Li Bingbing

My kids love The Meg.

I watch The Meg and we have Li Bingbing in the film.

You have Tencent Media investment budget that, you know, if you look at that, there is a China-US crossover.

And it's probably been 10 years now that you've seen a lot of this chinese capital getting involved with hollywood filmmaking and that has presumably with the government's blessing been a really good thing for china um chinese culture is more prevalent could be a chinese actor or actress could be a part of chinese history but you know traditionally those purse strings have been held by hollywood and so narratives have been owned by america and not to be too conspiratorial about it.

So Alice starts loading up, and then you see Ada Wong appear.

And this was, like, kind of a really weird situation because they cast, uh, the Chinese actress, Li Bingbing, as Ada Wong, who became cast in a lot of, like, American movies around this time because this was when, uh, you know, America, American movies were starting to pander to the Chinese market.

Mm-hmm.

But apparently, even though she's had sp- has sp- spoken English in quite a few roles since, she...

That's the name of the round.

Yes, in, in this film, Jason Statham and Li Bingbing attempt to survive the Meg, which is a megalodon, which is an ancient shark.

A- which is not, okay, if you said, "Ah, there's a megalodon coming," I wouldn't instinctively be like, "Oh, there's a form of shark coming."

It is though, because it-

Number two, Michelle Rodriguez.

We have Li Bingbing plays Ada Wong, but she is dubbed over by Sally Cahill.

But I think the reason they did it is that Cahill plays Ada in the games, right? She is not only a very redheaded woman, but she was also born in 1960.

Having her voice there, I think, does kind of work and makes it feel a little bit more gamey in a kind of fun way.