Zhang Ziyi: I don't lack a man

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2024-06-04 12:24Published in Shandong entertainment creators

On May 20, Wang Feng and Lin Bei's relationship was on the hot search. Wang Feng, who has had four marriages before, was given the title of "Eight Divorced Family" by netizens.

When it comes to Wang Feng's relationship, netizens inevitably pull out his ex-wife international superstar Zhang Ziyi, accompanied by "They have already left?" 6 days later, Zhang Ziyi also appeared vigorously on the hot search list.

The hot search entry is very appropriate: Zhang Ziyi and Concubine Xi returned to the palace.

In the Cannes Reuters video, Zhang Ziyi's hair is neatly tied into a ball, revealing delicate facial features - lilac eyeshadow, dark lipstick, and a long dress with lilac and black.

Age did not add to her old-fashionedness, only more precious.

Accompanied by the music "Dancing Queen", Zhang Ziyi writhed happily and pointed at the camera relaxedly, as if inviting the people behind the camera to join the carnival.

The expression of "vigor" appeared on her face again, and her ambition and vitality seemed to engulf her surroundings.

On the red carpet in Cannes this year, the organizers cleared the venue for Zhang Ziyi for 2 minutes, and all cameras could focus on the returning international superstar.

Director Zhang Ziyi and director Chen Kexin appeared with their new work "Sauce Garden Lane", although the film did not participate in the competition, but it was unveiled in the finale the day before the awards, bringing together the most prosperous lights of this year's Cannes Chinese films.

Zhang Ziyi is back in the movie Vanity Fair, and she is going to kill all sides again.

After Zhang Ziyi appeared in Cannes, netizens commented on her state: There is a kind of beauty of a dead husband.

This sentence is very witty with Wang Feng's hot search a few days ago, when Wang Feng no longer wrote a new song with national popularity, and the concert went from being difficult to find a ticket to gradually being unpopular, Zhang Ziyi reappeared with a new movie full of sincerity, and slapped her ex-husband through the network cable.

"Sauce Garden Lane" is also related to marriage, it is adapted from one of the four strange cases of the Republic of China - Sauce Garden Lane murder husband, the murderer Zhan Zhou was beaten and humiliated by her husband for many years, and finally killed her husband and divided his body.

The audience who watched this movie in Cannes spoke highly of it, and passers-by in China can only feast their eyes on the released stills: Zhang Ziyi's very tense eyes in the stills have been declared, and her acting skills have made a new breakthrough.

Stills from "Sauce Garden Lane".

Zhang Ziyi's last movie that remained in the hearts of the public was "The Grandmaster", which has been 11 years ago.

After the official announcement of "Sauce Garden Lane", fans of Zhao Liying and Yang Mi fought for the position, and some people conspired to say that Zhang Ziyi couldn't bring the box office by herself, so she chose two actresses with traffic to star. Zhang Ziyi replied directly under this remark: "Shut up! (Shut up!) Idiot! ）”

The familiar Zhang Ziyi is back, fearless and full of pride.

After her debut, Hollywood's favor, public opinion slander, winning 10 actress trophies, marriage and divorce, she is only 45 years old. Zhang Ziyi's acting career is indeed long, long.

In 1979, Zhang Ziyi was born in Beijing, and her mother thought she was not in good health, so she sent her to dance to enhance her physique.

In the first class, the dance teacher wanted to understand Zhang Ziyi's body proportions and asked her to take off her coat. Because there were small holes in the wool vest Zhang Ziyi was wearing, she didn't want to be seen by teachers and classmates, so she struggled in her heart for a while.

Before becoming famous, Zhang Ziyi had always lived a tight and strong life, Lu Yu once asked her the reason on the show, and she replied: "No way, I can't find another hand to help you, maybe I don't have the conditions to be squeamish." ”

There is a child who is three years older than Zhang Ziyi, and her parents will prepare everything she needs. Zhang Ziyi only has herself, in order to stay in the dance school and not be sent home, Zhang Ziyi, who has a hard body, still trains in the dark after the lights go out in the practice room, grinding her body little by little, until she can lower her waist and split it.

When she was 11 years old, Zhang Ziyi was admitted to the High School Attached to Beijing Dance Academy, and stayed at school six days a week, because she didn't go home for a long time, there was no bedroom for her at home, and she could only sleep on the sofa every time she went home.

Zhang Ziyi when she was a child 

Six years later, Zhang Ziyi bid farewell to dance and was admitted to the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama. Many people asked her why she changed careers, and she avoided this topic lightly with "not suitable for dance", until an interview revealed her unwillingness:

"It's ridiculous that I studied for 6 years and ended up dancing with others. I'd rather give up. ”

After entering the Department of Chinese Opera Performance, this future international superstar has not been smooth sailing, and he has been hovering on the verge of failing the course in his first year of admission.

Zhang Ziyi's Chinese opera 96-level acting class was later called the "first class of stars" by the entertainment industry, including Zhang Ziyi, Mei Ting, Zeng Li, Yuan Quan, Qin Hailu, Hu Jing, Zhang Tong, Li Min, as well as Liu Ye and Qin Hao, who are known as the "Eight Golden Hairpins".

The first grade is usually occupied by the taciturn Qin Hao, and Zhang Ziyi and Liu Ye are the two people at the end of the crane. There is a second screening provision for the acting class, and they failed their entire freshman homework and were hung up on the elimination list, and Zhang Ziyi once wanted to take the initiative to drop out.

In her sophomore year, Zhang Ziyi inexplicably showed her ruthlessness, in a certain report performance, she played the role of a peasant woman, and broke the glass due to a mistake, but she didn't say a word, forcibly suppressed the blood from the wound and continued to perform, and rushed to the hospital after the curtain call.

Zhang Ziyi in the Chinese opera period (third from left) 

Most people know Zhang Ziyi because she starred in "My Father and Mother" when she was 19 years old.

It is rumored that in this movie, Zhang Yimou first came to the school not to look for her, but the beautiful Zeng Li. Liu Ye once said: "Zeng Li's conditions are recognized as the best in our class. ”

That day, Zeng Li was not in the dormitory, only Zhang Ziyi was alone. Zhang Ziyi once had advertising cooperation with Zhang Yimou, and after learning that the director was coming, she recommended herself and got the opportunity to audition.

Later, someone asked Zeng Li if he regretted losing such a good opportunity. Zeng Li replied very generously: No, maybe he won't be so popular when he acts.

In order to perform this drama well, Zhang Ziyi lived in rural Hebei for one month, and followed the farmers to the fields, feed pigs, and cook every day, and the locals laughed at her as "the little nanny from the city".

She specially put on 8 pairs of cotton pants just to play the character's unique walking posture. The scene of falling is never ambiguous, and every time it really falls, after one day of filming, there is a blue and purple piece on the leg.

The movie has a lot of scenes of running on the hillside, and Zhang Ziyi often runs more than 3,000 meters a day and strains her thigh.

Zhang Yimou praised Zhang Ziyi: "The acting skills are young, but the enterprising spirit is strong." ”

Zhang Ziyi starred in "My Father and Mother" 

In "My Father and Mother", Zhang Ziyi wears bulky cotton clothes and pants, running on the hillside in order to bid farewell to her sweetheart, running out of the lightness of a girl's heart.

In 2000, "My Father and Mother" won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, and Zhang Ziyi won the Best Actress at the 23rd Hundred Flowers Award for the role of "Zhao Di".

Zhang Ziyi's debut novel was a great success, and opportunities followed.

In 1999, Gao Xiaosong planned to shoot the movie "When the Flowers Bloomed" and invited Zhang Ziyi to be the heroine. Every day after school, Zhang Ziyi rode a bicycle to Gao Xiaosong to discuss the script.

At this time, another olive branch was thrown to Zhang Ziyi, and Ang Lee invited her to play the role of "Jade Jiaolong" in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Gao Xiaosong slapped Zhang Ziyi: "You don't have to hesitate at all, you definitely want to make Ang Lee's movie." ”

Yu Jiaolong's original preferred candidate was Shu Qi, but because of the long filming time and high training intensity, Shu Qi finally refused to act.

After Zhang Ziyi entered the crew and started filming, she was still not the final candidate for Li Anding. During the filming, there were still girls in and out of the director's office to interview for the role of Yu Jiaolong.

In order to stay, Zhang Ziyi has no resources and no background, and the only way is to work hard. Yu Jiaolong has a lot of sword playing, Zhang Ziyi has time to carry the sword to practice, until the movie is finished, she can't hold chopsticks for a long time, because her arms can't stand it.

In a scene with Michelle Yeoh's stand-in, Zhang Ziyi's nails were knocked off by a sword, and the flesh was exposed and blurred, she put her hand into the snow bucket to stop the bleeding, and then continued to complete the scene.

"Because I wasn't the first choice for the role, I had to prove myself to be the right person."

Zhang Ziyi once fell from a height in the bamboo forest 

In addition to being ruthless, 21-year-old Zhang Ziyi is still fragile, suffering from gains and losses. Ang Lee likes to hug actors and encourage each other in this way, but Zhang Ziyi did not receive any recognition from Ang Lee before the film was completed, and sometimes, she would even deliberately stay on the set for a while after finishing work, hoping to be discovered by Ang Lee.

During the filming of the movie, Zhang Ziyi lived in the Xinjiang Oilfield Guest House, and the first thing she did when she went back every day was to cry with the quilt on.

Until the finale dinner of the movie, Ang Lee said to Zhang Ziyi: "Ziyi, I know that you have worked very this scene, you have done it very well, I have never told you, I am very satisfied." Zhang Ziyi cried after hearing this, and when she mentioned it in a later interview, she couldn't help crying.

Zhang Ziyi and Ang Lee 

In 2001, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was shortlisted for the 73rd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

It was the beginning of a new century, Zhang Ziyi walked on the red carpet in Cannes, and also ushered in a bright future of her own. Fresh out of university, she has gone international.

Director Brett Ratner appreciated Zhang Ziyi's play in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and specially added a role to Zhang Ziyi before the start of filming in the movie "Rush Hour 2" starring Jackie Chan.

After that, Zhang Ziyi played Queen Wan in Feng Xiaogang's movie "Night Banquet", played Ruyue in Zhang Yimou's movie "Hero", and became Gong Er in "Ambush on All Sides" and Sayuri in "Memoirs of a Geisha".

Marco Muller, president of the Venice Film Festival, knelt half-truthfully under the red carpet after meeting Zhang Ziyi.

Foreign media did not hesitate to praise her, and the American "Time" magazine called her: China's best gift to Hollywood.

Ang Lee recalled Zhang Ziyi, at that time, the actors were hanging a tightrope, and when they encountered a scene that hit the wall, they subconsciously covered their faces to protect themselves, but Zhang Ziyi didn't, she hit the wall with this beautiful face indifferently, which scared the people around her.

Ang Lee commented on Zhang Ziyi's face: "She is the best and most photogenic one I have ever taken, and she is very beautiful no matter how she comes out." ”

Zhang Ziyi worked too hard, so hard that people almost forgot that she was talented.

The most terrible person in the world is not someone else's child, but someone who is more talented than you and works harder than you.

The key words on Zhang Ziyi are not only talent and hard work, but also ambition. Zhang Ziyi was never ashamed of her ambitions, she didn't hide it, and her green face was full of desire for fame and fortune.

In 2000, at the Berlin International Film Festival, the film "My Father and Mother" won the Silver Bear Award, and Zhang Ziyi was not nominated for the leading actress. The normal award acceptance procedure is that director Zhang Yimou can just go on the stage to accept the award alone, but Zhang Ziyi followed in a big red belly pocket.

On the Internet, Zhang Yimou can still be found to be very angry about Zhang Ziyi's approach and scolded her at the film festival.

After that, except for South Korean director Hong Chang-so and actor Kim Min-hee on stage together to receive the Silver Bear Award, there is no example of a director bringing a heroine on stage, and the two are both work colleagues or soul mates. Obviously, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Ziyi's friendship is far less than that of Hong and Jin.

Zhang Ziyi and Zhang Yimou jointly received the award 

Zhang Ziyi met Jackie Chan when he was filming "Rush Hour 2". At Jackie Chan's 47th birthday banquet, Zhang Ziyi left a fragrant kiss on Jackie Chan's side face in public, and was poured champagne by Jackie Chan, hugged by the waist, and said to the guests attending the banquet: "She is my birthday gift." ”

In 2001, at the award ceremony of the Hong Kong Film Awards, Anita Mui and Chow Yun-fat were the guests of honor, chatting and livening up the atmosphere before the award ceremony. Anita Mui asks Chow Yun-fat how to get into Hollywood like him.

Chow Yun-fat replied that she should concentrate on filming like Michelle Yeoh and Maggie Cheung, and domestic entertainment actresses should be obedient and taught when they enter the international film industry.

After finishing speaking, Chow Yun-fat added: "Take the grapes." ”

At Jackie Chan's birthday party, Zhang Ziyi fed the sitting Jackie Chan grapes, and half-squatted down to catch the grape seeds spit out by Jackie Chan with his hand.

Zhang Ziyi took the grape skin with his hand for Jackie Chan 

At that time, the Chinese people hated Zhang Ziyi for being flattering and admiring foreigners, but they were all proud of her representing China to the world.

During the promotion period of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Hong Kong and Macao star Michelle Yeoh wore a floor-sweeping fishtail dress embellished with golden sequins, while Zhang Ziyi wore a modified cheongsam. Improving the cheongsam and improving the belly pocket are all helpless thoughts when mainland actresses can't receive any fashion resources.

Even though Zhang Ziyi is the well-deserved heroine of this movie, the media lens is almost aimed at Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Zhen said when introducing the movie to reporters: "The movie is very good, there are Fa Ge, Ziqiong, and many strange weapons. ”

But in 2005, after Zhang Ziyi filmed "Memoirs of a Geisha" funded by Hollywood, her value rose sharply.

The following year, Zhang Ziyi was invited to participate in the Oscar red carpet and presented the award alone. She stood on the red carpet in an Armani haute couture, jewel-encrusted black dress, which attracted the attention of everyone present.

More than 1,000 Swarovski crystals on the skirt were sewn into a constellation pattern by craftsmen for three weeks.

Zhang Ziyi's love is also vigorous, and her predecessors include the well-known CCTV host Sa Beining, the son of a wealthy Hong Kong family, Huo Qishan, and the Jewish businessman Vivian.

When she was in love with Huo Qishan, the Hong Kong media once photographed the two of them traveling together, Zhang Ziyi seemed to have discovered the camera, first ran from one side of the car door to the other, her hair fluttering as if she was shooting a shampoo advertisement, and then jumped next to Huo Qishan to leave a sweet kiss, and then turned her head to the camera with a bright smile.

It seems to be a provocation to the media and spectators.

Zhang Ziyi is not at all the same as the traditional and introverted emphasis in oriental culture. She is ambitious, never hides what she wants, and strives for it; Publicity, clearly know his charm, and be willing to show it generously to everyone.

These characteristics, in turn, can also be regarded as shameless and scheming, so the Triple Gate incident in 2009 made the Chinese people "applaud" and seemed to vomit the evil anger in their hearts.

Zhang Ziyi briefly fell from the altar.

After the Sanchongmen incident, Zhang Ziyi almost disappeared from the public eye for three years, and many media sang about it, and her era was coming to an end.

Zhang Ziyi returned with "The Grandmaster" released in 2013, won ten Best Actresses for the role of Gong Er, and also served as a judge for the "Un Certain Regard" section of the Cannes Film Festival in the same year, returning to the peak of her career.

For the role of Gong Er, Zhang Ziyi has been grinding for almost four years. The behind-the-scenes documentary of "The Grandmaster" records the tip of the iceberg of Zhang Ziyi's training for this role, and she could not restrain herself from screaming because of the pain while practicing.

The hard work of practicing, the pressure of public opinion, and not knowing "whether this film can be done" all turned into stones and pressed on Zhang Ziyi's body, one day she drove back to Beijing with a fever, her body was really uncomfortable, she parked on the side of the road and went to the store to buy a canned yellow peach, and cried while eating.

All efforts pay off. After the movie won the award, Zhang Ziyi put 10 trophies on the table full of them, she stood behind the table and spread her arms, looking like "welcoming my sister back to the entertainment industry".

However, Zhang Ziyi's mentality has already changed, and she repeatedly mentioned her family when filming "The Grandmaster": "My short-term dream is that the movie can be finished as soon as possible, and my long-term dream is to have a family." When you really come across an emotion that you can trust for a lifetime, you will feel that nothing matters for it. ”

It's hard to imagine that one of the songs that Zhang Ziyi, who is in her twenties, likes to listen to is Wang Feng's "In the Rain". The lyrics read: "In this pouring rain, can we still hug each other as tightly as before." ”

Zhang Ziyi left a feeling on the blog while listening to the song: "The song "In the Rain" made me toss and turn in the middle of the night, and kept thinking about what it was like to hug in the rain. ”

Since she was a child, Zhang Ziyi has learned to fight and has always lived a tight life, in fact, she is extremely eager for a soft family life.

The first time Zhang Ziyi and Wang Feng met was to drink coffee, Wang Feng kept teasing Zhang Ziyi by the side, helping her do a psychological test, calculating her personality, and finally came to the conclusion: Zhang Ziyi gives people the impression of being very arrogant, but in fact, she is easily hurt in her heart.

"Strong on the outside, fragile on the inside" is in line with most people's perception of themselves, but no one expected that international superstar Zhang Ziyi would also eat this set.

In November 2013, Wang Feng made his relationship public at his concert and made an 8-minute confession to Zhang Ziyi in the audience:

"I want to say to you: I imagine that one day, this society will not regard the confusion and ups and downs of your and I lives as debauchery and dirt; I imagine that one day you and I are old, and we support each other on every road forward, and we will tell our friends around us that her love has given me everything! ”

Fifteen months later, at Zhang Ziyi's 36th birthday party, Wang Feng used a drone to send a ring and officially propose.

Wang Feng proposed to Zhang Ziyi 

At that time, Wang Feng had already had three marriages, and almost everyone objected to the relationship between Zhang and Wang, thinking that Zhang Ziyi was married, but she replied very firmly: "I know very well what kind of person Wang Feng is. ”

exceeded everyone's expectations, this marriage lasted for 8 years, and Zhang Ziyi faded into the public eye again except for occasional variety shows.

She is particularly satisfied with the current life, gets along harmoniously with Wang Feng's ex-wife's youngest daughter Little Apple, has a son and a daughter, and takes the children to grow vegetables and observe the changes of plants.

Zhang Ziyi even changed her signature on social platforms to "Wake up Mom", saying that she "is very good at being an actor, and even better at being a mother." ”

Passers-by almost no longer pay attention to Zhang Ziyi, except for occasionally using her variety show emojis out of the circle, the fans who stayed behind hated iron and steel, and watched Zhang Ziyi fall from the movie theater to a TV series actor and even a variety show café, and they couldn't wait to take a loudspeaker all the time to urge Zhang Ziyi to pick up his career again. 

After Zhang Ziyi returned to the family, she did not become a hot-headed little woman for love, and her business territory with Wang Feng almost did not coincide.

Zhang Ziyi is the largest shareholder of Ningbo Meixiang Siyi Investment Partnership, with a shareholding ratio of 24%, and holds 9.3% of the shares of Feibao Media, and its contracted artists include Liu Yun, Li Yitong and so on.

In 2018, Alibaba Pictures invested in Feibao Media at a consideration of 80 million, with a shareholding ratio of 8%, so that five years ago, Zhang Ziyi's shares were valued at 100 million yuan.

In 2015, she joined Star VC led by Ren Quan, and focused on maternal and child start-ups. The personal studio has registered the trademarks of "Wake Up Mom" and "Wake Up Baby", which is more like a declaration of her entry into the mother and child track.

In the variety show "Wife's Romantic Trip 2", Wang Feng made a lot of affection in order to let Zhang Ziyi say "I love you", Zhang Ziyi only spit out one sentence after listening to it for a long time: "Do you want my bank card password?" "The sweetness in the marriage of these two people is real, and it is also true that Zhang Ziyi, who has been strong all her life, remains sober.

In interviews in her early years, she had already expressed herself:

"I don't lack a man, I cling to him, I want to have a good life. What I want is more of a spiritual sustenance......

I am a person who stands on the cusp of the storm, if I don't be strong, if I don't have confidence, if I don't be down-to-earth, every day I will be knocked down by something sudden...... 

Because of my efforts over the years, not only do I get everything I want, I can make my family happy and my friends happy......"

In 2018, Zhang Ziyi starred in the TV series "Shangyang Fu", which was invested by Feibao Media, which she controlled. But in 2021, "Shangyang Fu" was ridiculed by the group when it was launched, Zhang Ziyi deliberately pretended to be tender in the play in order to fit the role, and Mary Sue's character design did not match her temperament at all.

Although it failed, this TV series at least shows that Zhang Ziyi still wants to be active in the eyes of young audiences.

Stills from "Shangyang Fu".

In October 2022, there was news on the Internet that Zhang Ziyi was going to star in Chen Kexin's "Sauce Garden Lane", and a year later, Zhang Ziyi and Wang Feng divorced, and fans were even more excited to urge Zhang Ziyi to act well, looking forward to her coming out with good works.

During the filming of "Sauce Garden Lane", Zhang Ziyi often asked Chen Kexin on the set to discuss the script and characters, although at the beginning of filming, he still filmed according to the character image that Director Chen wanted to create at the beginning.

This is not Zhang Ziyi's overstep, but she wants to sort out the psychological motivation of the characters from beginning to end, "This is not a performance, but in the body, which has become her." ”

In the past, Zhang Ziyi thought that acting was about feeling and experience, and after years of precipitation, she had a new understanding: performance also needs methods.

What hasn't changed is that Zhang Ziyi is still confident in her performance and aesthetics, and when she talked about a very brilliant violent scene with Lei Jiayin, she asked Chen Kexin why she deleted this play with an unhappy expression in front of the media.

Chen Kexin and Zhang Ziyi are more sympathetic to each other, and in 2022, Chen Kexin will send Zhang Ziyi an invitation to "Sauce Garden Lane", saying that she is an actor who has been waiting for 20 years to cooperate.

In March this year, at the finale banquet of "Sauce Garden Lane", Zhang Ziyi also cried and thanked Chen Kexin: "Thank you for thinking that I am the only choice, and thank you for giving me a chance to be reborn." ”

Chen Kexin and Zhang Ziyi

Eight years ago, Chen Kexin began to work on the production of the movie "Sauce Garden Lane", and Zhang Ziyi's marriage was just eight years. If this movie had been eight years ago, would it have been presented like it is now? Chen Kexin and Zhang Ziyi can't say for sure.

About these 8 years, Zhang Ziyi replied:

"These eight years, how many eight years of each person's life are.

[I] have experienced a lot of funny, boring, meaningful, valuable, and I have experienced it, and if we had done this scene eight years ago, it wouldn't have been presented like this.

So, in life, every step is a life, perhaps, the book of life has been written, so is the movie, every movie has its life, how its life is, we are sitting here, we can no longer control it. ”

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