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China DailyStill images from Zhang Yimou's latest movie One Second, in which actor Fan Wei stars as a projectionist, who tries to repair a roll of film, actor Zhang Yi portrays a fleeing criminal attempting to see a film containing footage of his daughter, and actress Liu Haocun acts as a troubled teen. Zhang Yimou recalls the casting began around three years ago, when his team was selecting a fresh face to play a young princess in his 2018 martial arts film Shadow. With the original script adjusted, the princess role finally went to A-list actress Guan Xiaotong, but the large-scale casting procedure helped Zhang Yimou to discover Liu Haocun, then a high-school student in her final year preparing for art college entrance exams. Liu was selected for the fittingly named One Second after Zhang Yimou's casting team audited around 3,000 candidates, with the director impressed by Liu's big eyes that seemed to talk and her inner strength that matches the role of a wild, yet pure-hearted countryside girl.
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Reel treat for audience
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