She acts in comedy even more'excessively' than me!" - when Stephen Chow personally said this sentence at the promotion of the "Kungfu Women's Football Team" in Hong Kong (China), the audience below immediately stirred up. The person commented on like that by the "King of Comedy" is famous actress Dilraba Dilmurat.
Stephen Chow rarely shared about the behind-the-scenes of casting, and for the first time revealed the story of a 10-year "fan love affair".
It turned out that the predestined relationship between Stephen Chow and Dilraba was sown 10 years ago. At that time, he accidentally watched a comedy movie with Dilraba's participation. The image of the girl on screen was completely unlimited, with attractive and rich expressions, leaving a deep impression on him.
At that time, I thought to myself: Why could she act like that?", Stephen Chow recalled, his voice still faintly showing surprise as in the beginning.
He frankly commented that Dilraba has the ability to create a humorous rhythm naturally, almost without guidance: "I just need to tell her roughly the intention, she can develop herself, even more'over' than I imagined.
What is even more surprising is that the actress, considered a "Tinh nu lang", initially even thought the movie invitation call was a scam call.
Stephen Chow revealed that when preparing to perform "The Female Kungfu Team", he deliberately ignored the management team and called Dilraba directly. The other end of the line was silent for a few seconds, then an unbelievable voice rang out. Only when confirming that the caller was indeed Stephen Chow, did Dilraba dare to believe that this was not a joke.
This story of "idol personally calling" later also became a legend spread in the industry.
In 2016, Nhiet Ba actively shared an article promoting Chau Tinh Tri's movie "Mermaid". At that time, she was simply a movie fan of him. 10 years later, that female audience member became "Tinh Nu Lang", causing netizens to call this the "peak of pursuing idols".
To transform into female football striker Ngoc Lung in the movie, Nhiet Ba put a lot of heart into it. She not only cut her hair and put on a bare face when appearing on screen, but also actively gained a lot of weight and intentionally turned her skin tanned, completely abandoning the usual beautiful goddess image.
More notably, the Xinjiang beauty refused all fashion commercial contracts during that time to focus on 3 months of closed football training. High-intensity training for 6-7 hours a day, from a person who knew almost no football to someone who could juggle the ball continuously 200 times.
In many dangerous scenes with high difficulty, Dilraba does not use stunt doubles, she is also very dedicated to filming scenes under the rain in the winter sky.
Before those efforts, Stephen Chow especially emphasized at the promotion: "She has absolutely no idol burden, tell her to do anything, not afraid of anything". He assessed Nhiet Ba as "very professional, very good".
Kungfu Women's Football Team" recorded revenue of 2.29 billion RMB after 38 days of release, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of the Chinese summer movie season to date.
