People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

In 2010 Gong Li starred in the World War Two-era thriller Shanghai about an American man Paul Soames (played by John Cusack) who returns to a corrupt Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. It appears on the "Scar Tissue" single. Gong grew up in Jinan the capital of Shandong.

Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping to bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States. Gong Li (born 31 December 1965) is a Chinese actress. She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera Cannes Festival Trophy National Board of Review New York Film Critics Circle Award and Volpi Cup.