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Zhang Ziyi and Hong Kong actor Aaron Kwok will play a couple suffering from AIDS in director Gu Changwei’s first-ever feature film tackling the issue, entitled “The Era of Magic.”
Aaron Kwok was spotted on the set in Beijing Tuesday with a bearded and weary look, the Beijing News reports.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi has returned to the public eye at a New Year’s party for Chinese entertainment industry professionals in Beijing on January 31 after a a personal scandal last month.
Zhang cracked a smile when she was invited onstage at the party for a formal champagne toast alongside veteran actresses Yu Lan and Xu Fan. Most of the time, Zhang seemed in low spirits and spoke with emotional overtones, saying, “It is so not easy in the movie industry,” according to a “Beijing News” report.
HONG KONG: Taiwanese actress Shu Qi has turned down a role in Chinese star Zhang Ziyi’s English movie “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”.
Based on a novel by Lisa See, “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” is jointly produced by Zhang, Wendy Deng, wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Florence Sloan, wife of MGM chairman Harry Sloan, and also stars the Chinese actress.