The pace of competition in the Chinese entertainment industry is inherently extremely fierce, actresses of the same generation from 1985-1989 always maintain a dense working frequency.
Duong Mich is filming a new movie after the success of "Sinh Van Vat". Duong Yen has spent most of her time on film sets for many years, with a tight filming schedule. Luu Thi Thi also continuously receives new historical films to maintain coverage.
Trieu Le Dinh is one of the rare cases. Since the movie "Tieu Thanh Dai Su" wrapped up in May 2025, for a year now, she has not had any announcements about joining the new film crew.
In that year, Zhao Liying did not accept commercial films, the number of public appearances also decreased sharply, and the studio mainly reposted old materials to maintain account operations.
At the beginning of May, Ta Na held a personal concert, nearly half of the artists came to support. Only Trieu Le Dinh - who was close to Ta Na - did not appear, instead she asked staff to send a bouquet of flowers to congratulate her.
Also in this month, Trieu Le Dinh celebrated her 20th anniversary of debut. Fans organized cheering activities themselves, but the actress herself remained silent, without any public celebration moves.
A top female star suddenly slowed down, stopping acting completely, which has led to countless speculations.
People in the industry believe that resource competition in the acting industry is very fierce; if artists do not join the film crew for too long, they will easily be forgotten by the market, and later it will be difficult to receive quality scripts.
In an environment where everyone risks their lives filming and taking advantage of fame, Zhao Liying's resolute move to stop working makes many people confused.
Amidst this situation, director Zhang Yimou's previous comments about Zhao Liying have been noticed.
In January 2024, during the promotion of the movie "Article 20", Zhang Yimou publicly commented on Zhao Liying many times. Looking back at the present, those words completely correspond to her choice today.
When filming "Article 20", Zhao Liying once proactively proposed to revise the script. Initially, the script wrote a normal mother, and her daughter was hearing impaired. But based on the logic of life, she proposed to revise it into a mother who is also deaf and mute.
This change makes the tragic color of the character more pronounced, and family conflicts more profound. Zhang Yimou immediately accepted that proposal.
Throughout the filming process, to play the role of a deaf and mute mother, Zhao Liying intentionally kept silent almost all the time, even when resting, she was very quiet, completely immersed in the character's state.
Zhang Yimou once thought that Zhao Liying was inherently introverted and taciturn, but later realized that it was the self-discipline of an actress to integrate into the role.
The famous director praised: "She broke her own limits, which surprised me so much.
This saying clearly shows the difference between Trieu Le Dinh and many other idol stars. She does not chase short-term hotness, but always puts the quality of the role first.
In the past, every time she acted in a movie, Trieu Le Dinh continuously polished the script, studied the character details, and absolutely did not work superficially to get it done.
Zhao Liying once made it clear that after "Tiểu thành đại sự" wrapped up, she plans to temporarily stop acting to slow down. She does not want to "act in movies just to have movies", nor does she want to blindly accept similar mass production scripts.
