Adoring fans sent flowers to a hotel somewhere in China not for the billeted American guy known in Hollywood and to the rest of the world as Matt Damon--also as Jason Bourne--but because of another male star.
The flower arrangements, some 400 of them, that filled the “entire hallway” of the hotel were for Lu Han, said Damon to the Associated Press.
Yes, the flowers were all for singer-actor Lu Han, and yes, he was staying in the same hotel with Damon not out of pure coincidence but because they are co-stars in the upcoming film “The Great Wall.”
This is the second movie of the former member of EXO-M and Baidu’s “Most Valuable Star.” A promising year indeed for Lu, as he even landed at number 37 at the 2015 Forbes China Celebrity 100 List.
Lu’s film debut happened in Taiwanese director Leste Chen’s comedy “20 Once Again,” based from South Korean film director and screenwriter Hwang Dong-hyuk’s 2014 “Miss Granny.” He played a lead role and it was shown in January.
His acting career is on the rise as he adds two more movies in his filmography.
A month after Lu’s first film hit the theaters, he got lined up for another lead role for a remake of the 2011 South Korean thriller “Blind.”
The baby-faced 25-year-old received one more film offer where he will be portraying a young emperor.
Well, actually the movie is not quite just another movie.
Lu will be starring in a $150-milion U.S.-China movie collaboration with award-winning director Zhang Yimou of the “House of Flying Daggers” fame behind the camera. The cast comprises stars from different nations.
It has America’s actor-screenwriter-producer Matt Damon (“Bourne” movie series), who has an Academy Award in his acting resume; Hollywood veteran Willem Dafoe (the Green Goblin in 2001 “Spider-Man”); model and actress Mackenzie Foy (the daughter of characters Edward Cullen and Bella Swan in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 2”); and Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martell of the TV series “Game of Thrones” Season 4).
Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau is cast as well.
It also has China’s Chen Xuedong, Huang Xuan, Jing Tian, Lin Gengxin, Liu Qiong, Wang Junkai (Karry), Yang Mi, Yu Xintian, Zhang Hanyu and Zheng Kai (Ryan Cheng).
Taiwan’s Gui Gui (Emma Wu) and Peng Yu-yen (Eddie Peng) are there, too.
Jing Tian, who shared the silver screen in 2013 with Donnie Yen in “Special ID” and Jackie Chan in “Police Story 2013,” posted on March 11 in her Twitter account: “So excited to be a part of this film!” The 25-year-old movie and TV actress was given a lead role.
“The Great Wall” started filming in March and is intended to be shown in Nov. 2016.
In case some of you might go to a hotel and find a hallway full of flower arrangements, perhaps a Hollywood star checked in there or a Chinese mainland celebrity.
Or, to be particular, it might be Lu Han.