Zhang Ziyi's Body Double Wants Credit Where Credit Is Not Currently Due
When a screenplay calls for, say, Reese Witherspoon's character to prop herself naked on all fours, arch her back, and screech like a cat in heat, it usually falls to Hollywood's immodest footsoldiers, the body double, to make the scene come alive. And while they have yet to form their own guild, they are paid for their services with SAG membership. In China, however, body double benefits are sorely lagging, but one outspoken skin twin is courageously standing up for her T&A-subbing rights:
A Chinese actress who played Hollywood movie star Zhang Ziyi's naked body double in "The Banquet" wants her name in the movie's credits, state media reported on Friday. [...]
Shao Xiaoshan said she was paid 20,000 yuan ($2,500) for shooting several nude scenes in comments carried by the paper.
"Feng Xiaogang was very satisfied with my body, and asked me to play the 'naked double'," the paper quoted Shao as saying. [...]
"Zhang Ziyi at Venice told the whole world's journalists that her naked back was someone else's, so I just want everyone to know that it was mine," Shao said.
We applaud Xiaoshan, who will forever go down in history as the Chinese Norma Rae of naked movie star proxies, and hope her peers will rise up in revolution against the oppressive, totalitarian cinematic regime denying them their credited due.
