Q:
What are you working on next? Is there anything in the States?
Cheung: Well, supposedly it was a Hu Shao Shing
project for the end of the year, but the latest I've heard is that
he puts the project on hold.
Q:
Are you going to make any pictures with your husband in the near
future?
Cheung:
Well, there are no plans, and it won't be the next film that he
is going to make because he has just finished writing the script.
I mean, it's not something I feel that we need to do to build our
relationship or whatever, we are very happy just being husband and
wife for now. But then because he's a director and I'm an actress
I don't block out the possibility of ever working with him again,
but it's not like something that we have to do.
Q:
Have you received offers to act in other films from other French directors?
Are you open to the possibility?
Cheung:
Not yet, but I'm open to anything.
Q:
You've been working with so many directors. Who is your favorite
one?
Cheung:
Kar-wai. I think we've come a long way. I was in his first film.
he's like part of my family for me. When you're on the set and you
feel really comfortable with the presence of the people, I think
that's really important for me, because I'm kind of shy with strangers.
And it takes me a while to build up a relationship with somebody,
and with him it's been 12, 13 years, so I'm very comfortable working
with him.
Q:
Do you think there are any challenges that Asian actors and actresses
face in trying to make it in Hollywood, whether they are Asian Americans
or Hong Kong actors trying to come to the United States and be popular?
Cheung:
Well, yes and no, depending on who. But I think so far, I mean it
might improve, but so far it still seems to be quite limited on
what Hollywood has to offer for Asian actors. Either it's an action
film, so you have no problem with Jackie Chan, Jet Li, they already
have their space in the industry. But for other actors, it can limit
what they play, because somehow I think American films still need
to explain why there's a foreign face in the movie, why you are
not white, it still needs some explanations for the part.
Q:
How about Steven Spielberg's project?
Cheung:
Well, I don't think that is happening yet, and I'm not sure if it's
going to happen. He has two other projects to do before he thinks
about it, so it's not on my list of things to do for now.
Q:
Thank you very much.
Cheung:
Thank you.
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