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...Suddenly Shu Qi is on everyone's must-have list, and not just to appear in her undies or pitch beer. She does a dramatic star turn in Visible Secret, which debuted in Hong Kong two weeks ago. That film, about a girl with the ability to contact spirits and see ghosts, has the imprimatur of Ann Hui, one of Hong Kong's few art-house directors. Its three-day box office opening in Hong Kong set an all-time record, eclipsing Ring, Hideo Nakata's horror flick. Meanwhile, Joan Chen, former-leading-lady-turned-auteur with...
...other words, Shu Qi's moment is at hand?a moment that is only hers to lose. Which is always a possibility, considering her protean personality, which can be captivating or confusing, to moviegoers, friends, acquaintances?even to herself. "I'm not somebody who understands myself very well," she says. "I have become good at letting the superficial projection of Shu Qi become the method. It makes me wonder whether that Shu Qi is really me." If you meet Shu Qi more than once, you get to know a range of different people. One day she'll tell...
...What's undeniably real is that Shu Qi, after a frenetic five years in the klieg lights, is one lived-in girl. Born into what she calls a "poor, but not terribly poor, traditional Taiwanese family," her childhood was far from blessed. The family never ate extravagantly, and Shu Qi (who grew up as Lin Li-huei but had her name changed at age 17 by a Taiwanese agent who thought it sounded more artistic) was seldom allowed to buy things for herself. She remembers a childhood education "revolving around hitting and scolding." That helped make her grow up quickly...
...outside world she discovered modeling?or rather, the photographers of Taiwan discovered the face that has now become famous Asia-wide. Manfred Wong, then a writer and producer in Hong Kong, saw Shu Qi's picture on a magazine cover in 1995 and tracked her down. He was searching for a newcomer willing to get naked for commercial director/producer Wong Jing, who was preparing to make Sex and Zen II, a Category III, or adults only, movie. Shu Qi had already done nude photographic books. She was being fleeced rather than managed by two Taiwan agents: for every...
...heroine Loletta Lee, a 29-year-old actress who had sexed her way through much of the same fare. She was instantly noticed: half demonic, half nymph-gazing-through-the-eyes-of-the-worldly-whore. Wong Jing, at that time Hong Kong's most successful filmmaker, proclaimed that Shu Qi would one day be famous...