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The 50 year-old actress attended...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eGONG LI TALKS LACK OF CHINESE FILMS IN CANNES, FEMALE ROLESHaving attended the Cannes Film Festival numerous times, Gong Li is no stranger to the short but intense red carpet stretch on the French Rivera. The 50 year-old actress attended the opening ceremony Wednesday (11 May 2016) wearing a Roberto Cavalli pink lace gown, with a sleeve design that pays homage to her heritage.  Speaking after the event, the \"Memoirs of a Geisha\" star explained that she worked in collaboration with the Italian designer to achieve her look:\"I'm Chinese, so I would like to have a little bit of Chinese element to (the dress),\" she said.\"(Cavalli) designed a beautiful sleeve that opened up like a fan. The sleeves are like a Chinese fan. I thought it looked great, so we went with that. It was appropriate, simple, and suitable etiquette for the red carpet,\" she added with a smile. Normally in attendance on film promotional duties, this time Gong Li is in Cannes as an ambassador for L'Oreal - alongside other A-listers including Julianne Moore, Cheryl Cole and Blake Lively. While she's happy to be back in Cannes, Gong admits that she couldn't help but to feel disappointed at the absence of Chinese films at the festival this year. Not a single Chinese film is showing in competition, out of competition, or selected for any other category in the festival.  She gave her opinion as to why she thinks this is:\"A lot of problems have arisen within the (film) industry. The box office, the numbers, real or fake, you don't really know, but of course this is about money. However, forging (box office results) is a terrible influence on culture and entertainment,\" she said. \"I think we need to, starting with the scripts, starting with guidance from journalists, starting with the filmmakers, we need to tell everyone that a movie is not merely for entertainment. It might leave you with something much deeper for your soul. It's not just for laughs, not just for jokes. It's more than that. Right now there's not a lot of people talking about that in China right now, and not a lot of guidance given. However, guidance is very important.\"Gong Li also mused on an issue currently prevalent in Hollywood, \"white-washing.\" A recent example of this was the casting of Tilda Swinton as a role in \"Doctor Strange\" – originally intended for a Tibetan male. Li said she didn't think that the issue was \"particularly important.\" She instead said she thought the Asian and US film markets hadn't \"meshed together.\" With close to three decades in the business, Gong has worked under the direction of Chinese director Zhang Yimou several times, in films like \"Ju Dou,\" \"Rise the Red Lantern\" and \"To Live\".  She achieved moderate success in Hollywood in the 2000s, appearing in \"Memoirs of a Geisha\" and \"Miami Vice\".  Gong Li also discussed the lack of strong female roles in Hollywood:\"I think generally speaking in Hollywood, US, or in European markets, (the films) are predominately based on male lead roles. There are a lot of male roles, but not a lot of female roles. There are a lot of great actresses in the US and there aren't enough roles for them. It's even hard for them to get a good female role, never mind a Chinese actress. How do you integrate that into the script? That's very hard. How do you mix a Chinese actor with a group of foreigners? It's not easy,\" she says.\"I've done \"Miami Vice\", \"Hannibal Rising\", \"Memoirs of a Geisha\".  Those are special circumstances. Take \"Miami Vice\" for example. The character wasn't Asian. The director changed it. The director said that he wanted to work together Gong Li, and I wanted to work with Michael Mann. So they changed the character to Asian. You can do that but sometimes it doesn't work out too well.\"Cannes, France, 11 May 20161. Wide shot of Gong Li, actress, walking on the opening red carpet of the 69th Cannes Film Festival2. Mid shot of Gong walking the red carpet3. Cut away shot of photographersCannes, France, 12 May 20164. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Gong Li, actress, on her red carpet look:\"When we were choosing the gown, we were working with designers from (Roberto) Cavalli. We talked about it, and I said 'if it's not an interference to your creativity, I'd like to add some Chinese or Asian element to the dress' because I'm Chinese, so I would like to have a little bit of a Chinese element to it, if it won't compromise the design of the silhouette. He designed a beautiful sleeve that opened up like a fan. The sleeves are like a Chinese fan. I thought it looked great, so we went with that. It was appropriate, simple, and suitable etiquette for the red carpet.\"Cannes, France, 11 May 20165. Pan up shot of Gong Li on the red carpet Cannes France, May 12th 20166. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Gong Li, actress, on the lack of Chinese film at this year's Cannes Film Festival:\"A lot of problems have arisen within the (film) industry. The box office, the numbers, real or fake, you don't really know, but of course this is about money. However, forging (box office results) has a terrible effect on culture and entertainment. I think we need to, starting with the scripts, starting with guidance from journalists, starting with the filmmakers, we need to tell everyone that movies are merely for entertainment. It might leave you with something much deeper for your soul. It's not just for laughs, not just for jokes. It's more than that. Right now there's not a lot of people talking about that in China right now, and not a lot of guidance given. However, guidance is very important.\"7. Wide shot of Gong sitting at an interview8. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin), Gong Li, actress, on Hollywood's \"whitewashing\"\"Actually, I don't think it's that particularly important. Maybe they think that casting a Chinese actor or an Asian actor is not that important for that market. So, it's not important if it's a Chinese actor or an Asian actor, you get cast a Mongolian actor for the role even. It's the problem of marketability. The important thing is that Asian culture has not meshed well with the US's film culture. It has not joined together. There are a lot of American A-listers who are making movies in China right now and have not done well. It's the same whether you cast a famous actor or not not-so famous one, Chinese people don't know who they are. So, (the two cultures) have not integrated together well and perhaps they (US studios) think, 'let's just cast a foreigner in this role'.\"9. Mid of Gong sitting at an interview 10. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Gong Li, actress, on the lack of good female roles in Hollywood:\"I think generally speaking in Hollywood, US, or in European markets, (the films) are predominately based on male lead roles. There are a lot of male roles, but not a lot of female roles. There are a lot of great actresses in the US and there aren't enough roles for them. It's even hard for them to get a good female role, never mind a Chinese actress. How do you integrate that into the script? That's very hard. How do you mix a Chinese actor with a group of foreigners? It's not easy.  I've done \"Miami Vice\", \"Hannibal Rising\", \"Memoirs of a Geisha\".  Those are special circumstances. Take \"Miami Vice\" for example. The character wasn't Asian. The director changed it. The director said that he wanted to work together Gong Li, and I wanted to work with Michael Mann. So they changed the character to Asian. You can do that but sometimes it doesn't work out too well.\"11. Mid shot of Gong 12. 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