From The Straits Times    |

Shocking real reason why Cecilia Cheung was fired from Jet Li film! B.png

Cecilia’s busy updating her CV. #JoblessWoes

Open memo to freshly fired Cecilia Cheung: Oh honey, we were all rooting for you.

Sure, haters gonna hate, but you’re making it so, so easy to be snarky. Remember how we urged you to brush off them catty commentators branding you as “box office poison”? You’ve gone and blown it again. Sigh.

Fair warning: Exceedingly embarrassing #deets to follow, so avert your eyes if you’re of delicate disposition!

Ready? Okay, deep breath. Here’s the sorry sequence of events that has led to Cecilia’s current jobless state. Hong Kong cinephiles will know that the woman of the hour was tapped to co-star in a 3D period film Legend of the Gods. Other celebs committed to the project? Only the most mammoth of marquee names – think Jet Li, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Louis Koo and Huang Xiaoming.

In other words, this was do-or-die, make-it-or-break-it crunchtime for Cecilia. (I gagged at the Straits Times’ mordant observation that this movie was “intended to save the career of Cheung, whose six recent films did miserably at the box office”. #RealTalk)     

Alas, it was not to be. In a very public shaming of the struggling star, producers Tiffany Chen and Charles Heung informed gossip rag Apple Daily that they had decided to fire the woman and – get this – vowed never to hire her again, ever.

But why? In what can only be described as a rant, Charles Heung said the doomed diva was perpetually peevish and petulant on set: “This is a character issue. Every time there were other stars on set, she felt neglected and lost her temper.”

And if Apple Daily’s sources are to be believed, Cecilia was also unbelievably curt to the crew, her pretty peepers forever glued to her smartphone. Sending sweet nothings to her Chinese billionaire beau, perchance … ?

Salivating at all of this deliciously caustic criticism? You’re in luck, you gossipy bunch, you; there’s more. Here’s Charles Heung again: “Frankly, everyone is more popular than her, but she had more scenes and threw tantrums over that.”

And the coup de grâce? “Frankly, no one wants to watch her playing a girl or a woman.” #Burn!