Like a camera set on automatic mode, the images that instantly pop to mind when one thinks of Chrissie Chau are those of her enviable 32D assets, spilling out of skimpy tops.

The busty 26-year-old Hong Kong model-actress has been synonymous with the phrase "sex bomb" ever since her modelling career took off in 2008.

Her CV includes posing for men's magazines like FHM and GQ, releasing a life-size inflatable bikini-clad doll of herself, producing three eye-popping pictorial books and being the spokesman for a lingerie company.

When it comes to acting, she doesn't stray too far from type either.

She shared a steamy bedroom scene in romantic drama Marriage With A Liar (2010), wore cleavage-baring outfits in slapstick comedy Men Suddenly In Love (2011) and played a sexy hacker in action thriller The Killer Who Never Kills (2011).

In a phone interview with local press to promote her new beach volleyball-themed movie Beach Spike - which features Chau's meatiest leading role to date - The New Paper asked the starlet if she had ever felt typecast and boxed in continually playing the token hot babe.

"No, I'm not worried about that," said Chau, who was born in Guangzhou but relocated with her family to Hong Kong when she was 10.

To perfect her role in Beach Spike, Chau said the crew - which includes co-stars Theresa Fu and Jessica C - learnt volleyball and trained for three months with one of Hong Kong's national coaches.

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