Lin Chiling | 林志玲| Lin Zhi Ling | Chiling Lin

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Lin Chiling slammed for ancient beauty role www.chinaview.cn 2006-05-11 08:11:35 BEIJING, May 11 -- The news that Taiwan model Lin Chi-ling would star in Hong Kong director John Woo's new film "The War of Red Cliff" as Xiao Qiao, an ancient Chinese beauty during the Three Kingdoms (220-280), hit like a bomb on the mainland and raised a wave of protest on the Internet. Starting Sunday some 10,000 people had signed a petition protesting Lin's role on tianya.com, one of China's most popular Web sites. Eighty percent of an estimated 5,000 people in an online survey by Sina.com also protested Lin's taking the role of Xiao Qiao. Their biggest concern is that the Taiwan model, without any acting experience, would damage Xiao Qiao's reputation as one of the most beautiful women in Chinese history. Xiao Qiao, wife of Zhou Yu (175-210), military commander of the Wu State emperor, is remembered for beauty that "can make birds alight and fish drown, the moon hide

Article: May 10, 2006 Source: http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2006-05-10/11151077185.html The article detailed the process of accepting the movie. Since November last year, Lin Zhiling went to Beijing to meet with John Woo for the first time and at that first meeting, almost on the spot John Woo has decided to use her as the female lead for the movie. However, there are a lot of female stars fighting over the role and he had to go through all of them first. Last summer, before the horse riding accident, John Woo's partner , Jiang Jia Zhun went to Taiwan to talk to Lin for 40 minutes and thereafter, she has become the character in the movie in his mind. When the horseriding accident took place, John Woo and Jiang both sent their well wishes to her and John Woo also related that he once had a similar accident and broke his leg but he assured her that it will heal. Amidst encouragement, Lin replied via her manager, "When I recover, I will definitely do my best in Battle of the Red Cli