Former actress Maggie Cheung, who has stored a low profile for greater than a decade, stunned her followers when she began an account on Douyin on Tuesday.
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 only one day, her posts had 55 million views, and he or she has near half a million followers and multiple million “likes”.
She mentioned she discovered the clips whereas cleansing up previous information on a pc.
“As I rewatched the videos, I was struck by the realisation that time has gone by too fast,” 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, similar 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 reside even after her divorce from French director Olivier Assayas in 2001. In the video, she can be seen window procuring and biking beside the river Seine.
Cheung is greatest identified for appearing within the Wong (*55*) Wai traditional In The Mood For Love (2000). She received a number of greatest 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: “Although the person I see in the videos seems a little like a stranger to me, and the situations then are very different from my current life, I still find it hard to believe that it has been 10 years.” – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
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