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| Stephen Chow courtesy of on.cc |
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| "Women's Football" selected the top six, from left to right: Zhang Tianyi, Betty Yang, Bonnie Cai, Guan Liyun, Shana Xie and Yao Fang.
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Preparations for movie star Stephen Chow Sing Chi's new film WOMEN'S SOCCER (NUI JOK) are in full swing. He has always liked to cast popular mainland male stars. Following Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, and Deng Chao, reportedly top mainland star Wang Yibo has caught the new film's eyes and he is actively discussing cooperation! The film has announced an audition for the leading actress in Taiwan earlier, and the finalists were originally scheduled to be announced in June. However due to the large number of applicants, the choices could not be made in time. Thus the top six were not announced until yesterday. Among them, the "sweet version of Shu Qi" Zhang Tianyi was the most eye-catching.
"King of Comedy" Chow Sing Chi launched plans to start filming the female version of SHAOLIN SOCCER (SIU LUM JOOK KAU), WOMEN'S SOCCER (NUI JOOK) (tentative title) last year. Many artists such as Sisley Choi Si Bui, Rosita Kwok Pak Yin and former co-star Karen Mok Man Wai have publicly expressed their desire to participate. Reportedly Chow Sing Chi has been actively looking for male leads in recent months. Always preferring to use popular mainland actors to play the male lead in movies, he has chosen Wang Yibo, a top actor from the mainland this time. He collaborated with Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Zhou Xun in the movie HIDDEN BLADE last year, and his acting skills were highly praised. Wang Yibo celebrated his 27th birthday earlier. Fans from all walks of life have been overwhelmingly promoting for the idol, which fully confirmed his popularity. He recently released a new song, the theme song for the mainland version of RUNNING MAN, is also extremely popular and has been highly recommended by the show. It quickly received more than 2 million likes. With such a strong momentum, Chow Sing Chi truly is very discerning! Reportedly, most of the movies that Wang Yibo has made in in recent years have been relatively heavy. Therefore, he has been said to be very interested in acting in a comedy and working with the comedian of a generation. He is actively considering it. However, because WOMEN'S is obviously a female driven movie, there are always considerations, and the two sides are still in negotiation.
As for the lead actress, Chow Sing Chi's team held a large-scale audition press conference in Taiwan in March this year. The shortlist announcement was originally scheduled in June and to be followed by the finals. However, relevant parties pointed out that due to the enthusiastic response, people all over the world, including North America, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, signed up. It was very difficult to select the shortlist among 30,000 people, so the final was postponed to yesterday in Taiwan.
The finals will be judged by Chow Sing Chi's team and the assistant director of the movie WOMEN'S SOCCER, Ng Man Leung and others. The contestants will need to compete for points through randomly assigned performance projects to test their talents. All the contestants tried their best yesterday, playing blind, scared and everything. Among them, 22-year-old Zhang Tianyi, known as the "sweet version of Shu Qi", successfully entered the top six with her 40-inch long legs and beautiful appearance. Like Rosita Kwok Pak Yin, she also graduated from Hong Kong University. She is 1.73 meters tall and is a model. Although her talent performance showed that her acting skills still need to be honed, Chow Sing Chi should have no difficulty; since he was skilled at training female newcomers. As for the remaining top five, they are Taiwan's new generation singer-songwriter Shana Xie Caiwen (stage name Caizi), athlete Bonnie Cai Nanyun, "dancing" master Yao Fang, Malaysian impersonation master Guan Lixin, and the Taipei University of the Arts Filmmaking Department graduate who resembles the movie KUNG FU HUSTLE's Bucktooth Chun, Betty Yang Yunqian successfully won the favor of the judges by lifting the "Disappearing Dumbbell" in the talent show! Although each of them has been selected into the final six, it was still unknown whether they would participate in WOMEN'S SOCCER. Later they would be arranged to come to Hong Kong for a one-on-one interview with Chow Sing Chi to select the ultimate "Real Sing Girl"!
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