Author | Blindly Qinghuan
's latest interview show "Thirteen Invitations", Xu Zhiyuan interviewed Chen Chong.
Facing the camera, 58-year-old Chen Chong has a plain face and simple clothes. He does not look like a glamorous female star in the entertainment industry, but has a self-confident, calm and calm temperament, which makes people feel a kind of beauty from the bones.
Xu Zhiyuan took the cover picture of Chen Chong’s magazine many years ago and asked, “When you look at her (Chen Chong when she was young), what do you find the most bitterness?”
Chen Chong replied, “In fact, there have been a lot of hardships in life, but I It is insisting on maintaining innocence and innocence. Those imprints are placed in another place. It is not non-existent, but it will not affect appetite." After fifty-eight years of ups and downs, Chen Chong has become mature, wise and calm. But the naive part has not been obliterated by the suffering of reality, and is still well preserved in her heart.
is the coexistence of maturity and innocence, Chen Chong can always maintain the passion of creation, continue to act and direct plays, become a legend in the entertainment industry.
01 went abroad after becoming popular.
became popular overnight. It was never new in the entertainment industry. As early as the late 1970s, Chen Chong experienced the taste of being popular all over the country.
In 1961, Chen Chong was born in a Kochi medical family in Shanghai. His grandfather Chen Wenjing was a famous surgeon, his father Professor Chen Xingrong was a famous radiology expert in Shanghai Huashan Hospital, and his grandfather was a famous pharmacologist Zhang Changshao.
grew up in such a family. Chen Chong liked reading since he was a child. Even after becoming a star, he never gave up the good habit of reading.
At the age of 15, Chen Chong was fancyed by Director Xie Jin and starred in the role of the dumb girl in the movie "Youth" and began to make a splash in the entertainment industry. However, Chen Chong only regarded acting as a fun thing at the time, and did not decide to become a professional actor.
At the age of 17, Chen Chong, who liked English, was admitted to the Shanghai International Studies University, majoring in English and American literature. She probably couldn't think of it at that time. One year later, she will be popular all over the country.
In 1979, the Beijing Film Studio was preparing to shoot the film "Little Flower". After seeing Chen Chong's dumb girl in "Youth", she felt that she was very suitable for the role of Xiaohua, so she invited her to play the role of Xiaohua. But at that time Chen Chong's school and his family disagreed. The Beijing Film Studio sent people to Shanghai to persuade him, and Chen Chong was able to take time off to film. After
"Little Flower" was released, it got a huge sensation. Chen Chong once recalled the hot scene at that time on the show, saying that as long as people alive in that era, they had watched "Little Flower" and watched it over and over again. A film and television drama is incomparable.
In this way, Chen Chong became popular all over the country and became the goddess of the whole people. With the role of Xiaohua, Chen Chong also won the first queen laurel in his life-the best actress of the popular film Hundred Flowers Award.
Just when everyone thought that Chen Chong would shine in the entertainment industry, in 1981, she made a shocking decision to follow her parents' wishes and go to New York to study medicine. The decision of
still seems to be unbelievable so far, but Chen Chong said that she never regrets that she has gone abroad for so many years and experienced many difficult times, which made her more tolerant and understand the people and things in this world.
02 "Darkness" for ten years
Chen Chong once said on his blog that the first 10 years of going abroad, from 1981 to 1991, were the darkest and most hesitant time in life. After
came to New York, Chen Chong spent all of her time studying and working. In order to earn tuition and living expenses, she went to restaurants to wash dishes in her spare time, and her life was a bit embarrassing. In addition to financial difficulties, Chen Chong had to overcome cultural obstacles. She was accustomed to collective life, and suddenly came to the United States, which advocates individualism, feeling lonely and hesitating. After studying
for a year, Chen Chong discovered that he was not interested in medicine and still liked movies, so he moved to California to study film production. Later, with the help of her classmates, she contacted an agent and began to play some small roles.
In 1986, Chen Chong was invited to star in the Hollywood movie "Tai Pan". Due to some of the exposed scenes in the movie, it caused great controversy in China. For a while, Chen Chong became the target of the people's crusade, and his popularity plummeted.
Under the pressure of huge public opinion, Chen Chong felt painful and could only grit his teeth and continue his favorite acting career.
In 1987, 26-year-old Chen Chong starred in "The Last Emperor" directed by Bernardo Beldo Luzi. The Queen Wanrong played by her, with a smile and a frown, is amazing and lamentable. It is still one of the classic roles that many people like.
"The Last Emperor" caused a huge sensation in the United States at the time. It won 9 Oscars including Best Picture in 1988, making Chen Chong the first actress in China to stand on the Oscars.
Since then, Chen Chong's career has become more and more smooth, and he began to make his mark in Hollywood.
But when his career was just getting better, Chen Chong's first marriage came to an end.
's ex-husband Liu Qing is a Hollywood body coach. When Chen Chong first came to the United States, Liu Qing gave her a lot of care and encouragement, so the two went together naturally and soon walked into the palace of marriage. After
got married, Chen Chong discovered that Liu Qing was a very controlling person. He often unplugged all the phone lines at home and prevented her from talking to other men. In the end, she couldn't even look at other men.
Chen Chong became more and more desperate, and finally had to break up with Liu Qing and end this four-year marriage. After the divorce of
, Chen rushed through a lonely single life. It was not until he met the current husband in 1991 that he met his happiness again.
In the eyes of many of us, Chen Chong has filmed such a successful film "The Last Emperor" in the past 10 years, and went to the Oscars to present awards to others, and became the first actress in China to stand on the Oscars. How brilliant it is!
But only she knows how difficult it is for those who are unable to integrate into the United States and worry about the economy, the days of spinning around in small roles, being scolded by compatriots, and the darkest moments of marriage failure and being single.
Fortunately, with the perseverance of not admitting defeat and the tenacity of not being afraid of hardship, Chen Chong slowly survived, finally welcoming his own light.
03 Changed to director
In the 1990s, Chen Chong’s career entered an explosive period. He starred in films such as "Two Peaks: Walking with Fire", "Tempting Monk", "Heaven and Earth", and later with "Red Rose White". The corner of Wang Jiaorui in "Rose" was awarded the title of Taiwan Golden Horse Queen in one fell swoop.
With the prosperous acting career, Chen Chong has more and more ideas of being a screenwriter and director by herself. So in 1997, she changed her identity and directed her debut film "Heavenly Bath".
may be the film production that I learned many years ago has finally come into play. Perhaps Chen Chongben has the talent to be a director. "Heavenly Bath" was a huge success and won the 1998 Taiwan Golden Horse Award including the Best Director Award in one fell swoop. 6 awards within. Li Xiaolu, who was only 17 years old at the time, also won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award and the Paris International Film Festival for his "Heavenly Bath".
Accompanied by the success of his career and the success of his family, it was also in 1998 that Chen Chong, who was diagnosed by a doctor to have a child, became a mother and received the most precious gift from God. After
, Chen Chong constantly switched between actor, director, wife, and mother. He acted and directed dramas while taking care of his family. He lived a stable and happy life.
And her career achievements are not only that. In 2007, after Chen Chong was re-listed as the Golden Horse Movie with the film "The Story of Hometown", she also won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hawaii Film Festival in the same year.
Today's Chen Chong puts all his focus on his family and career he loves, reading books and watching movies in his spare time, and has a happy life.
Throughout Chen Chong’s most of his life, whether he suddenly went abroad when he became popular, whether he was divorced during a marriage crisis, or he switched to a leading drama at the peak of his career, they were all casual decisions made regardless of the consequences, with certain ideals. Confucianism, in Chen Chong’s own words, insisted on maintaining innocence and innocence. How reckless these decisions are, it means that Chen Chong is under much pressure behind this, but she gritted her teeth and slowly crossed the hurdles in front of her, finally reaping the success and happiness she wanted.
Chen Chong is naive, daring to do things that most people don't dare, and at the same time she is mature, able to bear all consequences for her innocence.
Coexistence of innocence and maturity, Chen Chong has achieved a tortuous and legendary life.
