Beijing - A 9-year-old girl who mimed a song during the Olympic opening ceremony because the real singer was not considered pretty enough has been offered a relatively big sum to appear in amovie, local media said.
Lin Miaoke, who lip synched the song "Sing for the Motherland" on the Aug. 8 ceremony, will make 600,000 yuan (87,592 dollars) for a three-minute role in a Chinese movie called "Nu Li", meaning "striving," according to Shichang Daobao, a newspaper in east China's
Zhejiang province.
She will play a flower girl in the film, according to the newspaper's website.
Lin's face has appeared not only all over Chinese media, but in overseas media, including on the front page of the New York Times.
Overseas media widely reported her not actually singing the song after a director for the program made the surprising revelation to a Chinese publication following the opening ceremony.
No credit was given to the actual singer Yang Peiyi, 7, even though her voice touched the audience that night. Her singing was recorded in advance.
The director said a member of China's Politburo - top Communist Party governing body - gave the order to put Lin on stage instead of Yang, to create a better effect on the audience. dpa
191001 GMT Aug 08
