“I didn’t bring anything when I came to this world, so I don’t have to take anything when I go. For me now, two bowls of white rice for lunch and dinner are enough. I have diabetes, so sometimes I only eat one bowl.”
Actor Chow Yun Fat (68) laughed at a press conference held at the KNN Theater in Haeundae-gu, Busan on the 5th. Chow Yun Fat received the ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year’ at the 28th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which opened the day before. He said he would donate his former fortune of HK$5.6 billion in 2018, and he is known for living frugally, using a mobile phone for 17 years and using the subway in slippers. He said, “My wife donated, not me. I didn’t want to donate because it was hard money. Now I have to get pocket money to live,” he joked and cried, and there was a burst of laughter in the market.
Chow Yun Fat, who celebrated the 50th anniversary of her debut this year, meets the audience at BIFF through a special planning program called ‘Chow Yun Fat’s Heroic Color’. Three films will be screened, including ‘Hero’s true color’ (1986) and ‘Wa Ho Jang-ryong’ (2000) and ‘One More Chance’, which will be released next month as a new work in 5 years. In the comedy family film ‘One More Chance,’ he is a long-haired widower who runs a hair salon in Macau, playing the role of a father raising a son with autism. If you’re a fan of his comedy acting, it’s a welcome piece. He said, “It’s been a long time since I haven’t played this genre, so I really like this movie. I like movies that deal with the relationship between the rich and the rich,” he said.
Although he lived as an actor for 50 years, he was detached from the conceit of being a top star and without regrets about the past. He “believes in the concept of Buddhism: ‘Everything is an illusion and only this moment is real.’ I like the word ‘live in the present’. I only think about it now.” “You might think I’m a superstar from a special point of view, but I’m just a very ordinary person,” he said.
However, I couldn’t hide my deep love and greed for acting. “If there is no movie, there is no Zhou Lunpa,” he recalled. “I didn’t study much, so movies have brought me a world that can’t be compared to anything else.” He asked, “If I shoot a movie for another 50 years, will there be people who will watch it?” and laughed, “I should come to Korea often and get a beauty treatment.”
It also revealed regret for the stagnant Hong Kong film industry. “There’s censorship, so it’s quite difficult for a Hong Kong director to make a movie,” he said. He said, “The freedom of creation is the biggest competitiveness of Korean cinema.” Regarding the health abnormality that was raised in July, “I will participate in the half marathon in Hong Kong in December. I came to Busan and ran for two days in a row in the morning, and I will run 10km tomorrow morning.”
Chinese actor Fan Bingbing, 42, also visited Busan with his comeback film ‘Nokya’. After Fan Bingbing was embroiled in a tax evasion controversy in 2018, he suddenly disappeared and was rumored to be dead and missing. Chinese authorities said they had fined him about 183 million yuan. It was a hiatus for the next five years. At the press conference on the same day, he said, “There are ups and downs in life, just like the human life cycle. It was time to calm yourself down,” he confessed.
Fan Bingbing sought to transform his acting into ‘Nokya’. Unlike the bold and enterprising woman I’ve been doing, I took on the role of living a life like a wheel. ‘Jinsha’, which he plays, is a woman who works at the Incheon Passenger Port Security Checkpoint, and tells the story of meeting a free green-haired woman (Lee Joo-young) who feels helpless by her husband (Kim Young-ho)’s violence. Directed by director Han Shuai, and filmed in Korea. It is scheduled to be released within this year.
Sophia kim
US ASIA JOURNAL
