Chinese actress Gong Li is getting popular in Hollywood recently. Since the success of Memoirs of a Geisha in 2005, Gong Li also starred in Miami Vice in 2006, and Hannibal Rising which is scheduled to release in the next couple of months.
Her good friend and international acclaimed director Zhang Yimou has different thoughts on her success, saying that Gong Li should not spend too much time in Hollywood because the roles could not fulfill her potential.
Zhang claimed that there are not much good roles for Asian artists in Hollywood, and most of the opportunities are in commercial movies that lack artistic value.
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