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‘Dìdi’ Star Joan Chen On Embracing Vulnerability Through Acting And Motherhood: “This Was A Part Of My Own Life Now Finding Its Expression”
Joan Chen talks to Deadline about her legendary career, her role in Dìdi and acting in both China and the U.S.
It was so cathartic to play Chungsing in this film and redemptive in a way because I think it gave me another chance almost to be a better mother, to do it better this time with my own younger daughter on set watching me, and I felt like, “OK, Audrey. Do you ever sit down and reflect on making that film and think about how relevant the themes of body autonomy and treating women as second-class citizens still resonate today nearly three decades later? An entire generation for ten years were being sent down [ writer’s note: Chinese youths were coerced to leave their hometowns to work in rural areas for labor].
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