Hong Kong artist Gillian Chung is trying her luck in Hollywood to make her career comeback after the infamous nude photos scandal.
Gillian back from Hollywood
The 27-year-old actress and pop singer was in US to audition for a role in movie “Pinkville”, directed by Oliver Stone and starring Bruce Willis. The movie is based on My Lai Massacre, a real event in which several hundred Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers during the Vietnam War in 1972.
It’s reported that Oliver Stone invited Gillian to the audition for a supporting role in the movie.
The Edison sex photos scandal
The scandal started in early 2008 when hundreds of nude (and semi-nude) photos of Chinese-Canadian star Edison Chen and other female artists were posted online; Gillian was among them.
It’s believed that the photos were stolen from Edison’s personal computer when he sent it for repair. Although Edison and Gillian (and other girls) are basically victims of the incident, their public reputation is heavily dented.
Gillian in particular has been heavily hit. She was previously seen as a role model for her healthy image, but it vanished completely after the saga; and she finds it difficult to make her career comeback in Hong Kong since then.
gillian chung in hollywood? does she even know how to speak english?? i don’t think she’ll be successful there.. make a come back maybe in 2010 or something in hong kong! and come with a more mature and sexy look.. it’ll sell :) except she doesn’t sing well. or dance well. i think she’s very very pretty though. maybe she can act :) however with acting… you don’t neccessarily need an image and even if you do it won’t come out strong. so what can she do? :\
if i were her i’d continue doing her current charity works (at least until this scandal thing cooled, subsided, and forgotten–reember this is her second picture scandal). hollywood or not, i think the US (or Canada) does offer more privacy/places to hide from public attention, so staying out of Asia is a good idea.
Gillian chung is the most stupid role model star in hk and in the asia entertainment. The only come back for her is if she can be clean. Hollywood in LA only want one thing is Gillian chung is be more nude and sex from a young actress. laugh at young naive actress. This put down the Asian pride, old tradition of asian customs. Being to sexual, porn star and other explicted material etc. does not make a good movie. Pimp yourself in the stardom industry sink you so low. Good role model is always the key to success. Look back at 30 years plus of good hk movies that make them to memorable
I was a little saddened when I first found out Gillian was involved with this. Why?? Well I used to be one of those teen girls listening from time to time their songs. Not a big fan but still someone who thought of them as one of ‘em good girls. But like ALL Disney stars, “role models” have to eventually fall. I was even a little disappointed to find out that Melissa Joan Hart (aka Sabrina the Teenage Witch) was pregnant until my husband reminded me she was 32.
But I digress. Back to the point: i find it disgusting what Edison Chen did. It’s bad enough that he taped and photographed them doing the nasty and those girls letting him but c’mon…really? A part of me thinks he did it on purpose. As if he wasn’t a publicity hog in the first place. But then again I’m a bit biased towards those involved with the whole rap scene.
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That is really a mean thing to say. I’m not a big fan of Twins or any music group directed towards tweens but she’s one of the few I actually respected… until now anyway. She’s totally lost all of that innocence she had going for her. But SHE’S 27!! That’s old. Why the hell shouldnt she be giving blowjobs and having sex?
and the hollywood business. meh. typical hollywood. Name one pg-13 movie in the last few years that didn’t involve sex. EXACTLY.
Everyone has a right to thier own opinion. I have seen several of the twins movies and I think that Gillian should have her shot in hollywood. With the right script and director she would do just fine here. Maybe not in a lead roll, but, hell. look at all the movies coming out. Dragonball, Blood: The last vampire, Underworld. Gillian could do great here, since the casting companies cant seem to find believable american actresses to play action roles. Natassia Malthe is the only actress who seems to always get the sexy bad girl rolls. And i think Gillian and her could play perfect villian rolls, since her nude photo scandal has seemed to shock HK. I’d love to see her in the next X-men flick or even Underworld 4. Hollywood is full of scandels, so I think her tiny little incident would be overlooked.