Hui Yinghong in distress
"I shouldn't have said those words, please forgive me......" On the stage, Hui Ying had red eyes and apologized in a low voice to the guest who was arguing with her just now, and tears almost came out of her eyes.
However, the other party just snorted coldly and left without looking back.
In fact, for those who are familiar with Hui Yinghong, this is not her first public "gaffe". So what is the reason why this victorious woman is in the spotlight? If we want to find out the truth, we must go back to the origin of this incident - a variety show called "Infinite Challenge".
In the show, Hui Yinghong met her old friend Xue Kaiqi. When Xue Kaiqi began to share her recent work and layout, Hui Yinghong's expression became more and more ugly - she believes that an actress who is over forty years old still stubbornly presents herself as a "girl", which is really against the norm and is not beneficial to the way of acting.
then began to ask Xue Kaiqi about the significance of this move. The two soon fell into a-for-tat confrontation.
"Tell me, please, what is your purpose in this show?" Hui Yinghong asked solemnly.
"I ...... I don't know. Xue Kaiqi was hesitant, and his tone was full of panic.
"You have to figure out what you really want!" Hui Yinghong raised her voice and said in a more stern tone.
This fierce tone finally ignited Xue Kaiqi.
"Stop! Hui Yinghong stood up suddenly, her eyes red. She took a deep breath, her face filled with helplessness, pain, and deep disappointment......
An unknown past
When it comes to Hui Yinghong, the first impression in people's minds is that she is a strong and powerful woman. She is always full of aura and majesty in front of the camera, as if there is no difficulty to break her.
However, what few people know is that behind the appearance of a successful actress, she experienced a very bumpy and painful childhood.
Hui Yinghong's father came from a large family of the landlord class, and the hereditary glory can only be gazed at in the photo album. Because of the fall of his ancestors, this young master was left with only a broken royal title when Hui Yinghong was born.
In order to survive, the father had to come to Hong Kong with eight children and a sick mother to earn a living. They were forced to live in a 40-square-metre shack.
When she was 3 years old, Hui Yinghong began begging along the streets. Every day, she stood in a wealthy area of Hong Kong with a tattered rice bowl in her hand, begging passers-by to give a few copper plates. Because of the local language barrier, she was often beaten and scolded.
In order to be able to ask for more money, she had to cry and put on a pitiful appearance. When night falls, she sits side by side with her sisters on the side of the road, desperately spitting at the neon lights, waiting for the good Samaritan to bring leftovers.
Later, Hui Yinghong's life finally improved. But the blows and traumas that followed still left an indelible shadow on her young mind. The accumulation of this kind of childhood trauma caused a lot of turmoil and suffering in her later life, and also gave birth to the perseverance of the actress.
When we hear about her "gaffe" today, perhaps it is a cry from the depths of that cowering toddler.
The career has advanced by leaps and bounds
At the age of 14, the little Hui Yinghong was discovered by a talent scout and walked into the glorious Shaw Brothers Film Company. For her, a child born at the bottom of society, it was like getting a second chance in life, to get out of the difficult environment and enter a new world.
At first, Hui Yinghong didn't have many opportunities to perform, she could only act as a group performance for some fight scenes, and she did tricks. However, by chance, she became a stuntman for a famous male star.
In order to keep up with the training intensity of the action team, she began to devote herself to martial arts Xi.
Within a few years, Hui Yinghong grew into one of the best female martial arts actors in Hong Kong. With her agility and explosive power, she rose to fame like a wild horse.
As long as there is a complex and difficult action design in the crew, she always bears the brunt and never refuses. Every day of shooting, she will go all out, in order to analyze the character for truth, even at the expense of her health.
On one occasion, she broke her leg after overfighting, and the doctor urged her to recuperate, but she reappeared in the studio the next day after putting on a cast.
Under the amazement and praise of everyone, at the age of 24, Hui Yinghong has become the first female star in Hong Kong, and won the throne of the actress at the first Academy Awards. Once upon a time, that little girl in rags is now standing at the pinnacle of life and overlooking all living beings.
It was all so incredible, she thought.
The ups and downs of life
At her peak, Hui Yinghong was the first female star in Hong Kong, and her studio was full and there were continuous film appointments. However, the good times did not last long, in the 90s, the Hong Kong film market changed, and martial arts films were gradually replaced by literary films.
Encountering a bottleneck in her career, the 38-year-old collapsed and soon fell into an unprecedented trough and pain.
At first, Hui Yinghong was still struggling. She tried to transform, opened a beauty salon, and tried to find a way to reopen her life. However, fate did not let her go.
The 5 years between the ages of 38 and 43 were the darkest days of her entire life. In the past 5 years, she has been almost cut off from the whole world, locking herself in her room all day, facing huge mental pressure alone.
This extreme self-isolation soon made Hui Yinghong's psychology unbalanced. She began to give up on herself and became resentful of herself and the world. Several times she stood in front of the window and looked down at the tall buildings below, and strong thoughts of death surged in her heart...... The originally strong woman just wants to say goodbye to this cruel world at this moment.
Just when Hui Yinghong almost lost all hope, a phone call rekindled the fire of her life. It was a friend who hadn't been in touch for many years and took the initiative to invite her to participate in the filming of a small-budget movie.
After much hesitation, Hui Yinghong decided to gamble on her last pride and accepted the opportunity.
The stroke of genius helped her return to the top, and at the same time, it also rekindled her enthusiasm and dedication to her acting career. She was determined to go further and further down this path.
The pursuit of perseverance
In 2010, the woman who couldn't cry on the podium once again proved her strong vitality and infinite love for drama. The successful comeback after the trough of her career did not make Hui Yinghong immersed in her comfort zone.
She chose to continue to break through herself, take on more challenging roles, and continue to try to break through on the road of drama.
She began to actively turn to literary films and independent productions, broadening the boundaries of her acting career. first played a crazy perverted mother, and her wonderful performance shocked the audience, and she won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Actress for this role.
then starred in an isolated blind mother and a disabled woman with a withdrawn personality, these three "dark sides" of superb performances finally broke her impression of a martial arts actress in the public's mind, and was praised by film critics as "the killer of Hong Kong films".
Today, 62-year-old Hui Yinghong still maintains a high fighting spirit and enthusiasm for the acting career. She is constantly trying new possibilities, studying her acting skills day after day, hoping to enrich and sublimate herself in movies and TV series.
This perseverance and persistence have become the fundamental driving force for her survival in the entertainment industry, and it has also brought her a steady stream of spiritual energy, supporting her to keep moving forward and go further and further on the road of acting.
The abyss of emptiness and loneliness
The smooth sailing in her acting career did not bring Hui Yinghong corresponding spiritual comfort, and she still has nothing in terms of relationship and family. For many years, she remained single and rarely had an ambiguous or sincere relationship with the opposite sex.
There have been men who have a similar affection for her to confess and propose to her, but she has also rejected and avoided her for various reasons. Deep inside, her heart is full of gaps and defenses that cannot be bridged.
The relationship with family and friends is also very distant. Hui Yinghong rarely interacts with relatives other than her mother and sister, and she ignores her old acquaintances. She will always be the woman who is alone and keeps her distance from others.
Even when she is sick or encounters major difficulties, she always bears it alone and rarely seeks help and support from outside.
This long-term isolation and lack of emotion finally opened a hole in Hui Yinghong's heart that was difficult to fill. When she succeeded in hiding this emptiness and loneliness under the spotlight, after the lights went out, she was still the woman struggling in the dark, full of coldness and despair.
The bloom of alternative charm
When we look back at Hui Yinghong's many "gaffes" experience, it is not difficult to understand the reasons - it is the trauma of her unfortunate childhood, the twists and turns of her torrent-like career, the emotion of locking during the window period, and the accumulated reaction to the endless pursuit of performance.
Under the combined effect of these factors, she who has always been strong finally found it difficult to control herself and leaked full of bitter water.
However, at a time when the public is talking and criticizing, we ignore another important perspective - this kind of authentic expression is also the core of Hui Yinghong's dazzling charm.
In an entertainment industry full of hypocrisy and exaggeration, her straightforward expression of success and failure is undoubtedly a rare sincere voice at the moment.
Appreciating Hui Yinghong does not mean that we are encouraging more media people to make a gaffe. Instead, I hope to see more independent individuals, like her, who dare to face themselves honestly, face all kinds of unreasonableness in the industry, and actively look for breakthroughs.
At this moment, maybe Hui Yinghong is crying alone behind the camera, but she still will not give up her persistent pursuit of acting. We also look forward to the fact that when more people choose to compromise, actresses like her can continue to shine and continue to interpret more different and wonderful lives in their own way.