Meritorious Artist Minh Vuong reveals the reason for his 'disappearance' from movies

When asked about his personal life, Minh Vuong always smiles, the smile of someone who understands the happiness of an artist's life. It is the feeling of always being busy with films, plays and the work of teaching the next generations.

Meritorious Artist Minh Vuong always understands the true happiness of an artist.

Talking about his unexpected return through the movie “Nang dau order”, the 61-year-old artist smiled and shared: “I used to spend a lot of time teaching so I refused many invitations to act in movies. Maybe that was the source of the rumor that Minh Vuong was sick and ill, which is why he disappeared for so long. Actually, I still go to school every day and participate in plays regularly. I have been living with diabetes for more than ten years now. I get injections, take medicine and live a moderate life so I am fine. If you forced me to stop working, I would probably get sicker. I just keep acting and I am fine.”

In “Nang dau order”, Minh Vuong plays the role of a grandmother in the @ era - an elderly woman from Hanoi, elegant, polite, kind but also very meticulous and “nitpicky”. This role also marks the first time Meritorious Artist Minh Vuong plays a serious character on screen. In fact, she is a stage artist, with formal and systematic training, so she has participated in many types of dramatic and tragic roles at the Hanoi Drama Theater.

Later, when participating in some TV series and many comedy skits in the programs Meet at the Weekend and Meet at the End of the Year, artist Minh Vuong's name became closer to a wider audience.

The role of Mrs. Le is a meticulous old woman, but not harsh, not evil, but always loving to her children and grandchildren. She happily shared that director Do Thanh Hai himself called to ask her to participate in this role. Some people were also surprised because Minh Vuong agreed to change her image in the film, from a comedic, exaggerated, satirical role to a serious, upright role.

Artist Minh Vuong is very pleased with this new image: "The audience will see more or less their grandmother, their mother in the character of Mrs. Le. The grandmother's strictness is with the desire to have her children in order. I want the character of Mrs. Le to be both kind, witty, and cute, the more you watch, the more you love her." That is also Minh Vuong's outlook on life in real life.

She believes that in every family, if there are no strict grandparents or parents who let their children and grandchildren follow a free and unrestrained lifestyle, the family will be very chaotic and disorderly. In the life of Eastern people, family traditions and rules are extremely important.

Minh Vuong is very satisfied with his role in the movie "Nang dau order".

“When I went to film, everyone in the crew always took care of me and asked about me. Knowing that my legs hurt, after each scene there was always a chair ready for me to sit on to rest,” she happily shared. That atmosphere also brought her excitement, making Minh Vuong forget her fatigue. After a day of filming, returning home, she was startled because she felt the filming time was too short. Artist Minh Vuong said: “I regularly wake up at 4am every day, get an injection, have breakfast and then happily go to the filming set. The awareness of going to film every day makes me very happy. After the movie Nang Dau Order, I hope VFC invites me to make more films, because I feel better when I go to film.”

Minh Vuong feels better after filming.

Meritorious Artist Minh Vuong said that what she cares about in her acting career is to have the audience love her, not for medals or achievements. Therefore, as an artist who has devoted almost her entire life to roles on stage as well as on the small screen, but up to now, Meritorious Artist Minh Vuong still only modestly calls herself an artist. Seeing that young artists have reached the title of People's Artist but she has not, her friends urged Minh Vuong to apply, but she firmly refused. She said that her main job now is to teach at some places that train actors.

Minh Vuong has 11 years of teaching experience at the Department of Theater, Hanoi College of Art, with two difficult subjects: performance techniques and voice techniques.

Despite her meager salary, she has consistently spent time teaching young actors for many years. In addition, she teaches life skills and expressive language at a kindergarten every week.

For comedian Minh Vuong, money, titles, and honors are not important, but what is important is that she can do and contribute to art. That motto has followed her throughout her long journey and continues to be what helps her to be confident and inspire her students.