![]() ![]() Another is China Top Arms, about the country’s first all-female special- forces unit, and there’s an indie picture alongside Guo Tao, where she portrays “a pregnant woman facing the challenges of late-stage cancer”. One is a tomb-raiding movie based on the popular Chinese novel Legendary Hunters, starring alongside Zhang Han Yu and Jiang Wu. With two blockbuster films and an indie flick awaiting release in China this year, the star’s schedule has been demanding. Highly bankable in both Western and Eastern markets, fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, it helps that Celina Jade is gorgeous, strangely relatable and could probably also kick your ass. This martial arts-trained, bi-racial, trilingual, multi-hyphenate professional was born and raised in Hong Kong, lived in London and the US, and now resides in Beijing. If you tried hard to dream up an actress meant for the modern age, she might well look like Jade on paper. ![]() “Most producers I meet are women, and when I was working in Hollywood, most of them were men.” On Chinese screens Jade is encouraged by seeing “women being better represented every day here women of all kinds are being written about and it’s very empowering”. ![]() “What I find really exciting is the increase in female-driven projects, as well as female directors in mainland China,” says our cover personality, the Chinese-American actress Celina Jade. ![]()
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