"The Viral Factor" just finished filming in Malaysia, this first class big production movie is made up of many talented stars including Jay Chou, Nicholas Tse and Lin Peng, since the starting day of filming it has gotten attention, add onto that Nicholas Tse's divorce news and this movie has been the focus of attention throughout filming. In recent days, director Dante Lam's "hand picked" female lead in "The Viral Factor" was finally revealed, she is Lin Peng who starred in "A Chinese Fairy Tale". Lin Peng has always had a gentle and beautiful image but this time she is playing a "kicking and punching" role, everyone is looking forward to her scenes with the two main stars Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse.
With such "bright stars" as Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse in the cast, it's only natural that the female lead Lin Peng's performance is highly anticipated. But the choice of Lin Peng as the female lead, director Dante Lam says there was an "ulterior motive". According to reports, in order to select the female lead for "The Viral Factor" the director put in a lot of effort, he once arranged for many popular female stars to do screen tests, but at the end he chose the relatively "newcomer" Lin Peng. Reporters found out that director Lam hopes the female lead would give a fresh feeling appearance this time, because in Dante Lam's past works, the female leads have been mainly just pretty faces, "Now I hope to create a true to life female character, Lin Peng has this kind of potential in her. After many meetings, I discovered Lin Peng was very suitable for this role."
Because the filming for this movie just finished, the plot and still shots are all kept hidden. But reporters found out that even though Jay Chou is normally quite "cool" in front of the camera, but on the set he is known for his enthusiasm. During one fight scene, Lin Peng, who is used to ancient Chinese dramas, faced her first "real guns and bullets" scene, it's inevitable that she would be a bit worried, the good thing was that Jay Chou gave her a lot of advice, and made her more at ease. Director Chou has had a lot of filming experience since filming MVs and he gave her a lot of his "personal techniques", so much so that when the director let Lin Peng try out the gun for the first time, Lin Peng fired 5 shots in a row, the director happily said: "Yes, this is the feeling!"
Regarding the director's praise and appreciation, Lin Peng was naturally very grateful of the opportunity. According to the staff, in order to get the fight scene shot, besides Lin Peng "stealing lessons" like Jay Chou, usually she trains a lot, often she gets so tired that after the director yells cut she sits in the chair and sleeps.
