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The real Ziyi?
In person, the actress is unlike the feisty characters she plays and coos and acts like your gal pal
By foong woei wan
Zhang, whose latest movie is Sophie's Revenge (left), gets close to a camel in Oman and finds time to shop for gifts for her family. -- PHOTOS: SHANGRI-LA HOTELS AND RESORTS, ALAN LIM
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ZHANG Ziyi prances to this interview - sucking on a lollipop. 'It gives me energy,' coos the Chinese actress, before a photo call beckons and she hands the sweet to celebrity coiffeur David Gan, a member of her small entourage for the day.
She is a picture of girlish ordinariness - if you can ignore the enormous diamond engagement ring on her slender hand, from her fiance Vivi Nevo (below), the Israel-born, New York-based investor - chit-chatting about how much she likes local food and toying with her anklet.
Zhang, 30, is here on a two-day trip as the brand ambassador for Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, to appear in an in-house video on the group's heritage. The programme is being made with, and for, the staff.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times
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On motherhood
'I HAVE yearned for it since childhood. I have yearned for it countless years. I think a lot of things happen naturally. They happen when they should. It's all destined by heaven. It can't be planned'
Zhang Ziyi on motherhood
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On the paparazzi
'AIYA, I have never cared about that. You have to have your own life even if you are a princess. We're all ordinary people. We're nothing special. We're out in the open and we can't guard against hidden enemies. I won't change my life because of someone or something. That has no value'
On the paparazzi's invasion of her privacy
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The real Ziyi?
In person, the actress is unlike the feisty characters she plays and coos and acts like your gal pal
By foong woei wan
Zhang, whose latest movie is Sophie's Revenge (left), gets close to a camel in Oman and finds time to shop for gifts for her family. -- PHOTOS: SHANGRI-LA HOTELS AND RESORTS, ALAN LIM
View more photos
ZHANG Ziyi prances to this interview - sucking on a lollipop. 'It gives me energy,' coos the Chinese actress, before a photo call beckons and she hands the sweet to celebrity coiffeur David Gan, a member of her small entourage for the day.
She is a picture of girlish ordinariness - if you can ignore the enormous diamond engagement ring on her slender hand, from her fiance Vivi Nevo (below), the Israel-born, New York-based investor - chit-chatting about how much she likes local food and toying with her anklet.
Zhang, 30, is here on a two-day trip as the brand ambassador for Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, to appear in an in-house video on the group's heritage. The programme is being made with, and for, the staff.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times
[email protected]
On motherhood
'I HAVE yearned for it since childhood. I have yearned for it countless years. I think a lot of things happen naturally. They happen when they should. It's all destined by heaven. It can't be planned'
Zhang Ziyi on motherhood
... more
On the paparazzi
'AIYA, I have never cared about that. You have to have your own life even if you are a princess. We're all ordinary people. We're nothing special. We're out in the open and we can't guard against hidden enemies. I won't change my life because of someone or something. That has no value'
On the paparazzi's invasion of her privacy
... more
She is an auntie like Zoey Tay 
