It’s not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it’s not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

Being an actress in China, I’m actually a very lucky actress… Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples’ homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don’t talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.

I think it’s the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events – it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for...