When did Gong Li enter the international film industry? (that is, Hollywood)

As early as 1996, Gong Li broke up with Zhang Yimou and married Singaporean businessman Huang Hexiang. At this time, Wang Ying, a Chinese-American director who is famous for his immigrant theme in Hollywood, invited Gong Li to shoot the English film china box, and the story background was set at 1997. In "china box", Gong Li plays a woman who immigrates to Hong Kong from the mainland and is eager to get rich. The cast of this film is very luxurious: Gong Li and Maggie Cheung, two China film actresses, British Film Academy Award and Oscar winner Jeremy Hardware, and "Hong Kong Grinch" Xu Guanwen. Nevertheless, this film is full of western imagination of China, and it has become a disaster.

Recalling the film, Gong Li thought it was a wrong beginning: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I might have forgotten it ... I'd rather forget it. Instead of promoting my development in Hollywood, my role in this movie has become a stumbling block. At that time, many characters were pure vases and didn't need to perform, so I didn't have many opportunities at that time. But now, everything is different. "

Because of china box, her achievements in China went up in smoke. After that, Hollywood offered her many "vase" roles, and Gong Li made her own choice: "Those roles only played a decorative role in the film, and I didn't need to perform anything at all, so I refused."

It was not until Gong Li was 39 years old that the script of Memoirs of a Geisha was presented to her.

The appearance of Memoirs of a Geisha is undoubtedly a rainbow across China and Hollywood. When Gong Li read the passage of "Morning Peach", she finally realized that as an actress in China, she would become a link between the East and the West in the increasingly international Hollywood movies. She picked up the English book in a hurry and began to make up for the language: "Internationalization is an inevitable trend, so we must force ourselves to learn English well."

The man who was the chairman of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 2000 was once questioned because he could not speak English. In 2004, he began to challenge English movies.

"A lot of things, if you don't try, is zero. If you try, you will at least have a chance of success. The success rate is not important. It is important to try. I didn't want to go to Hollywood before, and I won't take it without a good role. Once I take a role, I will try my best to make it to the extreme. Moreover, we must exert all our energy and find ways to maintain this state for some time. "