Chinese actress Gong Li is featuring on September 2010 issue of Chinese L’Official Magazine.
Gong Li’s manager Christophe Tseng confirmed to the Southern Metropolis Entertainment Weekly that the actress has recently divorced.
Gong Li married Singaporean Ooi Hoe Seong in 1996. They have rarely been seen together in public.
In 2008, China-born Gong Li became a Singaporean citizen, triggering many Chinese Internet users to call her a “traitor”. She responded that she changed her citizenship because of her family, and when asked if the term “family” referred to her husband and in-laws, the actress nodded.
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.
Movie Curse of The Golden Flower premiere in Taipei on December 19. The main cast of Chow Yun Fat, Gong Li and Jay Chou attended the event.
