
Xiulian of a parallel universe, one is a global popular kung fu actress (taking care of Yang Ziqiong herself)
Contrary to "it is not easy to dress up", Yang Ziqiong is familiar with shaping "different Xiulian in different universes".
For example, if Xiulian had made different choices at a fork in the road in her life, she would not have been a laundromat owner, but a popular kung fu actress around the world.
Seeing this scene, almost no one will not smile.
The mutual achievements of the actors and the script have made "Mama's Multiverse" a success in the future. Yang Ziqiong couldn't help but ask director Dan Guan: If she had had the opportunity to play such a role and act in this movie a long time ago, how different her life and career would have been!
But without Yang Ziqiong in the past, there may not be Xiulian.
Dan put it this way, "After she has been so successful, she is willing to put 110% of her energy into such a role. Yang Ziqiong herself is a miracle. ”
The Hollywood Reporter
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Fate is hard to fight
Seize every opportunity
Yang Ziqiong said in an interview, "You know how Asians used to talk with their heads down, they said' we work hard, we continue to work hard, hard work will be rewarded, give us a chance'. This is the only way Asians can get their chances. ”
So she insisted on changing the perception of Chinese women in Europe and the United States.
One of the most changed impressions is obedience.
Yang Ziqiong was born in Malaysia to Chinese parents. She studied ballet as a child, and as a teenager attended the Royal Academy of Dance in London, but gave up her career path as a ballet due to injury.
In 1984, at the age of 22, she debuted as Miss Malaysia and her first job was shooting watch commercials with Jackie Chan. In 1992, this girl with a height of 1 meter 65 and a weak appearance became the heroine of Jackie Chan's new film "Super Police" and the highest paid actress in Hong Kong at that time.
Ballet and martial arts were originally incompatible with two disciplines, one is the softest, the other requires the most rigid. Yang Ziqiong defied this, and in the day-to-day training, she trained her body into a superhuman mode with a double dexterity shape.
Stills from "Fairy Tales of the Stars and Moons"
The image of the "Queen of Kung Fu" made her the first bang girl in Asia.
At that time, the American "Entertainment Weekly" selected the top ten "Bang Girls", and Yang Ziqiong ranked seventh. The magazine commented to her: "Yang Ziqiong is not the first Bond girl to be equal to Bond, but in 1997 she was the only woman who attracted people's attention, and she laid down the country in Hollywood with her beautiful skills." ”
007 Empire of Tomorrow
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"Asian actors worship Yang Ziqiong"
At the same time, Yang Ziqiong also knows that fate is sometimes difficult to resist.
She played a beating girl for many years, until "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", no one asked her to make literary films.
In this way, we can see the true beauty feather in "Memoirs of a Geisha". The most beautiful geisha deserved, the style and drama between the hands and feet, make people have to kneel in her charm.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Luc Bey approached her to play Aung San Suu Kyi's documentary. Although the film itself does not have too many highlights, Yang Ziqiong is really showing a woman's elegance and forbearance, tenacity and tenacity.
The charm of the character and the charm of the actor coincide perfectly in her.
"Aung San Suu Kyi"
In recent years, although there are not many plays and many roles are not important, Yang Ziqiong has always seized every opportunity to make herself shine.
The most impressive thing is that she played the rich lady Eleanor in "Picking Gold". The elegant lady of the old money family is self-sustaining and strong and refuses to be thousands of miles away. Thinking about the bloated housewife she played this time, it is really superb acting.
"Picking Gold"
Not a single bottle of soy sauce is beaten in vain.
Over the years, the box office and awards may not be counted on Yang Ziqiong, but the classic role is left behind, and people's eyes are shining. So this time, Hollywood has applauded a strange middle-aged woman: Yang Ziqiong is truly deserved.
Vanity Fair wrote in the report, "Middle-aged women are the kind of women that are often overlooked all over the world (including Hollywood), but Yang Ziqiong gives life to the characters." ”
Stephanie Hsu, the actress who plays her daughter, said, "Asian-American actors don't have Hollywood idols, but they all worship Yang Ziqiong. ”
So "Mama's Multiverse" looks like a surprise victory, but in fact, she has accumulated a lot of hair.
Multiverse
In this movie, there are quite a few Elements of Chinese cinema from the last century to the millennium: Jackie Chan's martial arts form, Chow Sing Chi's nonsense, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
Yang Ziqiong herself is also one of the elements.
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