Jay Chou on his face superimposed on someone else's nude torso:
By Chang May Choon
February 05, 2008
HE once found his face superimposed on the picture of a nude body, but Taiwanese R&B icon Jay Chou didn't seem to mind.
-- Picture illustration
'Luckily, he has a good figure,' he told The New Paper with a laugh.
What's not funny to him, however, is the ongoing sex saga plaguing Hong Kong heart-throb Edison Chen.
In town yesterday to promote his new movie Kung Fu Dunk, Jay, 29, expressed sympathy for Edison, his co-star in the 2005 hit film Initial D.
A week ago, intimate photos of what allegedly appears to be Edison with singer-actress Gillian Chung and ex-girlfriend Bobo Chan were circulated online.
Hong Kong reports said the leak happened when Edison got a friend to send his laptop for repairs some time ago.
Raunchy pictures of what appears to be Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung and Joey Yung also surfaced, and the media speculated there would be more victims in the form of Edison's ex-flings, like Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai.
When asked to comment, Jay, who was once romantically linked to Jolin, said: '(Such an incident) is hurtful for any artiste, especially female ones.
'It's not fair to the artiste that the photos got out. Everyone's shocked by the photos and everyone's discussing them, but I hope no more photos will surface.
'Let this come to an end already.'
What if a similar incident was to befall Jay, who is himself a budding director with the romantic flick Secret to his name?
Well, it couldn't, he seemed to say.
Jay claimed he does not like to take self-portraits, and it is his female assistant who took the few photos stored in his handphone.
She likes to borrow it because it has a better camera function, he said.
To this, the woman in question giggled in one corner of the room.
What's more, Jay claimed he never sends his phone for repairs.
'(If it's spoilt), I'll just change to a new one.'
After all, there are probably dozens of advertisers queuing up to get his endorsement.
His pop-music influence is legendary, and movies that boast his name have all turned out to be box-office hits.
The latest is Taiwanese veteran director Kevin Chu's Kung Fu Dunk, which stars Jay as a gongfu disciple who gets recruited by a businessman (Eric Tsang) to play varsity basketball and slam-dunks his way to fame.
SUFFERS IN SILENCE
Baron Chen and Chen Bo-lin co-star as his suave teammates while Charlene Choi plays the team's manager.
Director Kevin, who is banking on Jay's appeal to draw the crowds when the film opens on 7 Feb, praised his lead actor.
He said at the media conference held at Hotel InterContinental yesterday that Jay went beyond expectations.
Kevin also spoke of how Jay suffered in silence despite sustaining injuries while filming the slam-dunk stunts that required him to be suspended by wires in midair.
He said Jay's body hit the backboard so many times during the 150 retakes that he ended up with 16 bruises.
But the actor only mentioned it the next day as he did not want the director to feel sorry for him and cut short the filming.
Kevin said: 'This will be a basketball classic. There are other basketball films but we do it better because we have Chinese gongfu.'
Jay himself feels the movie is a breakthrough for him, as he got to do comedy and flaunt gongfu skills for the first time.
He composed the song Zhou Da Xia (Swordsman Chou) for the film and he hopes fans will call him that instead of his current nickname Zhou Dong (Chairman Chou).
He thinks Zhou Dong sounds old-fashioned and it's time to stop using it.
'I've been watching gongfu films since young and I once fantasised about becoming a gongfu star. It's just that I learnt the piano instead of the nanchaku (a Chinese weapon).'
So, what's next?
Jay said he will be performing at the CCTV Chinese New Year countdown special in Beijing.
Source:http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story/0,4136,155502,00.html
