Vivian Wu, A Lifelong Shanghai Woman

"I read and play and run all over the world. But I felt that I had never left Shanghai. Every time a plane lands, it is reassuring to smell the moisture and sweetness of the air that belongs to Shanghai. Because, I know, home. "

At the beginning of August, during the filming of Beijing and Vancouver, actress Vivian Wu squeezed out a day's stop and returned to Shanghai, where she was invited to take the star X series of fashion bazaar.

Our footage also along Vivian Wu's map of Shanghai opens her memory of Shanghai, which is full of colors, flavors and exclamation marks. It can be said that it is especially brilliant (Mandarin) and chivalrous (Shanghai dialect).

Wu's strange fate, from the ten minutes of the the Peace Hotel, mentioned that the fans mentioned Vivian Wu. The most striking part of her mind is her classic role in the hearts of the people. In the Hollywood blockbuster "the last emperor", she plays PuYi, the lady of the imperial concubine shouting "I want to get divorced", Song Meiling, the editor in chief of Li Muzi in the historical records, Li Muzi in the fashion hot mom, and the following "elite lawyer" and "great Qin Empire". For Vivian Wu, all this is due to Shanghai. To be more precise, it started at the Peace Hotel.

"When I was little, every week, my mother and her friends took my sister and I to the the Peace Hotel to take a hot bath." Vivian Wu laughed about the landmark of Shanghai. "I grew up in the Peace Hotel. It's the most familiar place outside my home. "

At the age of seventeen, Vivian Wu filming Huang Shuqin's "long live youth" was first shown in the shadow art world. In order to get to the next action of "super border operation" in Beijing, she asked the elders working at the the Peace Hotel to buy her plane tickets. In about ten minutes, she met Wang Biao, the Chinese vice director of the last emperor, and the Beijing film studio.

"Later I realized that on that day, Wang directed Joanna Merlin, the director of the last emperor, interviewed many, many actors upstairs. The only old man who sent him down the stairs was a famous old artist. After sending away, Wang Daoyi looked back at me, feeling tall and with a special face, and suddenly asked, "are you Vivian Wu?" After that, we all know. To this day, Vivian Wu will still be excited to sigh that the arrangement of fate is wonderful. So when "fashion bazaar" invited her to take "star X City Series" in Shanghai, she specifically asked, "must go to the Peace Hotel!"

Wu's Shanghai dialect, Gua, crisp and fragile, the impression of Shanghai women, always can not be separated from "Jiao, Wei, waxy, sweet." In fact, Shanghai women really speak of Shanghai dialect, and have a tough and hard spirit to deal with the people and things in this competitive city.

Vivian Wu laughed and laughed at himself. "The most popular entertainment is the people of Wu family who get together and talk about the three seas." Oh, the decibel is so high that the roof of the house will be lifted. Ha ha ha! "

At the beginning of this year, the "floating city on the sea", which was shown in China at the beginning of this year, Vivian Wu completely subverted the image. Eighty percent of the lines were in Shanghai dialect, which interpreted the boss of a beauty parlour who was strong in defending his homeland, enjoying himself, and nostalgic and capable. From the beginning, Yan Yuqian, the new director, decided that Vivian Wu was the only candidate for the heroine Wang Zhaodi.

"First of all, this role must speak Putonghua, Shanghai dialect and English. Then, I began to list Wang Zhaodi's ideal condition, no matter from which angle to look for, all lines point to Vivian Wu. Vivian Wu changed the noble elitist of his wife, empress dowager, imperial concubine and fashion devil. He screwled his hair, wore green eyelints and eyebrows, and wore colorful colors in the film. The middle-aged aunt in Shanghai was featured by her own fashionable style, coupled with a crisp upper lip. Vivian Wu's mother is Zhu Manfang, an actress in the Shanghai film studio. Besides speaking Mandarin with her colleagues, she speaks Shanghai dialect at home all the time. "Because my father speaks Mandarin so badly. When I was a kid, the most impressive thing was when my dad talked about a popular movie, "the vibrato of life". My mother and I listened to drill into the hole. All of a sudden, her voice turned, laughing, "well, who knows, now really has a" jitter ". Ha, my dad is too fashionable! "

Now Vivian Wu has developed the habit of speaking Mandarin outside. But once she knows all around Shanghai people, she will switch to Shanghai dialect. "I always feel that it is very artificial to speak Putonghua with Shanghai people." Shanghai has always been a city with many rivers and streams. Now we refer to "Shanghai women", referring to not only women who grew up in Shanghai, but also women who study and work in Shanghai and dream. When the screen needs a smart Shanghai woman who controls the overall situation and status, no matter how big the role is, the directors seem to think of Vivian Wu in an agreement. For example, Li Muzi, the great aunt in the first half of my life, and Mrs. Chiang, Song Meiling, who lived in Shanghai during the Song Dynasty and the founding of the Republic. Vivian Wu admitted, "it seems to be a bit of a phenomenon." But she smiled humbly and said, "maybe my Mandarin is not very standard."

Wu's sisters, "Heaven's match", "I dreamed of being a conductor of tram 26." Vivian Wu smiled and confessed, "at that time, there was a 26 Street tram station at the gate of Huaihai middle road. Tram, oh, there are two plaits. I think the conductor is the most amazing person in the world. I cut paper and make tickets at home every day. My sister acts as a passenger.

"My sister and I are celestial beings." Vivian Wu and his sister are intimate and inseparable from childhood. There were no Bobbi dolls at that time. The two of them used furniture to amuse themselves every day, but suddenly they had all sorts of ideas to get all the newspapers covered with rice grains, full of walls and wallpaper, which made their father angry. She likes to take her sister to the triangle garden area of Anfu road in Huaihailu Road, swinging, swinging the horizontal bars and climbing the shelves. "My sister always likes to use a chopsticks as a microphone to interview me. Later, with my sister's encouragement, I started filming. " "From my childhood, my father gave me pocket money and asked me to bring my sister to buy a bowl of wonton and a pot stickers every afternoon." Vivian Wu clearly remembered, "one pot stickers have four, I eat two with my sister." We like vinegar very much. After eating the pot stickers, you must finish the dish of vinegar. Even the wonton bowl contains vinegar. You must be more white than your lips! "

Wu Shi food, Shanghai people's collective memories of Vivian Wu's most cherished Shanghai snacks, the first choice of fried dumpling. There is no difference between the top and bottom, as well as curry powder soup, Shanghai fried noodles, fried bread sticks, oil dumplings, rice cake... "My taste is very grass like." Just listening to the name is the collective memory of every generation of Shanghai Xiaonan. "There are also Napoleon and chestnut cakes. Also, on the way to the children's palace, it will pass through the milk shed in Huaihailu Road's Gao An Road. Remember? I like the cream there best. Oh, my God, it was pure cream at that time... " Listen to her say that the color, aroma and taste are still unfinished, I really want to stop the interview, first to eat a round of food.

According to Vivian Wu's Wu's observation, every Shanghai woman will burn braised pork. Vivian Wu's specialty is "Wu's braised pork," and proudly emphasizes, "every time I burn it, it tastes different." Let's applaud her. "My husband's favorite Shanghai food is the pork noodle of Wang Jia Sha, and the lion's head burned by my mother." However, Vivian Wu wondered, "why does my mother burn big lion heads?" Lao Ao (her pet name for his husband Oscar Luis Costo) can eat 5, and the lion head I burn can only eat 3 at most. She interviewed her mother the night before the interview and concluded that "my mother burned letinous edodes in the lion's head." She also said that the meat should not be bought and ready to cut. In the future, the scientific achievements of "Wu Shi lion head" are just around the corner.

Learning and work often leads Vivian Wu to foreign countries and other places, "so sometimes my tastes are like chameleons. As soon as I arrived in Beijing, I studied northern people, ate a raw garlic and ate a dumpling. When filming the last emperor, I met the director of Italy Bernardo Bertolucci. I fell in love with pizza at once, and I never missed Shanghai snacks. "I have great enthusiasm for personnel in different places. I always like to understand the local characteristics, and I can quickly integrate into the local life. But Shanghai has always been my root. " Vivian Wu said. "I have seen thousands of miles in the past, and I have seen all kinds of gold nest and silver nest. Only when I get home, I eat a homely dish with my family."

Wu's map, Wu's affection, dedicated to Shanghai and his family, Vivian Wu has his own "map of Shanghai", composed of old memories. It is a resting place that used to study outside and go back to filming. It is also a stronghold for dating friends and family nowadays. "The first stop must be Xintiandi, because my old grandfather (author's note: tobacco tycoon Wu Tingsheng) is at the original site of Xintiandi, and a Chinese style western style building at the junction of Ma Dang road and Taicang. The Shanghai Museum, the Shanghai Art Gallery opposite the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and the Shanghai exhibition hall, where I have taken many pictures during my childhood, now have many wonderful exhibitions. "

In the early years (before the Internet age), Vivian Wu was filming in Shanghai for a long time. When she missed her family in Shanghai, she spoke to a Sony Mini recorder. "Now, like leaving voice to mobile phone, I think of what to say and tell them what I have done and seen today. Every two volumes will be sent back to Shanghai. When the family members receive them, they listen together. Grandparents often write to me. The first thing I do when I travel around the world is to buy postcards to Grandpa and grandma. They kept all the books that were full of them, all the postcards I sent them. My dad has been criticizing me for not writing dates. I still rarely write dates. In front of their parents, daughters are always coquettish and shameless. Now that communication is developed and travel is convenient, people who want to see it are instantly touched, but the memories of the past are more and more vivid.

The movie Shanghai red beauty, directed by Oscar playwright and Vivian Wu as producer, is a love letter written by Oscar to Vivian Wu and a love letter from Vivian Wu to Shanghai. "The lines in the script, from my husband and I met and married, have been listening to me constantly talking about the past in Shanghai. The furniture in the movie was moved from my mother's house. The scenery outside my house was my mother's house, opposite to Wangjia Sha in Nanjing West Road. Although my childhood pictures are black and white, my memories of Shanghai and my childhood are all colorful.

Every time Vivian Wu speaks of Shanghai, he can't help but manually play the exclamation mark. "Yes, up! The sea! Exclamation mark! " She repeatedly emphasized, "I am more and more fond of Shanghai from the bottom of my heart. Every line, every angle here has history and modernity. Shanghai is also more and more clean, convenient and popular. When we go out within one hundred meters, everything is settled. It can be said that the world is the most comfortable city to live in.

Wu's "carry it clean", the growth of the eternal Shanghai woman, the grandmother had the most profound influence on Vivian Wu. "Grandma is beautiful. It is said that when she was young, she walked on the Nanjing road and was photographed by the photo studio as a sign. The Ningbo people called their grandmother "empress". "I remember the goddess sitting on the round bench, holding a mirror slowly to powder. Sit for two hours, then apply a thin lipstick. In particular, the fashionable accent is the most typical impression of Shanghai women in the world. By contrast, Vivian Wu's taste is more atmospheric and super cool. She is a friend of China's design master Wang Zhi Uma Wang for decades. In recent two years, she has found sun Tai's DAWEI uninhibited female style suitable for her.

"I like to drink coffee on the streets of Shanghai and watch the crowds on the road. I sincerely appreciate the modern sense that women in Shanghai are keeping pace with the times, not only in terms of food and clothing, but in women of different ages who know how to enjoy life. There are those who enjoy independent work and those who enjoy full time mothers. They also enjoy both sides. Their positions are all right, and they are more responsible for themselves and their lives. From the perspective of the current career predicament faced by the Mesozoic actress, Vivian Wu felt very lucky. "Honestly, I had no performance training in a junior college. After fifty years of age, I was invited to filming. God was so kind to me that he always gave me a cake." At the same time, frankly speaking, the actor's mother had reminded her that the actor was very passive. "I didn't just play the leading role in my childhood. For me, as long as we have inspiration for the role, we will play the supporting role as the leading actor. I love the occupation of actors, because it brings me a lot of feeling, and it makes me feel very happy. I am so satisfied with the whole world.

"I recently went to see the stage play of the actor's theatrical troupe of the movie studio. There were such predecessors as Niu, Da Shi Chang, Xiang Mei and my mother (Zhu Man Fang). Each of them is a drama master, and is still shining on the stage. I feel a lot. " "What I am asking myself now is to remain steadfast in making evergreen trees, and occasionally flowers are icing on the cake. Work steadfastly, keep a low profile and keep a clean and tidy mind. Vivian Wu, who has no special label of Shanghai women, says with a smile, "if you want to have it, you can get the best of Shanghai women." These feelings are not only caused by the surroundings, but also from a small age: everything is so important that we can understand it without breaking it up, and we will not be embarrassed or troubled by others. "I am a modest Shanghai person, and also a Shanghai person who is proud of Shanghai. This will never change. " Vivian Wu mischievously added, "as long as a day for Shanghai people, all life is Shanghai people!"

This period BazaarVpop joined hands with Vivian Wu to connect the telephone from old Shanghai to listen to her unfamiliar, familiar, unchanging Wu Nong soft words, changing road buildings, memories growing up here, remembrance of youth, bitter bitterness in her mouth, and finally the rest of her life.

Production: Fashion bazaar producer: Sha Li Li producer / Planning: Angela, Gao Leng interview / writing: Yvonne Yi Fang Director / Photographer: Wu Hai Yong style: Lindsay Yuan (19 Gala) hairstyle: Parco Makeup: Fiona co ordination: Xiao Shan fashion co ordination: Pu an executive producer: Gigi