Former actress Maggie Cheung, who has stored a low profile for greater than a decade, shocked her followers when she began an account on Douyin on Tuesday (22 Nov) .
On the video-sharing platform, China’s equal of TikTok, the 58-year-old Hong Kong star shared two movies from 2005 and 2008.
After simply in the future, her posts had 55 million views, and she or he has near half one million followers and a couple of million “likes”.
She stated she discovered the clips whereas cleansing up outdated information on a pc.
“As I rewatched the movies, I used to be struck by the realisation that point has passed by too quick,” she wrote.
The 2008 video gave a behind-the-scenes take a look at a shoot by photographer-film-maker Rene Habermacher, with Cheung in varied sultry poses, equivalent to lounging on a mattress.
In her second clip from 2005, she is seen biking alongside the streets of Paris, the place she has continued to stay even after her divorce from French director Olivier Assayas in 2001. Within the video, she can also be seen window procuring and biking beside the river Seine.
Cheung is finest recognized for appearing within the Wong Kar Wai traditional In The Temper For Love (2000). She gained a number of finest actress prizes on the Golden Horse Awards in addition to at Cannes and Berlin movie festivals earlier than turning her again on films within the mid-2000s.
She wrote: “Though the individual I see within the movies appears a bit of like a stranger to me, and the conditions then are very totally different from my present life, I nonetheless discover it onerous to consider that it has been 10 years.”
This text was first revealed in The Straits Occasions.
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