Can Chinese actress Sandra Ma recapture past glory after string of underwhelming movies and TV shows?
- Since jointly winning best leading actress at 2016’s Golden Horse Awards, Sandra Ma Sichun has failed to match the achievements of co-winner Zhou Dongyu
- But that could change with two exciting upcoming films: Love After Love, directed by Ann Hui On-wah, and Wild Grass
In 2016, Chinese actresses Zhou Dongyu and Sandra Ma Sichun made history at the 53rd Taipei Golden Horse Awards by jointly winning best leading actress for their performances in Soul Mate, a film directed by Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung about a tight bond between two young women.
By clinching the prestigious award at a relatively young age, both Zhou, who was 24 at the time, and Ma, 28, had a promising future ahead of them.
In contrast, Ma has been involved in a series of lacklustre productions. Her works after her Golden Horse win include the TV series Oh My General (2017) and Age of Legends (2018), and movies Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018) and Nuts (2018). All failed to impress critics and audiences alike.
Her performance in Somewhere Winter (2019) was even panned by a film reviewer on China’s Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo as “embarrassing”. The reviewer also noted that the gap between Ma and Zhou’s quality of acting was widening.