Yang Ziqiong won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress: "Please shut up! I can really beat you! "

"Please shut up! I can really beat you! "

On June 65438+ 10/0 local time in 2023, Yang Ziqiong wore a black evening dress and delivered his acceptance speech in a trembling voice. Her voice choked slightly when she said that as a woman over 60 years old, she had fewer and fewer opportunities in the workplace. At this point, the music that urged her to speak just sounded on the stage. She turned her head smartly to start the background sound, then kept the rhythm in everyone's laughter and completed all her acceptance speeches. That sentence "I can really hit you!" " Punning, on the one hand, summarizes her image of "beating women" for decades, on the other hand, it also reminds people of her role as the best actress who won the Golden Globe Award in Instant Universe.

She waited 40 years to get the trophy. Yang Ziqiong won the Golden Globe Award for Best Musical and Comedy Actress for her role as Evelyn Wang in The Instant Universe. This is a great affirmation for her who has been struggling in Hollywood for many years but has been lacking acting awards. At the same time, she became the second Asian woman to win this honor.

Local time 65438+ 10/0, 2023, California, USA, backstage of the 80th American Golden Globe Awards. Yang Ziqiong won the Best Actress in a Musical Comedy Film for "A Moment of the Universe", and she made her debut with a trophy in her hand. Figure/vision china

For a long time, Yang Ziqiong gave people the impression that she was a female star who broke into the world cinema with Kung Fu, and used to show people with a strong face. As director Ang Lee observed her, she used to hide her weakness, show her strength, hide all her injuries and tears behind her, and choose to continue answering questions. With this persistence, she firmly seized every opportunity to conquer the audience and finally waited for a role tailored for herself.

A suitable role for 40 years.

Yang Ziqiong, 60, seems to have some regrets about his career. In the eyes of the audience, she is a world-renowned China actress, a female thug in Police Story 3, a affectionate woman in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and a powerful Asian mother-in-law in Crazy Asian Rich. But in this year, she met this disheveled washerwoman in Instant Universe, which was completely in line with her role.

Evelyn Wang, the middle-aged laundry owner in the story, has a great contrast with life and has a hard life. The whole family is counting on her to live hard. Her weak husband, disabled father and rebellious daughter, endless tax returns, all can make her into mania. But by chance, her husband told her that she could experience life in multiple universes, and only she could save the crisis in each universe. She began to travel through different lives, and in the process, the tension between her and her family was slowly melting.

This is not a glamorous and attractive image of a woman, but a play that can make her indulge in drama. Making such a film is also an accidental arrangement. Film directors Guan and Daniel Schneider wanted to invite Jackie Chan to play the leading role, but Jackie Chan didn't have a schedule at that time, so they began to change their minds and re-create the script from the heroine's point of view, so that a frustrated middle-aged woman could experience a bizarre life. They even named the protagonist "Michelle" at the beginning, which is the same as Yang Ziqiong's English name.

Yang Ziqiong fell in love with this character, and she found that she could be "interesting, sincere and sad" in it, and she could do anything that facebook characters didn't do before. More importantly, Yang Ziqiong not only saw himself in this role, but also saw the real life of millions of Asian immigrants. After the finished product came out, many people were shocked by the mix and match style of this film, and even found it difficult to understand. But when it comes to all this, Yang Ziqiong couldn't help crying in the interview. She said that finally someone can know that she can do it.

Stills of "Instant Universe"

The film also happened to catch up with the right time. Asian protagonist, female theme, middle-aged frustration ... Ten or twenty years ago, Instant Universe may be a weird work, but in today's era, this move has successfully broken through the stereotype of the big screen. In 2022, Yang Ziqiong became a dazzling star in the international film industry.

A printed life

After 40 years in business, Yang Ziqiong has worked with famous filmmakers such as Jackie Chan and Ang Lee. Many filmmakers who have worked together, when talking about Yang Ziqiong, their first reaction is that they are not afraid of being hurt. This despair is Yang Ziqiong's greatest advantage in the film industry in the first half of her life, which is behind her decades of hard work and unspeakable physical torture.

Director Ang Lee recalled many details of his cooperation with Yang Ziqiong, and the first impression Yang Ziqiong gave him was this desperation and ferocity. While filming Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Yang Ziqiong was injured one week after filming. She filmed night martial arts for several days, turning around, kicking and fighting for a long time. As a result, her ligament was torn and she had to rest for a month or two. She didn't worry about herself, but immediately asked Ang Lee if she would lower her requirements because of her injury. Ang Lee replied, no.

Such scenes have appeared in Yang Ziqiong's life countless times, and each time they seem to be fighting for their own lives. In "New Police Story 3", she stood on a truck and did stunts to jump in front of Jackie Chan's hood. It didn't seem difficult in her imagination, but when she really stood up, everything was shaking. When she jumped, the protection mechanism failed and she fell to one side. Fortunately, Jackie Chan grabbed her clothes. While filming The Story of Ah Kin, she fell off the high platform.

This difficulty was her fate in choosing Hong Kong film industry in 1980s and 1990s. Yang Ziqiong once lived a rich life and began to learn ballet, painting and other talents at an early age. At the age of 265,438+0, she became Miss Malaysia. After entering the film circle, at first, like Brigitte Lin and others, she played a weak female role. Later, under the guidance of Sammo Hung's predecessors, she began to transform, learning martial arts, playing sandbags and kicking, and training no different from other martial arts men.

Make a scene and fight for your life. Over time, adventure and courage have become a habit. These efforts were not in vain. 1997, Yang Ziqiong became the only "bond girl" in tomorrow's empire in 007 with a series of outstanding acting images in Hong Kong films, in which she played bond girl, not just a vase, but a very independent female image. Some people commented that her works broke the stereotype of Hollywood.

This time, she finally surpassed herself in all aspects in the performance of Instant Universe. This is a dazzling work, with mixed types and complicated presentation. All the contradictions between fantasy and reality, retreat and devotion, irony and warmth, madness and gentleness are concentrated in this story, and also on the heroine played by Yang Ziqiong, who wants to switch, swing and connect in different states to convince the audience of every role in the "universe". With an investment of only $25 million, this film may not be dazzling at the box office, but with Yang Ziqiong's acting skills and the director's control, it has contributed a completely different movie-watching experience. At the same time, Yang Ziqiong himself may have gained the richest and most complicated deductive experience in the past decades. A China actress who struggled for half her life once again broke through the ceiling.

Reporter: Qiu Guangyu