Actor discovers his leading role
China DailyBack to cinema Fate has once again drawn Phillips, once praised by The New Yorker as "the most handsome Chinese man", back into the world of cinema. In 2011, director Wuershan from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, confirmed that he would direct Painted Skin: The Resurrection, a fantastic romance loosely inspired by Qing Dynasty novelist Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi, and invited him to play the role of a powerful sorcerer. Kris Phillips, who is better known as Fei Xiang in China, acting as Yin Shou, the cruel and dangerous ruler in the fantastical trilogy, Creation of the Gods, by director Wuershan. After portraying a villainous king in the 2016 film, The Monkey King 2, the performer took on his most popular role to date as Yin Shou, the cruel and dangerous ruler in the fantastical trilogy Creation of the Gods, a character he describes as a "sociopath". Despite a strict schedule of exercise and diet, which Phillips teasingly describes as "tedious and horrible", he says his biggest challenge was keeping in mind the story arc over the course of the trilogy.
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