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Fan Bingbing Just Had Tea With The King Over Her New Movie

today15 May 2026

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There are celebrity meet-ups, and then there’s getting invited to Istana Pasir Pelangi by the King of Malaysia level networking.

Chinese superstar and Melaka Tourism Friendship Ambassador, Datuk Fan Bingbing was recently granted an audience with Sultan Ibrahim in Johor Bahru, adding another surreal chapter to Malaysia’s increasingly cinematic soft-power arc.

But this wasn’t just a random celebrity photo-op wrapped in royal carpets and polite smiles.

Fan Bingbing is currently attached to Mother Bhumi, a Malaysian film directed by acclaimed filmmaker Chong Keat Aun. The film blends folklore, mysticism, padi fields, and rural northern Malaysian life into something that sounds less like a safe tourism ad and more like an arthouse fever dream in the best possible…

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Written by: Ben Liew


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