War epic stars new actress in lead role
(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-03-20 07:34
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Rising actress Jing Tian (pictured) - not South Korean star Kim Heesum - is the leading lady of The Warring States, a war epic for which filming has just started.
The film marks Jing's big screen debut. The Beijing Film Academy graduate has only a few TV series under her belt. But Sun Jie, the film's producer, is confident of his choice, saying that the fact that Jing has learned dancing and martial arts will help her portray her character well.
The film tells the story of Sun Bin and Pang Juan, who begin as buddies but turn into rivals in the chaotic Warring States Period 2,000 years ago.
Jing plays Tian Xi, a girl involved in love affairs with the two male characters. Sun Honglei, who plays an impressive opera enthusiast in Chen Kaige's Forever Enthralled, acts as Sun Bin while Hong Kong star Francis Ng plays his rival Pang Juan. Kim, well known in China for her roles in the South Korean TV dramas in the 1990s, plays Pang's sister.