Director Wei Te-sheng, who became a household name when his movie Cape No. 7 became a smash hit last year, visited a number of villages recently while on his quest to find a leading male for Seediq Bale, a film about indigenous people. Men of the Tsou Tribe were rejected as being "too beautiful and not meeting the director's ideals of a rough-looking hero."
去年以《海角七號》爆紅的電影導演魏德聖，前些日子為籌備中、以原住民為主題的電影《賽德克巴萊》選角而走訪各部落，鄒族的男人就因為「太漂亮，不符導演對男主角粗獷英雄的設定」而作罷。