陈红,导演陈凯歌的妻子,电影《梅兰芳》的监制兼女主角之一(饰演梅氏二夫人福芝芳),在一次访问中引述梅氏家人对选角的看法:“梅兰芳作为旦角之王,他在台上那是比女人还女人,可是在舞台下绝对不是一个阴柔的人,不是同性恋,他是个堂堂正正有男子气概的男人,所以张国荣在世他们也不会同意让他来演。” Chen Hong, the wife of director Chen Kaige, one of the producers and actresses of the film “Mei Lanfang” (as Mrs. Fu’s second wife Fu Zhifang) cites the view of Mei’s family on the casting angle in an interview: “Mei Lan Fang as the king of the horns, he was on the stage than the woman also a woman, but in the stage is definitely not a feminine, not homosexual, he is a masculine manly man, so Leslie alive they will not agree to let him To play. ”