Not too long ago, I watched the 2-D version of the movie Fast and Furious 5 in the local cinema in Taiping and the normal version in Kuala Lumpur some time later. Each time, I thought Shu Qi was in the first instalment of the action series when actually she was in a French blockbuster, The Transporter which was co-directed by Louis Leterrier and Corey Yuen, the latter, a famed Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and producer. The Fast and Furious movies were directed by Justin Lin, a Taiwanese growing up in America. Shu Qi, incidentally is also a Taiwanese and at the age of 17, had moved to Hong Kong to carve a career in the softcore porn modelling industry, appearing in Penthouse Hong Kong and the Chinese edition of Playboy magazine, before finally graduating in softcore Hong Kong movies like Sex & Zen II. Shu Qi is particularly conspicuous with her bee-stung lips and you'd think her lips would keep her forever in the porn industry, never perhaps thinking that she would have made it big in mainstream Hong Kong movies like Viva Erotica, for which she won the Best Supporting Actress award and she even appeared in two of fellow Taiwanese, Hou Hsiao-Hsien's movies, the critically acclaimed Millennium Mambo which won the Technical Grand Prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and Three Times, the movie which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Shu Qi and her pouting lips had definitely come a long way!Would you opt for Bette Davis's eyes, Barbara Streisand's nose, Sophia Loren's cheeks or Shu Qi's lips?
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