AC Team's Wendy
Chan was invited to interview the stars of "In the Mood for
Love," at a round table discussion at the Four Seasons Hotel
in Los Angeles.
Tony Leung is
the winner of the Best Actor award at the 2000 Cannes International
Film Festival. This movie marks Tony's fifth collaboration with
director Wong Kai-wai.
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Q:
Can you tell us how you prepared for this role. I know that [director]
Wong Kar-wai doesn't seem to have a real script.
Leung:
So, we don't prepare! (Laughter) We have nothing to prepare. Because
at the very?�beginning, the only thing I know is I'm doing a story
about a love affair with Maggie and my character?�I am called Chow.
My occupation is a columnist for the newspaper, and that's all I
know. And so, we can't prepare anything. That's the Wong Kar-wai
way of making movies.
What I can do
is I started to develop my character through the exterior first.
We have to get used to the costume, and the hair cream, and I think
that really helps, the body language and the movie. Because after
you put on that tight suit, it somehow restricted your body movement.
And the hair cream, [it] really fed me up! (Laughter) It's the same
hair cream that they used in the '60s. It's really, really greasy.
And it takes about 3 days to take that stuff off. I tried different
kinds of washing detergents, even dishwashing detergent?�can't
remove that greasy stuff!
So actually, we
developed everything on the set. We developed it through shootings;
and the character changed a lot.
Because at first,
the character seems to be a very decent guy, an ordinary working
class [person] in the '60s?�So, I try to imagine how my father
or my relatives look like in the '60s. At that time, the economy
is not doing very good, everybody is working very hard for their
living. So, it's just an ordinary people?�And in the middle of
the movie, Kar-wai said "Why don't' you try to play a bad guy?"
You just do it for revenge. Actually a revenge movie, because of
the hatred of Maggie's husband, you are doing it for revenge. Although
it sounds stupid, at least I have something to get hold of for the
character. And it really helps for me to get around the character.
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Related:
AC Interviews Actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai
AC
Interviews Actress Maggie Cheung Man-yuk
AC
Interviews Director Wong Kar-wai
In
the Mood for Love (Movie Review by AC Team's Solange Castro Belcher)
About In the Mood for
Love
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