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...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...
...notable scene she makes lesbian-then-macho love (with a strap-on appendage) to 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...
...stretch for Shu Qi. The actress, Chang feared, couldn't successfully communicate innocent. For good reason. "At 13, I'd done what most people do by the time they're 16," says Shu Qi, "at 20, what most do by the time they're 25." And thanks to manager Wong, she kept doing it and doing it. In 1997, the saurian Wong told TIME: "If you're an unknown and from Taiwan, there is no such thing as doing art and high-class films. Shu Qi knows if she doesn't strip she can't be a star...
...That someone is plainly not manager Wong. His role in the past four years, he says, has been teaching her to say no. "She's very casual in some ways, and she keeps changing her mind every 10 days," he says. But others in the industry regard Wong as the problem. Two years ago, Shu Qi had numerous chances for a break into big roles; many thought she could become a Chinese version of the young Juliette Binoche. But Wong kept her on the treadmill, keeping up with the churn-out-the-crap-fast mentality of the local industry. Hong...
...initial choice for the role of Jen, the young beauty who steals the sword, the center of the kung fu epic's plot. "Physically, she's incredible," Lee enthused at the time. Shu Qi was on board?for eight weeks. Then manager Wong pulled her because he had committed her to a Japanese tea commercial for Coca-Cola. "She was supposed to shoot from April to November," Wong says, "but it turned out she had a previously existing contract." Lee told Wong his big-budget film required the cast to be on hand every day and couldn't release...