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Chow Yun-Fat It's a pirate's life for Hong Kong's hard-boiled legend turned swashbuckler. Maxim, Jun 2007 Did you trash any hotels with Keith Richards and Johnny Depp while filming this month's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End? CYF:Nah, but we had a lot of fun. I like Johnny's work very much. As for Keith, I like the Rolling Stones, but I love the Eagles. My favorite is "Hotel California." Compared to your ultraviolent Hong Kong films, don't you think American action movies suck? CYF:There's a lot more money, technology, and script variety in Hollywood. Anything that is imagined can be created. In China we're limited in the things we can create. Maybe it's a lack of imagination, or maybe we have the imagination but don't have the funds to back it up. And our space is limited as well, so we don't have huge sound stages. Hong Kong stories are mostly about gangsters and Triads and the police. We stick to what the market wants. Now that you've been in nearly 100 movies, what's your total body count? CYF:Too many to remember. Ask John Woo. Are you and Woo the De Niro and Scorsese of Hong Kong gangster movies? CYF:Well, we do make a lot of movies together. Ever turned down a stunt because it was too extreme? CYF:It depends on the situation. I'll usually work with the stunt coordinator and try a stunt several times, and if I can't do it we rewrite it. I'm definitely not a well-trained martial arts actor like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, or Jet Li. Sometimes we'll shoot what I'm able to do and have my stunt double do the rest. Would you be able to defend yourself if you were jumped on the street? CYF:No way. I'd just let them kill me. I wouldn't stop them. My reputation as a fighter is such a misunderstanding. I'm not tough－I'm actually a very soft person. I don't want to fight, because I'm too vulnerable. But you've fired two guns at once whilst flying through the air! CYF:I think the audience enjoys those sequences more than I do. I'm like a robot－like Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator. The studio pays me, and I'm there to do the job and please the audience, whether it's martial arts or shooting guns. When you pick up a script, you first have to love the character; the action is just a side dish. That's why movies can't be all fighting sequences. Like with John Wayne－his image is so powerful, and it's not just because he can ride and shoot. It's because of his heart. While doing research, we dug up a bootleg Chow Yun-Fat CD called Live in Concert. Care to defend yourself? CYF:Oh, man. That was a long time ago, and it was for charity. It was just a bunch of cocktail songs set to a dance beat. I'm definitely not a good singer. Yeah, we know. But will you master Stranglehold, the upcoming Woo-helmed video game in which your voice is featured? CYF:Not at all. I'm a computer idiot. I spend more time outside and in the mountains, surrounded by Mother Nature. Do you ever regret dropping out of school at 17? CYF:Never, because I didn't like it. I don't like to read, either. I was a wild country boy who grew up on the countryside. I didn't like the people at school. I know－I'm strange. Any Hollywood actresses you would kill to work with? CYF:Jennifer Lopez, because she's very sexy. If I wanted to make a movie with her, it wouldn't be easy, because there are very few roles in the U.S. for Asian actors. I'll have to wait for fate to intervene. Are there any foods in the States you can't live without? CYF:Central Park pushcart hot dogs. I can eat three at once. The L.A. Times called you the "coolest actor in the world" before you made your first Hollywood movie. Do you think you've lived up to the hype? CYF:That comment was completely over the top. I'm still learning, guys－don't listen to them. Even though I'm a veteran actor in Hong Kong, I'm still just a rookie when it comes to Hollywood.
2007年06月24日 06点06分
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