I ran across this article just now at kungfucinema.com:
He has been called Hong Kong's answer to Johnny Depp, partly because of his adoring female fans and age-proof pin-up looks (he's 41), but also for his ability to switch between small art films and big commercial ones without missing a step.
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But where Depp is the lovable eccentric, Leung is the tragic hero - solitary, sensitive and vulnerable. He has a way of conveying suppressed emotion, with furrowed brow and eyes welling with tears, that makes women want to take him home and look after him, and men want to emulate him.
"Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work," he says. "I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new."
That's when there is a script. Much of Leung's best work has been with Wong Kar-wai, who prefers to feel his way towards a story through improvisation and experimentation. "You always need to see the finished movie," Leung says of his five films with Wong, "because when you are doing it you don't have any idea what the story is about. You can play the character one way, then play him a different way the next day. Or maybe, after three months' shooting, he'll tell you, 'This is not the character we want. Maybe we'll change it.' Or, 'The story is totally different now.' It's very interesting."Much more:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-05/19/content_331961.htm
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