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The first thing Venus asked Wu Junmei was, "Do you do it?" You look like you're contrived! ”
She said, "I would never do it."
She was the first Asian face to be nominated for the Italian David Award.
The 24-year-old was voted one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
At the age of 28, she became the recipient of the highest honor actress award at the Hollywood Independent Spirit Awards.
Wu Junmei has played Yongzheng's mother, and also played Qianlong's mother.
Her body has both the charm of a Shanghai woman and the style of a combination of East and West.
Sometimes graceful and luxurious, sometimes full of charm.
Others have commented that she is a woman who is a mixture of Chinese tea and American whiskey.
At the age of 20, he broke into the United States alone, boldly made erotic movies, and after chasing after his second marriage and foreigner, he loved for more than 20 years but had no children under his knees.
Wu Junmei this woman is not simple.
In 1966, Wu Junmei was born in a film family, her great-grandfather Wu Tingsheng was the "tobacco king" in Shanghai, and her mother Zhu Manfang was the head of the film studio, Hua Dan.
Zhu Manfang also won the Special Honor Award of the 17th Academy of Film Performing Arts together with famous artists such as Shi Weijian, Lü Zhong, and Qiao Hao.
Zhu Manfang, who has a busy career, often goes out on location to shoot, and is not at home for three or five months, Wu Junmei knows how to share housework very early, and she also takes the initiative to take care of her sister.
01. Female inherits the mother's business
Since she was a child, Wu Junmei has a lively personality, always contradicts the teacher, and will play in her mother's crew when she is free, and the freshness of the film shooting stimulates her curiosity.
Her mother often brought home some foreign magazine materials, and although Wu Junmei couldn't understand it, she also loved it.
She also received the attention of Teacher Qin Yi, who told her, "You look like me, with a thick neck", which automatically became praise for herself in Wu Junmei's heart.
When she was a child, Wu Junmei wanted to become a conductor of the No. 26 tram, and she also cut her own paper at home to make tickets, and played passenger-playing mini-games with her sister.
At the age of 13, she told her mother, "I want to be a star in Hollywood in the future."
Mom said, "You're not a star in China, you're not an actor, you're still in Hollywood."
This somewhat cold-water sentence also took root in Wu Junmei's heart.
Therefore, if you have a dream, you must dare to do it, in case it is realized.
At first, her mother wanted her to study well and did not support her in the path of an actress, but she decided to give it a try.
In 1982, Wu Junmei, who was still a freshman in high school, had no acting experience, and with a disco without background music, he was photographed by the famous director Huang Shuqin, and after three months of training, he successfully participated in the filming of the movie "Long Live Youth".
As a result, after the filming, she told her mother that she did not want to shoot any more and wanted to return to school to continue her studies.
In 1985, the Chinese assistant director of "The Last Emperor" was looking for an actress with Chinese temperament, and by chance, he found Wu Junmei and wanted to invite her to star, but the two could not meet above.
Later, when she met director Bertolucci, Wu Junmei did not know that the director would create such a successful film in the future, and said bluntly, "I am the one who is going to study in the United States, and I have no time to make your film."
He also said, "If you decide that I am Wenxiu, I can consider going to Beijing."
It was this frankness and self-confidence that impressed the director and invited her to star in her own film.
At that time, there were three roles that had not yet been determined, and Wu Junmei felt that since you couldn't decide, then I couldn't fix it, and I had the idea of leaving.
When Wu Junmei was selected to play Wen Xiu, the director said to her, "As long as I set you, you have a cough and a smile, and everything you have is Wen Embroidery." ”
As soon as Wu Junmei heard that she could play in Italy for free for three days and star in literary embroidery, she readily agreed.
This decision opened up a different life for her.
Wen Xiu was the first concubine to self-awaken in the harem walls and dare to divorce the emperor, and her strong and strong personality of daring to say and do was very compatible with Wu Junmei.
"The Last Emperor" was filmed for 8 or 9 months in a row, and this movie officially opened the door of the movie for Wu Junmei, and also let her get acquainted with Chen Chong, who played Wanrong, and the two from Shanghai also became close friends at first sight. At that time, Chen Chong was already well-known in China.
After the shooting was completed, Wu Junmei wanted to see the outside world, and she gave up the college entrance examination and chose to go abroad.
After learning that Wu Junmei was going to study in the United States, Bertolucci, the director of "The Last Emperor", called her to the office and gave her an envelope as a small gift, which contained 2,000 US dollars, which was the first time Wu Junmei had seen so many US dollars, and she excitedly counted them over and over again.
02. Brave Hollywood
At the age of 20, Wu Junmei, who was injured by love, flew to the United States on the other side of the ocean with three hundred dollars.
She did not immediately throw herself into the arms of performance, but chose to enter Hawaii Pacific University to study tourism management.
Alone in order to earn living expenses, she worked as a salesman, called one by one in the office, used some small tricks to congratulate the winner, made sales, and for every fifteen hundred dollars of vacuum cleaner sold, she could get ten yuan commission.
She also worked as a nanny, taking care of three children at a time, and ending up with a tip of two dollars.
Even though her life of studying and working was a little hard, it made her feel very fulfilled.
Wu Junmei believes that she is still very young and full of hope for the future.
In 1989, "The Last Emperor" won nine Academy Awards.
She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 32nd Italian David Awards for this film.
Her school also recognized her as an outstanding student, offering scholarships as long as her grades were up to standard.
After becoming famous, more people came to her to shoot, and she also rekindled the idea of becoming an actress, and after weighing the pros and cons, she chose to move to Los Angeles, entered the film department of the University of California, Los Angeles, and began to enter Hollywood.
At the beginning, Wu Junmei's acting career was not smooth, and after several experiences of being replaced and matched, she gradually came to prominence.
Subsequently, she successively starred in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Happy Luck Club", "Heaven and Earth", "The Shadow of China", "Pillow Forbidden Book" and other works, and gradually made her own place in Hollywood.
Wu Junmei's appearance is an Asian face that foreigners like very much.
In 1990, Wu Junmei was selected as "the world's 50 most beautiful people" by the American "PEOPLE" magazine, and only two Chinese were selected at that time, the other being the male star Zun Long.
There are also Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and others on the list.
In 1994, Wu Junmei won the highest honor actress award at the Hollywood Independent Spirit Awards.
In 1995, a large-scale film "Pillow Book" handed her an invitation, this film is no less than the scale of "Color Ring", considering that there are many nudity scenes in the film, at first she wanted to refuse, but the director thought that Wu Junmei was the only suitable candidate, and even changed the character's mother to a Shanghainese.
Her husband also saw this as a good opportunity to cooperate with a famous director, and with her husband's support and persuasion, she put down her guard and boldly went out naked, playing the Japanese girl Kazuko.
Ge You once commented on her: "An actress who has such a film can retire. ”
In the same year, she became the second Asian woman after Lu Yan to be nominated as a lifetime judge of the American Academy Awards, and the two also collaborated in "Joy Club".
03. Transnational love
After filming "The Last Emperor", Wu Junmei remembered only two things, Zun Long hao handsome and the Italian pizza of the crew.
Twenty-year-old Wu Junmei, like other girls, yearns for romantic love, and she also looks for herself in love again and again, but each love ends without a problem.
She once fell in love with a director, and later found out that he was a husband with a wife.
Wu Junmei also revealed that she had a two-year relationship with a big star in Japan, did not think about tea after the breakup, and was also filmed by her friend Chen Chong when she cried and drooled.
Although she did not say her boyfriend's name, according to the timeline, the star is the famous Japanese actor Ryuichi Sakamoto.
At that time, he played an officer in "The Last Emperor" and also worked as a soundtrack, and the background music of Wen Xiu's escape in the rain was matched by Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also revealed his appreciation for Wu Junmei in the text, and later Ryuichi Sakamoto went to New York to develop.
When Wu Junmei was filming the movie "The Disappeared Son", he met her current husband Oscar, and as a producer, he called Wu Junmei.
Wu Junmei was immediately deeply attracted by Oscar's mysterious and sexy voice, and very boldly asked him, "Have you ever had a Chinese girlfriend?" Oscar euphemistically replied that her young daughter was practicing boxing.
After meeting, Wu Junmei was a little disappointed, and the man in front of her, who was 12 years older than her, looked average, had some thinning hair, and was divorced with two daughters.
When Wu Junmei was filming a scene in which she was shot, she jokingly told Oscar that according to the tradition of Chinese, she should wrap herself a red envelope.
But Oscar took it seriously, seriously found a piece of red cloth, cut a large red packet, and stuffed a dollar into it, which was sent to Wu Junmei's hand.
Once when filming on the spot, it was very cold, Oscar personally rubbed the warm baby with his hand and distributed it to every actor on the scene, which was such a heart-warming move that touched Wu Junmei's heart.
There used to be some "appearance association" where she found boyfriends who were more handsome than Oscar, but she found an unprecedented sense of solidity and reliability in Oscar.
Oscar not only tolerated her little temper and was willing to spoil her as a child, but also supported her acting career.
Wu Junmei's friend once said that Oscar remembered all the anniversaries related to his wife, the first meeting, the first kiss, the wedding anniversary of the two.
Oscar, who has sparse hair, will also wear a variety of wigs to make his wife happy, and Wu Junmei will occasionally engage in some pranks and deliberately send some photos with male actors to arouse her husband's jealousy.
She once described her marriage as "a child living in a family and growing up together, but not growing up." ”
Maybe this is the little trick of the marriage between the two.
She once said: "I have always felt that my husband and I are the real first love, the real love." Previously, it may have been just a kind of emotional sinus opening, or a curiosity or attempt at the opposite sex. It wasn't until I got along with Oscar that I really began to slowly experience the sweetness and happiness that love brought, and I'm still tasting our love. ”
At first, Wu Junmei's mother did not support the relationship, but Wu Junmei still firmly believed that Oscar was the man she wanted to accompany for a lifetime.
Wu Junmei directly cut and played first to bring Oscar back to Shanghai.
The two registered their marriage in Las Vegas, and the Oscar symbolically prepared a $999 bride price, and the two later returned to Shanghai for a traditional Chinese wedding.
The American "People" magazine once sent reporters to follow the whole process and report on the matter in 5 pages, and Wu Junmei was also selected as the first bride of the "Global Hero Wedding" that year.
But the high-profile wedding made Oscar a little unhappy, because in his opinion, the wedding was a very private thing.
Wu Junmei and the stepdaughters also have a very harmonious relationship, like friends to get along, the daughters do not want to tell Oscar a lot of things, but are willing to confide in the stepmother Wu Junmei, the younger daughter also regards her as a heroine in her heart.
After many years of marriage, Wu Junmei has not been able to conceive her own child.
Wu Junmei had previously fantasized about her life after becoming a mother, and also discussed with Oscar to have 11 children and form a football team.
At first, she was busy with her career for a long time, and a few years later, Wu Junmei suddenly found that her sister and friends around her had given birth to babies one after another, and finally began to worry, but she couldn't get pregnant.
In order to become a mother, she began to do IVF, from the United States to China, and did 9 consecutive artificial inseminations without success, which also became the regret of her life.
03. Return to China for development
Years of work have given her a foothold in Hollywood.
In 2005, Wu Junmei's father suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, in order to take care of her father, she gave up her career abroad, chose to return to China with her husband Oscar, from the film to the field of television dramas, and also appeared in many talk shows and variety shows.
Wu Junmei played Song Siming's original wife in the TV series "Snail Residence", a middle-aged woman who worked hard and complained, but was cheated on by her husband, Wu Junmei's outstanding performance made the audience remember her, won the recognition of many people, when walking on the street, someone will ask her "Where is Song Siming?" ”
In the role of "aunt" played in the movie "Snowflake Secret Fan", the aura directly crushed Li Bingbing.
Li Muzi, the fashion female demon leader in "The Legend of Hot Mom".
In "Sorrow Against the River", the heroine Yi Yao's single mother Lin Huafeng.
Liao Jiamin, a fierce, intelligent and capable senior lawyer in "Lawyer Elite".
All impressive.
Wu Junmei has played Song Meiling three times in "Song Family Dynasty", "The Great Cause of The Founding of the People's Republic" and "The Flying Eagle That Went Away", and has been praised as "Song Meiling Professional Household", confident and calm in her speech, and the non-anger and self-esteem revealed in her expression, all of which have played the first lady very well, and is considered to be the most outstanding of all the actors who play Song Meiling.
She also starred in the arrogant and domineering "Empress Dowager" Zhen Huan in "Ruyi Zhuan", and played on the same stage with her friend Chen Chong.
Some time ago, in the family drama "Our Marriage", cai Shengmei, the mother of the heroine, was played, a delicate woman with an old heart, which made people shine again.
As she grew older, she played from wife to mother-in-law, from leading role to supporting role.
But Wu Junmei did not slacken off, and many wonderful interpretations were even more eye-catching than the protagonist.
Her principle of taking over the play is that after reading the script, if there are 5 scenes to give her room to play, she will take over.
Even if it is the protagonist, but the script is not attractive enough, she will not pick up.
She said she always played supporting roles as protagonists because she loved the profession.
From a young girl to a famous Hollywood movie star who is now well-known at home and abroad, she has both the courage and boldness to run alone in the rivers and lakes, and the shyness and cuteness of a little woman.
Married to her husband for more than twenty years, she still maintains the sweetness of her hot love.
Whether it is an independent working woman or a simple housewife, her performances are natural.
Over fifty years old, Wu Junmei's body carries the elegance and self-confidence of her time, revealing tenacity and fortitude in her bones, and now she also cultivates some hobbies after work, doing handicrafts, painting, fitness, and enjoying a comfortable life.
She once said, "What I ask of myself is that I still be determined to be an evergreen tree, and the occasional flower is the icing on the cake." Work steadily, be a low-key person, and keep a clean and tidy heart. ”
Maybe that's the mystery of her life.