People's Artist Kim Cuong: Don't worry, everyone here, as long as I'm healthy, I will visit you often.

Reuniting with her second sister Kim Cuong, artist Huynh Thanh Tra relived happy memories of her singing days - Photo: LINH DOAN

And indeed, with a reputation like Kim Cuong, wherever she went, artists would hold her close, hug her lovingly and call out: Sister Hai, Sister Hai!

But the room she sat in the longest was with artist Huynh Thanh Tra.

I can't express my gratitude to Ms. Kim Cuong!

The reason she "favored" Huynh Thanh Tra's room for a long time was because he was a handsome actor of Cai Luong and drama. He used to play the main role with "Ky Nu Kim Cuong" in many good plays at the once famous Kim Cuong Drama Troupe.

Kim Cuong laughed and said: "This guy has played the main role with me many times, for decades. Lady of the Camellias, Thunderstorm ...

Back then, I had Van Hung as my co-star, but Hung left too early. There were also Bao Anh, Huynh Thanh Tra, Thuong Tin. I alone could handle all those actors" - Kim Cuong laughed loudly remembering old memories.

Then she added that Huynh Thanh Tra was famous for the movie Loan Mat Nhung . She looked at his face and asked: "Do your eyes still have velvet?"

Among the artists entering Thi Nghe Nursing Home, Huynh Thanh Tra seems to be a man of few words, but when he met Kim Cuong, was teased by her and told her old memories, he became excited.

She joked and said she would write a script in which she and Huynh Thanh Tra… would act in wheelchairs.

Huynh Thanh Tra immediately responded: "What you said is not right. If you are still healthy and can still walk, then write only for me to use a wheelchair!".

Kim Cuong pouted: "You're kidding me. You're sitting there and asking me to push you!"

Artist Kim Cuong spoke very humorously, so artists Huynh Thanh Tra and Trinh Kim Chi just sat there and laughed... until their mouths ached! - Photo: LINH DOAN

After a few moments of comfortable chatting, Kim Cuong asked Huynh Thanh Tra if she liked the clean and spacious atmosphere here.

She confided: "For artists to be able to enter the center, it is the sweat and effort of many people, the Committee, the City Department of Culture and Sports, the City Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, the City Theater Association, it is very hard, running around taking care of all the procedures so that everyone can return to a peaceful place like this. I just run around helping out!"

Huynh Thanh Tra emotionally said he knew everything, and he thanked the State and fellow artists for joining hands to take care of him and other artists.

To artist Kim Cuong, he said: "As for you, we artists will never be able to thank you enough!"

Don't worry, everyone here, I'll visit you often while I'm still healthy!

Not only Huynh Thanh Tra, Kim Cuong also walked around the artists' rooms in the "new house". She "caressed" artist Ngoc Dang, then looked around this room and that room.

She has equipped each room with a new TV for the artists. When I visited today, she looked at it and said: "Let me go back and buy each room a hot and cold water machine."

Artist Dieu Hien (right cover) said: When Sister Hai gives orders, we obey! - Photo: LINH DOAN

Being pampered by her, some artists even… asked for more. Some asked for a table and a chair, while others, like artist Dieu Hien, whispered: "Sister, please give us a hot and cold water dispenser!"

In Dieu Hien's room, she "naggingly" said: "Do you feel good coming here? Why did you not come over after being so mean to me before?"

Artist Dieu Hien smiled and said that she had been used to living there for a long time. "But if my second sister gives an order, I will obey" - Dieu Hien humorously said.

Then she suddenly felt sad remembering artists Thien Kim and Le Tham who had passed away early and could not enjoy such happy conditions.

Kim Cuong met the doctor at Thi Nghe Nursing Center and "took the opportunity" to confide in him. She whispered that the artist had an erratic temperament, and said so in advance, not afraid that the doctor would be... shocked! - Photo: LINH DOAN

Artist Kim Cuong was one of the people who left Thi Nghe Nursing Center late compared to the guests attending the artists' reception ceremony on the morning of February 27.

Seeing her happy with the joy of the artists' "new home", paying attention to this and that, giving instructions on many things, one can see that society and people in the industry love and trust her for a reason.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/nsnd-kim-cuong-may-dua-o-day-yen-tam-chi-con-khoe-se-ghe-tham-hoai-20240227164717376.htm