At the end of 2000, Hong Kong films were still immersed in the last glory and had not yet ushered in decline, although the former pillars of actresses such as Lin Qingxia and Wang Zuxian were slowly retiring, Hong Kong Entertainment was still full of confidence and looking for the next actress.
At this time, a 17-year-old girl appeared in an advertisement for lemon tea with a shocking face.
This girl is Cecilia Cheung, who was scouted by a talent scout just after graduating from high school.
17-year-old Cecilia Cheung shoots a lemon tea commercial
Glamorous and youthful and invincible, "It's her, the next hope for Hong Kong movies", many people thought like that at the time.
However, more than 20 years have passed, and Cecilia Cheung fell from the altar in 08 years, and now she has added the labels that can't be torn off, such as the queen of liars and bad movies.
Today, let's talk about how Cecilia Cheung, who once held the king fried card, came to this day step by step.
Talent plus beauty, debut is the peak
Cecilia Cheung was born in Hong Kong in 1980.
Her mother is of mixed Chinese and British descent, so Cecilia Cheung also has 1/4 British blood, although her mother is mixed-race, she does not belong to the very good-looking category, and Cecilia Cheung's father is also mediocre, but the favor of fate made Cecilia Cheung win the genetic lottery, and it is the jackpot in the genetic lottery: Western bones and oriental skin together shape Cecilia Cheung's top beauty.
Cecilia Cheung and her mother
Cecilia Cheung and her father took a group photo
Later, Cecilia Cheung's parents divorced, and at the age of 13, she followed her mother to Australia to study, and on the summer vacation when she returned to Hong Kong after high school, she was invited by a talent scout to shoot the first advertisement in her life and entered the entertainment industry.
The next year, Cecilia Cheung was photographed by Stephen Chow and invited to audition for his new movie "The King of Comedy".
During the audition, in the face of a smoking scene, Cecilia Cheung disdainfully threw away the pen handed to her by Stephen Chow, took out a real cigarette and started acting, such a contrast surprised Stephen Chow, who had seen the world for a long time.
With a pure appearance and bold and rebellious behavior, Cecilia Cheung successfully won the heroine of "The King of Comedy".
No one has denied Cecilia Cheung's beauty, just like no one has ever questioned her acting talent, even Stephen Chow bluntly said that she is a talented actor who has not met in a century.
In "The King of Comedy", obviously there is no professional acting training, but Cecilia Cheung sat in a taxi but contributed a textbook-level crying performance, with Stephen Chow's sentence "I raise you!", which became one of Stephen Chow's many classic clips, and it has been more than 20 years and is still talked about, and the fledgling Cecilia Cheung directly won the nomination for Best Newcomer at the Hong Kong Film Awards that year.
In the same year, she partnered with Ren Xianqi to star in the movie "Star Wish" and sang the theme song of the same name of the movie.
How popular was Ren Xianqi back then? The person who single-handedly ended the four kings of Hong Kong, the streets and alleys were full of his songs, Cecilia Cheung won the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards that year for her role as a mute female nurse Yu Qiunan.
Clip of the movie "Star Wish" Cecilia Cheung
The first movie in her life was the heroine of Stephen Chow's movie, and she won the Best Newcomer Award at the Academy Awards in the first year of her debut.
And that year, Cecilia Cheung was only 18 years old.
In the next five years, "Hedong Lion's Roar", "Can't Forget", "Shaolin Football", "Xinshu Mountain Swordsman"... Cecilia Cheung has made more than a dozen movies in a row.
Good director, good script, good partner, she has met them all, the seniors in the Hong Kong entertainment industry care for her, and the bigwigs in the entertainment industry Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Tai Chen Lan also support her.
Cecilia Cheung and Xiang Huaqiang and his wife
Maggie Cheung said bluntly before retiring, "She is the last hope for Hong Kong films", and everyone regards her as the next generation of actresses.
At the same time, Cecilia Cheung was not bound by the title of "Jade Girl Head" given to her by the public, and directly revealed that she smoked and drank, and rebelliously threw off the name of Jade Girl.
's extreme beauty, top talent, the support of her predecessors, and her frank and unpretentious personality were enough to make her the most dazzling existence in the Hong Kong film industry at that time.
Bumpy love, three people are crowded after all
Although everyone has ardent hopes for her, Cecilia Cheung's own dream has never been a movie.
Maybe it's because of the incompleteness of her original family, she is full of obsession with having her own family and her own children, she can go forward in the film industry, but what she cares about most is the love of her children, and what she wants to be is always just a "good wife and mother".
So after becoming popular, she continued to drag down her complicated relationships and pay for her dreams.
In 1999, when she was filming the movie "Old Master", she met Nicholas Tse.
With the right appearance and similar age, the two soon had an affair and were known as the "golden boy and girl" at the end of the century, and later Cecilia Cheung also admitted: "The first time I saw Nicholas Tse, I was deeply impressed." ”
But in the face of the scandal, Nicholas Tse said that he only regarded Cecilia Cheung as his sister.
In June 2000, the 31-year-old diva Faye Wong held Nicholas Tse's hand in public, and the two went to the concert together in couple clothes and tattooed couples together.
Nicholas Tse's statement has also been confirmed: after all, Faye Wong is a singer that Nicholas Tse has liked since he was 16 years old.
On the other hand, Cecilia Cheung at that time was also not in love with Nicholas: at that time, she was still in love with Chen Xiaodong, a popular student at the time, but the two soon broke up because they got together less and left more.
Just when everyone thought that the so-called "Golden Boy and Jade Girl" was just wishful thinking on the part of the spectators, this love triangle ushered in a 180-degree swing:
Feng Fei's sister and brother love lasted only a year before it ended, at the beginning of 2002, Cecilia Cheung was hospitalized due to performance injuries, but Nicholas Tse rushed over to visit as soon as possible; In March of the same year, the two were photographed traveling together in Thailand, and in April, Nicholas Tse admitted that he had broken up with Faye Wong, and "Feng Zhi Love" entered the public eye.
From 2002 to 2005, Nicholas Tse wandered between Cecilia Cheung and Faye Wong, until 2005, when Faye Wong announced that she was married to Li Yapeng, and Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung rekindled their old love in the crew of the movie "Wu Ji".
At the 2002 Golden Melody Awards ceremony, Faye Wong watched Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung fighting, with a lost expression on her face
In 2006, Nicholas Tse proposed to Cecilia Cheung in the Palawan Islands of the Philippines.
At that time, Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung were extremely in love, and he would talk about Cecilia Cheung in an interview and say, "When I come to the end of my life, the person who accompanies me can only be Cecilia."
And she will also give away her beloved puppy, just to protect Nicholas Tse, who is allergic to dog hair.
In August 2007, Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse's first son was born.
After being a filmmaker, she acted in more than 20 movies, married a wife at the peak of her career, and had lovely children.
After returning from running away for half a life, Cecilia Cheung was only 26 years old.
If time stops here, Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse are really like what the fairy tale ending says: the prince and princess have lived happily ever after.
But how can the dramatization of life make happiness so easy, in 2008, 1400 photos shattered Cecilia Cheung's marriage, although Nicholas Tse stood up for the first time and said that he would protect her, but three years later in 2011, Cecilia Cheung was exposed to meet Edison Chen on the plane, took the initiative to change seats and took a group photo, and it didn't take long for this marriage to come to an end.
After that, in September 2014, Nicholas Tse and Faye Wong spent 80 hours alone in the apartment to stage the "Century Reunion", and they are still in love.
Although Cecilia Cheung sent her blessings as an ex for the first time, imagine that her husband was with her ex after the divorce, who would not doubt whether he really loved him when he was with him?
But these may not be important to Cecilia Cheung, after all, her biggest dream is to have her own family, and this marriage gave her two lovely sons, and in the year of divorce, Cecilia Cheung also silently retired in the entertainment industry.
After all, being a good mother was her dream when she was young.
After divorcing Nicholas Tse, she devoted herself to the family, raising two children alone, 90 pounds she could pick up two sons with one hand, do everything for the children, accompany them to grow up, and then gave birth to three children.
Comeback again, fall from the altar
The current Cecilia Cheung is only 42 years old, and female stars have always been well-maintained, and she is still beautiful.
It's just that when she appears frequently again, those former acting skills and aura, and those feathers that should be cherished as an actor, seem to have been lost forever by Cecilia Cheung on the road when she came, and it is difficult to find them again.
In 2018, when she starred in a scene of losing a loved one in the movie "If, Love", Cecilia Cheung cried loudly, but she couldn't squeeze out a single tear, and if such a performance was put 18 years ago, she would have been familiar with it.
In the past few years, the last glory of Hong Kong movies has completely dissipated, and there is no day to turn over.
The deterioration of acting skills visible to the naked eye is understandable, but it is difficult for the audience to forgive him if he is exposed to playing big names and lying.
When appearing on a variety show, Cecilia Cheung said that she had never eaten meat and slept for 16 days in a row.
Xiang Tai Chen Lan, who once supported Cecilia Cheung, also publicly posted on Weibo, calling her "addicted to lying" and persuading her to see a psychiatrist.
Fortunately, 2021's "Sister Lang 2" made Cecilia Cheung briefly popular, although she failed to debut in the end, but the high popularity and popularity of the Internet during the broadcast of the show gave her a little hope.
Now that I have been going around for more than 20 years, I look back at the group of young people at the beginning,
Nicholas Tse is still in love with Faye Wong and is a cook wholeheartedly.
Edison Chen has failed to make a comeback several times, and now he is a trendy brand and has a successful family, and he will be called "good father".
And Cecilia Cheung gave birth to three children, appeared on various variety shows and social platforms, pulled three children, and never made a movie again.
It's a pity to say that there isn't a slight, it's a pity.
After all, many people think that Cecilia Cheung will play a good hand of cards, but now looking back at the interview when Cecilia Cheung was young, she was still red and purple at the time, and said with a wistful face: "My dream is to fall in love at the age of 26, get married at the age of 28, and have a child before the age of 30."
The fame of the actress, her hard-won looks and talents, are all regarded as nothing by her.
The pinnacle of her career can't compare to the sense of accomplishment of raising children by herself in her eyes.
Maybe people are always like this, disdainful of what is at their fingertips,
None of us are Cecilia Cheung herself, perhaps, the current life is the life she yearns for.