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"It's not a rose, but I feel that my flowers are in full bloom, not a bird, but I'm flying in the clear sky.
- American legendary female poet Dickinson"
The 1980s and 1990s were the best era and the worst era for Hong Kong movies.
In the most glorious years of Hong Kong film production, the glorious stars in front of the stage were bullied by gangsters behind the scenes.
There are beautiful actresses who are raped or fallen into a scumbag and leave alone. There are also female stars who are not talented and talented, who are not afraid of the wind and rain, and eventually make themselves a legend.
Carina Lau , is such a woman with tenacious vitality.
01 Dream-chasing girl who immigrated to a foreign land
80s to the present, more than one million mainlanders immigrated to Hong Kong. Among these new immigrants, there are many star-studded stars such as Carina Lau, Zhang Min, , Lizhi , Faye Wong, and Dawn .
1979, under the spring breeze of reform and opening up, 11-year-old Shanghai girl Zhang Min moved to Hong Kong with her parents.
A year later, 15-year-old Suzhou girl Carina Lau also moved to Hong Kong with her father and her family.
girl Carina Lau
This year, 21-year-old Hong Kong college student Wang Meiling participated in the "Miss Chinese in the UK" campaign and won the runner-up.
also immigrated from Hong Kong to the UK Maggie , who was 16 years old and worked as a salesperson in a bookstore in London after graduating from high school.
1981, a 20-year-old Shanghai beauty Li Zhi defected to her father to immigrate to Hong Kong.
They all caught up with the golden age of Hong Kong as the "Oriental Hollywood" and later became a popular Hong Kong star in the future.
The girls at that time Carina Lau and Maggie Cheung were both fascinated by the male lead Huang Rihua who became popular for the Hong Kong drama " Passerby ", hoping to meet their idols.
Maggie Cheung, who returned to Hong Kong to visit relatives, had not yet met Huang Rihua, but was photographed by a scout on the street for an advertisement and stepped into the entertainment industry with half his foot.
Carina Lau simply ran to TVB to apply for the artist training class, secretly hoping to meet Huang Rihua and ask him to sign.
Idol failed to meet, but she met the noble man who had a great influence on her in the future - Liu Fanggang.
Liu Fanggang is from Hunan and was born in Taiwan. He is a top student at the Institute of Journalism of the University of Political Science and Technology. He went to Italy to study films. He is an excellent film and television director and was the director of the TVB artist training department at that time.
With the countless eyes of Yuexing, Liu Fanggang fell in love with Carina Lau with a beautiful appearance at first glance.
It’s a pity that she had just passed by Hong Kong from mainland China and only spoke a little bit of crappy Cantonese. She read the manuscript in Mandarin throughout the interview, which is almost a fatal shortcoming for TVB broadcasting in Cantonese.
When Teacher Liu Fanggang told me: "Your conditions are good, but Cantonese is not good." Carina Lau, who was unwilling to admit defeat, said on the spot: "I can learn." Cheng Naigen, the tutor of the training class, felt that with her foundation, it would be impossible to learn Cantonese well in a year.
Liu Fanggang, who cherishes talent, turned to Carina Lau, and would rather run for Miss Hong Kong . He will be her nominee, so that she can enter the top 15 of the finals, and will make movies in the future without the same sound, and the requirements for Cantonese are not that high.
The competitive Carina Lau asked Liu Fanggang to insist on attending the training class unless she guaranteed that she would enter the top three for the Miss Hong Kong election.
In desperation, Teacher Liu Fanggang had no choice but to remind her to go back and study Cantonese well and come to apply for the training class next year.
The naive and lively Carina Lau was afraid that the teacher would forget her next year, so she asked Liu Fanggang to write a note for herself as a voucher. Teacher Liu Fanggang actually wrote a note for her:
"I, Liu Fanggang, remember Carina Lau, and I will take the training class next year."
02 Entering the entertainment industry, I first met Tony Leung
A year passed in a flash, and Liu Fanggang did not forget her. He called her to take her parents to the TV station to discuss.
In order to help make up for the family, Carina Lau followed her mother to work in an electronics factory, but still failed to practice Cantonese well.
In order to seize the fleeting opportunity, she begged Liu Fanggang to accept her and ensure that she practices Cantonese within one year of her training class, otherwise she can be disqualified at any time.
Fortunately, Liu Fang had just admitted Carina Lau in an extraordinary way, opening the door to the entertainment industry for her.
That class of students was full of beauties, including "Beautiful Wutai Mountain" Lan Jieying , "A flower in the class" Zeng Huaqian .
Maggie Cheung, who returned to Hong Kong from the UK, also signed a contract to become a TVB artist with the runner-up of the Miss Hong Kong runner-up. Carina Lau is not the most outstanding one.
In order to help Carina Lau, Teacher Cheng Naigen made up for her Cantonese language, and his head teacher Liu Fanggang took her out for dinner every Saturday to allow her to integrate into Hong Kong society.
Just as Liu Fanggang divorced his wife a few years ago and was single. Rumors spread everywhere, and Carina Lau was ridiculed as a "mainland girl with a backstage."
Liu Fanggang took a photo with his ex-wife Huang Shuyi
In fact, Liu Fanggang was also biased towards Wong Kar-wai , Andy Lau , Tony Leung...
Wong Kar-wai was a student of the first TVB director training class in 1981. He was about to graduate and film his graduation works. After ten working days, he used up the fixed quota film and spent all the funds, but the scene was only half of the film.
Teacher Liu Fanggang collected all the remaining films and funds from other students in the class and handed them over to Wong Kar-wai for use, and successfully completed his graduation masterpiece.
Andy Lau originally wanted to apply for this director class, but was suggested to transfer to the artist training class by Liu Fanggang, who was very keen to start his acting career as a superstar.
Teachers in the world probably can’t help but prefer talented students, but these few are all boys and have not caused any criticism.
Teacher Liu Fanggang also specially reminded Carina Lau:
"After you graduate, make money, don't do business with friends.
Once you have money, buy a house."
This advice will benefit Carina Lau for life, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
When he was intern in the training class, Carina Lau went to " The Legend of the Condor Heroes " as she wished, played a role with her idol Huang Rihua, played the role of a Mongolian maid, poured a cup of tea for Guo Jing , and the lines only include "The Prince Consort is awake".
1983 version of the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" animated picture
After graduating from the acting training class, Carina Lau officially took on the first TV series "Reprinter", which was to work with Tony Leung to play the male and female lead and play a pair of lovers.
Stills from Carina Lau and Tony Leung "Reprinter"
In the same year, he participated in Tony Leung's famous TV series "The Deer and the Cauldron", playing Fang Yi, one of the seven wives of Wei Xiaobao.
1984 Hong Kong drama "The Deer and the Cauldron" stills
The two people initially had a bad impression of each other.
Tony Leung graduated from the training class one earlier than Carina Lau. She fell in love with Carina Lau’s classmate Zeng Huaqian at first sight and started dating privately.
Tony Leung, who grew up in Hong Kong, dislikes Carina Lau's temperament and is not dedicated and serious enough to film, so he asked his girlfriend Zeng Huaqian to have less contact with her.
Carina Lau has heard countless complaints about Weizai’s bad temper from her classmate Zeng Huaqian.
More importantly, she is in love and is focused on others.
03 Being cheated as a mistress, engaged in rich second generation
The youthful Carina Lau attracted an advertiser named Li, who was more than teenager than her, and she was successful in her career and was very doting on her.
She plunged into love and talked for three years.
Carina Lau is tired of dealing with her continuous filming life. Sometimes she films for more than ten hours a day, and only a few hours left to sleep. Therefore, she often overslept and is late on the set. She has never read the lines before she arrives on the scene, and she relies on sharpening her guns in the face of battle.
When participating in " Rogue Tycoon ", Carina Lau, who played the supporting role, and the heroine Cheng Yuling, filmed the opposite scene, but she couldn't even answer the lines.
"Rogue Tycoon" actors took a group photo
Cheng Yuling, who has become famous, showed no mercy at all, and asked her to go home and read the script and come back to film on the spot.
The monthly salary of TV station is only two or three thousand Hong Kong dollars. At that time, Carina Lau was really not interested in acting.
"Rogue Tycoon" was super successful after it was broadcast and became the annual ratings champion of TVB. The newcomer Carina Lau also attracted the attention of the audience. She was also invited to produce the movie "The Strategy of the Miscellaneous Cards" on Jackie Chan for the first time on the big screen.
Cheng Yuling and Carina Lau took a photo
Her relationship, but the red light lit up.
It turns out that Mr. Li had been married long ago, but his wife's children lived abroad all year round, and Carina Lau was completely unaware of it at first.
It was not until he went abroad to visit his family that Carina Lau’s phone call was received by the other party’s wife that she broke the lie.
Friends of the Artist Training Class Ng Junru , her father is a well-known host in Hong Kong, has a wide connection and a generous personality, and enthusiastically introduces her new boyfriend to Carina Lau, hoping to help her get out of this emotional entanglement.
Carina Lau and his classmate, Mr. Ng took a photo with his classmate,
On that day, Mr. Lyrics drove a tire on the street and broke down. He called Mr. Ng for help, but waited for a handsome young man, Xu Jinheng .
Xu Jinheng, who came to save the beauty, did not say anything, and helped Carina Lau change the tires with her own hands, eliminated the fault, which also touched her heart. The two soon fell in love and moved to a luxury house in the Xu family to live together, which caused heated discussions on Hong Kong gossip newspapers and magazines.
Carina Lau's father Liu Guiming is an overseas Chinese in Thailand. His ancestral home is Rong County, Guangxi. He returned to the mainland when he was a teenager. After graduating from high school, he worked at the Suzhou Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He fell in love with the beautiful Suzhou talented queen Fumei. The two gave birth to a pair of children: Carina Lau and his younger brother Liu Jiayong.
Carina Lau’s family photo
Due to the impact of his father’s overseas relations, his family was blocked, his mother’s clothes were cut to pieces, and his family was in trouble. He lived on his mother’s salary of more than 30 yuan. Later, Liu Guiming followed his relatives and friends to Hong Kong as a bank employee, and his family immigrated to Hong Kong.
Xu Jinheng is the grandson of the famous Hong Kong ship king Xu Aizhou. His family's assets exceed 10 billion yuan, ranking among the top ten richest families in Hong Kong.
In the eyes of Hong Kong people, 21-year-old Carina Lau, in addition to being as good as the 24-year-old Xu Jinheng, is undoubtedly a high-level person in terms of family background and education.
It is not ruled out that Xu Jinheng was really in love and made a verbal commitment to the engagement, and also held a small engagement ceremony with Carina Lau.
Carina Lau, who has a carefree personality, admitted to the reporter that the two were going to get married.
helpless and affectionate romance can't resist the huge difference between the inappropriate and inconsistent relationship. The two announced their breakup after three years of love. A few years later, Xu Jinheng obediently listened to the family's arrangements to marry the daughter of the gambling king He Chaoqiong .
Both of these two love affairs made Carina Lau leave the impression of a gold-worshiping woman in the minds of Hong Kong people.
Next, her new relationship caused a stir.
04 Snatch her best friend's boyfriend, the big movie Shenghui
The breakup between Carina Lau and Xu Jinheng has become a topic of conversation for all Hong Kong people after dinner. She laughed at her for wanting to fly to the branch to be a phoenix, but was disliked by the wealthy families.
She did not feel depressed, but instead realized that marriage is not a shortcut to change her destiny. The most reliable thing in the world is herself.
1988, she and Tony Leung performed in the stage play "The Real Man" together. They spent half a year together, and were attracted to each other because of their understanding, and quietly got together.
Carina Lau took a photo with Tony Leung
This time, Carina Lau’s father strongly opposed this time, because he believed that Tony Leung had too many scandals and was unreliable intent.
Tony Leung and Tsang Huaqian have been dating for six years. They have broken up three times. In the middle, they have fallen in love with , Lai Meixian, who is known as the "first classical beauty".
Tony Leung took a photo with his ex-girlfriend
First love is Tony Leung, Zeng Huaqian was even more angry and complained to the media that Carina Lau snatched love with her, and the two of them had been cold war for several years.
Tony Leung has some big men in her bones and often needs personal space to think about the role. Zeng Huaqian wants her boyfriend to accompany her all the time, and she is also very worried about Yingying and Yanyan beside Tony Leung when filming the film. The two of them often make noise.
Lai Meixian never interferes with Tony Leung's freedom, but she is fond of being petty and not gentle enough.
A man and woman who are handsome and well-known in the eyes of outsiders can ultimately resist the differences in personality and three views.
Sagittarius Carina Lau, after experiencing two emotional setbacks, knows how to give Tony Leung freedom and trust, and is good at dancing in social occasions, which is very complementary to Tony Leung who is restrained.
At that time, Tony Leung was not the best actor in the movie. He just won the Academy Awards and best supporting actor in . His handsomeness, dedication and talent undoubtedly have the potential to Carina Lau. After the relationship was revealed, Carina Lau moved from the Xu family's luxury house to Tony Leung's house and began a 19-year cohabitation life.
1989, Carina Lau starred in the movie " The Lie Woman ", and played in the same frame with Rosamund Kwan and Xia Wenxi. She was nominated for Best Actress for the Film Awards for the first time when she played the leading role in the movie. In the end, she lost to Maggie Cheung's "The Woman Without Take Off Socks". In the movie, she is a mistress who is kept. She is clearly trapped in the muddle of a mistress and thought it was true love, but she finally got rid of her mistress and got true love.
The theme song of this movie "I Manipulate Destiny" is sung by Sally Yeh , just like Carina Lau's subsequent encounter:
"Carnival cheers and wishes me a new life tonight. Now I can finally control my destiny.
will not stay in the dark for anyone today..."
The beautiful Rosamund Kwan only got out of the vicious circle of being a passive mistress after repeated emotional failures.
There is no way to go in this world, and it is a waste of hardship unless you refuse to continue moving forward.
05 encountered a storm, and his acting career was cheating
people became famous and had many troubles, and another storm quietly hit Carina Lau.
In the early morning of April 24, 1990, Carina Lau and her friends played in Tsim Sha Tsui Lounge until midnight. They received a call from their friend Eric Tsang and made an appointment to play mahjong at Michael Miu 's house.
The friends waited for Carina Lau and lost contact with her again, so they called the police quickly.
It turned out that Carina Lau was being followed and collided while driving to the appointment alone. Three young and dandy kidnapped her and took nude photos.
3 hours later, the pale face of Carina Lau finally appeared and was taken back to the police station to assist in the investigation.
For the sake of face, she only said that she was robbed, a precious watch and more than 1,000 yuan in cash, and did not admit that she was taken nude photos.
The origin of the incident was because Carina Lau was too tough and refused to make a movie for the underworld brother.
In order to calm the incident, she went to the Netherlands afterwards and made a free film for the other party. Tony Leung turned down all film appointments and stayed with her every day.
Later netizens discovered that the only movie Carina Lau filmed in the Netherlands was "The Dragon and Tiger Club", produced by Fuyi Film, and the boss was Cai Ziming, starring Andy Lau, Carina Lau, and ,000 Ziliang .
What's strange is that in this movie, the male and female protagonists Andy Lau and Carina Lau died in less than five minutes.
Before Christmas this year, the movie " Ah Fei's True Story " was released in Hong Kong.
This movie brings together six superstars of Leslie Cheung , Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau, and Jacky Cheung , which made Leslie Cheung win the Academy Award and made Carina Lau truly enlightened in acting.
"The Legend of Ah Fei" The luxurious lineup of six stars
Carina Lau plays Ah Fei's girlfriend dancer Lulu, who is lively and has a clear love and hate. She was awarded the Best Actress Award at the Nantes Film Festival in France in one fell swoop and was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards.
The only thing that "The Legend of Ah Fei" is so popular among the jury. The Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards both received 9 major awards. In the same awards, all important awards are rarely awarded to the same movie. No matter how exciting Lulu's performance is, it is not as good as Wong Kar-wai's director, Leslie Cheung's Ah Fei, and Zhang Shuping's 's beautiful fingers.
Carina Lau's movie "The Legend of Ah Fei" stills
In the end, Carina Lau lost to Cheng Yuling in the Academy Awards "Cousin, You Good Things", and lost to Maggie Cheung in the Golden Horse Awards, passing by the two best actress champions.
In 1992, Carina Lau was nominated for the Academy Awards for the movie "Chicken and Duck Love". She was nominated for the Academy Awards for three consecutive years, making her a first-tier Hong Kong actress. Her salary in the 1990s was as high as 800,000 to 1 million.
She is finally no longer considered a vase with no acting skills, and slowly distances herself from the actresses who debuted at the same time.
is just Rosamund Kwan, Karen Reis , Li Zhi is too amazing, Maggie Cheung's acting skills are getting more and more exquisite, Michelle Yeoh's image of beating women is deeply rooted in people's hearts, Carina Lau's representative roles in several movies are either mistresses or prostitutes, and gossip media still loves to hype her scandals.
Stills of Carina Lau and Li Zhi's movie "Four Thousand Golds"
Stills of the movie "Group of Warblers Dance"
Stills of the movie "Ruan Lingyu"
Mainland girl Carina Lau, with a strong surface and a secretly inferiority.
06th century stout girl, breaking her cocoon into a butterfly
In 2000, director Wong Kar-wai summoned Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung to shoot " Years in Love ".
not only won the French Cannes , Caesar, Academy Awards, and Golden Horse Awards, but was later selected as the first place in "Best Asian Film" by CNN in the United States, and the British "Guardian" ranked 5th in "100 Best Pictures of the 21st Century".
Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung's deep love and demeanor in and out of the play all make people with discerning eyes feel that it is clearly love.
Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung
In order to calm the scandal, at the Cannes Film Festival, Tony Leung held his girlfriend Carina Lau with one hand and held Maggie Cheung tightly with the other, but because of her fingers connected with Maggie Cheung, it was even more speculative. The tacit understanding between
and Maggie Cheung in the emotional drama of his opponents was undoubtedly deeply attracted Tony Leung.
With her girlfriend Carina Lau, who has lived together for 12 years, is more of a habit and responsibility. No matter how nervous a woman is, she can smell an abnormality.
2000 Carina Lau, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung attended the Cannes Film Festival
and even on the night of the 20th Academy Awards ceremony on April 29, 2001, Tony Leung and Carina Lau got drunk after a dispute. He was helped by the award presenter Leung Kar-rong on stage and said the shortest award speech for the winner of the actress: "Thank you Wong Kar-wai, thank you!"
When the actress's queen was revealed, he received the award on behalf of Maggie Cheung who had not arrived at the scene and said: "Maggie Cheung said thank you, thank you!"
This emotional entanglement that others seemed to be watching flowers in the fog came to an abrupt end because of a photo.
In October 2002, Hong Kong's " East Weekly Magazine " published a half-naked photo of Carina Lau with a terrified expression on the cover, mentioning the old past of a certain actress being kidnapped and photographed nude photos, which aroused public anger.
Carina Lau hid at home, she cried, almost never ate or drink, never sleeping, and had no courage to meet people.
Tony Leung has a film appointment and has to go out to film, so when he calls friends everywhere to accompany Carina Lau, worried about something unexpected happening to her.
On November 3, under the organization of Anita Mui, Eric Tsang, and Jackie Chan, more than 500 people took to the streets to march. Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, Michelle Yeoh and other big-name stars were all present and launched a "Heaven and Earth Not tolerate" symposium.
2002 Hong Kong "Heaven and Earth Can't Be forbidden" symposium
Carina Lau also stood bravely at the scene, bowed deeply to everyone, and said:
"I am stronger than you think."
When she mustered up the courage to stand up, she gained strength in an instant, and the inferiority complex buried in her heart for many years also disappeared.
Because she deeply feels the tolerance, support and love of Hong Kong people for her.
Friend Ng Junru praised her:
"She is really a stubborn woman in the century and has always dared to act."
After that, Liu Jialing broke out of her cocoon and became a butterfly, becoming a female idol who is not afraid of power and bravely faces difficulties in life.
07 Do whatever you want and bloom gorgeously
At the critical moment, Tony Leung stood by her gentle and firmly, becoming a mountain that she could rely on, and also laid the foundation for their kindness to join hands for a lifetime.
2006, the 66-year-old father Liu Guiming suddenly died of a heart attack, which made Carina Lau feel that life is impermanent. She hopes to have a home and a lifelong companion.
At the end of this year, Taiwan’s richest man, Terry Gou, was interested in investing in the film industry. He was recommended by singer Zhang Qingfang, and met Carina Lau and Tony Leung.
At the invitation of Carina Lau, Terry Gou attended the charity fundraising dinner of his friend Faye Wong's "Yanran Angel Foundation" and took the antique jade bowl donated by Tony Leung for 5 million yuan. The generous Carina Lau took the initiative to hold hands as the host to show goodwill, so the two had a scandal.
Carina Lau and Terry Gou held hands for charity dinner
Two months after that, Carina Lau and Terry Gou were on a private plane together on a business trip in Hainan. They were even photographed by the media. When Carina Lau was taking Terry Gou’s car, he put his hand on her lap...
Terry Gou publicly expressed his love, "I am serious about Carina Lau", but it was just that the flowing water intentionally fell ruthlessly.
Tony Leung publicly stated: "I absolutely trust Carina."
Carina Lau cleverly rejected Terry Gou with a gentle sentence "I am not worthy of you" and chose to stay with Tony Leung forever.
htmlFor more than 0 years, following the advice of teacher Liu Fanggang of the artist training class, Carina Lau has been investing in property investment and holding property worth hundreds of millions of yuan. She is no longer the little girl who was eager to marry into a wealthy family back then.
The true freedom is to do whatever you want without breaking the rules, and no longer violate your own heart by weighing your interests.
In 2008, Carina Lau and Tony Leung married romantically in Bhutan.
Wang Kar-wai served as the chief wedding planner, Zhang Shuping served as the art design, Brigitte Lin , Faye Wong, Tsui Hark , Shi Nansheng , Hu Jun , Zhong Zhentao , Ye Tong and other friends were invited to attend the wedding. The King of Bhutan personally came to congratulate him, and Guo Taiming presented a gift of 500,000 yuan.
Carina Lau and Tony Leung’s wedding photos
They donated all the wedding gifts to charity, leaving only beautiful memories that will be unforgettable for life.
The most touching thing is not how luxurious the wedding scene is, but the long-lasting affection and touching feeling that the lovers finally got married for nearly 20 years.
Not only is the love blossoming and fruiting, Carina Lau also won the Golden Rooster Best Actress for " Curiosity Killing Cat ". She finally took the Golden Rooster Best Actress who had passed by five times in her arms for "Die Renjie: The Empire of Heaven". She laughed happily.
Carina Lau won the Academy Award for Best Actress
2012 Miss China Global Competition Finals, Carina Lau was invited to serve as a judge, Dou Wentao jokingly said on the spot:
"All women want to have your beauty, your wisdom, and your husband."
Tony Leung's responsibility, Carina Lau's independence, mutual understanding and tolerance have made their love.
In 2017, Carina Lau and Tony Leung were invited to become members of the Oscar judges together.
In 2020, 55-year-old Carina Lau appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage and sang "Common Home" with Chen Kun, wearing a dark red printed sequin tassel skirt, as brilliant as flowers and blooming gorgeously.
The mainland girl who was ridiculed by Hong Kong people back then has no more youth, but she is shining day by day, and she lives a domineering queen style.
People who like her, those who love her frankness, cheerfulness, tenacity, and those who hate her, they dislike her, and they think she is worldly and full of fireworks.
Whether you love her or not, she has lived a legend.
The song "I" by Leslie Cheung who has partnered with Carina Lau to play a couple has coincided with her:
"Don't dodge, live for the life I like,
without ink, just stand in the corner of light,
I am me, fireworks of different colors,
The sky is wide, you must be the strongest bubble,
I like me, let the roses bloom a result,
In the lonely desert, it is also blooming naked."
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