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Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now

Time has not been kind to the former acting legend.

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now — Still, the show was a massive hit and Alex, already a critically-lauded actor (he was named Best Actor at the Golden Horse Awards in 1988), became an even bigger star — at least in this part of the world.Well, that was in the mid-90s. Since then, Alex, whose peers include Chow Yun Fat and Simon Yam, has all but disappeared from showbiz. And in 2016, he announced his official retirement from acting. His reason? “I have diabetes, he said then. Although I regularly exercise, doing a movie requires a lot of physical effort. I’m not sure if I’m able to continue to work like that anymore.

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now — But this recent photo of the now 61-year-old Alex has made its way onto the Internet and people are shook, to say the least. With his mop of white hair and portly physique, Alex looks like a shadow of his former self. While those close to the former actor say that he's still very much the jolly and worldly-wise Big Brother of Hongkong cinema, entertainment site Sina revealed that Alex had earlier said that he “doesn’t have much time left” and that he “might leave [this world] any time”.

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now — A photo of Alex from the 8 DAYS archive. We snapped this photo of Alex during The Golden's Pillow's location shoot in Paris.

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now — Alex starred opposite Chow Yun Fat in the 1987 movie Rich and Famous.

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now — It's said that Alex was the one who inspired and encouraged Stephen Chow to get into the movie business, effectively changing Hongkong's film industry. The actors were so close that Stephen was Alex's best man when he married Taiwanese actress Tien Niu.

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now — Before his unfortunate Golden Pillow bowl cut, Alex's slicked back hairstyle made him one of the coolest cats in Asian cinema.

Remember The Golden Pillow’s Alex Man? This Is What He Looks Like Now — Like every other actor from Hongkong in the '80s, Alex starred in a number of mafia movies and excelled in playing triad bosses.

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Jonathan Fam

Till this day, one of local showbiz’s greatest mysteries is how Hongkong actor Alex Man managed to get Zoe Tay and Fann Wong to fall in love with him in the 1995 blockbuster The Golden Pillow. We could never fathom the attraction. He was a tubby middle-aged dude with a bowl cut while they, well, they’re Zoe and Fann.

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