Fan Bingbing is Blink

Actress Fan Bingbing attends a press conference about the film "X-Men: Days of Future Past" in Beijing, capital of China, May 13, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua]

Fan Bingbing: New Chinese face in Hollywood

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Fan, however, isn't the only Chinese element in the film. Some mutants seek refuge in a temple which, as the subtitles suggest, is located in China.

Although the temple in the movie bears little resemblance to traditional Chinese architecture, it is there that the superheroes fight their adversaries to complete their mission.

It is not the first time that China has featured in a Hollywood blockbuster. In the space thriller Gravity, actress Sandra Bullock returns to earth in a Chinese spaceship. In the fourth installment of Transformers to be released in July, the city of Chongqing is shown as a battlefield for the autobots.

The increased inclusion of Chinese popular culture and locations in big budget Hollywood films is a result of China's economic growth, Fan says.

"In the original comic book, my role was not even Asian. But the fact that they cast me shows the growing importance of the Chinese market and the booming of cultural exchanges between the two nations (the United States and China)," she says.

According to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and TV, China's box-office revenue touched 20 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) in 2013, making its movie business the world's second biggest, after the US. This year, so far, box office revenue in China has reached above 6.8 billion yuan, a 29-percent jump over the same period last year.

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