Today, an Asian-American actress makes history.
Okafina.
It is the actress who is about to star in "Shangqi" to brush the screen around the world.
At the Golden Globe Awards in the United States, Okafina became the first Asian actress after winning the Golden Globe with the movie "Don't Tell Her".
When she took the stage to receive the award, the whole audience stood up, and the Kate Devil King changed into a "pro-girlfriend" face in seconds.
Not only is she the Second Honorable Golden Globe, but critics and audiences alike have also chosen her as the Best Performer of the Year.
In the United States, she went from being a marginal comedian in a supporting role to one of the most popular heroines.
She starred in "Don't Tell Her," about a Chinese family whose grandmother has cancer and whose family hides her illness, while Billie, who grew up in New York and is accustomed to independent human rights, wants to tell her favorite grandmother the truth.
This film, which explores the different views of Chinese and Western cultures on life and death, has a freshness rating of 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, and its foreign opening box office even exceeds "Reunion 4".
Okafina was also pushed to the front of the stage.
The Hollywood Reporter described her performance as "extremely contagious and strikes into the depths of the human heart."
How red is it?
It is to select the world's hottest actress this year, and Okafina will not let it go.
The covers of various big magazines are non-stop, and many big-name actresses in Hollywood shoot magazines, occupying the C position.
On the cover of Entertainment Weekly, Variety magazine called her "Female Power of the Year 2019," and Time Magazine was even more ruthless, choosing her as one of the future leaders.
The upcoming blockbusters "The Little Mermaid", "Shangqi", "SpongeBob SquarePants" movies, etc. have signed contracts with her.
However, while being highly sought after, this side is a different scene, and Okafina has suffered the most ruthless attacks and insults.
She said on the show that "all Asian actresses are regarded as actors like Zhang Ziyi", but was scolded by people who "touched Porcelain Zhang Ziyi." ”
In a video interview on station b, no one listened to her speech, and the bullet screen was full of the following filthy words -
This is not an exception, as long as the video related to her, the content of the bullet screen is almost the same.
Even on other platforms, netizens' words are very unbearable.
To sum up: "You are ugly and you do not deserve it" and "Growing up like this represents Asian Descent you are even less worthy." ”
Regardless of the grades, do not talk about personality charm, directly attack the looks to finish.
Is Okafina beautiful? There are ten thousand aesthetics out of ten thousand people, but there is no need to be attacked and insulted because of their looks.
And those who scolded her did not understand how Okafina, as an emerging force, constituted a powerful whirlwind.
It always makes sense that she can be red like this.
Born in New York, Okafina's original name was Nora Lum, where her father was Chinese and her mother was a Korean immigrant.
However, when Okafina was only four years old, her mother died of cancer, and she grew up under the care of her father and grandparents, so she was very close to her grandmother in reality.
In the past, Okafina was very introverted, attending a white school, she was bullied, and she also had low self-esteem.
When she debuted, she changed her real name to Awkwafina, and she said: When she was called Okafina, she could perform with another personality and become confident.
And her confidence has been brought to the extreme.
After graduating from school, she worked diligently and diligently, and was directly fired by her conservative boss for writing a bold and avant-garde rap My.
Unexpectedly, this became a turning point in Okafina's life, and she quickly became popular on the Internet.
Her songs, which attack the stereotype of Chinese in the West, are full of personality and posture, express the voices and ideas of Asians, and win the praise and support of more than 4 million Asian-American groups.
At that moment she had an epiphany: Maybe my life should be like this.
Since then, she has been doing talk shows while singing raps, and was discovered as an actress.
It has to be said that Okafina's life is as lucky as God's perfect arrangement.
She was arranged to star with Kate the Great Devil and Anne Hathaway in "Hidden sky across the sea: Beauty Plan" as soon as she debuted, the film was not good, but Okafina's comedic effect was very bright.
Playing a skateboard thief from Queens, it's weird and clever.
It is said that for this role, she learned how to "be a thief" for several months.
The previous year's "Picking Stars" was also a mess in the United States, and the heroine's girlfriend played by Okafina was free and confident.
In a few works, american critics called it "the brilliance of a movie star." ”
But the character's flamboyant personality is hard not to be associated with her personally.
Okafina often says she catches up with good times: "The script I saw didn't have race, little characters, sex, or anything like that, and that was great." I think the industry is moving in a good direction and Asians are now seen as people who can do other things. ”
Of all the Asian actors in Hollywood, Okafina is the one who identifies with and prides herself on her Asian identity.
She has been curious about her identity since she was a child, plus she has been closest to her grandmother since she was a child, in order to understand China and her grandmother, Okafina went to Beijing Language and Culture University alone at the age of 18 to study, and it was only then that she began to stumble to learn Chinese.
Two years later, she earned degrees in journalism and women's studies, and wrote about food for a Beijing magazine.
When filming "Don't Tell Her", the first scene was to play against the old drama bone who played the grandmother, the international first-class actor Zhao Shuzhen.
There was no rehearsal beforehand, but everything was naturally seamless: "I realized that if you have relatives in your home country, that bond doesn't need language. ”
At the first moment of winning the award, I hugged the grandmother in the play.
"I was very touched because my family is from China and I like China very much and would love to go back."
Now, when she has time, she takes her grandmother to record some Asian cultural programs, about Chinese food, about living customs. (By the way, Grandma's Beijing dialect and English are very authentic.) ）
Even if she is busy at work, Okafina will care about her grandmother's daily life, and sometimes she will take her grandmother with her when she goes out to the show.
After winning the award, she was moved to cry on the stage, and immediately got off the stage and made a video with her grandmother, only in front of her grandmother, she would be unscrupulous and share joy and happiness.
At that moment, she was like every girl who was promoted in the workplace, progressed in life, and finally struggled out of her own small piece of the world after struggling, and couldn't help but collapse and cry in front of her relatives.
But in all the sad troughs, I chose to carry it down by myself.
Why is she not just a girl?
Like the idol Liu Yuling who drove her farther and farther away, when she was a child.
At that time, when she was only 10 years old, she stood at the door of "Saturday Night Live", the host of that night was Liu Yuling, and Okafina, who had no money to buy tickets, was outside the door, watching the idol scenery.
Later, she became the second Asian-American woman to host the show: that night 18 years ago completely changed my view of what an Asian-American actress could accomplish.
Liu Yuling has also experienced the same dilemma as Okafina: young and unmaculated, attacked appearance.
It just so happened that last year, 50-year-old Liu Yuling became popular again with "Deadly Woman" and ushered in another spring.
It's ridiculous to say: looks have become the only criterion for many Asians to judge Asians.
After winning the Golden Globes last year, Wu Shanzhuo bravely spoke out for the Asian community, and many people never mentioned her works, still mocking her as a "female version of Lin Yongjian".
Pushing forward, China's first supermodel Lu Yan was originally ridiculed for "losing all the face of Chinese", but she was still popular all over the European and American catwalks.
Okafina describes how hard it is for Asians to mix in Hollywood: having to endure certain things, even having to create some kind of image.
But when she breaks all the conventions and can get real praise for herself in her usual acting, she has to face unwarranted denigration, although these evil words are unscathed to her.
Okafina, Liu Yuling. Wu Shanzhuo and others are not the appearance of the big heroine, but they have truly become the big heroine, with flesh and blood and soul.
Wu Shanzhuo has been in Hollywood for 25 years, from the lowest dragon set mixed into vision, she said: "Find the right positioning, you are your own queen"
Liu Yuling also has a well-known "F**k you Money" theory -
What the old lady has is money.
Their existence is just a reminder to everyone that in an imperfect life, anyone can live as their perfect protagonist.
It is not exquisite to be beautiful, it is not amazing to be beautiful, in a state of no limit, a strong self is beauty.
Finally, in the words of Okafina, I would like to encourage everyone: "You can do anything, you can take your fate into your own hands." ”
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Editor-in-Charge / Kaneda
Edited / Nyūrürō Sang