Sky’s the Limit for Chinese Actress Zhou Xun
April 26th, 2007 by dd
Zhou Xun is an actress you may or may not have heard about. She’s won numerous accolades and been in a number of high profile films in China and Hong Kong.
So it’s no great surprise to see her in the press for her fashion follies and hits and being hounded constantly about her relationship with her Taiwanese image stylist boyfriend, LiDaqi. Despite rumors about her having secretly married Daqi, she refused to discuss marriage plans.
She was previously with actor Li Yapeng before he married Hong Kong pop diva Faye Wong, a development that reportedly left her deeply hurt and depressed for two years.
Since then, she’s recovered quite nicely and will be seen next in Ming Ming, a movie DaDump will actually pay to see on screen versus off a pirated DVD.
To learn more about this inspiring up and coming actress, continue reading after the jump!
In her new movie, Ming Ming, which will open in the cinemas next week, the petite actress plays a modern-day martial arts princess and lady ‘Robin Hood’ who steals for love.
Zhou Xun reportedly earned US$1.45million in 2003 and for the past few years, has been in the top 10 in Forbes’ list of top Chinese celebrities, alongside stars like Zhang Ziyi and GongLi.
Perhaps Love launched her career in the Hong Kong film industry in 2005 and it also helped her nab the Best Actress awards at the Golden Horse Awards and at the Hong Kong Film Awards last year.
Aside from acting, she has also released solo albums such as Summer in 2003 and Come Across in 2005 and has sung on several movie soundtracks including Perhaps Love.
Despite all the awards and accolades she has been picking up, she said she won’t raise her fees in tandem with her rising popularity.
‘The Asian film industry needs the cooperation of all Asian people to work hard at improving it. If I raise my fees, it will be bad for production.
‘Anyway, I’m not short of money, so why do I need to raise my fees? Making good movies requires the cooperation of everyone and it’s not a matter of how much money I can earn,’ she said.
It is this dream of making good movies that has made her selective about offers from the west.
‘I have received an offer from Hollywood. but the role is no good. It didn’t touch me, so I can’t bring myself to play it.
She added: ‘I think movies, just like any good artistic work, have no boundaries and can communicate with everyone wherever they are. It doesn’t matter where I am filming.’ [Asia1]
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