CANNES : Gong Li, one of China's best actors, told Reuters on Wednesday that Michelle Yeoh's recent success at the Oscars and Golden Globes was particularly encouraging for Asian actors.'Since the beginning of the epidemic to now, in fact, the film industry has not been so vibrant, not like it was before,
CANNES : Gong Li, one of China's best actors, told Reuters on Wednesday that Michelle Yeoh's recent success at the Oscars and Golden Globes was particularly encouraging for Asian actors.
Yeoh, who is Malaysian, won best actress at both awards shows last year for her role in multiverse adventure"Everything Everywhere All at Once." Gong, who rose to fame as the star of lush Chinese movies such as 1988's"Red Sorghum" and"Farewell my Concubine" in 1993, before earning wider recognition in Hollywood films such as 2005's"Memoirs of a Geisha", was back on the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet this week after being on pandemic lockdown for the last three years.
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