She never made it here in hollywood ?

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She got rush hour and memoirs of geisha.... Asians didn't get main roles in hollywood, so that's pretty good back in the day for her. Probably also language barrier... I also the making of her in rush hour 2 and they had to do so many takes with her

opportunities for Asians aren't the same as it is for white actors and british black actors. Based on the roles she was getting in Hollywood, they had no intention of making her successful.

Brilliant way to put it. Long as she's happy with her choices

Well, she even tried as far as hooking up with an older Israeli jew media mogul but you know how that goes. In the end it's just another piece of....uhm, old towel.

She is so big in the Chinese audience market she don't need Hollywood. Even Michelle Yeoh(is she Hollywood) is willing to be her supporting actress, will she need more ?

I don't think with the case of Ziyi Zhang that it's a case of not making it but rather she didn't want Hollywood like most actresses would do. It's only recently with her been announced for the two upcoming Godzilla films (I'm sure it helps that both films will do big business in China) and that recent Cloverfield Paradox film that she's at that point in her career that she's probably willing to be more open to working in Hollywood films. She said it in the past it never interested her too much, she reminds me a bit of Juliette Binoche a bit in that case. Did a big Oscar winner (English Patient) unlike Zhang, she won a Oscar for it. But she never went full time into Hollywood or art house English films, she did the odd film role, Chocolat, Dan in the Real Life, Ghost in the Shell, Breaking and Entering and a few others. Her main work is in French cinema, and her greatest work at that.


With Zhang's career, I still think from 1999 to 2006, she was probably one of the best actresses in the world. Films like Hero, 2046, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Warrior, the Road home and Memoirs of a Geisha. Not a bad run of films is it. Her work after that have been more romantic comedies, with the odd move into American cinema (Horsemen) with the odd great film thrown in (The grandmaster) of course this is my opinion.

For an Asian actor she had a pretty good career, on par with Ken Watanabe and better than Lee Byung Hyun for example.

Also she has really really thick accent.