People's Artist Kim Cuong: Everyone here can rest assured, as long as I'm healthy, I will visit often.

Reuniting with her older 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, hug her, and lovingly call her: Sister, Sister!

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

Thank you Kim Cuong, I can't express it all!

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 "Kim Cuong the Great" 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, my co-star was Van Hung, 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: "Are your eyes still velvet?"

Among the artists entering Thi Nghe Nursing Center, Huynh Thanh Tra seems to be a man of few words, but when he met Kim Cuong, was teased by her and told 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 so I can only use a wheelchair!".

Kim Cuong pouted: "You're kidding me. You sit there and then make me 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 the 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. As for me, 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 had furnished 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 dispenser."

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

Because she loved them, some artists even asked for more. Some asked for a table and a chair, while 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 she was used to living there. "But if my second sister gives an order, I will obey" - Dieu Hien said humorously.

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 so as not to shock the doctor! - Photo: LINH DOAN

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

Seeing her happy with the joy of the artists' "new home", taking care of 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