New F9 Film features ExWrestler: John Cena who has Upset China

[arista]

Was on CNN Business
doing well in China.

USA Press screening tonight.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/F9_film_poster.jpg


Starring
Vin Diesel
Michelle Rodriguez
Tyrese Gibson
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
John Cena
Jordana Brewster
Nathalie Emmanuel
Sung Kang
Michael Rooker
Helen Mirren
Kurt Russell
Charlize Theron


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F9_(film)

[arista]

Reported Update
on CNN HD Business Hour Live


Now John Cena
has had to apologise to China
after calling Taiwan a Country.

[TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Actor and professional wrestler John Cena
has apologized to fans in China
after he called Taiwan a country in a
promotional interview for his upcoming film
and became the latest celebrity to face
the fury of Chinese nationalists.
In a short video posted Tuesday on
Chinese social media site Weibo,
Cena did not refer to Taiwan or go into
much detail about the incident,
which occurred earlier this month
when he was doing a promotion
for "Fast & Furious 9" with Taiwanese media.

"In one interview, I made a mistake," he said in
heavily accented Mandarin Chinese.
"I need to say now that this is very, very, very, very, very important.
I love and respect China and the Chinese people.
I´m very, very sorry. As for my mistake,
I really apologize for it."

In his interview with TVBS, a Taiwanese cable channel, Cena was also speaking in Mandarin when he said Taiwan would be the first "country" to be able to see the film. That led to an uproar in China, which considers the self-governing democracy its own territory to be taken back by force if necessary.]


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/05/26/08/wire-43457703-1622014635-784_634x422.jpg
[People walk past a poster for the movie
"Fast & Furious 9" at a
shopping mall in Beijing, Wednesday, May 26, 2021.
Pro-wrestling champion and actor
John Cena is apologizing after
calling Taiwan a country in promotional interviews
for his upcoming film "Fast & Furious 9." ]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-9620153/Actor-John-Cena-faces-backlash-China-Taiwan-comment.html