How did Yang Ziqiong become an Oscar winner?

At the 95th Academy Awards, Yang Ziqiong made history, and became the first Asian actor to win the Oscar for Best Actress with her outstanding performance in the film A Moment of the Universe. She won many important awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Musical Comedy) and the American Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actress. She also became the first China actress nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress.

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Yang Ziqiong won the Best Actress Award at the 95th Academy Award for "Instant Universe".

After being nominated for the Best Actress Oscar on October 24th this year/KLOC-0, Yang Ziqiong publicly expressed her expectation for the "Golden statuette" in an interview. She choked and said, "This is not only very important to me, but also lights a lamp for a group of people with similar faces. We have never been out of the stadium, so of course we care. Do I want to win a prize? Yes, I think, for myself, but not just for myself. What I want to say is that we sit at the same table, work together and tell some beautiful stories together. "

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From 65438 to 0997, Yang Ziqiong was invited by National Geographic magazine to shoot Flying Over Hollywood.

1997, Yang Ziqiong, who just finished filming 007 Empire of Tomorrow, was invited by National Geographic magazine to shoot a group of fashion blockbusters. With the help of Weiya, she took a photo flying over Hollywood's classic landmark "Hollywood" at high altitude. In the photo, Yang Ziqiong, dressed in a dress, leaps across Hollywood like a high-altitude ballet dancer. This set of photos is like a rehearsal in advance. Twenty-six years later, Yang Ziqiong really climbed to the top of Hollywood with The Instant Universe.

A 40-year-old career rehearsal of Instant Universe.

In The Instant Universe, Yang Ziqiong plays Evelyn, a middle-aged China woman who runs a laundry in the United States. Facing her daughter and husband, her life is a mess. She accidentally discovered that there are parallel universes in the world, evil forces spread in multiple universes, and the world is about to be destroyed. She is the only one who can save the world.

In the earliest script, the protagonist played by Yang Ziqiong was initially set as a male character, which made it easier for the film to find investment, and the story of a man traveling through multiple universes was easier for the audience to understand. The director even intended to find Jackie Chan as the protagonist, but for various reasons, he felt that the male role was not good, and finally he changed the protagonist to a woman.

With the completion of the revised script, Guan and the two directors realized that no one in this world can play the role of a middle-aged wife except. "If she refuses to accept the script, the film will die." Guan said that action is only an important factor in choice, but this role has many aspects, including drama, comedy, body humor and so on. No one can do these things except her, and her appearance will completely change the film.

Yang Ziqiong was deeply moved after reading the script. She saw that the superhero in the film turned out to be an ordinary Asian immigrant woman. "We pass by them every day. These mothers, aunts and grandmothers go to supermarkets or Chinatown, and we never pay attention to them, because they just want to cook for their families and work for their children or husbands after returning home, so I have the opportunity to play them and give such women a chance to speak. This is great. "

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Yang Ziqiong played many roles in A Moment in the Universe.

Yang Ziqiong's only requirement for the director is that the heroine's name can't be Michelle (Yang Ziqiong's English name). The director doesn't understand, saying that the role is you. Yang Ziqiong said, no, I'm not an Asian immigrant who runs a laundry. This role needs to have its own voice. This is the only requirement of Yang Ziqiong. If he insists on not changing his name, he won't appear. Finally, the director changed the heroine's name to Evelyn Wang.

In the movie "Instant Universe", Yang Ziqiong plays Evelyn with unkempt hair and a few strands of white hair in the real world. In other multiverses, she has many identities, including movie star, Peking Opera actress, martial arts master, chef, hot dog sausage finger and so on. Take Yang Ziqiong himself as the prototype, from traditional Chinese opera headdress in China to ancient costumes, and then to meatballs. Throughout the movie, fashion stylists always did more than 40 hairstyles for Yang Ziqiong.

Anissa Salazar, director of hair design, said that some of her inspiration came from Yang Ziqiong's real shooting experience. In one of the universes, Evelyn is a movie star, and there are many scenes where she walks down the red carpet. This is actually an image of Yang Ziqiong attending the premiere of Crazy Asian Rich (20 18).

Before the Oscars, Cate Blanchett and Yang Ziqiong, two actresses with great female power, had a dialogue. Blanchett, known as the "Devil", praised Yang Ziqiong's performance, and thought that Instant Universe was almost integrated into her whole film career. Yang Ziqiong agrees with this very much: "I feel that I have rehearsed my career for this film for forty years."

She is famous for "playing the role of charm and perseverance"

Throughout her career, Yang Ziqiong seems to have broken down gender discrimination and industry barriers with her own efforts and persistence, and stood out in the male-dominated industry.

Yang Ziqiong was born in Fujian, China, and was born in a wealthy China family. She has been outgoing and lively since childhood, and likes sports. She and her brother went to play football and climb mountains. She began to learn ballet at the age of 4, and went to England at the age of 65,438+05, and was admitted to the famous Royal Dance Academy. 2 1 year-old Yang Ziqiong, encouraged by her mother, took part in the Malaysian beauty contest and won the championship.

Then, by chance, I entered the entertainment circle and signed a contract with Debao Film Company in Sammo Hung. The first play is 1984 in Owl and Dumbo. She is a vulnerable female teacher and a popular role in action comedies at that time. In the film, she saw that Sammo Hung and others' martial arts movements and dances were very similar, so she also wanted to try some action scenes.

Yang Ziqiong is under pressure to integrate into the male-dominated action film field. If the audience doesn't pay the bill, she can only go back to play the girl in distress. She must show her strength and win a place in this field. She started to go to the training room. At that time, there were basically no female martial artists. Other martial artists basically hold a wait-and-see attitude, "See if you can persist for a few days." Fortunately, Yang Ziqiong has a good grasp of dance and sports, which is somewhat similar to shooting an action movie, and pays attention to the accuracy and control of the action. Yang Ziqiong observed and studied, imitated their movements, and later understood why they did it.

Yang Ziqiong's first action play was The Royal Teacher Sister (1985) directed by Yuan Kui, in which she played a Hong Kong policewoman. During the filming of the first fighting scene, the fist of the actor who was fighting with Yang Ziqiong suddenly slowed down, as if he was deliberately knocking because of his female identity. Director Yuan Kui said, give him a punch or a kick to make him respect you. Later, Yang Ziqiong kicked his opponent hard, and the shot was much smoother.

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The stills are from top to bottom: the royal teacher and sister, the police story 3, and Ah Kin's story.

In "Senior Sister", Yang Ziqiong cut her hair short, tanned her skin, turned around in the sky and hit her head against the glass, which opened the curtain for an action actor.

In 1992' s Police Story 3, Yang Ziqiong was even more desperate when he started playing. She stood on the truck to do stunts, and then jumped in front of Jackie Chan's hood. If Jackie Chan hadn't pulled her quickly, she would have hit her head. Shooting "The Story of Ah Kin" on 1995 was the most serious injury for her. She jumped off the overpass at 10 meters. Because of the movement deviation, when she fell on the protective device, her head landed first and got stuck between two sponges, and her cervical vertebra and three ribs were broken, almost paralyzed. Director Xu Anhua shed tears on the spot and paid tribute to Yang Ziqiong at the end of the film. Yang Ziqiong was blacklisted by Hong Kong's insurance industry because he often performed thrilling actions, and Jackie Chan and Jet Li enjoyed the same "treatment".

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Yang Ziqiong plays an independent and strong Bond girl in Empire of Tomorrow 007.

It was with his desperate performance that Yang Ziqiong gradually became famous. From 65438 to 0997, she went to Hollywood to develop, and filmed 007' s Empire of Tomorrow, becoming the first bond girl with Asian identity, which changed the image that the heroine in 007 series movies was always waiting to be saved. Under her interpretation, independent female characters are no longer vases that set off Bond, or even heroes that can save Bond. Some foreign media commented on Yang Ziqiong's female agent Hui Lin. "She is like an elegant and agile tigress, which makes other Bond girls look like Xiaohua Mall." As we all know, Yang Ziqiong's zodiac is a tiger and the constellation is Leo.

What really won Yang Ziqiong an international reputation was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directed by Ang Lee in 2000. She plays Yu Xiulian in the film, a chivalrous Jianghu person who is calm and motionless, but has flesh and blood, firm appearance and weak heart. Not only the action drama is commendable, but also the literary drama is wonderful.

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Yang Ziqiong plays the heroine Yu Xiulian in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Action director Yuan Heping comments on Yang Ziqiong. So far, no action actress can surpass her. "Yang Ziqiong should be a benchmark, mainly because she plays well and works hard. Not many people can keep up with her. No more. " Ang Lee mentioned Yang Ziqiong's irreplaceable role in his autobiography "Ten Years Sleeping in a Movie Dream": "Looking around the world, Yu Xiulian's role is only Yang Ziqiong, and no one else. No matter from the film industry, business, age and quality, it is her! "

Independence and strength have become the symbol of Yang Ziqiong. Although she is good at making action movies, her behavior in and out of the play is full of confidence and maturity. Many media call her a "mixture" of elegance and strength. Even Yang Ziqiong specifically mentioned in the wax figure annotation of Madame Tussauds that she was "famous for her charming and determined role".

From a beauty pageant champion to a martial arts star, Yang Ziqiong, with her own efforts and persistence, has created her own world in the field of male-dominated action movies. But with the growth of age and the decline of physical function, it is impossible to shoot action movies all the time. She needs to break herself again and seek more performance space.

Speak for the image of Asian women in Hollywood. "They are tough but not arrogant."

Yang Ziqiong has always felt that the audience will get tired of watching more dramas, while emotional dramas will leave a deeper aftertaste and emotion for the audience. In recent years, she began to make more attempts in the emotional drama of partial literature. In fact, in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the audience has seen many delicate emotional scenes of the role of Yu Xiulian, in addition to the action. Before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Yang Ziqiong was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Song Ailing in Song Dynasty (1997). It can be said that she is ready for the challenges and breakthroughs in literature and drama.

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Yang Ziqiong (right) plays Zhen Meiyu in Memoirs of a Geisha.

Later, in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), she played Zhen Meiyu, who was noble in temperament and proficient in strategy. The biggest feature of that role is "quietness", even if she doesn't speak, she can make the audience feel her existence. This is related to Yang Ziqiong's years of martial arts actor training. There is a kind of "qi" in his body that can calm him down.

In this all-Asian cast film Crazy Rich Asians, she plays a powerful mother-in-law Yang Aili, showing the audience the other side of Yang Ziqiong's faded action tag. The first scene design at the beginning of Crazy Asian Rich Man is 1995. On a rainy night, Ms. Yang Aili took her children to stay in a foreign high-end hotel, but she was discriminated against by the hotel staff because of her Asian face, and refused to stay because she didn't have a room. In a rage, she made a phone call and asked her husband to buy the hotel that had been in business for decades. Yang Ziqiong was attracted by the opening scene and decided to play the role of Yang Aili. Henry Golding, who plays the leading role in the film, said, "Hollywood rarely allows women to be as powerful as this role. In most cases, women must be emotional and fragile. On the contrary, Yang () is powerful. " Zhu Haowei, the director of Crazy Rich Asians, praised this: "She deserves more recognition. She and Meryl Streep should be at the same level. "

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Yang Ziqiong plays her mother-in-law, Yang Aili, in Crazy Rich Asians.

As an Asian, Yang Ziqiong, who lives in Hollywood, has been looking for opportunities to speak for her ethnic group and fight for women's rights. When she first came to Hollywood, someone told her that you were not mainstream. She knows that if Asian women want to succeed in this industry, nothing is smooth sailing and they need to make more efforts. In an interview with the media on 20 16, Yang Ziqiong said that certain concepts that portray some Asian women in western film and television works must be corrected or even broken. "We are always shaped into vases, fragile and fragile, and decorated in the background to watch rather than listen to what they say ... or we are women who play the role of a femme fatale, such as prostitutes in Chinatown. Those images have changed. We must present the girls and ladies as they are now. They are smart and independent, tough but not that kind-arrogant bitches. "

Yang Ziqiong is over 60 years old this year. As she grows older, the industry will give her fewer and fewer opportunities. She also knows that she has passed the golden age of an actress, and her roles are becoming more and more limited, and she will begin to be restricted by classification. Especially, actresses can play fewer and fewer roles, and the scenes become less important.

When receiving the script of Instant Universe, Yang Ziqiong had not received the heroine's script for many years. When I first got the script, many people told her that it was a very risky thing, but for Yang Ziqiong, life was about accepting challenges and risks. She admired the young director's courage and wrote a story about an ordinary woman who had a chance to become a superhero.

Yang Ziqiong said that she was lucky to play the role of this woman. She has a deep * * * sound with many people, because no matter what the universe, she has been fighting for her family. An audience member told Yang Ziqiong that he and his daughter had been separated for many years. After watching the movie, my daughter contacted her. "Now we are reunited because of your film." Yang Ziqiong recalled, "Sometimes, when a movie like this appears, you will feel that you have cured people. This is a gratifying compliment."

Yang Ziqiong has been constantly breaking through himself, and he will seize the opportunity and make all efforts. She thinks that the Asian community has not been seen for a long time, which may be misunderstood as that we only concentrate on doing our own thing and don't need others to see our story, but this is not the case.

"We have been talking about diversity, inclusiveness and getting rid of stereotypes. This is not just a verbal promise, it is happening. " . Yang Ziqiong said that Hollywood will always be Hollywood and the culmination of dreams. But the world has moved forward and other markets are growing, which is good for Hollywood. This will let Hollywood know that it must move forward and accept the rest of the world.