Born to be wild

From the first day he was on the set, Feng Shaofeng had known he was not the biggest star.

The 36-year-old actor, a heartthrob for young Chinese women, was led to a camp to meet 16 wolves, which had been training for two years.

Under the direction of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Feng and the wolves co-star in Wolf Totem, a Sino-French co-produced epic based on Chinese writer Jiang Rong's 2004 best-seller by the same name.