Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia in a still from Swordsman II (1992), in which she played the hermaphrodite Asia the Invincible and won legions of new fans.
Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia in a still from Swordsman II (1992), in which she played the hermaphrodite Asia the Invincible and won legions of new fans.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
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What actress Brigitte Lin said about a shock Jackie Chan film scene, working with Wong Kar-wai, and adjusting to fame

  • The Taiwanese actress called working with Wong Kar-wai ‘torture … but worth it’, and recalled being so scared by a scene in Police Story ‘my mind went blank’
  • Of her unexpected late-career success in martial arts films, she said, ‘I seem to embody some kind of fantasy about a beautiful woman performing violent acts’

Richard James Havis

Updated: 2:31pm, 11 Oct, 2020

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Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia in a still from Swordsman II (1992), in which she played the hermaphrodite Asia the Invincible and won legions of new fans.
Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia in a still from Swordsman II (1992), in which she played the hermaphrodite Asia the Invincible and won legions of new fans.
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