"What should happen to us will eventually happen, and until then, each of us should work towards our goals."
--Yu Wu Sandra
Korean-Canadian actor Wu Shanzhuo won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Drama Series for "Killing Eve", becoming the first Asian actor to win the award in nearly 40 years.
▲ Wu Shanzhuo defeated many fierce rivals in "Mrs. Maisel", "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Crown" and won the Golden Globe Award
▲ Wu Shanzhuo played the police detective Eve who played the cat and mouse game with the villain Vera Nell in "Killing Eve", which is really the love and killing of two women
▲ When brushing the drama, Leng Buding saw the netizens leave a message, and it was also a laugh
Victory for Asians in the true sense of the word
Unlike the cultural self-congratulation in the all-Asian Cass movie "Crazy Asian Rich" (click here to read Yu Yanjie's old article "This all-Chinese face movie is a Hollywood high-end version of the small era"), Wu Sandra's return to the Golden Globe Award is a real Asian victory.
▲ Wu Shanzhuo herself also understands the significance of this award, and specially wears a T-shirt with her family printed with "It is an honor to become Asian"
▲ Wu Yanzu tweeted congratulations, and also said that Wu Shanzhuo is a sister, no wonder, there are awards, everyone can climb the same surname relatives
Once upon a time, Hollywood Chinese actors lived in an extremely small space, and could only symbolically represent the ethnic group and play some stereotypical roles.
Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li have both complained that Asian actors in Hollywood not only have their salaries halved, but the roles assigned to them are often superficial and superficial, and the roles with a little depth prefer to black actors.
For example, in "Bankrupt Sisters", Matthew Moi, a Chinese actor who plays the restaurant owner Li Huan, appears as a shrewd and calculating, short Asian figure
For example, the earlier American drama "Desperate Housewives", I really think this screenwriter is full of malice towards the Chinese
▲ Wu Tianmin, the heroine of "Crazy Asian Rich", once starred in the sitcom "First Arrived"
Not only that, but Hollywood also popularizes the phenomenon of "whitewashing", allowing white people to play Asian roles.
For example, Let Emma Stone play a fighter pilot with a quarter of Chinese ancestry, and Let Scarlett Johansson, who has black hair, play Suko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell.
It is said that in Liu Yifei's "Mulan", the role of the general was also washed into white.
I was also drunk.
Wu Sandra, who looks ordinary, does not know kung fu, and does not rely on curiosity to sell ugliness, can be a first-line acting school and tear open a hole in the airtight Hollywood, which is indeed an unprecedented thing.
▲ The first impression of the role played by Wu Shanzhuo is: this is a doctor, this is a police detective, not: this is an Asian woman
Identity anxiety and the pursuit of stability have made Asians rarely choose Hollywood
Wu Shanzhuo's award is quite difficult to win, in addition to the constraints of Hollywood, there is also the conservative choice of Asian culture in the choice of career.
Growing up in the suburbs of Ottawa, Sandra Wu's father was a businessman, her mother was a biologist, and her sister and brother were well educated, one was a lawyer and the other was a doctor, both ideal careers for Asian parents.
Three professionals: lawyers, doctors and accountants, her family occupies two.
However, Wu Shanzhuo did not grow as planned.
Despite a lot of ideological work by her parents, Sandra Decided to give up a scholarship to journalism at Carleton University and go to drama school.
▲ Wu Shanzhuo in the girl's generation is not good-looking
Yu Yanjie said that although Asian families are all keen to send their babies to learn piano, painting and ballet, if one day the child really claims to be devoted to art, the cliff can kill their parents.
For example, Ang Lee's old father, after his son won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, still wants to persuade him to find a stable job teaching at school.
After years in Canada, a country that didn't have even decent studios, Sandra Decided to go south to Hollywood, when she was 30 years old.
▲ Wu Shanzhuo played her daughter in the Canadian-made movie "Double Happiness". The film about immigrants from Guangdong is unknown
Some people say that the aesthetics of Westerners are different from ours, that is, they like small eyes, high cheekbones, collapsed nose bridges, and Mulan-style beauties.
Wu Shanzhuo's agent directly suggested that she go for plastic surgery: "To be honest, you are not the material for the heroine. ”
Thirty years old, no looks, no education, obscure, or a non-mainstream Asian, it is not easy to try your luck in Hollywood.
No wonder Wu Shanzhuo's parents were in a hurry, but people felt that this matter was too unreliable.
During the Hollywood era, Sandra Wu played a series of small roles with appearances measured in seconds.
▲ The vice principal of the funny Ah Chen in "The Princess Diary"
▲ In "Fruit Hard Candy", the neighbor's wife has only a few minutes of footage
Finally, in 2005, Wu Sandra starred in the hit drama "Grey's Anatomy".
Dr. Yang's ultra-recognizable off-line bully's character was instantly popular, almost surpassing the first protagonist.
Yu Yanjie felt that Wu Shanzhuo had a rare high-level comedic trait.
Every little action makes people can't help but be amused and addicted.
How much I loved her funny little eyes.
▲ In "Grey", Wu Shanzhuo plays Yang, a stanford-educated intern doctor who drives a motorcycle to work
▲ In 2005, Wu Shanzhuo was selected by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world
In the hospital, the poisoned tongue was strong, which made the same student feel stressed, and she had a perverted love for surgery, and she could wear briefs to run to observe the case.
When the doctor pointed a gun at his head, he cried in fright but refused to stop suturing.
In his personal life, Yang is all kinds of off-line cuteness, whimsical.
Dr. Burke, a Virgo, was stunned when he went to Young's apartment for the first time.
According to Yang, she once looked for an hourly worker, and the other party ran away crying. He also said that he did not wash his underwear, and when he wore dirty, he bought a new set.
▲ After listening to Yang's confession, Dr. Burke still gritted his teeth and decided to propose, which is also true love. However, in the end, it did not take place
▲ Foodie attribute, the colloquial language is: "I will go home without eating." ”
Relying on a fire-like role to reach the peak of life, but who would have thought that in 2013, when "Grey's Anatomy" lasted for nearly 10 years, resident actor Wu Shanzhuo announced that she would officially leave after the end of the tenth season.
▲ Wu Shanzhuo talked about the reason for the resignation: "After 10 consecutive years of performance, my fatigue has been far more than passion. ”
At that time, seeing that Dr. Yang, who was envied, jealous and jealous by all the contemporaries, could no longer pick up the scalpel because of the after-effects of an air crash, Yu Yanjie also scolded the screenwriter in her heart for what a ghost.
At that time, the 42-year-old Wu Shanzhuo's salary rose repeatedly after quitting acting, but she did not participate in any TV drama performances for 4 years.
Until she waited for a core role of her own, Detective Eve in "Kill Eve".
Female roles are finally getting more and more important
The popular American drama "Game of Thrones" led the way with 22 nominations, followed by SNL and Westworld with 21 nominations each.
In addition to "Mrs. Maisel", "The Handmaid's Tale", "The Crown", "Killing Eve", "Killing Eve" made Sandra Wu shortlisted for Best Actress in the Drama Category, becoming the first Asian actor to receive this nomination at the Emmy Awards in 70 years.
In the 70-year history of the Emmy Awards, only two Asians have actually won the Emmy trophy.
In 2010, Yachi Panjabi (british Indian) won the best supporting actress of the year for "The Proud Wife".
In 2017, Ritz Ahmed (British Pakistani origin) was named Best Actor in the Miniseries/TV Movies division.
▲ "Kill Eve" poster
Eve (Sandra Wu) is an ordinary British Security Service officer, but has a heart to be a spy, while Villanelle (Judy Comer) is a clever and delicate killer, and finally waits for the evenly matched Eve to "play" with her.
The two women were fascinated by each other and hunted each other down.
Eve is the first time in 23 years since Wu Shanzhuo's debut — the character's name appears in the title of a play (come on, even Sister Yan is in tears).
When she first got the script, Wu Shanzhuo reflexively asked the agent which supporting role she should study the lines of which supporting role -
For most viewers, even actors, white skin is the default setting for starring.
When she learned that the heroine was herself, Wu Sandra suddenly realized, "For so many years, [the mainstream Film and Television industry in the United States] has been showing the world from a certain perspective." I was brainwashed by them"!
Eve jumped out of the traditional sense of the "chaser" image, Douban netizens laughed that Wu Sandra played very grounded - late for meetings, disharmonious sex life with her husband, scared by the knife and crying and begging for forgiveness...
She says sandray wu does a good job precisely because she plays the details of an ordinary person into three points — as if she's your next-door neighbor, just looking for a killer.
She not only represents a victory for "marginalized ethnic groups" in Hollywood, but also greatly inspires Asian women – the image of an independent, confident, and capable heroine is not exclusive to white people, we also deserve it.
Not beautiful, non-mainstream, advanced age, can still succeed
This girl who looks like Lin Yongjian as a minority in Hollywood, after 5 failed nominations, can still win the favor at the age of 47 at "late ripening".
This shock is not only for girls with acting ideals, but also for all of us.
The achievements of a woman who insists on herself despite the big picture (The disadvantage of Asians in Hollywood) and the small environment (not beautiful enough) may be late, but it will not be ignored.
As Sandra Wu said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, hopefully, when a 12-year-old Asian girl looks at her Instagram, she thinks it could be herself.
In fact, a 32-, 42-year-old Asian woman, 52-year-old woman, also feels that she can be herself.
When Sandra Wu was asked about diversity and inclusion in Hollywood, her response was:
What should happen, will happen.
Before the spotlight is cast, we just need to make ourselves shine more.
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