Kelly Chen as Goddess of Mercy in The Monkey King

The cameras for Soi Cheang Pou Soi's new 3D movie "The Monkey King" have already started rolling last month in Beijing. It was announced in early October that Chow Yun Fat, Aaron Kwok, Joe Chen, and Peter He were going to join Donnie Yen in the $400 million RMB production. Yesterday, Kelly Chen, Cecilia Cheung, and Gigi Leung were also announced to join.


Kelly Chen will be taking on the role of the Goddess of Mercy in "The Monkey King", and she has decided to donate her film salary to charity. Kelly will be donating her seven-figure film salary to "Kelly Chen Children Education Fund". She said, "When I found out that I was going to play the Goddess of Mercy, my first thought was the hope that I can be like the Goddess of Mercy and help people in need. Thus, I hope to donate all of the salary from this movie to help society's children in need".

Confirmed cast:

Donnie Yen as The Monkey King
Chow Yun Fat as The Jade Emperor
Aaron Kwok as The Bull Demon King
Cecilia Cheung as Nüwa
Kelly Chen as The Goddess of Mercy
Gigi Leung as Chang'e
Peter He as The God Erlang
Joe Chen as The Iron Fan Princess
Liu Ye as The Dragon King of the Eastern Sea
Eddie Cheung as Li Jing
Louis Fan as The Mighty Magic Spirit
Hai Yi Tian as Puti Zushi
Li Jing as The Green Monkey King
Monica Mok
Wang Yuen Yuen
Him Law
Calvin Cheng

Kelly Chen announces returning to work in September

Kelly Chen brought her lovable son Chace Lau Sing into the world on July 10, 2009, since then she has been at home taking care of him and has already rested for 2 months. The modern mother announced that she'll be returning to work on September 3, 2009. Her first job back at work would be to attend Maxim's Mooncake press conference and will be leaving to Singapore in 4 days to cut the ribbon for TOD. Because Kelly did not want to leave her son behind for too long, she would be going on an early flight back to Hong Kong the next morning.

As for Kelly's husband Alex Lau, the other night he and a male friend attended Khalil Fong's concert. He was asked why he didn't bring his wife along? He nodded his head and did not respond. Asked about how Chace is doing lately? He said: "Okay. He got very chubby. (How many pounds?) ask his mom. (Did Kelly successfully lose the weight?) OK." He expressed that he supports Kelly going back to work, he greatly respects his wife.

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU