In the Hong Kong entertainment circle, there are many actors who have "become late in life", who have expressed all their emotions in the series with decades of life accumulation and understanding, thus shaping a legendary artist. Speaking of Gu Meihua, many people may not be very familiar with it, of course, this is related to the age group, after all, she is now 66 years old.
Why call her a legend? In fact, this is mainly related to her entry into the industry, before 1984 Gu Meihua was not an actress, but a housewife. Married at the age of 21 with her daughter, she is full of hope for marriage, but who once thought that her husband was a relatively cold-blooded person, not only did not love her children, but also often quarreled (the trigger was that she had a daughter again).
The reason for the divorce was a very sad sentence. According to Gu Meihua's recollection, "Don't think that you are on your own, you will starve to death when you go out." Hearing this, Gu Meihua resolutely chose divorce, and in order to compete for custody of her two daughters, Gu Meihua did not hesitate to meet with her ex-husband in court. Fortunately, Gu Meihua has a lawyer friend, which saves a lot of money.
After seizing custody of her two daughters, how to survive has become Gu Meihua's only "roadblock". At that time, a friend introduced her to acting, and the first movie was "Like Water Age", with a salary of more than 20,000, which can alleviate the urgent needs of the moment. Although she has not received professional training, in order to support her family, Gu Meihua still goes straight ahead.
With the spirit of not accepting defeat in her heart, Gu Meihua interpreted the role in "Like Water Years" to the fullest. This is how powerful for a person who has never been exposed to acting, and then Gu Meihua won the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for a role. Later, she starred in the film "People in New York" directed by Guan Jinpeng, playing Maggie Cheung's "partner" which was refreshing and praised her acting skills.
After that, he successively starred in "Rolling Red Dust, People Who Don't Take Off Their Socks, Ukiyo Love Song", etc., and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress with "Ukiyo Love Song", and her acting career could have been smooth sailing, but when she became popular, Gu Meihua chose to believe in love again and marry someone. Years later, she finally couldn't stand the "loneliness" and starred in the movie "Beautiful Shanghai" at the age of 52.
"Beautiful Shanghai" this movie can be described as a gathering of big coffee, not only Wang Zuxian, Feng Yuanzheng and the old drama bone Zhao Youliang, everyone's acting skills are remarkable. Although the box office is average, the word of mouth is good, and Gu Meihua's role in the film "Jingwen" beat Zhang Ziyi, Wang Zuxian and others to win the best actress award at the film festival.
In addition to her career success, Gu Meihua also taught her two daughters how to live. Since childhood, they have told them not to rely on others: "Marriage is not 100% guaranteed, when your marriage is not satisfactory, choose to separate, after separation, you must rely on yourself, at any time to equip yourself, this is a sense of security." 」 ”
And her realization not only comes from the failure of marriage, but also from the suicide of her sister and the death of her parents. The combination of the two has filled her with many insights about life until now she has to rely on drugs to fall asleep. Today's Gu Meihua is no longer nostalgic for the prosperity of the entertainment circle, although in recent years active in the entertainment circle, but that is only for entertainment, some time ago was to play Ma Junwei's stage play with zero film remuneration, and then she agreed to join Ma Junwei Studio and become its first artist.
In addition to her leisure time to work, Gu Meihua spent the rest of her time concentrating on taking her three baby grandchildren, and seeing cute children made her gradually untie the knot. "Legendary" and low-key are her only labels, temperament and intellectual beauty are the true portrayal of her now, so the artist is really a role model.