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Find out more at IMDbPro ». How Much Have You Seen? The period drama follows the life of a noble princess from her younger years to adulthood, so as the show kicks off Zhang is seen playing the character at 15 and tries her best to act like a teenager, but apparently fails in the eyes of many viewers. The drama, which has released 12 episodes to date, currently has a 6. Netizens collected other examples of older actresses playing young women, including Zhou Xun and Liu Xiaoqing.
Some voices of opposition said that it was a futile effort for these actresses to ignore their age and insist on playing young roles, while some more encouraging netizens voiced approval, saying it was brave of these actresses to challenge themselves by taking on all kinds of characters and that age is never the foundation of a failed performance. She was extremely uncertain of her skills at first, so nervous that she had difficulty acting.
I usually prayed to God before going to bed to tell me how to accomplish my homework the next day. She discovered such a passion for acting that second year that at the year-end performance she rushed on stage during a show where she was playing a wife greeting her husband and accidentally crashed into a large piece of glass. She was rushed to the hospital and still bears a scar on her hand, but she had finally found the desire and passion to act that she had been missing before.
She was discovered at a casting call for a shampoo commercial with Lantern director Zhang Yimou no relation. This movie is Zhang's favorite role to date. She loved the sweet devotion her character showed the man she loved and really felt passion acting in it. It was her next film, however, that brought Zhang to the attention of critics and audiences across the globe. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, released in , was just about as far removed from her first acting experience as she could get.
Apparently it was those two acting heavyweights that were expected to make an impact on foreign audiences, but instead the ethereal and fragile beauty that Zhang showed on screen, along with her fantastic physical strength in the martial arts scenes, captured the hearts of audiences around the globe. She was also known for her incredible dedication, on and off screen. The Xinhua News Agency wrote, "Ang Lee … has said that [Zhang] is the most enterprising girl among the actresses he has cooperated with, and she would bear any hardship.
I think Ang Lee helped me to find that kind of personality. I didn't know I could do it. I am softer. I can't kick people.
After filming was completed, Lee finally expressed how pleased he was with Zhang's performance. The director was not the only one who appreciated Zhang's hard work; people flocked the theaters to see the film. Joanna Connors of the Plain Dealer said of the film, "Zhang, the young actress who plays Jen, has the most difficult role. Jen is full of secrets and schemes, and she switches teams so often she should file for free agency. Zhang pulls it off effortlessly, and achieves what most actors never do: She expresses her character through her movement, like a great dancer.
Zhang next made her American film debut with a small role in the action-comedy Rush Hour 2. She took the role to help improve her English-speaking skills as much as for the experience. She also learned a great deal about the differences between the American and Chinese moviemaking cultures.
Zhang told Whitty of the Star-Ledger, "In America, making a movie you have a lot of technology and you spend a lot of money, so the conditions are very good. I have my own trailer! And we have weekends off, and the Christmas holiday! That's a big difference from China. She told Whitty of the Star-Ledger that one of the reasons she would not move here was because of a lack of good roles for Asian women. I'm thinking there's not a lot of opportunity yet. I know we're lucky to get these films; you can't hope too much.
But I don't want to play evil girl, prostitute, all the time. I'd like to play Monster's Ball, a movie like that. But there are not so many good scripts written just for Asians. Her next big role was as a blind dancer named Mei in the martial arts epic House of Flying Daggers.
She became so dedicated to giving her all in every performance that when she was training to be in the film she carried 30 kilogram bags of sand on her legs for two months. She especially had to train for a dance she performs in the movie.
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