KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 \u2014 Hong Kong screen icon Maggie Cheung has settled into a slower, more private lifestyle in France after stepping away from acting in 2004.<\/p>\n
According to The Star, the 61-year-old actress now lives in Bordeaux, where she leads a modest countryside routine and occasionally shares moments from her daily life on Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu.<\/p>\n
In her latest video post, Cheung showed herself preparing homemade jam using freshly picked figs, while reflecting on her preference for a simpler way of living away from the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n
She said she has been using her time to do things she did not previously have space for while working in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
In the clip, she appeared without makeup and dressed casually in a button-up shirt and black trousers, giving viewers a glimpse of her kitchen as she cooked.<\/p>\n
Fans responded warmly to the update, with many praising her lifestyle and describing it as an ideal form of retirement.<\/p>\n
Cheung remains one of Hong Kong cinema\u2019s most recognisable figures, with acclaimed roles in films such as In the Mood for Love, Hero and the Police Story series.<\/p>\n
At the peak of her career in 2004, she announced her retirement from acting, saying she felt fulfilled in the profession.<\/p>\n
She joined Xiaohongshu last year and has since built a large following, regularly sharing updates from her rural life, including gardening, fruit picking and farm activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 \u2014 Hong Kong screen icon Maggie Cheung has settled into a slower, more private…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[58955,321,93,204131,61,204132,60,3292,204129,204130],"class_list":["post-472998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bordeaux","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hong-kong-cinema","tag-ie","tag-in-the-mood-for-love","tag-ireland","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-maggie-cheung","tag-xiaohongshu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}