乔伊•金为《魔镜仙踪》增添惊喜

Imagine you’re walking down a yellow brick road and you run into a tiny, helpless, young girl — made of china pieces — who desperately needs your help. And she’s adorable.

Having worked with director Sam Raimi, 13-year-old actress Joey King is “China Girl” in “Oz the Great and Powerful” perhaps the cutest little 3D animated character that moviegoers have ever seen.

Her performance is truly a scene stealer as she talks to Oz (James Franco), tearfully begging him to take her along in his quest to destroy a wicked witch.

King also appears in live action during the first segment of the film. Like the original 1939 “Oz” movie, its intro sequences are in black and white. King plays a wheelchair-bound youth who looks to Oz’s carnival magic show to cure her physical handicaps. Later, when she is in animated form: a girl made of porcelain, she again puts all of her hopes in Oz.

A relative newcomer to the big screen, King had a small but integral role in “The Dark Knight Rises.” Playing the young prison girl who grew up to be the mysterious woman played by Marion Cotillard, King shaved her hair for the role.

(SD-Agencies)