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Wednesday, December 29. 2010

Xiong Xin Xin Barges into Shaolin

-- Shaolin --

Being a film on Shaolin Temple, having genuine martial arts practitioners in Shaolin is a prerequisite, and so there are Yu Hai, Xiong Xin Xin, Wu Jing, Xing Yu, Sang Wei Lin, as well as various Shaolin disciples onboard. Xiong Xin Xin, who has been working in Hollywood in the recent years, is seldom seen in HK movies these days. Despite that, he's still as capable and agile as he was in Once Upon A Time In China, even the Shaolin disciple Xing Yu is full of praise for this martial arts senior.

But unfortunately, accidents happen often on the set of action films. While filming a scene whereby Xing Yu and a group of Shaolin disciples are resisting Xiong Xin Xin's invasion, a stuntman erred and kick an old wound in Xiong Xin Xin's knee, resulting in his muscles being pulled, and Xiong Xin Xin falling right away, unable to move. A doctor on the set immediately apply RICE treatment on his leg. Everyone had intended to send him to hospital to take X-ray, but Xiong Xin Xin insisted on continuing shooting after a rest, but was injured again by yet another stuntman on his hand and lips.

Xiong Xin Xin smiled resignedly, "Could someone tell me, is this Friday the 13th? There are bound to be injuries when doing action scenes, sometimes, mistakes happen, it's not something you would know beforehand. Could one still be considered an action star without sustaining any injuries?"

In another instance, Wu Jing's leg was hurt when shooting a fight with Andy Lau. Xiao Liu, the child actress who plays Andy Lau's daughter, immediately rushed to comfort him with a very concerned look and even helped Wu Jing wrap his bandage. Wu Jing smiled in consolation, "You're such a nice girl, it's worth my effort in coming to your rescue you in the film."

Seeing how Xiao Liu and Wu Jing got along especially well with each other, Benny Chan said, "Had I known it, I would have let the two of you play father and daughter instead, such affinity with each other."

Xiong Xin Xin Barges into Shaolin Posted by Scoops Guild in Film News, Images at 09:35
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Wednesday, December 29. 2010

New Shaolin Poster Unveiled

-- Shaolin --

At Shaolin press conference held in Beijing on December 28 to unveil the latest poster and trailer, Benny Chan indicates that it cost 20m yuan to build the Shaolin Temple replica, which recreates every minute details of the actual Shaolin Temple, including the overview, the bricks and tiles, the pillar, such that when they're shooting, they could damage anything during action scenes to create the most realistic results, especially the burning of Shaolin Temple, that scene took them 4 months to prepare and 1 month to shoot.

Jackie Chan feels that he was getting more than he bargained for, "I'm playing a Henan-accented cooking monk who knows no martial arts, it's rather special. I don't think what I did is a cameo, though it was a 7-day shoot, I had to shoot non-stop from 6am morning through midnight to 6am the next day. I was only given one hour's sleep. Initially, I had a bigger role, but I was preparing another film, and they were clashing with each other, so, the director rewrote my part, I'm very glad to be working with him again."

Fan Bing Bing who works very hard for her role, not only requested for the director to add some action scenes for her, but also had to soak in ice-cold water for 3hrs, "The scene I was soaked in water was shot last winter, similar to the temperature right now, at first the director poured some warm water, but the steam was captured on the film too, so they had to change to cold water. As an actress, one should do one's best, everyone was working so seriously, I couldn't be laidback either." Baidu