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Betty Zhou, dubbed China's prettiest bilingual basketball host by NBA fans, is relishing her new job of getting up close and personal with some of Hollywood's biggest stars

Realizing that she was the last to arrive at a dinner event for the cast and crew of The Man with the Iron Fists, Betty Zhou quickly ducked into the last available seat and settled down among some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including American Chinese actress Lucy Liu and Academy Award winner Russell Crowe.

The function was a big deal for Zhou, whose supporting role in the movie as a prostitute-cum-assassin marked her debut in a major Hollywood film. Her first appearance in an American production was in the 2008 television film Kung Fu Killer, a somewhat forgettable B-grade action flick featuring the late David Carradine as a monk on the hunt for the killers of his Grandmaster.