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| Tony Leung Ka Fai has nothing but praise for his character's younger version actor Terrance Lau |
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Louise Wong and Gardner Tse promote their new film
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| Tony Leung Ka Fai and Terrance Lau sing on the spot |
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| Louise Wong plays a mob boss in COLD WAR 1994, and Gardner Tse plays a rich businessman |
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COLD WAR 1994's 12 key character posters are unveiled
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The prequel to the movie COLD WAR (HONG JIN) film series COLD
WAR 1994 (HONG JIN 1944) held a press conference at the Hong Kong
International Film and Television Festival (FILMART) yesterday, producer
Bill Kong Chi Keung, director Longman Leung Lok Man and stars Terrance
Lau Chun Him, Gardner Tse Kwan Ho and Louise Wong Dan Nei appeared
together. In the movie, Chow Yun Fat, Aaron Kwok Fu Sing and Louis Koo
Tin Lok would also make special performances. The key actors included
Daniel Wu (Ng Yin Cho), Wu Kang-Ren, Fish Liew Chi Yu, THE GAME OF
THRONES' Aidan Gillen, DOWNTON ABBEY's Hugh Bonneville. Tony Leung Ka
Fai even made a surprise appearance, sharing the stage with Lau Chun Him
as two generations of "Lee Man Bun" (their character in the film). They
were so excited that they even performed verses from Adam Cheng Siu
Chau's "Luk Siu Fung" acapella, "Love and honor, worth thousands in
gold" to heat up the atmosphere.
Leung Ka Fai made a mystery appearance and expressed that he
was excited and more excited to be able to continue the COLD WAR film
series. Although he and Lau Chun Him only met for the first time
yesterday, he watched the test screening twice and felt that the younger
version of "Lee Man Bun" was better than his older version. "It really
makes me doubt life, but I am also honored, emotional and happy. I see
that we have very good actors. I checked before watching the test
screening Ah Him has won already a lot of actor awards. I was the Best
Actor of the millennium, but this newcomer is more than a thousand
years. He has the ability to shape, and his actor's sensitivity is
attentive enough."
Lau Chun Him revealed that he also researched the COLD WAR film
series before the performance, but he could not completely imitate
Brother Ka Fai. However he also put Brother Ka Fai's interpretation
method on himself. Regarding the strong praises from Brother Ka Fai,
Lau Chun Him directly said that he was embarrassed, felt shy and the
pressure suddenly increased. "It's so stressful, my shoulders are
frozen now!" Leung Ka Fai joked, "After watching the film my spine was
crooked. I am not praising it, those deserve praises should be praised.
It's not for the promotion of the movie, I admire this Hong Kong actor
very much and I hope that his film career will achieve even greater
success." Speaking of the performances of Chow Yun Fat, Kwok Fu Sing
and Koo Tin Lok in this film, Leung Ka Fai instead was the happiest to
see the growth of the third generation of actors.
The reporter asked Lau Chun Him if he hoped to win the Best
Actor like Leung Ka Fai did with this role? He said that he did not
think so. He devoted himself wholeheartedly to his enthusiasm at work.
Whether he would win an award or not depended on too many factors, and
he would not act for the pursuit of awards. Instead Brother Ka Fai with
THE SHADOW'S EDGE (BO FUNG JUI YIN)G was nominated for the Hong Kong
Film Awards Best Actor and he has already voted for him. Leung Ka Fai
smiled and said, "Now it's my turn to be stressed, my spine is bent, so
I can make the 'S' pose on both sides." The reporter smiled and asked
if holding his grandchild caused back pain? He laughed and said that
he did not get a turn to hold his granddaughter, so he just picked up
hair at home and asked a friend to send him a cleaning robot. He said
that he would not have too much expectation for the award, nor would he
be too disappointed, whether he would win the award or not would depend
on the time and place. Even if he performed well, he might not
necessarily win the award. So no one should feel sorry for him if he
would not win the award. He still has the next ten years.
Lau Chun Him was writing a script with the intention of becoming
a director, would he invite Brother Ka Fai to perform? He said that he
was afraid that he would not be able to hire him, and Leung Ka Fai said
after understanding, "If you want to develop as a director, then you
send me the script. If the role is suitable I will make room on my
schedule and charge you 2 bucks for salary!" After hearing this, Lau
Chun Him said, "Brother Ka Fai is great, I feel so warm; but the number
of units should be limited, and not taking as long as three months to
shoot!" In addition, when asked about the abandonment of Japanese actor
Takuya Kimura in TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: THE FINAL CHAPTER (GAU LUNG
SING JAI JI JUNG JEUNG) and Daniel Wu (Ng Yin Cho) took his place. Also
participating in the film, Lau Chun Him said that he only knew about it
after seeing the report.
Often playing the rich businessman, Tse Kwan Ho co-starred with
Taiwanese actor Wu Kang-ren in COLD WAR 1994 as the father and son of
the richest family. He praised Wu Kang-ren's acting as serious and
getting into character fast. Wu Kang-ren in order to recite his
dialogue well insisted on communicating in Cantonese off screen, which
made Tse Kwan Ho feel he had a lot of substance. He joked, "He is even
very filial. Sometimes I want to speak Putonghau to accommodate him,
but he insisted on speaking Cantonese with me." Tse Kwan Ho said that
his performance this time was also challenging. He had to wear old
makeup, spend three hours a day on makeup, and could hardly make any
expression after finishing his makeup. Yet he did not want to
deliberately exaggerate his expressions, so he had to wait for himself
to get used to it. In addition, he has to play opposite the foreign
actor from DOWNTON ABBEY (Hugh Bonneville), and the English dialogue
delivery also had a certain degree of difficulty.
COLD WAR 1994 gathered Best Actor class Chow Yun Fat, Tony Leung
Ka Fai, Kwok Fu Sing, Koo Tin Lok, Tse Kwan Ho and other performances,
director Leung Lok Man expressed his gratitude to his boss Kong Chi
Keung for cooperating with him to achieve his dream of such a strong
cast. He also revealed that Koo Tin Lok played the role of the chief
executive. His appearance was different from Goo Jai's own hairstyle,
and he also had to wear a beard. Goo Jai was great and would try to
coordinate the best he could.
Wong Dan Nei played the mob boss for the first time, and gave up
many of her firsts like trying to fight one person against everyone, and
trying to hold a gun. She also had to undergo firearms training before
filming. For her first time as the mob boss, the director wanted her to
act calmly, not to have too many emotional ups and downs, and had to
have a powerful aura.
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