Biography

What the camera watches in her work is the surface: the mouth, the line of the throat, the hands, the point where composure slips. That is why the framing stays close. A performer who can hold a close shot is doing something harder than a performer who can fill a wide one, because there is nowhere to put the parts of the performance that are not working. The breath has to be right. The eye line has to be right. The reaction has to arrive on time and look like it arrived on its own. None of that is visible as technique when it is done well. It just looks like a woman having a very good time on camera.

The billing is the brand, and the brand is small enough to carry. Lulu Chu is easy to say, easy to spell and easy to search, and the alternate form Lu Lu Chu catches the people who split the syllables when they type. A page like this one exists for that audience: viewers who know the name, want the biography in one place and prefer to read it in their own language. The six versions here are not decoration. They are the same introduction repeated for readers in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese, with the facts kept identical and the prose written fresh in each language.