The recent Hollywood movie The Meg stars a gigantic shark, English actor Jason Statham and Chinese actress Li Bingbing. A decade ago, only one of those characters might have seemed out of place.
While Hollywood is no stranger to casting English action heroes or supernatural man-eating beasts in summer action blockbusters, it is only of late that it has started featuring Chinese stars so prominently.
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