Chinese star Crystal Liu Yifei is rumored joining William Morris Agency (WMA), one of the largest diversified talent and literary agencies in the world.
The current famous celebrities in the company include Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson and Zhang Ziyi.
It’s reported that WMA was influential in getting the leading role in movie Forbidden Kingdom (previously known as King of Kungfu, starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li) for Crystal.
Update – the rumor has been denied by Crystal’s agency.
Chinese actress Li Bingbing has been tipped as the most likely candidate to star alongside Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the highly anticipated movie King of Kungfu.
Li Bingbing has always been a favourites to play one of the two leading female roles, as her agency Huayi Brothers is one of the major investor of the movie.
Insider tips suggested that Li has already secured the role as the producers are quite impressed with her English communication, as well as her performances in some previous martial art movies.
Other favourite candidates to land the second female role are Crystal Liu, Fann Wong and Ruby Lin.
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Crystal Liu Yifei is currently the hottest actress in China, yet she still face with rejections sometimes.
Crystal has make it official that she is interested to take a role in TV drama Dream of the Red Chamber, adapted from the same title Chinese epic novel.
The producer of the TV drama however insisted that the series will feature an all cast of new actresses for the major roles, and thus rejected Crystal.
Seems like you can’t always get what you want even if you are super famous.