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A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.
Zhang Ziyi
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Zhang Ziyi
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 9
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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China's cinema has been rising for some time it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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It's not that I wanted to be an actor it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.
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Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
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