Tony Leung On His Career, Relationship With Wong Kar-Wai & Why He Felt “Lost” Before Working With The Director — Tokyo Film Festival
deadline.comVeteran Hong Kong actor Tony Leung passed through the Tokyo Film Festival this afternoon, where he led a masterclass session following a screening of 2046, his sixth collaboration with filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai.
Leung’s appearance onstage was brief but dense, with the actor largely digging into the early inception of his career and how he first hooked up with Wong Kar-Wai, with whom he has since made seven feature films. “When I first met Wong Kar-wai, I was stuck.
I didn’t know what to do because my acting wasn’t getting any better,” Leung told the packed audience inside Tokyo’s Hulic Hall.
Leung said at the time, he was working with Wong Kar-Wai on the 1990 feature Days of Being Wild, but he was struggling to land his character. “I was working with Maggie Cheung.
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