Joan Chen: Once a sexy vixen in Hollywood, now seen as a dragon woman
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Interview and press conference with actress Joan Chen at Mandarin Oriental on Jan 23, 2013, for her role in the Singapore-based HBO TV series Serangoon Road. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
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Actress Joan Chen speaks at a press conference for Serangoon Road, HBO Asia's first original co-production with Australia's ABC TV, on Jan 23, 2013, in Singapore. -- PHOTO: AP
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Interview and press conference with actress Joan Chen at Mandarin Oriental on Jan 23, 2013, for her role in the Singapore-based HBO TV series Serangoon Road. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
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Interview and press conference with actress Joan Chen at Mandarin Oriental on Jan 23, 2013, for her role in the Singapore-based HBO TV series Serangoon Road. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
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Actress Joan Chen speaks at a press conference for Serangoon Road, HBO Asia's first original co-production with Australia's ABC TV, on Jan 23, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
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Interview and press conference with actress Joan Chen at Mandarin Oriental on Jan 23, 2013, for her role in the Singapore-based HBO TV series Serangoon Road. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
Interview and press conference with actress Joan Chen at Mandarin Oriental on Jan 23, 2013, for her role in the Singapore-based HBO TV series Serangoon Road. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
Actress Joan Chen speaks at a press conference for Serangoon Road, HBO Asia's first original co-production with Australia's ABC TV, on Jan 23, 2013, in Singapore. -- PHOTO: AP
Interview and press conference with actress Joan Chen at Mandarin Oriental on Jan 23, 2013, for her role in the Singapore-based HBO TV series Serangoon Road. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
Interview and press conference with actress Joan Chen at Mandarin Oriental on Jan 23, 2013, for her role in the Singapore-based HBO TV series Serangoon Road. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
Actress Joan Chen speaks at a press conference for Serangoon Road, HBO Asia's first original co-production with Australia's ABC TV, on Jan 23, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
Interview and press conference with actress Joan Chen at Mandarin Oriental on Jan 23, 2013, for her role in the Singapore-based HBO TV series Serangoon Road. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
Actress Joan Chen says she has gone from sexy vixen to dragon woman, in the eyes of Hollywood film-makers.
"When I was younger and more beautiful," she says, laughing, "I was the sexy vixen, the object of desire. Then I got older and I was the dragon woman. Evil. They don't want you as a human - they want you as a spice, a colour, an exotic element."
Chen, a China-born actress who broke out internationally in the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor (1987) as Empress Wanrong, is now 51.
