Chinese audiences may have forgiven Vicky Zhao for her traitorous sense of fashion, but that doesn’t mean they’ll watch her movies. She has been labelled “box office poison” after the lackluster performance of her latest movie, A Time to Love 《情人结》, costarring Lu Yi.
Reporters at a Shanghai Film Festival press conference were rather fiesty, quizzing Zhao on her poison potential and asking why her film was entered for awards when everyone knows it’s a bomb.
She remained unruffled, and was similarly nonchalant about the the recent disclosure on the Internet of the true age of a large group of actresses, revealing her to be an old maid. She’s all of 29, but that’s a decade older than Liu Yifei, who’s now playing the sorts of martial arts heroines that made Zhao famous.