Theory 3: Jing Tian is a vessel for laundering money This thin chain of evidence convinced much of the Chinese Internet that the little girl pictured in the Mother’s Day post might be either Wang Jianlin’s niece or his secret daughter. The tycoon’s son, who now works for his dad at Wanda, tagged the photo with a Weibo handle belonging to a woman who, as an adult, also looks a lot like Jing. On Mother’s Day 2013, Wang’s son, Wang Sicong, posted to his Weibo account a photo of himself at age two, seated between two little girls, one of whom Chinese netizens were quick to point out bore a strong resemblance to how Jing might have appeared as a toddler. HK01, a Hong Kong-based news outlet reported rumors suggesting that Jing is related to Wanda founder and chairman Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man. Theory 2: Jing Tian is the secret daughter of Wang Jianlin In an interview, Jing once said her boyfriend encouraged her to get into acting, and that “I wouldn’t know what I’d be doing if it weren’t for him!”-stopping short of naming said boyfriend. Information on Lu is scarce, but he’s said to be a shareholder of the Dalian Wanda Group, the real estate/showbiz behemoth that purchased Legendary Entertainment last year. Theory 1: Jing Tian’s long-time boyfriend is a Wanda shareholderĪccording to the Internet portal Sohu’s entertainment channel, Lu Zheng, the founder and chairman of Beijing Starlit Movie and TV Culture has cast Jing in many of the films he’s financed, including the 2011 release, The Warring States. And what is it they know? Herewith, straight from the Chinese Internet, a translated and summarized selection of the most widespread explanations for Jing’s rapid rise: Of course this doesn’t mean she’s untalented or without potential, but Jing has now become an urban legend, someone about whom everybody “knows” “the real story.” Of course, what they know is unknowable, contradictory, and impossible to verify (if not just plain impossible). Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the director of Kong: Skull Island recently told the Singapore Straits Times that working with Jing was difficult in large part because of her limited English, and that her role in the film had to undergo significant cuts. Since one of the main things Hollywood producers look for in a crossover superstar is fluent English, we can say with near certainty on the basis of her stilted delivery in The Great Wall that Jing’s elocution is not a factor in her getting Hollywood gigs. Add the Internet into the mix, and it goes to the next level, a web of conspiratorial, celebrity-denigrating innuendo that is wildly judgmental, sexist, and almost impossible to respond to. And in the vacuum left by the lack of a reliable independent press, Chinese gossip, with its penchant for detailed embellishment and invasive speculation can make TMZ look like The New York Review of Books. Naturally, Chinese filmgoers are wondering what’s up. ![]() Evidently, someone at the studio liked what they saw: before the film was finished, Jing was slotted into Legendary’s blockbuster titles, Pacific Rim: Uprising and the just-released Kong: Skull Island, immediately lifting her to heights of international visibility above Tang Wei, Fan Bingbing, Zhou Xun or nearly any of China’s other well-established superstar “Heavenly Queens.” When Legendary Entertainment began production on its megabudget US-China co-production, The Great Wall, Jing was chosen to star opposite Matt Damon as a woman warrior commanding a vast army against fearsome supernatural monsters. ![]() After studying at both the Beijing Dance Academy and the Beijing Film Academy, both reliable feeders into China’s show business ecosystem, she spent relatively little time working her way up via supporting roles and television series before finding herself thrust into the spotlight alongside stars like Sun Honglei, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun-Fat. ![]() In the last few years, 28-year-old starlet Jing Tian has ascended with unusual speed into the white-hot center of China’s entertainment world.
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