Television drama producers in China will be required to reveal the nationalities of foreign actors they employ from April, a move by the mainland government to further limit on-camera opportunities for ethnically Chinese actors with foreign citizenship.
It has been a common practice for years for TV dramas and movies to list the nationalities of actors holding foreign citizenship as well as those who are from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. But it's the first time that the state authority has made it mandatory. Two years ago a comprehensive programme content rule barred the use of "inappropriate" actors from outside the mainland. Industry insiders regarded this as an order to limit the use of stars from overseas because the criteria for "inappropriate" actors was vague and unclear resulting in arbitrary interpretations.
When she starred in the 2020 film Leap that depicts how China's national women's volleyball team won the world championships, internet users criticised the filmmaker for using Gong, by then a Singaporean national, to play Lang Ping, a former volleyball athlete and coach who is regarded as a hero in China.
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