Miss Understanding from Top Cinema (Original by topcinema, reproduction is strictly prohibited)
Some stars, even if they don't appear often, are always legends in others' mouths.
For example, Maggie Cheung.
In a recent variety show, Eric Tsang talked about how he had never filmed a romantic movie. Charmaine Sheh reminded him that he had acted with Maggie Cheung ("A Tale of Two Cities" and "Sweet Honey"), and said with emotion, "But with Maggie Cheung"!
Ng Chun-yu on the side also immediately exposed his identity as a "fanboy" and couldn't help but criticize Eric Tsang. said Maggie Cheung was his goddess.
The goddess in the mouth of celebrities, Maggie Cheung, is indeed very charming.
With her highly recognizable appearance and spirited performances, she is an international superstar with many domestic and foreign movie queen titles. However, Maggie Cheung, who lives a self-willed life, has long since faded out of the entertainment industry and has been away from acting for 20 years , I have lived my own life.
A few days ago, 159-year-old Maggie Cheung made a rare public appearance!
Who would have thought that she, who will turn 60 in September this year, would still look like a energetic middle-aged girl.
She attended the Sino-French Badminton Charity Ceremony in Paris. Also present at the event were Lin Dan, Lee Chong Wei, French actress Juliette Binoche, etc.
Nearly sixty years old, Maggie Cheung can hardly hide the traces of time, but her overall condition is quite good, and her figure is still slender. She wears sportswear, has long hair tied into a ponytail, and looks youthful.
Compared with Juliette Binoche, who is the same age as her, there are already signs of gaining weight. She does not look like her peers in the same frame.
Not only attended the event, Maggie Cheung, who is the Sino-French badminton ambassador, also partnered with Lin Dan and played a charity friendly match with two French badminton players. In the end, the host French team narrowly won 2:1.
Maggie Cheung did not play badminton on a whim. She was once a member of the school's badminton team. In the early days of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, she competed with professional athletes for charity activities with Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai and others.
Therefore, Maggie Cheung, who plays badminton, has allowed more people to see another side of her.
In fact, Maggie Cheung has never set limits on her life. Playing badminton at the age of almost 60 is just one of her many attempts.
Just two years ago, the then 57-year-old Maggie Cheung turned into a DJ in a shopping mall in Central, Hong Kong. She had short reddish-brown hair, wore a suit with suspenders, her abdominal muscles were looming, and she was wearing big black headphones, playing handsomely on the scene. dish.
One word: Sa!
At that time, Aaron Kwok and Nicholas Tse, who were participating in the event at the same time, were also infected and swayed to Maggie Cheung's music.
Maggie Cheung has always been an "alternative queen" in the entertainment industry: she won numerous awards early on and was named Best Actress at Cannes. She has been divorced and single for many years. When she reached middle age, she suddenly became interested in singing. She suddenly chose to enter the music scene and even participated in music festivals.
Many celebrities choose to save face, but Maggie Cheung chooses differently. Her first choice is: to be comfortable and happy.
Therefore, you can see her wearing big-name clothes and smiling at high-end events, or you can see her being photographed buying 19 yuan slippers and 39 yuan underwear in a street shop in Hong Kong.
On the red carpet, she is the actress Maggie Cheung; at the roadside stall, she is Maggie Cheung herself.
But these daily life, coupled with her long-term absence from filming, caused a lot of rumors about Maggie Cheung.
A few years ago, Maggie Cheung was once described by gossip magazines as: appearing in civilian areas, and they also said that she was skinny and so on.
But after taking a closer look, I found that it was all old news from earlier. As for the talk of moving out of the mansion and returning to the civilian area, it was even more ridiculous.
Maggie Cheung was photographed appearing in Siu Sai Wan, Hong Kong. She lives in the "Blue Bay Peninsula" mansion, which was previously revealed to have been purchased by her more than ten years ago.
From 2011 to 2013, she bought 4 "Peninsula units" here, with prices ranging from 7.6 million to 11.88 million. At that time, the total price exceeded 40 million, and it was speculated that it was a one-time cash purchase.
It is precisely because Maggie Cheung has been a rich woman for a long time that she is so chic.
Maggie Cheung not only lives a free and unrestrained life, she even managed to get on a variety show a few years ago, but she can't stop her cheerful personality.
In 2019, when Maggie Cheung participated in the variety show "Youth Can Be Expected", she revealed a handwritten letter she wrote when she was 18 years old.
In the letter, she mentioned that she had been pursued by many boys, including some strange and extreme boys; she mentioned that she did not like the fake smiles and entertainment in this industry; she mentioned her own achievements and the consequences that followed. The lack of freedom that comes with it...
Maggie Cheung revealed in her letter that she was once forced to attend dinner parties and wanted to return to her family in England when she first entered the industry. At that time, Maggie Cheung had only been in the entertainment industry for a year.
Maggie Cheung entered the entertainment industry completely by accident.
In 1982, she was discovered by a talent scout while on vacation in Hong Kong, so she stayed in Hong Kong to develop and work part-time as a model. The next year, Maggie Cheung entered the entertainment industry after participating in the "Miss Hong Kong" beauty pageant and winning the runner-up and most photogenic title.
Subsequently, she starred in the first TV series "Drawing the Rainbow", which attracted Wang Jing's attention and invited her to star in her first screen work: "The Frog Prince". After
, Maggie Cheung starred in the love movie "Fate" with Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. With this film, she was nominated for the Best New Actor Award at the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards. She was hailed as the "most promising actress" at the time.
Who would have thought that Maggie Cheung's later best screen partner Tony Leung once looked down on her.
Although she was somewhat famous at that time, unfortunately, she only played some flamboyant roles until she was stimulated by Tony Leung and completely changed.
Maggie Cheung recalled that when they were filming the TV series "Brother Xin Zha" in 1984, they had many opposite roles, but Tony Leung felt that she could not act, so he asked her to go home.
Maggie Cheung, who refused to admit defeat, vowed to improve her acting skills, so she took on 12 movies in a year.
In 1988, Maggie Cheung participated in the film "Carmen" directed by Wong Kar-wai and was nominated for Best Actress at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards.
From here, her acting skills that have been accumulated for many years began to explode. In 1989, she participated in Kwan Jin Peng's "Man in New York" and won the Best Actress; in the same year, she starred in "The Man Who Never Takes Off His Socks" and won the 9th Hong Kong Film Award. Award-winning actress.
In the golden age of Hong Kong movies, Maggie Cheung starred in many movies of various types, including "Ashes of Time" and "Green Snake".
After that, Maggie Cheung began to work hard in the international film industry -
In 1992, she won the Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival for "Ruan Lingyu", becoming the first Chinese actor to win the Best Actress crown in three major international A-category film festivals.
In 2004, she won the Best Actress Award at the 57th Cannes International Film Festival for her role in "Clean", becoming the first Asian actress to win the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
At the same time, Maggie Cheung continued to produce high-quality output in the Chinese film industry, and also used her acting skills to contribute classic Chinese masterpieces such as "Sweet Honey" and "In the Mood for Love".
It is worth mentioning that "Clean" was tailor-made for Maggie Cheung's ex-husband, French director Olivier Assayas. Unfortunately, their marriage only lasted 7 years because they spent less time together and more time apart. It is said that their divorce agreement was also signed on the set of "Clean".
At this time, Maggie Cheung had acted in more than 70 movies. However, after winning the award for the 2004 movie "Clean", she resigned from more than 40 scripts... She made another choice: to retire from acting. , no more acting.
Others are still working hard at the age of 40, but Maggie Cheung chose to take a break from acting at the age of 40: she no longer makes movies, and occasionally serves as a guest, judge or magazine in various film festivals.
Emotionally, Maggie Cheung has gone through twists and turns and is now doing things as she pleases.
In her early years, she dated director Er Dongsheng, art director Hank, and hairstylist Steve. After they broke up, she married French director Assayas in 1999 and announced their divorce in 2002.
Later, she dated her German architect boyfriend ole scheeren. In order to accommodate her boyfriend, who was working in Beijing at the time, she also moved to Beijing. However, they eventually broke up because the other party cheated on them.
Later, there was news that she was dating someone who was in a band 15 years her junior, but the other party denied it, saying, "She was never my girlfriend."
She is alone, doesn't care about outside opinions, and is brave enough to be herself.
So, Maggie Cheung, who was not filming, suddenly signed a contract with Modern Sky, an independent music company, in 2014 and entered the music scene!
As a rock singer, she led her band to the stage of the Shanghai Strawberry Music Festival. She sang a classic song "Sweet Honey" at the music festival, but her singing was off-key and was called the "car accident scene."
Later, Maggie Cheung stood on the stage of the Beijing Music Festival again and said unwillingly: "I have had a dream since I was a child to sing. I have acted in movies 20 times and I have been called a vase. Please give me 20 chances to sing." .”
appears to be strong, but is actually very hard hit.
It wasn’t until many years later that Maggie Cheung mentioned this matter on the program "Young People" that everyone knew that she broke down and cried over it.
She said that in her life experience, debuting, acting, winning awards... everything went so smoothly, and the performance at that music festival gave her "the first real blow."
For a whole year after that, she said that she often cried, was confused, and even didn't want to see people. However, after experiencing this incident, she became very strong and never regretted it.
Maggie Cheung's heart became stronger. She said: "Why do I stop playing this game because of other people's words? I think it's unfair. I want to play until the day I say I won't play!"
Many celebrities do There is anxiety about appearance, after all, this is an industry that relies on face to make a living, but Maggie Cheung, who has stopped acting for a long time, does not seem to have it.
She is almost 60 years old. In the past few years, she was photographed wearing reading glasses and signing autographs for others. She doesn't take it to heart that the outside world says she is no longer young or how her face is. A frail figure was photographed walking in a hurry on the street.
Divorced with no children, no worries about career, and far away from the flashlight, the 59-year-old Maggie Cheung still has light in her eyes.
In the entertainment industry that pursues fame and fortune, how many people can be as chic as her?
Maggie Cheung, who has long been out of the entertainment industry, is still a legend talked about in the entertainment industry.