Tang Wei

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Tang Wei 2011 in Seoul

Tang Wei ( Chinese  湯 唯  /  汤 唯 , Pinyin Tāng Wéi , born October 7, 1979 in Hangzhou , Zhejiang ) is a Chinese actress . She became known to a wide audience through the lead role in Ang Lee's award-winning film Danger and Desire (2007), which brought her to a media boycott in her home country.

Life

Training and success with "danger and desire"

Tang, born in Hangzhou near Shanghai in 1979 , is the daughter of an actress and a painter. She attended the Beijing Central Academy of Drama , where such well-known mimes as Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi had studied. She completed her training in film directing. Already in 2001, while still a student, she caught the attention of Taiwanese screenwriter and guest lecturer Stan Lai , who compared her to his former drama student Jacqueline Ng ( Eat Drink Man Woman ) . In her homeland, Tang first appeared in plays , television series and television plays. For her performance in the TV movie Policewoman Yanzi , she was honored with the award of the largest Chinese TV station CCTV for best actress .

Tang Wei in 2008

Worldwide Tang Wei became known in the summer of 2006, when Ang Lee them because for the female lead in his Thriller their versatility Jei (Lust, Caution) , who plays the time of the Japanese occupation of China in 1942 in Shanghai, committed. Tang prevailed against more than 10,000 Asian actors, including her compatriot Zhou Xun and the Taiwanese Shu Qi . In the film adaptation of a short story by Eileen Chang , she slipped into the role of the young, idealistic student Wang Chia-Chih for her film debut, who found access to a cell of radical fellow students who were fighting against the Japanese occupation. She is said to use her feminine charms to liquidate the powerful intelligence chief and collaborator Yee (played by Tony Leung Chiu Wai ).

Danger and Desire premiered at the 64th Venice Film Festival . Critics particularly emphasized the achievements of the two main actors, the elegant and cool staging of Lee and the seemingly pornographic love scenes. Tang was co- favorite with the Australian Oscar winner Cate Blanchett ( I'm Not There ) , the British Kierston Wareing (It's a Free World…) and the French Hafsia Herzi ( couscous with fish ) as a co-favorite on the Coppa Volpi , the prize for the best actress of the festival, acted. Although the actor's award went to Blanchett, Lee's film was awarded the Golden Lion , the festival's main prize. A few months later she was nominated for best leading actress for the US Independent Spirit Awards 2008 and she won Taiwan's national film award, the Golden Horse Award , for best young actress.

Media boycott

Tang Wei in Cannes (2008)

Although Ang Lee cut the film by seven minutes before it opened in China, media reports in early March 2008 announced that the actress's career there would fall victim to state censorship. The Chinese state commission for television, film and radio (SARFT) sent a memo to television stations and the print media with the instruction to stop reporting on the actress and to stop the publication of her half a million euro advertising campaign with the cosmetics company Pond . Tang was also banned from all award ceremonies in China. Reports about the film and herself were removed from online forums, and her name could no longer be retrieved via an Internet search via Google . The unofficial media boycott is said to have been due to the revealing nudes in danger and desire , but the real reason was suspected in the character of her role in Lee's unpatriotic film.

In addition to her career as an actress, Tang has worked as a model in the past , and in 2004 she made it to the finals of the Chinese qualifications for the Miss Universe competition in Beijing. She also wrote short stories, plays and worked as a theater director. After the Chinese media boycott, Tang moved to Hong Kong , where she was accepted into the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme in 2008, a program that promoted well-known artists such as Zhang Ziyi , Lang Lang and Li Yundi . It was not until 2009 that Tang again took on a film role in the Chinese- language romantic comedy Yut mun Hinneisi (2010) by Ho Ivy. In the Hong Kong production, she and singer Jacky Cheung played two shopkeepers who met on a blind date . "My character is full of weird personality and I want to bring a new feeling of myself to the audience," Tang said in the spring of 2009 just before filming began. Her performance was honored with a nomination at the Hong Kong Film Awards .

Successful trip to the Korean cinema and further reprisals

In 2010, Tang starred in the English-language melodrama Late Autumn, directed by Kim Tae-yong in Seattle, as a prison inmate who receives brief leave after the death of her mother and falls in love with a Korean call boy (played by Hyun Bin ). The Korean production, a remake of the 1960s film Manchu , won her three major Korean film awards in 2011 as the first foreign actress.

In the summer of 2011 it became known that Tang's role in the propaganda biopic The Founding of a Party (2011) about Mao Zedong had fallen victim to the editing . In the Communist Party's prestige project for its 90th anniversary, she should have played the part of Tao Yi , a young revolutionary and Mao's first lover (played by Liu Ye ) in the 1910s. The announcement of the film offer was initially understood as a possible political rehabilitation Tang. In the same year, the actress was seen in Peter Chan's Hong Kong martial arts detective film Wu Xia in the small role of the wife of leading actor Donnie Yen . Tang, who says she prepares intensively for a role before filming (“I think about the living conditions, the social and cultural context in which the character moves […] I imagine what her family members look like - I have even detailed pictures of people [in the head] who are not actually in the plot, I think about where she [the character] was born, what she would read as she grows up, how she dresses and brushes her teeth - all of their habits ”.) , Director Peter Chan Ho-sun had to be urged not to “ over-intellectualize ” their role before filming .

On July 12, 2014, she married the South Korean film director Kim Tae-yong, with whom she directed Late Autumn . She gave birth to a daughter in Hong Kong in August 2016 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2006: Silent Tears (女人 不哭, Nüren bu ku , TV series)
  • 2007: Danger and Desire (色 ， 戒; Sè, Jiè)
  • 2010: Yut mun Hinneisi
  • 2010: Late Autumn ( 만추 Manchu )
  • 2011: Wǔ xiá
  • 2011: Ji su tian shi
  • 2011: Jiàn Dǎng Wěi Yè
  • 2013: Běijīng yù shàng xiyǎtú
  • 2014: The Golden Era (黄金时代)
  • 2015: Blackhat
  • 2018: Di qiu zui hou de ye wan

Awards

Web links

Commons : Tang Wei  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at worldfilm.about.com (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / worldfilm.about.com
  2. ↑ a b c d Ong Sor Fern: New China Dolls . In: The Straits Times (Singapore), September 16, 2007
  3. ↑ a b Xinhua -Pressemeldung Ann Lee casts Tang Wei for "Lust, Caution" 12 July, 2006
  4. ↑ Wei, Tan Dawn: Caution: Lee Ang at work . In: The Straits Times (Singapore), February 7, 2007, LIFE !, LIFE MOVIES
  5. ↑ Goldstein, Gregg: Leung, Tang heeding Lee's 'Lust, Caution' at hollywoodreporter.com
  6. ↑ Video interview with Ang Lee ( memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at movieweb.com (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.movieweb.com
  7. ^ Höbel, Wolfgang: Grober Sex and polished dialogues at Spiegel Online, August 30, 2007
  8. ↑ Vahabzadeh, Susan: It's down to business at sueddeutsche.de, September 1, 2007
  9. ^ Westphal, Anke: Men in War , Berliner Zeitung, September 1, 2007
  10. ^ Koppold, Rupert: Group picture with murderer . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, September 8, 2007, Culture, p. 33
  11. ↑ Suspense avant la remise du 64e Lion d'or à Venise, Kechiche grand favori (PAPIER GENERAL) , Agence France-Presse, 8 September 2007
  12. ↑ Tseng, Douglas: Shorter version of Lust to be shown here . In: The Straits Times (Singapore), September 26, 2007, LIFE! - LIFE BUZZ
  13. ↑ Wei's Chinese Media Ban at contactmusic.com, March 10, 2008 (accessed June 22, 2008)
  14. ↑ Macartney, Jane: Tang Wei blacklisted for 'glorifying traitors' at timesonline.co.uk, March 11, 2008 (accessed June 22, 2008)
  15. ↑ Nivelle, Pascale: Tang Wei, l'héroïne du thriller érotique "Lust, Caution", victime des censeurs chinois . In: Liberation , March 12, 2008, p. 10
  16. ↑ a b Mak, Clara: Tang returns… cautiously . In: South China Morning Post, February 7, 2009, p. 6
  17. ↑ Lee Hyo-won: Busan critics name Tang Wei best actress . In: Korea Times , December 1, 2011 (accessed May 31, 2014)
  18. ^ Foster, Peter: Actress cut from Mao blockbuster after being deemed too raunchy . In: The Daily Telegraph , May 14, 2011, p. 18
  19. ^ A b Tsui, Clarence: Going with the flow . In: South China Morning Post, July 31, 2011, p. 3
  20. ↑ Ahn Sung-mi: Tang Wei to tie knot with Korean filmmaker this fall. In: Korea Herald . July 2, 2014, accessed July 3, 2014 .
  21. ↑ Hong Dam-young: Chinese actress Tang Wei now a mother. In: The Korea Times . August 28, 2016, accessed August 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Tang Wei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Hangzhou , Zhejiang , People's Republic of China