Bai Ling's Butterfly Thrills Edmond Cast + Crew

Bai Ling's sexy butterfly tattoo is being used to lure cinemagoers to screenwriter David Mamet's new movie after the Chinese actress peeled off her G-string to wow her castmates with the design.

Ling, who recently appeared naked in men's magazine Playboy, plays a seedy strip club girl in EDMOND and had to pose in nothing but skimpy underwear for one scene.

But, after watching the dailies of the film, the RED CORNER star was upset that her butterfly didn't feature in any close-up shots and she set about convincing director Stuart Gordon and her co-star William H Macy to shoot the scene again.

FARGO star Macy recalls, "She was magnificent. It's a pretty sexy scene. We finish the scene (and) Bail Ling says, 'He didn't even get to see my butterfly.' I said, 'What's your butterfly?'

"She peels down this G-string all the way to Argentina and there is this little butterfly that the make-up guy had put on there."

Macy insisted Gordon check out Ling's tattoo and the director rolled again.

The actor adds, "We sent this trailer to Cannes (Film Festival) and that butterfly gets more air time than I do - and I'm the title character."