![]() What was it like collaborating with your co-star, Jason Statham? I had really good cooperation with our whole team - our director, Warner Bros. Now, I feel really great about it all, because I feel like I really accomplished something. Going for a walk or looking at all of that green made me relax and forget my troubles. The only thing that helped me was that we shot in New Zealand. Everyone else was sort of on vacation, playing golf and going to parties. ![]() I spent every moment practicing, every day. So I was really strict and hard on myself. I’m not a native English speaker and I need to spend a lot of time with an English script to feel prepared. But now I knew with my whole heart that it was going to be very difficult for me, because I only had two weeks to learn my lines. It was just two weeks before they were starting shooting, but I decided to say yes. But then they kept contacting me and later asked me to reconsider. So I said no, I didn’t want to spend so much time in the tank or in the cold ocean. The Chinese, you know, we believe the cold is bad for health - we always drink hot water and prefer to eat hot things. Because it’s a shark movie, I knew there would be a lot of shooting in water, and I didn’t want to do that. The first time they contacted me about Meg was in 2015, and I actually just said no without even thinking much. ![]() What attracted you to your role in The Meg and why did you decide to take the part? Prior to her red carpet appearance, THR met Li at a suite in Shanghai’s downtown Indigo Hotel to talk about the making of The Meg, the future of China-Hollywood collaborations and her thoughts on being one of China’s very biggest stars for nearly two decades. Statham and Li swept into the Shanghai International Film Festival this week to do some early promotion in the world’s second-largest movie market. Directed by Jon Turteltaub ( While You Were Sleeping, National Treasure), The Meg opens worldwide in August. After losing his credibility and nearly everything, Jonas must confront his fears to help save the passengers trapped in a sunken submersible - including his formidable ex-wife, played by Li. The Meg follows Statham’s character Jonas Taylor after he escapes an attack by what he claims was a 70-foot prehistoric shark. Li’s role as The Meg‘s heroine is her meatiest to date in a big-budget, U.S.-backed movie. Born in remote northern China, Li studied at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and made her feature-film debut in 1999 in Zhang Yuan’s period drama Seventeen Years, which won the best director award at the Venice Film Festival. In 2001, she starred in the mega-hit television series Young Justice Bao, which made her one of the most famous faces across China. ![]()
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