El director Stephen Chow se pasó más de un año buscando una actriz para el rol de la casera en Kung Fu Hustle (2004). Buscaba “alguien de aspecto desaliñado y que, sin embargo, fuera capaz de practicar kung-fu y, además, servir de nexo con aquellas viejas películas que tanto me gustaban cuando estaba creciendo”. Finalmente la encontró en una audición… en una persona que no había ido a audicionar. Yuen Qiu solo había acompañado a un amigo. Dice Chow:

Ahí estaba ella, sentada un poco más atrás y a un lado, encorvada, con un cigarrillo en la boca. La sensación que tuve al verla —y luego descubrí quién era.

Vota!

Fuentes

Walter Chaw. "Last of the Finest: FFC Interviews Stephen Chow". Film Freak Central, 9 de abril de 2005 https://filmfreakcentral.net/2005/04/last-of-the-finest-ffc-interviews-stephen-chow/

It took time, though, to think of them, to track them down–the landlady, for instance, we spent so much time trying to find someone who looked that dowdy and yet could perform kung fu and, also, provide a link back to the old films that I used to love as I was growing up. It took us over a year, and it wasn’t even her who was auditioning–she was just tagging along with a friend, and as her friend was auditioning, there she was sitting behind and off to the side, slouching there with a cigarette in her mouth. The feeling that I got when I saw her–and then I found out who she was… We were very, very lucky.