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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.
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!
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. Page 2 of 3 --------------------
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