Rising Chinese mainland actress Zhou Xun on Tuesday appeared on
set of a low-budget urban romance movie called The Encounters
of Li Mi.
In the movie Zhou Xun plays a taxi driver in search of her
missing boyfriend. Shooting is taking place in the southern Chinese
province of Yunnan, Southern Metropolis Daily reports.
Zhou, one of China's top actresses, most recently seen in Feng
Xiaogang's historical epic The Banquet, an adaptation of
Shakespeare's Hamlet, has also appeared in Ming
Ming, a movie about two look-alike women who flee from
gangsters to seek a mysterious box.
Being asked why she chose an 8 million-yuan invested film as her
latest project, the actress said that a low-budget film can offer
her more space to explore herself.
Zhou won a best actress nod at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards for
her portrayal of a movie star caught between her past and present
lovers in the movie Perhaps Love.
(CRI.cn August 23, 2007)
