The Lost Legend, which became the highest ever grossing Chinese language movie. She has been a member of Cannes film festival juries and continues to be one of the highest paid actresses in asian cinema. She rose to fame initially in nude pictorials and softcore sex movies. Taiwanese beauty Shu Qi has graduated from a career in adult modelling to be an award-winning actress, who has starred in some of the biggest grossing Chinese language movies ever made. She was originally cast to play Zhang Ziyi' role in the worldwide blockbuster Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but her later fired manager had her do a commercial instead!