A Chinese star who has successfully entered Hollywood and is internationally renowned.
Everyone generally thinks of Bruce Lee, who first went to the world, and Jackie Chan, who won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award last year.
But after Bruce Lee and before Jackie Chan, there was a Chinese star who was widely acclaimed by Hollywood.
This man is the legendary movie star Zun Long.
At the peak of his career, Zunlong received numerous international honors.
In 1988 alone, he starred in "The Last Emperor", which swept nine Oscars.
He also became the first Chinese actor to appear on the Oscars.
In "The Last Emperor", Zun Long used superb acting skills to interpret Puyi's life experience as legendary and sad.
In real life, Zun Long's own life is also miserable.
He was abandoned as an abandoned baby by his parents at birth and later adopted by a Disabled Hong Kong lady.
Because of his poverty, his adoptive mother once wanted to leave him on the bus stop.
At about the age of seven, he was sent to the Drama Academy to study Peking Opera, dance and martial arts, where he managed meals.
At the age of 14, he went to the United States alone to study acting.
After years in Hollywood, at the age of 32, he made his first leading role in the movie "Forty Thousand Years of the Iceman".
After that, it became completely popular in Hollywood with the movies "Year of the Dragon" and "The Last Emperor".
He has become the only Chinese star who has directly originated in Hollywood and has joined the mainstream frontline of Hollywood.
Because of his singing skills, Zun Long also cooperated with famous musicians in many countries to launch songs in 1990, which were released in Japan, which was also very popular.
After becoming popular international, Zun Long also wanted to return to China to take over some movies.
And because he has a foundation in drama, before the filming of "Farewell to the Overlord", director Chen Kaige and producer Xu Feng invited him to play the role of Cheng Dieyi.
Because of his international popularity, Chen Kaige and the producer even gave him a high salary of 10 million.
Zun Long also favored this role, and also pushed out the Hollywood high-paid film contract.
But in the end, he was replaced.
At that time, the producer Xu Feng said that the reason why he was replaced was because Zun Long played too many big cards.
One of them is even more unreasonable.
At that time, Zun Long asked him and his dog to fly with the best airline in the world, and also asked the dog to go out with him, but dogs usually took three days to get out of customs.
Because of these requirements, Zun Long missed the role of Cheng Dieyi.
And his brother Zhang Guorong has achieved his unique style with this role.
Later, Zun Long played Song Liling, a Famous Peking Opera singer who was also quite feminine, in "Butterfly Jun".
But the film's influence is far less than that of "Farewell to the King".
After 2000, Zun Long made several works, such as "Rush Hour 2" and "Entertaining Himself".
But it is no longer the same as it was then, and his position as the first male star of Chinese descent has long been replaced by Jackie Chan.
Even in 2005 to 2006, he, who never made TV dramas, actually made two domestic dramas, "Qianlong and Xiangfei" and "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview 5".
Although the publicity at the time was all under the name of his Hollywood superstar, when these two dramas were broadcast, the response was also mediocre.
A generation of superstars, the acting situation has become so, it is really regrettable.
In 2007, after filming "Ranger" starring Jet Li, he also disappeared.
Now 65 years old, Zun Long still lives alone.
Now that I think about it, if Zun Long had acted in "Overlord Farewell", his subsequent acting path would not be different from now?