Speaking of Liu Yuling, our first reaction is Alex, the sexy angel who wields a whip and wears a hip leather skirt in "Thunderbolt Baby", or the gangster boss who wields a sword in the snow in "Kill Bill", perhaps the delicate and fierce song and dance girl in "Chicago", may be the first female version of Watson in the history of "Sherlock Holmes Basic Deduction", or the Simone in "Deadly Woman" who has grabbed the little fresh meat.
The style of the role, let the audience every time to see Liu Yuling has a new experience, she never set limits for herself every role to try to play to figure out, in order to better broaden their field to assist in the roles she needs to play she learned to ride, paint, climb... The love for his career reaches an outrageous point.
As a star, she is also an ordinary person, in an interview she unabashedly said that she was afraid of retirement, worried that she would starve to death without a career, and she had a famous theory "go to your fund" to inspire many young people:
I learned one thing from my father, everything is like a business, so I work very hard to save money, I call them "go to your money" fund, if you have this money, when something happens or someone forces you or dismisses you, you can say something like "go to your money".
Liu Yuling left her name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 1, 2019, this honor gives Chinese actors another step forward in hollywood's "foothold" position, the Walk of Fame only those who have outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry can be eligible to stay here, before only four Chinese (Huang Liushuang, Lu Xiqi, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan) left their names here, which shows that Hollywood's prejudice against Asians has long existed.
How did Liu Yuling, who has no background and no wealth in Hollywood, which has a serious prejudice against Asians and cruelty, step by step step into the hall of the highest honor in the entertainment industry? Liu Yuling, why did she become the most popular Chinese actress in the United States?
Liu Yuling's success today is not accidental, but she has made every impossible event possible in her career career, and when the quantitative change causes the qualitative change to reach a critical value, the harvest is the golden fruit of life.
Looking back at Liu Yuling's experience process, it is found that there are "three noes" that have always accompanied her step by step to realize her dreams.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >NO1: Don't set limits on yourself, have the courage to throw the first punch</h1>
Born in December 1986, Liu Yuling is a second-generation immigrant, her father is a civil engineer, her mother is a biologist, so high intellectuals immigrated to the United States can only do some small business to support the family, Liu Yuling's parents were originally high intellectuals on the family's children's academics can not relax for a moment, Liu Yuling is not far behind in New York University after a year of school transfer to the University of Michigan to study Asian language and culture courses.
After graduation, Liu Yuling did not choose her parents to give advice as a lawyer as a teacher as a doctor, desperately turned to Hollywood, in order to pursue her dreams she also quarreled with her family several times, to know that the early years of Hollywood's rejection of Asians was very serious, in the domestic well-known actresses Zhang Ziyi, Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing and other artists can only be reduced to third-rate actors here, and even the filming of the scene may be cut off, so racist, so deliberately suppressed, in Hollywood there is no place for Chinese, Liu Yuling's parents have been opposed.
Liu Yuling has not been a soft person since she was a child, in order to prove her ability and live with her brother in a small apartment as crowded as a matchbox, in order to survive, she has to work three jobs at a time, even if the Central Asians in Hollywood full of white people can only run dragon sets and act in three-level films here, which cannot stop Liu Yuling's heart to become an actor.
Elon Musk once said: I am far more likely to fail than to succeed, and I do it not because it can be successful, but simply because I want to do it, which is my proposition for the future of the world.
The early life of running dragon sets gave Liu Yuling a slow opening of the door of opportunity, when catching a glimmer of light should be brave to punch, in 1990 took over a movie "Leaping Beverly" as a waiter, and now recalls herself at that time Liu Yuling can't help but smile:"
1997 was a particularly important year for Liu Yuling, a year that changed her destiny and changed the future development of Chinese actresses in Hollywood. In the same year, her future friend Wendi Deng also ushered in the biggest opportunity of her life on a flight to Hong Kong - media tycoon Murdoch, who did not know that in the next decade, these two Chinese women in Hollywood would set off a storm.
Before Liu Yuling auditioned for "SweetHeart Pretty Lady", there was no asian actor's face on the screen, and at that time, Liu Yuling attracted the director David Kelly to make an exception and make an exception to design a role for her, Wu Ling, and it was Wu Ling's role that made the Asian finally play a role in Hollywood that was no longer the dispensable supporting role in the film.
At the same time, David also broke the invisible obstacle that was out of reach, and Liu Yuling also received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for this role. This year, Liu Yuling successively received two more movies, "The Prodigal Son Returns To Wonderful Things" and "Dangerous Heavenly King".
In 2000, "Thunderbolt Baby" turned out to be the first in North American box office for two consecutive weeks after its release, and set a box office record of 75.4 million US dollars in 10 days.
In the face of such a high box office, Liu Yuling received only one-tenth of the other two actors' salaries, which is not only the difference in money but also a true portrayal of the difference between the identities of Asians and whites in Hollywood.
Previously, Liu Yuling could get the role of Alex in the movie "Thunderbolt Baby" or Angelina Jolie did not want to play it to give her a chance to turn over.
Such a difference in film remuneration makes Liu Yuling feel unwilling, the same actor is also the protagonist, why can his own film remuneration be less than others? Hollywood in 2000 set a limit for Liu Yuling, and in 2003, Liu Yuling gave Hollywood a rebuttal blow with her backhand, and the continuous negotiations with the producer finally increased from $1 million to $4 million. In the same year, Liu Yuling's salary increased to $5.5 million when she starred in Quentin's "Kill Bill" as a gangster boss.
The image of the gang boss made everyone deeply impressed with the Asian actress. And this movie also gave Liu Yuling the MTV Movie Best Villain Award.
Since then, Hollywood has added an emerging Asian actress who cannot be underestimated.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >NO2: don't do things in a low profile and don't compromise at will</h1>
In fact, in a long time Liu Yuling has been involved in the art circle, in 1993 in New York Cast Iron Gallery opened a Plainning photography exhibition, at that time she was not famous, gradually a painter named "Yu Ling" was noticed by the European and American art circles, and later by the "New York Times" broke the news that this painter is Liu Yuling.
When the host of a talk show asked Liu Yuling why she did not disclose her paintings, Liu Yuling only smiled slightly:"
She didn't want others to pay too much attention to herself, she hoped that people could pay attention to her works, so low-key and modest, even if Liu Yuling at that time was no longer a nameless pawn running dragon sets, she was still consistently low-key and low-key.
Liu Yuling's successive boyfriends include the famous director George Clooney, actor Matt Damon, billionaire Nomu Gottsman and so on. But these boyfriends are just a beautiful companion in the process of her life experience, and Liu Yuling did not hype up the boyfriends, but just low-key interaction and low-key life.
Liu Yuling appeared on SNL (Saturday Night Live) in 2000 for the popularity of "Thunderbolt Jiaowa", which was the first time in SNL history that an Asian woman was the host, and Liu Yuling, who took the stage, not only did not timidly record a vlog to fight back against Hollywood celebrities who stereotyped Asian women.
SNL Chinese Saturday Night Live, a comedy skit that satirizes current politics and culture, and was voted the seventh most nominated and awarded TV show in history.
I have to say that Liu Yuling really has the ability to do what she wants to do, and she went all out to shoot the movie after SNL ridicule, not just to present a perfect answer sheet.
Two years later, she did it, not only becoming famous in "Thunderbolt Baby" but also making Hollywood remember the image of "female thug" in "Kill Bill".
In 2012, Liu Yuling gradually developed in the direction of directing, and at first, when directing "Sherlock Holmes Basic Deduction", everyone was not optimistic about this version of Sherlock Holmes, not to mention that Watson in this film was a woman!
This version of Holmes broke the limitations of many original works, not only setting the background era to modern New York but also adapting Watson into a female version, the drama was constantly opposed, and Watson Martin Freeman, who played the British version of Holmes, publicly mocked Liu Yuling's "dinosaur face".
What an insult, but Liu Yuling has always liked to speak with strength, "Sherlock Holmes Basic Deduction Method" has a Douban score of no less than 8.8 points per season since its inception, and slowly this drama has become the head drama of CBS.
Looking back on my past careers, I find that it is the things that make me feel like an outsider who have contributed to my success.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >NO3: Don't care about age, just do it</h1>
I want to live in a world where I don't set limits on myself and am not afraid to take risks.
At the age of 29, Liu Yuling encountered a real turnaround - starring in "Sweetheart Pretty Lady", which is the age when the Chinese showbiz circle can already be considered retired, and it is precisely this year that is the starting point of her brilliant career, because she insists on loving it.
She loved to paint since childhood, at the age of 31, she regained her hobby, continued to create with a pen, and she had a high artistic talent, in 2006 she was sold for $170,000 by the New York Times as an artist, and in 2016, she was awarded the Artist of the Year Award by the Harvard University Foundation for outstanding works of art, not limited to the specialty of painting, she learned to ski, mountaineering, extreme sports and so on.
The 35-year-old finally became popular, in Hollywood's colorful vat did not let her indulge in the glitz of the showbiz, after playing the role of Alex in "Thunderbolt Baby", Liu Yuling became obsessed with martial arts and learned "Filipino martial arts", in order to enrich her language library, she has learned Japanese, French and Italian.
At the age of 36, he worked with UNICEF to give back to the community, and at that time, he only wanted to help children around the world, and also participated in the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Lighting Program.
At the age of 44, want to expand their talents in many ways gradually to the direction of the director, "Sherlock Holmes Basic Interpretation" is Liu Yuling's participation in self-directed and self-acting American dramas, with the start of the more seasons the ratings but the water rises, only increased, the last season of Douban score as high as 9.3 points, in the direction of the direction of the direction of the director's direction of the road further and further she has directed "Desperate Housewives" and "Luke Cage" the second season.
46-year-old is not married but likes the baby, resolutely not afraid that she is an elderly mother who gave birth to the baby Rockwell through IVF, and the 50-year-old on the show casually a fork is no longer a word.
The 51-year-old once again provoked Da Liang as a director to shoot the fire American drama "Deadly Woman", in which she played the social celebrity of the 80s, which made people can't help but sigh that she was the celebrity herself. Not caring about their age, the small fresh meat in the play is grabbed, and the sentence "Oh Young" makes the audience directly experience Xiao Yaxuan's happiness.
Age is an extremely valuable asset for an artist, but looking at what Liu Yuling does in the world, she does not care about her age, does not set limits for herself and is not limited to the inherent framework of age, and lives out of herself and challenges the impossible.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Liu Yuling's contribution to Asian actors is immeasurable, and at the 77th Golden Globe Awards ceremony held on January 5, 2020, actress Okafina said bluntly:
The person I admire the most is Liu Yuling, she changed my view of what an Asian woman can be, thank you Liu Yuling for opening this door.
Liu Yuling proved her worth with actions, and also used her strength to tell all Asian actors that Hollywood has a place for Chinese!
She never thought that because she loved this career, she inadvertently became the leader of the Chinese in Hollywood, nor did she think that because of her persistence in pursuing her dreams, she would one day stand in the hall of honor in Hollywood.
As she said at the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony: finally I can find my place in the stars.
In March of this year, Liu Yuling also appeared on the cover of Jia Ren's April monthly magazine, paying tribute to the new trend idols of the 80s, including herself.
The 52-year-old Liu Yuling has spent most of her life writing her own legend, with the belief that life does not need to follow the rules to go farther and farther in the career she loves. I believe that in the future, Liu Yuling will bring us more surprises.