Thuy Cuc: Her husband died early, traded bottles, sold ginseng juice to raise children, "changed her life" by being the "mother" of a star

If I had to mention a person who specializes in handling mother roles on the small screen, viewers would immediately remember Thuy Cuc - an actress with a bright face and luxurious demeanor. But when I asked, I found out that she was just an amateur in the profession.

In the movie, Thuy Cuc used to be the mother of countless "stars", and in real life she only had one son. The incarnations of Thuy Cuc in the movie and Thuy Cuc's mother in real life all have in common: suffering and working hard for their children. But perhaps not only you, most mothers in this world are like that!

One year, two big shocks

Thuy Cuc got married very early, just left school for a year, she got married. At the age of 19, while her friends were still busy with university studies, she was busy with many unnamed jobs: markets, rice, taking care of children, taking care of her husband. The Saigon girl was the sister at that time who lived peacefully as a housewife in the house, without the slightest thought or worry about going out to find a job or caring or asking questions about her business. husband. But after 12 years of marriage, her husband suddenly died in a traffic accident.

Not long ago, she also suffered the pain of her mother's death due to illness. Two shocks of losing a loved one in a row within a year made her completely collapse. Anyone who has ever stayed up at night will surely understand her "five-watch-and-full-night" mood at that time: lying in the dark, counting every tick of the clock, confused as to what tomorrow will bring. "To this day, I still blame myself why when I was young, I didn't worry about finding a job, but I naively depended on my husband, so that when he died, I was helpless and didn't know what to do to raise my children. Trade in bottles, sell ginseng juice, too. As long as you have a job to support yourself, you definitely don't depend on your husband," Thuy Cuc concluded.

Fortunately, thanks to some experience in gold, silver and gems because her husband was a craftsman and jeweler, she found a sales position in a gold and silver shop. The salary of 2-3 million dong/month was only enough to support mother and daughter to live through the day. The older the child, the more expensive it is to spend at home, especially for children's education, so after selling for three years, she searched for other seasonal jobs. Seeing in the newspaper a few classified ads that needed people to act as illustrators for music video clips, voiceovers, she came. During a dubbing trip, she met the assistant director of director Truong Dung. Seeing her "eating pictures", this person introduced her to director Truong Dung and she was chosen to play a small role in the TV series The Way Back.

The role of Aunt Hanh - a woman selling water on the side of the road, wholeheartedly devoted to her husband and children - a character that is not unfamiliar to her, but she had to be scratched to complete it. Then after that, it was a series of days when an actor like me was scolded and yelled at by directors because what they said I didn't understand; was looked at with suspicion by her co-stars and studio staff, Thuy Cuc recalled. She had to work very hard to get through those days. And when she received a salary 3-4 times higher than her monthly sales salary, her heart was filled with joy, not only because the amount was too large, but also because this job opened a new way of livelihood for mother and daughter.

Then, in turn, other films came to her: Career, Happy Land... Up to now, she has been in the profession for more than 25 years. She said: "From supporting roles, I gradually received long-term supporting roles. At our age, whether we are stars or not, but when we leave the studio, we are all greeted by young actors. It's a great joy that makes us feel that we are still cared for."

The burden of a single mother's food and money has also lessened, but in return, the feeling of guilt towards her child has increased. Over the first 10 years of age, her children had to take care of their own meals, study, and travel, because their mother was still busy on set, sometimes going to far away provinces.

Unfortunately, she has a father for guidance, protection, orientation, and no mother beside her to take care of food and sleep like many other peers, yet her child is very good and does not suffer The bad guys lead to fall. "I'm proud that my child isn't spoiled, but I'm tormented because if only I had the conditions to care about and orient my child more in his studies, maybe now he's less difficult in life," she said. speak.

Love the bride more than the son

Thuy Cuc plays many mothers in the film, from biological mother to step mother, from tough to soft mother, from mother who loves her child in a way that shows it all out to a mother who loves her child but doesn't want to let her child know. ... So how is Thuy Cuc's mother in real life? People often think that mothers who are in the situation of one mother and one child will be very difficult to deal with the "second woman" of their son. But Thuy Cuc confided: "I love my daughter-in-law more than my son because looking at her is like seeing my image of being a bride in the past - Osin doesn't pay her husband and children in the house".

Thuy Cuc said, if she scores a housewife, she only gives her daughter-in-law 5/10 points, but she doesn't blame her for that. "In the past, I was also clumsy as a bride, because I only knew how to go to school, my parents would take care of me when I got home, and when I got married, how could I know how to cook well when I got married. Let alone the unlucky daughter-in-law. Orphaned at a young age, she was not taught by her mother. The responsibility to teach should have belonged to her mother-in-law, but filming took me all day, so I had shortcomings that I had to sympathize with. gentle, even being nagged by her mother-in-law, she kept quiet," she said. Asking her what she often nags at her daughter-in-law, she laughs: "I know it's a child or a minor illness, but every time I see my granddaughter have a cough, a runny nose, it makes me feel sick, so I turn to her mother and say, 'Why are you raising children? I'm so sick all the time," I feel sorry for myself.

In addition to the "nagging" related to her grandson, she said: in the family, I consider him as a friend, I respect so I do not interfere in his life. Her son is in-law because the girl's family is inherently anchored. Accepting her only son to live with her mother must have been a difficult decision, but she agreed because she understood that her career and erratic travel time would affect the lives of her relatives. For many years now, she has lived in a small apartment in District 7, whenever she has no schedule to return, she drives more than a dozen kilometers to the house of her son and daughter-in-law in Cho Lon to visit her grandson.

At the age of nearly 60, her joy is now her work, her smile, her grandson's innocent voice: "Currently, I pay much attention to maintaining my health, keeping a proper diet and calming my mind. If I don't have to go to the show early, every morning I get up at 5 a.m., exercise, then go to the market, cook to burn incense on the ancestral altar and the Buddha altar."

DV My Dung had a traffic accident when picking up her child, the stars called for help Keng17:58:23 01/03/2025Actor My Dung, 50 years old, is a familiar face to TV and theater audiences in Ho Chi Minh City. She has more than 35 years of professional artistic activities, having been attached to the Ho Chi Minh City Theater Troupe and the 5B Theater Stage.