1905 Movie Network News On the evening of November 12, the 35th China Golden Rooster Awards Ceremony in 2022 was held in Xiamen, Fujian. After a lapse of 31 years, Xi Meijuan, with "Mom! "Feng Jizhen in the corner, once again won the Golden Rooster Best Actress Award. Born in 1955, she also set the record for the oldest recipient since the award was established.
"I want to say that these three years have been the hardest for us filmmakers, but we have never given up our professional ideals, let alone our movie dreams." When delivering her acceptance speech, Xi Meijuan highly praised Chinese filmmakers The creative spirit. At the same time, she also expressed her gratitude to all the colleagues in the crew.
The film stars Xi Meijuan as a retired university professor suffering from Alzheimer's disease. At the age of 65, she did not get married and had children, and in her later years, she lived with her 85-year-old mother played by Wu Yanshu. In the absence of men, a mother and daughter who are graceful and self-sufficient in their twilight years have contributed a rare and vivid screen image to Chinese films.
actor Wu Yanshu talked about how he praised Xi Meijuan when filming a scene where mother and daughter sat on the bed and recalled their father's past, "I was stunned to watch that scene, I was out of the show at the time, watching like an audience member. She's really textbook acting."
