Chinese media reported that on June 12, a law firm announced that actress Bai Lu officially initiated legal proceedings to protect her reputation.
Bach Loc's studio also reposted the statement, affirming that information such as "fake education", "artist ranking fraud", "violation of procedures in registering third-class actor titles", "having romantic relationships with others", "requesting to change the screenwriting team", "having close relationships with people related to Jiangsu Cultural Investment Group" are all contents that are slanderous and defamatory.
The actress's side said that they will seriously prosecute the legal responsibility of individuals and organizations that spread rumors and spread rumors in accordance with the law.
Among the contents that Bach Loc's side denied, rumors that she had a romantic relationship with a former chairman of the group previously caused a stir.
From June 11-12, the topic "Jiangsu - Bailu Cultural Investment" continuously increased sharply in the number of readers on the social network Weibo.
Actress Bai Lu is said to have received continuous investments for 4 films from Jiangsu Culture Investment Group - a provincial-level enterprise of Jiangsu (China).
This has sparked major online controversy about "whether resources from state-owned enterprises are favored for an individual", as well as speculations related to her personal relationships.
Suspicion exploded even more when images rumored to be Bach Loc having a meal with a middle-aged man at the Guangdong restaurant, located in the Wenhua Oriental Hotel in Xianmen, Beijing in May spread on the internet. The man is believed to be a former Chairman of the Jiangsu Cultural Investment Corporation.
On June 10, screenwriter Mong Ky Ky continuously posted articles on Weibo, accusing Bach Loc of taking advantage of his voice and influence to replace the entire screenwriting team of the TV series "Mac Ly" right before the film started filming.
At the same time, she said that the scriptwriting team who wrote the original draft was only named in an offensive way.
On the same day, producer Vu Chinh posted an article stating that although his actors always value scripts very much, for the "Mac Ly" project because of trusting director Lam Ngoc Phan, he "from beginning to end did not participate in any opinions or discussions related to the script".
Yu Zheng also posted screenshots of a conversation with screenwriter Zhao Na, in which she said that she needed to rewrite the script because: "The problem is very big, has existed for a long time and is not good either.
He also sarcastically said: "Talents use talent to write their names on works. People without talent use attacking others to write their names on hot searches.
