Why would anyone in the right mind cast 42-year-old Hong Kong actress Gillian Chung, 42, to play the mother of a 28-year-old?
In new Chinese period drama Eternal Night of Star River, an adaptation of Chinese novel The Guide to Capturing a Black Lotus, the Twins’ member plays the mum of Chinese actor Ding Yuxi.
Gillian, who has enjoyed a career resurgence after competing in 2022’s Sisters Who Make Waves 3, looks like she hasn’t aged a bit since her breakthrough role in 2002 TVB wuxia drama The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra.
It’s why netizens are now saying she’s way too youthful for the mother-son pairing to make sense.
“When they stand together, they look like siblings,” remarked one netizen.
We know right? She’s just a jie jie, how can she be a 28-year-old’s mother?