{"id":2118119,"date":"2025-10-27T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2118119"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:23:23","slug":"fan-bingbing-on-her-most-transformative-role-yet-in-tokyo-competition-title-mother-bhumi-ive-fully-immersed-myself-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fan-bingbing-on-her-most-transformative-role-yet-in-tokyo-competition-title-mother-bhumi-ive-fully-immersed-myself-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Bingbing on Her Most Transformative Role Yet in Tokyo Competition Title \u2018Mother Bhumi\u2019: \u2018I\u2019ve Fully Immersed Myself\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fan Bingbing<\/a> is so unrecognizable in \u201cMother<\/a> Bhumi<\/a>\u201d that even her friends didn\u2019t know it was her. For the Chinese superstar, that\u2019s exactly the point.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing this kind of feedback for the first time actually made me quite happy,\u201d Fan tells Variety ahead of the film\u2019s competition premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival. \u201cI hope audiences see not Fan Bingbing, but the woman fighting for the land and standing firm for her people \u2014 that I\u2019ve fully immersed myself in the role.\u201d<\/p>\n

Set in a late-1990s Malaysian rice-farming village, \u201cMother Bhumi<\/a>,\u201d directed by Chong Keat Aun, follows Hong Im, a widowed farmer and ritual healer who struggles to protect her family and community amid political unrest and land seizures. By day, she resists developers; by night, she heals and exorcises. As colonial-era conflicts resurface, strange events unfold: spirits return, black magic stirs, and the legacy of empire haunts the land,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fan Bingbing is so unrecognizable in \u201cMother Bhumi\u201d that even her friends didn\u2019t know it was her. For the Chinese superstar, that\u2019s exactly the point. \u201cSeeing this kind of feedback for the first time actually made me quite happy,\u201d Fan tells Variety ahead of the film\u2019s competition premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2118120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2118119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Fan-Bingbing-on-Her-Most-Transformative-Role-Yet-in-Tokyo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118121,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118119\/revisions\/2118121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}